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

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

She's my local Labour candidate. I will enjoy not voting for her.

Here is the briefcase who is going up against JC

Congratulations @prafulnargund - you will be a fantastic Labour MP for Islington North, and I can’t wait to join you on the doorstep to help get you elected! https://t.co/2T7eaiZpOw

— Sem Moema 🌹🐝💪🏾 (@Semakaleng) May 24, 2024

good luck chump

He want's to demote Scotland to a region and impose harsher austerity on Scotland than there currently is. King of the North.

Hitler wrote a book as well you know, SV

He actually named that book He wrote with Steve Rotherham as one of the most influential pieces of political writing he has ever read, barring the boilerplate George Orwell answer cunts like him always give during soft interviews

Andy Burnham is expected to appoint a former Blairite cabinet minister who is one of his oldest political allies as his chief of staff as he seeks to overhaul No 10

James Purnell, who served as pensions minister, culture secretary, and work and pensions secretary in the New Labour governments of Sir Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, is the frontrunner for the role, The Times has been told

Purnell was the Blairite DWP sec who wanted to put a highly punitive 27% interest rate on the payback of crisis loans, in other words a real piece of shit who tried to do worse shit than even anything the Tories managed to do in 14 years of actively trying to make the DWP as punitive and cruel as possible.

Yes, Purnell is a horror.

sounds like a done deal, Purnell himself confirming it in an email to the staff at the lobbying firm he is the CEO of.

That boilerplate George Orwell being 1984?

God sake. I've not read it (well, past the first couple chapters), but everyone who proclaims it is giving the "I am that individual! I am Winston Smith!" attitude. The guy who can see through it all - usually right wing nutjobs etc etc etc.

I did see "Brazil" the Terry Gilliam movie, was impressed.

Anyway, back to the news.......

Road to Wigan Kier iirc

The OG John Harris piece

That's the one where he lectures his "fellow" leftists that they talk about how much they love the working class, they want to marry it, but if some thug beat them up they wouldn't like THAT would they, appaling hipocrisy.

Paul Mason recently took a selfie by the Orwell statue in broadcasting house, like he sees himself as part of the proud tradition of fake-left security state snitches or something. Someone posted to him that Orwell could only dream of matching the absolutely fucking indelible brilliance and rip-roaring hilarity of his comedic masterpiece Rare Earth.

Does anybody cite their "favourite" political book as "The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists" ?

No because there are no socialists in parliament

Fair enough.

the socialist Tom Watson did, iirc

mind you a lot of these corrupt Labour politicians still do claim to be socialists, maybe not so much the '24 intake. But lots of the post Blairite trash do.

"Fame Is the Spur" not so much.

I'm not the only ilxor who has had the 'pleasure' of working with J4mes Purn3ll in his post-parliamentary career and in both cases he was an absolute cunt

apparently, most of the groundwork and planning for the egregious welfare cuts and reforms done by the Tories 16 years ago were helpfully put in place by him.

A friend just flagged up this:

I didn’t realise how lucky I was. I was at university and a mate of mine, who used to listen to John Peel every night, he was into more obscure stuff and he gave me a tape for my Walkman, saying “this isn’t my kind of thing but you’ll probably love this.” It was The Stone Roses.

"Hey you're a bit of a basic bitch, this might be up your alley"

they were annoyed because they had taped over a Bastard Kestral JP session with some insipid indie shit and thought .. oh yeah that annoying af long haired professional Mancunian guy wearing a James t-shirt will like this shite!

Or you could sub Bastard Kestral with Electro Hippies or Extreme Noise Terror

Or 70 Gwen Party

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/HLfM_SmWUAADC1q?format=jpg&name=medium

actually looked quite tory when he was at Cambridge

Or you could sub Bastard Kestral with Electro Hippies or Extreme Noise Terror

Bogshed ftw

he looks like a fan of The Beloved

meanwhile, breaking news - Hit the North !

🚨 NEW: Andy Burnham will create a "No 10 in the North" that will move parts of the Downing Street operation to Manchester

[@FT]

— Politics UK (@PolitlcsUK) June 24, 2026

Far-a-rrago

Burnham only a year younger than me always good to reflect how much darker a path one could have taken in life

IT'S TIME

“a mix between the weddoes & the courteeners with the swagger of the arms industry”: uk politics in 2026

Lol perfect

Horrible thread title sorry

gyac disapproval makes it official!

Official what