Free as a Dodo: UK Politics Welcomes 2021

Also very depressing but that's where we are, and all that amid the screaming of backbench normalisation hawks and the gutter press that nourishes them

Just to get it off my chest - this country is truly, deeply fucked and there is no relief in sight

all the teachers i know are fucking exhausted and have worked through every 'holiday' this year

I hate Starmer more than any member of the Conservative party because at least they had the conviction to join their natural party. He's been the worst possible LOTO we could possibly have during a pandemic. I know it's already been said a thousand times.

yes

both as in "agreed" and "it has"

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— aaЯjan (@aarjanistan) February 23, 2021

lol, your a very funny tory - I'll kill you last.

He's been the worst possible LOTO we could possibly have during a pandemic

I'd agree that he does get worse, he seems to lowering the bar more every week. I can't even keep up with how awful he is (I lied!).

_He's been the worst possible LOTO we could possibly have during a pandemic_


It's not so much this for me as it how he somehow conspires to get _worse_. Even the meltiest seem to be noticing that there's not much reason for hope (ok Will Hutton apart) because he declines every opportunity to do something better.

Corbynism raised the expectations that the Labour Party could be a vehicle for change. I just hope great numbers of younger people are never going to let that go rather than melting or getting into that useless false paradigm of "if you don't support Labour then you support Tories".

It’s honestly more likely they just won’t bother voting at all.

Most of the timeframes that have been set seem reasonable to me, or at least in line with what I see elsewhere in Europe. The schools are the big fuck up, and even that I wouldn't envision as such a disaster if teachers and staff got vaccinated.

The problem with schools is it’s always been discussed as though it’s solely a matter of timing - “when will it be safe to open schools” instead of “what are we doing to make it safe to reopen schools”. afaict the answer to the latter is always “fuck all” when there are a shitload of things that could have been done

teachers aren't getting vaccinated, that's the problem, and i've no idea why that's not a very very simple priority action to sort out?

Teachers seem to be considered malingering foot-dragging wreckers by both the main parties unfortunately, despite NEU being 100% correct in every position they've taken so far.

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Worsel Gummidge has really let himself go

the Crowman was having a very bad at the office when he made that puffy faced gaunt bastard!

Unlock mass events with this one weird trick

fuck is this

BREAKING: The Labour Party has now re-opened applications for its Liverpool Mayoral selection

Unprecedented move comes after three shortlisted candidates were re-interviewed last weekhttps://t.co/LBQICiSp8f

— Liam Thorp 💙 (@LiamThorpECHO) February 23, 2021

Understand that no previous candidate will be invited to apply. New nominations must by in by 12pm on 25 February. The ballots will be distributed from 8 March and must be returned by 12pm on 29 March.

— Sienna Rodgers (@siennamarla) February 23, 2021

I could do dat. Gissa mayoralty.

i'm sure this is all above board and will lead to the best possible candidate being selected

Tom D OTM.

Shop thy neighbour.

Starmer should encourage Chris Williamson and Ken Livingstone to apply so whatever preordained melt fool he has lined up will look like a credible candidate

Look democratically electing candidates is the old politics

Lmao this is basically all because Corbyn endorsed a mayoral candidate, isn't it? Pathetic.

— The Holly and the (Redacted) (@holski_beat) February 23, 2021

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could Anna Rothery beat off any hollow Starmer candidate if she stood as an independent? would love that to happen

perhaps i could have put that a bit better

being an even bigger hate figure in Liverpool than Boris would be a hell of an accomplishment

starmer is a plant

but he wants to keep plants banned

(xp An invasive weed, to be more precise.

it's funny that because I often think it would be fun to hack him down to size with a garden machete

NEW: Understand that Anna Rothery intends to seek an injunction if the decision to reopen the Liverpool selection process without the previously shortlisted candidates is not reversed. "If the decision stands, then I will be left with no choice but to challenge it legally."

— Sienna Rodgers (@siennamarla) February 23, 2021

Labour's Liverpool Mayoral Candidate announced:
It's Mr Gerry Mander

— Solomon Hughes (@SolHughesWriter) February 23, 2021

xxp it's a simple mistake, he actually just said that he want to keep his bantz planned.

Anna Rothery would've been the first Black woman mayor of a major city in the UK and was blocked from making history by the Starmer regime because she was too left-wing. They treated her with such disrespect they informed the press before her.
Black Lives Don't matter to Labour.

— Chardine Taylor Stone (@ChardineTaylor) February 23, 2021

I hear Kieth tipped off his Bet365 donor pal so they lay off a big attractive overround book on the Liverpool mayor betting odds before he pulled the rug on the game!

Fucking disgusting.

Verdict on whether Emilie Oldknow gets to know who blew the whistle on *her* appalling WhatsApp messages comes on Friday.

It’s an extraordinary thing to do without even a surface justification as the assumption a lot of people are likely to make without one is that they’re suspected of corruption as well.

What would be really interesting is if a credible independent figure now came forward, someone respected in the city who was promising a total move away from the current administration and promised to work across the parties - you have to say they'd have a decent chance

— Liam Thorp 💙 (@LiamThorpECHO) February 23, 2021

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Charline is a good follow, never seen her looking to leave the party. Maybe that's what they want but the price they'll pay is too high.

I was a laughing earlier at the comment: it's a shame Dobson is dead!

Across the UK, the appeal of buy-to-let purchases has been waning, as residents leave central London, either moving to more suburban areas or back in with family during the pandemic https://t.co/EecSUnHqzj pic.twitter.com/r36vFlWmr3

— Financial Times (@FinancialTimes) February 19, 2021

;_;

Starmer taking Liverpool for some fucking fealty he can do with as he petulantly wishes to is something I really hope will come back and bite him (or indeed the Labour Party) hard. Liverpool has gone through a dramatic electoral swing before, like when the sectarian vote was split between the Tories and the Liberal Party for decades before Thatcherism.

Feels true.

The saddest thing about Corbyn's leadership is just how poorly timed it was. Imagine what he'd be doing right now to hold the government to account on the pandemic, corruption, racial injustice, etc. But instead he had to spend 4 years doing half-assed apologia for the EU.

— fergus (@Desmostylian) February 23, 2021

The City of Liverpool: https://t.co/0PSeAhDFC1 pic.twitter.com/ut8QgUmlQn

— Jimmy Sergi (@jimmysergi_) February 23, 2021

well I guess you could technically call that a crowd as there is more than a few people there

I think we can also safely assume that was at least a year ago for obvious reasons