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

Having said that if Johnson was on the leadership ballot he'd probably walk it, so sometimes the professional sensibles are just plain out of step

i always warmed to ed's personal affect -- tho the actual moment this crystallised was in the single brief scene in miliband of brothers i happened to see while channel-surfing, when the kid playing young ed bounced into a serious conflab between dad and dave and said "i'm a cyberpunk!"

looking back this tells me that there's an aspect of pop-cult absurdism that i am drawn to, which is very bad and i should distrust it more

It's not the absurdism, it's the old nothing so radical that it can't be detourned by capital thing

I'm glad I have no memory of ever watching this because it was written by the dreaded Quantick. I cringe when thinking that there might be bits of his writing I have unawaredly found amusing in Brasseye!

much too much of the last seven years for me has been unhappily wandering what that i once admired has its tentacles in me too deep not to be distorting me

lol i compiled and edited a whole loving book abt a phenom which is now generally (and justifiably!) dismissed in a phase as the "biggest melt factory"

Quantick and Swells still one of my favourite double acts, centrism makes fools of us all

Well, not us all, just melts

Who are the major exceptions to the rockcrit-to-melt pipeline, present company excluded

Those that do not melt, are doomed to ILX

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.

― seo layer (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 23 July 2022 bookmarkflaglink

I think inflation, heating bills, the collapse of the NHS/the nation will sweep a lot of the neolib policy aside by the next election.

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.

― calzino, Saturday, 23 July 2022 bookmarkflaglink

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

― Tom D: panel beater, bouncer and tree surgeon (Tom D.), Saturday, 23 July 2022 bookmarkflaglink

The Tory membership that elected Howard and IDS will suddenly elect someone seemingly more competent on the surface?

Also let's not forget that most of the Tory membership are unendingly racist, immediately giving the Truss a leg-up in a head-to-head with someone of Asian heritage.

I could see Truss dropping out if there are too many 'incidents' in the next month.

The escalating poverty crisis might do for the Tories alph I agree but they won't be facing an election confronting a credible alternative so

But yes, I think the membership being 'funny' on race is probably playing a part as well. That, and Sunak's resignation being the catalyst for the downfall of Johnson (whom the members surely still like).

xp - I mean, I don't know if neolib policies will be on the cards just because things could get so bad. Covid was the disaster for the Tories in this parliament, they had to do furlough.

“Membership of Conservatives Abroad is open to all who live abroad and pledge support for the UK Conservative Party. You do not have to be a voter or a UK citizen.”

interesting voting criteria for overseas members, as long as they pledge support for the party seems all that is required. You need to be a citizen of Britain, Ireland, the Isle of Man or the Channel Islands to vote in Labour leadership elections.

It was all those Russia entryists that voted for Crombpre twice

The lies and copium and oblivious class hate tells you everything about Labour 2022

I'm not saying exterminate the brutes but I'm not not saying it

Putin with his thousands of bogus Conservative Overseas members ballots at his disposal is still uncertain, he just can't decide which joke candidate will cause the most economic ruin to the UK.

I could see Truss dropping out if there are too many 'incidents' in the next month.

― xyzzzz__

There's an amazing interjection by David Frost today to the effect that if one of the two does drop out Penny Mordaunt should be brought in as a sub.

Bring back Boris obviously.

xp: think you'd get Sunak. May was made leader once Leadsom dropped out.

Johnson ramping up the army cosplay partly because it's harder to picture Sunak and Truss doing any of that shit

truss has been known to drive tanks

Quantick is one of the worst melts on twitter. to think I saw him in the pub once and didn't punch him (this was never going to happen but I will still feel bad about not doing it)

what's weird is he is pals with other music writers in Hastings who are quite lefty. do they just not talk about it?

May was made leader once Leadsom dropped out.

I don't think this is viewed as a good result by a lot of people though, particularly a lot of Tories.

They had to specifically promise not to drop out, plus Dread Some Anal said nasty things about May being child-free.

Also let's not forget that most of the Tory membership are unendingly racist, immediately giving the Truss a leg-up in a head-to-head with someone of Asian heritage.

I don't think so as the contest has landed on one of the classic Tory leadership battle issues, namely "I can shit on refugees harder than my opponent".

Tory leadership: Truss and Sunak promise crackdown on migration

It doesn't matter if you have Asian heritage, white Tories will still vote for you if you promise to have asylum seekers beaten with sticks.

build the wall. build the wall...

racists are pretty good at managing cognitive dissonance tbh

Who are the major exceptions to the rockcrit-to-melt pipeline, present company excluded

― Wiggum Dorma (wins), Saturday, July 23, 2022

Assuming this was a question: Chris Roberts like Jeremy Corbyn.

Becky Long-Bailey is good again:

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/jul/24/rebecca-long-bailey-calls-for-labour-to-drop-cautious-approach-to-economy

Add Simons Reynolds and Price to that list!

both the melts and some grim Chris Williamson acolytes (can't believe this is still a thing) are laying into Faiza Shaheen over her re-selection win. So back in '19 she denounced Williamson as a problem who is making reductive + inflammatory statements on AS but she is also anti-semitic herself by association with Corbyn - she can't win. Some serious commentators saying this shows how much way Kieth still has to go with ridding the party of Corbyn's toxic legacy. They really should be asking why the garbage party is only 1 point ahead of a burnt out leaderless tory govt rather than attacking someone who is popular enough with local branches to win reselection.

she's already said she's lawyered up if anybody wants to libel her. good.

tbh they also think she's antisemitic by association because of her name

CW stans really are the dregs of the UK left - they remind me of (prob include some of) the ppl who used to flood every indymedia branch site with 9/11 zionist conspiracy bs

Yes, Con members will not have to deal with high bills, just the shit in their own heads.

1/ China and the Chinese Communist Party represent the largest threat to Britain and the world’s security and prosperity this century.

Read this thread👇on how I will face down China. pic.twitter.com/VSD88gfG68

— Rishi Sunak (@RishiSunak) July 25, 2022

Sorry Rishi, if this contest is Fuck Russia vs Fuck China then I'm afraid you've chosen poorly.

There arguably are substantial problems with having Confucius Institutes on university campuses but it’s hard to see a ban not resulting in a tit for tat restriction on the British Council in China, which would be disastrous for a number of reasons.

oh yeah there are loads of reasons to criticise the Chinese government, but this is little more than sabre-rattling (without even having much of a sabre to rattle) and will be treated as such by Beijing. We can say the same about Liz and Russia, but at least she's (clumsily) tapping into some kind of appetite among the members.

Having said that I will be very glad if all the Confucius institutes get shut down.

Rishi's criticize Confucius campaign!

Loving watching these two cretins knocking lumps out of each other tbh.

Flying pancake ep of TNG was the 1st sci-fi I ever saw on TV! I was a bit too young to know wtf was going on, but the image of those things falling from the ceiling stuck with me.

Sorry TOS, not TNG.

Oops, wrong thread.

or is it?

look at this spam-faced cunt

Look how Starmer squirms when he's actually held to account by a member of the public pic.twitter.com/F5V319btW8

— j (@jrc1921) July 25, 2022