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

LOL exactly, the guy's a genius.

it'd be so much easier if *everybody* could just vote themselves a pay rise

so you've finally come out for full communism - that's a good development!

The @UKLabour was formed by the trade union movement to give working people a political voice

Workers face a cost of living crisis. Rail workers @rmtunion are fighting cuts to pay, job, pensions & conditions

Come what may, I will be on a picket line supporting workers tomorrow https://t.co/hd4AogsjMh

— Kate Osborne MP (@KateOsborneMP) June 20, 2022

Really fucked.

I have people calling me up in tears because they have been told by their estate agent they have to agree to 13%-20% increases in rent.

We need to end this now! PRS rents need to be regulated. https://t.co/VUuwtZJK34

— Aydin Dikerdem (@AydinDikerdem) June 20, 2022

Mick Lynch is smashing it on Newsnight.

The contrast with the smug sheen of this Conservative twit is stark.

Getting tasty: “You’re a liar.”

Chris Philp is completely out of his league.

And we’re off to a package about… the UN? They’re not dedicating the whole show to the strikes?? Insane

Pray for the guillotine for this lot every day.

Michael Green sold a "toolkit" for $497 which promised buyers earnings of $20,000 in 20 days. Upon purchase, the kit was revealed to be an ebook, advising the user to create their own toolkit and recruit 100 "Joint Venture Partners" to resell it for a share of the profits.
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— Dominic Minghella (@DMinghella) June 20, 2022

I heard some snivelling Tory shit use the term "transferable skills" in relation to their strategy to cope with rail strikes. Was only half listening but this but my understanding of it was that they would happily compromise rail safety just to get those trains running and teach those unions a lesson.

Lol it begins.

Kay Burley made herself look quite unhinged by the end of this line of questioning. Mick Lynch didn’t budge from being polite. pic.twitter.com/YQHMprJwfo

— Mic Wright (@brokenbottleboy) June 21, 2022

They’re talking about changing the law to allow temp scabs to run the trains iirc. What could go wrong.

xpost

Finally some opposition

Criminal barristers vote overwhelmingly to strike from next Monday - shutting down courts - in their dispute with Govt over legal aid funding (the cash that pays for defence, allowing many trials to get on). Decision comes after @TheCriminalBar ballot

— Dominic Casciani (@BBCDomC) June 20, 2022

Mick Lynch is smashing it on Newsnight.

― Tracer Hand, Monday, 20 June 2022 bookmarkflaglink

Chris Philip MP forgetting that outside of Parliament, without the protection of the Speaker, lying can be called out pic.twitter.com/OLbi2GZ8d1

— Chin up! (@Rik_Chin) June 20, 2022

xxp

I'm pretty good at Tower Defence games, that transferable skill means I have a good understanding of UK train protection systems!

they'll make the trains crash on time

The government response to this is pathetic, just so feeble, imagine sending out a "who he?" drip like Chris Philip to present their case - if you could dignify it with such a term.

for a second i swore it was this guy

https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/goldenthroats/images/2/27/Hughskinner.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20190222225957

what if, a child, an orphan, is due to meet his new family today in London at Euston station. A new start, after his parents were cruelly taken…on 9/11…an end to the horror that gripped the world. But the trains are cancelled. The orphan stands cold, alone, in Crewe. What then?

— Y (@tinshh) June 21, 2022

On the @RMTunion picket line at the Seven Sisters depot.(But don’t tell Keir Starmer) pic.twitter.com/BnEcdGsuyd

— Diane Abbott MP (@HackneyAbbott) June 21, 2022

Surprised this thread hasn't picked up on the fairly-amusing Lib Dem tweet-and-delete shenanigans that just went down. Their own members furious at them!

Lol nobody gives a shit about them!

And their members are idiots too.

Lib Dem social media office need to learn a thing or two and tweet proper bullshit like this.

I had to explain the tube strike to the 17-year-old Ukrainian staying with me. Her father, brother and uncle are all fighting. She’s just got a job in a bar and smiled for the first time last week. Now she can’t go and won’t get paid. ‘But why do they strike?’ she wailed.

— Harriet Sergeant (@HarrietSergeant) June 21, 2022

"You're a LIAR".

Good.

Come on Kieth, come out of your bunker and face this Union Barron who has just insulted your lady!

Mick Lynch tells Baroness Chapman ‘I don’t even know who you are’ pic.twitter.com/WfHltePybc

— Alex (@sankarawasright) June 21, 2022

Just some of the stories here.

https://www.dazeddigital.com/politics/article/56375/1/protest-train-strike-the-real-reasons-young-rmt-workers-are-striking-uk

It's been erm, striking to watch.

Let the bodies hit the floor pic.twitter.com/95vsnoceFx

— Razor Marone (@Streettough) June 21, 2022

He's just wasted Tory MPs and daytime junk.

