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

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

very impressive struggle session performance by the scouse lady, he's fucking pathetic.

Starmer sets out 5 economic principles of a Labour government

- Financially responsible
- Distinctively British
- Partnership with business
- Re-energise communities
- Invest to boost productivity

— Liam Thorp (@LiamThorpECHO) July 25, 2022

what the fuck man are you serious

Even by my already low expectations "making the Eddstone look like a radical statement of principles" is not great

this mf

Asked what action will follow the Forde report, which concluded "the least we could expect" from Labour is to address the hierarchy of racism under Starmer, he shamefully says he "didn't need" the report and it's just about what happened two years ago.pic.twitter.com/vV67X5rMli

— Alex Nunns (@alexnunns) July 25, 2022

the man knows his audience

it's clueless morally empty bootlickers

"Distinctively British" *boak*

the liverpool venue for this keir starmer speech is apparently called "the spine"

friends, donors, liverpudlians… lend me your spine

it lives!

** EXCLUSIVE **
Boris Johnson has said he does not want to resign and will stay on if the membership backs him
The PM told former treasurer @peteratcmc over lunch at Chequers on Friday he wishes he could "wipe away" his resignation.https://t.co/BqPPcjHzED

— Christopher Hope📝 (@christopherhope) July 25, 2022

https://c.tenor.com/_shmV1hUlZMAAAAd/surprised-pikachu.gif

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

― link.exposing.politically (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Monday, 25 July 2022 bookmarkflaglink

Why? I don't know anything about them.

their presence on university campuses is effectively part of a system of surveillance & control of Chinese students studying overseas, and reporting on lecturers who, for example, use a world map with Taiwan marked with a different colour.
This isn't the reason Sunak is against them, you might notice.

Yup I do.

very impressive struggle session performance by the scouse lady, he's fucking pathetic.

― calzino, Monday, 25 July 2022 bookmarkflaglink

He truly is a turd. Cunt just stared into space and said nothing!

I prefer him staring into space and saying nothing tbf.

...quiet day!...

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

This country is failing people and it makes me sick. I really fucking hope he’s ok. pic.twitter.com/oq3h1UH1Eg

— jonny - bairstow & coleslaw enthusiast (@sensiblehuman96) July 26, 2022

this is awful.

Oh no :-(

🤪

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/jul/26/tv-debate-between-truss-and-sunak-cancelled-after-presenter-faints

I'm sure it's nothing to do with this incident, but if I were named Kate McCann I would simply rename myself Katie McCann or Cathy McCann or something before embarking upon a career in the media.

she's not in the media, she's on Talk TV

WELL IT'S NO WONDER

fuck all these people, but if you regularly deal with people who keep falling over or have epilepsy - that horrible thud sound is very triggering. But still hope they died tbh!

lmao

thought the thudding sound was Sunak dropping his wallet

it's a good job this debate was happening, if she'd had to wait for a viewer to call for help she could have been there for hours

very sad, thekafkadude is dead. this fucking country.

Yup, so young.

I always liked following him, such a shame.

There was a Labour fella Sam Tarry on the picket line doing a decent Mick Lynch impression. Don’t know much about him but it was refreshing to hear someone from Labour talking about supporting workers.

Labour Party Chair Anneliese Dodds says Shadow Transport Minister Sam Tarry joining the RMT picket line is something the Whips should be investigating

it's not a tactical change by the garbage leadership, they are still tories.

"There was a Labour fella Sam Tarry on the picket line doing a decent Mick Lynch impression."

Shows the good work Mick has done in one sense, as no Shadow Cab member is allowed in the picket lines. Looks like Sam has also been stitched up in his selection battle for the next general election so I think it's an opportunistic appearance to rally the left to support him as he appeals.

The videos keep coming. A lot less nonsense this time around.

Watch. pic.twitter.com/tCTlgYEkFn

— #Endsars (@JinaduOladimeji) July 27, 2022

he's got all the Today presenters totally shook, they know they'll end up looking foolish if they give him the usual treatment reserved for idiot Labour party guests.

really quite sad about thekafkadude. didn't realise he was from Hereford too.

yeah it's quite a jolt and that last post of his is heartbreakingly sad.

him being last seen at the Tesco in the centre of Hereford... that's one of the grimmest places I can think of.

To have the rug pulled from under him like that was a terrible blow. People always say "reach out" if you end up in a dark place like that, but I think there are limits to what good "reaching out" can achieve. I have someone from local mental health services checking on me every week and I keep telling them talking doesn't help me in the slightest, like a sympathetic ear is a poor substitute for a summer respite package that hasn't materialised or it isn't making my son's Work Capability Assessment happen any faster, which has left him on less than half the UC he should be getting since February. These material stresses running with the certain despair that things will only get worse do actually kill people and although it's perhaps not respectful to politicise his death so soon, but he did actually mention in his penultimate post that it was New Labour policies that had destroyed his life chances.

Everywhere I've worked in the UK has a mental health policy but for some reason it never includes "pay a fair salary and don't put your employees under unnecessary pressure"

Hope whichever university did this can be named, shamed and held responsible, not that this is likely of course.

I've started a new job recently and one of the training days was about mental health and resilience. We did a full day of chatting about recognising signs of stress and signposting each other to resources etc. Then at the end, the trainer asked, how would we feel supporting each other etc. And I was the only one who said, do you know actually I don't think I would want to be in a position where someone came to me with serious problems, because a day of Zoom calls with relative strangers is not anywhere near what it takes to be able to provide useful and substantial support to someone who needs it. There was a really awkward moment of silence because it had obviously never really occurred to anyone that this approach is just sticking a plaster over a wound.

I'm at peak stress these days: everything is expensive, my partner's health is faltering, and the infrastructure of support to both him and I that I would want seems to simply not exist. We got put in touch with a charity regarding our options, and they were able to offer one hour a week where a care worker would take him for a walk. The fact the walk made his health worse meant the support was cut early, and it is galling that it is falling on charity organisations to offer that support. It took six months to have our claim for PIP processed, and the evidence used to deny the mobility component of the claim is self-contradicting. Everything is just so fucking shit right now and the state offers nothing to help, no routes of support or reprieve, and it just feels so exhausting. I'm not on Twitter and had never known Rory, but to see this play out is both heartbreaking and yet totally understandable.

It sounds like a sector-wide practice xp

There have been at least two others on left twitter who have passed away this year I can think of. Two others who I feel are 'at-risk', and others still who have a very nihilistic, despairing posting style. 2019 has really crushed a lot of people, no end in sight.