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

I thought it was allegedly the left that need to get with the realpolitik and duck their head out of the clouds, but he's probably just a dirty old man!

I've been mulling a "RIP the Queen of Centrist Hearts" tweet all day but I shd've known there'd be dumb fucks doing them for real

Grayling might be the stupidest fuck who's ever had the temerity to put "philosopher" on his cv

come now

Jacinda said "politicians are humans" - that's one reason why I'll never take her seriously.

I thought about it for 30 seconds before I posted and I'm inclined to stand by that thought

Agree with all that but the amount of hatred towards her and glee at her resigning from those world renowned British Right Wing Pundits is something to see.

... yes, I've been reading the Daily Telegraph again.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/125721940299

Mr Blobby - Original BBC Costume from the 1990's
Condition: Used

ilx shd pay for me to buy it

It's why they invented crowdfunding.

got to wonder koogs how you happened upon this

St Valentine's Day coming up fast.

the photos look like something taken at a crime scene following Blobby's murder

cursed images

https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/rUAAAOSwRLhjxS4Z/s-l1600.jpg

Wrinkly Blobbum

what the fuck????

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/jan/21/revealed-scores-of-child-asylum-seekers-kidnapped-from-home-office-hotel

absolutely insane. i was wondering why that wasn't the top story even in the guardian, was it covered in other places?

because it's not like they matter

To cover a story about Boris Johnson’s conflict of interests regarding the BBC, the BBC invite Boris Johnson’s sister on, who assumes everything was “above board and transparent” 👍🏽 pic.twitter.com/6t1PEZDUiB

— Nooruddean (@BeardedGenius) January 22, 2023

i’m sorry, i’m having trouble understanding how the home office, who is responsible for the welfare of UNACCOMPANIED CHILDREN has allowed DOZENS of them to be KIDNAPED from under their noses????? i mean yeah they have no rights, literally no one to look after them but like…. what the fuck!

Okay this is pedantry but "everyone has put out statements that suggest X" isn't the same as "I believe X" - you don't have to accept what people are suggesting. Absolutely fuck the Johnsons, and I'm sure the next few seconds do actually back up what the tweet says, but it's still lazy editing.

(and also wtf is RJ doing on the show)

Nothing on BBC about the Observer story

I mean this is literally the plot of His Dark Materials, this should be the first question of PM’s questions on Wednesday, it should be on the cover of every paper? Am i losing my mind??

80 kids kidnaped from the same building who were under government care??

You're right to be outraged, disgusted; no emotional response too strong. I wish I wasn't so unsurprised by the lack of coverage and political outcry. Another step on an evil trajectory.

🚨NEW: RMT General Secretary Mick Lynch calls for a 24 hour general strike in the spring. Speaking to a packed crowd in Aberdare, Lynch says: "We need a 24-hour general strike in the spring.. We [unions] can coordinate it." pic.twitter.com/JY0Z3Wu9Yu

— voice.wales (@voice_wales) January 21, 2023

Feels like thing are coming to a head.

1 Feb a bit of a taster, w teachers and railworkers both on strike that day.

Making Nadhim Zahawi cough up is a good start.

Next, the other millionaires and billionaires hoarding this nation's wealth.

Tax the rich, now.

— Jeremy Corbyn (@jeremycorbyn) January 24, 2023

Lammy is my new political hero after referring to NATO as the "North Atlantic Trade Alliance" on the right-wing talk radio show that pays him a fortune to turn up once a week and not sound like a total fucking idiot!

Poster Gyac OTM here.

