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

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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

xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 17 November 2021 12:10 (two years ago) link

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

koogs, Wednesday, 17 November 2021 12:49 (two years ago) link

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!

calzino, Wednesday, 17 November 2021 12:53 (two years ago) link

Tory MP Andrew Rosindell on £20 uplift to UC: "I think there are people that quite like getting the extra £20 but maybe they don’t need it."

Andrew Rosindell, on banning MPs from 2nd jobs: “We have to realise we have human beings who have families & responsibilities”#Newsnight pic.twitter.com/cm87ORGWwe

— David (@Zero_4) November 16, 2021

xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 17 November 2021 13:32 (two years ago) link

^^^
that kind of response is precisely why I don't feel even flicker of empathy when one of these scumbags get offed

calzino, Wednesday, 17 November 2021 13:41 (two years ago) link

Cool cool

‘As a fresher I wandered into Balliol JCR one day and found a shiny glamazon with naughty eyes holding court astride a table, a high-heeled boot resting on my brother Boris’s thigh’

✍️ Rachel Johnson on Ghislaine Maxwellhttps://t.co/0Gsu3MFdzd

— The Spectator (@spectator) November 17, 2021

xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 17 November 2021 15:37 (two years ago) link

I'd counter and say people know exactly what they have elected.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2021/nov/17/new-bill-quietly-gives-powers-to-remove-british-citizenship-without-notice

xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 17 November 2021 15:39 (two years ago) link

looks like the currfent crew at the DM have had their wings clipped after their recent anti-boris campaign.
gotta love this cuntrys so called 'freedom of press'.

mark e, Wednesday, 17 November 2021 18:46 (two years ago) link

"Ted Verity" !

calzino, Wednesday, 17 November 2021 19:05 (two years ago) link

Many years ago I briefly worked with Ted Verity, apparently the new editor of the Daily Mail.
I recall him as one of the most wretched and inadequate people I’ve ever met. And in Fleet St journalism, that’s a high bar to clear.

— Katherine O'Donnell (@kathy__odonnell) November 17, 2021

calzino, Wednesday, 17 November 2021 19:09 (two years ago) link

so it's going to be more like it was under Dacre i.e. just as vile but not going to upset the govt under his watch.

calzino, Wednesday, 17 November 2021 19:13 (two years ago) link

clearly some folks up the DM chain have been bollocked/spoken to.

mark e, Wednesday, 17 November 2021 19:16 (two years ago) link

Good for him.

Corbyn finally taking his revenge on us forcing him to be Labour leader for 4 miserable years and destroying his life by creating a legal precedent for suing people for posting distasteful poor quality photoshops of politicians https://t.co/S3eMYSeERg

— Europe's Leading Soccer Futurologist (@TreborRhurbarb) November 17, 2021

xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 17 November 2021 20:15 (two years ago) link

if he was to successfully sue everyone who had defamed him with shopped photos he'd be pulling more buck than Geoffrey Cox.

calzino, Wednesday, 17 November 2021 21:00 (two years ago) link

> “As soon as I was able I deleted the comments.”'

i'd've done it sooner but i hadn't posted it yet.

koogs, Wednesday, 17 November 2021 21:39 (two years ago) link

gibbo is coming! pic.twitter.com/Fg6qXGj7Me

— joolsd (@joolsd) November 17, 2021

xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 17 November 2021 22:03 (two years ago) link

just was listening to that ghoul Reeves squirming when very gently pressed by Amol Raj on Starmer's hypocrisy on 2nd jobs... b...but it was different when he was getting £500 ph from Gibraltar. So much more he could have brought up but they're in softly softly mode right now. The idea of a Labour party with so many MP's in the pocket of property developers, or shilling for the betting industry, big water, big booze etc - as a clean anti-corruption party is a very bad joke.

calzino, Thursday, 18 November 2021 07:25 (two years ago) link

Keir Starmer’s spokesman gives a pointed warning to Tory MPs who vote against today’s anti-sleaze motions: “We’ve got the digital ads ready to go in those constituencies.”

paper tiger lols.

calzino, Thursday, 18 November 2021 07:33 (two years ago) link

One more thing that's never happening here.

