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

Repulsive how Labour's main line of attack on this Rwandan scheme is that it's "unworkable".

"We will do it but cheaper"

Today we gathered outside the Home Office to say NO to offshoring - Abolish all detention! ✊ pic.twitter.com/iE7IzjkKDY

— SOAS Detainee Support (@sdetsup) April 14, 2022

in 1987 the Thatcher government repurposed a Channel ferry, turning it into a floating immigration prison. the majority were Tamil refugees escaping Sinhalese oppression in Sri Lanka - which Britain supported. conditions on board were disgusting, suicide was rife. https://t.co/HAeEegO8vP

— michael (@Sisyphusa) April 15, 2022

evidence of British compassion littered throughout the Empire ofc

Landlords in the South West added more than an extra two months’ rent a year DURING A PANDEMIC pic.twitter.com/WG1OKyi6Cb

— Anna (@lacanian_bimbo) April 15, 2022

reminded of this by someone i shouldn't be reading (retweeted by someone chaotic w/no quality control) but given the scandal blowing up round MP andrew bridgen, never forget that even his fellow tories know him as "spud-u-hate"

Well, makes a nice change from Labour ones doing it I guess pic.twitter.com/c4wQtfs6Wq

— Flying_Rodent (@flying_rodent) April 19, 2022

NHS hasn't been at all resilient, and the government aren't doing shit ofc.

1/25 NEW THREAD. Where's NHS up to? Flat out, doing its best for patients, as ever. But struggling with covid and impact of long term fault lines. Concerning pressure, despite front line effort. Sits alongside interview today with @thesundaytimes : https://t.co/W5Y0POEhgt

— Chris Hopson (@ChrisCEOHopson) April 17, 2022

This is the future. We're allowed treats.

To help with the cost of living, we're selling over 1 million rail tickets at up to ½ price for trips from 25 Apr to 27 May 🎫

After 2 yrs of living life virtually, the Great British Rail Sale🚆 starts today.

Get yours here👉 https://t.co/FJmjw54wyZ pic.twitter.com/CyPva6s905

— Rt Hon Grant Shapps MP (@grantshapps) April 19, 2022

a big beast is when u tweet yr own name

logic bomb of the day

Johnson says if he were a liability to his party, as Blackford claims, Blackford would not be calling for his resignation.

Blackford's the one who's a liability.

Blackford's the one who's a liability.

... oops, that hasn't happened in years.

Thanks to everyone who has read or shared this. I don’t even feel I’ve accurately described the horror of the last 4 weeks https://t.co/T4toXpxcRr

— maintenant, la revanche (@judeinlondon2) April 21, 2022

it is such a grim story -- i hugely admire how well she has kept things together over the last couple of months in particular but of course no one should have to facing this unsupported

yes it's been very sad and worrying to watch, she has incredible strength, and this is the kind of reportage that ought to be at the centre of the national news cycle but it isn't about celebrity parties so

There is also a couple of other things she didn't get to mention (her own health and her mother's) but that you know from a follow.

Imagine how many are going through even half of this and aren't at all supported and don't have an outlet either.

a very sad story, she's having truly awful time + her courage is inspiring. It's a story which I'm becoming increasingly familiar with in the last decade. I'm just about to find out how useful or utterly bad my local LD health support service is as I have a problem or two at the moment. As in a 20 yr old autistic son who has sort of disappeared off the system post 16 and is now having daily violent/self harming episodes and attacking staff at college and to top it off my partner is developing MS dementia. But, lol at least I'm not Ed Balls!

there was a decent (by R4 standards) report on the increasing amount of autistic people banged up in grim NHS "assessment centres" for long periods, this fucking country.

Calzino I am so sorry - but yes, at least you are not Ed fucking Balls!

no I've never tried to pass off some Jamie Oliver.com mediocrities as my own recipes in a bid to start a TV chef career, but that is right at the bottom of his crime sheet!

you show me some dire New Labour flop who puts fucking chargrilled broccoli in their salad and I will confirm to you they are NOT a "big beast". Stafford Cripps ate raw uncooked vegetables, straight out of the soil. Although he was probably a cunt as well but at least he wasn't Ed Balls.

Surely greatest UK Chancellor ever?

Welcome back Calz, sorry things are so difficult, I am very angry on your behalf (and so many others') for whatever fraction of sod all that's worth.

(xp) The tiniest for sure.

thanks Tim, no shame in getting fp'ed off a Marvel fan site:p

Oh like Cripps and no doubt he did some good work during the reconstruction years and got kicked out of Labour for being a commie, so definitely worthy of respect. I just feel it has become obligatory to call anyone connected to the PLP a cnut these days - all Kieth's fault of course!

(xp) Oops I thought that was an ironic comment on Sunak, but that's not really pinefox's style.

Some dispute over whether Churchill actually said about Cripps, "There, but for the grace of God, goes God." Good story though.

"As a child who was smacked by their parents from time to time, I don't think it did me any harm."

