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

OTOH (according to friend’s niece who worked in his constituency office) many of the SCG members want to hang on to their seats because they are first and foremost about helping constituents in ways that suitcase Labour MPs are incapable of doing.

I've seen too many villainous knaves described as good constituency MPs, and it's fair to say most of the problems their constituents face in these times have been a cross party project. And why give a highly paid MP any credit for doing what are supposed to do? Especially since they just got another very generous payrise!

An understandable rationale, up to a point, but in big picture terms calz otm

Clearer than ever that propping the corpse of the LP is not helping the working class and its interests

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just posting a Martin Eden meme cos it's a very good movie even if the quote is not remotely true

Be exciting if they could lose Erdington tonite but surely, tragically, no

I want them to lose every seat, but they are overwhelming 1/100 faves to hold Erdington. The Mail and The Telegraph are both running smear pieces on the Labour candidate that actually makes her sound half decent, but that can't be right!

it's not that big a majority is it? those odds seem daft, lose a couple of thou to people who will never vote Kieth, Tories vote holds steady, badabing

I quoted the shortest price, but it's still generally 1/20 across the board. Maybe because the good people of Erdington were very fond of the late Jack Dromey. Who was apparently a very good constituency MP. I hear sometimes he'd personally sign letters to constituents typed out by unpaid interns and always declare donations made to him by dodgy fuckers.

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— Standplaats Krakow (@Standplaats_KRK) March 2, 2022

27% turnout, here comes the red wave

vote Labour

https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/opendemocracyuk/families-plea-over-barbaric-indefinite-prison-sentences-for-minor-crimes/

lol they might still win or lose this by Batley + Spen proportions. And this is with the added benefit of the sitting MP *tragically passing* and the Tories polling low. I find it quite encouraging that it's increasingly obvious that people are turning out for them in much lower numbers.

tragically

Birmingham Erdington, by-election result:

LAB: 55.5% (+5.2)
CON: 36.3% (-3.8)
TUSC: 2.1% (+2.1)
REFUK: 1.7% (-2.4)
GRN: 1.4% (-0.4)
LDEM: 1.0% (-2.7)
IND: 0.6% (+0.6)
CPA: 0.5% (+0.5)
IND: 0.4% (+0.4)
MRLP: 0.3% (+0.3)
IND: 0.1% (+0.1)
MBPE: 0.0% (+0.0)

— Britain Elects (@BritainElects) March 4, 2022

a 9% swing, almost as big as Kieth's nob at the prospect of armageddon

the next GE I'm going out campaigning on the doorsteps locally. My message is going to be clear: you would be better off drinking poison than voting for Labour and Kieth is aligned to paedophiles, rapists and arms manufactures and is just as much a class enemy as Boris Johnson is!

Ukrainian oligarch Mikhail "Watford" Tolstosheya being found mysteriously dead in his home on Monday may just be a random event and the police are saying there are no suspicious circumstances. Because if there were suspicious circumstances this would be a very big story and wouldn't have just got reported yesterday.

Good showing by Tusk and Refuck.

Especially since they just got another very generous payrise!

Some, like Z Sultana, are passing this on to local food banks, etc.

What did this geezer have to do with Watford? Sounds a big story indeed!

He just wanted a classic made up Brit surname like Windsor. "More tea Mr Watford?" "It's Mr Troy-Deeney now pal!"

back in the day Robert Maxwell adopted an innocuously English sounding name approach. Baron Kagan anglicised his name but mostly retained the og one. Perhaps it never occurred to them to consider the shitest towns of Hertfordshire for inspiration!

Had to lol at this shit.

I'm sorry but of all the Corbynite policies that the Tories have surreptitiously nicked post-election, expropriating the homes of billionaires to house refugees is the funniest. https://t.co/ogaWkWyiZF

— Dave (@MediocreDave) March 4, 2022

I love how they are even shit posting about this.

On the by election front this makes some sense although I doubt the Tory vote can be that low. But in an economy burnt by inflation, rising energy costs and who knows where the housing market will be at.

Sorry but apathy is good for Kier Starmer - it’s how he wins. If next GE has a turnout of 55% and he gets 40% of that he could become prime minister. That’s about 10 million votes (15% of the country).

— . (@sensiblehuman96) March 4, 2022

it's not all apathy, there is plenty of outright hatred as well I reckon. But Mandelson said it himself on PM around the time of the Hartlepool by-election, something about how they are being more selective to which voters they are appealing to now 🤢 I really hope such a repugnant and morally bankrupt strategy goes badly wrong for them.

