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

cheers stephen we all needed a good laugh pic.twitter.com/vaAS3n2VP6

— pez 🏳️‍⚧️🎄 (@periuspb) December 26, 2021

What happened to that guy?

when he came out as a Cameron groupie it was all downhill from there.

How’s he going to do at the FT where you actually need to be telling people what’s going on?

Once again reminding you that Stevie B was never old enough to vote for Blair and my God does he adore him

both Cameron and Blair (stephen's two major crushes) are both 6ft + tall, poor Kieth is fucked lol

I’m trying to be less ruled by my id in the new year so you’ll just have to fill in the blank of what I wish upon these good people 🤗🤗🤗

absolute scraping the bottom of the barrel here lads pic.twitter.com/5Kstl1sqVx

— pez 🏳️‍⚧️🎄 (@periuspb) December 26, 2021

God, I thought that said Robert Carlye there at first, I was like, "Boaby, whit the fuck, man?"

Imagine praising the Tories for ultra low interest rates -- which are a device used by central banks in all major economies as a consequence of the financial crash -- and that will have to rise again next year to keep inflation to 5%.

Not only are the priorities wrong but also lots of really stupid, minor stuff like annuity freedom lol.

what could be positive about a decade of austerity driven death and despair ... oh oh me sir.. low interest rates!

Given that he hangs around Starmer and will probably act as some kind of advisor I am expecting a really weird campaign.

Gay marriage was 2013

Is Boris going away then?

probably not, they know he can win elections and if the best other candidates they can come up are Jeremy Cunt or Liz Truss or the pencil-necked Super Rishi then I reckon they will hold fire on him and rough it out. They are only up against Kieth ffs!

Sunak is a shoo-in, no way they're picking Truss.

she's extremely popular with the membership and lol is going for an Iron Lady image reboot now. Just don't mention the cheese.

I could imagine Kieth running a racist dog whistle campaign against Rishi. He's got nothing to lose after already alienating 99% of the non-tory voting Asian community.

I think Truss is far more popular with the membership than she’ll ever be with the general public.

yeah definitely but there still seems to be a concerted effort to make her happen and she might have a few powerful supporters, but ultimately the real power brokers at the top of the party will consider her a disaster in the making.

Well, that's just it: they suspected as much with Boris but thought they'd run with it. Won't do that again...

Does anyone care whether Johnson goes or not? Elections are an exercise in nothing changing till the world burns.

Yeah, I want him out on his arse and humiliated.

I mean, he won't be humiliated but one lives in hope

Lol no, he'll make a shit ton of money in the dinner for rich people circuit, 'write' some books as the PM who got Brexit done and who mobilised the nation at a time of national emergency, he'll play Churchill with a clowny twist, etc. He has achieved everything as it is.

Cameron's "humiliation" was fun for about ten minutes and then all this happened and he made a tidy £7m through Greensill corruption, appointed to the board of Afiniti and a lucrative book deal. I don't even care who wins the next election tbh and I used to admonish my mum for saying "they are all the fucken same!"

you can't humiliate someone who has no shame, it's the same reason why clips of Farage being "owned" are a waste of time, nothing you can say or do can embarass these people

They just go "no, I didn't" and everyone around them goes " See, he didn't" and move on..

The Robert Colvile one who says, in that tweet, 'Restrictions on immigration', is the one who badly mocked Novara names and then got people attacking OJ for supposedly attacking Robert Colvile for suffering personal tragedy (which OJ, naturally, had no idea about).

His picture is unpleasant.

Excellent thread, a fuller picture on NHS and how it's coping with covid.

How's NHS doing at moment in relation to omicron and other pressures? New thread based on latest data. Note that we prefer to use numbers of covid-19 patients in hospital, rather than new admissions, as two days more up to date and better represents whole picture...1/19

— Chris Hopson (@ChrisCEOHopson) December 27, 2021

thanks for that.

in other news i’m baffled at the lack of quotes from liz truss in this article about british cheese exports and brexit: https://www.theguardian.com/business/2021/dec/27/brexit-the-biggest-disaster-that-any-government-has-ever-negotiated

you'd have make some pretty fuckin special cheese that ppl would be willing to pay 244% duty on it.

all these exciting new opportunities in "emerging markets" eh? Who could have predicted it would turn out to be a load of bollox!

Emerging markets - Doggerland, Atlantis, Pangaea, Middle Earth, all gagging for traditional British dairy produce!

it gets me the British farmers who say they can't compete with Australian and New Zealand produce that has to be shipped from literally the other side of the world.

the only two consistent things about Lammy are his small-c conservativism and total lack of principles. He's done a few emotive speeches here and there that earned him some acclaim. But he's a coward and a typical career politician. Lol I read somewhere that he only nommed Corbyn in 2015 to split the Burnham vote!

Would throw his granny under a bus if it helped his career.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FHtFiqRX0AQbNVu?format=jpg&name=medium

unfortunately for Lammy some people on the right will always judge him for the years that he was publicly supportive of Corbyn, rather than praise him for this cowardly move. The old Bevan quote applies here.

Also the Labour right have a funny tinge issue

The Labour Right needs inspirational black community leaders who are keen to show how sensible they are by doing stuff like abstaining on the Windrush bill and voting for Iraq, it makes them look like the good guys or something.

It's the Menshevik Boogie
Everybody's doing it

Lammy should know he's really fucked it when even Kieth Flett (who was at the Bernie Grant event with JC and him last year) is bitterly disappointed with him: "Rewriting history doesnt work"!

If you've lost Flett then you've lost the narrative

lol that's right

I was at a party of a Labour MP in 2017 and he gave a speech where he was laughing at the members of his party that had stood up and applauded Corbyn in Parliament after the election. He said, “Isn’t it funny how people’s minds change…when there’s a whiff of power.”

Guess who?!

— BlackWomansHour (@hour_womans) December 28, 2021

David Lammy apologised for … voting for the Iraq war? Fiddling MPs expenses? Saying parents should be allowed to hit their children? The bombing of Libya?

No - he apologised for playing a small, accidental part in allowing a glimmer of hope emerge in British politics

— Paul O’Connell (@pmpoc) December 28, 2021

Wouldn't be surprised if he'd never actually read the 2019 manifesto he claimed was not costed.

My late uncle who used to live in Tottenham said he was an unpleasant reactionary and a fraud and not fit to walk in Bernie Grant's shoes and he was never wrong about any politicians.

Torsten Bell of the Resolution Foundation -the folk Rachel Reeves is quoting - just said on R4Today that Reeves plans for fuel Vat suspension are too little for any real impact : Govt in real trouble, but Labour's urge to demand very little could let them off the hook pic.twitter.com/FrxAFIurgx

— Solomon Hughes (@SolHughesWriter) December 29, 2021

the worst possible time for a pro-austerity opposition of minor adjustments, this ex HBOS ghoul shouldn't be let anywhere near the Labour party.

George Galloway has alleged that his daughter 'was racially abused in a Tesco for being English'

A POLICE investigation is underway after George Galloway claimed his daughter was told to "get back to England" at a supermarket.

The alleged incident is said to have occurred at Tesco in Dumfries on Tuesday afternoon.

My mum and stepdad used to holiday in Scotland. The Irish accent did well for her in non-tourist pubs, he used to cop some anti-English attitude because he's an arrogant blowhard with a Yorkshire accent, but he enjoys that kind of exchange. I can't imagine Galloway's daughter was told to go back to her "racial homeland" without some provocation.

Could've been worse, she could've been arrested and thrown in jail