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

lol Mayfair ... I meant Mayflower

top-shelf dental care

Saw Mayfair Pilgrims during the Onka's Big Mocha tour. Great days.

I just had a filling today where half the tooth had broken off and the dentist put's a huge glob of dental cement on it and sculps it into something resembling a full tooth. £180 it cost me and his parting comment was basically "it's looking solid, but try not to use it too much"

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Are you sure this was an actual dentist?

well he was wearing a cowboy hat. Tbh he seemed better than my last dentist, two of his fillings failed on me. Because this was an urgent care appointment that I was paying for, the lack of contempt I used to get as an NHS patient was quite noticeable.

the proper option would be to get it crowned but that's effing £600

as i’ve gotten older i’ve taken out dental insurance and it’s already paid for itself many times over. my teeth are a fucking disaster zone

I use to be quite shocked and saddened at losing a tooth like it was a death in the family or something. Now I'm just like.. hey ho.. there goes another of the fuckers

English dentists:

My dentist can do it all, from a simple cleaning to identifying my charred remains

— josh (oldfriend99) (@oldfriend99) November 18, 2017

The white van drivers tho'

this is surely bad politics? He ought to be planning-blighting that land like [tasteless historical simile removed]. Just say "we'll be needing that land in less than eighteen months so don't go building anything you'd be sad to see knocked down" https://t.co/jf3W9n1foQ

— Dan Davies (@dsquareddigest) October 5, 2023

Don't know specifics but first impression is that a 30% turnout at the next election is great for the Lab right

Rutherglen was a high profile by-election and the main political parties will have channelled huge resources into it.

A 37% turnout is grim. It’s 13% lower than the average Westminster by-election in recent decades, and nearly 30% lower than turnout at the last general election.

— Miriam Brett (@MiriamBrett) October 6, 2023

it's ok because some passionate centrist radicals are pointing out that the entire constituency are druggies and scum

Who was the leader when Labour last won the seat from the SNP? On a 63.5% turnout, without the advantage of the last SNP MP being convicted of breaking COVID rules? Without the SNP being mired in financial scandals and led by a donkey? Why, only the Evil Jeremy Crippen!

I'm not sure that all tracks - the turnout was even higher when the seat was lost in 2019. You're absolutely right that no-one seems to want to consider the circumstances of the recall - Scotland's first. But Labour only lost 700 votes from 2019, SNP lost 15k, Tories 7k, even the Lib Dems found 2k to lose - I don't like it but it's a Labour win.

pleased to say i did my part in contributing to that dismal turnout yesterday

winning by default is just worthless cynical opportunism. Failing to make a credible case of why more people should gaf about voting for your garbage party is not a plan and it will come back and bite them hard. The apathy might bring them to power for one electoral cycle, and then they'll get wiped out next time and it will serve them right.

Lol @ green party linking to this piece arguing against HS2 that uses Concorde as an example of worthless infrastructure

#HS2

Even in far larger nations, “Sometimes, the auditors concluded, a better solution would have been “upgrading existing conventional lines”, but this had seldom even been considered.”https://t.co/fpmsUs2Mt7

— Natalie Bennett (@natalieben) October 5, 2023

And the money from cutting HS2 won't be used for an upgrade. These greens also need their heads chopped off

sometimes they make it really hard to adopt them as a Labour alternative

They just aren't that, though in Scotland they seem to be a bit more lined up with those principles.

i consider them an alternative to the extent that it would be nice to mark the refusal to vote for Labour by transferring the votes elsewhere

i know in my heart all parliamentary politics is futile, obv

I'll probably go through the rest of my life without ever voting again but it would nice to leave some permanent mark on the electoral stats, that resoundingly says fuck off die Labour without actually voting for any of the other awful parties.

You will never get that seat mate

At a time when socialists should be calling for restraint, and condemning attacks on civilians, the leader of the Progressive International tweets this: there are two Labour MPs plus @jeremycorbyn on the Council of PI - they should resign immediately 👇🏽 pic.twitter.com/vFoL2oflzW

— Paul Mason (@paulmasonnews) October 7, 2023

it doesn’t really matter which wet losers on the British left are decrying the resistance offensive because thankfully Palestine is being liberated by it’s own people

— Nihal | نهال (@nihalist___) October 7, 2023

BREAKING: Foreign Secretary James Cleverly runs for cover in Israel after siren warning of incoming rocket fire goes offhttps://t.co/Itk5K8jytO

— Sky News (@SkyNews) October 11, 2023

would that be a casualty it's ok to celebrate?

