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

Channel 4 News started a minute early!

Channel 4 News usually starts a few mins late, meaning I get to see the final thrilling scene of Hollyoaks.

When these people are doing their little "good honest working class Brits suffer the consequences of immigration" dance, always remember just what squeamish little babies they are when working-class *actually* assert any power or make any demands of society. https://t.co/OYbKbYCVcH

— Jack Saundrs ❤🖤 (@jack_saundrs) December 15, 2022

Murray's a Nazi and everything he says should be seen thru that filter

altho Jack's comment applies just as well to the likes of Streeting

Yeah this is it. It's a more common view across the political spectrum. All cunts.

Big day today.

This is *obviously* wrong - as @JasonGroves1 or @MrHarryCole could have ascertained with 10 seconds thought (or, assuming they can't do that, 1 minute's research). https://t.co/hA5G7hcneM

— Jonathan Portes (@jdportes) December 15, 2022

I saw her this morning making a complete pig's ear of every interview she was giving. I really think the government are backing the wrong horse in this particular dispute. Her answer to the question of why Scottish nurses weren't on strike was, "Yes, but they haven't actually accepted the Scottish government's offer yet". YES, BUT THEY AREN'T ON STRIKE THIS MORNING. YOU DIMWIT.

BREAKING 🚨 | Amazon workers vote to strike at Coventry depot in UK first.

— Trades Union Congress (@The_TUC) December 16, 2022

haven't they already gone on strike earlier in the year

good shit obviously either way

the previous one was a more or less spontaneous wildcat strike iirc

Grown up politics.

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/politics/20789328/rishi-sunak-mick-lynch-the-grinch/

Class war? Millionaires take the train?

I don’t think Sunak has, as they say, read the mood of the nation.

he said Labour admit union pay demands are “unaffordable” but they will “still take union money and undermine the interests of the travelling public unions”

he's almost correct there tbf

I think I hate Sunak more than Truss and Boris, such a smug superficial little twerp, and yet this useless cunt Starmer seems completely incapable of even landing a glove on him.

The Tories have clearly given up.

Our local surgery has suspended all routine GP appointments. The whole health system is on the verge of collapse.

— Will Jennings  (@drjennings) December 19, 2022

I do wonder how many people actually buy the Tory line on the NHS, that being that it's incompetently run and needs input from private health service providers to improve (like, er, the railways).

They aren't buying anything Tory, from the look of the opinion polls.

Given that these are the same cunts who insisted we stand outside clapping hands or banging pots and pans in support of NHS staff, I don't think the public have too much confidence in anything the Tories say about the NHS. Apart from dyed-in-the-wool Tory voting arseholes, of course.

a good time for Wes Streeting to be parroting Tory lines on the NHS. Even Mogg was saying he was glad to hear Wes talking some sense from the Labour benches.

How many people do the NHS employ? Your average person has more chance of knowing someone who works there than pretty much any other organisation in this country.

Strikes are good.

This is heartbreaking - and all too common. We print The Spectator on Wednesdays and hand over to Royal Mail every Thursday morning - pay 1st class for next-day delivery.

What then happens is a mystery. Royal Mail dysfunction now posing a real threat to weekly magazine industry https://t.co/B9RVgp5Jr5

— Fraser Nelson (@FraserNelson) December 20, 2022

Curious definition of "heartbreaking" there.

'Side-splitting' might be a more accurate term

Can almost hear Fraser Nelson saying "heartbreaking" in that Fraser Nelson accent, using his own invented vowel sounds.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/dec/21/tom-watson-apologises-in-lords-for-promoting-false-abuse-allegations-labour-deputy-carl-beech

haha what a gullible fuckwit, I'd forgotten Watson's role in that comical shitshow.

Also:

Watson is now chair of the industry group UK Music and an adviser on problem gambling to the betting firm Flutter Entertainment.

It's like being an adviser on problem heroin use to the local dealer, utterly shameless.

Today I looked at a biography of George Orwell which went out of its way to say that JC, MP, was a notorious racist, and that Tom Watson MP had urged strong action against such people.

