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

Lol dirty leeds

Messy leeds

it's getting hard to keep track of all the strike action right now, it's very good.

have you seen this yet? useful resource attempting to keep track of this with weekly updates https://theweekinwork.substack.com/

I've subscribed. Thanks!

4 days after I challenged Starmer to his face about lying to party members, I receive this letter from Labour HQ terminating my membership. Shameless & vindictive. A party rotten to the core, that can’t tolerate being held to account by a 71 year old. Even Stalin might’ve blushed pic.twitter.com/vbjUeZBHoX

— audrey White (@RedRosa91940184) July 30, 2022

such a predictably petty response from Starmer

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FY_DCJsXwAA1E3i?format=jpg&name=medium

lol, Dipak Nandy and John Truss should start a support group

have to side-eye all these supposed marxist parents incapable of passing radical perspective on to their own kids (stephen benn just hurtled straight back into the house of lords ffs)

(not that his dad was ever a marxist lol: all the benns are liberals)

Truss arrived at the Elland Rd carpark on friday with her quite bewildered looking and elderly mother at her side as about dozen tory activists cheered them. It should be both condemned as enabling behaviour and elder abuse.

yeah i wonder how your child ends up like that

if i had one got to Truss level i think i'd probably disown them

to expand a bit i tend to concur with group socialization theory so i don't so much question her dad's failure to inculcate a moral compass as they must have allowed her to hang out with some v unsavory kids

maybe don't send vulnerable young people to Oxbridge idk

these lefty profs might send their kids to the nearest state comprehensive thinking that they'll be forming friendships with other kids from various backgrounds. But there is nothing they can do if they are little snobby brats and fall in with a posh kid clique! And you do get these, even in so called sink comprehensives with shit reps.

as a non-parent with 0 (zero) children i am entirely comfortable blaming the parents: i don't know what it's like and i don't plan to find out!