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

Boris really is getting desperate.

lobl bsrosis not work teher no mor

Centrists love Brois

The entire history of people changing the world is full of finger-waving, 'sensible' middle-aged men telling those doing the work that they 'won't win people over like that!' pic.twitter.com/ya7g9U9mKv

— Jon Burke 🌏 (@jonburkeUK) May 30, 2023

isn't this kind of the whole point of protests like Just Stop Oil, they're not trying to get the majority of the public to like them, it's like a bad cop - good cop thing where they give other groups the space to say stuff like "I don't agree with their methods, but they raise an important point etc" and appear as relative moderates?

optics liberals - who are really just "nothing must inconvenience or embarrass me" guys - are unappeasable

maybe eventually somebody might ask whether the demand for no new drilling licences is in fact quite moderate and achievable and therefore the government could end these protests easily?

pretty funny how many soi-disant left liberals tell on themselves as soon as they open their mouths tho

soi-disant greens too

threshold for disapproval is so low you just know they'll side with the death squads

"I'm a London Liberal". OK. heard enough

"I'm a Crosland Moor Liberal Club member and I hate it when cheeky buggers nick me bin!"

"I'm a London Liberal" [Londoners applause] 🤮 🤮 🤮

"Sweet Caroline.." [Londoners Applause]

the Labour MP, Geraint Davies, who was accused of sexually assaulting another MP last month has been suspended. Some people are saying the party have dealt with the matter in a more correct manner than the Tories would have.

yeah, sure: " She is reluctant to make a formal complaint through Labour’s own independent complaints system, although she was encouraged to, as she felt his popularity within the party would not help her case."

looks like another open secret that they've only now been reluctantly prodded into acting on because of the Politico story

an "open secret" within the party for years now, yeah but the Tories would have promoted him for being a rapist. People are actually posting this shit.

the Labour MP, Geraint Davies, who was accused of sexually assaulting another MP last month has been suspended. Some people are saying the party have dealt with the matter in a more correct manner than the Tories would have.

yeah, sure: " She is reluctant to make a formal complaint through Labour’s own independent complaints system, although she was encouraged to, as she felt his popularity within the party would not help her case."

― calzino, Thursday, 1 June 2023 10:12 (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

I think the accusations from last month were about a different Labour MP? the MP accused of sexually assaulting a colleague was a frontbencher, which I don't think Davies is/was.

oh right, I thought it was the same one. That's another one that might be suspended at a later date then

"Important! Include the names of each guest in the reference to secure your tickets."

It's a tough one

Do I fork out £50 quid for an evening with Lee Anderson, Ben Bradley and Jim Davidson

Or save the money and put it towards Reading festival pic.twitter.com/UHGjXf0Nm5

— Louis 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 〓〓 💙 Defend the right to vote (@LouisHenwood) June 1, 2023

i would pay £50 to watch lee anderson, ben bradley and jim davidson be slowly submerged into an iron smelter tbf

YOUR MUM!?!?

“If it was 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 mum who couldn’t get to an urgent hospital appointment because of protestors blocking the road, how would you feel?”

“I personally would understand.”

Coming to @GlobalPlayer@jonsopel | @lewis_goodall | @IndigoRumbelow pic.twitter.com/bdvysOKiDq

— The News Agents (@TheNewsAgents) June 1, 2023

Never mind allowing MPs got get away with sexual abuse for years, the Labour Party has more important things to do.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/ken-loach-labour-jewish-labour-movement-jewish-north-east-b2350879.html

This is police state shit and every football fan demanding it is a turkey voting for Christmas https://t.co/bjW5kyCpOq

— jan (@janhopi) June 3, 2023

even Tory-scum MPs are saying Kieth is taking his factional purge a little bit too far here. Seems like a popular guy in the region, which is not the kind of person the party wants. Probably safe to say he was going to be barred from running even if he hadn't shared a platform with the evil neo-nazi Loach, they'd have dug something up on him.

