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

She wouldn't have too far to go from in Dumfries. Seems an unlikely place for anti-Englisj sentiment tbh.

a 40 minute drive from Carlisle, and was a Tory hold in 2019. And the constituency region is called Dumfries & Galloway!

Lol, yes. I think the Borders and, at the opposite end, Orkney and Shetland are the most pro-Union, or at least anti-independence, regions of Scotland.

SNP didn't shame themselves in 2019 in Dumfries, but they were up against a shitload of Tory voters.

Central belt doesn't need the rest of scotland, the oil, sheep, scenery etc- could get by just on production line of gallus wee bastards imo let the rump uk take shortbread scotland

Happy NY!

Oh my god……. pic.twitter.com/bbca36aOQP

— William Kedjanyi (@KeejayOV3) December 30, 2021

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i forgot when the queen emerges from her chrysalis in her new and vast all-vengeful form?

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Knight of The Most Noble Order of the Garter - what a fucking country

Tony Blair is now about as equal as a citizen can get to Prince Andrew, congrats m8!

to quote James Ellroy "Good evening peepers, prowlers, pederasts, panty-sniffers, punks and pimps"

Lord Adonis is going to fucking jizz his soldier off

— Tom Williams (@shirleymush) December 31, 2021

Trouble at t'baitfarm

🚨🚨🚨 | BREAKING: Twitter has SUSPENDED the entire Politics For All empire.

The accounts of Politics For All (@PoliticsForAlI), News For All (@NewsForAIl), and Football For All (@FootballlForAll) are all affected.

The account of PFA boss, Nick Moar (@nickgmoar), is also down.

— Evolve Politics (@evolvepolitics) January 2, 2022

even when it came out it was a little tory shit behind the account ppl were still boosting his misleading headlines so I muted him ages ago

Imagine my shock... pic.twitter.com/2G2Ycv87v3

— Election Maps UK (@ElectionMapsUK) January 2, 2022

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literally not happening, all I've seen is people flooding his HNY tweet with Where is the Forde Report? or just telling him to fuck off!

Very strange tweet!

Some fools have unsuccessfully tried to make the argument that "Kieth" is a classist slur, which is an accusation so preposterous that nobody gave a fuck. Well "Magic Grandpa" is definitely ageist and such a very poor school playground level epithet that it more induces groans of embarrassment rather than the successful trolling effect of Kieth. This is all imo of course!

I thought the accusation was that Kieth was xenophobic... or something?

Kieth is massively xenophobic obv

oh you meant the name

"magic grandpa" was an extremely effective piece of delegitimating political invective (and i *think* that DQ coined it)

I think there was also an accusation that "Kieth" was xenophobic. lol the guy who brought rampant islamophobe Trevor Phillips back to the party a victim of xenophobic name-shaming - what a hoot!

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it's embarrassing though

very David Quantick tbf. Lol I didn't know he'd coined the phrase.

it his best work since he contributed towards the most badly aged parts of Brasseye no doubt

I think there was also an accusation that "Kieth" was xenophobic. lol the guy who brought rampant islamophobe Trevor Phillips back to the party a victim of xenophobic name-shaming - what a hoot!

Tony Blair 'rejected Hillsborough inquiry as a favour for Rupert Murdoch' - Mirror Online https://t.co/bTZfBG8WoC

— Wendy Seabrook 🌹 (@wfseabrook) January 3, 2022

yeah but tax credits

"I was only there to ask for directions on how to get away from there."

I've only been once to 5 Hertford St - the club of choice for Liz Truss to waste taxpayers' money in - and I can confirm it's as sickeningly opulent as it looks here ... why throw a strop to book it when other places were available? https://t.co/IOAoBEI56S

— Paul Mason (@paulmasonnews) January 2, 2022

yeah but tax credits

Petition to strip Sir Tony Blair of knighthood surpasses 370,000 signatures

if this could reach a few million at least it would cause some embarrassment, but on the other hand they can stick their honours system up their arse.

Meanwhile fucking hell

Taskforce Officers were out recently doing drug swabs in Shoreditch as part of a wider operation to ensure the night time economy is a safe place for all pic.twitter.com/UtMbayPwpt

— Metropolitan Police (@metpoliceuk) January 2, 2022

yeah but tax credits

Sure Start

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freshening up my act :D

if this could reach a few million at least it would cause some embarrassment, but on the other hand they can stick their honours system up their arse.

if a million people taking to the streets to protest blair's ambition to murder hundreds of thousands of people in iraq and afghanistan had no effect then a bunch of digital signatures is v unlikely to move the needle of conscience much either

remember Marsan's wall of New Labour achievements? well here's the good news: Kieth won't be re-opening the 500 Sure Start centres that the Tories closed!

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also the problem is that it sort of legitimises the honours system even if that isn't the intention.

Tories may or may not have closed SureStarts but now I'm back on it they were funded for 5 years and were intended to be self funding thru reallocation of budgets and voluntary organisation contributions

so they almost certainly would have closed a third of them since 2010 whoever won the GE. My favourite Sure Start moment was seeing inspirational quotes stuck to the wall in a meeting room at the Ravensthorpe SS. One quote from Ghandi, one from John Lennon and then one from a mumsnet post!

Nothing from Davina?

I should have had a Dean Gaffney quote printed out to stick on there next to it.

Excellent thread on disability and covid. So much comes down to cuts.

Yes, Frances disabled children do exist, and they are often more impacted than the mitigations you have been calling for. Can you please stop spreading disinformation which has led to suffering and abuse of disabled children? 🧵 1/13 https://t.co/EyI8h4SbF7

— Dr. Michael B. Riordan (@michael_riordan) January 3, 2022

I know The Queen is dead. Nevertheless be amazing if she survives 2022

Prince Andrew relying on an agreement made by a Paedophile with one of his victims is a really bad look

— nazir afzal (@nazirafzal) January 3, 2022

Dr Ryan has made the case that *disabled people* as a group are *more vulnerable to covid* and therefore *more protected by any mitigations put in place to prevent it*. This position papers over the wide variety of disability and capacity of blanket interventions to do harm.

this is so otm. Dr Ryan has done good work, like shining a light on how the DWP were phoning often vulnerable and worried people going through PIP tribunals that they were likely to win, to pressurize them into accepting reduced offers. I didn't see many other people giving that as much coverage and now that foul practise been stopped after a successful test case. But sometimes she's a bit reluctant to criticise and oppose the Labour Party line on matters. And sometimes she's just plain wrong. I once politely asked her and kept it polite cos she is nice, I asked why is she so supportive towards Yvette Cooper considering how much death and destruction she's wrought on a whole lot of disabled people. And her amazing answer was: How was she to know back then how terrible PFI means testing would turn out to be. I mean ...Wut?!!!

express just coked up and shitposting like a beast here

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that's fantastic. Perhaps they've done a count of how many PLP heads he's living in rent-free!

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"the beast still lies ahead"

It's quite a big thing for any head of State to give a foreign politician a slot at their daily press conference.

This will have caused upset not only to the Government, but Labour too.

Corbyn was able to give a lengthy address to the Mexican public.pic.twitter.com/uLyclpRlmP

— Alex Tiffin (@RespectIsVital) January 3, 2022

lol even the president of Mexico thinks Kieth is a tory piece of shit!

Was it a lengthy address? I only saw a brief clip and the translation segments were as long as Marcelo Bielsa's.

that's all I've seen of it. Corbyn attended Obrador's inauguration and I suppose Starmer wouldn't do that because centre-left party leaders are not good for his brand.