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

"Asking nicely" will work when you are not going to break shit.

"People don't want a revolution, they do want to know how to pay their energy bills."@Keir_Starmer says Labour "understands" concerns shared by millions as the energy price cap rises.

Read more: https://t.co/MEd3NXPqKS

📺 Sky 501, Virgin 602, Freeview 233 and YouTube pic.twitter.com/NkVUArRKi0

— Sky News (@SkyNews) April 1, 2022

GMB WIN 🚨: hospital cleaners and porters at Croydon hospital win 24% pay rise 💪

— GMB Union (@GMB_union) March 31, 2022

Frontline DWP staff offered 2%

Therese Coffey come and individually kick us in the crotch while you're on

Are you fucking kidding me

it's just a peculiar habit pic.twitter.com/Bt8VtWFVF2

— Frank Sobotka (@cymrurouge) April 3, 2022

It's an April the 3rd spoof.

That’s definitely real

forensic science teaches us that the dandruff of users is made of cocaine so

Ah Jesus Christ lol

his dandruff appears to be 100% pure

it has a street value of £250 per oz

i mean ffs, flour, talc, things you could've said. this dandruff line just shows contempt for our legal system and values

Wins is correct, can’t believe I never checked, ffs.

really? on April 3rd? poor form

Islamic Relief says an estimated 50% of UK Muslim households live in poverty, compared to 18% of the general UK population.https://t.co/ppq7IKXjYD

— Taj Ali (@Taj_Ali1) April 2, 2022

Chancellor @RishiSunak has asked @RoyalMintUK to create an NFT to be issued by the summer.

This decision shows the the forward-looking approach we are determined to take towards cryptoassets in the UK. pic.twitter.com/cd0tiailBK

— HM Treasury (@hmtreasury) April 4, 2022

Has he sold all those Furbys then?

the bottom's obvously fallen out of the princess diana beanie babies market.

this is great news for all the people currently unable to heat their homes, cook, shower etc

"I took a forward-looking approach" - every hit and run motorist

Generations of poor, struggling, hungry..

Remember having to go to court with my mum. My baby sisters in their twin buggy. She was caught stealing food as she couldn’t afford our winter coats and meals. Co-Op pressed charges. Magistrate threw it out. Thatcher in power. We were often cold and hungry. 1/2

— Heidi James (@heidipearljames) April 4, 2022

Another day in hell island.

Channel 4 rightly holds a cherished place in British life and I want that to remain the case. I have come to the conclusion that government ownership is holding Channel 4 back from competing against streaming giants like Netflix and Amazon. 1/3

— Nadine Dorries (@NadineDorries) April 4, 2022

maybe Elon Musk can buy channel 4

(except they probably have a chum already lined up)

When you run out of loopholes.

New MSE guide: How to heat the human not the home.

I felt sad asking my team to put this together, but my emailbag is full of folk so desperate they can't put the heat on, I wanted to try some help. Pls sharehttps://t.co/VvBBSIC43r

Full cost of living survival guide due soon

— Martin Lewis (@MartinSLewis) April 5, 2022

Somebody (I wonder who?) is really doing a number on the littlest Chancellor.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/rishi-sunak-akshata-murthy-non-dom-wife-tax-b2052251.html

Indeed.

Rishi Sunak blocked increase of energy bill rebate from £200 to £500 'or more', leak shows

🔴 Exclusive from @RichardVaughan1 and @paulwaugh https://t.co/t3oEwbOSCI

— i newspaper (@theipaper) April 7, 2022

isn't that a loan, not a handout though. £500 would just mean more debt.

oh, next line down

"A £150 non-repayable rebate for households in England in council tax bands A to D, known as the Council Tax Rebate."

still waiting for mine, pull your fucking finger out Hull City Council

“Ultimately it comes down to the nameless 96 people who were killed in the 'Grenbell' fire.” - Eric Pickles

We are speechless. How dare he refer to our loved ones we lost that night as ‘the 96 nameless’.

72 people died in #Grenfell & none of them were nameless. https://t.co/rcN4HKpBuY

— Grenfell United (@GrenfellUnited) April 7, 2022

Lol

Warbreck (Liverpool) council by-election result:

LAB: 48.2% (-31.8)
LDEM: 46.2% (+38.3)
GRN: 3.2% (-1.1)
CON: 2.4% (-4.1)

No Lib (-1.3) as prev.

Votes cast: 1,893

Labour HOLD.

— Britain Elects (@BritainElects) April 7, 2022

Be prepared for more results like that in the true Labour heartlands - the cities.

I lolled like 🦆

wait why is lib dems gaining loads of votes funny

I think the Liberals have always done reasonably well in Liverpool?

Suggests that UNDER NEW MANAGEMENT is not doing a great job of attracting voters who were SCARED OFF by Labour’s Communist Turn. Also there was recently some nasty candidate meddling by Central HQ in Liverpool iirc.

Some people just want to watch Sir Kieth burn

but at the expense of another tory win? i've had enough of these wreckers already.

Council results like this are likely down to local dissatisfaction with services/management; LAB are possibly going to get thumped in Croydon, and the LD canvassers have been excitedly scurrying around our neighbourhood for weeks.

(I note the LDs had all the seats in Warbreck before 2007... based off zero contemporary local knowledge, I'm just gonna call this the Ormskirk branch soft Tory corridor).

croydon has a huge corruption scandal bubbling under (which critics insist current labour party general secretary d4vid 3v4ns is somewhat adjacent to)

Yeah, the partnership with 3r1ck By 3r1ck is very dodgy, and has barely produced a single affordable home. £1.5bn in debt (think half of that was inherited from the previous CON administration but still)?

"Council results like this are likely down to local dissatisfaction with services/management"

Usually when there is a council loss you get to know the local issue behind it quite quickly from a twitter account.

This was a hold but the seat is now a marginal, and I can't see any local scandals - which could signal a disaster for Lab next month.

I think the Liberals have always done reasonably well in Liverpool?

― Phil McCracken (Tom D.), Friday, 8 April 2022 10:31 (two hours ago) link

Suggests that UNDER NEW MANAGEMENT is not doing a great job of attracting voters who were SCARED OFF by Labour’s Communist Turn. Also there was recently some nasty candidate meddling by Central HQ in Liverpool iirc.

― TWELVE Michelob stars?!? (seandalai), Friday, 8 April 2022 11:02 (one hour ago) link

Some people just want to watch Sir Kieth burn

― a spectre is haunting your mom (Noodle Vague), Friday, 8 April 2022 11:06 (one hour ago) link

fair points and lol keith obviously, it depends I suppose if you regard the lib dems as a party in their own right or just a sort of cum sock for protest votes. One important statistic that's missing is turnout and comparison with last time.

I regard all 3 of the main English parties as useless evil cunts at this stage so it's all fun and games to me

if Rishi Sunak's wife is suddenly prepared to hand over several million to keep her husband in a £150k job I think you really need to think about why this might be

— Horse (@bojack90s) April 8, 2022

Bojack fan accounts can no longer be silent on this.

love?

Love too be exchequered by someone who chooses 20 hour work days with no lunch.

Just an unbelievably dismal profile of a person. Imagine working so hard just to be this dull pic.twitter.com/v5FltVgCYO

— Hannah Rose Woods (@hannahrosewoods) April 9, 2022

It's all lies anyway.

working 20 hours a day to immiserate millions of people is some serious dedication to class war

Similar lifestyle to mine, I've got a penthouse in Santa Monica too which I hardly get the chance to visit because work work work!