Free as a Dodo: UK Politics Welcomes 2021

I think Moses underestimates the power of a wrecker in a role like that. A chair who wants to undo regulation (like the requirement for news to be impartial) will have a lot less opposition to prevent them.

The risk for the BBC in particular is in how Ofcom enforces decisions and where it chooses to apply market-value tests - both of which can tie up decisions and plans for literally years, and both areas where the chair has more freedom to operate

It was a Ofcom decision to severely restrict the size of the catalogue that essentially wrecked iPlayer’s lead and gave Netflix a year’s advantage against it in the UK. And that was with a broadly well-meaning chair.

So yeah, I think Dacre will find it a job he mostly hates but that also probably won’t stop him causing long-lasting damage.

So yeah, I think Dacre will find it a job he mostly hates but that also probably won’t stop him causing long-lasting damage.

A disappointment

So, Park Jihyun, a former refugee from North Korea, is standing for the Tories in Bury's only Lib Dem council ward: https://t.co/YG9JsXvrU7

— jamie k (@jkbloodtreasure) January 31, 2021

according to brillo pad the teaching sector is a hotbed of hard-left agitators and enemies of the state

Captain Tom walked so Captain Tom could fly... on a 10,000ft germ box that pumped the virus right into his lungs

— Professor Piss Shitty (@doctor___fuck) January 31, 2021

I know I say this all the time, but fuck this crowd

EXC: Labour is using this Facebook advert to target Red Wall voters tomorrow ahead of its motion calling for hotel quarantine for all arrivals

The vote puts the govt in an awkward position because dozens of its own MPs privately agree with it — including home sec Priti Patel pic.twitter.com/FnmiTPOdVK

— Eleni Courea (@EleniCourea) February 1, 2021

pic.twitter.com/Ua1R70b1VK

— Jonathan (@readonlymike) January 31, 2021

They absolutely should have been quarantining arrivals this whole time (not to mention doing more to control the spread of the virus from plague island) and its mental they haven’t been

when I was switching between stations early this morning it sounded like someone said "Kier Starmer is setting up a clogging task force" about time he got his priorities right I was thinking

xp there is always a choice on how to go about that messaging though and the above isn’t it

Oh yeah the delivery is sus, as is the timing (cpt hindsight) & lack of the other attendant policies you’d want to see

Someone described our approach to the virus with airports open the whole time as “mopping the floor while ignoring the hole in the roof”, Labour seem to be going for “plug the hole (with racism), stop mopping and call it good”

fuck every border

this is expected from labour but it's sad how many other people have conceded that state violence is the only way to deal with this

Starmer thinks he can court Ukip/Tory voters without alienating BAME or young voters in the cities who have nowhere else to go, he thinks he can get into power without offering any concrete policies until 2024. He's fucking kidding himself. At the same stage of his leadership Miliband didn't really offer much but was still often 10 points ahead until the anti-Semitic ratfucking. And he never had it as easy as Sir Kier has so far, he hasn't even been put under any real pressure yet and is still lagging behind.

xps to wins, I’ll be honest, the UK is probably a far greater danger to other countries when it comes to spreading disease via travel, timing is awful, messaging is worse

Well yeah, if they want us to accept that the variant that emerged here is gamechangingly superinfectious then we have to conclude they are being really irresponsible about sending it around the planet

Restricting movement is the whole point of lockdown, STAY HOME -> CONTROL THE VIRUS -> FLY TO BARBADOS is incoherent

Keir Starmer - I Wanna Be Like You 🐻🌴 #BalooLabour pic.twitter.com/0Q9DY0n91Z

— PoliticsJOE (@PoliticsJOE_UK) February 1, 2021

believe that's swedemason's work, though for some reason they haven't credited him this time

it seems like just about everyone can do a decent pisstake of his stupid voice. That should have disqualified him from running for the leadership in the first place.

fuck every border

no, borders that keep British people out are good

Could do with some borders up here today as Boris is apparently just a couple of miles from my house rn :(

Beware the knock on the door.

https://www.dewsburyreporter.co.uk/webimg/QVNIMTE5MDczNTg2.jpg?crop=982:736,smart&width=990

they don't all seem that thrilled to meet the prime minister in Batley!

Despite hard work, results & a strong reputation I’ve been sacked today from @theSNP front bench. My constituents & fellow party members who gave me a resounding mandate in recent NEC elections should rest assured that I will continue to work hard for them.

— Joanna Cherry QC (@joannaccherry) February 1, 2021

GTF JCQC!

FBPTERF

just deserts with a cherry on top

That's twice in a week I've gotten to type "cheerio tae fuck!" in response to a departure.

they don't all seem that thrilled to meet the prime minister in Batley!

― calzino, Monday, 1 February 2021 bookmarkflaglink

Tories -5% in the next poll

Kieth had proposed a commission to investigate the sectarian violence between the Rams and Bulldogs fans. Boris was never going to top that!

https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/politics/primal-scream-star-bobby-gillespie-23420856

Boaby's gone indie.

Getting Mr Some Of My Heroes Are Jewish And Madonna's A Hoor onside is just the push the movement needs.

sorry, misspelled 'pish' there

this could be the beginning of the end of the independence movement!

Using the royal we there, I see, Boab.

We’ve seen the data before but I also keep thinking about this

Realise this is very old news now, but bloody hell look at that gender gaphttps://t.co/FHObIe0MxD pic.twitter.com/rfiOjZr2mP

— Shreya Nanda (@shreyagnanda) January 31, 2021

The age brackets there seem very...managed though. 25-49??

Tommy Corbyn is gleefully sharing that Baloo vid. And boiling much piss!

idk seems pretty clear we need to euthanize the over 50s, ah well, i had a good run

its the only way sorry to lose u

happy to take one for the team tbh

gonna take "Captain" Tom out with me

Here, less of the "Captain" there.

things still going well in burma i see

Aaron Bastani is Britain's best political analyst.

Slightly less keen on Walker but he understands the virus and the pandemic better than most.

I've given up on Butler since his last toxic LRB performance.

But Novara overall would seem to be the best thing to happen to UK media since, say, the launch of Channel Four in 1982.

― the pinefox, Saturday, 30 January 2021 bookmarkflaglink

Still my favourite ever TV programme, still think @novaramedia should do a version of it like ~once a month. Maybe less. Smart people, big issue, in a studio, runs until there's nothing left to say. https://t.co/RqKNz8xuUS

— James B (@piercepenniless) February 1, 2021

❤️ Zarah very much.

In the Holocaust Memorial Day debate in Parliament, I spoke about contemporary antisemitic threats, including Hungary's Prime Minister, Viktor Orbán.

I've now received an angry letter from the Hungarian ambassador, asking for details.

Here's my reply & a thread on the details: pic.twitter.com/cJosysaUy5

— Zarah Sultana MP (@zarahsultana) February 1, 2021

That #BalooLabour video has 3 times the viewing figures of the official Labour Party broadcast one

— Ben (@BenJolly9) February 2, 2021

what's the betting Boris brings it up in the chamber?

Covid-19: People in South African variant test areas urged to 'think twice'

When you ask yourself if you've done enough... did you think TWO TIMES???

The Baloo video isn't even that good but it's nice to see this steady drip drip of truth slowly fixing Kieth's character in the public mind

Come on, Boris as King Louis is incredible casting.