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

it took me 7 months to get a phone appointment with the neuro epilepsy clinic about an important medication issue, and then I was told I would need to speak to a different specialist and another phone appointment would be made. It arrived in the post the other day for December 22nd. Things have sure done changed with the NHS. I remember getting a same day home visit from a GP when I had measles in the 70's.

oh no lol it's December 30th, which sort of seems like "well at least it's not next year". In the meantime my son's epilepsy has returned and he desperately needs other medication to help him self-regulate. But no rush, lads.

Best of luck Tom, Mark, Calzino. I feel very lucky that my father got good end of life care before covid (and very lucky too). The degradation since then...

"evolved in the centre to feed, clothe, educate and keep fit the larger working population"

It remains to be seen what the efforts to unravel all of this will be on a population that has been fed, clothed, generally taken care of. A lot of the lucky ones are queuing for hours and days right now. Will we see such cohesion again?

It was a tense day of reporting from Leicester for me today. I interviewed a Hindu man wearing a motorbike helmet, holding an Indian flag on Belgrave road, the site of some of the unrest yesterday between a group of Muslim and Hindu men. Here’s what happened. 👇🏼

— Aina J. Khan (@ainajkhan) September 18, 2022

BBC coverage of this has been markedly quiet, and the brief mention i heard was heavily "both sides"ed and uncontextualized

I've hardly seen anything bcz hell carnival.

Liverpool dockers about to be on strike for five days. https://t.co/NoaRuskeB6

— libcom.org (@libcomorg) September 19, 2022

Tax cuts, banker bonus cap lifted, enterprise zones where anything goes, and now this.

Jacob Rees-Mogg is set to scrap the Working Time Directive so that workers can be forced to work over 48 hours a week.

A man who wouldn't understand real work if he lived another 100 years.

— Chris Daw KC (@crimlawuk) September 18, 2022

Good tweets from this account from the goings on in Leicester.

I do think the British left is wholly unprepared for the scale of Hindutva and the speed with which it openly taking streets is going to change the nature of white fascism here, and even the potential for alliances against Muslims between PA and RSS

— Amardeep S Dhillon (@AmarDeepSinghD) September 18, 2022

American TV has shut down to broadcast this obscenity.

But Kieth did so many tweets!

🗳️ Most recent Best Prime Minister poll from @RedfieldWilton:

🔵 Liz Truss 37% (+4)
🔴 Keir Starmer 35% (-4)
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⚪️ Don't know 28% (-)

Via @RedfieldWilton, 7 Sep (+/- since 4 Sep)

— Stats for Lefties (@LeftieStats) September 19, 2022

fuming at this clip

#KayBurley: "Were you aware... a fringe event at the [Labour] conference organised by a group called 'Labour for a Republic' talking about whether we should abolish the monarchy. Seems terribly inappropriate at the moment" pic.twitter.com/cnc7zPQ57c

— Saul Staniforth (@SaulStaniforth) September 20, 2022

RMT announces its members on Network Rail and 14 train operating companies will strike on October 1 alongside train drivers in Aslef - @RMTunion

— Alan Jones (@AlanJonesPA) September 20, 2022

This is about hacking into conditions for workers, and making up a guy for Tory pensioners to get mad at. No need to fact check.

Are the British the worst idlers in the world? Let's fact-check these five assertions from Britannia Unchained (which was co-authored by our new PM and chancellor)... https://t.co/82TYSnQGzs pic.twitter.com/dWqXaTMUyJ

— Sarah O'Connor (@sarahoconnor_) September 20, 2022

When you've spoken to a Tory PM for just 30 seconds

I am sick and tired of trickle-down economics. It has never worked.

We're building an economy from the bottom up and middle out.

— President Biden (@POTUS) September 20, 2022

Another hour another atrocity

Windrush pic.twitter.com/CiLaWv7aYA

— Hamilcar Kandekore (@sirhamilcar) September 20, 2022

what a victory for representation, a public school educated black politician denying that Windrush is even happening.

Truss looks like Thatcher mark 2.0 with talk of bigger bonuses and the stamp duty announcement.

The background is completely different. We're out of the EU, there was policy alignment with America at the time, and taxes were higher then. Nevermind years of cuts via austerity and a post-covid landscape, and the unique situation with energy bills.

(xp) Form my own encounters with Kwasi Kwarteng I can confirm that he is indeed a pompous entitled Old Etonian twat.

She is a lot, lot more focused than Johnson already though. Setting out her stall, she is probably going to enjoy facing up to union activity because her hero did it.

But again the world is just very different and I wonder how electorally successful it will be.

The wheels are already properly coming off the NHS, schools and the civil service. Not sure how more cuts are going to work.

Lol fur coats and foie gras, incredibly cartoon villain aesthetic

thatch had north sea gas to deploy and squander plus large swathes of social housing to sell off

she faced union resistance some way past its best-organised zenith and isolated clumps of municipal socialism which jigsawed badly if at all into union activism and turned out to be fairly easily defeated (the GLC was just abolished by fiat) -- plus confused cultural resistance always very divided against itself (and tbh increasingly middle-class if i'm an index)

The wheels are already properly coming off the NHS, schools and the civil service. Not sure how more cuts are going to work.

It'll 'work' by giving them more opportunity to bang on about how private investment will bring expertise and stability to badly-run institutions, then sell it all off if they can get away with it. I predict an election and hung parliament by spring.

I’d like to believe that everyone will see through this bullshit as we can see the results of this strategy already in the train franchises and the PPP hospitals that never got built but this may be magical thinking

Yes it could be that the Tories might be getting ready to push through as much as possible ahead of a hung parliament. No interest in 'levelling up'.

While we're lost on a dreamland of dead queens and neo-Thatcherism...

