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

And also, she isn't always right, but nobody's always right

― imago, Wednesday, November 24, 2021 1:06 AM

lj would just like to point out that etc

Entertaining the possibility he is wrong again.

Lol

In a way I do feel strangely sorry for Boris Johnson, who has spent several decades spouting off the cuff bullshit and finding himself richly rewarded for it, only to discover this week that reality has flipped a switch and now all his old cheerleaders think its bad.

— Tom Whyman (@HealthUntoDeath) November 24, 2021

Treating a speech to British business with the contempt it deserves is good tho, this is like when resistance types ended up making Trump seem cool because all they'd focus on was his lack of respect for protocol and etc.

xp please do not post that person here

the BJ CBI show was a better speech than Starmer's for sure

gyac, do you find his takes bad or is there something more sinister about him that I'm not aware of?

How am I only just finding out that Tom Whyman wrote a pub review under the name "ADORNO4LYFE" in which he describes the regulars as "Lovecraftian" and "less than human" for being fat and balding https://t.co/GYwP4aE96L

— Jen's Fortress (@lusc_j) July 14, 2021

Honestly one of the worst things I’ve ever read in my life and I’ve been an ilx poster for a decade.

xp please do not post that person here

― mardheamac (gyac), Wednesday, 24 November 2021 bookmarkflaglink

LJ already posts here. Used to swimming in sewage.

honestly, what do you get out of being alive

anyway that Whyman review is like reading a Victorian explorer's notes or something, grisly

his Johnson take is also spectacularly fatuous and that's coming from me innit

I feel like cp is bad at 'takes' and I don't know why she can't stop herself from Twitter because she clearly doesn't even enjoy it.

Anyway, these gals and NB people were clearly not doing anything at all egregious, were engaging an issue in a much friendlier manner than trans people are usually addressed in the mainstream press here and are getting absolutely monstered because of the white tears of a bad children's writer who bought Scotland. That's sort of ask there is to it.

And trans people have for decades been an outsized creative cultural force so I'm not sure it's really fair to task them with inventing jazz now simply as a means of convincing bigots that they are deserving of basic respect. Nor is 'time heals' an especially sensitive thing to say to anyone on the receiving end of everything described above.

― plax (ico), Tuesday, 23 November 2021 19:07 (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

All fair points. I would say that maybe I'm less tasking the invention of jazz than suggesting a wider embrace of the output that currently and copiously exists. But saying 'time heals' and taking a long view elides the steps and struggles necessary to bring that prophecy about, which I agree is unhelpful, so I apologise for that.

Stella Creasy campaigning for enhanced MP's Rights again just looks incredibly brattish and annoying. Like she really needs to take the bairn into the chamber when there is a perfectly good creche in the palace of Westminster.

that Whyman fellow has a lot of cheese guy from Blur energy, an eminently punchable face etc...

it's not really a brave stand is it? i mean maybe everybody should be able to take their kids to work, maybe work shouldn't exist, idk, this is a bizarre fight to pick

When she was pregnant she was constantly moaning about how tough it is to get the extra help to honour her constituency duties. But I'm sure all those £15000 donations she gets "towards staffing and office costs" must count for something.

i assume she's pushing for her party to adopt a free childcare on demand policy

no i forgot Labour did a SureStart so that's all been taken care of forever

"you think you've got it tough (single mother struggling to keep the electric on in working poverty)... Try being Stella Creasy for a week!"

Just imagine being mistaken for Lauren Laverne by ILXor Alba, oh the humanity!

not as bad for her as someone shopping Wes Streeting's face onto her bairn lol!

child abuse IMO

she's already exposed the poor kid to the toxic atmosphere of the Labour front bench tbf

poor kid, there should be an immediate Section 47 enquiry by social services

god tom whyman is such a classic plonker

https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/8801.png?quality=75&strip=all&w=1200&h=630&crop=1

can see why such a herculean specimen doesn't like being in the low company of ordinary ugly folk.

a mix between max gogarty and johann hari with the swagger of tim dowling

Germany's 🔴🟢🟡 coalition agreement, some key points: Greens get foreign ministry & new economy-climate mega ministry, FDP get finance ministry. Deal includes coal exit "ideally" by 2030, €12 min wage, 400k new homes/year, expanded state-based investments in green, digital etc.

— Jeremy Cliffe (@JeremyCliffe) November 24, 2021

FDP the party of economic liberalism btw, so basically Germany's libertarian cranks. Great that they're getting the finance ministry.

Yeah, want to see what the detail is on "economy-climate mega ministry".

Max Gogarty ?! What's he doing nowadays?

he's an executive producer on Mortimer & Whitehouse Gone Chemsexing

[lowers sunglasses to look you in the eye] on merit

he’s a commissioning editor for telly docs at the BBC not even making that up

I saw his name on something a few weeks ago and thought whaaaaaaa?

That's right.

A quick message to those retweeting that appalling image and saying they are ‘not afraid to do so’.litigation isn’t a joke it’s a devastating and life altering experience and I would not wish it on anyone.I promise you Mr Corbyn’s lawyers are NOT messing around . Stop and think!

— Cllr Paul Nickerson (@CouncillorPaul_) November 24, 2021

Sort your full stops out ffs, you're a disgrace

All in all another awful week.

My own half-assed speculation on why this might be:

1. Right-wing framing very succesful: "oh the left say that the NHS is being destroyed *all the time*, crying wolf" etc.

2. LP have crap comms atm. Not just lines but visuals (ie. No Corbyn holding documents etc). https://t.co/7CKS8VnQki

— princess diana is in all of us 🚩👑🏳️‍🌈 (@joinaunionpls) November 24, 2021

i think the many people who can't get an appointment with a GP might suspect something

Yeah I wonder really, maybe ppl might be putting it down to covid. An opposition that is saying nothing doesn't help though I also think our weird relationship with the NHS has a lot to do with it.

A High Court case is currently underway to determine if the decision not to expand the £20 Universal Credit uplift to those on legacy benefits was discriminatory. If the court rules against the Government, the Department for Work and Pensions could be forced to pay up to £1,550 to individuals on legacy benefits.

that would be most acceptable!

I wonder how much UK media coverage will be focussed on the people on endless waiting lists for major surgery, becoming so desperate that they take their own lives. Probably just as much as disabled deaths have been covered in the last decade, but this will be much bigger.

they underfund it and then spin it's shortcomings as why it needs *reform* and people seem to swallow that shit so far.

it's understandable that some people suffering and/or watching loved ones suffer because of waiting lists, lack of access to GPs and other systemic failure are gonna blame the system itself and let's be real, the nature of the NHS is byzantine and it's often difficult to see what the cause of specific failures is

banning private medicine would be part of the solution, but successive Tory and Tory-emulation governments have deliberately increased this fuckedness and opacity, Trusts, PFI, blah blah, i am not a public administrator lol god forbid anybody let me near that kind of work but surely to god other countries with public healthcare manage it better than the UK does?

I'm just imagining the horror show when free at the point of access basic healthcare becomes as inaccessible to many as dental care is now. Well just imaging the US tbf.

for the last couple of years i find a line from the song "Sun City" loops in my head a lot:

"Meanwhile people are dying, and giving up hope"

think the next line was "This forensic opposition ain't nothing but a joke" but i may be misremembering idk

The Tories have always wanted to destroy the NHS and it comes with the brand, but Blair's role in escalating this is another reason why he should be executed.