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

great typo pic.twitter.com/ERZwBCsxkN

— 𝔐𝔞𝔤𝔫𝔢𝔱𝔰 🧲 (@PerthshireMags) January 17, 2022

the final reboot

not just saying this but it really feels like this lead is built on sand. what are ppl positively associating with labour that this would stick? vat off energy bills? i'd love to know

I gather that some terrible Con policy (police bill, criminalising protest) has been defeated in the House of Lords, for now.

Significant, I believe, though the unbelievably bad people will keep coming back and trying to make these unbelievably bad things happen.

It's incredible how evil the people at the head of this country are.

"Quick! Let's get all those things we want, done. Before we lose!"

It’s paywalled but the Telegraph opinion piece on Sunday titled “ To save his leadership, Boris Johnson must scrap the National Insurance increase” feels like it’s saying the quiet part out loud. The press and the Party will continue to turn the screws until it happens, at which point it’s going to be back to Britain Booms Under Big Dog Boris. There is a narrow path of acceptable politics, which is low taxes and permanent austerity, and any deviation will be punished, whether it’s from the left or the right.

Labour’s poll lead needs to be seen in that context. If they continue to attack Johnson’s spending plans from the right, it may continue.

At the moment there is no difference between the Tories and Lab. Their gamble is that despite votes lost in cities they hold up while conservative voters in former Lab seats go back. Or that Tories stay home as nothing would change under Starmer.

Also Brexit is no longer the issue it was.

Their gamble is that Starmer has been to less parties than Boris.

sorry for Monbiot but this is welcome news and yet another farago for the government

The government's attempt to bypass parliamentary scrutiny has backfired massively. It introduced its brutal amendments to the Police Bill AFTER it had been debated in the House of Commons. So now that the House of Lords has quashed them, they can't be reintroduced in the Commons. https://t.co/peri9CjpXA

— George Monbiot (@GeorgeMonbiot) January 18, 2022

Why are u sorry for monbiot it doesn't sound like he's in favour of the bill lol

I just heard a snippet about this with some HoL audio on the radio this morning with some of Claire Fox's voice in it. Didn't catch what was going on but just chuckled at the idea of Baroness Fox of Buckley!

(xp) I would guess the apology is for posting a tweet by George Monbiot!

(xp) I heard Ruth Davidson described as Baroness Davidson of Lundin Links yesterday and my first thought was I had no idea you could be made Baroness of a golf course.

xp yeah that was what I meant, I know George is a bit of a divisive figure, but when he's right he's right!

Gurinder Singh Josan elected as new chair of Labour NEC's complaints and disciplinary sub-committee by 18 votes to 9

apparently quite a few unresolved complaints against this wanker himself including him publicly bullying a blind person at a UNITE branch meeting. But most importantly he's a Starmer man.

"Nobody warned me drinks event was against rules - Boris Johnson"

you were on the tv almost daily reading the fucking rules out to everybody

up to almost 2000 deaths a week now, double what it was last month, but hey...

they'll be shooting the Pope next. https://t.co/ZuMdQe3301

— jamie k (@jkbloodtreasure) January 18, 2022

they are “called the grey wolves because they were not socialised in parliament during the pandemic”

good explanation

Shooting the Pope would definitely be a vote winner for the Tories in certain areas of Scotland.

Plus it would surely get Douglas Ross back on Team Boris.

does "socialised in parliament" really just mean snorting coke with more senior tories in one of the subsidised bars?

i mean in the old days it meant seeking to unite the turkic peoples in one state stretching from the balkans to central asia

grey wolves? you mean this lot?

https://unherd.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/GettyImages-1194337584-e1578312055757.jpg

i mean in the old days it meant seeking to unite the turkic peoples in one state stretching from the balkans to central asia

Talking of Turkic peoples, I'm sure Boris is familiar with this meaning.

semiotic drift:

Tory civil war currently exploding…

Ministers have been quoted calling backbench no-confidencers as “fucking nobodies” and “arrogant twats”.

