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

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it's embarrassing though

very David Quantick tbf. Lol I didn't know he'd coined the phrase.

it his best work since he contributed towards the most badly aged parts of Brasseye no doubt

I think there was also an accusation that "Kieth" was xenophobic. lol the guy who brought rampant islamophobe Trevor Phillips back to the party a victim of xenophobic name-shaming - what a hoot!

Tony Blair 'rejected Hillsborough inquiry as a favour for Rupert Murdoch' - Mirror Online https://t.co/bTZfBG8WoC

— Wendy Seabrook 🌹 (@wfseabrook) January 3, 2022

yeah but tax credits

"I was only there to ask for directions on how to get away from there."

I've only been once to 5 Hertford St - the club of choice for Liz Truss to waste taxpayers' money in - and I can confirm it's as sickeningly opulent as it looks here ... why throw a strop to book it when other places were available? https://t.co/IOAoBEI56S

— Paul Mason (@paulmasonnews) January 2, 2022

yeah but tax credits

Petition to strip Sir Tony Blair of knighthood surpasses 370,000 signatures

if this could reach a few million at least it would cause some embarrassment, but on the other hand they can stick their honours system up their arse.

Meanwhile fucking hell

Taskforce Officers were out recently doing drug swabs in Shoreditch as part of a wider operation to ensure the night time economy is a safe place for all pic.twitter.com/UtMbayPwpt

— Metropolitan Police (@metpoliceuk) January 2, 2022

yeah but tax credits

Sure Start

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freshening up my act :D

if this could reach a few million at least it would cause some embarrassment, but on the other hand they can stick their honours system up their arse.

if a million people taking to the streets to protest blair's ambition to murder hundreds of thousands of people in iraq and afghanistan had no effect then a bunch of digital signatures is v unlikely to move the needle of conscience much either

remember Marsan's wall of New Labour achievements? well here's the good news: Kieth won't be re-opening the 500 Sure Start centres that the Tories closed!

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also the problem is that it sort of legitimises the honours system even if that isn't the intention.

Tories may or may not have closed SureStarts but now I'm back on it they were funded for 5 years and were intended to be self funding thru reallocation of budgets and voluntary organisation contributions

so they almost certainly would have closed a third of them since 2010 whoever won the GE. My favourite Sure Start moment was seeing inspirational quotes stuck to the wall in a meeting room at the Ravensthorpe SS. One quote from Ghandi, one from John Lennon and then one from a mumsnet post!

Nothing from Davina?

I should have had a Dean Gaffney quote printed out to stick on there next to it.

Excellent thread on disability and covid. So much comes down to cuts.

Yes, Frances disabled children do exist, and they are often more impacted than the mitigations you have been calling for. Can you please stop spreading disinformation which has led to suffering and abuse of disabled children? 🧵 1/13 https://t.co/EyI8h4SbF7

— Dr. Michael B. Riordan (@michael_riordan) January 3, 2022

I know The Queen is dead. Nevertheless be amazing if she survives 2022

Prince Andrew relying on an agreement made by a Paedophile with one of his victims is a really bad look

— nazir afzal (@nazirafzal) January 3, 2022

Dr Ryan has made the case that *disabled people* as a group are *more vulnerable to covid* and therefore *more protected by any mitigations put in place to prevent it*. This position papers over the wide variety of disability and capacity of blanket interventions to do harm.

this is so otm. Dr Ryan has done good work, like shining a light on how the DWP were phoning often vulnerable and worried people going through PIP tribunals that they were likely to win, to pressurize them into accepting reduced offers. I didn't see many other people giving that as much coverage and now that foul practise been stopped after a successful test case. But sometimes she's a bit reluctant to criticise and oppose the Labour Party line on matters. And sometimes she's just plain wrong. I once politely asked her and kept it polite cos she is nice, I asked why is she so supportive towards Yvette Cooper considering how much death and destruction she's wrought on a whole lot of disabled people. And her amazing answer was: How was she to know back then how terrible PFI means testing would turn out to be. I mean ...Wut?!!!

express just coked up and shitposting like a beast here

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FINTxzkXwAEhq9Y?format=jpg

that's fantastic. Perhaps they've done a count of how many PLP heads he's living in rent-free!

