Free as a Dodo: UK Politics Welcomes 2021

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Obviously there's no point crowing about this, with the new stitch-up voting rules it'll be a far worse ghoul in charge, Starmer was always a cypher

glumdalclitch, Thursday, 4 February 2021 12:07 (three years ago) link

yes, it is good that he is potentially so shit that he'll be out of a job, but who is going to replace him? we've already seen that all but 8-12 Labour mps are completely useless.

Bastard Lakes (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, 4 February 2021 12:16 (three years ago) link

I think by the time Kieth has gone I will at least be able to watch on with more amusement than anger at the piece of human garbage that replaces him. He was only a cypher but his *greatest* achievement was absolutely finishing off dead any hope I (and others I presume) had of being able to bring about any meaningful change through the Labour party.

calzino, Thursday, 4 February 2021 12:28 (three years ago) link

and he's such an odious tosser I am enjoying his slow death tbh!

calzino, Thursday, 4 February 2021 12:30 (three years ago) link

Starmer is a stooge, absolutely, but a new contest will either fully expose how dead the Labour Party currently is or put the fear of god into the right wing star chamber

Scampi reggae party (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 4 February 2021 12:30 (three years ago) link

Labour has been consistently approaching the 40 per cent mark in the polls. Clawing back 12 percentage points since April 2020 is a brilliant achievement by Keir Starmer and a vindication for those who backed him.

Brutal stuff.

Both articles are along the lines of ‘Starmer has done good, solid work and now needs to generate some excitement’, which feels incredibly generous.

Scampo di tutti i Scampi (ShariVari), Thursday, 4 February 2021 12:31 (three years ago) link

Keigh

ukania west (Bananaman Begins), Thursday, 4 February 2021 12:35 (three years ago) link

I mean Corbyn polled solidly around 40% for around a year and a half until the fucking EU parliamentary elections, and even led the Tories by 8 points at one point, but yeah, great stuff.

scampless, rattled and puce (gyac), Thursday, 4 February 2021 12:39 (three years ago) link

Paul Mason's got some nerve eh?

Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 4 February 2021 12:43 (three years ago) link

Kieth has clawed back points from the time when a recently defeated Labour Party had just elected, um, Kieth

he's done great cos less people think he's shit than they did shortly before the government killed tens of thousands of people

Scampi reggae party (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 4 February 2021 12:43 (three years ago) link

The tweet above is odd, as it says 'Mirror' but shows Independent; not Mirror.

And I'm not sure that a Mason column in the NS carries much weight re: what happens in Labour.

the pinefox, Thursday, 4 February 2021 16:14 (three years ago) link

https://www.bbc.com/news/amp/uk-england-bristol-55904361?

All these babies will be Tory

xyzzzz__, Friday, 5 February 2021 08:17 (three years ago) link

no way would that ever be a feel good news story if they weren't, you know,

Left, Friday, 5 February 2021 08:36 (three years ago) link

UK Can't Close Its Border Because It's An Island 'Unlike Australia', Says Grant Shapps

vg btw

shivers me timber (sic), Friday, 5 February 2021 08:58 (three years ago) link

"There are lots of young couples starting families in the street because it's an amazing location."

_(´ཀ`」 ∠)_

calzino, Friday, 5 February 2021 09:12 (three years ago) link

littlejohn truly beyond all parody

attacking black people for doing something they haven't done to a statue that doesn't even exist, standard pic.twitter.com/pjtojZnrXJ

— Sarah 🇪🇺🌹WEAR A FACE MASK (@sazmeister88) February 5, 2021

Bastard Lakes (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 5 February 2021 09:20 (three years ago) link

I would love to know how a yoga teacher is paying a mortgage on a house like that over the past ten months

boxedjoy, Friday, 5 February 2021 09:37 (three years ago) link

As a Bristol resident, I can confirm that the St. George area full of gestating mothers-to-be is increasingly inundated with ex-Londoners who moved to Bristol and price the locals out of the housing market. Tory status of babies tbc, would't be shocked.

(the one with 3 L's) (Willl), Friday, 5 February 2021 09:40 (three years ago) link

only the bbc would try and cook up a sickmaking attempt of a feelgood story about gentrification

calzino, Friday, 5 February 2021 09:43 (three years ago) link

well not only the bbc tbf

calzino, Friday, 5 February 2021 09:44 (three years ago) link

all babies are tories though

Bastard Lakes (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 5 February 2021 09:46 (three years ago) link

Born this way

The Man DeLorean (onimo), Friday, 5 February 2021 09:52 (three years ago) link

Too many Breton tops in that item to be anything other than LibDems tbh

scampopo (suzy), Friday, 5 February 2021 09:52 (three years ago) link

HOW LONG BEFORE BLM PULL DOWN SIR TOM MOORE'S STATUE, asks richard littlejohn in an incendiary column accompanied by a picture of a statue that blm didn't pull down

you are like a scampicane, there's calm in your fries (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 5 February 2021 09:52 (three years ago) link

he's a statue pro-lifer defending poor helpless unborn memorials

would a nit be nice? (NickB), Friday, 5 February 2021 09:57 (three years ago) link

I look forward to more property-smug London evacuees writing pieces in the Graun, with a murderously smug pic in their huge designer kitchen: "now we can afford two cleaners and a private tutor with the money we've saved and it's a great location".

