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

I hate it when brands start officially adopting the colloquial names that the public confer on them, feels presumptuous in the same way as overly informal brand twitter accounts. It was all downhill for Woolworths when they started referring to themselves as 'woolies' in their adverts in the late 90s, maybe brands only start doing this when their medium-term financial viability is not looking too good

haven't seen any "Primarni" adverts yet tbf

It was not good when the Daily Mirror became The Mirror.

Somehow such a change misunderstands usage.

I'm impressed by Koogs chopping a sofa in two.

Possibly also by Mark S *sweeping clean*.

Is the Manchester Guardian worse than it used to be?

I had the old sofa doesn't fit through the door prob. Was going to saw it but was thinking if I sawed it in half the council will probably try and charge me for two bulky waste items, not even joking. So I smashed the legs off and deformed it some more with a lump hammer so it was slightly small enough for me to get it through alone, it was quite easy as well because furniture is so poorly made these days and the wood on the back and armrests of the frame was poor quality. To keep it on topic I was imagining the sofa was Kier Starmer's head so it had no chance!

I've got rid of two sofas, three beds and about half a dozen swivel chairs in the last year. A high turnover of broken furniture!

I also paint houses

Many xps, I also thought there were no branches of Wilkos in Scotland, but it appears there are now a few across the central belt.

Ok.

Rishi Sunak apparently went to a Taylor Swift-themed SoulCycle class in Santa Monica ? pic.twitter.com/J1HsFFaFzG

— J.D. Capelouto (@jdcapelouto) August 4, 2023

TS just donated what must've been hundreds of thousands to a Santa Clara food bank after her two gigs there.

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In other news, Stephen Flynn is a person.

Diane tells it like it is, UK Twitter frantically clutches pearls and calls the police

These migrants have indeed fucked off. To the bottom of the sea https://t.co/bdF2oNdAAV

— Diane Abbott MP (@HackneyAbbott) August 9, 2023

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Posted today on the ‘Civil Service Jobs’ internal website. pic.twitter.com/D3eUlBTp9B

— Robin Moira White (she/her) (@moira_robin) August 10, 2023

LOL at Diane Abbott getting attacked from all quarters for "politicizing" the deaths of migrants... expect it's not really a LOL.

why is SKSQC huffing horse manure the mad jenkem xunt

that's SKRSKCMP to you

more like SKRSHRIMP

As an @Arsenal season ticket holder, there is nothing like the buzz of the first day of a new campaign.

I can feel this is the season for us... #hope #PL https://t.co/vmWbv8t1Bk pic.twitter.com/xm1McTLxHq

— wariotifo (@wariotifo) August 12, 2023

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/aug/11/why-even-now-do-we-think-a-womans-work-is-worth-less

Was he indeed. https://t.co/F82r6xUqGO pic.twitter.com/8FEmyO4XC9

— Elvis Buñuelo (@Mr_Considerate) August 13, 2023

doesn't feel like a *great* sign for the government that a Telegtaph cartoonist is portraying Sunak and Hunt as the heirs to Liam Byrne does it pic.twitter.com/ebkY8BBeEC

— Jonn Elledge (@JonnElledge) August 14, 2023

Actually it's what I expected from, austerity forever.

Which will rub against reality, which is increasing levels of money to keep things afloat.

Meanwhile in Italol

Italy’s prime minister, Giorgia Meloni, has doubled down on a shock decision to introduce a 40% windfall tax on banks, saying she would “do it again”

They will never get a single vote from me under this leadership. Repulsive people.

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I sometimes forget how comfortably I'd given up on them pre Corbyn and it's very easy to give up on them again now. More so even, never again with these shit people, can't imagine a future Labour Party I could vote for

I wonder why Babs would have a problem with a left leaning moderate like Dawn, who wasn't really a vociferous Corbynite. There is a question with an obvious answer.

