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

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!

Crazy!

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2022/dec/05/homelessness-charity-shelter-staff-start-unprecedented-two-week-strike

https://news.stv.tv/scotland/glasgow-coffin-manufacturers-to-walk-out-again-in-pay-dispute

... the question is, for the next 40+ years from now, will the British media be going on about "the dead lying unburied" the way they did after the so-called Winter of Discontent under a Labour government? Somehow I think not.

🧟‍♀️ 🧟‍♂️👍🏽

Industrial action has been called off as over 2,000 @unitetheunion Metroline bus drivers in London have won an 11% pay increase with a 10% increase on back pay (they were originally offered just 4%).

Collective action delivers results. pic.twitter.com/KBjcUbb1kC

— Saul Staniforth (@SaulStaniforth) December 8, 2022

Our strike ballot fell short of the government's 50% rule by SEVEN people!

Did you know: the fucking Penal Laws still applied?

Irish language legislation receives royal assent to become law https://t.co/mY1gOIlIZE

— The Irish Times (@IrishTimes) December 7, 2022

NEW: After 11 weeks of strike action, more than 750 workers at the Jacobs Cream Crackers factory in Ainstree have won an improved pay offer. @GMB_union has now called off industrial action.

— Taj Ali (@Taj_Ali1) December 8, 2022

Just completely deluded.

This is just bollocks! They’ll repeal some anti union laws, scrap hire and fire, build more council housing, nationalise the railways, borrow £28bn a year for a green transition. Enough? No. But it’s just an untruth to say it’s the same!

— Owen Jones (@OwenJones84) December 6, 2022

Even if you get this it's crumbs. And you won't get this.

ffs Owen i totally disagree with your continued support for Labour but i think i understand it. doesn't mean you have to swallow the Koolaid tho

The Koolaid would be "Starmer's going to swing left once he's elected" - I don't think he thinks that, though.

he seems to think that they'll do all of the things he's listed

he had much less faith in Corbyn's ability to deliver on pledges when he was asking him to stand down because he was "unelectable". That's all that matters to this simp, just Labour need to be elected at any cost.

well that didn't take long

Labour refusing to promise repeal of Tory anti-strike laws https://t.co/iqawUhJJ6E

— The Guardian (@guardian) December 8, 2022

Biden was much friendlier in tone to the Sanders/progressive lot and that has ended as crumbs. Starmer has made no concessions. He knows he has enough Tories on board to not need it.

Utterly chickenshit

can't even be justified by "responible economics", just craven playing to cunts that will never vote Labour, even this one

He's going to triangulate himself right out of existence if he's not careful