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

i assume it's for some kind of a bet

love to see how they'll wriggle into this jam

every new low replaced by another one just a few days later. seriously come the election not even the very worst of the daily mail/times/telegraph columnists will be able to convincingly argue that they see starmer as dangerous for the country and their interests. they'll still write the columns probably but their hearts won't be in it.

he would absolutely have been among those telling black students in the 1950s that they needed to file their grievances through the proper channels

pretty sure all Labour focus groups are now just the old lads in Wetherspoon's at half nine on a Monday morning

tracer otm
"by sitting at the front of the bus you are ensuring that the driver refuses to continue his journey and disrupting the working day of your fellow passengers, some of whom are black and are sitting in the designated area. you're putting livelihoods at risk. it's not the way."

Starmer just loves prison.

it’s like when the BBC’s current director general told staff that they could be sacked for attending demonstrations. people were like uh, so pride marches? we can’t do that? and he’s like, no, that’s a more settled issue and not party political so that’s fine. so what it comes down to: if acting for a cause takes personal courage then it’s not allowed but if corporate twitter accounts support it then you’re probably fine. that’s kier. he stands in full solidarity with anyone who has already successfully fought their corner.

The issue needs to be 95% settled in one direction so that he can agree with it. At that point the protests are almost not there anymore.

King Charles has died.

UK prime minister @RishiSunak has just been rushed out of the room by his aides during the middle of the launch for forests partnership at #COP27 pic.twitter.com/OQy9TYkqpX

— Leo Hickman (@LeoHickman) November 7, 2022

do we still get the bank holiday?

it'll be pretty funny watching the heads explode if he dies the day before England's first World Cup match

charles could actually redeem himself in my eyes by gluing his dying self to the m25 in a final act of evironmentalism

spooning gobs of swan fat onto the paintings in the royal collection

xp
I did think that if the queen had died the day before a world cup final that England were playing in the BBC/itv wouldn't have had the stones to not show the game.

I'm sure Harry Kane and the lads would have refused to play, Gawdblessyouma'am.

i feel like we can only discover the truth of this thru experiment, you know what to do Charles

fa would probs request the game be postponed a week and act all outraged when corrupt fifa refused. withdraw from competition and put another star on the England kit and just pretend they won.

Labour are floating ID cards again in a strong bid to cross the "actually worse than the Tories" threshold

The companies that run these centres - G4S, Mitie and the like - do all sorts of security work, I've seen them near banks and whatnot. Also I think I remember one of the smaller achievements of the Corbyn era was to kick one of these companies out from providing security at the Labour conference! No doubt they're back now.

― Daniel_Rf, Monday, November 7, 2022 10:58 AM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

And of course G4S are actually the rebranded Group 4, a security organisation who's incompetence was a running joke for years.

Bring on ID cards. Fed up of the de facto privatised bullshit around ID checks without them. Pain in the arse enough as it is - can’t imagine what it’s like if you don’t have a driving license, passport, bank account, utility fucking bill.

It was weird as a European to learn that in the UK there are no ID cards and the police can't ask you for ID.

But it's ultimately one of the very few aspects in which the UK is better and introducing them will inevitably lead to further crackdowns against migrants who can't access them.

Wes Streeting now saying the NHS is unsustainable.

yeah it's been another banner day for getting the Tories out already

I hate him.

Wes isn't that happy that taxpayers' money is being spent on the people who use the NHS, who obviously are a completely different set of people

you'd think him having major life-saving surgery on the NHS in recent years might have been a humbling experience. But no, he's a tory private health shill to the fucking core.

Spider man out

💥Gavin Williamson quits saying he wants to “comply fully” with complaints process and “clear my name” of bullying allegations pic.twitter.com/gSK5lTPVtr

— Pippa Crerar (@PippaCrerar) November 8, 2022

That's Sir Gavin Williamson to the likes of us. One thing understand about this story is why I haven't heard a single reporter mention Malcolm Tucker, Francis Urquhart even got mentioned earlier.

One thing I don't understand, that is.

Is this the third time he's been sacked now? I'm starting to lose count.

Yes.

He's a certainty to be ennobled before he's 50.

From nobbled to ennobled in one easy step.

Repulsive.

Jeremy Corbyn tries to raise a point of order in the House, after Rishi Sunak mentioned him again during #PMQs.

Shadow Health Secretary Wes Streeting can be heard saying "he's gone senile". pic.twitter.com/V7MdiOf8Su

— PoliticsJOE (@PoliticsJOE_UK) November 9, 2022

We'll see how senile he is when the Labour Party try to run a candidate against him in the next GE.

I remember when this happened as well with some Tory whip abusing Corbyn for his age when he was leader. Really disgusting. Should have deselected Streeting.

what a piece of shit he is

Vote Labour

In jest, but I accept in poor taste. I’ve dropped Jeremy a note directly to apologise for any offence caused.

— Wes Streeting MP (@wesstreeting) November 9, 2022

These cunts cannot lose soon enough

bit of ageism, bit of ableism, all in jest tho

Personally I would’ve @‘d him https://t.co/iKhPZ6KY6I

— Saliba stan account (@misanthropicc92) November 9, 2022

Dementia is the leading cause of death in the UK. By 2025, over 1 million people will be suffering from the disease. The impact on loved ones is unquantifiable.

Now, more than ever, we need a National Care Service — publicly funded and free for all those who need it.

— Jeremy Corbyn (@jeremycorbyn) November 9, 2022

<3

The home secretary, Suella Braverman, has accused police of failing in their duty and demanded an intensified crackdown on Just Stop Oil activists disrupting the M25 motorway.

In a rare move to criticise officers in the midst of an operation, Braverman told police chiefs at their annual conference that she expected “a firmer line to safeguard public order. Indeed, that is your duty.”

stop stealing labour's policies

also for context:

Yesterday I was arrested by @HertsPolice whilst covering a protest on the M25.

I showed my press card, and I was handcuffed almost immediately. My phone was snatched out of my hand. I was searched twice, held in a cell for 5 hours, and I wasn’t questioned whilst in custody.

— Charlotte Lynch (@charlotterlynch) November 9, 2022

and this:

Yesterday, myself, a documentary filmmaker and @tomsdinner, a press photographer, got arrested by @HertsPolice whilst filming the @JustStopOil protest from a public footbridge over the #M25.

🧵.... pic.twitter.com/PiEO3hd2Tu

— Rich Felgate (@richfelgate) November 8, 2022

surprise surpise, there's no "black hole" in the public finances at all! But of course the damage has already been done with Peston and his braindead colleagues parrotting the black hole line over and over...
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-63573989

consent manufactured

The only type of manufacturing careers the Tories are interested in creating.