V exciting breakthrough in Portugal, banning bosses from contacting workers after hours. The annexation and surveillance of our free time by capital is made ever easier by technology - and has been intensified by the pandemic. Time to push back! https://t.co/SEndHjFowH

— Dan Hancox (@danhancox) November 18, 2021

xyzzzz__, Thursday, 18 November 2021 11:55 (two years ago) link

Wouldn't put it past Rosie to switch to the Tories.

This is Rosie Duffield’s constituency https://t.co/bmgq39bVOu

— Owen Jones 🌹 (@OwenJones84) November 19, 2021

xyzzzz__, Friday, 19 November 2021 09:41 (two years ago) link

I saw her on Daily Politics yesterday and, well, she just simpers nonstop, doesn’t she?

the thin blue lying (suzy), Friday, 19 November 2021 10:00 (two years ago) link

Question Time wisely deciding that the ideal person to weigh in on racism in cricket is Jordan B. Petersson.

Daniel_Rf, Friday, 19 November 2021 10:36 (two years ago) link

This was noted on the Cricket thread.

When Smeato Met Moaty (Tom D.), Friday, 19 November 2021 10:37 (two years ago) link

Daniel is like most normal people and doesn’t consider cricket a real sport

suggest bainne (gyac), Friday, 19 November 2021 10:39 (two years ago) link

I am as qualified to be on the cricket thread as Petersson is to be on a discussion about racism in cricket tbh.

Daniel_Rf, Friday, 19 November 2021 10:48 (two years ago) link

I saw four faces, one mad
A brother from the gutter
They looked me up and down a bit
And turned to each other

I say
I don't like cricket (Oh no!)
It's shit

hiroyoshi tins in (Sgt. Biscuits), Friday, 19 November 2021 10:58 (two years ago) link

You people.

When Smeato Met Moaty (Tom D.), Friday, 19 November 2021 10:58 (two years ago) link

bunch of weirdos!

calzino, Friday, 19 November 2021 10:59 (two years ago) link

test cricket on the radio>>>football on the radio

calzino, Friday, 19 November 2021 11:01 (two years ago) link

ukpol cancel culture has gone too far this time

imago, Friday, 19 November 2021 11:09 (two years ago) link

I can't stand tests on the radio
I'll give you five fingers for a one man show

who's afraid of adrian woolfe? (Bananaman Begins), Friday, 19 November 2021 11:26 (two years ago) link

The lack of any opposition to this from Labour and the, frankly, viciously racist speech Starmer gave alongside the far-right Hotovely have really hardened my resolve against the party for as long as as he remains leader https://t.co/njTAoyCCiG

— Abi Wilkinson (@AbiWilks) November 18, 2021

suggest bainne (gyac), Friday, 19 November 2021 13:39 (two years ago) link

I'd counter and say people know exactly what they have elected.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2021/nov/17/new-bill-quietly-gives-powers-to-remove-british-citizenship-without-notice🕸


It’s really funny how you’d read white British liberals angry about Trump’s immigration policy when Thatcher got rid of birthright citizenship in the early 80s and there’s never been a move to reinstate it.

suggest bainne (gyac), Friday, 19 November 2021 13:40 (two years ago) link

Labour frontbencher Thangam Debbonaire’s obvious irritation & embarrassment at @zarahsultana upsetting Tories for refusing to retract calling endemic Tory corruption “dodgy” - most ordinary people would use far worse language! - summarises Labour’s weak leadership in a nutshell https://t.co/GZ6x8TklYc

— Marcus Barnett (@marcusbarnett_) November 18, 2021

xyzzzz__, Friday, 19 November 2021 14:08 (two years ago) link

All you need to know about Tzipi Hovotely is that her appointment as Israeli Ambassador to the UK was opposed by Melanie Phillips.

