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

it's not as good as Fifty Shades tbh

uk politics thread is done with uk politics for the foreseeable

I believe the Sue Grey report was out today lads

Finding out that people who work at No. 10 are a shower of entitled cunts has come as a real shock to me.

sad as I am I put the radio on earlier just to hear "Sir Beer Khorma" but must have missed it + all I heard was Blackford sounding like some pompous puritan minister and Starmer sounding like a cunt as per "it's time to pack your bags" he says in that voice.

Ugh, Blackford, he's the worst, pompous puffed up little toad, the SNP need their heads examined making him Leader in the House of Commons.

"people engaging in dranking & debauchery ... people sitting on each other's laps"

"Yesterday, I chaired an event a mile away from Westminster where the heads of a few of the charities working at the eye of this storm revealed what they are seeing right now. At food banks run by the Trussell Trust, its chief executive Emma Revie said, people now turn up asking for “kettle packs”: food that can be cooked using only an electric kettle. They take away hot-water bottles and blankets, what she called “artefacts of destitution”. Clare Moriarty, the chief executive officer of Citizens Advice, remembered how a woman waiting in one bureau last week burst into tears. What’s wrong?, asked a member of staff. Nothing, replied the lady, but this is the warmest I’ve been in months."

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/may/25/boris-johnson-prime-minister

Does contain one or two subtweets of The Guardian's political desk.

So yesterday I learned that the Tories have snuck in that if you fail Maths or English GCSE even once you are no longer eligible for Student Loan and can only make it through Uni if you are self funded.

— Planet Beth (@PlanetBeth91) May 25, 2022

jfc. This is the first I've heard of this. So now if you are dyslexic and not funded by family money then forget about further education or just got some bad GCSE results, or a late developer. I really despise this country.

So, even if you pass a retake, etc?

That's bad.

Poster Imago: did you leave Charlton? A thing about you that I liked was that you supported Charlton Athletic -- very much the local team of my childhood.

I still support them! Just from my ivory tower of Hampstead Garden Suburb now #guillotine #posho

Labour going into coalition with the Tories and Lib Dems in Edinburgh.https://t.co/ZCMi14hWth

— libcom.org (@libcomorg) May 26, 2022

Good for you, Imago.

I went to Hampstead recently. It was a very rare experience - had almost literally never been. It was fascinating. A different world. One thought I had was, basically: usually when you find a 'posh area' there is a 'poor area' about 500 yards away. But here, it seemed, there wasn't. The 'posh area' went on for miles and miles, uninterrupted. I had never seen anything quite like it.

Unsure if the Garden Suburb is the same, though, as what I saw, which was nearer Hampstead Heath Overground and, I think, Hampstead tube.

Yeah, HGS is more East Finchley - it is a conservation area and very well-to-do (not to mention utterly beautiful to a degree that almost feels occult) but it lacks (thankfully) some of the otiose grandeur you get with Hampstead proper and its ludicrous boutiques, mansions, gurus etc. We were lucky enough to find a flat in one of the courts along the A1 (practically giving my enemies my door number eh) where the rent split in twain is actually cheaper than my dingy Woolwich basement. The HGS project was expressly, and sure, naively utopian during its heyday from the 1890s until the 1930s when my flat was built - the aim was to provide beautiful and harmonious living to all parts of society. What that's meant in actuality is that I am the region's riff-raff in terms of earnings, housing and political opinions (it's a staunchly Tory ward), so obviously a lot of people are completely excluded. If you don't mind being a little out of the way, though, it's great, and you'll never run out of smoked salmon bagels

There are more working class areas and council estates dotted around where Hampstead Heath overground is (which I don't think of as Hampstead proper,) but between there and Hampstead underground, yeah it's solidly posh to very posh.

I love outer North London - I've lived in various parts of Finchley, only walked through Hampstead Garden Suburb a couple of times when exploring and it is very weird! Congrats.

Oh yeah, the central square with the two mirroring churches (including St Jude's with its upside down crosses) and The Institute aka Henrietta Barnett School at the head of the 'cross' is absolutely terrifying, it's wonderful. HBS is my pick for scariest building in London, especially when viewed from the downhill side

Lol

NEW: Sunak promises “temporary, targeted levy” on energy company profits.

