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

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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

the bloke in jacket and tie

the older guy

john lloyd? 🙈

I’m sure HL is animated by having attended a very minor public school that absolutely nobody she aspired to befriend at Oxford had ever heard of.

Friend of Angela Rayner says: “Trying to sack Angela and make her the scapegoat for Hartlepool was stupid. But doing a reshuffle when she’s literally on her feet giving a speech attacking the Tories for being corrupt is just plain offensive.”

it's all kicking off again

Has Helen Lewis ever watched a US cop show, gangster film, film about poor working-class people living in a trailer park, sitcom where people go to a diner, or the like?

They all drink coffee.

xp just came here to post this, looking forward to how bad it’s going to be

I'm hearing that Labour's shadow cabinet reshuffle has started

— Sienna Rodgers (@siennamarla) November 29, 2021

Really fucked up.

"Selling off your government-funded vaccine factory during a pandemic" has a something of the war profiteer vibe about it, hasn't it?https://t.co/CDvgzVeZoI

— James Meadway (@meadwaj) November 29, 2021

“vmic” indeed

(this includes us btw)

pic.twitter.com/pXosscs2Q2

— No Context Brits (@NoContextBrits) November 29, 2021

It’s been an honour to serve on the Labour front bench since 2015 but I’m looking forward to spending even more time at home here in Lancashire and standing up for my constituents. pic.twitter.com/8pybEql5WB

— Cat Smith MP (@CatSmithMP) November 29, 2021

Two council seats lost to the Tories. Notice the Green surge.

https://www.politics.co.uk/news-in-brief/labour-lose-2-seats-in-midlands-local-council-elections/

Labour source says Nick Thomas-Symonds out as Shadow Home Sec, Emily Thornberry in.

— Ava-Santina (@AvaSantina) November 29, 2021

Helen and Dorian regretfully agreeing that pointing out the Spectator is a nazi-platforming rag is like being a "racism hipster"

Agreed. I know this kind of oh-so weary Twitter response is tempting, but it's a mistake - like being a racism hipster. *You* might find this unsurprising, but most people don't know much about media brands or the French elections and this is useful information for them.

— Helen Lewis (@helenlewis) November 29, 2021

and for completeness:

My problem with this reaction is it implies that there are no lines and no difference between soft-soaping a fascist and anything else they publish. There has to be some sense of a spectrum otherwise there's no room for a backlash to a piece like this.

— Dorian Lynskey (@Dorianlynskey) November 29, 2021

After struggling to parse this i think what DL is saying is that by writing for the Spectator he's helping provide a 'spectrum' of opinion from which a credible critique can be launched against the fash parts

Which I guess is a bit like bringing down the Nazis by joining the Nazi party

Providing cover for the rest of the content and uncomfortable with his role being pointed out

The thing is, there is almost no difference between soft-soaping a fascist and everything else the Spectator publishes - it's all of a piece.

if he had the moral courage to put his hands up and cop to taking money from a fascist rag because he's not very choosy where his paycheques come from rather coming out with such convoluted bullshit, he'd still be a despicable bald fool.

"racism hipster"!

What gyac surely the Spectator's consistent fascism just gives its Surrey readership a socially acceptable excuse to give into the irresistible lure of thinkpieces about U-God and Moby

Theory: Lynskey's been decomposing for months, the brain worms now free to just slither directly over his keyboard as required