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

lol

I’m really embarrassed to say I never saw this coming. When it was blinding obvious this would be the logical next step. Wow. https://t.co/yUx7nCkafW

— emily m (@maitlis) May 27, 2022

Why does mummy's face disappear while playing peek-a-boo? Oh wait, there she is again!

Next: Emily Maitlis interview in Guardian Weekend on Trump, the era of online populism, the need for sceptical journalism, what she really thinks of Jacob Rees-Mogg - and *that* dress.

Meanwhile in LOTO, senior advisers to Keir Starmer have mulled their next steps if Labour loses the election

They are discussing a proposal for Starmer to stay on for a transitional period of six to 12 months to give the party time to learn from mistakes and elect his successor

— Eleni Courea (@EleniCourea) May 27, 2022

KS's *own advisors* are briefing this?

Sir Keir Starmer is to publish a book about Britain under a Labour government, originally written as a private collection of his thoughts, in the face of claims that he has failed to communicate his vision

"a tedium-induced coma"

Lonely just thinking abaout Britain under a Labour government.

Lonely guy, that is. Goddamnit!

people aren't reacting overmuch to the news that the ex head of MI6 was involved in a brief plot to replace the Prime Minister. https://t.co/bCbZ1lKGTD

— jamie k (@jkbloodtreasure) May 27, 2022

Dearlove's proposal here appears to be that ex-CIA operatives would set up a fake Democratic Party entity that would allow them to infiltrate Best for Britain lol pic.twitter.com/yKiNkN6dUC

— Lafargue (@Lafargue) May 28, 2022

UK government to hope no one knows how much prices have increased if they have to be measured in completely fucking meaningless units

(I have to convert to imperial for working in the US and it means n o t h i n g to me)https://t.co/kNs06x9c6T

— Hazel Southwell (@HSouthwellFE) May 29, 2022

brb asking Martin Lewis if 6 bushels of gruel for one giant novelty coin is a good deal

I always consult multi-millionaires before making important budgeting decisions

lol hullo hazel

former ilxor i believe (she posted once)

according to Dodds you need to visit labour.org to find their transformative policies if you are interested in them, but she as party chair doesn't seem willing to talk about them. Such a dreadful interview. If they go into an election campaign empty-handed and give evasive and dismal answers like that, then they will be facing a much worse result than 2019.

guaranteed the line will then be "corbyn did even more damage to the party than we'd thought"

they totally fucked it in 2019 and the dignified thing to do was not try blame it all on Miliband as he didn't try and make Brown a scapegoat when he fucked it. But these are some of the most dishonest and vile people in UK politics.

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NEW:Wakefield (Christian People's Alliance) candidate Paul “have never sexually assaulted anyone” Bickerdike has further clarified his position

He tells media: “I do look at children but I look at children in a proper way, not the way that the previous MP was looking at children.”

lol, this guy is distributing campaign leaflets on which he declares he's not a paedophile

"My t-shirt saying "I'm not a paedophile" has a lot of people etc. and so on"

Britain could face rolling blackouts in a “reasonable worst case scenario” this winter, officials believe, with power to 6 million homes rationed weekday mornings and evenings, @Steven_Swinford reveals

And if Russia cuts off all gas it would be even worsehttps://t.co/JQihyXuQEJ pic.twitter.com/eMXoUa6bBM

— Emily Gosden (@emilygosden) May 30, 2022

my memory of the mid-70s powercuts is that they were EXCITING

(mum and dad were both war babies and enjoyed being in a pinch plus we lived next to a wood with access to firewood for warmth etc): when i closed up the house after they died i filled a whole large box with candle ends recovered from every room and every drawer, it is seriously a wonder we didn't burn the house down

yeah there were frequent power cuts at my childhood home too, just due to being a very isolated place - def fun and exciting, the scramble to find candles and such

Have a drink every time the phrase Winter of Discontent is used in the media and you'll be dead by the end of the year.

feel like we could comnbine "the dead unburied!" with a lot of the jubileee malarkey tbh

The Times article is paywalled but is the gist that millions will face power cuts or millions would face power cuts if they don’t delay plans to turn off coal-fired plants?

I can just about remember the mid-70's power cuts, along with memories of my mum shutting the curtains and telling me + my brother to keep quiet because the tv licensing van was in the area, which seemed a lot more of a dangerous situation because tv licence guy was an evil baddie. Power cuts were a novelty.

SV - don't know.

Lots of power cuts when I visited family in India. Can't wait to relive my (also happy) childhood.

"Since I'm in the Christian People's Alliance, there's clearly something wrong with me, but you haven't guessed yeeeeeeet..."

We had plenty of power cuts in rural Herefordshire well into the 80s, so will be Thatcher nostalgia for me.

There's actually an oil lamp shop round the corner from where I've just moved, seems to sell nothing else! Unfortunately it's only open 2-4 on Saturdays, so I'd imagine queues might be forming from Friday midnight this winter to snaffle the few remaining sources of power available to the nation.

the nation will largely be, as it were, cold lampin'

I prefer rechargeable LED lamps, not in a hurry to burn the gaff down ... yet

what are you going to recharge them with GENIUS??? the... the.. SUN??? *scoffs*

oh, the sun? really? ok

lol i do have some genius wind up USB chargers for back up that are so cheaply made the winder handle breaks if you wind it like fast enough to create the slightest amount of elektro motiv force

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lol I don't even know wtf this event is but that ridiculous old tool with the mohawk and Jess Phillips is one hell of a pairing, maybe Maconie was not available.

Someone once told me they overheard him interviewing the Boredoms, and it was all "so are you into kung fu and that?" and similarly incisive questions. Let's see if he can pull out something better for JP!

it's glastonbury

only Putin can save us

earthquake in shropshire: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-shropshire-61636678

third seal opens

the previous earthquakes bit below on bbc link doesn't even mention the 2007 one and that was a 4.3

there was a 5.2 in 1990

I don't understand how the UK gets earthquakes when it is slap bang in the middle of a huge tectonic plate

The nearest subduction zones to Britain lie at the Hellenic Arc, south of Greece and in the Caribbean.

We have angered the ancient ones obvs

Our spellbinding homage to Her Majesty The #Queen! 👑
We've projected eight portraits of Queen Elizabeth II onto Stonehenge in celebration of the #PlatinumJubilee. pic.twitter.com/vn5vkGHJGt

— Stonehenge (@EH_Stonehenge) May 30, 2022

its the blitz spirit iirc

also i believe techtonic plates are crisscrossed by faultlines, there's one through church stretton

my favourite fact abt the biggest uk quake in living memory, the dogger quake of 1931, is that it caused the head of the dr crippen waxwork at madame tussauds to fall off

Labour news: Sources tell me that on the long list to be the party’s Stretford and Urmston candidate is one @paulmasonnews

— Rachel Wearmouth (@REWearmouth) May 30, 2022

so this explains his understanding of social democracy correctly from a Starmist viewpoint