Stability is change: crossing the floor from potato to potahto in uk 2024

If he wasn't such a weirdo who likes making a shit ton of noise he would've got into one of those.

as well as being a foolish and deeply unlikable man I don't think he's ever been forgiven by the right for his supporting Corbyn years.

Yeah there's no place in today's Labour for people whose politics change with the wind to support their own personal aggrandisement

that's what they'll throw at Starmer, he can offer evidence that he helped finish off Corbyn by quoting the "People's Vote was a conspiracy" parts of the Eagleton book!

he's an embarrassment because he actually believes things, even if he has forced himself to believe them to fit in. I remember a kid like him at school.

No Rwanda flights till after the election. If Reform get their act together its even worse for the Tories.

It also means a very grim debate where Starmer has to promise deportations of sone kind.

Getting suicide-by-cop vibes from all of this, like Sunak is pleading with the election to put him out of his misery.

the guy just wants a long summer break in california so he can pick out a house, move there ASAP, and die horribly in the record-breaking wildfires of 2028 enjoy a long and happy life

maybe it was just a case of lose a suicide-election in the summertime or lose a confidence vote and resign

The calculations are that Rwanda flights will never get off the ground, that inflation might go up (so no interest rate cuts), and that they cannot offer anything but tax rises bcz of the state of public finances.

to gazzara's point, the domiciled tax status laws are getting changed next year yeah?

the way he brought up the furlough scheme yesterday seemed desperate, it was almost like he was inferring he paid it all out of his own pocket.

it was like in the manner of a slimy boss giving you a tiny inconsequential pay rise and then never letting you forget about it

The only time the guy was popular is when he gave lots of people money.

also when he gave us rona dinners

How soon we forget "dishy Rishi".

eat out to help out just a porn video name to most people now

a furlough scheme that was actually proposed and pushed for by McDonnell iirc and which sunak was originally dead set against…

and a furlough scheme which deliberately excluded hundreds of thousands of self-employed people, my wife being among them

xp
to me there's no question that if Corbyn and McDonnell hadn't been at the despatch box in early 2020 we would never have got the furlough measures we did get, flawed as they were

Quietly impressed by The Green Party response here. Has the right people crying about it.

Nothing to see here. Just @TheGreenParty⁩ leader on Radio 4 failing to condemn one of her fellow Green candidates for liking a post which said "we have to destroy Zionism". And she has the chutzpah to refer to the EHRC report into Labour's antisemitism to boot. What a state. pic.twitter.com/QrAo4fynZz

— Mike Katz (@mikekatz) May 23, 2024

From a locked acc:

"On Politics Weekly, Kiran explains that Sunak would rather get drenched than be compared to noted brolly loser Steve McLaren. Optics discourse is incredible"

Union Jack gazebos are a thing:

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/165496541979

behold, the Racism Cube

Don't let Starmer know or he'll be doing his press conferences from inside one.

he already is, psychically

dismal

Keir Starmer needs you to vote for Reform on July 4th.

A vote for Reform is a vote to put Keir Starmer into power. pic.twitter.com/CGVoo5snGc

— Conservatives (@Conservatives) May 23, 2024

in fairness his politics are more or less identical to theirs

And I would have got away with it if it hadn't been for you meddling Conservative Party Central Office political advisers.

A more abstract approach would be better: "vote Labour, you get Starmer as pm" with Starmer getting a Starmer mask yanked off, revealing that this confirms that he is indeed Starmer.

^^
I'm giving this one for free, if my name was saatchi & saatchi I could charge millions for this shit!

I like that, you'll go far in this game

Still an opportunity for Paul Mason

NEW
 
Conservative HQ have emailed asking for candidates in almost 100 seats
 
When candidates ask when the deadline is, they have been told it’s 48 hours, according to 2 I’ve spoken to
 
Some Tory associations are pretty livid at having been left in such an unprepared situation pic.twitter.com/baBLr6TiMK

— Paul McNamara (@PGMcNamara) May 23, 2024

lol, only a matter of time before serial carpetbagger Mason declares that the only way to advance the class struggle is by running as a Tory candidate.

Islington North too, he could run against Corbyn after all!

It’s official!

https://www.islingtontribune.co.uk/article/jeremy-corbyn-why-i-am-standing-as-an-independent-candidate-at-the-general-election

Excited for the Lab right focusing a proportionate amount of time and attention on this.

... and the Tories. Stoked for this particular madness.

Lol

One #bbcqt audience member: "I've come to this program really wanting to listen to what the Labour Party is going to say. I used to vote for the Labour Party, and you've not answered any question at all"

Bridget Phillipson smiles. pic.twitter.com/W6rwKMLvuq

— Saul Staniforth (@SaulStaniforth) May 24, 2024

6 more weeks of this to come.

https://x.com/dril/status/473265809079693312

a dril for all seasons

Bridget Phillipson smiles and a baby dies

she looks like she's actively getting off on this

hitler horn

your mission should you choose to accept it is to go on question time and say nothing of substance

All these Labour women with Gina McKee in Our Friends in the North haircuts, can barely tell them apart.

This is fascinating, to me

not an original observation but it’s fascinating how many Starmer leadership pledges have been unceremoniously dumped pic.twitter.com/Zv7PBwLyJL

— Jim Pickard 🐋 (@PickardJE) May 23, 2024

I also find it fascinating that he had an affair with Baroness Jenny Chapman

All these Labour women with Gina McKee in Our Friends in the North haircuts, can barely tell them apart.

