"we'll change the things that need changing and that's all we'll change": the paSUKification of post-brexit politics 2021

48,553 new cases and 63 deaths today. And this is before people starting steaming into pubs and clubs and full capacity events like Silverstone in the name of Freedom next week.

I'm sorry to have to announce that our friend @DawnHFoster has passed away at home suddenly, aged 34. An elegant writer and eloquent commentator, Dawn effortlessly mastered a media mainstream loath to admit outsider perspectives.

— K Biswas (@BizK1) July 15, 2021

what???

oh no

I didn’t realise she had a serious illness. God that’s terrible.

OMG RIP ;_;

Fucking hell

That’s really sad. She was often posting about her sudden blackouts and hospital trips and I was fearing the worst.

Dawn Foster wrote one of the truest paragraphs in the guardian’s history and was then fired. I’m not normally one for etching things into stone but I’d make an exception for this. pic.twitter.com/IDrzB8tr8p

— 🇨🇭stabilized wretchedness 🇨🇭 (@sensiblehuman96) July 15, 2021

I often used to think what a nightmare it was when my son had a few epileptic seizures in a single week. She often took pics of injuries suffered in her frequent seizures and I thought this is someone dealing with a lot of problems but is always funny and taking all the lying scumbags in politics to the cleaners with her devastating wit. She was a one-off true maverick and is a big loss:(

The article that got her the sack from The Guardian is no.2 on the most viewed comments pieces rn

https://www.theguardian.com/uk/commentisfree

"This article is more than 2 years old"

yeah but still more relevant than ever, just the cast of characters fucking grotesque Labour wankers has changed

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E6XBVz0WUAUbShq?format=jpg&name=medium

never forget the disdain with which these lib wankers at the Graun directed at her

"it is far easier to stay in a party, wrecking it week by week, hoping to terminally undermine the leader and then inherit the ruins.

But the end result of Watson et al’s constant attacks will not be electoral success under another Labour leader, but a Tory victory. And the people who need a Labour government to change their lives and communities are unlikely to forgive people like him."

This piece gives you some details about Dawn’s childhood, and it’s a tough read, particularly if you’ve ever experienced domestic violence or disordered eating. It could have finished her, but it didn’t. It also wasn’t the making of her: she made herself. https://t.co/ze7jCwt1bg

— Elvis Buñuelo (@Mr_Considerate) July 15, 2021

Great to see Paul Mason getting destroyed on the subject of online anonymity by the author of a book he claims to have read pic.twitter.com/bWbQDeXijI

— black lives matter (@jrc1921) July 15, 2021

Our new report #MIS2021 with @crsp_lborouni is out today. It shows that millions of households across our country are having to live on incomes that fall far short of what the public thinks is needed for a minimum standard of living. Read here: https://t.co/M3fMfqRR7v

— Joseph Rowntree Foundation (@jrf_uk) July 14, 2021

at least the *progressive alliance* would in theory be all out to reverse all the austerity cuts and end all the UC/PIP fuckery .. if there actually was a fucking "progressive" party in England. Kieth has been "sweating blood" to woo some thick as pigshit tory voters in Blackpool. Loads of woolly New Labour sloganeering about economic competence with sly nods to racist morons isn't going to end austerity.

apparently Keunnsberg was misrepresenting what one of the Blackpool group who hadn't voted Labour since 2010 said to make it sound like a Corbyn issue. Quelle fucking surprise.

Another councillor lost, look at the shift. They have ten now, from zero in 2019

Tividale (Sandwell) result:

CON: 52.6% (+20.7)
LAB: 43.2% (-13.7)
IND: 2.1% (+2.1)
LDEM: 1.6% (+1.6)
TUSC: 0.5% (+0.5)

Conservative GAIN from Labour.