PCS Union members in the Civil Service also striking on Feb 1st

BREAKING: NOTICE SERVED ON UNIVERSITY EMPLOYERS

18 days of strike action in February and March

1 Feb
9, 10 Feb
14, 15, 16 Feb
21, 22, 23 Feb
27, 28 Feb. 1, 2 March
16, 17 March
20, 21, 22 March

RT if you back our members

UCU and PROUD#ucuRISING pic.twitter.com/WpitQutIYs

— UCU (@ucu) January 24, 2023

The first group of UK #Amazon workers to take strike action have walked out of BHX4 Coventry@GMB_union members’ fight for decent pay is making history#AmazonStrike pic.twitter.com/XGeJF5rZuK

— Stuart Richards (@GMBStuart) January 25, 2023

Those were the folks who did the spontaneous wildcat strike a few months ago

PCS Union members in the Civil Service also striking on Feb 1st

Though not in our place unfortunately.

Private donors including gambling firms and climate sceptics are bankrolling MPs’ staff and offices, handing over more than £1m in just one year, openDemocracy can reveal.

Other donors include banks, property firms and evangelical Christians, leading anti-corruption campaigners to warn of “major conflicts of interest” in “giving certain interest groups privileged access to influential MPs”.

Almost half of the £1m spent by private donors on MPs’ staffing and ‘office costs’ in the year from November 2021 went to just four Labour frontbenchers: Rachel Reeves, Yvette Cooper, David Lammy and Wes Streeting. Together, they received a total of £475,000.

Reeves alone accepted nearly £248,000, far more than any other MP. Her donors include Neil Goulden, the former chairman of gambling giant Gamesys, who gave £20,000 to “support the shadow chancellor’s office”.

Gambling industry donors are a repeat fixture for Labour. The shadow health secretary, Wes Streeting, took £5,000 from Red Capital Ltd, which is owned by former lobbyist and Labour peer Jon Mendelsohn, who is chair of gambling giant 888 Holdings, the company behind William Hill.

In total, Streeting received more than £95,000 of private funding for extra staff. This included money from a mysterious company called MPM Connect. Reports recently claimed that MPM Connect has no staff, no website and is registered at an office where the secretary has never heard of it.

Streeting is one of three Labour MPs who have faced calls to return the “dark money donations” from MPM Connect, along with Dan Jarvis and Yvette Cooper, the shadow home secretary.

Psyched for for 4 years of Labour govt sleaze, because at least the Tories will have been gotten out.

Reeves, Lammy. Cooper, Streeting... and Jarvis. What a shower.

at least they have no excuse to pay their staff shit money, well at least the ones that do actually get paid

what the fuck????

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/jan/21/revealed-scores-of-child-asylum-seekers-kidnapped-from-home-office-hotel

― Tracer Hand, Sunday, 22 January 2023 bookmarkflaglink

absolutely insane. i was wondering why that wasn't the top story even in the guardian, was it covered in other places?

― ledge, Sunday, 22 January 2023 bookmarkflaglink

because it's not like they matter

― Kieth Encounter (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 22 January 2023 bookmarkflaglink

I mean:

Tulip Siddiq (Lab) asks about the disappearance of 200 asylum-seeking children from hotels in the UK. Is the UK a safe haven for vulnerable children?

Sunak says the UK has provided refuge to hundreds of thousands of people over the past few years. But the reports about children are concerning. He says this is one reason why he wants to end the use of hotels for unaccompanied asylum seekers.

Right, that's that dealt with, back to Punch and Judy.

where is the shadow immigration minister's response to this? oh actually forget about it, the current shadow immigration minister is Stephen Kinnock.

I keep mixing up Jermaine Jenas and Wes Streeting

This Person Does Not Exist

this potato does not exist in streeting's case

Worst fucking country

Tulip Sadiq asks the prime minister about the welfare of 200 unaccompanied migrant children who’ve gone missing.

Tory MP Jonathan Gullis heckles ‘well they shouldn’t have come here illegally’.

Just when you think you’ve heard it all, the Tory Party find a new low #PMQs

— Peter Kyle MP (@peterkyle) January 25, 2023

One worker at a time.

BREAKING 🚨👏 | 200 Luton Airport staff have won a pay rise of more than 28%.

— Trades Union Congress (@The_TUC) January 25, 2023

All these successful strikes are in the private sector because employers are shit scared of not being able to replace employees who may choose to leave.