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

This piece is mostly good though there is a conspiratorial tone to some of it. New Lab was laughable but I don't think there was a sale to mates attitude (correct if I'm wrong on this). And it is in British capitalism's interest to have a healthy workforce.

Healthcare has become a lot more complex in terms of diagnosis, range of treatments and so on. Factor in stuff like mental health, too. This is not to say a lot of money needs to be poured into it, and that there should be less consultancy, but there are more moving parts that need to be managed in certain ways.

Why isn't the NHS crisis a bigger scandal? Because the people in charge of what becomes a scandal are the people responsible. Me for the Independent.https://t.co/l4z9nINfjc

— Phil McDuff (@PhilMcDuff) January 4, 2023

xp

Bang on cue I got a phone call today about what I fondly imagined was a hospital appointment - but what was in fact a telephone appointment - begin postponed from 13 February to the 23rd March. To be fair my I only saw my GP about this particular problem in November, I've been waiting to see a consultant about a more serious problem since February last year and I'm finally seeing one on Thursday.

There's a decent summary of NHS privatisation history here: it's not an excuse to say that Blair seemed eager to ease the sale of it to generic rather than specific rich people - probably the same for Starmer (also he has no mates)

https://www.yournhsneedsyou.com/timeline/

re maths:

the vast majority of students in this country either pass their GCSE or are still having maths classes at age 18 in Further Ed so i'm not sure wtf Sunak is suggesting tbh

Most people in the UK attend state schools, of course he has no fucking clue what happens in them.

Lol

Heavy industry background for Keir Starmer at UCL Here East in the Olympic Park, east London pic.twitter.com/l51WyBsDZp

— John Rentoul (@JohnRentoul) January 5, 2023

10 out of 10 Labour photocall today. (Pics: Alamy) pic.twitter.com/tSI5doDggY

— Ben Riley-Smith (@benrileysmith) January 5, 2023

no viz vest nor a hard hat for Kieth? he shits on rules and regs! And when you are 4ft tall you don't bang your head on stuff so often.

Fascism, lads. https://t.co/4Le9rC2kUi

— S C A L L Y M A G (@ScallyMagazine) January 5, 2023

they are supposedly trying to encourage people back into the workforce .. dissolving workers rights seems like a solid tactic

Impoverishing people so they have to put up with any old shite just to survive is a good Tory tactic tbf.

https://i.imgur.com/6wPtLrW.jpg

oh that's a real pic then, lol I thought it was shopped

I just want to know who a photograph like that appeals to and induces faith in the subjects's political acumen

https://tribunemag.co.uk/2023/01/mick-lynch-anti-union-laws-enough-is-enough

"Yes. Democracy has decayed in this country. We have left it to a professional class and that has been to our detriment."

I can't see anything other than increasing militancy stopping this. Lab will sit in their hands.

in place of "in place of strife"

In place of strife more strife.

You've gotta laugh.

Labour has taken "Making Brexit Work" to a ridiculous extent. Now a "Take Back Control" bill parrots the language of a hard ideological right-wing Brexit. pic.twitter.com/rdUeV6ut5Q

— Gerry Hassan 🇺🇦 (@GerryHassan) January 5, 2023

would love to see a statistical analysis of how many FBPE types are still out there fingers in ears going "Kieth's just pretending"

love the cctv camera right in the centre of that photo

Nothing wrong in principle with with hijacking "Take Back Control", I think it's pretty smart actually. The issue is what that means, and I still fail to see the substance. It needs to be linked up explicitly to municipal power, which, along with unions - which are also under imminent threat - feels to me like the only potentially countervailing political power capable of bucking this miserable managerial Westminster bullshit.

one problem is the majority of Labour councillors are if anything worse than their Westminster heroes

Yeah, that “potentially” in my moan doing a lot of work there…

he's going to achieve wonders and shite blunders without a single policy announcement to counter or reverse 13 years of austerity cuts to local authorities and public services and yes, rotten Labour councils don't want communities to have any power. I hope the FBPEs all do their civic duty by falling out with him and voting LibDem or Tory like they did in 2019, lol

the idea that we can adopt far right slogans and symbols and rhetoric and make them mean something better is the kind of thinking that gave us lexit. all it does is ensure the right gets to dictate the terms of everything

the corbyn-did-brexit crowd is noticeably low energy these days, where did all the passion go? xp

lol PM roasting Starmer and Sunak both by playing snippets back to back to show how utterly banal they are

yeah, they could both do the voice acting for a Pathetic Sharks cartoon

xp

it was all downhill for them after a zillion people signed their stupid pointless petition

Apparently there’s a clip going around of James Obrien “challenging” mick lynch over his support for brexit so that’s one answer to how the biggest melt pricks are deciding to spend their energy atm

this week, purely on optics of course, Sunak has offered a more concrete set of "policies" than Kieth has managed

(of course this doesn't matter a jot because neither of them are in control of their media narrative at this point)

on an unrelated issue, what is it with a certain kind of Blairite true believer continuing to swear blind that tuition fees are in fact a great levelling policy and only posh middle class people oppose it?

cos altho that's an irrelevance it still sounds like how the owners of the Labour party think?

It’s also a big fave with privately educated commentators, especially if they were from a generation that had free university tuition and/or grants.

*guillotine GIF*

🚨NEW: Junior doctors in England to walk out for 72 hours in March if ballot for industrial action is successful, says @TheBMA.

Ballot for strike action begins on Monday.

— Taj Ali (@Taj_Ali1) January 6, 2023

love 2 hear tories defend their union busting bill by saying “it’s what they do in germany, france and spain”

you really want to play that game chief??

Lol, lmao, otm to that.

But Owen’s still going to back him. So what’s the point.

— (((Dan Hodges))) (@DPJHodges) January 8, 2023

that is what does my head in about soft-left melts, even cards like Hodges can see how pointless they are

Quite a few twitter accounts are pointing out that Starmer is no good, he broke pledges, etc. That can get tiresome too.

Unlike Owen though they will not lift a finger for Starmer.

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🚨NEW: Luton airport ground handlers, members of @unitetheunion, have secured a pay deal worth more than 19% after voting for strike action.

— Taj Ali (@Taj_Ali1) January 9, 2023

the UK space agency/virgin orbit launch failure and subsequent destruction of some extremely expensive satellites that burnt up in the earth's atmosphere seems very sad... "We appear to have an anomaly" ha ha ha ha! the anomaly is that You Suck!

it's a shame i was looking forward to capitalism taking the same excellent care of space that it's taken of Earth

obviously I wish Branson all the best, but perhaps it was a bit premature of them to be blasting out Start Me Up at the launch site as the converted passenger plane took off with the doomed load.

".... you make a deadman cum"

Grant Shapps appears to have edited out Boris Johnson from his photo with @VirginOrbit pic.twitter.com/bKf1884Rk3

— Sam Francis (@DavidSamFrancis) January 10, 2023

Corinne Stockheath strikes again!

My brother has been working on the spaceport launch so felt a bit sorry for him until I realised the satellites they were launching were for various militaries and murderous regimes.

I thought that would be the case, fuck 'em. Perhaps they should get some technical advice from India, they seem to have a much more advanced and even functional space program.

LOL UK