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

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the threat was instead of getting sued he will be impelled by a court of law to read a 14000 word essay by Kieth.

calzino, Wednesday, 22 September 2021 21:33 (two years ago) link

That Politics For Ali is a garbage account - but good work there I suppose!

― calzino, Wednesday, 22 September 2021 bookmarkflaglink

Yeah though I admire the hustle.

xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 22 September 2021 21:43 (two years ago) link

I won't when this account becomes PM though

xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 22 September 2021 21:43 (two years ago) link

Here , finally , are Starmer's 10 principles from his 14k word essay. Too long winded and bland to be chiselled onto an "ed stone" .For the many words with the few real meanings pic.twitter.com/z5aXuDY71W

— Solomon Hughes (@SolHughesWriter) September 22, 2021

looks like excruciating stuff "work hard play by the rules get treated fairly" "hard working families". Fuck off cunt I'm proud I haven't done a hard day's work for any wealth creator in a decade.

calzino, Wednesday, 22 September 2021 21:50 (two years ago) link

"Contribution society" feels like the critical phrase there. So if you're below the tax threshold I guess you can fuck off then.

Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 22 September 2021 21:56 (two years ago) link

Lol @ "current levels of waste" after a decade of austerity and a year where you needed to pay ppl to stay home so they weren't at risk of getting covid!

xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 22 September 2021 22:11 (two years ago) link

I think Kieth was a fan of the britannia unchained manifesto on the quiet tbh.

calzino, Wednesday, 22 September 2021 22:13 (two years ago) link

At this point, I have nothing more to contribute to the LP conversation. The time I spent with comrades, hopeful, energised, walking miles, knocking doors, fighting injustice seems light years away. All that vanished in the space of 2 years. Nice one, Starmer. Job doneđź‘Ś

— BEA EM PUNK (@itrainedflowers) September 21, 2021

xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 22 September 2021 22:18 (two years ago) link

if you had some faith in the idea that Kieth is anti-austerity then "current levels of waste" could be attacking the cronyism and corruption, but he's been so weak on that front it can easily be taken as sounding quite sinister.

calzino, Wednesday, 22 September 2021 22:18 (two years ago) link

It’s practically indistinguishable from Johnson’s own bromides.

“Change with the times” by listing out ten things that could have been written at any point since 1950.

Scampo di tutti i Scampi (ShariVari), Wednesday, 22 September 2021 22:22 (two years ago) link

even the boring people think it's thin gruel, lol https://t.co/e8ytCIDtFp

— Frank Sobotka (@cymrurouge) September 22, 2021

calzino, Wednesday, 22 September 2021 22:41 (two years ago) link

i was on board til the point he reveals that the journey will not always be simple

conrad, Thursday, 23 September 2021 09:12 (two years ago) link

don't worry, as long as keep working very hard and play by the rules you will be treated fairly. Hang on a minute why am I quoting David Cameron?

calzino, Thursday, 23 September 2021 09:34 (two years ago) link

looks like excruciating stuff "work hard play by the rules get treated fairly" "hard working families". Fuck off cunt I'm proud I haven't done a hard day's work for any wealth creator in a decade

ime "They're a hard worker" is what people say when they have to come up with something positive about a work colleague who is an absolute cunt.

Are You Still in Love With Me, Klas-Göran? (Tom D.), Thursday, 23 September 2021 09:36 (two years ago) link

It's good to see Kieth returning to the values of real Labour i.e. ensuring a steady pool of compliant workers for capitalists to exploit

look on my guacs, ye mighty, and dis pear (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 23 September 2021 09:41 (two years ago) link

Christ I don't think I read those 10 points last night, feel a wee bit murderous now

look on my guacs, ye mighty, and dis pear (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 23 September 2021 09:43 (two years ago) link

maybe if he chiselled them into a monolith he'd get a better reaction

edited to reflect developments which occurred (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, 23 September 2021 09:45 (two years ago) link

Gonna need a bigger monolith, bloviating cunt

look on my guacs, ye mighty, and dis pear (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 23 September 2021 09:46 (two years ago) link

Love to see a bit of non-nationalist patriotism tho

look on my guacs, ye mighty, and dis pear (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 23 September 2021 09:46 (two years ago) link

This is extraordinary.

It's desperately bad stuff.

But has he really written a 14,000-word essay? How did he find the time to do that? It's what an MA student would do.

the pinefox, Thursday, 23 September 2021 09:46 (two years ago) link

The good thing is this is not going to win. People want the real stuff, i.e. what the Tories are offering.

xyzzzz__, Thursday, 23 September 2021 09:48 (two years ago) link

It also links to ingrained Victorian values of the “deserving poor” not the supposedly lazy, feckless, bone idle, the criminals and lumpen elements. It’s the Protestant work ethic writ large on people who “work hard” and there deserve more wages as they deliver for the bosses. https://t.co/JX3UG1SKfP

— local lefty historian (@Simon_P_Hannah) September 23, 2021

xyzzzz__, Thursday, 23 September 2021 10:02 (two years ago) link

some people might work incredibly hard because they are fearful of the consequences of losing their shit jobs. But wankers like Kieth who are brought up by the factory management classes want to think for their own conservative purposes that they're into some kind of self-loathing masochistic proddy work ethic. He's that clueless because the closest thing to class struggle he's experienced is going to a middling to quite posh school where some other kids are slightly posher than him.

calzino, Thursday, 23 September 2021 10:05 (two years ago) link

James Ball, of all people, pointing out that if you’re not saying anything your political opponents would disagree with, you might as well not bother saying anything at all.

