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

Disabled widower from Caerphilly, 78, prosecuted for not insuring a car he no longer uses.

He's not coping after his wife's death and his papers were destroyed in a flood

Convicted via Single Justice Procedure, court bill: £106

DVLA didn't read this letter. pic.twitter.com/65z8TkStDB

— Tristan Kirk (@kirkkorner) January 10, 2024

I wish sir kid harmer a very don't ever sleep again as his predecessor comments on the trial in the hague. Funny that we'll now have 2 Labour PMs in a row that have been complicit in war crimes/crimes against humanity.

Real Labour Values

(ugh sorry forgot about G Brown but anyway)

When reports of Batmanghelidjh’s death emerged last week, it was alarming how many people admitted on social media that they had been unaware she had been exonerated by the high court nearly three years ago..

same here. The kid's company piece was a sad read. I think I might have harshly judged batmanghelidjh for doing chummy meetings with Cameron at the time and thought she was probably a grifter.

same, but i think there's something cautionary there about the nature of charities and the kinds of grift most of them seem comfortable engaging in

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-67950501

"Sir Keir Starmer says he wasn't aware of the three Horizon cases brought against sub-postmasters by the Crown Prosecution Service when he led it.

The Labour leader was director of public prosecutions from 2008 to 2013.

Asked by the BBC if he should have been more curious, he said the CPS handled four million cases in that period."

xp

oh hell yes, but I also had some invaluable help from Carer's Count. Some of the frontline workers/volunteers for charities are really good people. I just feel strongly they i: they shouldn't exist ii: Charities that are easily neutered by the UK govt through waivers signed under threat of funding withdrawn are not a good model for a charitable organisation. iii: Some of these fuckers are grifters.

hah hah!

"I was too busy shielding Sir Jimmy Savile from the cps at the time"

Lol

Seconded

it feels strange to see a UK military campaign that mostly isn't being framed as a humanitarian intervention but rather as a hard-headed defence of UK national interests, it feels like it's been a while since that was the case?

I mean, supporters are arguing that it's morally justified, and emphasising how bad an reactionary the Houthis are, but it feels different than most wars the UK has been involved in over the last 30 years where they've been framed as helping liberate a subjugated people or preventing an imminent crime against humanity

Operation Liberate Genocide

Paul Mason is on twitter trying to argue that it's about protecting "working class seafarers", but even he doesn't seem to really have his heart in it

Rubbish Jeremy. The strikes were a last resort after terrorists repeatedly attacked working class seafarers. Do the right thing and support those risking their lives to keep civilian ships safe from terrorism 👇🏽 https://t.co/h051e9vxpp

— Paul Mason (@paulmasonnews) January 12, 2024

xp wait till that lunatic in Argentina invaded the Falklands

Mason's shtick is so predictable at this stage he might as well just own is Strasseriteness

God imagine being stuck in a pub with Mason and Embery

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/jan/12/done-with-labour-and-tories-reform-uk-angry-voters

They were similarly unimpressed by Sunak’s Labour opponent. While the group expected a Labour victory this year, they dismissed Keir Starmer as “more of the same”, a “Red Tory”. Others thought (mistakenly) that he had defended Jimmy Savile and couldn’t vote for him as a result.

Tories will have a tricky balancing act this year between blaming Starmer for anything and everything from when he was DPP, and overegging the pudding so dumbfuck morons like the above get bored of it and require fresh stimulation.

Starmer's pretty easy to blame just for being Starmer tbf

Love that "mistakenly".

I heard he fitted up the sub-postmasters as well

This is a lad who'd sound shifty and guilty as fuck even if he had nothing to do with something

I'm not going to amplify these scurrilous conspiracy theories that muddy the reputation of Sir Keir Starmer here, no way. That might blunt their impact, save them for when the election campaign begins.

Love that "mistakenly".

