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

Channel 4 have another let's gawp at the travelling community series coming up, none of these cunts give a fuck.

idk, I think this one might have crossed a line. There’s a potential issue of criminal liability as well. I’d be surprised if Netflix left it as-is.

Impressed by Pamela Anderson, overall.

Are we talking about the Trojan horse affair podcast anywhere?

https://i2-prod.mirror.co.uk/incoming/article12817873.ece/ALTERNATES/s615b/Jeremy-Corbyn-busted-checking-out-Pamela-Anderson-on-live-TV.jpg

xp

probably not one of the most flattering pictures of Jeremy!

evidently also impressed by pamela anderson, overall

Looking forward to a war with China

We completely reject any questions over sovereignty of the Falklands.

The Falklands are part of the British family and we will defend their right to self determination.

China must respect the Falklands' sovereignty 🇬🇧🇫🇰

— Liz Truss (@trussliz) February 6, 2022

It’s all theatre for now but interesting to see where Labour’s new line that the government is Soft On China And Russia leads.

Will his appointment be an act of political “Harri-kiri” or “Harri-Krishna”?
@Dominic2306 clearly thinks the former. But some around the PM hope the new faces in No.10 can spread peace and love with MPs, and the public.

— Paul Waugh (@paulwaugh) February 7, 2022

Please ban all lobby journalists

"Wil MPS be saying "Good-o" for Guto, or will they still be saying "Hari-ap and G(ut)o" to the Prime Minister?"

"I walked in, I gave him a salute and said ‘Prime Minister, Guto Harri reporting for duty’ and he stood up from behind his desk and started to salute but then said ‘What am I doing, I should take the knee for you."....

jesus, what a nauseating cunt he is

"I then asked ‘Are you going to survive Boris?’ And he said in his deep voice, slowly and with purpose, whilst singing a little as he finished his sentence ‘I Will Survive’.
" he answered, ‘I’ve got all my love to give’, so we had a little blast of Gloria Gaynor!".. says Harri

Bell Ribeiro-Addy, Dan Carden, Ian Lavery, Tony Lloyd, Rebecca Long Bailey, John McDonnell, Grahame Morris, Cat Smith, Nadia Whittome.

Just 15 out of 199 “Labour” MPs voting against making poor people poorer. 🥀

— M (@MsMariamR) February 7, 2022

Just want to note, now it's the day after, how the leader of the opposition was yelled at by a mob and nobody commented on it or raised concerns that "while I don't like Starmer this is worrying for democracy". Thank you all so much for not giving a shit.

critical support for violent anti-vaxxer Piers Corbyn adjacent lynch mob!

Anything that gets bad headlines for Boris is fine by me.

Everything is getting bad headlines for Boris rn.

xps to xyzzzz__ probably because everyone remembers this

I’m old enough to remember when Corbyn got egged (or, got punched by a guy holding an egg) and the timeline was full of egg puns. Glad threats to the leader of the opposition’s safety are no longer a hilarious laughing matter!

— Matt Zarb-Cousin (@mattzarb) February 7, 2022

And this

A reminder. pic.twitter.com/D6nDwrMaV7

— Tory Fibs (@ToryFibs) February 7, 2022

if the CPS had prosecuted Savile while led by Starmer, he'd be using it and playing the brave big game hunter who took down the most prolific hiding-in-plain-sight sex offender in UK history. It didn't and this subsequently been weaponised against him, goes with the territory when you take top cop-wanker jobs imo. It's some mild karmic payback for all the people who did longer prison sentences for benefit fraud or faced summary night court justice for stealing a gingerbread man. I couldn't care less if he got a serious kicking, the fucking snake.

this toxic parliamentary discourse could lead to a politician getting murdered, which is fine as long as it's JC - my piece in the Graun.

He’ll never do it but it might be worth him mentioning that the party opposite had that beast to Chequers, knighted him, gave him a skeleton key to Broadmoor, and were happy to have him campaign for their party as late as 2010, and as to prosecuting journalists? Phone hacking.

If KS was the kind of politician who’d say any of that, he wouldn’t have journalists queuing up to decide that this, now, is an outrage. Thinking of this quote from Jimmy C (whose statue I’m visiting tomorrow!)

We regard capitalist journalism as an effective weapon in the hands of a well-informed, but utterly unscrupulous, enemy, rather than merely as an unbiased recorder of passing events.

