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

Very little chat on here about the Trojan Horse podcast - been bingeing it and despite the usual annoying NPR house style in terms of reporting it's pretty great, and anger inducing.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/feb/20/queen-tests-positive-for-covid

"light duties" 🤔

making princess zara chop the firewood

New season of the cron just dropped

Work will needed to be ended at this rate.

We will likely hear a lot more noise about ending legally required isolation and testing, but it really is a fucking disgrace that we've come through two years of a pandemic with nothing to show for it when it comes to sick pay and workers rights. https://t.co/LDbV9Q40C9

— Danielle (@dseddon91) February 21, 2022

It's all going one way.

it's all working out pretty much as you'd expect it to - far from redressing pre-pandemic inequalities in any way, the net effect in the longer term is to make them even worse https://t.co/4NT8N7OjyD pic.twitter.com/ROPObpiBsa

— Tom Blackburn (@malaiseforever) February 21, 2022

This is a time for weirdos.

There is one person above all I do not want to hear from over Ukraine: Ed Miliband.
His decision to vote against military action in Syria remains the most shameful single act of any major British politician of my lifetime, with consequences far beyond anything he considered

— Stephen Pollard (@stephenpollard) February 22, 2022

Sat in their home offices wearing tin hats furiously wanking over their model soldiers

the oversize level of hatred that Labour right/neoconservative types have for Ed Miliband is amazing, like the Jimmy Carter "he's history's greatest monster" bit from the Simpsons but for real.

He killed his brother, he can't eat a bacon sandwich and his father hated Britain, is that not reason enough?

Don’t forget that he also made it Labour policy to recognise Palestine and that also boils the usual people’s piss.

Ed Miliband, such a toxic and hateful anti-Semite that he turned Maureen Lipman into a reluctant Tory voter.

if she'd said she wasn't voting labour because Miliband's team of advisers are a bunch of abhorrent idiots from right-wing think tanks and no better than tories then fair enough though

Going after Russian Dark money could cause house prices in Central London to crash overnight.

Rents could plummet, jeopardising the livelihoods of tens of thousands of landlords.

Hold Mr Putin to account, robustly, by all means. But do so sensibly. Pragmatically. Declare war.

— Tim Chapman (@IslingtonChap) February 22, 2022

Has to be fake.

it is yes

And that, children, is why you can't have state-funded LFTs anymore. https://t.co/VOXf98BHai

— Priyamvada Gopal (@PriyamvadaGopal) February 23, 2022

Guys??? They actually really hate us pic.twitter.com/qbGZTGqBOS

— T✨ (@scaryposhspice) February 23, 2022

The Telegraph headline is slightly misleading. There is going to be a consultation with a couple of options, one of which would be restricting loans for people who don’t get a C at Maths and English GCSE and one is restricting them for people who don’t get two E grades at A-Level, or equivalent (BTEC, NVQ, etc), unless they’re adults returning to education, which I think is more likely to be implemented.

It’s a bad policy either way but the government has essentially taken the line that they don’t want universities to plug the COVID / bad investment hole in their finances by removing admission standards. They can either formally cap the number of students universities can take - which they did for a while in 2020 but they don’t want to maintain, or go no-cap but have a minimum threshold for results.

Try the Westminster McDonalds https://t.co/mF44pYnKpX

— Abi Wilkinson (@AbiWilks) February 23, 2022

lool!

Thanks for the details SV.

BREAKING 🚨🚮: Hastings refuse collectors have agreed a pay increase of up to 19.5% and called off strike action - after rejecting an initial offer of 1.75%.

— Trades Union Congress (@The_TUC) February 23, 2022

Nasty tweet

👉🏻 send 2/3 if not all Russian embassy staff back
👉🏻 cut rail, shipping and air links with Russia
👉🏻 require UK/Russian dual nationals to choose between nationality

— Chris Bryant (@RhonddaBryant) February 24, 2022

More insanity from Davis, but I don't see any significant voices calling for it.