It was the most disgusting book I saw, in a large bookshop full of books.

Oh George Orwell cunts have been a thing for ages now. Did Dorian write it?

strangely not, i think it's Richard Bradford

That is accurate. The author mentioned is very prolific. It could be said that this author privileges quantity over quality.

As I recall, he produced the first ever biography of Martin Amis a few years ago, which was immediately disowned by Martin Amis.

Even if I believed the charges of racism against socialist MPs in recent years, which I don't, I would still find it strange to take up space on them in the middle of a book about an author who died over 70 years ago.

By the same token I would find it odd for a biography of Shelley to talk at length, however critically, about the views and policies of Theresa May and Rishi Sunak.

The fact that this author did this suggests that he is not just deeply wrong and malicious but also has lost all sense of place and propriety. An alternative explanation is that he had little to say about Orwell and the only way he could think of to fill space and give his publisher something to say to get attention was to make utterly irrelevant attacks on socialists from the 2010s.

Wait accusations of a pedophile ring operating in the British upper class turned out to be untrue? That’s a first.

Unproven, may well actually be true!

just because something is false doesn’t mean it’s not true

When Watson’s peerage was announced in October, the Tory former chancellor and now peer Norman Lamont called it “an absolute disgrace” and a “stain” on the Lords.

lol, when you are half in agreement with Lamont just before you lob a grenade in there. What happens if Tom discovers conclusive evidence that there really is a pedo-ring? He'll have to keep shtum because he's not a credible person!

credulous

Speaking for myself, I think the worst case scenario is the Tories remaining in power. But second worst is a majority Labour Government. There is really very little evidence it wants power for anything other than selfish reasons - a turn at the wheel.

— Jo Maugham (@JolyonMaugham) December 22, 2022

expected melt responses in the replies. jolyon's face turn v good imo, maybe some glint of optimism to be found there.

Jolyon has redeemed himself as much as a fox murderer can this last year or two

And without having read any follow-ups he's made I agree, the (second) last thing anybody good needs is this authoritarian, pandering bunch of technocrats with unfettered power

After you've battered a fox to death with a baseball bat while wearing a kimono the only way is up.

Telling.

Douglas Ross, the Scottish Conservative leader, asks about the gender recognition reform (Scotland) bill and amendments rejected by the Scottish government. He says the bill would allow a man standing trial for raping a woman to force his victim to refer to him as a woman, not a man, and he asks Sturgeon why she voted against an amendment that would have prevented this.

1982: but what if gays are paedos?
2022: but what if trans women are rapists?

1982: we have to protect impressionable youngsters who may just be going through a phase.
2022: see above

1982: I don’t care what they get up to in their private lives, so why do they have to be so shrill and strident about it?
2022: see above

1982: gays don’t want equality, they want special treatment
2022: trans women don’t want equality, they want special treatment

1982: I won’t be silenced by trendy lefties
2022: I won’t be silenced by woke snowflakes

*sigh*

Oh, and…
1982: gay men aren’t men
2022: trans women aren’t women

horribly otm

A British paper called Azealia Banks unhinged. She came for the entire country. pic.twitter.com/8QYdZrsJhw

— Omid Scobie (@scobie) December 21, 2022

There have been many of small wins.

🚨NEW: Go North East bus engineers have secured a pay deal worth up to 13.1% following industrial action. Strike action has now been called off.

— Taj Ali (@Taj_Ali1) December 22, 2022

Merry Christmas UK

Sunak asks a homeless man in a homeless shelter whether he "works in business", then proceeds to talk about the financial services industry. Utterly bizarre pic.twitter.com/jQPzg7RR4h

— Adam Bienkov (@AdamBienkov) December 24, 2022

1998 was paradise on earth, apparently?

Yes, all of this was a fool’s paradise that went kaboom no later than 2008, and it’s as bad as it is now because we have spent fourteen years screaming at everyone who has noticed. pic.twitter.com/3diYSaalPr

— Flying_Rodent (@flying_rodent) December 24, 2022