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

Dominic Raab's #pmqs attack on Angela Rayner and Labour for Jeremy Corbyn's stance on Russia and defence foreshadows Tories' plans for the next election. Senior Labour figures talk of "long Corbyn" worries - more to come in an updated version of #brokenheartlands later this year.

— Sebastian Payne (@SebastianEPayne) March 16, 2022

Loool. Starmer and other senior Labour figures made their shit-filled bed, now they'll enjoy lying in it

they'd rather take a mendacious attack from the tories on the chin and show their willingness to launch nukes and troops "under their new management" (which isn't actually new any more), rather than hit back with Corbyn was always a bigger Putin critic than the tories and Blair. And if they think briefing Torygraph lobby hacks about their long corbynism concerns is a winning strategy, then lol they are so fucked!

We love oil pt.17553676

Truss also tackled on @BBCRadio4 on the executions of 81 men at the weekend, the war in Yemen, and murder of dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi.

"I'm not condoning every action by the Saudi government,” she says, but "we do need to work with countries we don't agree with".

— Ashley Cowburn (@ashcowburn) March 16, 2022

So the Con Party's strategy to attack Labour, in an election in c.2023-4, is to make false complaints about ... Jeremy Corbyn, who was leader until 2 years ago and is no longer a Labour MP.

Agree with the critical comments on this above, ie: it's all the fault of mendacious KS et al.

tbf there are still Tories ragging on the Winter of Discontent, so I'm pretty sure Crombyn has at least half a century as a bogeyman to go

https://gal-dem.com/homes-for-ukraine-refugee-scheme/

tbf there are still Tories ragging on the Winter of Discontent, so I'm pretty sure Crombyn has at least half a century as a bogeyman to go

The tories will continue to use him as evidence that Labour are dangerous radicals, for the left he'll stay a reminder of what could have been and that we shouldn't settle for soft torys like the current leadership. Strategic genius there from Keith & Co.

Please retweet

The Telegraph and I have today published an apology to Laura Murray over false allegations in an article I wrote shortly before Christmas. Please see link below.https://t.co/WyFHsBHNlA

— Ian Austin (@LordIanAustin) March 17, 2022

good to see that gnarly little ugly bastard getting brought to book. But still ultimately the slander he committed in previous years helped to achieve the goal of causing great damage to Corbyn's reputation. It would have been better if he had got rinsed in court a few times at the time rather than after the game is over.

Lol

Oh wow. pic.twitter.com/k7ZqLQ8Pw0

— I'll Dig With It (@digwithit) March 17, 2022

Metropolitan Police officer David Carrick has been charged with 12 more sex offences, taking the total number of charges he faces to 41 against 11 women between 2003 and 2020.

— LBC News (@LBCNews) March 17, 2022

presumably this is the best place to post the P&O
bullshit

Footage obtained by BBC South East shows the moment P&O Ferries staff were informed they had lost their jobs. pic.twitter.com/dvRnptHfC9

— BBC South East (@bbcsoutheast) March 17, 2022

Russia stepping up the prank calling, next they'll be having pizzas delivered to no.10:
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/mar/17/hoax-caller-ukrainian-pm-denys-shmyhal-uk-ben-wallace-priti-patel

xp

I just heard Labour attacking this "appalling practise" of fire and rehire, which is good enough treatment for their own employees.

Those tweets by Cameron...can't even describe the suffering I'd like to see inflicted on that piece of turd.

sorry to bring back the movie Martin Eden to thread, but it is one of the best movies of the last decade. And there is a bit where the titular Herbert Spencer loving protagonist of the movie has his sailor contract unceremoniously terminated by the ship owner after engine problems. It's based on a 1909 novel but makes u think - some things don't change, eh?

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FOFK2N8XwAMOVnV?format=jpg&name=900x900

he looks so awkward when he can't exert a forced perspective photo op on people taller than him. If you are knocking on 60 and most of your angst is about not being the tallest person in the room - then you really are a pathetically sad piece of shit.

It's a real trick to always seem like you've been photoshopped into pics when you haven't.

you can't photoshop a soul into a lifeless husk of ham is the main problem.

good lord, just seen that pic of Cameron at the foodbank. It's enough to make you want to commit violent homicide. Frequently I get very polite Tory looking good Samaritans from the local foodbank calling at the door on Sunday with a carrier bag of food. And it's not like the farmers' market quality stuff you see in the Cameron foodbank pic, like nice looking butternut squashes and bunches of spring onions. This might sound a bit decadent but last time I wanged most of it straight in the bin. Out of date coco pops, oranges well past their best and tins of smart price spaghetti hoops - no thanks! The sourdough loaf was good though.

