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

..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

The hard questions are being asked:

Q: [From the Guardian’s Pippa Crerar] Sunak has struggled to lead a government of integrity. Will you do any better?

Yes, says Starmer. He is determined to do better. He will get on with changing ethical codes from day one.

most normal deputy leader of a uk political party

Deputy Green Party Leader admits to performing hypnotherapy to 'enlarge' women's breasts in the past https://t.co/BSf4vyqU0z

— LBC (@LBC) June 12, 2024

Is it in the manifesto though?

It's so obvious that the media is soft pedalling on Starmer and Labour because they know they'll get a whopping majority and thus be secure enough to not to have to rely on any of the usual chummy "you scratch my back" garbage. A powerful government can make things tough for the media.

I like think Starmer was channelling Jurassic 5 here. "Let's take it back to the concrete streets,
Original beats with real live MCs,
Playground tactics,
No rabbit in a hat tricks ..." https://t.co/L1Eh2qcKi7

— Rafael Behr (@rafaelbehr) June 13, 2024

🔴 Oh dear, it seems some of these retiring Labour MPs who had peerages dangled in front of them to encourage give up their seats, didn't know that in its manifesto Labour was about to impose a new age limit for members of the Lords, of 80 at the end of each Parliament.

— @Tomorrow'sMPs (@tomorrowsmps) June 13, 2024

oh dear, a major blow for some people's dreams of joining the job 4 life superannuated corpse set. Can't believe Kieth has lied to people again.

Love this when they will have to nationalize the water industry and put up flood defences.

The shift from Labour under Corbyn to Labour under Starmer in a single chart👇
The bars here show you how much each manifesto - 2017 and 2019 under Corbyn, 2024 under Starmer - pledged in new spending, taxes & investment.
It’s night and day… pic.twitter.com/KHuk4EAgPD

— Ed Conway (@EdConwaySky) June 13, 2024

basically austerity

Got to wait till you turn 80 to get in the House of Lords eh

i need Rafa Behr's address so i can send him the bill for the costly surgery i need to uncurl my toes