“a mix between the weddoes & the courteeners with the swagger of the arms industry”: uk politics in 2026

IT'S TIME

(concept half-stolen from matt #2 bcz i can't think in this heat)

Talent borrows, genius steals.

Starmer apparently staying for the full term as my MP.

Did someone mention This Heat?

NEW - MPs say Bridget Phillipson and Liz Kendall confronted Kemi Badenoch about her language at PMQs today where she called Phillipson “spiteful” which Kendall said was outrageous. Badenoch reported to have said “I’m never going to stop talking about how spiteful you are”

The Tories want my vote.

tbf Badenoch, who you'll remember was working class when she worked at McDonald's, called Phillipson a "spiteful class warrior". If only!

spiteful towards..the rich? I wish a bish would

Phillipson is from a working class background much like Badenoch was when she worked in McDonald's for a couple of weeks.

Burnham's dad was a British Telecom engineer doing the hard graft of 2nd-fixing category 5 cable to RJ45 wall sockets. Kind of like a less hard working electrician/plumber type trade. Less likely to get fucked up by asbestos as well!

Kemi Badenoch goes hard after Rachel Reeves.

“She didn’t even bother to come out into Downing Street to watch the PM deliver his resignation speech.

“Then she turned up to get a selfie with Andy Burnham.

“She let him down.”

lol, some of the hardcore Starmeroids are agreeing with Badenoch

What the hell is Badenoch's deal? There must a skeleton key to understanding her ideology, who she is contrarian to and when and
why.
It seems to be just Spiked magazine, or is there more to it than that?

She actually is a spiteful class warrior.

She's in the terminally online right, so her ideology is shaped by so many conspiracy theories and weirdness it's a fool's game to try to understand her.

Patrician Nigerian family, brought up to look down her nose at plebs + Christian to boot.

Badenoch is extremely horrible but on the anthropomorphic quotient she scores higher as a human being than BP, who is literally an automaton.

Badenoch seems to be in politics for the chance to attempt to humiliate others. Given the current state of UK Pol, she has had a few opportunities to try this. However because she's about a millionth as smart as she thinks she is and lacking in any charisma, nothing particularly lands apart from how incredibly nasty she is. The fact that this exposes how opposition leader is her dream role and the highest level she'll ever reach may or may not be lost on her.

And if she was leader of an opposition that had a hope of winning an election, they'd have to fire her so somebody who cared about that or was mature enough to pause the juvenile hectoring and pretend to could take her place.

So many Universities are on the brink. Might be worth having a plan.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx2djnz3y47o

xpost She's like Rik Mayall, not as in 'New Statesman' but 'Young Ones"

"Urr look at bogey face over there...."

(another politics thread with 'smart quotes' in the title that'll look bad for years)

Well, Kasabian have outlasted Starmer..

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

"It was a fatally prosperous forensic year."

Harris might have eaten shit but starmzy managed to fit quite a lot of extraordinary prosecutions into his short and dismal reign tbf

Kieth will always lament that he could never match Kamala's extraordinarily absolutely fucking evil feat of using her office to block evidence that would have prevented an innocent black man from being consigned to death row. But sometimes the achievements of a prosecutor is more about who doesn't get prosecuted rather than who does!

Lol how did Kamala ever lose

FT reporting that Unite and GMB are pulling out all the stops to prevent Miliband from becoming Chancellor because they don't like his commitment to Net Zero.

... on the hottest day since records began

the express has had several front pages damning net zero in recent weeks. they really have a bee in their bonnet about it.

It's a standard right wing hate totem

(Hence Unite etc etc)

Jobs Jobs Jobs

After last night's incumbent losses to upstarts in NYC, my sources tell me Dem party leadership is reaching out to an individual they refer to only as "The Fixer", and that making that call is a "break in case of emergency" situation, but he's available and ready to go to work pic.twitter.com/AFsBLUFawJ

— Will 🦥 Menaker (@willmenaker) June 24, 2026

UK unions being pro fossil fuel, anti-green energy is not in the interests of the working classes, its purely to serve the billionaires and is so on brand for them.

