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

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

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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.

For 2022/23, the fees are as follows:

The fee for Boarding pupils will be £45,936 per annum (£15,312 per term).
The fee for Day pupils will be £33,990 per annum (£11,330 per term).

Sunak’s parents were never poor. They gave him a huge leg up in life due to being able to pay for him to go to one of the most prestigious schools in the country, where he could meet people who would help him in turn get on in life.

The caller was taking part in discussion on James O'Brien's LBC show about whether Rishi Sunak's personal wealth means he doesn't understand the cost of living crisis.

She said: "I worked at the school Rishi Sunak was at.

"The boys were delightful. They were everything you'd want in a young person apart from one thing.

"They had no idea what went on outside of their bubble.

"They had no perception that life was different for 98% of the population.

wow you can save 15 grand and years of sexual abuse by sending your posh brats as day pupils!

Could the issue be that there is very little class mobility in England?

the issue is these schools shouldn't even exist

This guy is never not at it

Jacob Rees Mogg's resignation letter is dated as 'St Crispin's Day' rather than the 25th October (2022) pic.twitter.com/CCLAhdz5xS

— insane moments in british politics (@PoliticsMoments) October 25, 2022

history of coca cola pic.twitter.com/Isj3DPOwXR

— Tianyu M. Fang (@tianyuf) October 25, 2022

I don't think marrying into wealth matters as much as your upbringing.

Matters in what way? I'm sorry if I'm being obtuse, but I don't get why it would matter if Sunak actually had been poor and been given a full scholarship to boarding school. That would mean what exactly? What insight or perspective on him would that provide? Like, it seems to me he was at least middle class and made all the right moves to join the upper class...now what?

Could the issue be that there is very little class mobility in England?

― youn, Tuesday, 25 October 2022 bookmarkflaglink

Class should also be abolished, no?

i assume that means that Rishi also read this book, which tbf, I remember being a banger
https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1410436506l/8422114.jpg

co-assimilation: your expertise in tea

big bargain-basement Adam Curtis energy on Louis Goodall’s explainer here!

For the second time in as many months, a new Prime Minister was ushered through the famous front door of 10 Downing Street.@lewis_goodall was there to explain what Rishi Sunak really meant during his inaugural speech as PM.

Head to @GlobalPlayer for on UK politics... 📱 pic.twitter.com/bnrvEHcZ05

— The News Agents (@TheNewsAgents) October 25, 2022

_I don't think marrying into wealth matters as much as your upbringing._

Matters in what way? I'm sorry if I'm being obtuse, but I don't get why it would matter if Sunak actually had been poor and been given a full scholarship to boarding school. That would mean what exactly? What insight or perspective on him would that provide? Like, it seems to me he was at least middle class and made all the right moves to join the upper class...now what?

both a nephew and niece of mine were extremely bright and from a single parent and extremely poor family. They both got scholarships to a fee paying grammar school. One of them is a professor now who did some research work on Alzheimer's and was doing alright for a few years, but now he's struggling. The other, she's working in Tescos and couldn't afford to go to university. None of this shit happens to people like Rishi.

yeah sorry, gyac, I was overstating things to try and prompt youn to elaborate on what they found significant about that one NYT paragraph. I do think the facts of Sunak's socioeconomic class, racial identity, education, work history, religion, gender, sexuality, etc. are all salient in various ways.

matters in terms of how relatable you are to the common people

I should have put common people in quotes. I was thinking of a Pulp song.

ah ok thanks, I think I get it now (though I don't know how relatable you think he is, but maybe that doesn't matter)

and fwiw, I certainly don't understand the intricacies of the British class system either, but my parents imprinted the general rigidity of that system on me at a young age by telling me stories about how low their chances of success were there, which precipitated their moving to the US according to them, due to their impoverished upbringings and having the wrong accents

but less snarkily in terms of your values if one can even speak of that

The British class system does not seem remotely intricate to me. You go to Winchester School, or Eton, or wherever, then on to Oxbridge, and you are guaranteed access to the best, most powerful, most influential careers in the country if you want it. You're set up to run the country - politics, civil service, the media, the judiciary, the military etc. Seems pretty simple to me.

That's why Rishi Sunak's parents paid for him to go to Winchester.

yeah sorry, gyac, I was overstating things to try and prompt youn to elaborate on what they found significant about that one NYT paragraph. I do think the facts of Sunak's socioeconomic class, racial identity, education, work history, religion, gender, sexuality, etc. are all salient in various ways.

From that Lewis Goddall thread it looks like Johnson is back in all but name. Reckon he won't be that slick in fronting the operation. Lack of experience will also undo Sunak, at which some in that cabinet will turn on him.

ah ok thanks, I think I get it now (though I don't know how relatable you think he is, but maybe that doesn't matter)

The British class system does not seem remotely intricate to me. You go to Winchester School, or Eton, or wherever, then on to Oxbridge, and you are guaranteed access to the best, most powerful, most influential careers in the country _if you want it_. You're set up to run the country - politics, civil service, the media, the judiciary, the military etc. Seems pretty simple to me.

The other thing about Sunak is that he is very very right wing. As the previous leadership contest progressed and it was obvious he couldn't beat Truss he got more and more right wing.

Yeah it was fun seeing the Ben Judah type shit for brains takes about sensibles (the adults are back pt 700) & then he reinstalls the swivel eyed nazi home sec

(which tbh feels like p effective trolling of all the liberal “victory” laps after the tofu thing)