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

I was watching an old vid clip of Denis Healey singing The Ballad of the D-Day Dodgers and talking shit about his part in the Italian campaign. He was a cunt as well, but at least he wasn't as dumb as Kieth is.

the longer i live the more Healey looks like a towering paragon of integrity and socialism even tho you're right calz

woke: the old Labour Right

broke: a bunch of corrupt, cretinous racist morons

was listening to old interviews with the likes of Hattersley and Healey t'other day and was thinking these lads would get deselected by Kieth in no time for occasionally being funny and almost seeming like human beings in their more forthright moments

it's one of the most telling things about what a cesspit the Party is now when you think about the values that even those old Labour Right lags took for granted

I always say I'm not left wing it's just that the Labour Party became right wing.

Hearing that (some not all) political journalists are choosing not to pursue stories on Labour because they are expecting a massive majority, and so don’t want to burn bridges with prospective contacts in government. Hanging onto the coattails of power rather than challenging it!

— Matt Zarb-Cousin (@mattzarb) June 6, 2024

Utter, mendacious, barely-disguised contempt for their own voters

The Green Party would introduce a wealth tax of 1% on all assets over £10m increasing to 2% on assets above £1bn

Shabana Mahmood says that ordinary working people would end up paying part of it. How many ordinary working people does Mahmood know with assets of over £10 million? pic.twitter.com/yfjXpocfJw

— Saul Staniforth (@SaulStaniforth) June 6, 2024

what a load of old pish this D day story is

it's optics, and as far as the media is concerned, optics is everything, especially now they are willing to use them to get the boot in.

RISHI DISRESPECTED ARE BRAVE BOYS, 'ANGING'S TOO GOOD FOR THE BLEEDIN' ROTTER

(ps please remember to vote for sir kier starmer on july 4 to ensure a more competent right-wing government can be installed to further the interests of deeply-entrenched power in the uk kthxbye)

"Not fit to be Prime Minister" roar the Lib Dems!

I'm losing the will to live here.

Convenient dead D-Day cat given the Frank Hester revelations (not that there's anything very revelatory about them)

I'm still waiting for some distinguished historian to attack Kieth for his botched and thick as fuck D-Day post, but I guess you need to be a genuine hater to gaf about how shit his posting is.

the video of Ed Davey doing his morning care routine with his autistic son seems to me - I hate to fucking say it - genuinely relatable and not done in a tacky exploitative way. But then I think: you fucking cunt, you know first hand how vital social care is and how much worse it has got after 14 years of austerity. And you were part of a regime that cut or completely stripped away benefits and disabled services for people like your son. I have this duality of having a modicum of respect for him because he seems like a good parent/carer who has a lot on. And also, fuck him - I hope he dies a very painful death, the fucking Tory piece of shit!

anyone else hear a really high-pitched noise, almost like a whistling or something, when anna soubry is speaking here

Anna Soubry says Rishi Sunak doesn't understand what D-Day means to British people pic.twitter.com/b7ITQtMpB1

— Saul Staniforth (@SaulStaniforth) June 7, 2024

“At the time of writing, and following Sunak’s self-inflicted D-Day gaffe, every single digital ad on the [Tories’] main pages has been switched off. Currently, the campaign has no active ads on Facebook, Instagram, Google or YouTube.” https://t.co/kkm4YyKJaY

— Elvis Buñuelo (@Mr_Considerate) June 7, 2024

Ha ha, Keith Vaz, Claudia Webbe and the official Labour candidate all standing in Leicester East. Tory gain?

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/article/2024/jun/07/disgraced-keith-vaz-kicked-out-of-labour-as-he-stands-for-one-leicester-party

This seems effective:

Latest #LabourParty #election advert has arrived. It's fast work, a quick-grab message, and potentially very high impact. pic.twitter.com/mJdGDB2Cah

— Dr. Max (@DrMaxPolitics) June 7, 2024

Jolly japes

if Kieth would have been pm and stuck around to bloviate with Macron and Biden, a load of the usual tedious ahistorical bollox about defending democracy and some hackneyed Churchill misquote or whatever. Then that would make him a better person? Weird fucking country with a completely warped and delusional mindset.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GPeTmveX0AAKVdB?format=jpg&name=4096x4096

Kiwi diaspora having their say there. Respect to the honest respondents on 21% at the foot of the chart.

