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

jrm has already started on "the rules were overblown at the time"

The comments from Dorries and others are still emphasising that this was an event happening within a workplace context, which reinforces what we’ve known all along - that The Rules were never really intended to apply past the office / factory / call centre door. I’m not even sure I’d class it as hypocritical. There was never any impetus to make workplaces safe.

Johnson should simply defect to Labour where he will get a photo shaking hands with Kieth and all will be forgiven

having office parties - the new way to own the libs!

"There was never any impetus to make workplaces safe"

I remember during the first lockdown I was talking to this bloke who works in some engineering place. When I asked if his workplace was covid-safe he laughed at me and said no, we just don't give a fuck about it!

churchill would've called priti patel a racial slur so archaic she'd have to flip through an 18th century viceroy's memoirs to find out what it meant https://t.co/q3b24klLC9

— pez 🇬🇭 (@periuspb) January 24, 2022

he did a cracking job of annihilating the 6th army and capturing field marshal Paulus and destroying the other fascists .. oh no that was Stalin!

Lovely evening with @mattforde and his live audience. Thanks for having me! pic.twitter.com/YAYPIpkZtM

— Angela Rayner (@AngelaRayner) January 24, 2022

this isn't going to get an unredacted version of the Forde report published, Angela!

in this week’s issue of @StylistMagazine I looked into the recent opening of a new immigration detention centre (or prison) and what this means for the women coming to seek safety and security - to then end up detained - and it’s wider context within the hostile environment. pic.twitter.com/mvYsr6H7tk

— Shahed Ezaydi (@shahedezaydi) January 25, 2022

So the filth are investigating No. 10 parties now though I was more impressed at a BBC correspondent managing to shoehorn a Burns quote into their report

This pushes the Gray report back which makes the police delay seem intentional and co-ordinated. Though really how would the Gray report change anything at this point?

"100 years since the birth of" - I get it.

"57 years since the death of" - not so much.

I believe it's known as the Heinz Commemoration

How to slime your way out of just punishment for criminal behaviour, by one who knows:

Advice to No 10 staff facing a police inquiry, from one who has.

1. Get a solicitor. They will get you a good QC. Listen to them and take their advice. Make sure your employer is paying.

— John McTernan (@johnmcternan) January 25, 2022

Can’t fix this

Today’s NEC vote and Keir Starmer’s ongoing decision to bar me from sitting as a Labour MP is disappointing.

I am grateful for and humbled by the support I've received, especially from my Islington North constituents.

The struggle for peace, justice and sustainability goes on.

— Jeremy Corbyn (@jeremycorbyn) January 25, 2022

As well as backing the ban on Jeremy Corbyn having the Labour whip, the NEC today voted to take control of longlisting for parliamentary elections away from local parties & given to national and regional executive committee members instead

In short - no more left wing Labour MPs

— troovus (@troovus) January 25, 2022

Some pure awfulness on display at the Council of Europe as well (they failed at getting this deleted). Read thread from top:

Here's the full text of the paragraph, alongside the Labour reps failed amendment to just delete the whole thing. They failed. pic.twitter.com/dHutbrIzBT

— Steph Paton ❄️ (@stephenpaton134) January 25, 2022

They also said Keir Starmer is 6 foot 4 and has a voice like Barry White.

— Marl Karx (@BareLeft) January 25, 2022

Labour NEC also informed that party membership has risen sharply in recent weeks.
Campaigning activity also shown to be at its highest since time when data first recorded it back in 2016

and Kieth is teetotal and never has affairs with his aides. At this point I'd say fucking shame on anyone who would be willing to campaign or vote for these corrupt right-wing bigots.

The Met Police ( yes the police ) is investigating the highest office in this country . Is that not enough for @Conservatives to deal with this and restore a resemblance of decency and normality. Send your damn letters now or you’re all complicit. He’s taking you all down!

— Gary Neville (@GNev2) January 25, 2022

the only good thing about this fucking clown becoming an opinionated Labour party member is seeing Simon Hedges at the top of the replies.

The cunt is going to stand for Parliament isn't he?

you should have heard some of the pearls of wisdom from him in the Nick Robinson interview.

My fervent wish is that he stands as the official Labour Party candidate in Islington North.

wait is every Labour member getting a Nick Robinson interview now?

Yes, and they have to get a minimum of 95% pass.

G Nev talks like he's just had Blairism explained to him by some simp like Marsan and is still quite puzzled at what it actually was, but doesn't see any inherent conflicts of interest with a nice version of the Tories who are pro-business/pro-unions and pro-buy-to-let landlords/pro-welfare state etc etc... he's a fycking moron.

Rashford and Cantona are the only Man U players I would not gulag.

