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

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.

Beyond whether there is a hole in public finances or not there are other ways, beyond cuts, to make good on it.

Also changing the narrative from their precious finances to actually delivering food, housing to all as a matter of right. The focus on balance sheets has never the way to approach this.

But until see we see the kind of strikes and shutdowns that I read about in the likes of Ecuador this will be the road we'll travel on. The strikes we have seen in the summer at least point us there.

very much a nation of would-be petit bourgeois, and that's why it'll keep on getting grimmer

need more of this

(1) Clashes in front of the Greek Parliament in Athens as protests erupted over high energy & food costs & low wages yesterday

Molotov cocktails were thrown as the people rose up

A nationwide strike is being held in several major cities in Greece pic.twitter.com/EGw6fqRSLz

— Raam Beart 🥭 (@raam_beart) November 10, 2022

there is more industrial action taking place over the winter, I'll be out on strike later this month as a UCU member. I think the nurses strike is very significant and has a higher salience than a bunch of lecturers and other uni staff going out. But it does seem like concerted action is the way to go.

Neil S: what do you think of UCU's particular use of its strike mandate?

I think getting a national mandate, as opposed to a variable number of local mandates, was a big win for UCU. I also think that there has been some encouraging movement with regard to the USS pension scheme. However I don't think UUK or the employers are in much of a mood to compromise, so far as I can see. I think an approach with the focus on pensions along with attempting to get any improved pay offer might be the way to go.

Yes, what I meant here was: what do you think about their calling 3 days of strikes this month, as their use of the mandate?

Presumably with other actions planned for the future.

I think that some more militant UCU members will think this is a repeat of previous ineffectual tactics. That is not especially my view but it is something I observe from others.

As for USS: I hear better news about the amount of money in the pension scheme (will need to return to ILX finance thread to comprehend it) but I don't hear good things about what will be done with it.

Improved pay offers as a target are not really viable for many HEIs and if enacted will probably result in redundancies.

ah okay. I suppose getting some strike action in early is a legitimate tactic to try to force the employers to the table, we'll see whether it works or not, but yes it does need to be part of a longer-terms trategy. I agree that USS should be the main point of negotiation, rolling back the highly detrimental cuts from earlier in the year. That seems an achivevable goal, and I also agree that pay offers are much more of a mixed picture according to the institution in question.

I'm very much enjoying the Starmer hatred on Alexei's Sandwich Bar. "a fatberg blocking possibility" was one of the milder bits of invective. There can never be enough Starmer hatred.

My only objection to Kieth hate - and yeah, he's a deeply unpleasant suckhole of a human simulacrum - is that people should remember that his power his loaned to him by worse monsters and he'll only be replaced by something more evil

My only objection to Kieth hate - and yeah, he's a deeply unpleasant suckhole of a human simulacrum - is that people should remember that his power his loaned to him by worse monsters and he'll only be replaced by something more evil

by then I won't be even be slightly irritated by how appalling his successor is because I wouldn't expect anything different. But I still look forward to his death. It would be nice to be able to track his imminent death like with Yodel tracking!

Oh my god. This was the guy who slunk off in disgrace from Haringey Council after the ‘development vehicle’ he was pushing was resisted by local residents and went to work for a property management group. The absolute state of Labour. https://t.co/w4g0IBtMjK

— William A. Booth (@WilliamABooth) November 11, 2022

the same bunch of simps behind him that waved their rattles for Blair

I'm very much enjoying the Starmer hatred on Alexei's Sandwich Bar. "a fatberg blocking possibility" was one of the milder bits of invective. There can never be enough Starmer hatred.

AS's Imaginary Sandwich Bar nearly makes up for all other R4 comedy on its own.

3 days and counting until we unleash Origin Story Season 2 pic.twitter.com/u3O29hOyeT

— Ian Dunt (@IanDunt) November 11, 2022

to coin a phrase: "guess my theory"

also lol the paul mason three down from "drug use for grown-ups"

https://i.imgur.com/zpmSO6L.jpg

Dunt otm for once

"what's the deal with this Hitler guy?"