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

urrrgh

Hearing that Suella Braverman is making a return to cabinet less than a week after being sacked over a security breach.

One govt source even suggests she might be back as home sec, perhaps in return for endorsing Sunak. Bold move, if true.

— Pippa Crerar (@PippaCrerar) October 25, 2022

Tfw they are laughing at us all.

the era of the sensibles is here says Ben Judah, shortly before Sunak appoints Braverman as home sec

Talent pool emptied out and refilled with toxic sludge pumped in by a rogue water company

Labour does not plan to attack Sunak's wealth directly, though it is inevitable some MPs will do so, but party chiefs see that as an obvious trap.

— Jessica Elgot (@jessicaelgot) October 25, 2022

I've seen several people express the view that tory attacks on Ed Miliband as "weird" were crypto-racist and had a subtext of 'visibly ethnic' (alongside more explicitly racist stuff like the Mail's hit piece on his dad), this seems like a dubious attack line for Labour

sorry, wrong tweet, supposed to be this

But they also believe they can also draw a distinction in their character, with Sunak as a “weird guy” attempting to present himself as slick and Starmer as a reliable “centrist dad”.

— Jessica Elgot (@jessicaelgot) October 25, 2022

Starmer is a profoundly weird dude too is the thing.

If anyone is a weird guy...

(xp)

They both talk the same language of tough decisions. Wonder how low the turnout will be.

Anyway, fuck walking around on hot coals, the guy had a escape clause of a US green card until someone found out about it and his multi-billionaire wife had non-dom status and avoided paying millions in tax until someone found out about it.

🐦[Labour does not plan to attack Sunak’s wealth directly, though it is inevitable some MPs will do so, but party chiefs see that as an obvious trap.
— Jessica Elgot (@jessicaelgot) October 25, 2022🕸]🐦

I've seen several people express the view that tory attacks on Ed Miliband as "weird" were crypto-racist and had a subtext of 'visibly ethnic' (alongside more explicitly racist stuff like the Mail's hit piece on his dad), this seems like a dubious attack line for Labour

I'm sorry but Starmer absolutely cannot claim to not be a weird guy with a photographs like this going around. https://t.co/L4PAUKi4GN pic.twitter.com/9XMDj853dm

— Sinan Kose (@TheSinanKose) October 25, 2022

A lot of the things I’ve seen people attack Sunak for along these lines seem more related to his class than being British Indian. That infamous video of him not realising where he needed to bop his contactless card in the petrol station was classic out of touch rich guy. He gets slagged off a lot for the way he speaks, which again, incredibly posh rich guy. There’s certainly racism that will come this way but the stuff that’s been out there from the opposition atm hasn’t gone that way. Which isn’t to say it won’t or that Sunak would be deserving of it. He’s probably had more racism from his own voters at this point.

A woman at work said she heard a caller to some phone-in show this morning, LBC probably, saying how can he be Prime Minister when he wasn't even born in this country? She shut up when the host pointed out he was born in Southampton while Boris Johnson was born in New York. He did miss the chance to mention that Bonar Law was actually a Canadian though

There will be many Brits who think he's a Muslim.

Meanwhile, the Herald newspaper in Scotland, in their never-ending quest to get one over on Nicola Sturgeon, pulled her up for congratulating Sunak for being the first ethnic minority UK PM. Unfortunately this was the photo they chose to accompany this gotcha moment:

https://i.ibb.co/Km3KzHk/FB-IMG-1666708049037.jpg

... that's supposed to be Disraeli of course.

Nice choice of picture by the BBC liveblog, he looks 4 feet tall next to these two at this angle.

https://i.postimg.cc/BnKbRF9M/Screenshot-20221025-154413.jpg

every shortarsed dictator needs a 4 "12 Yezhov type minion to promote. Unfortunately for Rishi he's in a party of giants!

The Rt Hon Dominic Raab MP @DominicRaab has been appointed Deputy Prime Minister, Lord Chancellor, and Secretary of State for Justice @MoJGovUK. #Reshuffle pic.twitter.com/aikeZwQ1rH

— UK Prime Minister (@10DowningStreet) October 25, 2022

No job for MordUant yet? That seems a trifle vindictive.

