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

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

Not even a good WC for the English is doing anything

Westminster Voting Intention:

LAB: 47% (+1)
CON: 20% (-1)
RFM: 9% (+2)
LDM: 8% (+1)
GRN: 6% (-3)
SNP: 5% (=)

Via @PeoplePolling, 7 Dec.
Changes w/ 30 Nov.

— Election Maps UK (@ElectionMapsUK) December 9, 2022

Weirdly enough I've yet to see Sunak making anything of the WC. Bojo would be milking it.

Has this been mentioned yet?

https://www.ipsos.com/en-uk/yes-pulls-ahead-and-snp-strengthens-support

Gordon Brown’s blueprint for the future of the UK will provide a "safer" and "more radical" alternative to Scottish independence

I see this went down well

lol at the full context of that Guardian tweet about Labour not repealing anti-strike laws:

Starmer and Reeves were speaking to an audience of business leaders at Canary Wharf as part of the party’s “prawn cocktail offensive 2.0”, which is seeking to repeat Tony Blair’s success in persuading business leaders to back Labour.

The event on Thursday included speeches by Amanda Blanc, the chief executive of Aviva, and Ian Stuart, the chief executive of HSBC UK.

Jim O’Neill, the former Goldman Sachs banker and Treasury minister under David Cameron, also spoke, having helped formulate the party’s policies towards startups.

Starmer told the conference: “Labour is back in business … We have more business engagement in the last two years than the Labour party has had in well over a decade.”

Nice, disowned EMil too

They've even got Liz Kendall in the Shadow Cabinet these days.

I would actually give a tactical vote to the Tories if I lived in her constituency

FT Exclusive: UK ministers blocked a possible deal to call off this month’s rail strikes by preventing the industry from offering unions higher pay deals and adding tough new conditions at the last minute https://t.co/A1Hwl4EE0H pic.twitter.com/jzry2inRhn

— Financial Times (@FinancialTimes) December 9, 2022

NEVER

NOT

AT IT

It’s stories like that which make it glaringly apparent that the US was originally a colony, since similar things have happened here in recent weeks.

UK power prices hit record high amid cold snap.

Energy companies profiteering.

Selling price has changed but cost of producing energy hasn't. There is no additional investment.

Prosecute profiteers, need 100% windfall tax, public ownership of energy.https://t.co/3Z18jJaHEU

— Prem Sikka (@premnsikka) December 12, 2022

Have any of you seen grit put on the streets?

Wondering if councils are just cutting back

I haven't noticed any gritters on the main roads but it hasn't snowed here but there has still been days of freezing fog and very icy conditions. One thing I have noticed is that the communal grit bins have mostly disappeared in the last few years and the ones that remain have labels that show they haven't been refilled since 2017 and the remaining grit has solidified.

Grit everywhere in Camden, pavement and streets.

None in Islington, but Camden having more money to spend than Islington is nothing new.

at least Islington had Joe Orton and Camden had erm... Menswear

Seriously though, I know someone who lives on the border, one side of her street is in Islington and the other is in Camden, the Camden side is always spotless, council are forever trimming hedges and branches, Islington side not so spotless.

Lol

Ok so a postcode lottery for gritters, as for everything else.

It was three years to the day Johnson won. This Tory report says that transphobia is a non issue with Tories, which is funny.

Today marks 3 years since the Conservatives 2019 General Election success. 🗳️

With latest polls placing Labour at 47%, our report After the Fall identifies what matters to voters the most and how the Conservatives could win again. 👇🏻https://t.co/KEZLS3KLvR pic.twitter.com/EX2VWZhAgV

— Onward (@ukonward) December 12, 2022

I bet they misunderstood the question

my very first job as a job-experience teen was working in shropshire county council collating info on the gritters presumably with a view to cutting back

two or three years later: famously long snowed-up icy winter, RAF cosford one day recorded colder temps than noted on the same day at the south pole lol* -- anyway in conclusion i did all this

*south pole during summer tbf but even so

xp: Tory voters: racists who aren't transphobes is halfway to hugging a hoodie levels.

My parents had well below average salaries in Denmark yet not once in my entire childhood was it cold in our home. I have genuinely never felt cold inside before moving to the UK for uni. In Britain even rich people's houses are cold, it's mad! https://t.co/KGudb7W1Bd

— Lukas Slothuus (@lslothuus) December 12, 2022

My house has wall insulation, a layer of cladding insulation on the outside, umpteen layers of loft insulation and it's all rendered ineffective because the council hired a cowboy outfit of grunting neanderthals to fit the double glazing on the cheap. All the cold air gets in, the warm air escapes via the draughty double glazing.

tbf Britain isn't a very cold country

that's why big energy have to charge 6 times per KWH what was charged last winter, these cunts need to cash in when it does get cold and they can blame it all on Putin.

Europe is colder and yet Britain can get pretty cold some winters, especially in the North? xp

It's not as cold as it should be given it's geographical position, Gulf Stream innit?

for now

I thought it was because Britannia was at the centre of the world and it's God's own hand that protects her from the harsher extremities of global weather.

Drag 'em my liege

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/dec/13/mick-lynch-accuses-bbc-parroting-rightwing-propaganda

'Will you answer the question Mr Lynch, I won't let you get away with nonsense'@richardm56 grills the General Secretary of the RMT, Mick Lynch over striking over the Christmas period pic.twitter.com/htcqFREQM9

— Good Morning Britain (@GMB) December 13, 2022

"grills"

Very, very cool xp

Mick Lynch face 26 seconds in says it all.

... more 25 seconds, but it's a picture during the whole opening tirade from Madeley.

Remarkable.

New report out today with @TheIFS colleagues - in the space of a year, the number of new claims to disability benefits has **doubled**.

We investigate what's going on.

There are some terrifying charts.

Here's a 🧵with the key stuffhttps://t.co/Yts6pa7hqy

— Tom Waters (@TomWatersEcon) December 7, 2022

I got that thread from an account of a person who works in and around the dwp. Thread is locked but unsurprisingly, like all government, it's in a mess so processing of claims are about six months behind so what it's in the headline charts should be higher.

also PIP is no longer available to people in Scotland and hasn't been since June-August depending what council area you live in.

I noticed they have scrapped the dreaded face to face assessments for the PIP replacement benefit in Scotland, that sounds like good news

crossing a picket line to tweet about a pr person being nice to you, great stuff

I booked on a coach for my @Channel4News shift in Leeds but got a train after discovering there’s one an hour despite #strikes . Mike Ross @LNER head of customer relations is serving drinks on the 9.05 - which left a minute early. He even upgraded me to first class! 🍾 🎉 pic.twitter.com/O7rwI8vk7S

— Cathy Newman (@cathynewman) December 14, 2022

"Investigations Editor".

xp she's deleted it already, oops I guess?

by "oops" I mean "I'm a professional political journalist but have just revealed I lack even a sixth-form understanding of industrial relations"

the BBC keeps reporting on declining public support - the important thing here is that levels of public support for the strikes is inconsequential and decisions to take industrial action should never hinge on public support. It's a majority of the public who gave this govt a huge parliamentary majority - so basically fuck them.

'left a minute early' reveals a lack of understanding of how fucking trains work!

imagine getting to the platform 59 seconds before your train is due to depart only to see it pull away and later learn that cathy newman is on board being entranced by the jingling keys of mike ross, lner head of customer relations

fkn raging

Yes, that is absurd.

FWIW I don't think that a majority of the public, or electorate, voted Con in 2019. Con party won 43.6% of the vote but that's only of those people who voted. 33% of eligible people didn't vote.