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

it takes real talent to be a less convincing PM candidate than Truss, and Special K is a natural. Although I can't imagine any of the other front runners for succeeding him doing much better tbh. Even Reeves who is a more convincing evil tory than Truss wouldn't beat her because she'd be offering miserly shit like knocking half a pence off fuel duty in that ghoulish voice. Labour are so shit right now even friend of the bankers Brown has to temper what he says when criticising the govt so as to not embarrass Kieth.

Ed Davey calling for ten more years of austerity.

Exclusive - Ed Davey calls for ‘energy furlough scheme’ to avoid October price cap rise, *cancelling* the £1400 rise in its entirety and having govt absorb the £36bn cost (paid in part via new windfall tax) https://t.co/SQpej933YM

— Jessica Elgot (@jessicaelgot) August 8, 2022

with all the "never trust a Lib Dem" provisos to be taken as read, at least that's... something rather than the sweet FA the Labour Party is currently offering?

indeed

xyz why are you calling that proposal 10 years of austerity? idgi

Any policies Davey floats (even if they sound half reasonable) would get so watered down in a coalition with either party that his words are just air, as ineffectual as Gordon Brown's useless intervention yesterday.

Hasn't Sunak been proposing a combination of tax rises and further austerity to pay for the covid furlough scheme?

I agree that's at least a serious policy proposal. But it's also avoiding nationalisation..

that video of him shredding the eu laws is worrying (the eu laws we had a veto for but only used 7 times in 40 something years)

EXCLUSIVE: The UK government is planning for several days of organised blackouts this winter for industry and households under its latest “reasonable worst-case scenario” https://t.co/1GaZowCpVS pic.twitter.com/AR5YVJ66FU

— Bloomberg UK (@BloombergUK) August 9, 2022

So...this is how it ends..

'you can't get energy from fields because fields are for cows' is a genuinely 'off her meds' statement https://t.co/L7mb75YFEl

— jamie k (@jkbloodtreasure) August 9, 2022

she's so dangerously insane and vacuous ... oh well bring it on. it's not like things could get any w

Well..

Worth saying that for the elite faction of the Brexit class, this was always part of the point. Key infrastructure will start to change hands at low prices, and after a steadying cash influx, growth will magically occur – growth here being a pure synonym for profit. https://t.co/Wtq2YI95Ga

— Elvis Buñuelo (@Mr_Considerate) August 10, 2022

We will find out how stupid Liz Truss is soon enough.

Exactly this. The economy is built on the expectation of ever-rising house prices. 51% of household wealth is made up of land value. But we're now facing a battle royal between living costs, and I really don't see how we can afford to keep meeting the price of housing. https://t.co/ZWXKBHswAy

— Nick Bano (@NickBano) August 9, 2022

Just a tad upbeat about the campaigns at the moment (incl don't pay, despite the problems)

At @GoodLawProject we will provide detailed legal support on how to deal with energy companies if you can't, or in solidarity won't, pay.

No one should have to choose between heating and eating. Sign up for updates: https://t.co/8cHPU8yGsd

— Jo Maugham (@JolyonMaugham) August 8, 2022

Lol, looks like the Tories are coming for the Pol Profs next, so they are speaking up on anything other than Corbyn.

Do none of your constituents masturbate? Do none use pornography? Do none suffer from loneliness? Do you understand how anthropology can help us better understand ourselves: is that not socially usefully?

— Steven Fielding (@PolProfSteve) August 10, 2022

well that's a crossover story i wasn't expecting

Left hand, right hand, it's all the same...

don't let your left hand know what your right hand is doing when posting very important polprof nuance about wanking on twitter.

'I would rather lose than win on a false promise,' says Rishi Sunak

not a problem, rishi sunak

lol, he's trying to appeal to the innate sense of decency of the Tory party membership

Wildcat strike at Grangemouth oil refinery in Scotland #HotStrikeSummer https://t.co/FwuBTJYs1b

— libcom.org (@libcomorg) August 10, 2022

as shit as everything is rn (and after my next fucking from British Gas I've got no money for 8 days❌💵) but I love it that strikes have come back. And even the wankers on the r4 media show are asking questions about how innit funny how Mick Lynch by just not folding to idiotic questions makes us all look like moral derelicts who are so far out of step with real people we will eventually end up getting murdered on the the streets the way things are going.