— James Connolly (@ConnollyEbooks) February 8, 2022

You are neglecting your duty as long as you allow your City Hall to be in the power of men who, as landlords, derive their living from the rents they extort out of the poisonous slums in which they are slowly murdering the children of the working class.

— James Connolly (@ConnollyEbooks) February 8, 2022

still otm

Literally any quote of his from more than a century ago is more otm than every journalist in Westminster combined! Too bad he was from Edinburgh.

It is necessary in Ireland as well as in England to emphasise the point that the policy of the capitalist at present throughout the world is the policy of pretended sympathy with working class aspirations.

— James Connolly (@ConnollyEbooks) February 5, 2022

And a Hibee to boot.

A great man. Where is the statue?

The top of old Abbey Street, I’ll take a picture for you!

http://www.talkingstatuesdublin.ie/statues/connolly/

I think if Connolly could have chosen, Tom, he’d have been born in Glasgow. I notice Edinburgh doesn’t have a statue of him.

from what I've seen Kieth seems quite a lot more evasive and nervous on defending his decision not to prosecute Worboys for additional crimes. And he was personally responsible for that one. But that's one they'll detonate at a later date if he's still LOTO.

(xp) there has been talk of having a statue to him in Edinburgh for a while, you can imagine why the council might have reservations about it. To be fair to Edinburgh, there was a massive Irish community there and the Hibs were the first Scottish team to represent that community in Scotland, Celtic came later.

So, are there any JC initialled people to come?

Jeremy Clarkson?

(Presses button again)

One point from last night’s protest is the protestors shouting Freemason at @Keir_Starmer. I don’t know whether he is, but this is nothing to be ashamed of, Freemasons do wonderful work in communities across the UK and I’m very proud to be one

— Gary Sambrook MP (@GarySambrook89) February 8, 2022

lol!

I've heard their dinners are pretty big amirite

(I'm sure that is the 1st, 2nd and 3rd reply to that tweet tbf)

And now Jacob R-M is the Minister for Help Yourself Jacob You're My Pal

I'm a bit surprised at the feeling that I have never actually seen Connolly's statue, though I have walked around those streets enough times. It must be near Liberty Hall, if that's still what the socialist skyscraper is called?

It's by the side of the Custom House, pf

Let me be very clear - the remaining financial support of Labour Party is now under review. Your behaviour and mistreatment of our members will not be accepted. It's time to act like labour, be the party for workers. #CovBinStrike @coventrycc pic.twitter.com/yVZxVSa9IP

— Sharon Graham (@UniteSharon) February 9, 2022

What? No it isn’t.

I'm a bit surprised at the feeling that I have never actually seen Connolly's statue, though I have walked around those streets enough times. It must be near Liberty Hall, if that's still what the socialist skyscraper is called?

The Charity Commission, which is an independent, non-ministerial government department, said: "We have been in ongoing contact with the trustees of the Captain Tom Foundation on its set-up and governance arrangements and as part of this work will now assess the charity's recently submitted accounts."

lol lol lol!

tbf he probably deserved to be ruthlessly exploited and murdered by his own family

I have definitely missed that statue in the past - a bad omission given that it looks like it should be easy to find. I would certainly have taken pictures had I ever found it.

People can knock Dublin but to me it remains quite impressive that it has statues of Connolly, Larkin and Joyce within a kilometre of each other.

Sounds like a good reason to revisit, pf!

Yes, I hope to do so this year -- which will be basically the first time I have been anywhere since 2019. (Which is when I saw the Heaney exhibition on Westmoreland Street - that was a marvellous surprise.)

[This is now going very off topic for the thread that's mainly about people's justified hatred of the LOTO.]

Pf you should come on the autumn meet-up then

Truss’ visit to Moscow going about as well as expected.

Things behind the scenes were even worse, according to @ElenaChernenko.

Lavrov said, "Do you recognize Russia's sovereignty over Rostov and Voronezh oblasts?"

Truss said the UK would "never" do so – before the ambassador told her they're not in Ukrainehttps://t.co/n2FkadhSHY

— max seddon (@maxseddon) February 10, 2022

She is a major dimwit.

BREAK: Prince Charles has tested positive for COVID.

He is now self-isolating according to Clarence House.

— Joe Pike (@joepike) February 10, 2022