Remembering when he clamped down on charities for drawing attention to the rise of hunger in the UK. Flashback to when I debated one of his MPs on Radio 4 about it. (The MP is now in prison.) Listen here: https://t.co/jYaasAaAH6 https://t.co/BjieYQT72B

— Ben Phillips (@benphillips76) March 19, 2022

Looool inject it into my veins pic.twitter.com/BOF1KKGGDe

— There’s No Point (@judeinlondon2) March 19, 2022

just as all the disabled charities got silenced with the threat of funding cuts for criticising PIP and ESA reforms and fitness for work assessments etc

Extraordinary account here of a phone call between Boris Johnson and Saudi Arabia’s Mohammed bin Salman

“I miss you,” one quipped. “I miss you more,” the other replied, according to a senior U.K. official. https://t.co/M4xgT6hUsY

— Kate Day (@kate_day) March 19, 2022

The @RMTunion says P&O plans to restart its ferry service in Dover using agency crew from India + will pay them the equivalent of $2.38 (£1.80) an hour.

RMT doesn’t offer proof but this is plausible and - while some may find this shocking - it would be legal. I’ll explain… 🧵 pic.twitter.com/xDI5drWmHV

— Joel Hills (@ITVJoel) March 21, 2022

full mask-off shit

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this is quite an astonishing detail from @TulipSiddiq here: https://t.co/AKlUdZmRzo pic.twitter.com/bHn4JcySeq

— Jon Stone (@joncstone) March 21, 2022

The short answer to why the debt wasn’t paid was surely ‘the Americans wouldn’t let us until it became expedient for them to look at buying Iranian oil again’.

OMG!

I solved Semantle #52 in 4 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 35.48 (886/1000).My penultimate guess had a similarity of 6.56.
The first and possibly last time I got a green on my initial guess! That guess being origami.

Oops. Wrong thread!

The short answer to why the debt wasn’t paid was surely ‘the Americans wouldn’t let us until it became expedient for them to look at buying Iranian oil again’.

― Scampo di tutti i Scampi (ShariVari), Monday, 21 March 2022 bookmarkflaglink

Yup (saw a thing that the West might also be trying to be more friendly with Venezuela again), still quite a detail there on how the hostile environment intersects with foreign policy.

Jamaicans shun Prince William and Duchess Kate visit, demand slavery reparations https://t.co/IylyPHMuP6

— Vincent Bevins (@Vinncent) March 22, 2022

Very much enjoying this visit

In Jamaica: "We see no reason to celebrate 70 years of the ascension of your grandmother to the British throne because her leadership, and that of her predecessors, have perpetuated the greatest human rights tragedy in the history of humankind." https://t.co/8fESmpOANf

— Richard Chambers (@newschambers) March 22, 2022

i expect the BBC will be all over this

who greenlit this photo op?? 'charm offensive' lmao pic.twitter.com/ZKwaMuNtsS

— pez (@periuspb) March 23, 2022

Lots of posturing from right-wingers to come this afternoon.

How can we live in a country where the average house price is now £350,000, the average salary is £38,600 and the average deposit is £58,986?

— Charlotte Gill (@CharlotteCGill) March 22, 2022

Colville’s going on about it too.

It’s very easy to say ‘houses are too expensive’, much harder to say ‘the value of your property should fall to a point at which it’s affordable for someone without a £60k deposit’, so we will keep going round in circles.

pic.twitter.com/tTsu9aB9Tl

— Frank Sobotka (@cymrurouge) March 23, 2022

Awkward pic.twitter.com/lHRfERrxP9

— Salena Godden (@salenagodden) March 23, 2022

Inevitably blames Ukraine conflict for pain about to hit British households - reality is most of the pain (and growth slowdown) was coming even before the conflict

— Torsten Bell (@TorstenBell) March 23, 2022

Is everyone aware that in one week’s time, the government is expecting all NHS staff either (a) to pay for their own LFTs or (b) to stop self-testing & potentially come to work with Covid, infecting vulnerable patients?

Is everyone really OK with this? https://t.co/hsY0zvsk2N

— Rachel Clarke (@doctor_oxford) March 23, 2022

I can’t stop laughing at this

chancellor of the exchequer doesn’t know how to use contactless my head’s gone

pic.twitter.com/h2yBKVMu2K

— lucy (@LMAsaysno) March 23, 2022

It’s surprisingly difficult to find the Labour response to Sunak’s statement, other than a few soundbites about the Tories being the ‘party of high taxation’ and a suggested one-off windfall tax on energy companies. Is that all there is?

I've seen more about Reeves' nerdy politics joke.

Today I'm broken my 36 Yr old son is in bits as to how they will manage the fuel food gas/electric he cried it broke my heart they both work hard never been out of work but it's not enough
What has happened to this country?@RishiSunak @BorisJohnson

— lynne drewery (@drewl55) March 23, 2022

Has there been a good write-up/summary on how many will be affected next winter? Looks like the Tories could get away with it till then?

Lol at this stupidity.

Rachel Reeves tells @LBC: "The Chancellor can say as many times as he likes that he is a tax-cutting Chancellor but it is a bit like kid in his bedroom playing guitar, he's not a rock star."

— Theo Usherwood (@theousherwood) March 24, 2022

Particularly as Sunak is clearly going to go on a tax cutting blitz ahead of the next General Election.

https://i.postimg.cc/tgMLxF9v/06-A0974-D-8506-4936-AE75-5-A208-ED03119.webp

Will the tax cuts be enough to offset the pain a lot of people might be going through? Haven't really seen much on it but my reflex is to say its all about volumes affected. Austerity was accepted as it only made the poorest worse.