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

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

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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

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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

even before you read about his private healthcare background, he's just so visibly an absolute cunt!

yeah he definitely gets voted out early on the apprentice

I've got to admit I was somewhat worried they might pick the other candidate, who seemed quite pleasant and sympathetic, but how beautifully in character for them to settle for this utter bellend.

https://www.prafulnargund.co.uk/

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The other one had to dip out because she was a political ally of the Hackney P**do.

So many Labour supporters online seem to be apoplectic about Corbyn's decision to stand as an indie and his resulting expulsion from the LP. Why?
You'd think they'd be happy he's out of the party and they now have the chance to win the seat for Starmer's Labour? What gives?

only Islington North betting I've seen quoted was from William Kedjanyi who had made Corbyn the 8/13 fav, but was from before the stuffed suit challenger was unveiled.

I was looking on the bet365 site, it has a ton of consituencies there but no sign of Islington North yet

Is that:
1) a Streeting Quote
2) a Burnham Quote
3) a Starmer Quote
4) All of the above.....

...but already it was impossible to say which was which

I'm sorry but wtf at the insinuations about Caroline Lucas in this thread - she was the driving force behind the Greens becoming a proper left-wing party in the first place. Go read their manifesto from that time: she's a fucking socialist. And a damn good local MP who consistently showed up. Just b/c you disagree with her on whether or not to stand aside, you can't go and rewrite her entire history to suit your own narrative.

don't you remember her pioneering proposed government of national unity during the Brexit negotiations? which was completely comprised of appalling politicians, and featured no left-wing politicians, all white polit6icians - just centrists and conservatives - but they were all women - just no Diane Abbot. I have been around long enough to know what her politics are about and her distaste for the left-wing entryism that has boosted the Green Party has been plain to see.

As the one who linked to her post I object to Lucas saying this is a resounding defeat for the far right when Burnham has indicated he would largely carry on Starmer and Mahmood's migration policies during that campaign. Even if (for augument's sake) he is lying about it to get elected for that seat.

So, 4 days to the 10th anniversary of the Brexit vote.

the thing that strikes me about that era is nothing to with brexit but just how evil Theresa May seemed to me at the time, and yet in the current milieu she wouldn't be evil enough for the Labour Party. Her austerity cuts were lightweight in comparison (not meant in any reductive way because they were still evil and caused much poverty and social harms at the time) and she wasn't a terf, in fact she was certainly progressive on trans issues.

She was very illiberal on immigration but pretty libertarian / Classical Liberal on individual autonomy and distrust of the state (inc. police).

yeah hostile environment was some fascist white supremacist iron glove shit

Labour were forced to reverse May's 2 child cap, but May didn't slash disabled benefits for people incapable of working in half. And then start threatening to do even worse shit. And wasn't a transphobic piece of shit.

actually fuck it they are both awful

sometimes a politician looks sound because an issue today wasn't an issue then. i don't remember the all-channels war on trans people being in full swing 10 years ago

May is responsible for "hostile environment" and "citizen of nowhere" so absolutely 100% fuck her forever

i don't even remember much dissent about the Equality Act 10 years ago

it just passed and nobody gave a fuck

Yep. Very different environment and hard to know whether she would have stuck to her core position in favour of personal autonomy under pressure.

Strong and stable, strong and stable, seems even longer ago now. Also her weird Slenderman Mexican wave at the Euros.

I miss the Power Stance.

Has obvs been reimported to the right via the US, etc, but I think a large initial part of U.K. transphobia discourse was ‘moderate progressives’ using it as a moat between them and younger, more left-wing people perceived as threatening to their sinecures in the press and cultural spheres, so not really all that relevant to conversations happening within the Tory Party.

Yes it was. Big part of the reason I was always very annoyed at “men are more transphobic why are you obsessed with terfs” style talking points: because the context I live in has allegedly progressive women claiming transphobia is pro-woman and that deserves extremely rigorous pushback from other women.

there was that pic where she is gazing with blatant lust at Ben Stokes as her shrunken sad-faced husband looks on disapprovingly in the background in Downing st. That was very funny

we're all staring at him with blatant lust rn tbf. come back all is forgiven

Strong and stable, strong and stable, seems even longer ago now.

It was a sad day when, sometime last year, my neighbour finally took off their "strong and stable my arse" poster, to be replaced with a "this is not normal". I wanted it to stay there forever, long after anyone could still remember the original context.

Transport Secretary Heidi Alexander has told Keir Starmer to set out a timetable for his departure

quite amusing

the Craven Wretch line is operating with severe delays

When did "set out a timetable for his departure" become the prefabricated phrase for this situation? So weird.

sorry about being a bit snappy this morn LG. I took something you said on another thread as a shitty jibe at me. I might be wrong or even if I'm not wrong, it's no big deal - shouldn't have overreacted.

lads :)