And a “Red Wall” Johnson loyalist has labelled the Tory MPs submitting letters of no confidence “woke”.

— WILL LLOYD (@willgeorgelloyd) January 18, 2022

Woke Andrew Bridgen, that's something to contemplate.

Strong, unstable government

when they start using culture war slurs on each other in the heat of blue on blue intra-party leadership squabbles then maybe they really are in trouble. Apparently Penny Mordaunt is slightly woke, well y'know by Grey Wolves' standards and isn't a transphobe. If they were to do a Brit remake of Yellowjackets she'd be perfect to fill the Melanie Lynskey slot!

The Turkic Grey Wolves have an impressive column of every nationality/race that they are against, they make Western neo-nazis look quite pathetic.

Until these grey wolves release a collaborative tape with Macronympha and Sudden Infant I for one am not taking them seriously.

https://i.discogs.com/9JnEiJK6sxaRSHst4OoqVHmpRH74gwBNWUf95Uu7Ob0/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:365/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWltYWdlcy9SLTY5/MTA5OC0xMjMzODYw/MTg0LmpwZWc.jpeg

no longer venturing a bet on his survival or his fall -- once bitten twice shy! tom D was right and i was wrong! -- but the speed and intensity of the turnabout is making me feel a bit better abt my inaccurate instincts tbh, they weren't all that inaccurate

The reason the press have effortlessly destroyed Johnson overnight is that he had absolutely nothing - no skills, no ideas, not even proper friends - except the overwhelming backing of the British press. When they withdrew that he was immediately naked, cupping his ballsack.

— Flying_Rodent (@flying_rodent) January 19, 2022

an image for the ages there

Bad sign for Boris Johnson: Tory MPs say Chief Whip Mark Spencer seems “checked out”, “pretty relaxed” and is joking with colleagues about not being in the job much longer. “He knows the writing’s on the wall” says one.

— Ben Kentish (@BenKentish) January 19, 2022

Hello. Please enjoy something that is objectively very funny. pic.twitter.com/jAJ8XKZGaQ

— sophia (@pylonfan) January 19, 2022

IN MY VEINS

assuming that's true - and always fuck Hodges - the big spoiled twat is taking this harder than i expected

which perhaps shd've been expected from a freewheeling bundle of stimulants and id, idk

Tory Party members wanted Boris, most of their MPs couldn't stand the cunt. Tory Party members want Sunak, most of their MPs can't stand the cunt.

sure he'll buck up once it's done and he's coining it on the after diner des cons circuit

They won't book him unless custard pies are involved.

There's been a lot of back-covering performative Holding To Account through gritted teeth from most newspapers.

Meanwhile the Guardian gushes over Starmer's ability to...dress himself.

He is wearing blue trousers and a pristine white shirt, sleeves rolled up. It is a metaphor as much as a sartorial statement.

i like the bit about Kieth being "shorter than you'd think"

nope, shorter than you cunts would think

shocked he was wearing blue trousers

i feel like one-time guardian glam correspondent simon hattenstone cd have brought more to bear on the sartorial point

He is wearing platform boots and a top hat with mirrors. It is a metaphor as much as a etc

Back in the day, we were discussing at work during the last days of Thatch..

There was a lot of maybe, prevarication, and vague shrugging, until I said "Nah. It's over, and she'll be gone within 2 days!"
Colleague: "That was very definite! Where did that come from?"
Me: "I dunno. Just, a sense of it I guess!"

So, obviously, that's what happened.

Put it this way, when she went, there was a famous photo of her looking upset in the back of the limo or whatever.

I'm guessing Boris' farewell taxi is going to be a bit different. Will he lie down? Will he be in the boot? Or

say^^^ yr on the 1922 committee without saying yr on the 1922 committee :D

shocked he was wearing blue trousers

There's a kind of a stink about blue velvet trousers.

Kieth would never wear something as unutilitarian as velvet

But in his paisley shirt..

at least Kieth and Sunak won't need any perspective trickery when they go head to head