Free as a Dodo: UK Politics Welcomes 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.

Visually it's spot on, lyrics are a bit standard tho. Still good in terms of reinforcing Kieth's image

Like the viewer count of Party Political Broadcasts are gonna be a thing..

Get in!

Thought of you immediately.

It's sad, he was a tool of imperialism

The poor old dude had about as much autonomy over his social media career as Bone Bone does, tbf.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EtPi4RWXYAAUsGm?format=png&name=large
There will always be another leader, no lessons will ever be learned from this.

I cannot believe they actually read this out on Radio 4 pic.twitter.com/tIs7fuIcT8

— LENINLOVER69 HATER 🤬 (@TreborRhurbarb) February 2, 2021

Just really moved by the tributes, thus one from BA is just something else:

pic.twitter.com/zaUOVXSdQt

— British Airways (@British_Airways) February 2, 2021

"X"?

Everything about that tweet is perfect, from replies off to the little kiss at the end. Incredible effort from start to finish.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2021/feb/02/labour-urged-to-focus-on-flag-and-patriotism-to-win-voters-trust-leak-reveals

lol

https://media.gettyimages.com/photos/stressful-day-at-the-office-picture-id505640165?s=612x612

somewhere right now there are melts on Twitter explaining how if you hate nationalism you want the Tories to be in power for another 10 years

“They are the voice of the students. They have left real people, taxpayers behind.”

nothing like going to the focus groups to listen to the salt of the earth who all seem to conveniently talk like right-wing talk radio presenters

Jon Harris wearing a novelty fake moustache

"dressing smartly at the war memorial etc give voters a sense of authentic values"

are they still going on about Michael Foot's "donkey jacket" in 2021 or did Jezza turn up at the cenotaph looking like a bag o' rags cos I can't remember that.

Are they glossing over the way Boris Johnson looked in 2019?

are we fucking serious with this shit

No, they are very unserious and beneath contempt. Yet again this is personal prejudice and ignorance masquerading as electoral science

the thing with Boris is that his whole image is ridiculous and contrived but he's been doing it all his life now. When really bad Labour melts try their tryhard authentocrat moves they always look much worse than their Tory counterparts. Harold Wilson could pull it off because he was a crafty and complex sort of person who was much brighter than the *top brains* in the Labour Party right now.

hang on just a fucking minute

In a statement, his daughters, Hannah Ingram-Moore and Lucy Teixeira, said: “It is with great sadness that we announce the death of our dear father, Capt Sir Tom Moore. We are so grateful that we were with him during the last hours of his life; Hannah, Benjie and Georgia by his bedside and Lucy on FaceTime.

yeah but he wasn't a mere mortal human he was a beacon of hope who could keep 737 Max planes airborne with the wind coming out of his arse, he was an immortal who was impervious to all diseases .. oh scratch that last one.

I mean they probably infected him, should be safe by that stage

Dress smartly, get votes pic.twitter.com/ODZs1peszo

— Liam Young (@liamyoung) February 2, 2021

does Operation Flag Shag still work if it's all over the news headlines?

you can't fake really feeling such hotness for a flag you want to fuck it, Kieth's flag has been making eyes at some of the Britannia Unchained crew - he's cold and unfeeling and just going through the motions.

the odious M Vaughan on Capt Tom: "he had a bit of a cheeky side to him as well"

that is one way of putting it.

Here ⁦⁦@chakrabortty⁩ demonstrates that she hasn’t spoken to many of Labour’s ‘core voters’.

Keir Starmer's patriot act risks turning off his core Labour voters | Keir Starmer | The Guardian https://t.co/LO91M1houn

— Toby Perkins MP (@tobyperkinsmp) February 2, 2021

"core Labour voters" listen to the state of this prick - Toby Perkins - how the fuck is this cunt a Labour MP. Stupid question I know. I'd never even noticed this prick before today but now Kieth has given license for a hundred more PLP dog whistles to fweet!

the stupid cunt's reading comprehension is so bad he's getting Aditya Chakrabortty and Shami Chakrabarti mixed up

I knew full well that @chakrabortty was Adyita not Shami, but the ‘she’ was a tiny typo.

Point remains that many Labour core voters love our country and are proud of it and want a Labour Party that is too.

— Toby Perkins MP (@tobyperkinsmp) February 3, 2021

lol a "tiny typo" is it?

Correcting my 'tiny typo' misgendering the author by spelling his name incorrectly.

I'm sure there are no assumptions about his views on race to be drawn from this totally meaningless slip of the fingers

Also Perkins giving the game away that this isn't really electoral strategy the PLP is just full of oblivious whitebread flagfuckers

I think that’s true up to a point but the Blue Labour faction seems to be much more powerful with upper management than in the PLP itself.