No Grn (-11.3) as prev.
Chgs. w/ 2018@andrewteale's write-up of the race:https://t.co/eORHsKOm7C

— Britain Elects (@BritainElects) July 16, 2021

lol, the Greens stood down and the progressive alliance voted accordingly. It was a 20 % turnout but still a shit result!

kids once again otm

"The kids were in uproar. They had to be sent back to their room and she was asked to leave."
😊https://t.co/zPN1piZhiy

— Streets Kitchen (@streetskitchen) July 16, 2021

the callous contempt for young people on display here is just depressing. They've borne the brunt of Covid job losses and sacrificed nearly 18 months of the prime of their lives to look out for others (mostly) more vulnerable than themselves https://t.co/zDQxKc9q4p pic.twitter.com/gA2p4tHu9v

— tom (@malaiseforever) July 16, 2021

so Kieth's new campaigning tactic is doing televised focus groups with ignorant gammon bastards that will never vote for him and sit there grinning like a cunt while they slag off young people.

https://twitter.com/juliablunck1

^ should b

@juliablunck1
7m
The labour party will only win again when its lead by someone who thinks talking about the labour party is boring

yeah reminding people who aren't going to vote for them how shit they are whilst simultaneously telling great swathes of 2019 voters to fuck off is a great tactic. But how about making some popular policy offers that might improve people's lives rather than talking about the fucking Labour Party.

Well, just when you think Starmer will never try some new tactic

It’s the penitential quality of Keir’s fortnightly rebrands that I really dig. The absence of light in his eyes, the suppressed horror of his body language, and his almost involuntary commitment to a single message: we’re shit and we don’t deserve your vote … yet. pic.twitter.com/ncBASh6aAQ

— Elvis Buñuelo (@Mr_Considerate) July 16, 2021

Zacky claims to have last voted Labour in 1997.

Could this be him standing for the Tories just three years later? pic.twitter.com/NoSH7fugeC

— black lives matter (@jrc1921) July 16, 2021

Some cunt who last voted Labour in 1997? Tell him to keep on voting Tory and go fuck himself.

I wish I could just be wryly amused by how utterly fucking useless Kieth is in terms of electioneering strategy, but also the cunt needs doing in. But also he's made it so I don't care anymore, so he's pretty good at what he does really.

Javid has it, which means a load more of them will have too. Can’t wait for full-house PMQs this week.

I know they all caught it before and it didn't teach them shit but still lmao

i've just been recycling newspapers from the first time it swept through the cabinet. "Coronavirus Strikes At The Heart Of Government", "Britain's Testing Shambles" etc. it's a year later and...

If you made this shit up no-one would believe you.

I know a guy who can cover for him if needs be, probably knows the ropes already or at least one or two of them

https://i2-prod.mirror.co.uk/incoming/article24546724.ece/ALTERNATES/s615/1_Matt-Hancock-pictured-kissing-Gina-Coladangelo.jpg

Can't believe they've managed to give Hancock the satisfaction of thinking he did a good job, even if only in comparison

Hancock had it the first time round. or claimed to.

there's video footage of him having it tbf

i hate it here pic.twitter.com/wqa5c2R1pI

— pez (@periuspb) July 17, 2021

Farage given his own daily show on GB News to punish us for not watching.

Katie Hopkins just been booted off some Aussie show, maybe she's waiting in the wings too

more 'if we don't do this now then when?' talk on radio news this morning. all these people would fail the marshmallow test.

Labour is a party “in which all the forces pressing towards the future are mortgaged absolutely to the past and have the life drained from them in useless, secondary struggle”. - Tom Nairn, always apt

— Paul O’Connell (@pmpoc) July 18, 2021

First item on Radio 4 news: Tony Blair, making a weekly rare intervention with his opinions on pandemic management.

He wants the PM not to isolate but to be at work. This shows TB's dire judgment, as much else has done.

they've already said they'll be at work but testing daily.

Johnson has had it before and is double jabbed.

They’ve U-turned & said they will isolate after all

A farcical shambles but they'll get away with it, as always.

Probably too late for a u-turn on Freedom (For Covid) Day unfortunately, wonder how they'll sell the subsequent lockdown to the great unwashed?

Photos of rammed clubs, sorrowful shaking of the head that cash-strapped landlords didn’t act “responsibly” and demand vaccine passports at venue doors, long lens shots of parks, basically anything that blames it on other, common-sense-lacking, non-Tory-voting, parts of the GBP

Stealth national lockdown done using 50m individual pings