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

Remember when Kieth was DPP and legislated so that people convicted of benefit fraud would face up to 10 year prison sentences, well at the time Thornberry said this was too lenient and they should get more!

even though it has been rubbished here there and everywhere. I will still keep quoting hard facts from that Eagleton book!

Aaargh gyac that’s awful!

I see.

Ken Clarke, the ex-chancellor, has warned the rail strikes "cannot be allowed to look successful".

He said if rail workers secure a large pay rise then "vast amounts of the public sector" will be "induced to go in for the same militancy, the same strike action" to get the same.

— Jack Maidment (@jrmaidment) June 21, 2022

Fingers crossed.

Lol @ this Britpop scab.

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2022/jun/22/glastonbury-festival-welcomes-back-crowds-amid-rail-strikes

"UK Music’s chief executive, Jamie Njoku-Goodwin, said: “For the thousands of music fans who are so keen to get back to festivals and gigs after two years of lockdowns, these strikes risk causing chaos.

“The strikes come at a critical time for the live music industry and music businesses, which are battling to recover post-pandemic. Fans face a massive struggle trying to get to Glastonbury because of the disruption, which will add to traffic on the roads at a time when we’re striving to improve sustainability in the music industry.

“We need all sides to get around the table to end these strikes and deliver a crucial financial boost to the industry and a summer of fantastic live music.”"

Jamie Njoku-Goodwin is the Chief Executive of UK Music, the collective voice of the music industry. He is an experienced campaigner, a strategic communications specialist and a former political adviser who has held senior roles at the highest levels of Government.

He most recently worked as a special adviser to the Health Secretary Matt Hancock and was previously a special adviser at DCMS. Before joining the Government, Jamie worked for the election strategist Sir Lynton Crosby and as a political adviser for the Conservative Party.

Jamie holds a Bachelor’s degree in Music from the University of Nottingham, and a Masters in International Relations. He is a trained pianist and conductor, and sits on the advisory boards of the London Philharmonic Orchestra and English National Opera.

Talking of despicable Tory cunts:

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2022/06/22/rail-strikers-putins-friend-says-tobias-ellwood/

"Fans face a massive struggle trying to get to Glastonbury because of the disruption"

things you just don't care about

Also: Do people catch trains to the Glastonbury Festival? I thought the stations were blummin miles away? If I'd only known I wouldn't have driven there, back in the day...

People without cars do, yes

These strikes are just a bit of fun.

Mick Lynch of @RMTunion is on the #Peston show tonight. What's the very silliest question I could ask him?

— Robert Peston (@Peston) June 22, 2022

"Why would you be infinitely better at my job than I am?"

At least Mick Lynch talks like a normal person. We call Peston Pes-ton in our house on account of his tendency to pause between the syllables of words for no good reason.

He also answers questions like a normal person, which is really throwing a lot of people in the media used to prevaricating slippery wankers.

the MI5 file on him will have almost grown to Corbyn dimensions in the last week. It's funny how not being a total cunt makes you a security threat in the UK.

I need a compilation.

“It feels like unions are opposing modernisation”

“You don’t know that, you haven’t been in our position”

Watch @RobertJenrick and Mick Lynch clash over the reasons why @RMTUnion members have been striking on @ITV at 10.45pm#Peston pic.twitter.com/7xcYpbaFHI

— Peston (@itvpeston) June 22, 2022

I hope the TV shows have realised what good box office Mick is and keep booking him.

Hopefully Dave Ward gets his moment in the sun, the man is incredible on Twitter.

I’m bald. https://t.co/2niMFhfzqh

— Dave Ward (@DaveWardGS) November 5, 2019

Really interesting piece on the surprising Government housing paper.

https://tribunemag.co.uk/2022/06/housing-renters-rights-tenants-landlords-section-21-michael-gove

xps here’s your compilation. Includes J***y Ch****n

I’ve figured out who Thornberry reminds me of: Albert Finney as Daddy Warbucks.

Mick has more about him than the rest of these cunts put together and it’s not particularly close.

Though the touchscreen TV lady on Peston made the point earlier that “the 1% have had large pay rises” and just now ridiculed the PLP, so fair play

Omg Jenrick getting absolutely sonned by Lynch here

Mick just toying with Toryboy - who iirc was kicked out of the cabinet for being too corrupt even for Boris Johnson to put up with.

