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

Just got home after first inperson NEC meeting at Southside.

A good meeting overall

👀👀
BIG NEWS includes -

We were told to expect a visit by FORDE AND HIS REPORT at January's NEC

Report back thread from meeting to follow tomorrow.

— Mish Rahman (@mish_rahman) November 25, 2021

they will keep moving on the Forde Report release date until it's the right time, it's almost like they are waiting for the queen to die (again).

Great car for families on a budget, the Ford Report

https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/nintchdbpict0003335783521-e1498150005991.jpg

The Frodo Report

Imagine being stuck in a room with these people pic.twitter.com/mOtKayhx1P

— black lives matter (@jrc1921) November 28, 2021

tbh this is how most podcasts look to me, even most of the left-wing ones!

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FFWBxMTWQAY7Xsx?format=jpg&name=900x900

lolll they're close to being a good send-up of a leftie podcast

Crikey, that is bad.

Who is the bloke in jacket and tie?

This pictured laughing host person is appalling.

Helen Lewis thinks that they don't drink coffee in Detroit.

I can understand that lots of conversations are lame. But don't clip the lamest bits and use them for your advert!

lolll they're close to being a good send-up of a leftie podcast

― imago, Monday, 29 November 2021 08:44 (seventeen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

the guy laughing directly into the camera almost looks like some Limmy type comedian has edited clips of themselves into a pre-existing video, very disturbing

that loose sort of gang of pals laughing at each others/their own jokes format, really gets my hackles up. Right lads going to start putting on a stopwatch to time how much long you spend laughing at yr own lines here!

HL thinks coffee is m/c

not sure who the older guy is, but he looks familiar

Lewis was educated at the independent St Mary's School, Worcester and then read English at St Peter's College, Oxford.

The Beatles is like Keith Starmer's Labour.

It’s now the fifth day of Getbackmas and Twitter is still full of Beatle boggling. Just like they did in the 60s, The Beatles have pushed the cynics, antagonists and cranks to the margins. As the old guy in the vox pop during the rooftop gig says, they make everything better.

— Pete Paphides (@petepaphides) November 29, 2021