like the queen this thread will never die: in which we ALL resign (ourselves to disgusting miseries to post-boris politics 2022)

It’s more “stop everything, let the bodies pile up” iirc

with this fucker and whatever fucker replaces him

look i remember the summer of 76

this morning Nick Robinson was interviewing someone whose house burnt down in Wennington. He was constantly talking over him and then abruptly cut him off when he brought up the overstretched London fire service yesterday fighting multiple fires, which might be a bit of a touchy subject for our government who've closed 40 + fire stations in the last decade.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-25640673

Firefighter Alex Badcock, who had worked at the station for 29 years, broke down in tears and said: "It's a sad, sad day. Boris Johnson [London's Mayor] doesn't know what he's doing."

I've just noticed that latter day wanker Paul Embery is quoted in the article saying, "Mayor Boris Johnson will have blood on his hands."

Just reading this piece. A final failure from Johnson.

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2022/jul/20/empty-promise-the-fantasy-city-within-a-city-that-turned-into-a-ghost-town

> “Each cube is equipped with a multifunctional wall, including a coffee maker, a mini fridge and a day bed,” designed so that workers would never have to leave their 3m x 3m capsule.

student accommodation. or a prison.

Congratulations to @joannaccherry, who has been elected as the new Chair of the Joint Committee on Human Rights. pic.twitter.com/DhBhHeIVvU

— UK Parliament Human Rights Committee (@HumanRightsCtte) July 20, 2022

fucking HELL

Joint Committee on *Some* Human Rights

first order of business: hearings on whether trans people are human

human rights for me, being kicked around as a political football for thee

"this was a crime, now it's law"

Today we changed the law to allow businesses impacted by strike action to hire skilled, temporary workers to mitigate disruption.

This was a criminal offence. Now it’s an option for business.

We will not let trade unions grind our economy to a halt.

👉🏾 https://t.co/cxsa02kLdg pic.twitter.com/W5xooxevt6

— Kwasi Kwarteng (@KwasiKwarteng) July 21, 2022

This was a criminal offence. Now it’s an option for business.

tfw the P&L approach to human resources is based, actually

p&o, fuck sake autocorrect

Means the BT strike, which is call centre work, could be fucked. Those jobs can be plausibly replaced at short notice.

At least Labour have their backs, phew

apart from owning the unions i'm not sure that there's much value in big companies bringing in rentascabs to cover odd days, be interesting to see if they bother

Xposts "Profit&Loss" still works in that sentence

btw im still proud of how deeply i fvcked up the title of this thread so everyone can bite me

There might soon be an opportunity for a new thread as predicted 6 months ago:

Fully expecting a future UK politics thread "Stoked for the madness: new Iron Lady - Tanks on the Lawn", covering the Liz Truss years, in due course.

― Luna Schlosser, Tuesday, 11 January 2022 12:34 (six months ago)

can a mod please change miseries to miniseries and see if anyone notices

Mods please rename this thread to: "This was a criminal offence. Now it's an option for business".

After working 12 hr shifts on the hottest day on record, @POferries agency crew on the Pride of Canterbury were forced to sleep in the corridor after aircon broke down.
This dangerous pressure on exploited seafarers & passengers is precisely what @KwasiKwarteng has today enabled pic.twitter.com/8aMhZArdjC

— RMT (@RMTunion) July 21, 2022

This is an astonishingly important story from @jburnmurdoch. Our suddenly-diminished labour force is an immediate, dangerous drag on UK prosperity. It's a hypothesis, but if NHS decay is the reason, this is THE issue of the decade https://t.co/zghb5JwYDo pic.twitter.com/RJ36nmqbXH

— Giles Wilkes (@Gilesyb) July 22, 2022

lol we're all gonna die

Sometimes, very occasionally, your imposter syndrome may be valid pic.twitter.com/qqAy4NtI8Z

— Jonathan Lis (@jonlis1) July 21, 2022

Worth putting some money on Sunak winning this contest, what is he, 24% behind in the latest poll?

this is the Tory membership we're talking about

Worth a punt though.

We're already dead.

I remember blue ticks on here scoffing at the old Chomsky line about govts knowingly neglecting public services to reconcile people to privatised alternatives. But that's what's happening in the NHS https://t.co/asQ3hus5jD pic.twitter.com/hjGaEptnMa

— Tom Blackburn (@malaiseforever) July 22, 2022

We're doomed pic.twitter.com/EzE8D05Zg3

— Billy Edwards (@biiilyedwards) July 21, 2022

Brilliant.

What passes for political journalism in this country man pic.twitter.com/0hj0QQhabD

— the gang reads Mike Davis (@lmartods) July 22, 2022

Toploader vs one can of coke on a Saturday night.

the anglo world is just full on ruled by morons now.. i mean i know politicians have always been a mixed bag but jfc

For those who care C4 is fucked.

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2022/jul/22/rishi-sunak-vows-to-press-ahead-with-channel-4-privatisation

red meat. we’ll see. starmer also said a lot of things.

And here is Mick with the correct answers again. Call them hard right. Not even Corbyn went far enough in demonising his enemies.

.@ChrisMasonBBC to RMT's Mick Lynch...

"Who would you prefer? Prime Minister Sunak or Prime Minister Truss?"

Hear the full interview on #BBCNewscast https://t.co/jmF2u9tWYw pic.twitter.com/AhSbF9uxsI

— BBC Sounds (@BBCSounds) July 21, 2022

it shouldn't feel as radical as it does to hear the BSfest interrupted for a few fucking seconds

My God, Sunak is such and oily, smarmy little tit, Starmer must feel like Christmas has come early this year.

for a party who pride themselves on their preternatural ability to constantly win elections they've possibly snookered themselves here

"But the sneers and character attacks ignore one key thing. Truss connects to Middle England. Her aspirational style may overreach itself at times but she inspires voters, and her passion and vision for the United Kingdom are an asset that Starmer - with his carefully restrained, lawyerly rhetoric - simply does not possess. In an age of austerity the party that can appeal to the pride and optimism of the people who believe in a better life for themselves and their families will, however quietly, win the battle for hearts and minds."

Every newspaper, 2024

I can't think of anyone more ill suited to an election campaign than Truss. You could make the argument that May was terrible at it as well and 13 and half million people still voted for her. But she was just wooden, terrible at meeting the public and only slightly gaff prone. Truss is a whole different level of bad. You can sense her campaign team holding their breath every time she talks and isn't saying something incredibly stupid.

This is why I think Sunak is going to win the leadership campaign.

Noodle Vague's post just above is good and very accurate.

Though KS is a bad person and deserves to fail.

I genuinely cannot work out which would be the worst result. Reeves is just as much a danger as any Tory chancellor of the last decade and is going toe to toe on the tax cuts rhetoric with Truss.

Ultimately the Tories are likely to be more ideologically flexible than the likes of Reeves. If it gets close to an election they're worried about they have few qualms about throwing some token spending out there as a sop. Reeves seems far more a conviction neolib.

Ultimately the Tories are likely to be more ideologically flexible than the likes of Reeves. If it gets close to an election they're worried about they have few qualms about throwing some token spending out there as a sop. Reeves seems far more a conviction neolib.

Ultimately the Tories are likely to be more ideologically flexible than the likes of Reeves. If it gets close to an election they're worried about they have few qualms about throwing some token spending out there as a sop. Reeves seems far more a conviction neolib.

Lol so good I posted thrice. Sorry, pub wifi

lol I was just thinking it's either for rhetorical emphasis or he's spilt some lager on his phone.