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

I can remember Stephen Bush gushing about her *talent* during the dying days of Corbyn. Also he came out as a sad Cameron groupie when he put that dire self apologia book out.

Nobody's talking about Cleverly calling Stockton a shithole in parliament then?

I asked the Prime Minister why 34% of children in Stockton North are living in poverty.  The Home Secretary James Cleverly can apparently be heard saying it is a "sh**hole".

This comment shames the Home Secretary, the Government and his party and he should apologise. pic.twitter.com/hgmCLBdqCx

— Alex Cunningham MP (@ACunninghamMP) November 22, 2023

call a shithole a shithole and shame the devil I say. I say this as someone who lives in a shithole myself!

He's claiming what he actually said was Alex Cunningham is a shit MP.

... he definitely does NOT say that btw.

yeah, and it took him and his PR team 24 hours to come up with that hopeful get out clause.

Funnily enough I was talking to someone about Stockton at the weekend, he was saying it's got about four fairly decent music venues.

The Georgian Stockton Theatre is a great venue. Saw a smoking hot gig by The Comet is Coming in 2019 and The Mountain Goats back in early 2000s.

it's always easy for garbage Labour MP's to get all sanctimonious about some of the more colourful language Tories use about shithole Towns. But when they were in power they did fuck all for these regions that Thatcher annihilated and are still offering them nothing.

yeah, the feigned outrage is pathetic. if Tory voters don't know what the party thinks of them by now then i think you can safely leave them to it

Know what else has been shockingly high? Excess deaths from illness, post-Brexit staff shortages, international student tuition fees...

Geert Starmer. pic.twitter.com/ga90Yg8Rjs

— Perry PoMo (@paulewart23) November 24, 2023

really interesting that Kieth and his team are doubling down on the same rhetoric that's driving electoral victory for fascists across Europe. it must be grown-up politics or something

Stupid man.

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John Burn-Murdoch
@jburnmurdoch
The British left: the NHS is under immense pressure please someone help

The NHS: okay we’re adopting new technology that doctors have been calling for for years which will make their jobs easier and improve patient outcomes

The British left: no not like that

I usually find "gaffe churn" a bit tedious even about Tories I hate, but the Sunak hammer video is actually jaw dropping, isn't it?. The woman with him is surely saying "oh come on".

You're going to have to explain that entire sentence to me.

Hope you can see twitter

https://x.com/DachshundColin/status/1728046746138222681?t=VVVoT6Tg3gRiSmPF15R5-w&s=08

I can but the original tweet has been deleted.

🚨 BREAKING: The full clip has now been released showing the worker explicitly telling Rishi Sunak to use the side of the hammer pic.twitter.com/rlteuMQMzN https://t.co/uY7QlvOjYp

— Politics UK (@PolitlcsUK) November 24, 2023

yeah lol i just saw. well it was a funny few hours

I'm just trying to imagine this imbecile trying to survive in the real world

still, I've seen fresh out of school kids use a hammer with more conviction.

"stop trying to tickle the nail, lad!"

All 'PM visits a workplace and tries to do some of the work' charades are contemptible.

no need to be shaming people with a PPE fetish

give him a sickle as well next time

Sky News
@SkyNews
BREAKING: Nottingham City Council declares itself effectively bankrupt

and so it begins.
suspect there will be plenty of other councils sat there waiting to press the button.

I got a LA letter the other day "post 16 transport for disabled students in it's current form is unsustainable" ... let's have a consultation blah blah blah.. how about let's not have a consultation and you all go fuck yourselves. Not really a sustainable response, but it is all I've got for now.

Got a cheery leaflet from the council saying good news we're going from weekly landfill collection to fortnightly. Disastrous from what I know of some neighbours.

we got new food waste bins, probably big enough for a family of four for a month. and the contents have to go into compostable bags and into the communal food waste outside for collection. only nobody has a) read the leaflet explaining this and b) I'm not sure there is a communal food waste bin anywhere.

rishi's 7 bins...

fortnightly landfill collection has been fine round our way. never see overflowing bins etc

Time to take a big sip of sewage-contaminated water and update will the uk have levelled up by 2030

Very funny how OJ is lawyering up. Good to see.

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Harriet Sergeant
@HarrietSergeant
@OwenJones84
I apologise. I was using hyperbole to make my point. It was never meant to be taken literally. But in this febrile and emotional time that was unwise. I have deleted the tweet

Yeah, and I'm sure he'd rather have the retractions than actually sue

Fascist scum throughout the media

Liam Barker
@liambarker
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5h
Raising the minimum salary for a skilled foreign worker from £26,200 to over £35,000 means no junior doctors, nurses, allied health professionals. This is definitely not going to work

I mean yeah but none of it fucking works and they still do it, so

Followed by a tale about his sister bringing her own sandwiches to the pub lunch because she's so poor pic.twitter.com/zbLtTK7ICA

— j (@jrc1921) December 4, 2023

It’s ridiculous even for Keir.

between him and whoever writes his stuff for him it's screamingly obvious he has no idea how real life works

because who the hell would suggest bringing home-made sandwiches to the pub. it's like his speechwriter is freeware ChatGPT

You’d get kicked out of a pub if you brought your own food anyway, so this is bollocks.

tbh I sort of enjoyed the implication he's too mean to buy his sister pub food, probably using some torturous condescending metaphor about fucking taps

when your relatable anecdotes are a) completely unrelatable and b) make you sound like a cunt

Kieth is kind of a master of this

I used to smuggle the odd bottle of liquor into a dodgy dive nightclub when I was a teenager. The idea of the adult sister of the UK LOTO smuggling sandwiches into a pub as tale of noble stoicism 😝😝😝

All signs point to his being from a weird AF family.

On top of everything else he's a total fucking weirdo.

(xp)

No wonder he's such a fan of Thatcher.

Katherine Swabey, a former NHS nurse, works gruelling 12-hour shifts in a care home for the elderly close to the village of Westerham, Kent where she is responsible for overseeing dozens of vulnerable residents.

Her background is in nursing, but some job adverts listed at the care home show staff are paid an hourly rate of between £8.25 to £8.50.

As recently as last month, Ms Swabey, 57, a mother of four, was sharing a cramped annex adjoining a large, detached house with one of her grown up children and two grandchildren.

She was helping her son to pay rent of around around £1,000 per month in the tiny, three-bedroom annex but has now moved to East Grinstead, where friends revealed she has bought a ‘modest home.’

Ms Swabey’s situation and struggle to make ends meet was highlighted by her illustrious brother Sir Keir in the House of Commons as he lashed out at Boris Johnson’s plans to reform social care.

tbf she does intially sound to be struggling from this Mail piece from a couple of years back, but there is also a hint that Kieth might have got the sandwiches in for her.