27 years ago today & still the best thing that’s happened in football: “I think that maybe it's like a dream for some people sometimes, to kick these kinds of people. So I did it for them. So they are happy… I have one regret. I would have loved to have kicked him even harder.” pic.twitter.com/f8uaiauDCp

— Magic Money Tree 🌴 (@charlottor) January 25, 2022

I'd have added Jaap Stam to that list if he'd beaten the shit out of the Nevs rather than just calling them "busy cunts"!

If you add up FPTP making new parties impossible (?), Labour purging or persecuting every socialist member including its leader of 2 years ago, and a party machine that will now allow no more socialists to stand for the party in future -- then it is hard to see a future in electoral politics in the UK.

Or at least in England. Maybe if you can vote SNP, Plaid or even Sinn Fein or SDLP, it feels very different.

But in England, at least, there seems now to be no way for good people to enter politics either in or outside Labour.

I suppose the result will just be some kind of mass alienation and apathy - which is already what late Blairism had been leading to in a way. But the current Labour party seems to me much, much worse than Blair's, which never contemplated expelling JC, Dennis Skinner et al.

At this point I'd say fucking shame on anyone who would be willing to campaign or vote for these corrupt right-wing bigots.

Have to agree with Calzino. The party is corrupt.

Hard to disagree with any of that pinefox and it's very depressing.

imo the biggest issue for the left atm is the existence of both the Greens and Lib Dems fuzzying popular perceptions of the left voteshare; impetus to start a new party to pressure Labour just as UKIP/BXP did the Tories is frazzled and diffused

if there's no future in electoral politics, though, what's to be done? surely some sort of politics will have to hold sway

We don’t need to do this again or indeed ever

weird, without reading this thread for the last hour or so i was just thinking how much fun a General Election would be this year

Kieth's ready! (after they have tippexed out all the brexit stuff from May's 2017 manifesto)

i don't see why we have to wait another 2+ years for a dismal Labour performance and a further lurch to the right while the Lib Dems prop up a Tory government tbf

But the current Labour party seems to me much, much worse than Blair's, which never contemplated expelling JC, Dennis Skinner et al.

Yeah, I was thinking how the actual situation is even worse than before Corbyn, when left MPs were at least allowed to do good on a local level.

From a wide-ranging report by the Centre for American Progress - a think tank close to the Biden administration - on what to do if Putin invades Ukraine. This passage says U.K. govt so compromised by Russian money, the US may have to intervene. https://t.co/tSZngDCM4V pic.twitter.com/nkNwjW9OLt

— Patrick Wintour (@patrickwintour) January 26, 2022

Yeah, I was thinking how the actual situation is even worse than before Corbyn, when left MPs were at least allowed to do good on a local level.

― Daniel_Rf, Wednesday, 26 January 2022 bookmarkflaglink

When Blair got in the left hadn't been in the leadership for quite a while. It was easy to keep Corbyn and their like as examples to say to everyone "that's where they are, they will never get in power".

imo the biggest issue for the left atm is the existence of both the Greens and Lib Dems fuzzying popular perceptions of the left voteshare; impetus to start a new party to pressure Labour just as UKIP/BXP did the Tories is frazzled and diffused

if there's no future in electoral politics, though, what's to be done? surely some sort of politics will have to hold sway

― imago, Wednesday, 26 January 2022 bookmarkflaglink

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Bleu_de_Gex.jpg

Things are so bad I can't even link a pic of blue cheese properly :-(

Didn't expect you to judge the post as mature and delicious

Gray wants it out in full, No 10 has previously said it will be out in full, so if PM decides not to, expect political onslaught from opposition to force it out

— Laura Kuenssberg (@bbclaurak) January 26, 2022

KS couldn't slaught his way out of a wet paper bag

Dawn Foster had the last word on Wes Streeting pic.twitter.com/UXAoAleEz4

— Fergie (@monkey_crusader) January 26, 2022

that's all you need to know about Streeting rather than bothering with that vacuous NS profile on him.

speaks volumes about how empty and unserious the PLP under Starmer has become, Streeting isn't even a Tory just a managerialist vacuum. these people claim to be chasing the electorate but in fact they just create the parameters they can envision - bourgie, complacent, patronising and oblivious to anybody outside their own class.

In 2010 The Trussell Trust ran 56 food banks.

In 2022 this now stands at 1300 with another 900 who act independently.

Twelve years of Tory misrule.

— Jon Jones (@JonJonesSnr) January 26, 2022

it's a good job Labour have got a plan to radically reform UC by giving it a new name.

When Blair got in the left hadn't been in the leadership for quite a while. It was easy to keep Corbyn and their like as examples to say to everyone "that's where they are, they will never get in power".

Yes agreed, not suggesting Blair was doing this out of ideological integrity. Nevertheless, that situation seems preferable to the current one.

Labour's long term electoral strategy seems to be both reliant on older voters not dying and the younger generations who are hungry for something transformative and whom they've clearly told are not wanted anywhere near the party, that they will just forget about it and keep dutifully voting for them when they've grown up!