Another one who has been zapped by Jezza's lawyers.

I have deleted the tweet and I am happy to retract that comment to correct the record. I apologise for any damage caused to Jeremy Corbyn's reputation

— Rachel Cunliffe (@RMCunliffe) October 11, 2023

Bizarre.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/oct/12/snp-mp-lisa-cameron-defects-tory-party-toxic-bullying-treatment

Apparently she is no longer backing independence as it's too "divisive"

Who'd hae thocht?

it's almost as if being a politician is a career path for some people and the pay, conditions and sense of importance are the motivators rather than actually believing in anything

Imagine seeing the Tory party as a bully-free zone.

I am devastated by the ongoing violence in Palestine and Israel. My statement: pic.twitter.com/9e4vy4Cd9w

— Zarah Sultana MP (@zarahsultana) October 12, 2023

Reliable as ever. My what a lot of bluetick non-entities in the replies.

A reliable source of gammonati blocks.

The U.K. immigration minister is threatening deportation, on national security grounds, for expressing solidarity for Palestinian liberation…which the government is equating with support for Hamas https://t.co/kupBDxuUCW

— Yaz (@ontologoff) October 13, 2023

We may be witnessing the total obliteration of Gaza.

Political leaders refusing to speak out should feel eternal shame over the horror they are allowing to unfold.

Those of us who believe in peace cannot stay silent. We must say to the Palestinian people: you are not alone.

— Jeremy Corbyn (@jeremycorbyn) October 13, 2023

A power which requires a person to remove items which conceal their identity has been authorised in the areas pictured below.

This is known as a Section 60AA.

It will be in force until 22:00hrs. pic.twitter.com/ifu300CRqR

— Metropolitan Police (@metpoliceuk) October 14, 2023

I couldn’t join the march because Widget’s sitter is on holiday but I saw loads of happy young people with Palestinian flags join the Tube carriage I was on (was coming back from taking W to Battersea Park to play with other whippets). Chatted to the kid sitting next to me who said it was super-peaceful, who was also delighted by the ‘fuck Starmer’ chanting.

"The International Centre of Justice for Palestinians (ICJP) - of which [Conservative MP Crispin] Blunt is co-director - announced it has written a notice of intention to prosecute UK government officials for "aiding and abetting war crimes in Gaza""https://t.co/ORxrFJgMZ0

— Jas Nijjar (@JasNijjar123) October 14, 2023

Christina Patterson on Sky News saying Starmer and Sunak have got it right and thank God Jeremy Corbyn is no longer the leader of the Labour Party and how fearful the Jewish community would be if Corbyn was leader. This is Christina Patterson, by the way:

In 2010, the Simon Wiesenthal Center, an anti-racist watchdog group, selected one of Patterson's columns as among the top ten anti-Semitic incidents of that year. She had written in The Independent: "I would like to teach some of my neighbours some manners … I don't care if they wear frock coats and funny suits and hats covered in plastic bags and insist on wearing their hair in ringlets (if they're male) or covered up by wigs (if they're female), but I do think they could treat their neighbors with a bit more courtesy and respect. I didn't realize that goyim were about as welcome in the Hasidic Jewish shops as Martin Luther King, Jr. at a Ku Klux Klan convention. I didn't realize that a purchase by a goy was a crime to be punished with monosyllabic terseness or that bus seats were a potential source of contamination or that road signs and parking restrictions were for people who hadn't been chosen by God." Patterson responded to the assertions made by the Simon Wiesenthal Center in a column titled "How I was smeared as an anti-Semite", in which she defended her original prose.

there’s always a tweet

or a career, in this case

impressively gratuitous gender essentialism within her antisemitic rant too - incredible

even by UK media standards that is really bad - as bad as the worst from any prominent corbynite - I'm sure she'll be fine though

She's been fine! The article is from 2010 and didn't damage her then, it won't now either.

I briefly worked for CPatt and had to resign after a month because she was so insane.

She's been fine! The article is from 2010 and didn't damage her then

In fact she got some more material for her column, hurrah!

So what is Crispin Blunt's story?

His wiki says he supports Transgender and Palestinian rights.

https://twtter.com/SaulStaniforth/status/1713518340847567144?s=20