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"the beast still lies ahead"

It's quite a big thing for any head of State to give a foreign politician a slot at their daily press conference.

This will have caused upset not only to the Government, but Labour too.

Corbyn was able to give a lengthy address to the Mexican public.pic.twitter.com/uLyclpRlmP

— Alex Tiffin (@RespectIsVital) January 3, 2022

lol even the president of Mexico thinks Kieth is a tory piece of shit!

Was it a lengthy address? I only saw a brief clip and the translation segments were as long as Marcelo Bielsa's.

that's all I've seen of it. Corbyn attended Obrador's inauguration and I suppose Starmer wouldn't do that because centre-left party leaders are not good for his brand.

hahahahahaha what the fuck is this pic.twitter.com/O54z5dtoHd

— Marl Karx (@BareLeft) January 4, 2022

Magnificent.

Jesus Christ

culture war's over lads

i like my racist statues ankle deep in the water but no further

Culture secretary is like when the stupidest sons in well-to-do families were encouraged to join the clergy.

Best to hope in the locals is for the Lab vote being so down in cities that they get rid of these people early.

Happy new year to you too!

Lucy likes to both evolve and ...revolve

This wasn't a bad piece. I am sure Lab HQ will try to crush anything like this at birth tho'

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/jan/03/tiny-youth-football-club-lesson-labour-phoenix-fc

For lots of people, the nuts & bolts of practical political action can often be daunting. Which is why @galdemzine is launching our brand new 'How To' series – a collection of straightforward guides on how to do everything from start a campaign to setting up a food co-op.

— Moya Lothian-Mclean (@mlothianmclean) January 4, 2022

"if we work hard" this fucking guy https://t.co/tb7MfbqtaQ

— Pixelated Ape Liberation Front (@MediocreDave) January 4, 2022

Asked whether he supports Sadiq Khan’s reported plan to effectively decriminalise class B drugs in London, Keir Starmer says "I’m not in favour of us changing the law or decriminalisation, and I’m very clear about that… I’m not in favour of changing drugs laws."

— Adam Bienkov (@AdamBienkov) January 4, 2022

cop cunt

Oh my god, he does actually have two flags now. pic.twitter.com/fqCZYz5B45

— Philip Proudfoot 🟨🟥 (@PhilipProudfoot) January 4, 2022

one for the kitchen one for the bedroom

📺 WATCH: Keir Starmer forgets one of his 3 "key values". pic.twitter.com/tFMVXsI5Va

— Olaf Stando (@olafdoesstuff) January 4, 2022

um respect is my favourite value

r-e-s-p-e-c-t
can't remember #3

Xp keitg channelling little plum lol

Online it says that Keir Starmer is 5’8 but I’ve met him and he was at least my height or shorter and I’m 5’6

— Join Acorn 📣✊ (@Georgina666_) January 4, 2022

his office has added a few fictitious inches to his height on all the garbage wiki-celeb sites, this is the kind of trivial shit they are thinking about while his recent polling gains seem to be on the wane again.

He’s solidly 5’6”. I was invited to the party celebrating his election as MP and sent my very tall friend (made taller by some Lanvin stiletto boots) over to chat to him, purely for the LOLs of seeing her tower over him by at least six inches.

Boris is a shortarse too and, of course, Sunak is barely visible to the naked eye.

tbf on Boris (and I don't want to be) he doesn't seem to gaf which is the correct attitude. Whereas Kieth has to coordinate publicity shots so no women are seen towering over him. Rishi gets everyone to stand on a winding staircase with obv him at the top.

He's trying to beat Bolsonaro's record https://t.co/ASAa2EQ0KY

— Sinan Kose (@TheSinanKose) January 5, 2022