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

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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— Lord Sugar (@Lord_Sugar) January 9, 2023

🚨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

Lol plane was called 'Cosmic Girl'

Sounds like there's been some 'Space Cowboys' involved, amirite

ok this made me laugh at least

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-64223974

These numbers are so large/traumatising as to be almost unbelievable: 20% more deaths in last week of December than the 5 year average for that week - particularly huge increase in numbers of deaths at home (40% up) https://t.co/cYiuLrZLk6

— Torsten Bell (@TorstenBell) January 10, 2023

Grant Shapps, currently putting Boris back into that picture

Re: Shapps and Johnson - good old Flickr to the rescue with the original (I won't embed BBCode, it's not cute kittens)...

https://www.flickr.com/photos/number10gov/51236132111/in/dateposted/

Put Ghost Town in the soundtrack already!

Hanley, Stoke on Trent. Had some of the best nights of my life here. The nightlife for decades was up there with the best in the country, what happened? It’s like a zombie apocalypse. pic.twitter.com/6kyFzhepFB

— 𝙎𝙘𝙤𝙩𝙩𝙮 (@SCG_77) January 7, 2023

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/jan/11/tory-mp-andrew-bridgen-loses-whip-over-covid-vaccine-comments

As you said, Tories are in a mess.

i wonder what a minimum service level for MPs would look like.

Boris.

Not a countryside enjoyer but it sounds like a sucky decision.

🔥BREAKING (bad) news🔥

Wealthy landowners the Darwalls have won court case to extinguish our long-exercised right to wild camp responsibly on Dartmoor—only place where it’s been legal in England

It’s a terrible decision. Follow @Right_2Roam/@EveryonesStars to resist & protest. pic.twitter.com/v51dAZv02j

— Robert Macfarlane (@RobGMacfarlane) January 13, 2023

ANNOUNCEMENT: RIGHT TO ROAM GOES TO WAR.

Today's decision by the High Court to revoke the right to wild camp in Dartmoor - the only place in England it was legal - is an absolute outrage.

Today RTR launch a ferocious campaign to fight for our right to sleep under the stars. pic.twitter.com/haGmyOpWNs

— Right to Roam (@Right_2Roam) January 13, 2023

got to kick back against this, fuck the landowners. I was having a discussion about this with a stranger when some cunt put up a barbed wire fence blocking off a route I've been using for 10 years. He said quite feebly: yeah, but how would you like someone walking through your garden every day. My garden isn't measured in hectares in units of thousands I told the stupid servile nobber! Anyway I brought my pliers out and flattened the spikes on the part where the path is so me and my dog could climb through without getting scratched. Yeah, fighting the power, lol!

Always bring wire snips on backpacking and train hopping adventures, absolutely necessary tool.

Given that GPs have become harder to reach I can see how Streeting can win the arguments for 'reform' should Lab win the election.

.@wesstreeting can you guarantee your "one-stop shops" taking over much of what my family GP does, won't be ever run by a big corporation, Wes? Because without such a guarantee, this feels like a recipe for private sector opportunities, not for quality care.

— CarolineJMolloy (@carolinejmolloy) January 15, 2023

there will be tory grandees thinking this is great, even if they lose the next GE, Labour will do some of the unpopular heavy lifting for them. Mogg is a fan of Streeting. lol autocorrect keeps insisting on Street ingredients.

there's a real "only nixon can go to china" vibe to this stuff tbh -- note the obvious corruption at work here and someone will come along to twitter-scream "attacking labour when the tories have been corrupt for 13 years? GROW UP!!" at you

brb, just downloading the internal bleeding app from some major Labour donor

if you're not regularly shoving your phone up your bum to check for bleeding are you even doing self care?

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FmhIXZoX0AMZhm1?format=png&name=240x240

not me suggesting his* majesty's opposition shd take itself to A&E p sharpish

*her (undead in balmoral, hunted yet and never stilled)