The Rt Hon Nadhim Zahawi MP @NadhimZahawi has been appointed Minister without Portfolio. #Reshuffle pic.twitter.com/CuDe9TYrAp

— UK Prime Minister (@10DowningStreet) October 25, 2022

it's my favourite title

they should change it to Minister for Vibes or something tho

Ben Judah’s new sensible era off to a flying start

The Rt Hon Suella Braverman KC MP @SuellaBraverman has been appointed Secretary of State for the Home Department @UKHomeOffice. #Reshuffle pic.twitter.com/mOMmurvnGs

— UK Prime Minister (@10DowningStreet) October 25, 2022

BBC word cloud describes Rishi Sunak as 't***' and 'c***' during live report https://t.co/AS2JPdGoEm

— indy100 (@indy100) October 25, 2022

Send a cunt to annoy some cunts

📣A simple message from civil society leaders in Fermanagh on re-forming @niexecutive ...#GetOnWithIt pic.twitter.com/Yxaq4Ril5h

— Steve Baker MP FRSA 🗽 (@SteveBakerHW) October 25, 2022

How are they that small (also small should be there)

xp

Hell is empty

The Rt Hon Michael Gove MP @MichaelGove has been appointed Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, Minister for Intergovernmental Relations @LUHC.#Reshuffle pic.twitter.com/OfBKF2v4lx

— UK Prime Minister (@10DowningStreet) October 25, 2022

The Rt Hon Dr Thérèse Coffey MP @ThereseCoffey has been appointed Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs @DefraGovUK. #Reshuffle pic.twitter.com/X1uqkwdLYn

— UK Prime Minister (@10DowningStreet) October 25, 2022

good news for cows that love antibiotics

Wish I’d waited a few more minutes

The Rt Hon Kemi Badenoch MP has been re-appointed Secretary of State for International Trade @TradeGovUK and President of the Board of Trade.

She has also been appointed Minister for Women and Equalities @GEOgovuk. #Reshuffle pic.twitter.com/1VVWpBW92C

— UK Prime Minister (@10DowningStreet) October 25, 2022

https://media2.giphy.com/media/VL8JtXuF0bqRW/giphy.gif

She's there to say "everything is fine, just as it is."

She’s there to be a big fat TERF.

Looks like Gavin "Moron" Williamson is coming back as well as "I'm a little bit woh, I'm a little bit wey" petty criminal Robert Jenrick.

(xp) Labour will need one of those in the Shadow Cabinet now... if they don't already have one.

Aye because a climate change denying, transphobic and homophobe is a good choice🤦‍♂️

Voted against same sex marriage and then defended it by saying “I can’t be bigoted because I once fought an amateur boxing match against a gay person”😡

Wales deserves so much better than this🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 https://t.co/hZpdOMexO1

— Philip Davies (@phildavies1995) October 25, 2022

(xp) Labour will need one of those in the Shadow Cabinet now... if they don't already have one.

News just in. Jo Stevens is a TERF.

Thanks to @takumasgirl for asking the important questions pic.twitter.com/GIRCJrI8l0

— Bena Lugosi (@artofstumbling) March 9, 2020

i assume as she's contradicting party policy she'll be removed from the shadow cabinet

it's time for a campaign of trans terror against the british state

enough with watering down our demands to appeal to liberal scum who want us dead. i want revenge.

reclaim jkr's house while we're at it

That's good going from Sunak tbh, I think he's somehow wangled it so he's actually the least loathsome member of the front bench

Loving how these embedded tweets cut their heads off.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/24/world/europe/rishi-sunak-uk-prime-minister.html

The man chosen to face all these challenges was born in Southampton, on England’s south coast, to Indian immigrants who had moved to Britain from East Africa. His father was a family doctor; his mother ran a pharmacy. They saved to send him to Winchester College, one of Britain’s most academically rigorous high schools, and then to Oxford University, where he studied philosophy, politics and economics.

"one of Britain’s most academically rigorous high schools" can fuck right off

youn, I still can't figure out what point you're trying to make

lol at that construction of 'so-and-so's parents saved to send them to [ludicrously expensive private school that 90% of the population could never afford to send their kids to if they saved for 500 years]'

I don't think marrying into wealth matters as much as your upbringing. I can't guess how much it would cost to go to Winchester College and how much advantage that already conferred.

I recall being teased by kids under 10 on bikes in Coventry. They thought I was Chinese, which is fine, but I am not.