love* in the time of plague (and by love* i mean brexit* and other dreary matters of uk politics)

tbf i used to remind myself when they were under Blair that the history of the Labour party has always been more cunts than champions.

the social Left (ffs) have always been outliers in this grim angry nation

if military cunts aren't happy they should unionize

For sure, I’ve voted for bad Labour governments in the past and likely will again. I think I’ve been more fair to Starmer than many and have long been resigned to them being sub-optimal on policy to appeal to swing voters. The inability to make even simple statements without getting in a dig at Corbyn or foghorning ‘we are not like them’ (‘them’ in this case being every perverse right-wing distortion of the multiracial, multigenerational coalition that came together for mild social justice reforms) feels needless and petty - but also calculated specifically to ensure that left-wing voters don’t feel comfortable under the Labour banner. They could have taken a big tent approach and it looks like they aren’t particularly interested.

I’m sure they’ve done the maths and have worked out that for every three left-wing BAME voters they lose in safe or unwinnable seats they can pick up one 53-year-old quantity surveyor in Newcastle-under-Lyme who doesn’t consider themselves racist but believes in sensible controls on Muslims and that, so good luck to them.

i didn't disagree with you on most of your comments on Starmzy

also calz much as i love you there's always been the possibility of a middle ground between Blairite bullshit and actual socialism and i don't think Starmz was obviously the former, at least at first

i don't think this has to be a question of strategy tho, just kneerjerk instinct towards a Blue-ish Labour. i doubt it's calculation so much as authentic reactionary cuntness.

Labour under Corbyn made a great offer to the Forces community. The misinformation ensured it didn’t cut through.

As an Army wife I was really impressed with the 5 pledges and the wider vision.

This 👇 right wing banging the patriotism drum, no thanks. #ArmedForcesDay2020 https://t.co/s2Sn2Jtwsu

— Tina McKay (@TinaMcKay_) June 27, 2020

It remains to be seen whether right-wing "party of armed forces" posturing will also include any policy that improves on what Corbyn offered them, but at this point it is just a signalling game, but unfortunately he is signalling to the type of morons Ian Austin would consider salt of the earth and possibly voted for Ukip or the Tories in the last decade.

I’m sure they’ve done the maths

I'm not sure anyone in the Labour party, good or bad, has ever done any maths. Even the few good ones aren't the sharpest shanks

xp

no doubt yeah

also fuck the army and the rest of them

also xp yes anvil speaking truth to poo-er

Its pretty easy to nullify the Labour party, just lock them in an unlocked room

save the key and lock for a rainy day dont waste it

last night Sarah Vine had to apologise and delete a fake Priyamvada Gopal tweet with a Stalin quote about wiping out the Whites. Shame really, because it would have been sweet to see the gobshite getting sued to fuck!

also would be sweet to wipe out the whites

Like as if a respectable History professor and author from Cambridge would be tweeting Stalin quotes out of context to own the nazis! hmm actually I would tbh. But I have the luxury and privilege of being white and could get away with it!

I understand that there are laminated photos of me throughout Cambridge city now attacking me. This is responsibility of Sarah Vine, David Vance and others. If something happens to me, please hold them to account.

— Priyamvada Gopal (@PriyamvadaGopal) June 27, 2020

this is getting out of control, some people put themselves in genuine danger just by exercising the slightest bit of intellectual rigour in talking about British colonial history, it's almost like n... ........y!

i read some of the callback midweek, it's almost as if there are still a bunch of racist cunts in the UK

it's almost like n... ........y!

I mean I'm not a great fan of that whole beatnik thing but this is a bit harsh on Neal Cassady IMO.

Kerouac is such unreadable garbage, he should have been sent to a mined camp. Lord Buckley is fun tho!

Can someone summarise what's happening with this Gopal situation? Is it a predominantly student led thing by the kind of pricks who would normally vociferously defend free speech, or is it more of an organised social media far right thing where they've decided to go after her for daring to exist too prominently?

calz kind of otm about Beatnik writers but as i get older i appreciate the lumpy shittiness as the whole point

xp
might be a bit of both by the sounds of it, either way the laminated pics is sinister stuff. the best thing was despite some of these arseholes going to some effort to get her sacked, she actually got a promotion this week.

She says it's coming from 4chan.

I’m sure they’ve done the maths and have worked out that for every three left-wing BAME voters they lose in safe or unwinnable seats they can pick up one 53-year-old quantity surveyor in Newcastle-under-Lyme who doesn’t consider themselves racist but believes in sensible controls on Muslims and that, so good luck to them.

Nowhere else to go, innit?

Newcastle-under-Lyme is the capital of the Nazi Midlands

Keir Starmer has launched a new Labour Friends of the Forces engagement programme

please call this #grunts4labour

more like #cunts4labour amirite?

I most certainly am an honest person. If the Mail published that tweet this morning their lawyers will have OK’d it. I am going to check it now.
If she wrote those truly horrible things she should not be a teacher.

— Allison Pearson (@allisonpearson) June 27, 2020

hey you can be honest and also a psycho nazi

Gopal is suing the Mail and Amanda Platell for putting the fake quote in their article this morning.

nice!

The longer she keeps it up, the simpler it is for my lawyers. https://t.co/WMBUFapNgJ

— Priyamvada Gopal (@PriyamvadaGopal) June 27, 2020

Kuenssberg seems to flirt with Starmer even more than she did with Johnson and it's revolting to see. pic.twitter.com/ssKPnDLKMa

— George Dragon (@georgecdragon) June 27, 2020

fucking hell!

oh no

pesto will be jizzing his britches too no doubt

barf

'pint' is some good authentocrat signalling tho - hat tip to starmzy

big man should have said 'pint of tennent's and a bag of scampos'for the S-tier kudos mind

S-tier karma

great to have such a resoundingly Normal Bloke™️ as LOTO though!

he looks like a cursed face in a slice of bacon, just hideous.

like David Hameron he should be popular with the gammons then

https://i.redd.it/is1i8kb1of751.png

finally, we have a real opposition - one led by someone with a stuffed-up nose who Likes A Pint

probably a pint of Carlsberg the melt cunt

The frontbencher leaking to the Telegraph is fascinating.

One added: “Rebecca was just anti working with anyone. She wasn’t open to working with the Tories, she took the path of least resistance, which is that anything the Government says is bad.

“The unions were just an easy way for her to have a pop at the Government. We got boxed in because she just wasn’t thinking where the issue was going.”

“Come September the pendulum is going to swing straight back to education, with the country looking to its leaders.

“It will be a crucial test of this country’s leadership as to whether we can get kids back at school.”

This sounds like something you’d say if you were in a coalition.

or if you were a Tory cunt

Starmer reminds of this guy we once caught pouring lager down a sink at a house party, whilst trying make it look like he was supping loads. hey I'm a right laddo me, bloody loves the carling black label!

I caught a bit of the AQ repeat earlier. There was some absolutely pathetic "I don't want to politicise this Jenrick situation" soft-soaping from Burnham. These fucking people!

that frontbencher’s name? one k. starmer

“not open to working with the Tories” wow what a damning revelation

This sounds like something you’d say if you were in a coalition.

Centrists prize civility because they think opposition parties are wings of the government

Centrists may have a point.

KS always makes me think of that Tunes ad where the guy with the cold asks for a second class return to Dottingham