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

I dunno, there seems to be a surprising lack of radio/tv interviews out there. Especially for a writer plugging a politics book that is being widely reviewed.

although perhaps mainstream media are a bit reluctant to feature a critical LOTO book with the local elections coming up

"the child prodigy Oliver Eagleton on guitar"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xv6ansLhcHE

eagleton on guitar far left (is it the same oliver? does he look a teeny bit like a young pinefox? who can say?)

https://www.facebook.com/RaucousPorpoise/

just deleted his book off my kindle.

The reality of the situation for us all who hate Starmer is that -- given Tory woes -- he could win quite a lot of councils next Thursday.

Barnet is fuck awful but as Simon Vessey says they can win the council.

https://mediadiversified.org/2022/05/02/labours-local-election-lies-and-the-sham-of-democracy/

does simon vessey have a new twitter account yet

yeah is he still twitter-banned?

I kind of miss him abusing every bigoted Labour arsehole at least a dozen times a day.

Keep screaming, it only makes me happier.

You don’t have to vote Labour in the local elections if you hate Starmer that much.

I just find it a *bit* weird you hate him more than you hate Boris Johnson.

— Aid has a podcast (@aidThompsin) May 2, 2022

one difference between Kieth and Boris is that the latter ran a more honest leadership campaign, and didn't renegade on pledges (or perhaps singular in his case) as soon as the votes were counted, although they are both habitual liars and bigots.

What did Boris even run on? What I react to is that I should vote for someone I hate to get the person I hate even more out of office, when it's not even about personalities.

What did Boris even run on?

same as the main 2019 GE slogan "get brexit done" iirc

Kept that one.

Get Ukraine Done is his new slogan.

he's in a pissing competition with Macron, whoever get's the most publicity shots with Zelensky is top boy.

They're all at it tbf.

Someone who voted Lib Dem on 2019 explaining to me how important it is I vote Labour in the Locals: pic.twitter.com/VbuBznzrb7

— matt ratt 🛸 (@MisterRatt) May 3, 2022

if one thing might drive me off Twitter at the moment it's getting sucked into hate-reading these champs

Fucking hell

Hope the new merch sells enough to make up for losing 200k+ subs pic.twitter.com/zWmw4cnN3z

— aslan (@badwithcolour) May 4, 2022

if you really need to put a war criminal on your fridge at least if you put Hitler on there it could pass as dark ironic humour.

https://shop.labour.org.uk/search?q=corbyn

They used to have a huge amount of official Corbyn merch. On a related note, amused to see this as part of the NPG’s collections.

Found 1 products matching "starmer"

it looks like they are struggling to come up with any Starmer memes, quite a tough task tbf.

he's so easy to lampoon, but making him into a "top bloke" is nigh on impossible

and also doing '97 nostalgia when Blair has recently hinted that Starmer is not up to the job and is apparently on the verge of launching a new centrist party inspires so much confidence in him.

although everyone leapt on the "new centrist party" story with justifiable glee i'm not sure how solidly sourced it is

Why would he launch a new party when he's being rehabilitated as Superman Meets Jesus by the Labour Party?

I have a lovely Jezza mug bought from Labour’s website in 2017.

tbf there was a solid effort to get #RIPkeirstarmer memeing yesterday

the new party is new nu-labour

Miou-Miou Labour

Time for a new remix of "Things Can't Ever Get Better"

I wonder how SKSQCMP is enjoying his first taste of the media pushing a non-story nonstop

What's this?👀A new party political broadcast from the far right?

The far right don't want you to vote because they win when political apathy is high.

📢So if you don't fancy sending everyone back to where they came from, VOTE ON 5TH MAY. #LocalElections2022 @eddiemarsan pic.twitter.com/sK9ldpujU3

— HOPE not hate (@hopenothate) May 4, 2022

lol, spectacularly bad *satirical* vid to excite the voters who at this point have completely forgotten about the racist smear job by the Starmer campaign team in Batley and are willing to suspend reality for a day and believe that Labour councils are transformative and progressive.

I can't work out if he's even going down party political lines here, or if it's that Iannucci shtick that voting for any party is inherently good - participation is key! It's so fucking dumb.

Incredible: pic.twitter.com/gy9SW1ZGmM

— William Kedjanyi (@KeejayOV3) May 4, 2022

lol, people endlessly moan about twitter but the great success of the assignment to embed "Kieth" in the national psyche is a minor victory worth enjoying when parliamentary democracy is dead to you.

I was laughing at that so much. “Keith…Keith…Keir!” Didn’t miss the knighthood I notice.

I was laughing at that so much. “Keith…Keith…Keir!” Didn’t miss the knighthood I notice.

Can't forgive Oliver Eagleton for not calling his book 'Keith'

That's the one objectively true criticism of that book.

The one or two predictions I've seen are of losses for the Tories but with caveats of all this being hard to predict.

They've already factored that in with all those 'unofficial' comments on how they're expecting to lose 800 seats, or sumthin'.

I think they'd already lost a shitload of councillors when He Who Cannot Be Named was Labour leader, so it's debatable how much further down they can go.

Collapse in Lambeth? Gotta go for the sky, Tom. Dream big!

They got a very posh Lab lady to knock on my door just now to remind Amy to vote. So that's how that's going.

First time I’ve voted Labour since an equally glorious May morning in 1997. 🌹

— Nick Boles (@NickBoles) May 5, 2022

Collapse in Lambeth? Gotta go for the sky, Tom. Dream big

I was talking about the Tories?

I see. I didn't see the Tories factoring anything in. It just kinda goes on for them.

xps to xyzzzz__

Although it meant the failure of my efforts to secure a soft Brexit and (less importantly) the end of my political career, with hindsight, I think that it was better for the country a) to resolve the Brexit feud and b) to get rid of Corbyn. Even at the high cost of BJ as PM.

— Nick Boles (@NickBoles) June 18, 2021