Stability is change: crossing the floor from potato to potahto in uk 2024

Get in here, loons

Very good

Oddly starting this with Mason news.

Breaking: ISLINGTON NORTH Labour shortlist Sem Moema . Praful Nargund

— lee harpin (@lmharpin) May 22, 2024

breaking: stoya cancelling travel plans

From The Guardian blog quoting a tweet by a pol analyst:

Was in Westminster all day. Understand there’s 5 major reasons for @RishiSunak July 4 election gamble

1/ Key aides told PM inflation is now at its “election sweet spot” - 2.3% was today’s print - & warned it may rise again by autumn

2/ No fiscal space for NI cuts in Sept 1/

3/ Concern legal challenges will further delay/block flights to Rwanda taking off

4/ Mess in the English Channel with small boats during the summer months

5/ Nigel Farage hasn’t yet decided whether to front Reform UK, so snap poll may boost Tory prospects

Praful Nargund?

if they won't accept Comrade Mason they should offer a spot to Dunty

https://x.com/IanDunt/status/1793343773667480015

truly the most perfect idiot in the whole world, a brain as smooth as his scalp

Nargund is a private IVF clinic chief executive, who really cares about healthcare inequities

Dunt isn't an idiot, he just plays one for money.

Mason the early Starmer adopter, most consistent apologist/obsequious toady towards him for almost 5 years and all he gets in return is one humiliating rejection after another - which is all he deserves tbf.

I am sorry Tom D you will not be able to vote for this man

I didn't make the shortlist in @IslingtonNorth . Thanks to all those in the CLP who signed up to campaign for me, and to SERA for endorsing me. It's vital that we get out the vote the selected candidate, and keep Islington North red! ✊

— Paul Mason (@paulmasonnews) May 23, 2024

No-one likes him he does care.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtTdQm57_MU

100 empty spots to fill, keep on keeping on Paul

If he wasn't such a weirdo who likes making a shit ton of noise he would've got into one of those.

as well as being a foolish and deeply unlikable man I don't think he's ever been forgiven by the right for his supporting Corbyn years.

Yeah there's no place in today's Labour for people whose politics change with the wind to support their own personal aggrandisement

that's what they'll throw at Starmer, he can offer evidence that he helped finish off Corbyn by quoting the "People's Vote was a conspiracy" parts of the Eagleton book!

he's an embarrassment because he actually believes things, even if he has forced himself to believe them to fit in. I remember a kid like him at school.

No Rwanda flights till after the election. If Reform get their act together its even worse for the Tories.

It also means a very grim debate where Starmer has to promise deportations of sone kind.

Getting suicide-by-cop vibes from all of this, like Sunak is pleading with the election to put him out of his misery.

the guy just wants a long summer break in california so he can pick out a house, move there ASAP, and die horribly in the record-breaking wildfires of 2028 enjoy a long and happy life

maybe it was just a case of lose a suicide-election in the summertime or lose a confidence vote and resign

The calculations are that Rwanda flights will never get off the ground, that inflation might go up (so no interest rate cuts), and that they cannot offer anything but tax rises bcz of the state of public finances.

to gazzara's point, the domiciled tax status laws are getting changed next year yeah?

the way he brought up the furlough scheme yesterday seemed desperate, it was almost like he was inferring he paid it all out of his own pocket.

it was like in the manner of a slimy boss giving you a tiny inconsequential pay rise and then never letting you forget about it

The only time the guy was popular is when he gave lots of people money.

also when he gave us rona dinners

How soon we forget "dishy Rishi".

eat out to help out just a porn video name to most people now

a furlough scheme that was actually proposed and pushed for by McDonnell iirc and which sunak was originally dead set against…

and a furlough scheme which deliberately excluded hundreds of thousands of self-employed people, my wife being among them

xp
to me there's no question that if Corbyn and McDonnell hadn't been at the despatch box in early 2020 we would never have got the furlough measures we did get, flawed as they were

Quietly impressed by The Green Party response here. Has the right people crying about it.

