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

The depravity continues.

I'm so desensitised to the moral vacuum of politicians that I didn't even clock the object depravity of Lisa Nandy - the former chair of Labour Friends of Palestine - leading a march to support the people exterminating them through genocide. Jesus fucking Christ. https://t.co/78xM66woBt

— Marl Karx (@BareLeft) January 21, 2024

wretched. I hope her dad disowns her and never speaks another word to her!

I can't really hope in a few short extracts to bring home the power of what Hanan Wahabi - who lost her brother, her sister-in-law and their three children at Grenfell - just said to the representatives of those responsible. But here are a few bits I've transcribed: pic.twitter.com/MCTH0o2qG8

— Peter Apps (@PeteApps) January 24, 2024

— some anti-Sunak plotters met at the J Sheekey fish restaurant in the heart of theatre land

— Sunak loyalist says they’re less Dominic Cummings, more Alan Cumming

— No10 think they’ve flushed out what they see as rabble of disgruntled right-wing aideshttps://t.co/fPN52TG8yq

— Alex Wickham (@alexwickham) January 27, 2024

"Sunak loyalist says [anti-Sunak plotters] less Dominic Cummings, more Alan Cumming"

at a loss as to what this could possibly mean. The article doesn't provide any further context.

I gueeeess they mean they’re not political geniuses but ngl it feels homophobic af

yeah it must be some kind of "less Karl Marx and more Groucho Marx" type jibe, but but by someone for who has instinctive reactions to Dominic Cummings and Alan Cumming that are wildly different than like 95% of the UK public

Is Alan Cumming even very high in the public consciousness in 2024? Just a classic politics nerd out of touch non-joke

was taken to that restaurant for my birthday about ten years ago, was good

Alan Cumming hosts the US Traitors while wearing flashy outfits. Still a baffling line given that people actually like him and he's not a disgraced weirdo

"it's like expecting a glass of champagne and getting a glass of warm piss" - guy who hates drinking champagne and loves drinking warm piss, confusingly

Public schoolboy humour.

My knowledge of Cumming is basically The High Life - oh dear - and I think he's been in some comic book movies

Sunak's bad but at least we don't have Boris, Cumming, all over the country now.

Alan Cumming is probably most famous for playing Russian computer geek Boris Grishenko in ‘Goldeneye’ who ends up frozen solid by liquid nitrogen.

Not in this country

Most famous film is: X2, should be: Josie and the Pussycats.

"met in theatreland" is the fig leaf there, but yeah it seems homophobic and nonsensical - Dominic Cummings is no-one's idea of a manly man!

citing him as the gold standard of machiavellian tory plotters isn't quite right either. He didn't last long in Downing st.

Cummings genuinely hates the Tory Party is key here. doesn't make him a good person

So he says but he still was prepared to help Sunak win the next election. The guy's a massive fucking liar though, as we know.

home office granted asylum to rwandan refugees you literally luv 2 see it

must have been lied to by the Safety of Rwanda Bill

Labour MP Kate Osamor has had the whip suspended following her Holocaust Memorial Day post pic.twitter.com/VKinwLQqTe

— John Stevens (@johnestevens) January 28, 2024

Unreal

Considering that Nandy said Labour supported the defunding of UNRWA, the clown car doesn't know whether the doors have fallen off or not. https://t.co/ENPpX19rbL

— Phil Burton-Cartledge (@philbc3) January 28, 2024

Lammy to be suspended for this egregious antisemitism

In 2019, @AngelaRayner met @DALLOULALNEDER when she visited his shop.

She told him: "I support Palestine", "Palestine must be free."

Now she just stands there as he's dragged out her meeting after his family were butchered in a Labour-backed onslaught. pic.twitter.com/UeooLXAiPL

— Owen Jones (@OwenJones84) January 28, 2024

I saw the horrible video, Rayner not giving a fuck there while someone who holds a pic of his murdered family is frogmarched out by a goon.

His family were killed in Gaza.

As he clutched photos of his dead mother, he was dragged out of this Labour meeting like he was trash.@angelarayner and @jreynoldsMP just stood there.

What an absolutely disgusting spectacle.

I spoke to @DALLOULALNEDER. Please listen to him. pic.twitter.com/CSuJJ2hIcx

— Owen Jones (@OwenJones84) January 28, 2024

hopefully that video will go beyond the twittersphere and come back to haunt Labour when they are campaigning for muslim voters to turn out for them.