Sharon Graham organised a Unite protest for a more equitable share of the weapons of death industry blood money for workers, after Italian unions had organised blockades for Gaza. It's a shameful bootlicking country is this and Graham is despicable and the other unions are all right-wing garbage as well. Which goes to show how the unionisation of BAE is a trojan horse for the UK elites and how apolitical labourism without anti-imperialism and class politics is always going to serve the interests of the scumbag elites. And this all comes the back to the complete destruction of the Labour Party also cannot come soon enough.

The Economist here is providing more hallucinations on 'Red Ed'

https://archive.ph/32o0q

still grumbling about David Miliband losing 16 years later, and then the deranged rambling from some parallel universe where somehow Ed had pulled a soft coup and is the de facto unelected leader of the UK, lol a joke publication

Laughing so hard at this AI-slop I nearly forgot to ask where he was between October 2023 and April 2024. https://t.co/GM0d2R4Uur pic.twitter.com/CGbphjflRY

— bread and poses (@breadandposes) June 25, 2026

this long twitter post by AI Carns quite obviously is 90% LLM generated slop, it's quite hilarious that he would put something so incredibly stupid out. Just lots of jaunty vacuous slogans in series, and all kind of centred around the idea that there is a consensus for the UK to become an insane permanent warfare state.

Here's the lesson I learned from Ukraine and in government, and it never changes. We invent things. Other countries build them. Other countries decide. We're brilliant at the first mile and absent for the next ninety nine.

^^^
this is one of the bits he wrote himself I think, lol

As talked about here, Burnham will need to fight his MPs

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jun/25/bond-markets-andy-burnham-afraid-own-mp-labour

This is misreading Burnham's willingness to do a radicalism. Beside all that though, Lab MPs will not get rid of him if he went with Ed Mil and then there was some kind of radical plan for the markets and The Bank of England.

Going with Streeting as chancelllor is, needless to say, suicidal.

fully expecting eye-rolls for sharing monbiot content, but this analysis of the different political strands within the broader green movement is pretty good i think:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d8ic1KVmryY

Shabana Mahmood is set to sack Mike Tapp as Immigration Minister for "unauthorised remarks"

It comes after he wrote an article calling for foreign care workers to be exempt from her immigration reforms

A source says he's expected to be sacked for breaching the Ministerial Code

"He has taken possible ideas that the Home Secretary and her team were working on, and briefed them as his own to try to win a job in the new administration

tapp’s aff weather

about 90% of Tapp's schtick used to be "here comes the deportation hardman, let's go deport some subhuman scum" and now he's getting sacked for pretending to be more nuanced on immigration!

Keir Starmer is currently refusing to sack Mike Tapp despite Shabana Mahmood's request

It’s understood No 10 see him as a Minister commenting on a policy that falls within his remit

this is getting funnier

None of this fuckery about immigration and settlement was even in the manifesto. I hope she gets pissy and quits.

was going to say I hope she falls in a hole, but let's extend that to the entire house of commons

When I moved to the UK, it was on a freelancer visa which cost nothing to get or to renew. After FOUR years, ILR. No NHS fees, and no income minimums. Just letters from regular clients saying they were happy to carry on working with you. After the first renewal, the next three were basically rubber-stamped

John Major’s Britain, people…

Farnworth (Halton) Council By-Election Result:

🌹 LAB: 51.0% (+14.6)
➡️ RFM: 36.4% (-0.0)
🌳 CON: 7.7% (-5.7)
🌍 GRN: 4.7% (-9.0)
🦅 LBT: 0.2% (New)

Labour HOLD.
Changes w/ 2026.

— Election Maps UK (@ElectionMapsUK) June 25, 2026

My rudimentary maths tells me that Labour only won that by like 10 votes or fewer the previous time

If Burnham does the minimum around cost of living, gets privitization of utilities going, is seen to mean business around cost of living and so on, we may still get a hung parliament xp

If Labour didn't have such a stonking majority I'd have put money on them calling an election before the end of the year. As it is, I think they'll sit it out.