Nothing to see here. Just @TheGreenParty⁩ leader on Radio 4 failing to condemn one of her fellow Green candidates for liking a post which said "we have to destroy Zionism". And she has the chutzpah to refer to the EHRC report into Labour's antisemitism to boot. What a state. pic.twitter.com/QrAo4fynZz

— Mike Katz (@mikekatz) May 23, 2024

From a locked acc:

"On Politics Weekly, Kiran explains that Sunak would rather get drenched than be compared to noted brolly loser Steve McLaren. Optics discourse is incredible"

Union Jack gazebos are a thing:

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/165496541979

behold, the Racism Cube

Don't let Starmer know or he'll be doing his press conferences from inside one.

he already is, psychically

dismal

Keir Starmer needs you to vote for Reform on July 4th.

A vote for Reform is a vote to put Keir Starmer into power. pic.twitter.com/CGVoo5snGc

— Conservatives (@Conservatives) May 23, 2024

in fairness his politics are more or less identical to theirs

And I would have got away with it if it hadn't been for you meddling Conservative Party Central Office political advisers.

A more abstract approach would be better: "vote Labour, you get Starmer as pm" with Starmer getting a Starmer mask yanked off, revealing that this confirms that he is indeed Starmer.

^^
I'm giving this one for free, if my name was saatchi & saatchi I could charge millions for this shit!

I like that, you'll go far in this game

Still an opportunity for Paul Mason

NEW
 
Conservative HQ have emailed asking for candidates in almost 100 seats
 
When candidates ask when the deadline is, they have been told it’s 48 hours, according to 2 I’ve spoken to
 
Some Tory associations are pretty livid at having been left in such an unprepared situation pic.twitter.com/baBLr6TiMK

— Paul McNamara (@PGMcNamara) May 23, 2024

lol, only a matter of time before serial carpetbagger Mason declares that the only way to advance the class struggle is by running as a Tory candidate.

Islington North too, he could run against Corbyn after all!

It’s official!

https://www.islingtontribune.co.uk/article/jeremy-corbyn-why-i-am-standing-as-an-independent-candidate-at-the-general-election

Excited for the Lab right focusing a proportionate amount of time and attention on this.

I have been informed by the Chief Whip & the Labour Party leadership that the whip has been withdrawn from me for voting to scrap the two-child benefit cap, which would lift 330,000 children out of poverty.

I will always stand up for the most vulnerable in our society.

— Zarah Sultana MP (@zarahsultana) July 23, 2024

I wouldn't be surprised if Reeves does remove it in the budget now, because as much as they love starving kids this ""show of strength"" was even more important to them. They can then claim some sort of credit and kudos for the act and get to grind their enemies' noses in the dust. They will also claim the removal was the plan all along, and some fucking morons and sycophants will believe them too.

As one Labour insider put it. These rebels on 2 child cap. They’ve given us the earliest possible chance to mark their cards. When they come crawling to us 4 1/2 years from now asking for help with their campaigns to be elected on a Lab ticket. Forget it.

— lee harpin (@lmharpin) July 23, 2024

From the mouth of Wormtongue himself

All seven have had the whip suspended for six months, when there will be a review.

Honestly they may as well go indie now, none of them are ever getting back in if past form is anything to go by.

not sure who this is

We must scrap the inhuman Work Capability Assessments and private provision of disability assessments (e.g. ATOS), scrap punitive sanctions, two-child limit and benefits cap.

— Keir Starmer (@Keir_Starmer) February 6, 2020

seeing him being referred too as Sir Kid Starver

pic.twitter.com/WePYQ4GOPK

— Hon. PolProf of Agile Ceremonies (@CeilNoyle) July 23, 2024

They’ve given us the earliest possible chance to mark their cards.

"Prematurely Anti-Starvation"

sad lol

This is the politics of committees, surveys, consultations, strategies.

When revenge comes they will never make the connection.

A new child poverty unit is being established in the Cabinet Office and a ministerial taskforce to oversee the new strategy has been established. I’ve already spoken to both @leicesterliz and @Alison_McGovern about its important work.

— Torsten Bell (@TorstenBell) July 24, 2024

Brexit has already happened. Reform backed the lift of the cap.

This could be the changingest government ever

Child Poverty Unit is a big blackboard with GROWTH written on it

Good day for Milburn to demand compulsory work for the sick and disabled tho, under the radar

there was apparently some grim shit in Sunak's green paper, like proposing vouchers, replacing PIP with one-off grants - murderous ideas. Heaven forbid these psychos would be up for them.

