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

Hate the LDs all you like for present and past misdemeanours, but sooner or later you have to face up to the fact that the second most likely outcome whenever the next GE happens after a Tory victory isn't a Labour victory, it's that the parliamentary maths gives Lab+LD combined the most seats. What then? Coalition or confidence & supply agreement?

― Grandpont Genie, Friday, 17 December 2021 bookmarkflaglink

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I'd predict a 2.7% improvement in ministerial standards being maintained to a satisfactory level with a LabDem coalition of competence. But then unfortunately the Office of Value for Money on behalf of taxpayers did an audit and decided PIP payments were too open-handed. The NHS would still be doomed because it turns out lots of Labour ministers are compromised private health cronies as well. Lest we forget the Labour Right pin-up Owen Smith is now the UK government relations director for Bristol-Myers Squibb - that pharmaceutical behemoth that is facing a £1bn law suit for using Guatemalan people as human guinea pigs and infecting them with syphilis in the 40's.

The point surely is why did that narrative stick? Labour came second in 2019 & Starmer is meant to be someone who through a more sympathetic media than Corbyn can communicate with swing voters. The inability to persuade voters that Labour was a better bet is a major failure. https://t.co/aKKo2Z3tmY

— Tom Gann (@Tom_Gann) December 17, 2021

OJ wrong again shocker!

the only reason the narrative stuck so easily is because nobody likes Kieth. Even the fucking invisible man, Ed Gravy is a more palatable option to so called swing voters than that cunt.

in this case swing voters = tory voters having a boo. But when Starmer has just spent the last year+ trying to appeal to these people and ends up getting a third of votes Corbyn got '17 and less than half than he did in '19 then that is a failure and a bad result for him. blah blah byelection rules apply etc... just don't make excuses for the cunt OJ, there is already enough people doing that.

Forget her, what about him?

A woman has been arrested after banging on the Duke of York’s car window and shouting at him as he drove through Windsorhttps://t.co/R8HOkbZ3ZC

— The Telegraph (@Telegraph) December 17, 2021

Thought that was Fergie at first !

Appalling.

Fourteen years in jail is the sort of sentence you might expect if criminal actions led to loss of life. It’s absolutely not what you’d anticipate for disorder. This is a troubling knee jerk sentence. https://t.co/OpLQJArQSG

— Ewan Gibbs (@ewangibbs) December 18, 2021

The most serious thing he was convicted of, arson with intent to endanger life, will get you 10 years in most cases. The sentence might be excessive but somewhere around 10-12 is the minimum he was ever going to get, I think.

weren't they empty cop vehicles that he set fire to?

No, at least one had people in, who he threatened directly.

What a fucking dickhead

I would accept circuit breaker, day off at Xmas, circuit breaker, day off at new year. I’m not up for getting everyone sick over the next week then locking down for 2 weeks just for the sake of it. Makes no sense!

— Michael Walker (@michaeljswalker) December 18, 2021

Am laughing at this geezer who put his hands up in a 'don't hit me' while holding his beer pic.twitter.com/fHfIuA7C3v

— Moya Lothian-Mclean (@mlothianmclean) December 18, 2021

Don't think these fellas will be handed 10 year sentences

This is actually really infuriating. For most schools, the simple answer to her question is - we're not.

But there are schools in London, typically serving deprived communities, that have very polluted air. And kids die from it. That's poisoned air https://t.co/CF6P6F8I3Z

— James E. Baldwin (@james_e_baldwin) December 18, 2021

Horrible people being unpleasant to other horrible people, but at least this is amusing

EXC - big row in a Tory Whatsapp “Clean Global Brexit” group with over 100 MPs

It leads leads to removal of Nadine Dorries after she defending the PM … and then Steve Baker declaring “enough is enough”

Exchanges here: pic.twitter.com/SsktMPJNSW

— Sam Coates Sky (@SamCoatesSky) December 18, 2021

I would definitely take no small spiteful pleasure in Johnson getting 1922d out of no 10 even if the cunt will be just fine and another probably worse shithead will take his place ad infinitum, because I am not made of stone

Gove seems to have disappeared off the face of the Earth.

queen’s dead https://t.co/gNgtH0poes

— the gunch (@yproht) December 19, 2021

can't decide whether i enjoy "queen's dead" or "hearing from my sources that Starmer's about to resign" more

presumably this is gonna be some gash about vaccines with Johnson's face photoshopped onto Captain Mainwaring tho

probably yeah

When. When will they demand the rent he so clearly owes them.