Again, this is a pitch to donors, not the electorate though.

Scampo di tutti i Scampi (ShariVari), Thursday, 23 September 2021 10:11 (two years ago) link

he'll never recover from the shame of getting dropped by James Ball. A complete melt I know was once boasting that he was very proud that his son had learned an important lesson about fact checking from his LBC show on the car radio.

calzino, Thursday, 23 September 2021 11:01 (two years ago) link

Hard-working families reduces everybody to an economic unit so of course it erases the disabled, carers, unpaid labour, children except as potential future units of production, the elderly, etc etc etc

These scumbags are exactly equal to the Tories in their role as the enemy of human life

look on my guacs, ye mighty, and dis pear (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 23 September 2021 11:48 (two years ago) link

What kills me - lol nevermind, it all kills me obv - but what's so telling is you could spin a web of promiseless platitudes that was caring and optimistic and looked to a better future for the planet - it would still be an empty gesture, but if you're doing empty gestures how broken and inhuman do you have to be to go down the Gradgrind route?

look on my guacs, ye mighty, and dis pear (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 23 September 2021 11:51 (two years ago) link

yes it's very intimidating to disabled voters, who might have not thought much of Kieth but considered voting for him could be a harm reduction option.

calzino, Thursday, 23 September 2021 11:56 (two years ago) link

Fuck any idiot in future who thinks we need THIS to save us from the Tories

look on my guacs, ye mighty, and dis pear (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 23 September 2021 11:58 (two years ago) link

When Kieth waxes lyrical about his hard working dad walking down the factory floor (of which he apparently owned) he misses out the bit that the workers there hated his guts and were doing comedy-death sweepstakes on when he's going to die and putting iron filings in his coffee.

calzino, Thursday, 23 September 2021 11:59 (two years ago) link

Love the most timid hint at anything resembling a left-wing stance in "it is not good enough to just surrender to market forces" immediately followed with "the role of government is to be a partner to private enterprise, not stifle it", lest the potential donors get the wrong idea.

Daniel_Rf, Thursday, 23 September 2021 12:00 (two years ago) link

apparently it's not even 14000 words, some word-counters are say its more like 11.5k. Which is still too much.

calzino, Thursday, 23 September 2021 12:13 (two years ago) link

"chances in life should not be determined by the circumstances of your birth" is radical tbf, I assume it means 100% Inheritance Tax and the abolition of private education as a minimum

look on my guacs, ye mighty, and dis pear (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 23 September 2021 12:34 (two years ago) link

https://i.imgur.com/GHqI0Fk.jpg

conrad, Thursday, 23 September 2021 13:05 (two years ago) link

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— Random Restaurant (@_restaurant_bot) September 23, 2021

xyzzzz__, Thursday, 23 September 2021 13:28 (two years ago) link

That's better than this tweet.

Much of the talk has focused on Wes Streeting, who is tipped as a future leader by. According to the register of interests, he received ÂŁ45k in donations this year.

Source: 'He’s basically mid campaign now even though there is no contest. He is everywhere, doing everything.'

— Alexandra Rogers (@journoamrogers) September 23, 2021

xyzzzz__, Thursday, 23 September 2021 13:29 (two years ago) link

Is it ok to wish harm on Streeting again now?

look on my guacs, ye mighty, and dis pear (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 23 September 2021 13:35 (two years ago) link

Wes Streeting, who is tipped as a future leader by.

No typo here

nashwan, Thursday, 23 September 2021 13:47 (two years ago) link

his mam

calzino, Thursday, 23 September 2021 13:58 (two years ago) link

he was going in for major surgery a few months back and I was thinking maybe not post anything too unpleasant about him for a while

calzino, Thursday, 23 September 2021 14:03 (two years ago) link

not going to lie i think he'll do better than keith

glumdalclitch, Thursday, 23 September 2021 14:37 (two years ago) link

Apparently GMB will back EC in exchange for Labour dropping Green New Deal and Ed Mili getting sacked.

calzino, Thursday, 23 September 2021 14:56 (two years ago) link

now GMB is threatening to sue OJ for posting this.

calzino, Thursday, 23 September 2021 15:52 (two years ago) link

starmer's speech to conference just leaked:
"I don't know half of you half as well as I should like, and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve. I, uh, I h-have things to do. I've put this off for far too long. I regret to announce — this is The End. I am going now. I bid you all a very fond farewell. GOODBYE!" (vanishes)

mark s, Thursday, 23 September 2021 16:53 (two years ago) link

labour party: "Ooh!"

mark s, Thursday, 23 September 2021 16:53 (two years ago) link

LAB: +9

Tracer Hand, Thursday, 23 September 2021 17:49 (two years ago) link

if "Kieth" is a classist slur then goodness knows what they'll make of the even more unkind sobriquet "McShitter".

calzino, Thursday, 23 September 2021 18:34 (two years ago) link

wait does this mean Mandelson is Gandalf ffs?

look on my guacs, ye mighty, and dis pear (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 23 September 2021 19:01 (two years ago) link

at least we can agree that Jermy Sauron represents a clear threat to the Shire

look on my guacs, ye mighty, and dis pear (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 23 September 2021 19:04 (two years ago) link

the White Council = the Trilateral Commission

calzino, Thursday, 23 September 2021 19:43 (two years ago) link


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