Lab wonk: AI is what's needed here.

https://www.theguardian.com/society/article/2024/jul/25/online-gp-consultations-have-led-to-harm-and-death-investigation-finds

time for the committee we all love to see

https://alphahistory.com/frenchrevolution/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/cpscaricature-e1701209674285.jpg

That's right

The PM tells workers at an engineering firm in the North-West: "My dad was a toolmaker."

— Hugo Gye (@HugoGye) July 25, 2024

well he made one tool at least

Vile anti-cellism from the hard left. They probably only like the viola, that's how messed up they are

I campaigned in Bristol and saw the vicious below belt Green campaign to oust the only professional concert level cellist Labour MP. https://t.co/NtgjS6a0w9

— Denis MacShane (@DenisMacShane) July 25, 2024

You know who else hated cellists? Stalin. He insisted that Shostakovich change all the cello parts to double bass

I don't think Stalin would have approved of a so-called national energy generation company paying huge rents to a parasitic monarch, who apparently owns the North Sea.

I blame the Velvet Underground xpost*2

Our beloved King actually owns Doggerland, get it right

someone should tell the King of the Browntrouts his lease has expired, unless he fancies taking up permanent residence there.

> time for the committee we all love to see

have you seen the french olympics mascot?

https://olympics.com/en/news/new-paris-2024-olympic-paralympic-mascots-revealed

excellent detail from the (interesting!) wikipedia entry on the phrygian cap: "robespierre would later object to the color, but was ignored"

i know i know i know but i opened the US politics thread and people were discussing whether or not the Kamala Harris campaign ad was inspiring or just vibes or whatever, and to me me it seemed totally blank and I've always been left totally cold by the amber waves of grain stars and stripes forever stuff that american politicians hurl at voters and seems to go down even with people i think should have more sense. I wondered if the corbyn one from 2019 was really just an equivalent, but transposed to *The UK* and i watched it again just now to see and it opened it right back up the sense that it really was the last chance and now five years later it mostly feels like it was.

Hope. pic.twitter.com/Mdti3obZiy

— Jeremy Corbyn (@jeremycorbyn) December 10, 2019

see there's your mistake right there, not a single grown-up journalist or briefcase in the entire video

having broad public support for your manifesto, rather than only from lobby journo freaks and billionaires is just populism I'm afraid.

I know I know you're right I'm sobbing though

no seriously it was very moving, more so because here we are

I went out for a late night walk with the dog that December night of horror result, drank a 4-pack and decided I'll top myself another time, if necessary.

Kamala is the usual politician. Just crumbs, floating above water gruel that we are getting from Starmer.

she's standing taller than Starmer then!

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/article/2024/jul/25/tom-tugendhats-tory-leadership-campaign-mocked-for-turd-acronym

Calling him a turd is an insult to excrement

Disgraceful response to a reasonable question, defaming the questioner. Shocking. And I don’t believe for a second this man can speak Arabic beyond “yalla” and “shukran” pic.twitter.com/aCfZ2EPWuq

— Philip Proudfoot (@PhilipProudfoot) July 25, 2024

fucking hell

whataboutism is basically its own branch of physics when you start talking to one of these tools. questioner thought he was asking something that would actually be engaged with poor guy

When they call him an old school Tory it's shorthand for "still thinks British gunboats should run the world"

Anyway he'll always be Tom Tuggin' Dat to me

its so funny how much that virtue signalling stuff is done by people who are rude about the woke left or w/e

im in favour of their ongoing genocide because i actually care more than you about Palestinians was not an angle i was expecting though

Badenoch was an ILX poster back in the day.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/article/2024/jul/26/kemi-badenoch-accuses-tory-leadership-rival-of-dirty-tricks

Aja?

Good shout

Many backward societies sacrifice people to placate false gods. https://t.co/0QuiA6VlQj

— Chris Dillow (@CJFDillow) July 27, 2024

Rachel Reeves already absolutely despises the malingering and dissatisfied population even more than austerity guard dogs like the OBR and any of the *independent* pay review bodies do, this ghoulish fiscal hawk doesn't need any advice from them.