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

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.

Starmer just the worst possible person as LOTO at the worst possible time

Not just the NHS. Everyone listen to Dunty:

https://inews.co.uk/opinion/priti-patel-anti-protest-powers-stuffed-policing-bill-

(and yeah, when fuckin Dunty is doing the LOTO's job ffs)

that fucking bald prick moaning about what he helped to enable can fuck right off.

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

This is definitely happening.

https://labourlist.org/2021/11/zarah-sultana-you-expect-support-and-solidarity-from-people-in-your-party/?s=09

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FFCSYLCXoAQi8Cp?format=jpg&name=medium

the racist arsehole might need a few more unconscious bias training sessions

"Auntie Diane" is now a coward I don't make the rules.

Alarming that Durham University is continuing with its sex work sessions. Normalising sex work in this way is harmful.The Home Affairs Select Committee, of which I am a member, will be looking at this. pic.twitter.com/EsBnCtMzi8

— Diane Abbott MP (@HackneyAbbott) November 25, 2021

sat on the couch with Portillo, not quite the polar opposites it was billed as.

Stella creasy legend has brought her baby to @spectator parliamentarian of the year awards @stellacreasy

— Helena Horton (@horton_official) November 24, 2021

child abuse IMO

She's going to take the fucking thing everywhere now isn't she

Legend.

parliamentarian of the year award

Guess who won this and definitely also would've won it were they still alive

"the saddest award I've had to collect," says Jacob Rees-Mogg, who accepted it on his behalf

such a nice happy ending to warm the cockles of all those present who still have beating hearts at the Spectator party

Conservative MP Nick Fletcher says Doctor Who being played by a woman has pushed young men into crime.

do what?

Wasn't a previous recipient Jacob himself?

That's much sadder...

It'll be interesting to perceive how the Amazon blockade is interpreted by Joe Public; whether they'll see it as good, targeted direct action towards a much-deserving plague on society, or more Insulate Britain bollocks. An acid test of sorts as to whether the efforts to discredit direct action have been successful

"I've met the man in the street, and he's a cunt"

Right, stop ventriloquising the opinions of normal people, just tell us what you think.

I think it's the former, obviously, but I'm worried that perceptions have been damaged. I strongly disagreed with the methods Insulate Britain employed and considered them an own-goal.

(they should have directly targeted construction companies)

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FFHoYj-XIAkyT6M?format=jpg&name=large

lol, it's a pity he didn't get a taste for this when he was leader.

I would like, under threat of legal action, to withdraw my previous tweet incorrectly describing Jeremy Corbyn as "litigious"

I previously made a tweet that gave the false impression that Corbz totally fcking murked me up, that was incorrect and meh wasn't even a gentle tap!