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

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

Shit for brains pundit got a visit from three ghosts looks like. God bless us every one!

The envy of the world LOL

"With his high profile bouts, world featherweight champion boxer ”Prince” Naseem Hamed is also associated with the era, as are alcopops and Lads' Magazines.[14]"

Had a good alcopops conversation in the pub yesterday

Prince Naseem not so much

I saw some alcohol-free Strawberry & Lime Kopparbergs at the supermarket the other day. Which is basically an alcopop with no alcohol!

they're pretty nice when you're cutting down booze. not at pub prices tho

I used to down the 4% ones when we'd have a liquid lunch at work, so you wouldn't get into any trouble talking to any management dicks or even kicked off the job for smelling of beer. I got quite attached to it at the time.

🚨NEW: Wirral bin workers have secured a 15% pay rise following industrial action.

— Taj Ali (@Taj_Ali1) December 28, 2022

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/dec/29/labour-cant-turn-on-the-taps-from-day-one-on-spending-says-new-tuc-leader

What an inspiring message of “we can’t fix things”

worked for biden

If you don't vote Labour to do nothing you're just enabling the Tories to do nothing

Actually that's not fair, the official line is "if you don't think there's a difference between Labour and the Tories you're a moron, you're a child"

'do nothing' would actually work pretty well as the new labour party anthem. nothing ever change, oh no - they talk and talk, say nothing

But there's a load of policies they're thinking about which will marginally benefit people and, more importantly, maintain the iron grip of capital

policeman come and smack me in the teeth, and that's absolutely right, we need tougher action on protestors questioning the blind pursuit of wealth

Dear Owen,

No need to resort to ad hominem.

For your perusal https://t.co/QNuaGPHK8Y

Yours
Winston https://t.co/KKPdYap2bn

— Winston Marshall (@MrWinMarshall) December 29, 2022

wish I hadn't accidentally downloaded that shite now I feel dirty. what scummy right wing thinktank does it come from

it's the least offensive part of all this but *of course* he's the kind of wanker to use "ad hominem" like that and of course he'd claim this sentence also an ad hominem

but seriously why won't people like this just fucking die

Winston Aubrey Aladar deBalkan Marshall, to give him his full name.

He is an avid supporter of Manchester United.[133]

His wiki page is like entering some hideous parallel universe populated entirely by wankers.

I'm still pissed off from reading it last time after the peterson incident

No need to resort to ad hominem.

When you've jumped on the prolonged creepy misogynist bandwagon attack on a teenage girl with a different opinion and can't handle the slightest pushback.

The odd thing about 'ad hominem' is that it's a response to OJ calling him the former banjo player of that band - which is, I assume, just factual. Taking it as an insult is his own problem.

it actually is an insult but whose fault is that

Owen is a melt and I will defend him to the death because his enemies are bigot scum

he's a liberal who seems to try to take seriously the putative liberal values his haters claim as their own, which is a noble and foolish endeavour

whether does more harm than good by acting as a leftmost limit on mainstream political discourse, or whether he performs an important service by (inadvertently) exposing the hollowness and hatefulness of british liberalism, I'm undecided

I just accept him for who he is and roll my eyes accordingly but he's a lightning rod for the evil

I would prefer a lightning rod who REALLY despises the state of the Labour Party rather than all this "I shall have to reluctantly crawl through a symbolic corridor of vomit at the polling station to vote Labour again, oh dear but let's get these frightful tories out". Melts like him lack integrity because the status quo has given them an easy soft life, and they don't like upsetting the applecart!

Yet another situation where Dawn Foster is missed.

so much so, there isn't really anyone who was like her.

I used past tense there, but if there was someone like her now - they also would be sacked or put on "the list" by the Graun

These numbers are horrifying https://t.co/99OTWCLXff

— Liam Thorp (@LiamThorpECHO) January 1, 2023

.@RMTunion has done deals in every part of rail network where DfT is not involved:

Eurostar - Mitie security: 10% (29% for lowest paid)

Scotrail: 7-9%

Transport for Wales: 6.6%-9.5%

Merseyrail: 7%

MTR Crossrail: 8.2%

Docklands Light Railway: 9.25%

London Underground: 8.4%

— Taj Ali (@Taj_Ali1) January 2, 2023

damning

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/jan/03/tories-how-labour-mayor-jamie-driscoll-north-east-devolution-deal

This will put food on the table.

There are even larger numbers out there, sad to say https://t.co/rQ9XA7QlJ8

— Thar Barr Superstar (@WildState) January 3, 2023

such a shit policy, some people are no good at maths and will never need it beyond a KS3 level anyway. also is obviously aping China once again, and as someone with plenty of experience of education in China this makes me want to bang my head against the wall, entire childhoods spent in rote memorization of useless shit, it's genuinely abusive.

but of course the labour response is "this lacks detail" fucking fuckers fuck right off.

A better way to improve numeracy would be to get 18 year olds to play Darts, not attend maths lessons that they will hate.

— Nigel Farage (@Nigel_Farage) January 4, 2023

Labour MPs in the pocket of the betting industry should be talking about how betting shops could be a very effective mathematics learning zone for the 16-18's.