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2022/sep/21/germany-nationalises-biggest-gas-importer-avert-supply-crisis

Truss could be a bit of a gift to Labour because they don't need to be any less useless in their next manifesto and there still might be some some ground between them now. Although I can't imagine Reeves personally having any problems with the discredited trickle down hackonomics being expounded by robo-Thatch given her background, she'd just probably favour a slightly tighter grip on city of london bonuses and give it a more briefcase labour like presentation.

👍👍👍

sometimes i think that British conservatism has reached the bust out stage. Burn the asset down and strip as much short term value out of it as you can while you do it. https://t.co/302MWvs7xT

— jamie k (@jkbloodtreasure) September 21, 2022

(xp) Form my own encounters with Kwasi Kwarteng I can confirm that he is indeed a pompous entitled Old Etonian twat.

the clips of him at the funeral are...interesting

probably not the only cokehead in hm government, but that was quite an uninhibited performance, lol what a numpt.

Kwasi Kwarteng to announce shift in benefits policy: anyone in part-time job will have to have regular appointments with a work coach until they are working at least 15hrs a week (up from current 12hrs, recently increased from 9hrs).

In July, Rishi Sunak proposed 18hr threshold.

— Hugo Gye (@HugoGye) September 21, 2022

fuuuuuuuuuucck yyyyooooooooouuuu

I think it says a lot about Apsana Begum that after experiencing abuse so bad it almost cost her life, her priority as she returns to work is advocating for other survivors.

The whole Labour Party has a duty to stand with Apsana in total solidarity. https://t.co/9QHv4RapyR

— Nadia Whittome MP (@NadiaWhittomeMP) September 22, 2022

"thatch had north sea gas to deploy and squander plus large swathes of social housing to sell off"

If fracking is North Sea Oil replacement it's not looking great.

The disquiet on the govt benches towards fracking very apparent - in the last ten minutes 3 Tory MPs concerned over public consent and public safety

— Joel Taylor (@JoelTaylorhack) September 22, 2022

The UK’s geology is unlikely to be suitable for hydraulic fracturing, research by a Scottish university has discovered.

“For hydraulic fracturing to be successful, a number of geological criteria must be met. The source rock should have a high organic content, a good thickness, be sufficiently porous, and have the right mineralogy. The organic matter must have been buried to a sufficient depth and heated to the degree that the source rock produces substantial amounts of gas or oil.

“However, in locations where fulfilment of some of the criteria have led to large potential deposits, uplift and the faulted structure of the basins are detrimental to its ultimate recovery. Yet, the only question that has been addressed to date is how large the shale resource is in the UK. The inherent complexity of the sedimentary basins has not been fully appreciated or articulated and, as a result, the opportunity has been overhyped.”

the UK fracking lobby has a lot of money behind but it sounds like concerns about the geological makeup of this country have been completely ignored by the money. It's going to piss off over 83 % of the electorate and it won't produce the quality or quantity to make us less import dependant.

does it own the libs y/n

my state of heat pump system extracts the heat from libs being owned

Lol

This is ridiculous but the reality is that liberals on both sides of the pond have set this precedent by blaming Russia for everything bad that happens in the West, particularly Brexit and Trump rather than face up to the actual reasons why both happened https://t.co/cG3wQOk3Ep

— Pasty Guy (@Joeeeeeee_96) September 22, 2022

I was wondering today why people mocking that video of Kwarteng was making me feel so uncomfortable, & I’ve just clocked:

Neurodivergent people can sometimes behave like this, especially under pressure/intense environments - & that’s what I thought when I saw it (as an ADHDer)

— Nadine Batchelor-Hunt (@nadinebh_) September 21, 2022

everyone on twitter is making fun of this, but tbh it's the first thing I thought of as well when I saw the video. And they're not saying that Kwarteng himself is necessarily neurodivergent, just that mocking/criticising him for behaviour that neurodivergent people might also exhibit also has an impact on neurodivergent people?

people saying stuff along the lines of 'it's bad to speculate that someone mught autistic to excuse their bad behaviour', but he wasn't behaving badly as far as I can see, just a little oddly?

Yes, also laughing in church at the queen's funeral is the one good thing he's done

even if he is ever so slightly on the autism spectrum he's still a class A cunt and deserves about as much nuance and understanding as he gave to that guy when questioned about Windrush the other day.

and I don't honestly believe he is tbh or if he is it's not to a degree where he struggles with daily living.

my adhd would be absolutely fine if I had servants or a PA, guess he has never not had these things

it's not about sympathy for Kwarteng personally, when the response to a clip of someone acting in a slightly unusual but harmless way is twitter opprobrium that's potentially an uncomfortable environment for neurodivergent people in general? Like that tory MP who has cerebral palsy, and every so often a photo or clip of him goes viral on twitter with people saying 'lol this guy looks so goofy' or whatever.

people have suggested Boris might have ADD or ADHD before. I'm not a fan of armchair diagnosis been done on horrible politicians.

you still can't rule out Kwarteng having a few lines before the service

I get where you are coming from, Soref. But in this case I don't think you can draw any conclusion from this video on Kwarteng's neurological set-up. If he spoke out about it, then I'd say fair enough and show some understanding for this guy's lifelong health condition. But until he does that I'm just going assume he's another coked up Tory making a dick out of himself.

NEWS: the CWU have announced a new wave of strikes in the BT Group, with 999 emergency call operators joining the action

Actions will take place on 6, 10, 20 and 24 October, and will include 30,000 Openreach engineers, 10,000 BT call centre workers, and 400 999 call operators

— polly smythe (@pollysmythe) September 21, 2022

Have had similar thoughts to soref and glumdalclitch tbh, fuck Kwarteng yes of course but "lol inappropriate behaviour" isn't cool imo