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

Have we had no Looney Lynch's Love For IRA Monster James Connolly headlines yet?

Can't remember the last time I looked forward to Question Time. It does feel like Lynch is a big target now. Knives being sharpened.

it seems some of the one-issue multi-flag FPBEs are being critical of him because RMT adopted a Leave position during the ref and he maintains a pro-brexit position. lol even celeb wets like Hugh Laurie have nothing but uncritical praise for him, but these tedious fucks are still crying about 2016!

flexible, fully skilled work that's underpaid and unemployed throughout the rest of the year, is it? https://t.co/tUU0g9I2W5

— Arbeitology (@Arbeit_Fish) June 23, 2022

@grantshapps
However you try spin it, P&O Ferries has ripped up 800 workers’ rights and hung them out to dry.

NEW: 700 British Airways workers have voted to go on strike during the summer over pay. https://t.co/9TozQxwqXp

— Lewis Goodall (@lewis_goodall) June 23, 2022

GMB WIN 🚨: Chesterfield bin strike called off after workers secure 7.5% pay rise. 👏

— Trades Union Congress (@The_TUC) June 23, 2022

She really is pathetic.

Want a laugh?! Don't miss this.. https://t.co/JRpphFrLHT

— Emily Thornberry (@EmilyThornberry) June 23, 2022

she was always really into Mick Lynch she's not just pretending to like him now he's trendy

there has always been a pro-trade unionist element to her politics (apart when she's on television and is loudly denouncing them as bothersome idiots)

shellacking for the government so far on QT. 6-nil so far at least

QT reminding me how thick this country can be

I am watching QT for the first time in years and am being reminded every ten seconds why I swore never to watch it again.

oh it's the "both sides" guy, let's clap the "both sides" guy, fuck the fuck off.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FV-DTSIXEAISmqk?format=jpg&name=medium

I watched for about a minute for the first time in years and then this very randomly selected creepazoid reminded why not watching it is good not bad

I tuned in at the same time, never wanted to give someone a slap so much. Mum lives in Stratford so hey maybe I'll have a chance one day.

Oh fuck he's got his hand up again

Small business owner. What a surprise.

"look what happened to happened to the dinosaurs"

yes they were destroyed by a non-negotiable rock that was the size of Manhattan hitting the earth at a speed of 30km per second. But at least Mick made the point they were here for a long time tbf!

Mick was great but I had to stop watching as well. Something horrific about it.

bless you all for thinking there was some slim chance that QT mightn't be absolute evil rhino shit

that is a good way of putting it

before anyone turns up to post 'thank you for not mentioning the by-elections' i am going to mention the by-elections [/vmic]

if only because...what if anything does this do to tory strategy

Lol bye

Oliver Dowden resigns as Conservative party chair in wake of byelection losses https://t.co/J8pIBWaW4I

— The Guardian (@guardian) June 24, 2022

Question is whether Dowden is resigning as a scapegoat or whether he is just going to be the first one of many today, former seems more likely but you never know with this shower.

39% turnout in Wakefield in the former seat of a convicted sex offender, whoop-de-do!

Labour lost their deposit in Tiverton. If this is supposed to be a tactical agreement with the yellow tories then why even run a candidate?

I was never going to watch QT but this was just one interruption that was put away with min effort.

why on earth is fiona bruce interrupting with arguments she expects the tory panelist to be making, to cover for them not managing to? what a thoroughly embarrassing charade this whole format is, easily the most malignant show on television https://t.co/t79O6ClsNZ

— Stan Account (@tristandross) June 24, 2022

BREAKING: More than 70 barristers have accused the lord chief justice of having “tainted” his independence by attempting to “intimidate” criminal law barristers who are striking over pay, in an open letter to @thetimes https://t.co/xZ0wlDCef7

— Catherine Baksi (@legalhackette) June 23, 2022

at least Dimbleby tried to finnesse a parodic charade of impartiality and yes it was still bad. Bruce is so complacent and smug she doesn't even bother with any of that nonsense!

Never noticed how much Oliver Dowden looks like Iain Dowie.

good morning

Good morning. The Lib Dems and most of Labour are also anti-union so it doesn't matter who is in Government.

Also if Boris survives this he would win the next election. So join a union and grind the fuckers down #classWar

He wouldn't win a majority. Probably. But the sooner he goes the more likely he comes back a few years later is still my weird belief.

good morning

nashwan booked for over-celebrating

Assumed it was a reference to the tedious uspol thread habit 🫠

oh it def was! he's come in here with his bald eagle on his arm

Imago, you might know this, where is a good thread to share my pictures of stained glass windows from a a church in Kent?

I agree with the statements made here about the direness of QT.

The odd thing is that up until just, what, 5-6 years ago, I used to watch QT, having first watched c. 30 years ago.

Maybe my judgment was simply bad, but I also feel sure that the programme itself became much, much worse within the last decade or so.

The idea of watching Mr Lynch appealed but the idea of watching 45 minutes of other bad people didn't so I'm glad I didn't watch any of it at all.

By-elections? That sounds more interesting.

xp this looks like a decent bet Favorite Church, Mosque, Cathedral and such

(xp) I don't know that we'll be seeing much more of the Tory woman on the panel,she seemed kind of crotchety and ratty. Her failed gotcha moment with the letter will definitely be making its way on to the Mick Lynch showreel.

Also are foodbanks entirely staffed by Tory MPs or is that just the impression they like to give when pressed on the subject?

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FV_T5eHXkAQTDNO.jpg While nothing is going to change in the short-term, at least let us enjoy these meagre lols.

very telling how tory rachel maclean managed to amp up the barbs, condescension, finger pointing and interrupting when the black man in the audience criticised the rwanda deportation scheme pic.twitter.com/RSlXJLg9jy

— pez says up the workers (@periuspb) June 24, 2022

That was noted.

Lol.

Audience member: "Poor Boris caught covid. He deserves our loyalty."

Mick Lynch: "Well I don't think being able to catch covid is a particular qualification." #bbcqt pic.twitter.com/h1uifi8EUo

— Auni Akhtar (@AunMohammed90) June 23, 2022

There was a nice piece by Stefan Collini on the LRB a couple of months ago, he was reviewing a couple of books about the BBC. Effectively discussing how the BBC has been seen as either Marxist or Tory depending on your politics and how that history of perception really goes back very far.

He never touched on QT and the last few years in any depth. As funny as those clips are the discussion can get a bit too conspiratorial.

"look what happened to happened to the dinosaurs"

yes they were destroyed by a non-negotiable rock that was the size of Manhattan hitting the earth at a speed of 30km per second. But at least Mick made the point they were here for a long time tbf!

'Look what happened to the dinosaurs'

Lynch 'Well they were around for a very long time, 130 million years' pic.twitter.com/xfFDvy0NKf

— j (@jrc1921) June 23, 2022

Fiona Bruce’s husband has a £4m contract to produce Tory content, so could she please fuck off back to Antiques Roadshow?

You really have to be a certain age to pick up on all this anti-union jargon that the Tories and media have had to dust off and repurpose. I'm sure there are younger people thinking, "Hold on, Mick Lynch is not actually a Baron is he?"