"we'll change the things that need changing and that's all we'll change": the paSUKification of post-brexit politics 2021

she's already dead, they are going to real fake it until the centenary year has passed

It’s just pure selfishness, we’re right in the bank holiday dead zone as well

they've suspended Universal Credit payments/demanding it all back from people who didn't provide a selfie of themselves by their front door. It's only reasonable that the same rules apply to her benefits.

Hate to break it to you but they are not planning a bank holiday for when they do the reveal

the most hardworking monarch in England has passed. A bank holiday wouldn't be appropriate, a national festival of labour day where everyone works for free for a day would be a far more fitting tribute.

Hard to say the NHS is working.

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2021/nov/14/patients-are-dying-from-being-stuck-in-ambulances-outside-ae-report?

recently when my son was having an epileptic seizure a well-meaning neighbour called an ambulance. When he was in a safe post-ictal state I told her to cancel it because it wasn't a bad one. She mustn't have cancelled it because it turned up 4 hours later! This morning on R4 there was some of that disingenuous faux concerned crap about how hard it is to reform the NHS because it is a religion in this country. You can't point at how much has been cut from the budget post 2010 because "in *real terms* the funding of it has actually risen blah blah... "

Labour won't do it, that's for sure

nick robinson had an uncharacteristically critical report on the tories' record on the NHS, playing back tape of cameron saying his campaign "could be summed up in three letters: N, H, S" and then immediately cutting funding once in power, reporting on people dying because ambulances took 5 hours etc

Jack Monroe got in a lot of trouble for suggesting that he stopped giving a shit about the NHS once his disabled son died.

The Queen will be taking it easy for the rest of the year. https://t.co/lOBm0inhBx

— Glasgow Live (@Glasgow_Live) November 15, 2021

deader than Emad Al Swealmeen

Stanley Johnson also groped me at a party at Conservative conference in 2019.

I am grateful to Caroline Nokes for calling out something that none of us should have to put up with, not least from the Prime Minister's father. https://t.co/Uf6lEdatux

— Ailbhe Rea (@PronouncedAlva) November 15, 2021

Always the ones you least expect, eh?

The government had tried to shunt the vote to the end of the day but put forward a motion that only one MP needed to object to in order for it to fail.

fuckin genius

Now tell me about his rise.

Much as I’m enjoying Boris Johnson’s authority falling apart, the fact there’s clearly an orchestrated campaign against him, coming from outside any democratic institutions, tells you a lot about how this country works.

— Jonathan Hopkin (@jrhopkin) November 16, 2021

there was a much higher quality schadenfreude to be had when the knives were out for May. I just feel blank now because I don't care about the potential political outcomes that are possible over the next few years because they are all bad.

This one doesn't seem so bad (and I'm not saying it will happen but it is one among many):

- no overall majority next election
- Labour form coalition with SNP, allow for a second referendum
- Scotland votes Leave
- Starmer resigns in shame
- someone like Nadia Whittome wins the leadership

Almost wish I hadn't quit Labour now, lol

Second half of that is probably of course

- Scotland leaves
- Tories win forever

but let's think medium term lads okay

there is an absolute zero chance of someone like Nadia Whittome getting onto the ballot thanks to Kieth's NEC nomination threshold reforms

- Scotland votes Stay
- Starmer appointed King

What's the evidence that the current disgusting UK PM is losing authority or popularity?

- someone like Nadia Whittome wins the leadership

Almost wish I hadn't quit Labour now, lol

― imago, Tuesday, 16 November 2021 bookmarkflaglink

Louie is bored. Again.

What's the evidence that the current disgusting UK PM is losing authority or popularity?

His approval rating is now merely double that of the LotO

"losing authority" seems a bit wishful at the moment, it's nothing like when the rumblings from the 1922 committee were unanimous that May was finished. According to the polling he's not very popular rn but that isn't necessarily terminal.

for imago!

PM Liz Truss declares martial law after Raab is beheaded outside his constituency office. Labour leader Wes Streeting backs nuclear strike on Liverpool.

Shitload of wishful thinking going on re Johnson.

xp the banter timeline

The usually disciplined Tory press are putting stories about Arcuri again and now going after his father. In that sense he has "lost authority".

But yes it's all academic.

Got to stress test your Teflon

"King Starmer"

“The foundation of Israel was a repudiation of the worldview of those who committed the Shoah” — @Keir_Starmer at LFI’s Annual Lunch

— Labour Friends of Israel (@_LFI) November 16, 2021

and i imagine the HS2 stuff (which is not yet fact) has pissed off a lot of the red wall

Bradford still not on the mainline
Oh, just like Sister Ray said

The ban on MPs acting as paid political consultants and lobbyists won't be popular with the old guard, who are allegedly at war with the new crop (though I feel there is always some of this).

According to the polling he's not very popular rn but that isn't necessarily terminal.

Sure, but his popularity is his main asset - it's definitely not his principled conservative views. His malleability means a lot of people can write a lot of fanfic about him (I'd have thought the ban was such), but if he's not going to win the next election then he's fucked - there'll be a lot of whispering that really, anyone could have given Labour that drubbing, did you see the state of them? And of course if you're going to change PM, the sooner the better.
xp yes the HS2 stuff and also the terminal mismanagement of Owen Patterson and the continued existence of Christopher Chope...

Damage limitation.

"Paid Consultancy" = bad
"Newspaper columnist" = that's alright.

"My resolve was hardened when @Baddiel gave me a copy of his brilliant book – “#JewsDontCount, which demonstrates so clearly how racism against Jews is held to a different standard from other kinds of racism."

Blackface Baddiel - the newest member of Starmer's shadow equalities team!

different not lower eh

if he was being honest he'd fess up to not really caring a jot about anti-black racism and islamophobia, especially if the latter racism is being directed at Zarah Sultana.

Really good piece on the ongoings at Yorkshire.

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/blog/2021/nov/16/azeem-rafiqs-testimony-exposes-how-power-works-in-cricket-and-in-britain

It should be read, especially by people who are ok with that racist Starmer being PM just because he isn't a Tory in name.

Bradford still not on the mainline
Oh, just like Sister Ray said

― calzino, Tuesday, November 16, 2021

Superb, underrated post, Calzino !!

was thinking there is a fair bit of needle towards Bradford's "big city pretensions" from the little scruffy towns of West Yorkshire. I reckon some of the so called Red Wall gone blue constituencies are not that arsed about HS2 and there is plenty of nimby opposition to it in some of the rural zones.

was thinking there is a fair bit of needle towards Bradford's "big city pretensions"racism from the little scruffy towns of West Yorkshire.

well maybe some of that but I'm talking about The Heavy Woollen District here, which has pretty much the same racial makeup as Bradford. Same history of South Asian immigration into the area to work in the dark satanic textiles mills.

xp ^ just a shitpost tbh, by all means clown on Bradford, I've got a lot of time for the crabs in a bucket rivalry of northern towns

Hey na na na

crabs in a bucket!

you do get some feighting at the Batley Bulldogs vs Dewsbury Rams derby, which isn't very RL

BREAKING: Nine #InsulateBritain protesters are jailed for terms of between three and six months for breaching injunctions banning them from protesting on the M25

— Damien Gayle (@damiengayle) November 17, 2021

my question is: if you've glued your face to the road, what happens when the protest finishes? are they still there?

if you've ever wired an upstairs lighting radial in a loft with 3 layers of insulation - choking up on the fibres from it and itching like crazy, lets talk about the anti-insulation side of the argument!