It ought to give voters of all backgrounds pause before voting for them, but "get the Tories out" is a great anaesthetic

it's so low stakes I'm more interested in Labour reaping some democratic accountability than getting anybody out.

Lmao

#Breaking Actor-turned-politician Laurence Fox libelled two men when he referred to them as “paedophiles” on social media, a High Court judge has ruled pic.twitter.com/UXLRmqAjUq

— PA Media (@PA) January 29, 2024

Funny how that happens

Did he try the Musk defence ("it was a joooke") but then realised he wasn't rich enough?

"actor-turned-politician"

well I guess he did get more votes than count binface

Realized he wasn't funny enough.

I bet Lawrence Fox's legal team just loved this part of his testimony. Thumbs up to the witness box. 'More of that kind of thing, Lozza.' pic.twitter.com/um7IJkLVcl

— Elvis Buñuelo (@Mr_Considerate) January 29, 2024

The ol' Ugandan jail argument - it's been a minute!

I've called my grandma in hospital twice over the past couple of days (she's fine: probably home tomorrow) and heard a recorded message telling me that calls to patients through the hospital phone system are charged at 13p a minute. This money goes to Hospedia, a private company.

— Simon (@SimonXIX) January 29, 2024

Hospedia, we meet again. From 2011:

The Conservative cabinet minister's face appears on bedside entertainment systems on a continuous loop saying that their care "really matters to me" and asking them to thank NHS staff.

In some wards with multiple beds, the screens have the effect of a television showroom, reported the Independent.

It was reported that the only way to turn the health secretary's recorded message off, patients first had to register under a system which sees patients charged more than £5 a day to access TV, email and phone services – though those who just want to use the radio do not have to pay when they do so.

A bit of light relief, it seems that a fun little legal precedent has just been set

brutal: it cannot be defamatory to call Laurence Fox a racist since his reputation on the matter is so low it can scarcely be damaged. pic.twitter.com/7ki1j14YZ0

— bat020 (@bat020) January 29, 2024

No noooo you don't understand, when he lied about all the other bad pledges to the non-people I knew he would never lie to me about the good pledge

And there we have it pic.twitter.com/4nVWGhKSmD

— j (@jrc1921) January 29, 2024

still worth voting for them if you enjoy racism and transphobia and hate ninja swords tho

take my ninja sword from my cold dead hands you fraudulent cunt, Kieth . lol, my stepdad once got attacked by a guy with a ninja sword at work, the said ninja maniac is now a children's magician known as Chavracadabra.

Labour is the party of business.
 
Former Conservative supporter and Iceland’s Executive Chairman @IcelandRichard agrees 👇 pic.twitter.com/LQr8PGWc9a

— The Labour Party (@UKLabour) January 29, 2024

Labour is the party of business, that why it's called Labour

that Iceland dickhead needs dropping into a volcano. Well of course such a "does a lot of good work for charidee" one nation tory cunt is going to be a big Kieth stan.

Does anyone have any solid information on what the guarantees and imminent legislation that unlocked Stormont are? I'm not inclined to believe that the DUP would have asked for anything doable, or that the UK government would have considered whether the EU will play ball, if needed.

Tee hee, all new old racism in the all new completely non-racist cleansed of all racist sentiments Labour Party

Labour shadow minister: "It is right that people who are in areas where there is a real acute challenge with housing, know that housing does go to people who are born & raised in certain communities"

Not even a dog whistle. Actual racism. pic.twitter.com/mT25nZ6gih

— Saul Staniforth (@SaulStaniforth) January 30, 2024

Does anyone have any solid information on what the guarantees and imminent legislation that unlocked Stormont are? I'm not inclined to believe that the DUP would have asked for anything doable, or that the UK government would have considered whether the EU will play ball, if needed.

I'm no nearer to understanding what this is all about than when it started. One thing I do know is that the DUP know there will be an election this year and know that they are in line to take a hiding if if they didn't drop the No Surrender shite.

So grim that I gave Peter Kyle my votes when JC was leader :(

Fire sale of failing English council assets:

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/jan/30/ministers-plan-to-push-english-councils-to-sell-assets-to-plug-budget-holes-condemned

But not this one:

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2024/jan/30/telegraph-could-become-pr-arm-of-uae-after-proposed-takeover-mps-warned