IT'S THE BELGIANS WOT WON IT

Amazing that we can have 24/7 WWII programmes on TV and yet

they need to teach operation bagration in UK schools (or to future pm simpletons like kieth), to help dispel false historical narratives. It was uncle joseph who smashed army group center and finished off the nazis as a serious fighting force ffs.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbdIRfXSaBA

who's watching this debate and how are the lib dems already the most viscerally repellant out of all these oily freaks?

Turned on and two seconds of Stephen Flynn's Dundonian accent was enough for me.

Ok phew, nigel's already reclaimed his crown without even missing a beat

Just had to pop out for 5 minutes there for some milk, long enough to notice seven Vote Corybn posters in shop windows. Of course, it's not this part of the constituency he needs to worry about.

there was another all-white Islington pic posted by the anti-Corbyn Labour candidate yesterday (including Neil Kinnock,lol). If not for the London style townhouses in the background you could be forgiven for mistaking him as the Labour candidate for [whatever hellish N Yorkshire gammon zone shithole] rather than in ethnically diverse London.

Love how things like this won't consider that Lab could fuck up badly once in power.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/article/2024/jun/08/from-humiliation-to-annihilation-could-this-election-mean-the-end-of-the-tory-party-as-we-know-it

there's a Youtube advert for Scottish Labour I keep getting and they're definitely doing something with the lighting on Anas Sarwar

Their rescue is a glimmer of hope in the darkness.

this is the expression Lammy used to describe a massacre committed by IDF soldiers who arrived on the murder scene in a humanitarian aid vehicle. I've always detested the prick and since he became foreign sec in waiting he's got so much exponentially worse. What a fucking evil cunt.

"He’s no keener on dreamy leftwing utopianism than empty rightwing boosterism, taking issue with both the campaign for a universal basic income (UBI) and the anti-capitalist writer David Graeber’s popular “bullshit jobs” thesis, which argued that too many jobs in the modern economy are pointless, paper-shuffling make-work designed to keep the masses distracted. (UBI is too expensive if it’s generous enough to ensure nobody now on benefits loses out, he argues, but positively damaging otherwise; meanwhile, research shows a cheering number of Britons find their work meaningful or socially useful.)"

https://www.theguardian.com/books/article/2024/jun/10/great-britain-how-we-get-our-future-back-by-torsten-bell-review-a-roadmap-to-the-new-normal

This is the kind of wanker who is going to hopefully be stopped from making policy when the world burns.

“radical incrementalism”

there is no such a thing, but I guess it works as bullshit political jargon for people who believe in nothing.

These people are so going to be overtaken by events.

funny how many people free from the grind of employment are such big fans of the healing power of employment

..our low productivity, chronic wage stagnation and American-style high inequality (but sadly without the higher growth of the US)

just need Reeves to press the magic economic growth button that didn't work for Truss, then the high inequality wont be so sad for the Graun writer.

An ex-Miliband adviser being feted as a big-brain economic whizz. Even more worse than it used to be.

these lads all seem to think they just need to find the sweet spot where capitalism works for everybody when the evidence of the last 40 years of growing inequality and accelerating environmental disaster is right in front of their eyes

only if you choose to look! it's much more fun and more lucrative to squint right past it

funny how many people free from the grind of employment are such big fans of the healing power of employment

― i love a man in a unicorn (Noodle Vague), Monday, 10 June 2024 bookmarkflaglink

Who are we to argue with a random poll. Work makes us cheerful!

Probably not a coincidence that this guy was advising labour when their vote really bottomed out, in 2010 and 2015

a total loser from the brains trust that commissioned the Ed Stone has got some things to say about Graeber, has he?

^ uses more words, but somehow pithier

luke the nuke’s promo video is some laugh

lol it's getting brutally ratio-ed

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GPt9OApXUAAW53n?format=jpg&name=medium