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

Yes but I gathered silby was enjoining them to strike over the Xmas holidays.

even for the always terrible hignfy twitter account this is particularly shit

Mick Lynch demonstrates true festive spirit by driving hundreds of pubs and restaurants out of business just in time for Christmas.

— Have I Got News For You (@haveigotnews) November 23, 2022

Not funny or true.

This account is run by Hat Trick, who make HIGNFY. The BBC have asked us to point out it's nothing to do with them; the twitter feed that is, not the TV show.

Painful

a verified account for a show paid for and broadcast by the BBC but it’s “nothing to do with them” okay i guess it’s just a coincidence they have to point that out

if greg james, a freelancer, isn’t allowed to state his political views on twitter i’m not sure how a verified account dedicated to a BBC show is

A Daily Mail journalist asks Mick Lynch from the @RMTunion whether he's proud of being known as 'Mick Grinch'.

Micks answer,🎯 pic.twitter.com/LbKumH2WXe

— Saul Staniforth (@SaulStaniforth) November 22, 2022

He's still got it.

👍👍

hignfy tweet deleted

"being known" in that tweet of course translates to "tabloid hacks had a meeting and figured this might catch on if they push it"

It seems pretty amazing to me that Nicola Sturgeon could speak openly about independence and be recognized and not in danger as the First Minister of Scotland. (If the British Parliament would need to approve any move toward independence in a situation where an overwhelming majority of Scots favored independence, hopefully the institutions and mechanisms of government could be called out for what they were and challenged.)

"In danger"? In danger of what?

I guess what I really mean to ask is if there is any chance Scotland would want to and could leave the UK in a peaceable way (as a government and society). If the answer is no, then symbolically I guess her stance might not mean as much as I had thought (or might mean something different as an exercise in exhaustion and futility or as a family difference).

They did have an independence referendum in 2014.

... so another one is not out of the question at some point.

i don't know enough abt the similarity of the situation in catalonia but: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trial_of_Catalonia_independence_leaders

Most people in the UK would say it is likely that Scotland will leave the UK in the relatively near future.

Ms Sturgeon is in post on a democratic basis, as an MSP and nominated as First Minister by the largest party in the Scottish Parliament. Technically she is "appointed" by the monarch but I do not see the unelected UK monarch withdrawing her status.

She is an outstanding politician and there is no danger to her. There is danger to the Union of Scotland and England.

divy

didn't mean to post that

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CsVkBfnxQ_g

"ok. So you blame the government, you say you don't blame the nurses. So in a word, yes or no, do you support them walking out?"

Anneliese Dodds: "Well look, no one supports strikes"

Speechless. pic.twitter.com/3IpCVSLahT

— Saul Staniforth (@SaulStaniforth) November 25, 2022

Postal workers on strike today, as are rail and tube.

Nurses striking next week.

Can you believe they're still sending out that useless woman out to do media interviews?

she's at her most terribly coherent when she gives boilerplate Starmer office answers, you get some incredible results when she's unscripted. Like with that bizarrely sad campaign vid she did in Batley + Spen.

Nurses striking 15-20 Dec btw..

15th AND 20th, not the days inbetween…

In my fucking veins

Barbados is planning to make Conservative MP Richard Drax pay repartitions for his family's role in the slave trade.
This politician will become the first person to pay for his ancestor's role in the abhorrent practice which created his family's wealth 👀https://t.co/E82uCBPhDR

— Lorraine King (@lorrainemking) November 27, 2022

richard grosvenor plunkett-ernle-erle-drax, call him by his name

lol he was married to former royal nanny tiggy legge-bourke's sister zara and his great uncle was edward john moreton drax plunkett, 18th baron of dunsany, better known as the not-terrible fantasy and horror writer LORD DUNSANY

i looked that up, i don't just know it

well i did know drax is a name worth looking up

You appear with the tedious inevitability of an unloved season

^^

my fave drax quote

Incredibly grateful to all the MP’s who joined the reconstitution of the @APPGDeathAbroad.

MP’s from across the political divide united to improve consular services and the services for those whose loved ones die abroad. Huge thanks to Eve Henderson founder @MurderedAbroad too. pic.twitter.com/ucur2HNJGn

— Hannah Bardell SNP MP 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ (@HannahB4LiviMP) November 28, 2022

love this photo, particularly the guy at the back whose face is completely obscured

Ambulance workers vote to strike in England https://t.co/alV8XTp465

— Financial Times (@FT) November 30, 2022

Following the targeting of Elbit sites in England by Palestine Action, the British Ministry of Defense is cancelling £280 million worth of contracts with Israel's largest weapons company, Elbit Systems.

The company's share price has fallen 17% in one month.

— Lowkey (@Lowkey0nline) November 30, 2022

Jav out

The slow Conservative exodus continues as Sajid Javid confirms he won’t stand again at the next election.

— Paul Brand (@PaulBrandITV) December 2, 2022

who of the tory power-stance crew is still standing?

https://i2-prod.mirror.co.uk/incoming/article12454018.ece/ALTERNATES/s1200d/Sajid-Javid-stands-outside-the-Home-Office.jpg

Just Theresa

https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/o28AAOSwCThjh882/s-l300.jpg

the correct way that you power-stance!

Quite a few cons giving up their seats. Does anyone with a memory remember this in the run-up to '97?

my memory is fucked (i'm old and i spend my entire time on twitter) but i do not recall this being a talking point -- tory rank-and-file in the mid-late 90s were very extremely entrenched in the fight over europe and were planning to stay on to battle this out within the party come what may

(is my memory, possibly highly unreliable)

I think they're much much more of a mess than they were in '97.

I mean, '97 was just a standard issue tired government that had ran out of ideas and pissed everyone off, apparently the economy was doing fine - I don't remember either way. This current mob is a whole 'nother shitshow.

tories have been engaged in a civil war for six years now and it is only intensifying. who's left from the Cameron era at this point? just Gove? but Tory cabinet from 1997 was at least 50% pre-Major figures.

Hunt is still there - or, rather, back there.

Oh yeah, so two then. But Major finished with Hessletine, Clarke, Rifkind, Howard in great offices of state. Hurd had only been gone for less than two years. Lots of blustering old fuddie duddies in charge.

Major had Black Wednesday on his watch and a series of high profile scandals all the way up to the election, current situation is hypothetically not as bad by 2025

on the other both of the big English parties have been colluding in demonstrating that parliamentary democracy is a pointless irrelevance for the last few years which i don't remember from the 90s

in fact i naively held some brief hope that Blair's gov would turn left from it's election stance

not gonna fall for that shit again

I can remember having a late 90's chat with an old boy with his copy of the daily mirror on the table. "You've got to give them a chance" he said. I think even he knew they were a bunch of lying Thatcherite scum before he passed on from this world. I can't remember the full conversation but there was something about lazy young layabouts not voting Labour being a big part of the problem!