Free as a Dodo: UK Politics Welcomes 2021

(ironically the christmas card that arrived 2 weeks late was addressed to people who haven't lived here in >3 years)

xxp no libraries are not closed, my sister works in one and is still going in

This might be Scotland only but when we went into higher tiers I think the libraries went to book collection/delivery only so I don't think there's any access to printers, internet, etc.

if some impoverished parent travelled nine miles to their nearest library and pleaded to use the printer so they could eat, it might be gamble worth trying!

My granny (91) got her second shot on the 2nd of January after getting the first one just before Christmas, I think due to my uncle ringing up the surgery and getting things moving. People have told me basically the same story as above tho (getting the number off someone who’d got their letter already) and just being checked against a list & getting booked in straight away, so def call the number if you’ve got it

Fuck the entire "print a voucher" thing in its entirety anyway. Just give people money, either via child benefit, or UC. They'll waste more procuring an e-voucher holistic reward solution from Accenture anyway.

Did we ever do the public spend on consultancy thread

Suggest 77 as I’m sure people have thoughts!

I seize up tbh

"The fishing industry has been made a fool of by the Westminster government."

A Scottish fisherman from @LochfyneLangous whose "blood is boiling" over #Brexit red tape has threatened to dump seafood at Westminster.

Read more here: https://t.co/bTL8zwbW9k pic.twitter.com/NN4BPTuDky

— Sky News (@SkyNews) January 14, 2021

Get Brexit Done Vs Get it Sorted

Dump it at Rees-Mogg's house

Fucking fishermen.

Dont threaten them with a good line

The only people Scotland other than Loyalist bigots who voted Brexit.

They were reeled in alright

spare the rod, spoil the fish

(xp) The jig's up.

They took the bait

Always carping

gammon of knowledge

hook line and sinker

Richard Leonard out

A fish joke

gammon of knowledge

― scampish inquisition (gyac), Thursday, 14 January 2021 15:45 (sixteen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

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hook line and sinker

― glumdalclitch, Thursday, 14 January 2021 15:51 (eleven minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

Only this time.....they were the mark

I want to apologise for using carp, it's a freshwater fish, it's off topic, I just wanted to join in and look like a big man

I've let myself down, I've let the board down, you'll have my resignation in the morning

the day NV lost his pun card

no! this scampi happening

I always thought Richard Leonard was a reet fucking horrible prick, but I've no doubt Starmer is up to the challenge to somehow find an even more despicable meltish wanker to replace him for this utterly silly business of leading a decaying corpse of a party with one fucking MP. Lol I'm not surprised Nicola liked the guy, he was one of her top campaigners!

have to say I appreciate the government announcing now that there won't be school meals at half term, gives the schools a good month to prepare for the u-turn

what happens when the gutter press contrive some smear on Rashford? Will mean that children with rickets is good again and without a de facto LOTO any level of murderous govt policy is permissible

Everyone hates him anyway now that man u have won the prem

lol he lasted, what, three hours?

As per @MrHarryCole here is the full note sent by Steve Baker to Tory MP colleagues pic.twitter.com/QlkBrufvcX

— Sam Coates Sky (@SamCoatesSky) January 14, 2021

What this country needs is the complete success of @BorisJohnson, with his excellent EU deal, a successful vaccination programme and a #Road2Recovery back to freedom.

I am clear Boris is the only person to lead us out of these difficulties and I support him in that endeavour.

— Steve Baker MP (@SteveBakerHW) January 14, 2021

Just asking questions! Love the commitment to bolding and spacing in that mess, btw, and clearly the Tories aren’t migrating to Signal.

Also, this is happening Monday:

Jeremy Corbyn will take the first step towards a High Court battle against Labour next week over his suspension from the parliamentary party.

The former opposition leader will have a pre-action disclosure application heard in London on Monday afternoon, court officials told the PA news agency.

Lawyers for Mr Corbyn are expected to ask a judge for disclosure of documents ahead of a possible legal challenge over his suspension.

The case is expected to relate to the Islington North MP’s original suspension and the negotiation with the Leader of the Opposition’s office over the terms of his reinstatement.

It has previously been reported that they will seek evidence proving there was a deal with Keir Starmer’s office to readmit him to the party.

Leonard's association with Corbyn was probably not useful in Scotland, with older centrists who hate Corbyn and Scottish nationalism but couldn't bring themselves to vote tory being their main constituency as far as I can tell.

Cant think of anyone who could change Labour's fortunes in Scotland, but it certainly won't be Sarwar.

the only hope for Scottish Labour is in them adopting a pro-independence stance and saying bollocks to this Westminster game, which is probably a lot easier said than done and there would be more chance of Kieth delivering socialism than that happening under his watch.

it would be a win-win option - you get shut of England and Kieth in one move!

I enjoyed Richard Leonard's weird bouncing questioning as he struggled week after week at FMQs to remain relevant and to not ask the same questions as Ruth Davidson had already asked and Nicola Sturgeon had already answered.

I know he was supposed to be a lefty or whatever, but I'm not tribal like that - there are loads of so-called lefties I can't bloody stand!

Even as pro-independents i don't see it working: just like the English racists opt for the real Tories over the lot with the tough coffee mugs, the indy lot will still opt for the real Nats. It's nearly as tricky for them as they let Brexit become: it has to be got past, but most routes past it seem bound to destroy them.

probably true, but I'm enough of a dreamer to think if they gave socialism in one country a good try it might give Nicola something more to think about rather than just the Tories and Scot-Labour fighting for the scraps

watch the rump UK and Europe make peace again when it's time for a coup

Can see that appealing to their old heartland vote (which is now literally old). I saw a fascinating set of polling a while back that demonstrated the Scot/Eng divide in today's 70-something cohort: in the South there was a lot of those who were pro-Thatcher in the 80s and became the Brexity gammon and in Scotland they were viciously anti-Tory and so now without a real socialist party have become a bit (yes!) homeless. They're not keen on indepdendence in itself, and very wary of "tartan Tories" SNP but also very put off by the shitshow of Scot Lab.

Was probably too down on it all; there's surely something there to reignite. But a coalition out of that lot + the heavy-indy young left + the Scottish melts will take better than Sarwar to forge. xp

Steve Baker strikes me as the sort of person who, when they declare their unconditional support for you, you move to the centre of a ring of airport metal detectors.

Brexit Hardman - what an epitaph

Plenty for Steve Baker to cheer once the pandemic is over by early summer

Lexit was always, always an ill-advised position pic.twitter.com/FABsZZE8yI

— John Harris (@johnharris1969) January 14, 2021

the Britannia Unchained manifesto was all about the UK productivity deficit being mainly about lazy bastard heel dragging UK workers softened by an overly generous welfare state and way too extended union power and workers' rights.

'Shirkers' is the word they like to use I believe

"Labour slams timing"

omg i found the origin of the corbyn with tits on his shoulders painting pic.twitter.com/32smR0X23t

— marxist rashford⁷ (@JohnMcMarx) January 15, 2021

this is big