Nice Mic Wright summary of the predictably pathetic media treatment of Lynch
https://brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/not-taking-the-mick

You are a journalist with national exposure. You realise your next major interviewee has spent the last 24 hours battering empty, lazy questions and making interviewees spouting platitudes look like idiots.

Do you

a) do some prep and try to challenge the flaws in your victim's arguments?

b) fuck it, just chat shit, nobody's ever called you on this before ever?

I really hope they continue forgetting A is a possibility.

Next I want Mick Lynch v the football focus guy who somehow made it on the news

finally got someone from the London Irish diaspora who isn't a complete arsehole! Reading his wiki reveals he was an electrician who was subjected to an illegal construction industry blacklist for having the temerity to join a trade union in the 90's.

surprisingly, dan walker has been the only interviewer so far that didn't treat mick lynch like a specimen

You leave the London Irish diaspora alone lol. Anyway, put him in charge of the country tbh, "I'm not a Marxist, I'm settling an industrial dispute" quote of the year

it would be fair to say he's far more likable than Brendan Oh Kneel

He gets better and better

“Who’s your political hero?”

“James Connolly, an Irish socialist republican” pic.twitter.com/JAUkY9G5Nd

— Ronan Burtenshaw (@ronanburtenshaw) June 22, 2022

finally got someone from the London Irish diaspora who isn't a complete arsehole!

There's also his right hand man, Eddie Dempsey.

anyone who survives does an electrical apprenticeship learns early the easiest way to be ostracised in CI is to look out for yourself. Like I got mocked as The Asbestos Kid because I had a very rational fear of working in the vicinity of any!

All that aside I wonder who will win out in the end. Look at how the barristers strike is going.

Honestly this govt isn't joking. Now stating that if criminal barristers go on strike, they'll make defendants state in open court if they're ok with it, and then threaten to discipline the barrister. With this and banning overtime on the railway, they're trying to bleed unions. https://t.co/2Ze4sLsFAL

— Tony Collins (@_tony_c_) June 23, 2022

Here is the compilation.

Just a video of Mick Lynch bodying journalists and Tories pic.twitter.com/C1kLroXFZX

— PoliticsJOE (@PoliticsJOE_UK) June 22, 2022

You leave the London Irish diaspora alone lol. Anyway, put him in charge of the country tbh, "I'm not a Marxist, I'm settling an industrial dispute" quote of the year

anyone who (-survives-) does an electrical apprenticeship learns early the easiest way to be ostracised in CI is to look out for yourself. Like I got mocked as The Asbestos Kid because I had a very rational fear of working in the vicinity of any!

lol, but you would amazed at how blase some people are about what is an absolutely deadly mineral. Ask Malcolm MacLaren. And then there was that 28 yr old woman from Oldham who became the youngest person to die of mesothelioma, and this was all down to a short cut she used to take to school that crossed the site of an old asbestos factory.

“I had my first speech outside Number 10 as prime minister all planned out,” Jeremy Corbyn tells me. “I was going to announce homelessness in Britain ends now, next week no-one will be sleeping rough.”

https://declassifieduk.org/exclusive-jeremy-corbyn-on-the-establishment-campaign-to-stop-him-becoming-pm/

Unsure whether the interviewer knows who Connolly is. She works on a political programme for heaven's sake. But maybe she's just playing dumb to get ML to talk.

Funny how Connolly sounds "controversial" in London yet half the rail in Ireland goes through a large station named after him.

We don't know who she is about to suggest at the end of the clip. "What about...what about..." *Blobby crashes through wall*

speaking of corbyn, one shudders to think of the tory hacks currently beachcombing mick lynch's social media history for this and that

well they already found out he's the baddie from Thunderbirds

The Connolly interviewer is Anushka Asthana iirc? Previously political editor at the Guardian, where working knowledge of political history evidently not obligatory

Mick Lynch already heckling @Peston as we record the top of the show! This should be interesting… pic.twitter.com/si4OJO3IOj

— Anushka Asthana (@AnushkaAsthana) June 22, 2022

incredibly funny to see lots of tories giving it "we'll automate the railway lines." you'll do this thing that will require literal tens of billions of investment in public infrastructure? sure

— live glenn reaction (@sky_traffic) June 21, 2022

NEW🚨: Google searches for 'join union' have increased by 184% in the last week.

— Trades Union Congress (@The_TUC) June 23, 2022

Have we had no Looney Lynch's Love For IRA Monster James Connolly headlines yet?