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

The hypocrisy of anyone simping for that lying piece of shit with a Boris Liar t-shirt is off the scale. It's not Boris who ran a duplicitous trojan horse campaign and then ripped up all his pledges as soon as elected and said fuck the membership. If anything he's a more legitimate party leader than Kieth from a party democracy perspective!

what happened to the itv BREAKING NEWS JOHNSON DRINKING WITH BERKELEY HUNT DURING LOCKDOWN i saw on twitter last night?

damnit it was a fake sky news account

lawyers being famously associated in the public mind with honesty and integrity

it's part of that Labour Right malady where they keep doing the Tory attack lines on themselves as an open conversation or in this case an embarrassingly bad meme. I'm pretty sure lawyers are synonymous with being weaselly dishonest shits with most of the public!

Lawyer vs. Journalist. Some choice.

society's natural leaders

New T-shirt slogan

UNLIKE SOME OF THE MPS OPPOSITE (IN THE CONSERVATIVE PARTY), I, A LABOUR MP, WOULD CERTAINLY PREFER TO BE LED BY A *LAWYER* (IN THIS CASE, SIR KEIR STARMER QC) THAN A *LIAR* (MEANING, THE CURRENT UK PM !!!) !!!

May need a small font.

My mom used to have this T-shirt:

"First thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers.

-- Henry VI, Part 2, Act IV, Scene 2"

ok those would be two good T-shirts

Shakespeare still delivering the coolest of quotes. I think they used that as the opening statement at the Nuremburg Trials as well!

That's funny, Tracer -- I love that scene in that play and wrote about it extensively as an undergraduate.

Very specific citation. Probably could use a line number and indeed clarification of which edition was being cited, Folio vs Quarto, variants, etc, as well. Maybe those could go on the back, where tour dates often go.

An exclusive survey has been carried out by @MuslimCensus on the Muslim vote, and the findings are bleak for the Labour Party:

- Labour are at risk of losing over half (55%) of their Muslim vote.

- 1 in 4 Muslims aged 18-24 would not vote if there was an election tomorrow

— Hamza (@Hamza_a96) January 28, 2022

Good Lord, is Johnson really going to hide in Ukraine?

Kieth's radical program to "deal with the cost of living crisis" through a windfall tax would make everybody 0.54 pence a day better off and through means testing poorer people would be £1.64 a day better off. And that's the discernible difference between them and the Tories rn.

Ever since @thatbloodyMikey pointed this out I can’t unsee it pic.twitter.com/jQ5Ouk8Ftm

— gem (@Project_Coup) January 29, 2022

it looks like the meltier members of the SCG are breaking off and forming a group of pragmatic sensible adults that will be nicer to Kieth. You could see there was a split over that Welfare Cap vote.

Absolutely no surprises about the make up of the new SCG melt-wing pic.twitter.com/uh7rwUmdEV

— Daniel (@hideous_replica) January 30, 2022

they are deluded melts if they think they are going to have more of an influence on things by playing nicer and compromising with these implacable right-wing scumbags.

Okay, which one of you did this? pic.twitter.com/VEiqjcz8XA

— WikiJewSoc🕎🌹 (@JewSoc) January 30, 2022

JC's speech on Bloody Sunday in Derry Guildhall. From about 35 minutes on the video.

Watching @jeremycorbyn deliver the #BloodySunday50 annual lecture in Derry. Such a lovely welcome & such respect for him in the Guildhall, full of people who have given their lives to the fight for justice & truth. They know. ✊ https://t.co/8fzp7ZawVM

— Ben Sellers (@MrBenSellers) January 29, 2022

No one else in English politics would be invited to give this or have the knowledge or ability to write it.

Delighted to meet @jeremycorbyn today 🥰 pic.twitter.com/Ib4F0DSH4P

— Mairéad Farrell TD (@Farrell_Mairead) January 29, 2022

nor have a Sinn Féin TD looking genuinely delighted to meet him!

xp yeah I’m sure this will anger all the worst people in the world but I don’t care at all given this also happened this week

Today another Member of Parliament claimed British soldiers deployed to Northern Ireland not to keep the peace, but to ‘murder’ civilians.