― steely flan (suzy), Friday, 24 May 2024 11:57 (eight minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

They've all copped Gina McKee's haircut from Our Friends and Gina McKee's attitude from Brass Eye

"I'm going in now, like a bad boy"

This another McKee haircut?

The graffiti says "Stop art-washing"

It is in response to Seret International Film Festival, which is funded by the Israeli government.

The Israeli state is committing a genocide as we speak.

Get a grip lol https://t.co/8j8Q6aVhQu pic.twitter.com/bikHJH3nHV

— jewdⒶs // ייִדהודה (@jewdas) May 24, 2024

his shtick is more annoying than Kieth's if that's possible, so this tracks

📖🔴 One book that influenced your politics - with Andy Burnham.

🤔 What do you think about his choice(s)? 😉 📚️ pic.twitter.com/5auA13Hn0s

— LabourList (@LabourList) June 17, 2026

during a Labour List interview he was asked what books shaped his politics and all could answer was: His own fucking book(!!!!) (some thin on content heavy on vanity/PR piece of shit he put out 2 years ago) and the usual boilerplate Labour Pol Road to Wigan Pier answer.

Andy Burnham has declared the Makerfield by-election is a chance to "write a new script for Britain". He also pledged to bring in a new rule - where if something doesn't work for the Greater Manchester seat, it doesn't work for the country.

Just absolutely risible. The stats show it was probably Covid 19 that reduced rough sleeping in Manchester more than anything their super Mayor did, despite his office repeatedly claiming they reduced it. It's going back up again post lockdown.

Would be so funny if Burnham loses this

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/jun/17/exclusive-burnham-team-convince-ministers-delay-resignations-avoid-chaos

if he loses there will still be an immediate challenge to starmer but fuck knows who would win it

Starmer would.

that would be the funniest result for sure

it must be Kieth and McSweeney fake-briefing stuff like: he's bringing Dave Mili back.

Oh is it today? Sweet. A great evening's entertainment for fans of sports politics.

Burnham winning this would be the funniest result

The dramatic build up as the hero gallops to the rescue only to be suddenly decapitated at the last moment is a timeless comedy trope

Which one is the hero?

The Greens should have threw everything at this. There were was useless intervention from annoying melt green party grandee Caroline Lucas that they must stand off for progressive candidate AndY B. A candidate who has since pledged to cull disabled people for BAE profit margins and do everything just like Kieth but with some added *Manchesterism*

I can understand there being a massive Fuck Andy B vote just because of the presumptuousness of his campaign, and his fucking annoying face.

To me the funniest result is Andy B losing this. That would be absolute scenes. Unfortunately, I think he's going to squeak it. Which is an indictment of his comms skills, campaign tactics etc... because he's running against a very basic, grim as fuck troglodyte who can barely even speak a sentence.

I think the "funniest" result would be Burnham winning by a large margin, and he gets to be the Heseltine for the next ten years.

Call me bitter but I like my comeuppance humiliations to be swift and public

good luck uk

https://i.ibb.co/h1dQyWvt/Screenshot-2026-06-18-at-15-45-25.png

really not sure my mental health can handle 3 years of "the usual neolib thin gruel but with Smiths references"

I sent the "stare at the wall" clip to friends with an 11 year old and they said when kids in her class were asked for face recognition age verification on Roblox, they just uploaded their photo to ChatGPT and asked it to age them 10 years. Did it work? Yeah, for the ones with the paid version of ChatGPT.

What's the "stare at the wall clip"?

BBC: “What was your screen time?”

Student: “Nine hours.”

BBC: “You’re gong to have a lot more time to fill. What will you do?”

Student: “Stare at a wall.” pic.twitter.com/UCpwSCzcJ6

— Scott Bryan (@scottygb) June 15, 2026

over a thousand youth centres closed since 2010 after youth services budget got annihilated by 70 odd percent. Staring at the wall, yeah at least that is free.

Ten minutes until polling closes...

I was happy in the haze of a drunken hour
But heaven knows I'm miserable now
I was looking for a job and then I found a job
And heaven knows I'm miserable now
In my life, why do I give valuable time
To people who don't care if I live or die?

The Reform guy posted a message to twitter after the polls closed saying "I am confident of a big vote for Reform tonight" which sounds like the kind of thing you say if you think you've lost.

Yes, I think it's in the bag for Burnham.

hope everyone still finds something funny

wait hang on is this funny or not

i bet burnham's pretty excited about the "big job" that starmer's promising him

Most consequential byelection I can remember but still have not worked up the slightest glimmer of interest besides grim lols

The punchline is going to be him becoming PM and then loosing his seat to reform in the general election.

results are in

25k lab
16k ref
3k res
1k con

lol

there was no loud pushback from a left candidate against Burnham in this byelection when he said he'd have no fear cutting disabled benefits for BAE and do nothing to scare the bond markets. A shitshow from Polanski. And Caroline Lucas needs to fuck off forever, she's a vile melt and always belonged to the fucking LibDems.

On the bright side and it's not much really, Kieth is going to get dragged out of office in a very undignified manner and lol Farage.

apparently Labour had 3000 activists making 120 contacts per minute in Makerfield, yesterday afternoon. Talk about overkill.