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

Have a drink every time the phrase Winter of Discontent is used in the media and you'll be dead by the end of the year.

feel like we could comnbine "the dead unburied!" with a lot of the jubileee malarkey tbh

The Times article is paywalled but is the gist that millions will face power cuts or millions would face power cuts if they don’t delay plans to turn off coal-fired plants?

I can just about remember the mid-70's power cuts, along with memories of my mum shutting the curtains and telling me + my brother to keep quiet because the tv licensing van was in the area, which seemed a lot more of a dangerous situation because tv licence guy was an evil baddie. Power cuts were a novelty.

SV - don't know.

Lots of power cuts when I visited family in India. Can't wait to relive my (also happy) childhood.

"Since I'm in the Christian People's Alliance, there's clearly something wrong with me, but you haven't guessed yeeeeeeet..."

We had plenty of power cuts in rural Herefordshire well into the 80s, so will be Thatcher nostalgia for me.

There's actually an oil lamp shop round the corner from where I've just moved, seems to sell nothing else! Unfortunately it's only open 2-4 on Saturdays, so I'd imagine queues might be forming from Friday midnight this winter to snaffle the few remaining sources of power available to the nation.

the nation will largely be, as it were, cold lampin'

I prefer rechargeable LED lamps, not in a hurry to burn the gaff down ... yet

what are you going to recharge them with GENIUS??? the... the.. SUN??? *scoffs*

oh, the sun? really? ok

lol i do have some genius wind up USB chargers for back up that are so cheaply made the winder handle breaks if you wind it like fast enough to create the slightest amount of elektro motiv force

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FUBPTfwWUAELxGz?format=jpg&name=900x900

lol I don't even know wtf this event is but that ridiculous old tool with the mohawk and Jess Phillips is one hell of a pairing, maybe Maconie was not available.

Someone once told me they overheard him interviewing the Boredoms, and it was all "so are you into kung fu and that?" and similarly incisive questions. Let's see if he can pull out something better for JP!

it's glastonbury

only Putin can save us

earthquake in shropshire: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-shropshire-61636678

third seal opens

the previous earthquakes bit below on bbc link doesn't even mention the 2007 one and that was a 4.3

there was a 5.2 in 1990

I don't understand how the UK gets earthquakes when it is slap bang in the middle of a huge tectonic plate

The nearest subduction zones to Britain lie at the Hellenic Arc, south of Greece and in the Caribbean.

We have angered the ancient ones obvs

Our spellbinding homage to Her Majesty The #Queen! 👑
We've projected eight portraits of Queen Elizabeth II onto Stonehenge in celebration of the #PlatinumJubilee. pic.twitter.com/vn5vkGHJGt

— Stonehenge (@EH_Stonehenge) May 30, 2022

its the blitz spirit iirc

also i believe techtonic plates are crisscrossed by faultlines, there's one through church stretton

my favourite fact abt the biggest uk quake in living memory, the dogger quake of 1931, is that it caused the head of the dr crippen waxwork at madame tussauds to fall off

Labour news: Sources tell me that on the long list to be the party’s Stretford and Urmston candidate is one @paulmasonnews

— Rachel Wearmouth (@REWearmouth) May 30, 2022

so this explains his understanding of social democracy correctly from a Starmist viewpoint

Stretford and Urmston is ready!

Stoya, come to etc

It’s right that families get the support they need.

But it’s also right that the country knows how the Chancellor is paying for it. https://t.co/s7ecwP9QpC

— Rachel Reeves (@RachelReevesMP) May 31, 2022

Absolutely can’t help themselves.

personally I would fear this bunch of bastards forming a government more than the tories remaining in power

Seems reasonable given the evidence

Suppose that Paul Mason is selected as a candidate (might not happen) and wins (might happen) --

How do you see his career as an MP going?

My hunch is that he would have some kind of junior post, say in defence policy, quite soon.

I also envisage him quitting something, making a big deal of walking out of a post or committee, on principle, and posting lots of tweets and articles explaining why.

I don't think he will find it so easy to blame Stalinists for what goes on in the UK Parliament, as it contains none. Though that hasn't stopped him so far.

He just won't be selected. It would like all my xmasses at once!

Lol @ radical redistribution and constitutional change. What a mess!

Here we … here we … Here we fucking go!!!! https://t.co/uVpyW71nCK pic.twitter.com/gMy3JCZcev

— Elvis Buñuelo (@Mr_Considerate) May 31, 2022

would be quite something if - as retailers are warning - Boris Johnson’s plan to shift to imperial measures pushes up prices further during the cost of living crisis ⁦@FT⁩
https://t.co/shTclzK0BC

— Jim Pickard (@PickardJE) May 30, 2022

if there is one person who positively exudes "radical redistribution" it certainly isn't the shadow chancellor and Mason is thick as pigshit if he doesn't know this already. GND has been gutted and the only major spending program proposed by Labour is on nuclear submarines and military expansion to contribute more to NATO "to maintain parity with potential adversaries" and of course Kieth will offer complete impunity for armed forces to commit torture and murder.

Is the plan not to allow the use of imperial units (i.e permit US goods to be sold without relabelling) rather than ‘switching’ from metric to imperial?

I think Reeves will be fuming that they didn't go lower with their own wind tax credit proposal. Reeves is genuinely dangerous and she probably believes they'd have won in '15 if Miliband hadn't gone for compromised austerity

this measurements bollocks has given the thread title renewed irony

Hmmm.

https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2022/may/31/ears-bleeding-harry-hill-tony-blair-rock-opera-saddam-cherie

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/may/31/keir-starmer-angela-rayner-labour-receive-questionnaires-durham-police

My daughter got a platinum jubilee book about the Queen, she also got a nice mug w/ the Queen's face on it. The book was sent to all kids in the UK and it cost 12 million pounds to do that. Some of her classmates only get to eat during the free school lunch they get.

— Arnesa Buljušmić-Kustura (@Rrrrnessa) June 1, 2022

Literally one of the most corrupt hellholes in the world https://t.co/oOYL2vDiKe

— Arbeitology (@Arbeit_Fish) June 1, 2022

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FUOqtqIXoAAzTS6?format=jpg&name=large

some people are talking about how his £700m apprenticeship company prioritises ethnic diversity and does a lot of good work but I just want to see him thrown off a bridge with a ball & chain

Protesters are carried away by police after interrupting the start of Trooping the Colour.#PlatinumJubilee latest: https://t.co/oEpDBmxlOz

📺 Sky 501, Virgin 602, Freeview 233 and YouTube pic.twitter.com/34oWJBHR4P

— Sky News (@SkyNews) June 2, 2022

There’s a motion @ScotParl right now recognising the #PlatinumJubilee and paying tribute to HM Queen Elizabeth. Every single @scottishgreens MSP has just upped and walked out of the Chamber.

— Murdo Fraser (@murdo_fraser) June 1, 2022

this was once the future of socialism in Britain 🙃 https://t.co/QZilWIGpeA

— Archie Woodrow (@Archimbaldo) June 2, 2022

Garbage party I'll take another 40 years of Tory gov cheers