Unite strikes a landmark agreement with one of the UK's largest #NHS trusts to end the two tier workforce. Covid has put the treatment of NHS workers in the spotlight. Unite will now ramp-up pressure on other trusts - they can no longer look the other way. https://t.co/98USuKdkSg pic.twitter.com/uBWBdvGE0E

— Sharon Graham (@UniteSharon) March 3, 2022

50. https://t.co/R4cc56Htx2

— Daniel Trilling (@trillingual) March 6, 2022

From the Sunday Times pic.twitter.com/BJbt9AhRMX

— John Harris (@johnharris1969) March 6, 2022

Lol @ John Harris RT-ing. Shouldn't he go to the 'red wall' to see what the people there think about this?

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— Flying_Rodent (@flying_rodent) March 7, 2022

They won't understand losing elections either as Lab will stand firmly with the Tories on migration.

Hmm

My spookometer just went off at high volume. pic.twitter.com/vhdMCcxQLs

— Elvis Buñuelo (@Mr_Considerate) March 8, 2022

You’re fleeing your home in Ukraine in probably the worst thing that’s ever happened to you. What does the Labour Party say?

Sky News Presenter: "The Labour party isn't calling for Visa waivers at the moment, is it?"

Yvette Cooper confirms Labour Party policy is to require Ukrainian refugees to apply for, and be granted, visas. (1/2) pic.twitter.com/lZ4QI4G06u

— Saul Staniforth (@SaulStaniforth) March 9, 2022

Useless cunts.

they love wearing the flag colours and using Zelensky as an opportunity blather out platitudes and tributes, but the war refugees those colours represent .. no they can fuck off and join the queue. Well anything other than waiving visas probably amounts to that, but Labour can't seem soft on immigration to a few thousand gammons in Shitsdale.

I put Radio 4 on for a minute while making breakfast this morning and a voice said "we have Yvette Cooper" and I was back in the loving arms of Radio 3 like a flash

This is hilarious

BREAKING

Roman Abramovich has been sanctioned by the Government and his asserts - including Chelsea Football Club - have been frozen

Chelsea have been given a special licence to continue with football related activities but the sale effectively bars the sale of the club

— Steven Swinford (@Steven_Swinford) March 10, 2022

Ok

Someone really made this graphic https://t.co/R1Loyzqzox

— Mollie Goodfellow (@hansmollman) March 10, 2022

im the oligarch tsar

going to ask the oli g taskforce to cancel Levi Colwill's Chelsea contract to save him from the shame of being an unwitting Putin minion.

what is the distinction between an "oligarch" and an "entrepreneur" or "wealth creator" other than them being foreigns. Because as far I can see they are all thieves and crooks who hold power + influence over equally corrupt politicians, including the billionaires born in the UK.

Amazing violation of the UK flagbrand. Sure let's make the whole thing white, no problem.

https://t.co/HireWhLz9j pic.twitter.com/CoDPUH89xc

— Europe's Leading Soccer Futurologist (@TreborRhurbarb) March 10, 2022

This is really, really bad (the replies are awfully lol, but that's twitter). Seriously though how does a government survive this if it affects millions?

Currently pay £110 direct debit for gas and electricity, to fix rate now £538 a month. This is robbery.🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬

— Stephanie (@Supermum_1968) March 9, 2022

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FNj2eozXIAIr0Rr?format=jpg&name=large

a dyed in the wool conservative attacking the PM in a way Kieth can't. i/ because he's a tory as fuck cunt himself. ii/ because he's fully committed to the same untrue pro-Putin slur against his predecessor since he's only ruthless against factional party rivals and soft as butter when attacking tories with minor adjustments to evil policies he'd like to huffily suggest to the line manager.

EXCLUSIVE w/@harryyorke1

The head of MI6 had concerns about Boris Johnson’s friend Evgeny Lebedev almost a decade ago

In 2013, Sir John Sawers repeatedly rejected bid by KGB agent’s son to meet at MI6 HQ

No10 doesn't deny PM knew about incidenthttps://t.co/24mOMc2ieW

— Gabriel Pogrund (@Gabriel_Pogrund) March 12, 2022

The thing I love about UK politics is 🚨🚨🚨🚨 exclusives of things it wasn’t convenient for the press to notice before, for some reason.

a consistent feature of politics for the last, i don’t know, forever? is people on the left pointing out the truth in real time, being ignored, and then 5-15 years later, after the big dogs have eaten, moved on, and left the bones to rot, it’s become conventional wisdom

Yes, I agree with Tracer Hand's post here.

Anarchists occupying the house are from revolutionary group London Mahknovists - and say they won't leave until Putin stops the war. pic.twitter.com/Xanxy2vkHo

— Jessica Frank-Keyes (@JessicaFKeyes) March 14, 2022