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

he's not dead, he can never die, he is the angel of death

soon. thrown alive into queen's coffin.

This is such nonsense.

Update from the @premierleague: Man Utd v Leeds, and Chelsea v Liverpool, both due for this Sunday, are OFF. (Brighton v Palace was off already.)

Villa v Southampton, and Forest v Fulham, brought forward to Friday evening. https://t.co/7SL6xfCkPv

— Gavan Reilly (@gavreilly) September 12, 2022

😭😭😭 pic.twitter.com/DDGBDBCeTQ

— TheIainDuncanSmiths (@TheIDSmiths) September 12, 2022

Delighted for Paddington's new grim reaper gig

This is my fucking song.

Prince Andrew heckled as the Queen's coffin passes pic.twitter.com/85m9jUgszF

— Christopher Marshall (@chrismarshll) September 12, 2022

Lol

Andrew, you’re a sick old man #QueenElizabethII #PrinceAndrew #UK #BreakingNews pic.twitter.com/gVMukrABSa

— Mcr Ste ➐ (@redste93) September 12, 2022

is that image of the Queen and Paddington Bear inspired by picture of the teenage mutant ninja turtles and Splinter, or are they both inspired by another, earlier image?

https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1024/branded_news/170CF/production/_125351449_drawing976.jpg

https://en.meming.world/images/en/thumb/1/1e/Teenage_Mutant_Ninja_Turtles_and_Splinter.jpg/300px-Teenage_Mutant_Ninja_Turtles_and_Splinter.jpg

both inspired by e.h. shephard i think

this:
https://www.collectorsprints.com/_images/classicpooh/v4/500/silhouette-close-up.jpg

or maybe this:
https://media.wbur.org/wp/2018/09/pooh-piglet-1000x662.jpg

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/89/f8/82/89f8822fbb51ab11632d07caaf1465a0.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/2VdGiRX.jpg

Lads seriously take this to the queen thread.

Liam Hogan largely otm all week as he normally is but especially here.

"We revile Holocaust deniers but continue to argue points with Empire nostalgics as if their position falls within the pale of reason and ethical respectability." - @PriyaSatia, Time’s Monster.

— Liam Hogan (@Limerick1914) March 22, 2021

but Holocaust denial is a fringe opinion, Empire nostalgia is not unusual in Britain? I feel like there comes a point where if a pov is widespread enough then declaring it outside the pale of reason and ethical respectability is going to be ineffectual, and you've no choice but to argue points

Mike Davis uses the plural in the title of his Late Victorian Holocausts book for a good reason. Millions upon millions of people died, in multiple events in multiple countries under colonial rule, the way some allegedly respectable people are almost completely dismissive of this is just as much fascist erasure as when Le Pen dismissed the Nazi gas chambers as "the details of history".

xp I don’t know how to explain to you that this country is deeply racist if you didn’t connect those dots yourself. Maybe I’m just feeling a bit sensitive with every two bit fascist taking the opportunity to push a combination of “Irish people loved the monarchy” with “lol the famine happened because of monoculture you fucking idiots”.

This is by no means a fringe opinion in the British press, where incuriosity and contempt towards Ireland and its people are the most benign editorial views out there, but it’s fucking suffocating how endless this shit is atm.

The difference between Holocaust deniers is that they lost in a war and fascist leaders were killed. Even if the far-right are making a come back in many countries over here it's the food banks that rule over us.

Empire nostalgics are having a great time rn renacting their fantasies, they are a sizeable lot with full backing from the media. It's not that they have to be argued with or not, more that all their statues have to be bought down. The British Museum must be emptied and land needs to redistributed.

"Millions died, not outside the 'modern world system', but in the very process of being forcibly incorporated into its economic and political structures.”

the golden age of liberal capitalism and the peak of the empire

🚨EXCLUSIVE: Thousands of hospital appointments are being cancelled because of Queen’s funeralhttps://t.co/BWN6cPWw6T

— Martin Williams (@martinrw) September 12, 2022

The difference between Holocaust deniers is that they lost in a war and fascist leaders were killed. Even if the far-right are making a come back in many countries over here it's the food banks that rule over us.

Empire nostalgics are having a great time rn renacting their fantasies, they are a sizeable lot with full backing from the media. It's not that they have to be argued with or not, more that all their statues have to be bought down. The British Museum must be emptied and land needs to redistributed.

― xyzzzz__, Monday, September 12, 2022 1:58 PM (four hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

otm

Gyac OTM.
I went to school in the '80s when the educational system in the UK was v. different from today. The change hasn't all been in one direction, insofar as some aspects of it have got better and some worse, but I distinctly remember being told potato blight was the main cause of the famine in Ireland with nary a mention of why Irish tenant farmers were growing potatoes in the first place, nor the inaction of free marketeer UK pols like Lord Russell, a man who is commemorated by a pub near Euston station which I now feel almost ashamed to have drank in.

I just wonder how many of the people who made marmalade sandwiches for a dead monarch have ever made them for the living poor https://t.co/a40MeykpwQ

— Diyora Shadijanova (Диёра Шадижанова) (@thediyora) September 12, 2022

The winners of this system will travel and queue overnight, make their sandwiches and tea, spend money and have a jolly time in their festival.

the inaction of free marketeer UK pols like Lord Russell, a man who is commemorated by a pub near Euston station which I now feel almost ashamed to have drank in.

Have drunk in there many's the time too.

Downing st are not releasing any details about consumer/business energy support packages during a period of national mourning. How convenient after Truss quite confidently pledged it would all be announced within a week of her being PM.