Lammy as the de facto minister for violence against children won't be happy with Wes stealing his thunder here.

One that Wes will appreciate:

Mike Tyson punched somebody who was Fn with him……. The problem is nowadays, MFs think they WON’T get punched in the Face…

— ICE T (@FINALLEVEL) April 21, 2022

really if Wes believes in evidence-based policies he needs somebody to keep giving him a smack so we can work out the point at which it does do you harm

scumbags like Lammy and Wes just wade into this "debate" that isn't a debate like talksport presenters. I'd rather eat a pound of rat poison than vote for this party.

Maybe this is cos I'm a lefty dinosaur who doesn't understand how politics works and wants the Tories to win but I don't think anybody of good will should be engaging with scum like Times Radio and I don't see how not engaging with them would cost the Labour Party even one vote

This is all hypothetical mind cos no way I'm voting for them ever again either

This is the main reason why Sunak is fucked.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-61157856

Got to keep the show on the road..

Grace Blakeley joining the Talk TV panel is another futile or possibly even outright craven careerist move that will do absolutely fuck all to advance left-wing causes but will perhaps advance the Grace Blakely brand. You don't win any arguments on a panel with TND on Murdoch tv, or even if you seem slightly less an evil bastard than the other panellists you are still pissing in the wind or at worst being a useful stooge. I'd say anyone who goes from a public school education to a think tank to a media career is a textbook melt and not genuinely going to have the same interests of the increasing section of society with diminishing standards of living. I'd believe she was going on the Murdoch payroll to advance the class struggle lol, but I wasn't born yesterday.

I presume Corbyn was expecting a stitch up so I don't really understand why he walks into it in a Murdoch media building where another presenter is boasting on air that he wanted to punch him out in the foyer.

Corbyn will speak to most as a one-off to try and advance arguments that he believes in. That could speak to a weakness tactically but as a backbench MP -- whose experience he always carried with him even when he was leader -- it's pretty much ok I reckon.

And as a backbencher who is probably on his way out of parliament. Don't know whether he'll stand as an independent at the next election.

i was thinking of Streeting of course and forgot Crombine had been interviewed this week

i still wouldn't play ball with the cunts, as a missionary or otherwise

Grace Blakeley joining the Talk TV panel is another futile or possibly even outright craven careerist move that will do absolutely fuck all to advance left-wing causes but will perhaps advance the Grace Blakely brand. You don't win any arguments on a panel with TND on Murdoch tv, or even if you seem slightly less an evil bastard than the other panellists you are still pissing in the wind or at worst being a useful stooge. I'd say anyone who goes from a public school education to a think tank to a media career is a textbook melt and not genuinely going to have the same interests of the increasing section of society with diminishing standards of living. I'd believe she was going on the Murdoch payroll to advance the class struggle lol, but I wasn't born yesterday.

I presume Corbyn was expecting a stitch up so I don't really understand why he walks into it in a Murdoch media building where another presenter is boasting on air that he wanted to punch him out in the foyer.

Not really that different from Diane Abbott sitting having the piss taken out of her by Andrew Neil and Michael Portillo for years on end.

They never quite did it to her face, did they?

while i broadly agree re: Diane Abbott i think you could still just about argue there is significant difference doing this on BBC1 than doing it on some Murdoch micro hate network

Think it depends on the quality of the person appearing? Again, far more mainstream, but Ash Sarkar, Moya L-M etc handing Piers Morgan's ass to him on GMB, or even just appearing on Vine or whatever, has done a fair bit to normalise left wing viewpoints, if not to advance the class struggle. Grace admittedly isn't up to that standard quite yet.

Sarkar will appear on a show now and then. Blakeley will have to appear every single week to offer some kind of token progressive take on whatever is happening. Can't see a good end to that.

in S1 of the latest fun bbc hitler series Ash did a fair job as a commenter on the German communist party, but it seems they didn't invite her back for Season 2. They got that horrendous blowhard Kasparov in as the Soviet Union eggspurt and it was unwatchable. There was lots of other annoying bullshit in it but he really ruined it. Perhaps that is an indication of how popular she is with BBC bosses.

can't afford food? bag of pasta 5p. landlord physically assaulting you? must've not paid your rent. privatised rail extortionate? actually I think you'll find that's an open return and do you expect the taxpayer to fund your travel? welcome to britain and things can't get better

— pez (@periuspb) April 22, 2022

the cost to make a plate of basic supermarket tagliatelle into something approaching a nutritious meal - considerably more than fucking 5p! hah Burnham getting dismissed as a utopian populist for calling for a policy most of the country wants sort of reveals the limits of how much democracy the commentariat will put up with, and also probably the limits of Burnham really. Unless he actually is evolving into a different kind of politician than the bullshitting weathercock from the '15 leadership election.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FQ9b2iMXIAE-SVu?format=jpg&name=small

lol, who needs unaffordable trains when you've got zoom.