― Bulky Pee Pants (Tom D.), Friday, 12 January 2024 bookmarkflaglink

Really. As if these ppl weren't pushing their own conspiracies while Corbyn was leader.

It's so they don't get sued, I know you know this..

Also when Tory voters are calling you a Red Tory...

'Mistakenly' could've been applied to p much everything the Reform converts said/repeated from what they read or heard from all the usual suspects.

Love to see it

Sir Ed Davey has refused to apologise over his position in the Post Office scandal, despite being asked to more than ten times in an interview with ITV News' @PaulBrandITV https://t.co/iC6gR2m0KG pic.twitter.com/hhgPQuXIHE

— ITV News Politics (@ITVNewsPolitics) January 12, 2024

i guess you could say there's a man who at least honestly understands that he doesn't have to give one fuck and there'll be no consequences for that

Inevitably

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/jan/14/luciana-berger-given-key-labour-role-after-quitting-over-antisemitism

Reform UK - the party for whom two arms are not enough.

I and my fellow Prospective Parliamentary Candidates in the Reform UK party do not have the ability to take action on illegal immigration at the moment. But when you vote us all in as MPs, watch this space! This government should hang their heads in shame! pic.twitter.com/kvWnGNEq7M

— Reform PPC Central Suffolk & North Ipswich (@michael_hallatt) January 14, 2024

Two arms for crossing and looking serious, one spare for a salute*

*salute to be specified at a later date

"working class seafarers" sounds like a decemberists song

Mick Lynch uses the same term when talking about the salty seadogs who are members of the RMT, but obv Mason is just doing his usual fuckwitted sophistry here.

Astonishing stat: 40% of council houses sold through Right to Buy are now rented by private landlords (up to 70% in some places) at double the cost of council housing. Presumably with many of those renters supported by housing benefit. Utter madness!

— Harry Quilter-Pinner (@harry_qp) January 16, 2024

Evelyn Waugh characters clowning on rtb now

I almost feel a sense of relief when I see sweary kids playing in the middle of the road and telling their parents to fuck off. Some of these RtB snobs think they are middle class now! And the private renter next door feels he is entitled to live in silence. I told him to go rent a croft in the Outer Hebrides if wants silence and never darken my doorstep again with frivolous complaints. I'm glad the cunt is paying double social rent because he's a fucking tool.

I don't know who this Quilty lad is but he knows fuck all about how housing costs are paid thru the benefits system

(clue, it's hardly ever thru Housing Benefit)

he seems to think housing benefit will actually pay double social rent rate, it should cover it all though. It's not the tenants fault successive UK govts have enabled or done nothing to arrest a social housing crisis that was in the making since 1980.

I think without jumping to conclusions this isn't a lad who knows much about people living around the breadline

xxxp fucked up what he did to that girl fleeing her abusive stepfather

lol exactly

There is a 2BR in my LA building that is always let to three international students for around £650/week, so I looked it up on Zoopla and it was bought up (likely RTB) before their records started, so the landlord is probably mortgage-free. Council tenants pay around £180/week for the same flat.

Granted, the flat is in Central London but that’s some markup.

media coverage of the royal family in full extremely normal mode

When you have no means of getting a car, affording a wife/husband/kid and a house.

For people under 50 today's YouGov poll is:

Lab 60%
Con 10%
Green 10%
LD 9%
Reform 5%
SNP 3%

— Sam Freedman (@Samfr) January 18, 2024

LOL, that can't be real?

OK, apparently it is. Among 18-24 year olds, support for the Tories sits at 4%! Crazy times.

Posh people just not breeding enough

they're breeding but their kids are super-weird and hate their parents and themselves (source: saltburn)

OK, apparently it is. Among 18-24 year olds, support for the Tories sits at 4%! Crazy times.

― Bulky Pee Pants (Tom D.), Thursday, 18 January 2024 bookmarkflaglink

They better be given a house, a job that pays, a car and a pension to look forward.