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

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!

Like him, hate him, or tolerate him, to not even mention the recent leader of a major political party whose name was euphorically chanted at gigs and in town centres on Friday nights is absolutely hilarious, head in the sand, rewriting history stuff. https://t.co/jipJzVg7KJ

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

X-post

Re Rishi, reminded of Chesterton rather the Hollow Men referenced in Twitter exchange:

But Higgins is a Heathen,
And his slaves grow lean and grey,
That he may drink some tepid milk
Exactly twice a day.

and

But Higgins is a Heathen,
And he drives the dreary quill,
To lend the poor that funny cash
That makes them poorer still.

Johnson and Sunak to be fined for lockdown breaches.

Watch as nothing at all happens.

A fine, lol

Take it to court and call Volodymyr Zelenskyy as a character witness.

can't truss it

Boris wriggle jam etc etc

John Rentoul of The Independent, good grief...

It's still essentially a matter of opinion: Johnson & Sunak think gatherings were lawful; Met Police think otherwise...

— John Rentoul (@JohnRentoul) April 12, 2022

Rentoul informed by his memory of the start of common law tbf

what is this hair pic.twitter.com/qGy77sxUxW

— Scott Bryan (@scottygb) April 12, 2022

I mean:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-61081206

"A Met Police officer packed a bag full of items to have sex with a girl he thought was 13 years old, a court has heard.

Det Con Francois Olwage, 52, from Stevenage, Hertfordshire, allegedly spoke to the "girl" for two weeks before trying to meet, Winchester Crown Court heard.

The court heard the girl was in fact an undercover police officer."

Definite A Scanner Darkly vibes from that one

Useless.

Liz Truss now clear favourite to replace Boris Johnson if the vacancy soon arises. I have no more to say.

— Andrew Neil (@afneil) April 12, 2022

Who's he working for now, Paddy Power?

Didn't even have to work this hard. Just say "lol no" instead.

This shit is genuinely beyond parody pic.twitter.com/RhmdzQ3w3i

— 'Client Journalism' Expert (@ClientJournoExp) April 12, 2022

The vast relentless power of The Left once again.

My guess is that this is only the first fine.

Really hilarious that months of Guardian discourse has been brushed aside with "there's a war on" [which is nothing to do with us].

as a member of The Left i give zero fucks about this

it seems to exercise the soft Right tho

Yup.

Student loan interest rates expected to rise from 4.5% to 12% for high earners and from 1.5% to 9% for low earners from September. An average grad with £50k debt will incur £2,200 to £3000 in interest over 6 months, just in case young wallets haven't been hit hard enough.

— Emma Yeomans (@Effy_Yeomans) April 13, 2022

as a member of The Left i give zero fucks about this

it seems to exercise the soft Right tho

BREAKING: Government unveils plans to send ‘illegal migrants’ who reach Britain to Rwanda.

PM will announce the plans in a speech tomorrow. It has long been the government’s ambition to ‘offshore’ migrants. Other countries previously refused, but UK has made a deal with Rwanda.

— Paul Brand (@PaulBrandITV) April 13, 2022

rwanda is famous for its tolerance of outsiders...

Pure neolib brain juice

I don't know who needs to hear this, but anyone who thinks the Rwanda deal is unethical is already going to think that.

If you really want to make it unpopular, point out that it is a waste of 1.4 billion quid by a government that wont help people with their energy bills.

— Chris Curtis (@chriscurtis94) April 14, 2022

Frustrating though the Rwanda story is… keep writing to your MP about Partygate/law-breaking.

— Mike Galsworthy 🇺🇦 (@mikegalsworthy) April 14, 2022

I know, dicks really don't understand the audience

Be racist! Write to your MP!!

"I have been characterised as a sexual predator, outcast and worse." - Imran Ahmad Khan in his resignation statement.