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

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

people clowning on him for looking like absolute refried dog diarrhoea but this might actually be the most put-together i’ve ever seen him look tbh

Maybe it was best not to attempt any bits where Luke is trying to converse with the humans he is appealing to for votes.

I just saw a vid of Starmer strangely guffawing at a young girl who was talking about living with heating poverty (having to wrap in multiple blankets at home) and his dismissive one-way conversation reply was that his 15 yr old son still loves his onesie. He's far weirder (and more sociopathic) than the Maybot of '17 when she awkwardly faced the public.

very telling that these absolute sociopaths are out there revealing their awfulness in public and the media response is just a huge shrug

How shameless is this worm.

BREAKING: Keir Starmer accuses Tories of "Corbyn-style manifesto"

The Conservative Party is to launch its manifesto at 11.30am

Latest: https://t.co/aj0cjpNqAp

📺 Sky 501, Virgin 602, Freeview 233 and YouTube pic.twitter.com/Gezma89zz4

— Sky News (@SkyNews) June 11, 2024

spineless dog dirt of a man

Laying himself open to people pointing out how both 2017 and 2019 were fully costed. Let's hope some brave, heroic reporter/anchor steps up on this

he should be nervous about mentioning Corbyn, because that opens him up to: well you were in his shadow cabinet and campaigned for him. But it doesn't matter, he's got it in easy mode and the outcome of the GE has already been decided.

What an utterly despicable cunt.

Looks like Les off Vic Reeves having a leek waved at him

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/article/2024/jun/11/nigel-farage-barnsley-objects-thrown-man-arrested

Looks like Les from Vic Reeves having a leek waved at him

https://i.imgur.com/f8G0ge8.jpeg

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/article/2024/jun/11/nigel-farage-barnsley-objects-thrown-man-arrested

apols for guardian but good riddance:

Robin Harper | The first ever Green parliamentarian in the UK, Harper has crossed the floor (sideways?) to join the Labour party, saying they are the only ones with a serious prospect of fighting climate change. The move will be much less contentious than Conservative defections, some of which have dismayed Labour members. It’s unlikely to cause too much distress in the Scottish Green party, which Harper left last year, disagreeing with its support for trans rights.

Labour welcoming transphobes, surely not?

Great news from EC. He really has changed. https://t.co/r3OLyEu9Vv

— Tariq Ali (@TariqAli_News) June 11, 2024

Ooft, neither of those racist fossils is someone you want in your corner

Sometimes I really feel the British state and that class of people could be so easily burnt to the ground.

‘There’ll be all sorts of things that I would have wanted as a kid that I couldn’t have - famously Sky TV'@RishiSunak reveals the sacrifices his parents were forced to make when he was young

Watch full interview on the Tonight programme on ITV at 7pmhttps://t.co/WN3WqEFirH pic.twitter.com/6XNLBJdMM8

— ITV News (@itvnews) June 11, 2024

They were forced to send him to one of the most expensive schools in the UK.

3 more weeks of this shit

Sky dishes would be considered infra dig in the circles his parents wanted him to inhabit.

Just think he couldn't watch Sky TV in any of the six bedrooms in the family home, oh the humanity!

still more honest than when Kieth does his phoney maloney routine about his dad walking the factory floor, without mentioning that he owned the business. lol, the proper way to do it would be to say: we had a vintage b+w tv and no tv license, my mum would shut the curtains, tell us to hush and ignore the door when the tv license people came knocking.

Remembering the early ‘90s time a friend and I saw a TV Licensing van in the street on our way to work, loudly mocked it, only to be rounded on by a young woman who shouted: “vat’s ma bawfriend, how dare you, I hope you get done!”

My friend looked her up and down, then said “you’d never get fucked otherwise, I guess?”

Well of course he didn't have SkyTV growing up, he was twenty seven when it was launched. https://t.co/yAlAaLXOV4

— Dr Charlotte Lydia Riley (@lottelydia) June 12, 2024

if Corbyn had done this, the UK media would be going through his entire childhood history with a magnifying glass and calling him out as a lying fucker. I can't even remember Blair having it this easy.

Sky in the 90s was cheaper than Netflix now. And when there was a shit video on MTV we got on our bikes and we bricked Keir's windows.

Sir Window Smasher

The deepfakes are getting good fellas.

'My dad was a toolmaker'

*Audience laughs* pic.twitter.com/1EME2W2C0u

— j (@jrc1921) June 12, 2024

Kieth was actually not floundering in his appearance on this Sky bullshit - he's not really answering any of the more pertinent questions either. But yeah, the only enjoyable part was the spontaneous jeering audience laughter during his "my dad was a toolmaker" bit.

great photo of rishi making an impression at the g7 summit in today's grauniad

https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/48fd7e8a87ad9a4b1ff646ffb54ce7377210fba2/0_82_4238_2543/master/4238.jpg?width=1900&dpr=2&s=none

The stuff that isn't happening.

Manifesto of @TheGreenParty in summary: #RealHopeRealChange https://t.co/vBH2hnRfj3 pic.twitter.com/XTaZgPVttz

— Natalie Bennett (@natalieben) June 12, 2024

Well I guess all the melts that said we shouldn't judge Labour until we'd seen the manifesto will be ok with us judging them now