— Ben Kentish (@BenKentish) May 26, 2022

this guy

it’s so easy to outflank labour on spending because they’ve been convinced by years of right wing rhetoric that we can’t afford to spend very much at all https://t.co/MrWv1uYEoN

— keir 🇪🇪🇷🇸🐊 (@kxcii) May 26, 2022

lol ... exactly double what Labour proposed and it's still an inadequate solution in the long term. You probably have got more chance of watered down Corbyn policies with a Tory party that is getting spooked by the polling than a Labour party led by a reactionary cunt with a pathological fear of anything associated with Corbyn.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FTsE0HCUsAAzSMB?format=jpg&name=large

lol at every SCG MP posting this shite!

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/may/27/but-is-it-art-maam-robots-platinum-jubilee-queen-portrait-unveiled

did data paint that

It's better than Banky

Data's lack of emotion yet superb technique bringing in the goods.

no fucking way pic.twitter.com/DgCaHQYvuK

— dennis reynolds (@_goldengod69) May 26, 2022

What slaphead posted that?

https://clickhole.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/dnmtn4ksijwyep0xmljk.jpg

bald-pilled

lol

I’m really embarrassed to say I never saw this coming. When it was blinding obvious this would be the logical next step. Wow. https://t.co/yUx7nCkafW

— emily m (@maitlis) May 27, 2022

Why does mummy's face disappear while playing peek-a-boo? Oh wait, there she is again!

Next: Emily Maitlis interview in Guardian Weekend on Trump, the era of online populism, the need for sceptical journalism, what she really thinks of Jacob Rees-Mogg - and *that* dress.

Meanwhile in LOTO, senior advisers to Keir Starmer have mulled their next steps if Labour loses the election

They are discussing a proposal for Starmer to stay on for a transitional period of six to 12 months to give the party time to learn from mistakes and elect his successor

— Eleni Courea (@EleniCourea) May 27, 2022

KS's *own advisors* are briefing this?

Sir Keir Starmer is to publish a book about Britain under a Labour government, originally written as a private collection of his thoughts, in the face of claims that he has failed to communicate his vision

"a tedium-induced coma"

Lonely just thinking abaout Britain under a Labour government.

Lonely guy, that is. Goddamnit!

people aren't reacting overmuch to the news that the ex head of MI6 was involved in a brief plot to replace the Prime Minister. https://t.co/bCbZ1lKGTD

— jamie k (@jkbloodtreasure) May 27, 2022

Dearlove's proposal here appears to be that ex-CIA operatives would set up a fake Democratic Party entity that would allow them to infiltrate Best for Britain lol pic.twitter.com/yKiNkN6dUC

— Lafargue (@Lafargue) May 28, 2022

UK government to hope no one knows how much prices have increased if they have to be measured in completely fucking meaningless units

(I have to convert to imperial for working in the US and it means n o t h i n g to me)https://t.co/kNs06x9c6T

— Hazel Southwell (@HSouthwellFE) May 29, 2022

brb asking Martin Lewis if 6 bushels of gruel for one giant novelty coin is a good deal

I always consult multi-millionaires before making important budgeting decisions

lol hullo hazel

former ilxor i believe (she posted once)

according to Dodds you need to visit labour.org to find their transformative policies if you are interested in them, but she as party chair doesn't seem willing to talk about them. Such a dreadful interview. If they go into an election campaign empty-handed and give evasive and dismal answers like that, then they will be facing a much worse result than 2019.

guaranteed the line will then be "corbyn did even more damage to the party than we'd thought"

they totally fucked it in 2019 and the dignified thing to do was not try blame it all on Miliband as he didn't try and make Brown a scapegoat when he fucked it. But these are some of the most dishonest and vile people in UK politics.

https://pbs.twimg.com/card_img/1530231021656231937/XHMDM8Pr?format=jpg&name=900x900

NEW:Wakefield (Christian People's Alliance) candidate Paul “have never sexually assaulted anyone” Bickerdike has further clarified his position

He tells media: “I do look at children but I look at children in a proper way, not the way that the previous MP was looking at children.”

lol, this guy is distributing campaign leaflets on which he declares he's not a paedophile

"My t-shirt saying "I'm not a paedophile" has a lot of people etc. and so on"