Yeah the fact that I would never think of Dawn as lol fuck off "hard left" says a lot about this story

Evening Standard's big story tonight is: Labour reshuffle imminent - how can KS get rid of the damaging socialist Corbynite ... Angela Rayner?

The main reflection I take from all this is something like "give an inch and they'll take a mile", or "first they came for x, then they came for me". People who were happy to excuse attacks on JC or RLB as justified have ended up with Neal Lawson and Angela Rayner being potentially excluded as dangerous leftists, because the "window" of what kind of insane attacks are acceptable has been allowed to shift steadily along. You can see Khan and Burnham (following Driscoll) entering the same frame.

some of them could have resigned over the two child benefit cap and pretended they had some integrity, but were cowed into silence by kieth and now they are going to get pumped anyway - ha ha

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/aug/16/captain-tom-charity-faces-scrutiny-after-report-of-payments-to-daughter

Look can we all just admit now that this Captain Tom thing was a grift from start to finish, instigated by his psychotic daughter as a means of financing a luxury lifestyle? She was probably off-camera promising him food if he staggered a couple more lengths of the garden.

Dawn Butler, right?

I hate it when articles stick to "Surname only", but hey

Good luck to @UKAFRugby as the World Military Rugby Championship kicks off in Brittany today.

I know you will make our country proud.

— Keir Starmer (@Keir_Starmer) August 16, 2023

Nigel Farage’s Coutts fiasco highlighted debanking. Yet Muslim communities have complained of bank account closures for years, and barriers to banking mean one in 10 Muslims in Britain don’t have a current account. Read my story here: https://t.co/RBY2jt0roA via @business

— Aisha S Gani (@aishagani) August 16, 2023

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/aug/17/bailiffs-pay-car-impounded-poor-britain-poverty

can't see what they can threaten people who are facing 8 life sentences with that'll make it worth their while to attend their hearings. doesn't stop rishi from making policy from it though.

not to mention how impractical it would be. The prisoner could just scream over the sentencing or put their fingers in their ears or any number of things to make it a pointless exercise.

in an unsurprising turn of events Kieth is sternly in favour of this pointless exercise

as a former DPP, he should understand the importance of dispassionate justice. Like for example his night courts.. oh yeah soz I forgot he has always been a total dick

she's got 13 whole life orders and will never be released. Yet some people feel that because of the no-show, she isn't being properly confronted with the severity of her crimes. Next stop bring back the gallows. Kieth will be fully on board .

relevant from the secret barrister

https://thesecretbarrister.com/2023/04/04/how-do-we-force-cowardly-murderers-to-face-up-to-what-they-have-done/

And that is something that a public representative with integrity has a responsibility to recognise and to explain, instead of appropriating bereaved families for their tubthumping tabloid pledges.

I bet they are annoyed that a former barrister is all in on this pathetic game without even a second thought.

Ok.

William Hague pretended to follow Rotherham United reveals Lord Danny Finklestein, who was tasked with feeding back updates to the Tory MP so he wasn’t “caught out”...

Listen on @GlobalPlayerhttps://t.co/SdyBDl7qyY@lewis_goodall | @Dannythefink pic.twitter.com/IgtgJRAT7g

— The News Agents (@TheNewsAgents) August 21, 2023

and yet Hague still made a more convincing Rotherham fan than that Roger Nouveau cunt posting about grass and horse shit

Absolutely where they want people to be, imprisoned by debt.

One in three tenants borrowed money to pay rent in last month https://t.co/PiZxwoUitD

— Jon Stone (@joncstone) August 22, 2023

it me :/

Economic growth via exponential interest payments to kneecapper debt godfathers, Labour will be creaming themselves at the thought

Today's my Grandma's birthday. She worked 19 hours a day running a pub until she was 70 & she left me £12K.
I invested it in a buy to let. Now #MichaelGove is forcing me to evict my young tenants from this Victorian terrace because of energy ratings dictated by #NetZeroBy2050

— Liz Kershaw (@LizKershawDJ) August 21, 2023