When Smeato Met Moaty (Tom D.), Friday, 19 November 2021 14:11 (two years ago) link

dacre has pulled out of the ofcom recruitment re-run

stet, Friday, 19 November 2021 18:23 (two years ago) link

lol

suggest bainne (gyac), Friday, 19 November 2021 18:23 (two years ago) link

an “infelicitous dalliance with the Blob" is how I describe looking into the bathroom mirror these days!

calzino, Friday, 19 November 2021 18:58 (two years ago) link

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FElAXoZXIAoOTfI?format=jpg&name=small

"buyer's remorse"

calzino, Friday, 19 November 2021 19:07 (two years ago) link

dacre was transparently unqualified for a job that is mainly about frequency bands and technical regulation. they do also now have responsibility for the annual BBC report.

it is *somewhat* reassuring that some governance is still in place for this sort of appointment.

Fizzles, Friday, 19 November 2021 20:10 (two years ago) link

What happens here with almost any charitable efforts in Gaza? Hard to see how that happens while maintaining total distance from Hamas. https://t.co/fWLQmeRJqO

— Tom Gann (@Tom_Gann) November 19, 2021

xyzzzz__, Friday, 19 November 2021 20:26 (two years ago) link

When you are led by public opinion rather than leading public opinion.
The focus group will never trust Labour on this. Another Tory gov it is! https://t.co/4tjymxDdPe

— Chardine Taylor Stone (@ChardineTaylor) November 19, 2021

this human rights lawyer won't be losing any sleep over the legal status of Gaza charity organisations.

calzino, Friday, 19 November 2021 21:11 (two years ago) link

fizzles otm and i reckon dacre must have realised he would have hated doing the job, or even to do the things that would have made it appear that he was doing the job

Tracer Hand, Friday, 19 November 2021 21:15 (two years ago) link

What a pathetic manbaby.

Writing in a letter in the Times, Dacre said: “To anyone from the private sector, who, God forbid, has convictions, and is thinking of applying for a public appointment, I say the following: the civil service will control (and leak) everything; the process could take a year in which your life will be put on hold; and if you are possessed of an independent mind and are unassociated with the liberal/left, you will have more chance of winning the lottery than getting the job.”

Dacre said he wished Ofcom “all the luck in the world” as it prepared to grapple with “trying to regulate the omnipotent, ruthless and, as we’ve learnt, amoral tech giants without damaging freedom of expression”.

In a final attack on the civil service, Dacre said he was taking up “an exciting new job” in the private sector that “struggles to create the wealth to pay for all those senior civil servants working from home so they can spend more time exercising on their Peloton bikes and polishing their political correctness”.

nashwan, Saturday, 20 November 2021 10:45 (two years ago) link

lol he actually sounds hurt. maybe i’m wrong! as difficult as that would be to believe.

Tracer Hand, Saturday, 20 November 2021 10:56 (two years ago) link

the blob strikes back

calzino, Saturday, 20 November 2021 11:03 (two years ago) link

Aw diddums.

When Smeato Met Moaty (Tom D.), Saturday, 20 November 2021 11:06 (two years ago) link

Maybe Dacre had a 'H!tler rejected by Vienna art school' type trauma in his youth. Couldn't start a World war so did it by other means.

xyzzzz__, Saturday, 20 November 2021 11:08 (two years ago) link

never mind the civil service thwarting his ambitions, it was Corbz who inflicted his biggest defeat - the failed beerhall putsch of '17.

calzino, Saturday, 20 November 2021 11:19 (two years ago) link

From 1967 he read English at the University of Leeds,[14] while Jack Straw was President of the Students' Union.[13] While at university, he became involved with the Union News newspaper (the Leeds Student from 1970), rising to the position of editor.[15] At this time he identified with the liberal end of the political spectrum on issues including gay rights and drug use,[16] and wrote editorials in support of a student sit-in at Leeds organised by Straw.[17] He introduced a pin-up feature in the newspaper called "Leeds Lovelies".[17][18] He told the British Journalism Review in 2002: "If you don't have a left-wing period when you go to university, you should be shot"[8][17]

jack straw venn diagram klaxon

mark s, Saturday, 20 November 2021 12:00 (two years ago) link


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