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

🚨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!

these days I'm not that inconsolably irate by all my 2015-19 grudges against the moderates and Labour Right apologists who all did their bit to ensure nothing ever changes. Mainly because I've given up registering to vote and accept that life is going to be increasingly precarious during the rest of my life, barring a lottery win. But I'm not dropping them entirely. JM had no choice but to recant, otherwise their position as an anti-food poverty would have become untenable imo.

campaigner

i don't think Monroe deserves a full blown ruthless pile-on but it certainly makes my eyes roll hard to see somebody doing the Bono shuffle, and it diminshes your work when you're so strongly selling your brand imo

boasting about hobnobbing with google MD's and meeting a 100 CEO's isn't a very wise brand to present on a social media account of someone who is a self-styled campaigner for the worst off in society. How to get ahead while losing all perspective and credibility in one post. It just sort of confirms that JM is New Labour to the core imo. Because otherwise she'd fully understand why there is so much heavy eyerolling and cynicism in the replies.

going on begging missions for corporate charity whilst enjoying some good chow is a good life though

nah mate i couldn't agree more i guess i'm just saying she made half an ounce more effort than other grifters

still solidly grifting

I meant her post here, not yours just in case you took it that way!

nah i knew what you meant <3

god two "nah"s on the bounce sorry for my drinky fake vernacular

anyway she bad yes but bigger fish, i don't feel less about her this week than i ever have

yeah it's pretty so so really. I'm going get back into some mourning for the dead squab I found in my garden this aft, the poor wee creature didn't get no lying-in-state. Just straight into a bin bag and wanged in the bin. Although I'd be quite happy for the same!

i'm surprised more of the daytime tv ads preying on oldies watching A Touch of Frost don't offer a bin bag fly tipping option

might need a couple of years of famine or another prolonged civil war until softy softy UK people become inured to the idea of fly tipping corpses! I have only been to one open coffin funeral and felt so squeamish about it all. They should incinerate your earthly remains and make a Mao style waxwork of you if it has to be open coffin imo.

I didn't mean a waxwork of Mao ftr, but actually that would be hilarious

i wasn't even allowed to go to funerals as a kid, it was only as an adult with Irish in-laws i got the full funeral experience. i'm all for longboat shot full of fire arrows tbh, but the older i get the more i think it's nowt to do with me cos i'll be the only one at the ceremony that's not really there

oh yeah my Irish mum loves open coffin funerals. She took a few photos of my great auntie Violet lying in her coffin, in Dublin. She felt I should see these photos because I didn't attend the funeral. Cheers mum!

skinful of Jameson's with Americans you've never met in person is also a bonus

One of my uncle's had a humanist funeral, because of what the Christian Brothers did to him in 50's Ireland he had some major Catholicism issues. But it was still an open coffin and he was buried in his leather jacket with a can of Tennents Super in his side pocket. That's about as rock n roll a funeral has ever got for me.

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