Yeah, and she's off to some World Council thing soon enough, according to the TV news this morning (yeah, in "Other News" along with "Oh, and Ukraine are winning a bit, right back to the live queue feed") they pinpointed the only available day she could release the details of the support packages. Let's hope she has them and hasn't left them at thome...

Oh, dunno where to put this, so I'll put it here...

I've just got back from Spain where the news and tributes were on the quieter/bearable side, and wondered what The Last Leg made of it all.

Looks like it was cancelled as a mark of respect, etc. And replaced with "Naked Attraction".....

it was (although i'm not sure about NA)

that and hignfy and the new quiz on radio4. which is odd because this would've been an ideal week for them!

late night mash did air, but that was filmed wednesday so missed the second big news story of the week.

Happy to extend mourning period indefinitely if it keeps shitty 'satire' shows off the air lol

"The official ILX stance is that all comedy, and specifically all British comedy, is bad and should feel bad."

"Silence reigns. While I write this, protesters outside St Giles are brandishing completely blank banners and empty sheets of paper, inspired by a man in London who took out a blank page and was told by police that if he wrote “Not My King” on it he risked arrest. It would be nice to believe that this silence is being imposed from above, like a proper authoritarian regime. In reality, it has a kind of democracy to it – nobody forced RMT to call off its strikes; nobody made Extinction Rebellion push pause; nobody told me not to boo as the King walked past. We are not even talking about the very British tyranny of good manners. We are talking about a People – that fundamental component of modern politics the world over – that quite simply does not know how to speak for itself, and which sees almost every attempt to do so as dangerous and sinister."

https://www.newstatesman.com/ideas/2022/09/silence-reigns

You can’t even parody this guy anymore

Sir Keir Starmer urged people wishing to protest to “respect” those mourning the Queen, and not “ruin” their opportunity to say a private “thank you” to the late monarch.

The Labour leader added that the country’s response to the Queen’s death has been “very moving” pic.twitter.com/8Poc5cUGSw

— PA Media (@PA) September 14, 2022

starting to think i might not vote Labour in future

Trevor Sinclair is now apologizing for his apology and is unrepentent over his original tweet (despite being repentent initially).

I'm pro-life and take no pleasure in reporting this but he's in no mans land here

he's probably been watching how Uju Anya fearlessly dealt with the same, with conviction and no desire to melt. You don't ever apologise for offending the worst people in Europe, they probably just want to kill you even more then.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FcpfS2qWQAQr48J?format=jpg&name=900x900

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FcpfS2qWQAQr48J?format=jpg&name=900x900
And also me…

Our first self-up-the-arsing Labour leader.

the moment the implanted chips were activated

I see

Kwasi Kwarteng seeks to scrap bankers’ bonus cap to boost City https://t.co/cfput5N2hZ

— Financial Times (@FT) September 14, 2022

If you’ve been following the case you might not know that this week Chris Kaba’s cousin @JeffersonBosela has handed in his resignation in his role as a teacher and head of year, so he has time to raise awareness and campaign about what happened. His students sent him these: pic.twitter.com/xreTC8FHII

— Hannah Price (@HannahPrice___) September 15, 2022

This is the greatest country in the world.

— Ian Austin (@LordIanAustin) September 14, 2022

NHS staff to walk in front of Queen's coffin at state funeral.

An appalling decision, this idolisation of an overrated healthcare system needs to stop.

— Chris Rose (@ArchRose90) September 15, 2022

seen a couple of posts like this. am guessing that was the queen's idea which he's criticizing.

It's just to make sure the crowds clap.

I don't know why I tried to find a joke about The clap in your reply

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FcxAEoiWIAE92uy?format=jpg&name=large

You can be pro Jack Monroe or you can be anti Jack Monroe, but what you can't do is ignore the fact that Jack Monroe once began a recipe by telling you to put a tin of baked beans in a sieve and wash the sauce off them under the tap

— t_om_s (@T_om_s) September 16, 2022

this grift is so good for her. Corbyn was going to scrap UC and JM didn't approve of his leadership or politics. It might have interrupted the grift and the lousy - worse than eating bin food - recipes from hell.

He starts walking this non-fact back immediately, just saying.

Also she's pretty firmly pro- his policies as far as I can tell?

https://inews.co.uk/news/uk/jackmonroeuniversalcredit-101055

Le grand sigh.

1. A large number of people in receipt of Universal Credit work.

2. Additional work payments are then deducted from UC payments, so ‘washing a car for £20’ doesn’t actually improve your income in any way whatsoever.

3. All TVs are flatscreen in the year 2021.

— Jack Monroe 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 (@BootstrapCook) October 6, 2021

She's not done herself any favours this week, but I think she does more good than harm on balance.

what's the non-fact? that it was spaghetti hoops rather than baked beans in the recipe? Lot's of the melts who were calling for Corbyn to step down during the chicken coup (and I'm almost certain JM was one of them) claim to have a care about the damage UC is doing to people. But they won't back a leader who pledges to scrap it. No it just needs a cosmetic re-brand and a little bit of tinkering around the edges.

She took against him (him personally, as far as I can tell) and later recanted, much to the chagrin of the JC.

https://www.thejc.com/comment/opinion/trump-and-corbyn-are-both-now-leaders-of-losers-cults-1.510980

But as I say she's had a shocker of a week, I should probably not knee-jerked so much - we should all recuperate our energies over the weekend to increase our chances of making it through Monday!