What a revolting congealment of grifting mediocrities. pic.twitter.com/v3S2lTPrJX

— Miffy (@miffythegamer) August 10, 2022

8 hours of people saying you can't say anything

there's been some kind of awful mistake with that poster because instead of featuring 'leading lights of british politics' it's actually a bunch of the worst cunts this collapsing nation has to offer

hope they correct this embarrassing mistake soon

sad to see them taking advantage of that kind old man Peter Hitchens' good nature

Shaun Bailey relegated to the third row down, where did it all go wrong?

also Baroness Fox of Buckley is now less of a headline act than Ben Bradley, that's what too much bbc exposure does for your career. You need to get there -1h to catch the Hitchens slot.

maybe Ben will be talking about how to be a canny social media operator while still being mindful of one's duties and responsibilities as a public representative

On the 19th of February I made a defamatory statement about @jeremycorbyn. I have apologised to Mr Corbyn and here is the complete text of my apology. Please retweet. pic.twitter.com/6JZc8O9E82

— Cllr Ben Bradley MP (@BBradley_Mans) February 24, 2018

the state of these fucking muppets, i swear to god

Labours Steve Reed rules out taking the energy companies into public ownership: "nationalising companies costs an awful lot of money"

The TUC have said nationalising the big 5 energy retailers would cost £2.8bn, which is how much the govt spent on bailing out just one (Bulb) pic.twitter.com/nXDyxovYe3

— Saul Staniforth (@SaulStaniforth) August 11, 2022

Painful to think how far ahead Corbyn would have been in the polls right now.

any other leader would be 20 points ahead, u might say

corbyn would have been overthrown long ago over his response to covid (regardless of what it was) if not immediately- unless the kind of militancy that we're starting to see now had suddenly become much more widespread under his administration (which I know was the hope but it was real long shot and it's hard to know well how he would have been able to handle labour disputes as PM esp given his cynical pro-cop policies- which would be much easier to implement than the pro-worker policies regardless of his own preferences) but even that could have triggered a coup or assassination so idk. a lot of unlikely things would have had to happen for him to do any good at all and most of them would be way out of his hands

"but even that could have triggered a coup or assassination so idk."

Lol

This is pathetic.

NEW: #EnoughIsEnough has written to prime minister @BorisJohnson imploring him to urgently recall parliament.

Sitting down with energy companies and walking away with no new measures is a dereliction of duty.

He must act now: stop the October price hike. pic.twitter.com/oOY9x4AQq3

— Enough is Enough (@eiecampaign) August 11, 2022

it's so fucking lame I'm surprised Starmer's name isn't on there

fuck Martin Lewis it's a time for riots, people are going to end up dying or in extreme poverty and these fucking jokers are acting like LibDems.

"Chair of Fans Supporting Foodbanks" fuck off with that shit.

I hope our left wing luminaries are blackpilled enough by now not to simply tut from the sidelines when the next riot happens like they did last time the bastards

of course I expect some really scary fashy shit from tories and liberals in such a scenario

Martin Lewis and Jack Monroe are two people that are just as awful as any of the UK political classes in this era. I don't want advice on how to survive being poor and getting poorer from someone worth a few hundred million and I'd rather starve to death than live on extremely unhealthy so-called fucking recipes that involve microwaving super-processed tinned food like spaghetti hoops minus the sauce, ones that will give you long term health conditions if you live on them for too long. And this foodbank supporting charity involved, it's such a One Nation Tory mindset. Fuck them all lol!

maybe it's time for some real serious action ... a parliamentary petition

Also the problem of Jack Monroe is that her food is basically budget cooking for white people, and kind of erases Asian families who have nailed surviving on cheap recipes via dhal and rice etc.

yes that is a very good point suzy

and it's just basically extremely unhealthy and garbage cooking advice

there are so many more gastronomically superior and healthier ways to survive being poor on a low budget, but she's stuck on poor are too thick to do learn basic cooking skills

but let's just help normalise foodbanks and give them awful recipes that will kill them in the long run. This shit really boils my blood.

OTM to the max.

I've got a few of her recipe books - they're not short of curries, rice, daals - for exactly that reason

well that spaghetti hoops monstrosity I saw needs deleting from an abridged version with only the legit recipes that won't be detrimental to your physical and mental health, because it's not only unwholesome garbage it's also an affront to human dignity. Being on Universal Credit is already enough to destroy your will to live, no need to make it worse by making inadequate nutrition seem an acceptable long term option for living.

i really do think the tories are fucking it

‘Liz Truss defends energy firms saying profit is not evil’

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-62513966