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

"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.

xp

sorry to hear your partner is going through the PIP hell, boxedjoy. Did you get any help with the form or the appeal? I got someone who was a PIP specialist from a charity called Carer's Count to help. Although even with the best advice you can get, it still doesn't help against bullshit lying assessors ignoring medical evidence or making shit up.

Sounds like something a Lib Dem would come up with.

Lmao some of you give this man money to bring you optimistic visions of the future pic.twitter.com/XUwzUgtvaX

— Stefan Bielik (@prstskrzkrk) July 27, 2022

Sam getting the result he was looking for.

NEW: Sam Tarry has been sacked

— Sienna Rodgers (@siennamarla) July 27, 2022

throwin him in the briar patch

u luv 2 see it

Senior trade union source not mincing their words: “This moment demonstrates the end of the Labour Party. Not only is it against our principles, but it also demonstrates Keir’s inadequacy as a leader. He is, in the words of one of his better predecessors - weak, weak, weak.”

— Patrick Maguire (@patrickkmaguire) July 27, 2022

Back the words by disaffiliation.

giving some implausible cack-handed explanation for the sacking makes him look an even more pointless and absurd idiot.

They get stupider by the day.

how pathetic will this look in six months.

Only Labour has a plan to tackle the cost of living crisis. 👇 pic.twitter.com/eApVzghM9r

— The Labour Party (@UKLabour) July 27, 2022

it looks pretty bad now

The pathetic Comms (this time from the Uni of Manchester on Kafka's application) keep coming.

A University statement on online reports about a student applicant. pic.twitter.com/QvQ34y1Dd0

— The University of Manchester (@OfficialUoM) July 27, 2022

won't lie, the state of UK politics is really fuelling my depression at the moment

jfc

Only the increased union militancy is giving me hope xp

That thing from Manchester is just beyond. A man has killed himself, they are saying he is lying in the 2/3rd paras.

This is after stating they won't comment on this further in the 1st para, then extending conditional sympathies.

It's totally where our society is rn.

won't lie, the state of UK politics is really fuelling my depression at the moment

― seo layer (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 27 July 2022 bookmarkflaglink

Sorry, btw, I know it's shit. I need to bring less of what I'm seeing on here. It's not doing any good.

no it's not you, we see most of the same tweets anyway. i shd probably just keep off it for a bit but there's people i'm worried about

Sadiq Khan acknowledges 'it is a big deal' that the next PM will be either a woman or an ethic minority and it 'should make us proud' as Brits.

wow what a victory for feminism and representation, Sadiq ... an evil right-wing billionaire or an evil right-wing thick bastard, yes I'm so proud of this moment.

the "as brits" gets me, mindless gratuitous nationalism as a reflex

labour's preferred subject now is clearly the racist petit bourgeois but those people will always prefer other parties so all this is does is reinforce the closure of mainstream politics by this fucking bullshit

I hate the word Brits.

lizard people have neither gender nor ethnicity surely

Massively fucked up.

British Gas owner Centrica announces five-fold increase in profits to £1.3billion in first half of year.

Shell's profits hit new record high of £9.4billion.

Yet households are facing energy bills of £3,500 from October - hitting £3,850 in January. Devastating.

— Pippa Crerar (@PippaCrerar) July 28, 2022

either a woman or an ethic minority

An ethical minority more like, although given the state of this place eternal Toryism may well be the majority opinion

Alan Bennett dislikes the word 'Brits'. I agree with him. I would never use it.

he used to get mistaken for david hockney and even signed autographs as him, but as far I can recall he didn't ever suck up to The S*n like hockney did. so I'd agree with him as well. just about everything associated with the word is bad.

the yba's, britpop, dave stewart, oswald mosley - you can all go jump in a skip

british pop art as well, peter blake is a hack commercial illustrator

I love this song.

NEWS: Staff at Felixstowe, the country’s largest container port, have voted to strike in a dispute over pay

Staff have rejected a below-inflation 5% pay offer, voting 92% in favour of industrial action, on an 81% turnout

— polly smythe (@pollysmythe) July 28, 2022

it's getting hard to keep track of all the strike action right now, it's very good. Next everyone needs to stop paying their gas bills and start thinking about murdering Centrica CEOs

I doubt I'll even have enough overdraft left to pay my next gas bill, so now it's time to start killing rich people.

was interested in the dontpayuk thing but this thread has put me off a fair bit

I have serious concerns about @dontpayuk 🧵

If you are thinking about getting involved in their campaign, I'd urge you to read this thread first and think critically about the implications. There are solid reasons not to trust this campaign. 1/

— an arch on (@anarchonbury) July 23, 2022

looks dodgy as fuck. instead of not paying I'm going to wait till they cut me off and then relink my gas and electric mains, bypassing the meter. I actually have the skills to do this with the electric supply, but would quite possibly end up blowing up a section of my street playing with a gas main.

the yba's, britpop, dave stewart, oswald mosley - you can all go jump in a skip

The only good use of the word Brits ever was "Brits Out" spray painted on walls in Derry etc.

lol at that dn!!

Is this an example of the wage-price spiral lots of commentators are talking about? https://t.co/KT864axhno

— Ian Sinclair (@IanJSinclair) July 29, 2022

Up to 70 Labour MPs could join union picket lines on Friday as Keir Starmer faces a renewed battle to maintain party unity over support for striking workers.

it looks like Starmer's bad habit of picking the wrong battles is going to be the end of him.

No point sitting on a fence that's burning down! The man is so, so bad at politics.

Coventry bin strike won. Unite have fucked over the Lab council 👍

After six months (!) the Coventry bin workers strike has ended. Unite say that drivers have received a pay rise of 12.9 per cent, additional bonuses, and the disciplinary charge against Unite shop steward Pete Randle has been dropped

— polly smythe (@pollysmythe) July 29, 2022

boom

Tory hustings at Elland Road tonight, it's coming home.