“I take my responsibilities seriously. I did not lie” - UK politics June 23 on

is this a metaphor for his Prime Ministership?

I could be wrong but does Sunak seem to only have one mode - grinning like an idiot, an uber-consumercapitalist smiley everything-is-great facial expression all the time? Cameron had his serious face, May had her stern face, Johnson had his vicious scowl. Sunak is the totemic sunny face of late authoritarian capitalism all the time. I find him more botlike than May even

LOL this is so fucking pathetic and transparently desperate it makes the Labour Party seem competent.

Families, families, families
families

families

No-one else needs a fucking car

Starmer next week all like I have always loved cars more than anything, here are some pictures of me in or near cars throughout my life, under labour all motorists will be allowed three no-questions-asked vehicular homicides a day

Kieth drinking a pint of leaded petrol

this "own the tree-huggers" race to the bottom is not really a good idea

treehuggers, lightweights who can't deal with air pollution, fuck the lot of them

I'm sure they're getting all this garbage from focus groups but I just don't believe any of this is actually popular with the general public.

a good chunk of people have an unhealthy emotional attachment to cars

Starmer next week all like I have always loved cars more than anything, here are some pictures of me in or near cars throughout my life, under labour all motorists will be allowed three no-questions-asked vehicular homicides a day

― hiroyoshi tins in (Sgt. Biscuits), Sunday, 30 July 2023 14:57 (seven hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

This is the time to really start playing on his strong record of knocking down deliveroo drivers in his SUV

in some ways the grim as fuck 2017 Theresa May govt that pissed its majority away was more progressive than the Labour Party in 2023.

if he's so keen on cars, why the fuck does he fly everywhere instead?

He luvs cars he has visited loads of them.

Unfortunately his feet don't reach the pedals yet so he has to rely on other people to drive for him.

"I would like to buy some petrols please..."

he had to borrow a car for that petrol station forecourt photo op recently.

in other news:

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/jul/29/mirrors-description-of-matt-hancock-as-failed-health-secretary-not-inaccurate-says-watchdog

hancock complained over the mirror describing him as 'failed health secretary and cheating husband who broke the lockdown rules he wrote' and other things, but ipso has just said that none of it was inaccurate.

Failure is just success that hasn't happened yet.

Love how Lab's incoherent reading of Uxbridge has created the space for this to happen.

500 people in Uxbridge protested about a car charge and now our children and grandchildren all have to die, sorry I don’t make the rules https://t.co/jszqa2dHEn

— Jonathan Lis (@jonlis1) July 31, 2023

some people will see this as a story about one guy's hypocrisy, but really it's about how actually-existing drugs policy is a charade that nobody seriously believes in https://t.co/SJPHzMRZAk

— Jon Stone (@joncstone) July 31, 2023

Stats for melts going Green

🚨 NEW: Labour confirms that they will uphold all new oil and gas licences granted before the next election.

Labour's Thangam Debbonaire reaffirmed on Newsnight that Labour will keep any licence granted before the party comes to office. https://t.co/KQYtqyL4mD

— Stats for Lefties 🏳️‍⚧️ (@LeftieStats) August 1, 2023

Not only shameless but stupid on all levels.

pitiful claim that they don't want to create uncertainty for businesses, when unequivocally saying "we will revoke all these new licences" would create certainty

we don't wait to create uncertainty that we might be anything other than craven bootlicking cunts who will allow international business interests to pillage the environment until every last human on earth is drowned, burned or starved

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F2YP1F5XwAs_9SQ?format=jpg&name=large

shocking news if true, lol

Jimmy Saville on a Tory Poster next year 😎

i mean it wouldn't be the first time

Once the food supply chain is fucked those oil contracts will be cancelled so fast.