Stats for melts does it again

They won't. There's no future for the left in Labour, as has been made clear many times. It's time to move to the Greens and help build them into a strong party of the left

— Stats for Lefties 🏳️‍⚧️ (@LeftieStats) June 2, 2023

Threatening consequences that will never come.

These actions by @UKLabour are a major mistake and have serious consequences. 🧵3/3 #LabourParty @nickeardleybbc #sunday

— Sharon Graham (@UniteSharon) June 4, 2023

there are limits to how much good regional mayors can achieve imo and most of them are just awful career pols in the pockets of their big business pals, if not all of them. Burbham is a complete cock and he seems to be considered the gold standard of regional mayors. A so called Corbyn aligned one might have some good ideas that are less focused on corporate partnerships and all that shite, but would still be massively hamstrung in attempting anything attenuative, whether it is under a Labour or Con austerity govt.

Didn't read Sharon's thread but presume she is posting something about Starmer damaging public trust in democracy. that's his fucking mission - to win with as little democratic participation as is possible.

i get the feeling that Kieth and crew wouldn't care if unions withdrew funding but it'd be nice to find out at least once

They'd care when the bailiffs started coming round.

I get that this is a big, historical link. But these non-threats are sorta pathetic like "putting the government on notice". Either do or don't.

the decent unions must just love burning money, because when the party leader says nurses deserve a medal rather than a living wage or warns MPs to stay away from picket lines. They really ought to be cutting their losses and thinking about a future that doesn't involve funding a party that isn't going to do shit for them.

If they actually went through with this I would opt back in to paying the political levy along with my union dues. Not before though, I can’t countenance funding kieth labour in any way

The Labour Party has never done very much for the unions tbf.

I hear they weren't so bad in the 1920s. be fair, Tom!

at least they offered beer and sandwiches back in the day

I think Perry Anderson wrote in one of his longreads that I read that they were actually pretty shite and fatally compromised by parliamentary interests and gradualist inclinations even in the 20's as well and who am I to argue with anyone on this! But it's fair to say they had some use to them, whereas now...

the toxic smoke blanketing vast swathes of north america is a wakeup call that climate change is real, it's here, and it's a clear and present danger to life as we know it

however doing the bare minimum to tackle it here in the uk might stop us from imposing further crushing austerity measures so fuck it tbrr

Labour’s Green Prosperity Plan is Britain’s ticket to better jobs, lower bills and a brighter future.

But I’ve always said that Labour will always be responsible with the public finances.

That means dealing with the ruinous Tory handling of the economy. https://t.co/dsTbtAJ4GD

— Keir Starmer (@Keir_Starmer) June 9, 2023

coming right out and saying that you cannot expect better jobs, lower bills and a brighter future from a labour government is a bold move

when you had one policy but that felt a bit excessive

At least one council, Cherwell in Oxfordshire, where labour preferred to allow tories to continue with a minority administration rather than coalition with the green party, there may be other examples

if they win the next GE the LAB government will continually be using the Truss bomb/economically ruinous Tories excuse for not having any significant policies and the hopelessly inert shitshow that will unfold. I'm scaling back on any effort required on GE days, most likely for the rest of my life.

Nine minutes. brilliant.

*whomp whomp* pic.twitter.com/ioZnzIr3be

— Elaine Scattermoon (@scattermoon) June 9, 2023

In a few years the government -- whoever that is -- will pass tens of billions to mitigate climate change.

Ed Miliband only still in shadow cabinet so they can have fun clowning him like this

https://news.sky.com/story/bambos-charalambous-labour-suspends-shadow-minister-following-complaint-12899453

time for a new No Sex Offenders party to take the nation by storm

at this rate the next Labour conference will have to be hosted in an open prison

🚨🚨🚨 | BREAKING: Boris Johnson has quit as an MP

— Politics UK (@PolitlcsUK) June 9, 2023

Love the pissy little red line on his pissy little statement

💥💥💥Boris resignation statement in full pic.twitter.com/9mSDR4Bran

— Calgie (@christiancalgie) June 9, 2023

Oh has he knighted himself?

I am not even getting any satisfactory schadenfreude from the Dorries snub, just execute the lot of them - including the Labour ones.