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

doesn't even know the difference between imply and infer

ffs

🚨 NEW: William Wragg's wifi password is visible in the background of a photoshoot for The Observer newspaper

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— Politics UK (@PolitlcsUK) April 10, 2024

Well blow me down.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/apr/11/labour-may-fail-to-grab-target-seats-as-young-voters-turn-away-over-gaza-and-climate

I wonder what kind of feedback Starmer is getting about the vote in Holborn and St Pancras?

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GEFwsYtWsAAH3OD?format=png&name=small

me, when Labour's hope of an outright majority slips away on GE night

13/1 Tories most seats, 35/1 Conservative overall majority

I'm currently thinking 40 on the first and 10 on the second

I keep planning to do it and then the odds go up again

Decided not to vote for the mayoral elections.

Well blow me down.

One senior Labour adviser told the Guardian: “Are we losing urban progressive voters? Of course. At the moment it looks like it doesn’t matter as our poll lead is so wide"

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Famous last words.

If they think it’s just “young people”, there’s really ought to know that nobody I’ve spoken to who’s white and between 50 and 60 in Keir Starmer’s constituency is white landing to vote for him. Sadiq Khan, yes, but Keir can geh kaken ofen yam.

white landing = white is planning

Mystified by autocorrect

they would much rather lose or win by a slimmer margin than expdcted if otherwise they would have to court the kind of coalition they see as their primary political enemy (the falafel crowd or somesuch fake populist heavily coded epithet) - plus they already know who blame in such an eventuality and the guardian already has a bunch of scolding opeds ready to go for the aftermath regardless of the results

*who to blame

idk if they have even a medium term plan it just seems like they're trying to kill anything good for as long as possible while doing a sort of vulture capitalism thing on the party and related institutions (but in a very ideologically motivated musk on twitter kind of way)

He wants to make love to Trident

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-68790435

is this the famous death drive I keep hearing about

imagine saying that. imagine not hedging and talking about regrettable necessities or negotiating from strength or any euphemism other than full gung-ho WE ARE PARTY OF NUKES. imagine being that fucking sick

Uhhhhhh, wtf?

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/apr/17/tory-mp-loses-whip-after-claims-he-used-party-funds-to-pay-bad-people

a classic of the genre

Beautiful

imo he was just having a bit of an adventure and ran into the wrong ppl, the fraud committed is pocket change. I'm more troubled that the next Health Sec is in the pocket of private healthcare than any amusing stories of idiot Mps fucking about and getting into trouble.

Our man has some very funny previous: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/conservative-mp-mark-menzies-got-dog-drunk-street-brawl-fylde-thames-valley-police-a7761486.html

less funny for the dog of course

I was thinking that giving a dog a little snifter of ale as an occasional treat is not terrible and some pub dogs enjoy a taste, but getting a dog pissed is just degenerate and cruel.

You can take the boy out of Ayrshire...

Menzies denies the allegations and maintains he has followed all the rules about funding declarations.

"Honestly I was surprised that the Conservative Party has specific forms for this, but I did fill them in"

Sunak's war on disability is going to adversely the mental health of god knows how many thousands on thousands of people, right now. i won't even speculate on some of the consequences of this. the Labour Party, of course, have done nothing except egg him on and cultivate the landscape where this is mainstream political policy

just to briefly summarise quite badly, so much evil going on. Local Authorities ruling that ill or disabled ppl, who if the care package they require to independently live at home exceeds the cost of residential care, then residential care is what they get. Unpaid carers getting dragged into court to recover the measly CA payments they received because their p/t jobs went a penny over £151.01. So much more I could mention that I feel could realistically get worse under a Labour govt led by complete cunts who have locked themselves into maintaining the Tory fiscal rules.

People making policy decisions that will never have to personally experience the misery and stress they create. I know it was ever thus, it just seems so much more brazen now. God I fucking hate them all.

there is another UC migration on the way, that will be another fucker for disabled ppl on legacy benefits. It's just been wave after wave of attacks on disabled/ill ppl since 2009. Because obv everything is all their fault.

I've only just caught up with the vile Sunak speech this morning, it's the same sinister PaThWaYs into work death messaging that is coming from Starmer + Reeves. Neither of them would lose any sleep if their policies were directly responsible for a 100000+ deaths, just as Gideon didn't lose any sleep during the 2010's wave of governmental manslaughter. The UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities doesn't mean shit in this country and both main parties are happy to run roughshod over it. It's a diabolical situation.

the two largest political parties locked in competition to prove who can murder the most people pretty much sums up the UK today

mayoral election leaflet is an interesting read.

abolish ulez, end ulez, scrap ulez, scrap ulez, scrap the disaster policy ulez, abolish ulez...

It's good and right to be angry at Starmer, but it's always worth remembering that Sunak is a gold-plated management cunt.

Blaming the rise in the numbers off work with long-term illness — an eye-watering total of 2.8 million — on the “over-medicalization” of “everyday challenges and worries of life,” he’ll point to figures showing more than half of those claiming incapacity benefits are off with the mental health conditions depression, anxiety and bad nerves.

As part of the reforms, doctors will no longer have the power to issue fit notes willy-nilly, with more advice and support given to patients on how to get back to work. The government is considering stripping doctors of the authority to issue fit notes altogether and handing this power to “specialist work and health professionals.”

Sunak will say: “I will never dismiss or downplay the illnesses people have,” adding that it is a sign of progress that people can talk openly about mental health conditions.” But, he’ll add: “Just as it would be wrong to dismiss this growing trend, so it would be wrong merely to sit back and accept it because it’s too hard or too controversial or for fear of causing offense.”

we all know those “specialist work and health professionals” are going to be people with minimum qualifications and quotas to meet ala ATOS and their disastrous fit to work tests. taking great delight in how ATOS are faring these days btw, fuck them for pushing me into full on poverty for 14 months.

at least Sunak ran his leadership campaign in character as a snivelling little tory billionaire, Starmer ran with Economic/Social Justice and the abolition of Universal Credit on his banner. To me that makes him more despicable than even t'other little twerp.

i remember when those evil Tories brought in the whole ATOS regime in 2008

anyway it's spectacularly honest to keep making speeches saying "there's too many people off work with bad mental health, btw we will not be doing anything about the current state of mental health services"

xp

tbf "evil Tory" is a fair description of Yvette Cooper

The same Yvette Cooper who needed incapacity benefit when she suffered from ME in the early ‘90s, so she had a brass neck taking it away or making claims more difficult from those who are similarly afflicted.

I’ve resolved that if anyone brings up the king’s bum cancer to me, or whatever type of cancer Kate has (probably bum cancer) I will say that it is unfortunate that they have become economically inactive and hopefully they can be forced into work asap

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— ian mighty (@iammightor) April 21, 2024

No surprise there.

PGMOL to oversee the Diane Abbott "investigation", sorry Trots she's off by a toenail

donaldson case sounds very grim

(xp) Translation?

Botswana declined request to host UK migrants. Minister of Foreign Affairs says "The British government doesn’t want these people in their country so they want to ferry them in a faraway country."

— African News feed. (@africansinnews) April 24, 2024

Labour has voted with the Tories to weaken Ofwat's ability to fine water companies for sewage pollution - https://t.co/jTIQ2dkgIx

— Helena Horton (@horton_official) April 24, 2024

Labour MPs voted with the government, and it is understood this is because they did not want to be accused of being “anti-growth”

somebody should tell them that when it comes to toxic bacteria growth is bad not good

Vote labour: same shit in a different glass