Tbf as much as none of us are responsible for our family's actions, if one of my siblings turned up at my workplace with gallows & was inciting the arson of my colleagues offices and killing them with hammers, I wouldn't think it unreasonable to expect public condemnation from me

— Charlotte Nichols (@charlotte2153) December 18, 2021

Is that sarcasm, satire, irony? Who is Charlotte Nichols?

she's the very pleasant Labour MP who was happy to take selfies of herself proudly delivering campaign leaflets with an anti-GRT pledge on it.

Anyway the youngest Corbyn is always very rude about Piers on social media.

I would definitely take no small spiteful pleasure in Johnson getting 1922d out of no 10 even if the cunt will be just fine and another probably worse shithead will take his place ad infinitum, because I am not made of stone

― coombination gazza hut & scampo bell (wins), Sunday, 19 December 2021 13:37 (seven hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

yeah im like this too, i fucking hated may so much i enjoyed her humiliation but yeah also these people cannot be humiliated they are pure filth lol

None filthier than Johnson.

The Graun is running a story with a pic of him enjoying wine and a cheese platter in the Downing st garden during the May '20 lockdown with a party of 20 people. On the hit parade of Tory outrages of the last decade it wouldn't even make the top 40 for me. I know some people feel genuine anger about this stuff but I feel like it's such trivial shit. But of course people who have suffered family losses and couldn't visit dying loved ones are fair enough to feel anger.

I'd happily turn a blind eye to a bunch of lockdown breaking champagne socialists in Downing st having a party if their public health policies superseded the interests of landlords + scumbag wealth creators who pay poverty wages and not so many people needlessly dying.

I'm too long in the tooth (and missing a few) to get genuinely outraged about the inherent badness of the real Tories.

Good on the latest set of government failures.

Significant percentage of unvaccinated people in the UK can't get vaccinated because they're 12-15 years old and had Covid in the past three months. Waiting until September to start vaccinating them was the government's choice. pic.twitter.com/aowuwCIn7F

— libcom.org (@libcomorg) December 20, 2021

I don’t get that thread. Javid, as second thought concedes, clearly not talking about children. I would rather the argument that the Tories are clearly pushing, that medical care should be denied to people bc of personal choices was the one being pushed back by supposed leftists.

Yes I assume Sajid is talking about adults who didn't get the vaccine however I have seen the UK drag it's heels on a vaccination programme for children too.

i guess having a 'get your booster now' on the front of all papers is one way of covering up all the negative front pages. (actually, not so bad today)

https://www.tomorrowspapers.co.uk/newspaper-archive/?_date_filter=2021-12-20

I haven't seen anything that suggests u12s will get the vaccine at all here, which I find somewhat fucking alarming.

oh and

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2021/dec/20/jewish-woman-accused-antisemitism-labour-threatens-sue-anti-zionism

An 82-year-old Jewish woman, who is being investigated by Labour for alleged antisemitism...

I'm sure there was a time when something like this would be considered completely absurd.

I read that thing about being a protected belief under the equality act and thought “I bet this cites that fucking Forstater case” and sure enough…thing is the latest review of said case does conclude that, but it basically also says one has the right to an opinion but not to disseminate it in the workplace or use it to harass people. Still though, Bindmans don’t fuck around.

After nearly 7 years, in April I'm moving on from best daily reporting job + the most wonderful team in the business. It's been an honour and an amazing ride - more to come in 2022! With love + thanks to all at @BBCPolitics

— Laura Kuenssberg (@bbclaurak) December 20, 2021

Aww, glad she gets to work directly for Tory Comms now, her dream job

Laura replacing Allegra would just be chef's kiss

Rats/sinking ship

It will be interesting to note the change of her tone now she's free of the shackles of BBC impartiality

Later, Ms Murray tweeted: “Today Jeremy Corbyn went to his local mosque for Visit My Mosque Day, and was attacked by a Brexiteer. Rachel Riley tweets that Corbyn deserves to be violently attacked because he is a Nazi. This woman is as dangerous as she is stupid. Nobody should engage with her. Ever.”

that seems like a very reasonable tweet to be considered defamatory in a court of law and have to pay 10k in damages to RR... ffs!

Riley said she was being sarcastic in her tweet, did not call Corbyn a Nazi, and told the judge that Murray’s tweet caused serious harm to her reputation.

The entitlement just drips out of that quote like rancid goose fat

Hopefully someone’s going to be able to take the £10k off her with a libel action of their own.

It’s a weird judgement, tbh, and I’d guess it hasn’t gone before a jury.

top reply to Laura K's tweet being from Pippa Crerar telling her she's "smashed it" is just unreal

An outbreak of white feminist girlbossing on Melt Twitter? I CANNOT BELIEVE IT.