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

🚨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)

Absolutely insane thing to say

Hey sorry random but what the hell is the “secretary of levelling up”

Grinding for XP on behalf of the GBP?

The British Empire prestiged in 1947 but the second playthrough hasn’t gone well.

knows a lot about grinding tho

it's a boondoggle that was created for a Boris campaign slogan and that's about it I think

it’s up there in inane ukpol phrases with “magic money tree”

Why won’t they let that one die?!

cos it suits the ideologies of all the main parties, i guess

It's about conning a bunch of people Tories don't give a flying fuck about, never have and never will, to keep on voting Tory.

the true levellers will return to take their revenge soon enough

Yeah I get that lads but it was an attack line on Labour, how stupid do they think their target voters are?

devolving power to a future scapegoat

(xp) A question that doesn't really need an answer.

Always rhetorical, never satisfying though :(

Unfortunately bcz our political class are so austerity-brained they will use this as an excuse to gut the system not invest more in it.

that GPs unambiguously believe this about themselves in all cases is part of the problem https://t.co/38EF6bHtOB

— Horace Goodwill, tonicke purveyor (@eff_hey) January 16, 2023

Which comes back to "levelling up", a slogan the Tories had to come up with because Corbyn-era Labour campaigned on investing money in areas starved of it through austerity.

Bad GPs to be forced to warn patients in advance that they are bad GPs.

For too long too many GPs have been able to go around thinking they're not one of the bad GPs.

Cash and more cash are needed.

First example here - staff shortage
Second example - real problem buried in a tiny paragraph. Pharmacy times being extended require extra staff.
Third - yes by all means upgrade from Windows 95! But that will cost money. NHS is being starved. pic.twitter.com/aciPiYv3U1

— Offal Stan Account (@judeinlondon) January 16, 2023