Head of Public policy at some dark money funded libertarian tank

Strolled straight past the @RMTunion picket line for my train.

A pretty pathetic effort from the strikers. Barely anyone bothered to show up, no screams of “scab”. pic.twitter.com/8m3HBgo04j

— Matthew Lesh (@matthewlesh) June 21, 2022

Everyone is now rightfully trying to destroy his life tonight.

@justinbarbour crazy trade unionist wog. No thankyou. She comes from an even more left faction then Rudd

— Matthew Lesh (@matthewlesh) June 22, 2010

Richard Madeley asking Mick Lynch RMT is he’s a Marxist. 🤦🏻‍♀️ It’s doesn’t go well. Mick tells him he’s talking ‘twaddle’, Richard responds ‘I’m not talking twaddle’. 😂🤣 Yeah you are Richard. More Mick on tv please. 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻pic.twitter.com/dO5QunWAgw

— Teri 💙♿️ #RMT (@mettlesome_teri) June 21, 2022

it's unfair of me to raise the question because i can't say i've followed most of the BBC's coverage of the strike today, but have they devoted as much time to stories about the hardship RMT members are living with as they've devoted to stories about randoms who've been inconvenienced for a day or two?

also i know Lynch's response to Madeley was probably tactically correct but i'd like to have seen Madeley expounding on his knowledge and understanding of Marxism tbh

Madeley has form

is corbyn a marxist?https://t.co/PwoPmsAcl2 pic.twitter.com/Dygm9ZezwK

— acid womble (@acidwomble) February 20, 2019

Emily Thornberry is pathetic. Completely unserious person. If she can’t be bothered to care about an issue she certainly shouldn’t be going on TV to talk about it.

She improved in the second segment, I think?

I dunno. Her default mode of speaking is like the pissy grumble of someone roused from a nap to answer the phone. I just can’t watch it.

This is a terrible look

Asked about the Labour frontbenchers (PPSs) who defied Keir Starmer to join RMT picket lines, Emily Thornberry dismissed them as "bag carriers," which will be of interest to all PPSs (including her own, if LOTO managed to fill the position). pic.twitter.com/SWpSsv95dT

— Alex Nunns (@alexnunns) June 21, 2022

roflmao as they said in the 70s during the war

haha lads come on this is …. This is mental pic.twitter.com/STCtL6uhBa

— Ava-Santina (@AvaSantina) June 21, 2022

Remember when Kieth was DPP and legislated so that people convicted of benefit fraud would face up to 10 year prison sentences, well at the time Thornberry said this was too lenient and they should get more!

even though it has been rubbished here there and everywhere. I will still keep quoting hard facts from that Eagleton book!

Aaargh gyac that’s awful!

I see.

Ken Clarke, the ex-chancellor, has warned the rail strikes "cannot be allowed to look successful".

He said if rail workers secure a large pay rise then "vast amounts of the public sector" will be "induced to go in for the same militancy, the same strike action" to get the same.

— Jack Maidment (@jrmaidment) June 21, 2022

Fingers crossed.

Lol @ this Britpop scab.

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2022/jun/22/glastonbury-festival-welcomes-back-crowds-amid-rail-strikes

"UK Music’s chief executive, Jamie Njoku-Goodwin, said: “For the thousands of music fans who are so keen to get back to festivals and gigs after two years of lockdowns, these strikes risk causing chaos.

“The strikes come at a critical time for the live music industry and music businesses, which are battling to recover post-pandemic. Fans face a massive struggle trying to get to Glastonbury because of the disruption, which will add to traffic on the roads at a time when we’re striving to improve sustainability in the music industry.

“We need all sides to get around the table to end these strikes and deliver a crucial financial boost to the industry and a summer of fantastic live music.”"

Jamie Njoku-Goodwin is the Chief Executive of UK Music, the collective voice of the music industry. He is an experienced campaigner, a strategic communications specialist and a former political adviser who has held senior roles at the highest levels of Government.

He most recently worked as a special adviser to the Health Secretary Matt Hancock and was previously a special adviser at DCMS. Before joining the Government, Jamie worked for the election strategist Sir Lynton Crosby and as a political adviser for the Conservative Party.

Jamie holds a Bachelor’s degree in Music from the University of Nottingham, and a Masters in International Relations. He is a trained pianist and conductor, and sits on the advisory boards of the London Philharmonic Orchestra and English National Opera.

Talking of despicable Tory cunts:

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2022/06/22/rail-strikers-putins-friend-says-tobias-ellwood/

"Fans face a massive struggle trying to get to Glastonbury because of the disruption"

things you just don't care about

Also: Do people catch trains to the Glastonbury Festival? I thought the stations were blummin miles away? If I'd only known I wouldn't have driven there, back in the day...