South America is living one of the extreme events the world has ever seen
Unbelievable temperatures up to 38.9C in the Chilean Andine areas in mid winter ! Much more than what Southern Europe just had in mid summer at the same elevation: This event is rewriting all climatic books pic.twitter.com/QiiUKllWWP

— Extreme Temperatures Around The World (@extremetemps) August 1, 2023

Ok

Exclusive: Rishi Sunak’s plans for a Great British chess revival

- Gov will financially back England’s chess teams for the first time
- 100 chess boards to be rolled out in parks
- drive for more chess in state schoolshttps://t.co/KgO8oGfOZt

— Ellen Milligan (@EllenAMilligan) August 2, 2023

After seeing off Jack from Guilford too

.@RishiSunak talking in averages to a guy who has a specific problem.
He's telling Jack from Guildford, who is facing a mortgage rise from £1500 to £2800, that he should be aware that actually the average mortgage is going up from £800 to £1000.@LBC @NickFerrariLBC

— Paul Waugh (@paulwaugh) August 2, 2023

his favourite word is "actually"

for a guy who's all about the importance of teaching maths in schools he seems to have a poor grasp of how averages work

https://theartofantiquing.com/products/margaret-british-chess-set

British Chess Set of Political figures including Big Ben and Margaret Thatcher
$270.00 USD

I was taught chess at state school. I was rubbish I suppose but enjoyed it a lot as a kid until we had our first match vs another school and saw a chess clock for the first time which is something our teacher had never used with us or told us about . we were v v confused. and lost.

considering who their major donors are this is a good opp for Kieth to diverge from the tories for once and make the case for online poker.

NEW: NatWest closed bank accounts for Jamaican people living outside the UK earlier this year, I've been told. 100s have been affected it is claimed, including a 92 year old man who has not had his state pension since January 2023.

— Nadine White. (@Nadine_Writes) August 2, 2023

lol at the idea that NF is going to be the saviour of a ton of immigrants who can't get an account / have been debanked

(also, maybe time to move my money out of nat west)

Some former Bank of England ghoul on Sky News lamenting high wage rises and low unemployment rates. It's how they all think but tend to avoid saying out loud.

1 in 50 Londoners is now homeless. On average at least one child in every London classroom is homeless.

This is an absolute scandal & should be front page news. The number of homeless residents in temporary accommodation in London is now just under 170,000. 83,500 are children pic.twitter.com/1EEMSBrIUB

— Aydin Dikerdem (@AydinDikerdem) August 3, 2023

"that can't be true or opposition politicians would be constantly berating the government about it"

This is the time to really start playing on his strong record of knocking down deliveroo drivers in his SUV

― glumdalclitch, Sunday, July 30, 2023 bookmarkflaglink

in some ways the grim as fuck 2017 Theresa May govt that pissed its majority away was more progressive than the Labour Party in 2023.

― vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Sunday, July 30, 2023 bookmarkflaglink

if he's so keen on cars, why the fuck does he fly everywhere instead?

― NickB, Sunday, July 30, 2023 bookmarkflaglink

He luvs cars he has visited loads of them.

― Mark G, Monday, July 31, 2023 bookmarkflaglink

Unfortunately his feet don't reach the pedals yet so he has to rely on other people to drive for him.

― Continuous Two-Tone Warble (Tom D.), Monday, July 31, 2023 bookmarkflaglink

"I would like to buy some petrols please..."

― Mark G, Monday, July 31, 2023

Series of good posts, ILX doing what it does well!

Labour explicitly saying that people need to vote with the Conservative Party or will be suspended.

“Only last week we suspended two Labour councillors in Edinburgh because they weren’t prepared to vote for the Tories over the SNP.”

Was she supposed to say that?

pic.twitter.com/A8IZu80eqZ

— Alex Nunns (@alexnunns) July 14, 2022

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/aug/03/budget-retailer-wilko-makes-administration-move-risking-12000-jobs There’s a Wilko in pretty much every town in the UK so this is a shock.

i was in one last saturday morning and there were plenty of empty shelves, i did wonder if they were having money troubles.

Yeah someone told me a few months ago they thought it was circling the drain & since then I’ve really noticed how understocked & understaffed the ones I’ve gone into have been

I'd never buy any paint from them again, their bathroom paint is crap. The colour and finish is awful and it's already peeling off in one spot after weeks. And the worst paint stench ever. lol, gl to them though!

I confess I don't even know what Wilko sells, they didn't exist in Scotland when I lived there.

It's probably the non-supermarket shop I use the most, that or b&m. feel like they spread themselves a bit too thinly product-wise, always seems like they don't stock things I expect them to have, and do stock a load of seemingly random stuff that nobody would expect to find there

weirdly* enough i bought a new broom at wilko a month back (nothing looked untoward)

it probably sweeps clean, but i haven't used it yet

*not very weird really, except it's the first time i've ever been in a wilko that i can remember and apparently also the last