The Nation is rightly proud of our Northern Ireland veterans, so I stayed behind to make sure his childish wittering was not unanswered. 👇 pic.twitter.com/m4yjxXPlmb

— Johnny Mercer (@JohnnyMercerUK) January 26, 2022

Johnny Mercernary

does that single issue cunt ever perk up over anything else other than the rights of British soldiers to murder civilians? (admittedly I'm not best placed to criticise single issue ppl in politics, but fuck it!)

lol but also yes but also lol

tbh what is a nation state if not a pack of rabid cunt murderers?

He also tweeted this, not even worth further comment

What happened on Bloody Sunday was unequivocally wrong. The actions of a few fell far below the standards of the many. And the families were let down by the British State over many, many years.

“Unjustified and unjustifiable”. A poignant weekend. pic.twitter.com/ZxLXldk2Ka

— Johnny Mercer (@JohnnyMercerUK) January 29, 2022

just cos standards dipped doesn't mean you should be prosecuted

yep, the old "it was just a few bad apples" bullshit

^^^

and he'd defend every last one of them to the death.

was watching that 2008/ConDem program on i-player last night. All the usual suspects popping up including "brave" Gideon who wasn't scared of making tough decisions. And Clegg assuring us he fought tooth and nail against austerity yada yada. But they did give some space to Corbz and McD, something that never would have happened if they were still leading the opposition.

State of this

50 years ago, the horror of Bloody Sunday unfolded in Derry.

The victims left behind families and a community that grieved their loss and struggled for decades to have the truth told about what happened.

I send them my deepest respects on this poignant and significant day.

— Keir Starmer (@Keir_Starmer) January 30, 2022

mealy mouthed cowardly little snivelling shit! the contrast with Corbyn couldn't be starker

what can you say? the man just loves to prosecute

Was fully expecting him to say Londonderry instead of Derry tbh.

i've got 1 Extra on this morning and the cunts just used the L word on their news bit

Trevor Nelson is killing it tho so all forgiven

The BBC have been using it in all their coverage, afaict.

i assume it's their standard, Brit cunts

i'm not entirely a stan for anthony barnett or tom nairn and this is *very* long (11k words and tbh i've only skimmed them so far) but it's worth looking at i think:
https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/opendemocracyuk/scottish-independence-tom-nairn-gordon-brown/

(has undeclared tho not inadvertent relevance to bloody sunday, admittedly somewhat abstractly: bcz nairn is the primary theorist of the break-up of britain, the unavoidable why if not the practical how)

chatting shit with horrible gammon friends last night and we agreed - for probably different reasons - that if the Scots want independence then fuck it that's the logical conclusion of nation state thinking

Kieth did a good "the only way to decide the future of Scotland is in London" statement the other day

a stance that will gain him some low-energy hooting and hollering in the pre-convinced commentariat and afaict exactly zero votes anywhere

well yeah quite

also apparently lots of Scottish lorry drivers are Rangers cunts i mean i'm not that surprised

The vast majority of whom would have voted Labour in the past and are now voting Tory. Labour hasn't got any more votes to lose in Scotland anyway.

and the sooner that reality sinks in the sooner Labour can oh god what's the point?

Trying to be as Unionist as the Tories has been a disaster because sectarian headbanger Unionists have crossed the Rubicon now and out and proud as Tories, they're not coming back and fuck them anyway, while reluctant or soft Unionists are voting SNP.

(xp) LOL, exactly.

This is Nairn’s theme: “Recognise one’s opponents on the terrain of reality.”

Kieth does this on a daily basis, only problem is his opponents aren't the tories or the UK liberal deep state.

not sure Kieth's familiar with the terrain of reality tbh

realty, maybe

one reason i'm not entirely a nairn-stan is that i think his *own* version of "one's opponents on the terrain of reality” sweepingly (if unstatedly) includes all manner of ppl we'd be largely pro in this thread?

i mean i also partly like this piece bcz it's an account of a half-century's bitter splits in the new left review's editorial board and one of the characters that nairn split with was his old pal lord perry of that ilk (where ilk = anderson)