Just adding my voice that this is a catastrophically terrible idea that must be opposed as strongly as possible - escalating this war into a major, direct military confrontation between nuclear-armed powers is gambling at unknown odds with the future of the world. https://t.co/8xwcdHraKc

— Lafargue (@Lafargue) February 24, 2022

xp

When offered the post of Shadow Secretary for Defence, Chris Bryant is said to have demanded "a 30-minute conversation about what would happen if we had to invade Russia" - not the usual sort of response you'd expect from a fellow MP, but then Jeremy Corbyn is quite an unusual leader.

there have been alleged developments involving Labour that are staggering in their cynicism and evil tbh, if there was any lingering doubt about whether i should have stayed and fought as a member it's gone now

I understand that all 11 Labour MPs who signed the Stop The War statement (which criticised Nato) have been written to by the Shadow Chief Whip and asked to withdraw their signatures.
Sounds like if they refuse to do so, they will all lose the whip.

— Paul Waugh (@paulwaugh) February 24, 2022

A Labour MP has urged the government to seize the assets of Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich.

— BBC Sport (@BBCSport) February 24, 2022

yeah those xp

if there was any lingering doubt about whether i should have stayed and fought as a member it's gone now

― imago, Thursday, 24 February 2022 bookmarkflaglink

You couldn't fight your way out of a paper bag.

oh ofc it's War Day, the day we show how hard we are

tbf i did call for the assassination of putin earlier lol

Here is who else wants to lol fight.

🚨NEW SNAP POLL🇺🇦🇷🇺

🇬🇧41% say NATO military response wld be JUSTIFIED
🇬🇧32% WANT it to happen, 38% EXPECT it
🇬🇧55% say current UK sanctions don't go far enough
🇬🇧53% want economic sanctions against Rus. leaders

1,108 UK adults, 24th Feb

Fieldwork after this morning's invasion

— Savanta ComRes (@SavantaComRes) February 24, 2022

anyway, this is atrocious from Labour, and that^ is why we don't put military action to referendum (yet)

tbf i did call for the assassination of putin earlier lol

― imago, Thursday, 24 February 2022 bookmarkflaglink

I know, massively stupid post.

A reason to stay in Lab wasn't to 'fight'. Not that you'd know anymore than online buzzwords.

just tbc i did add 'preferably by one of his own', no implied 'we'

anyway, there is little-to-no reason to stay in Labour at this point surely?

"just tbc i did add 'preferably by one of his own', no implied 'we'"

Still dumb.

ok having actually now READ the Stop The War statement, it does come across as hopelessly naive in its defence of Russia's 'security concerns'. still don't think this is a matter for withdrawing the whip - that bit is opportunistic - but a follow-up statement denouncing Putin would probably be a very good idea

Sadly they listened to you.

Labour MPs withdrawing their signatures to Stop The War letter. If you disagree with it - I have had many respectful discussions who those who do - fair enough. But to sign it, then remove your name because the you were whipped, lacks any principle whatsoever on the issue.

— Jonathon Shafi (@Jonathon_Shafi) February 24, 2022

#StandWithUkraine 🇺🇦🇬🇧 pic.twitter.com/HMX2UVPM4z

— Richard Moore (@ChiefMI6) February 24, 2022

Worst Disneyland ride

When do we start clapping for Ukraine?

stop the war is an embarrassing org that no-one should have anything to do with

back in the heady days of the 00s during the Iraq war - in Glasgow anyway - it was a collaboration of actual sunni islamists and SWP folk

Really awful.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/ukraine-war-refugees-uk-visas-b2022567.html

We can’t stop Putin from invading, but at least we can stop the youth from posting. Heroic https://t.co/WgDAdMOCsp

— Rory Scothorne (@shirkerism) February 25, 2022

Just spoke to a British national who travelled overland with his Ukrainian wife over the last two days and has just arrived back in the UK. He says a lot of Brits are refusing to leave Ukraine because they don't have faith the Home Office will allow their spouses to come over.

— Nicola Kelly (@NicolaKelly) February 24, 2022

*extremely British voice*
Those who commit war crimes
IN UKRAINE will face prosecution https://t.co/sWrvLbfZdF pic.twitter.com/w16dyjIB3l

— KateMcK (@TheKateMcK) February 25, 2022

This thread scheduled to die a death without xyzzz and calz posting tweets every 15 minutes.

It's funny/ sad how rapidly enthusiasm for this thread has died in Starmer era