They've already covered the ones who have friends with empty flats they can lend them gratis whilst they renovate their hugely expensive home or do some planning for a wellness journey of self-discovery up their up own rectum.

calzino, Friday, 5 February 2021 10:06 (three years ago) link

As a Bristol resident, I can confirm that the St. George area full of gestating mothers-to-be is increasingly inundated with ex-Londoners who moved to Bristol and price the locals out of the housing market. Tory status of babies tbc, would't be shocked.

Is that anyway to talk about dog latin?

Waterloo Subset (Tom D.), Friday, 5 February 2021 12:07 (three years ago) link

Get me off this godforsaken island pic.twitter.com/9cuq7woAj4

— Lou Stoppard (@LouStoppard) February 5, 2021

xyzzzz__, Friday, 5 February 2021 21:34 (three years ago) link

Genius.

Waterloo Subset (Tom D.), Friday, 5 February 2021 22:00 (three years ago) link

This is getting better as the days go by.

xyzzzz__, Friday, 5 February 2021 22:03 (three years ago) link

it doesn't even look like a real photo, she might as well have used a face app and saved lots of needless fucking about

calzino, Friday, 5 February 2021 22:07 (three years ago) link

Not reading the link to find out but did she go out looking like that?

faramir otm (Matt #2), Friday, 5 February 2021 22:49 (three years ago) link

I hope so

xyzzzz__, Friday, 5 February 2021 22:54 (three years ago) link

these days, if you say capt tom was a [redacted] then you get arrested and thrown into a jail

calzino, Saturday, 6 February 2021 00:00 (three years ago) link

usual philistine cobblers on ilx

Scampi reggae party (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 6 February 2021 04:35 (three years ago) link

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EtgOhGtWgAEw9E7?format=jpg&name=large

lol *secret* plans of sending irrelevant fringe royals to Scotland to promote the union is it. It's absolute nonce-sense, his brother Andrew has much greater public recognition. Edward's only famous moment of note in the last two decades was a fictional version of him saying "cunty". That the addled minds in govt are even putting this out this risible proposition has a pure fuhrerbunker desperation to it.

calzino, Saturday, 6 February 2021 07:16 (three years ago) link

i'd send somebody harder tbh

Scampi reggae party (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 6 February 2021 07:24 (three years ago) link

the last toughie Battenberg is still looking for his head!

calzino, Saturday, 6 February 2021 07:26 (three years ago) link

anyway didn't they try this shit last time

Scampi reggae party (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 6 February 2021 07:28 (three years ago) link

big Gordie Broon will save the empire when it matters

Scampi reggae party (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 6 February 2021 07:29 (three years ago) link

either that or ship all the Ulster prods back over

Scampi reggae party (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 6 February 2021 07:30 (three years ago) link

Focus groups have revealed most people's respect for royalty would increase if they murdered people in cold blood with their own hands like int old days. So a royal death match where the prize is some grandiloquent sounding Scottish title could be a winner.

calzino, Saturday, 6 February 2021 07:45 (three years ago) link

genuinely forgot that edward existed tbh

quite taken with the idea of trapping him in the twee shortbread-tin hell of edinburgh castle tho

you are like a scampicane, there's calm in your fries (bizarro gazzara), Saturday, 6 February 2021 08:57 (three years ago) link

oh wait, holyrood palace? fuck that

you are like a scampicane, there's calm in your fries (bizarro gazzara), Saturday, 6 February 2021 08:58 (three years ago) link

they should concentrate on his strengths which are ..erm... he's never been to Epstein's chamber of child abuse and he went bald when he was 12.

calzino, Saturday, 6 February 2021 09:06 (three years ago) link

looking forward to him claiming the vacant post indy throne

The Man DeLorean (onimo), Saturday, 6 February 2021 09:32 (three years ago) link

Was It's A Royal Knockout all in vain?

faramir otm (Matt #2), Saturday, 6 February 2021 10:13 (three years ago) link

There are actual songs about how royal Edwards can gtf how did they see this ending well?

stet, Saturday, 6 February 2021 10:31 (three years ago) link

looking forward to him claiming the vacant post indy throne

Yes, we haven't a ding dong between England and Scotland over royal succession for far too long. Time for a Jacobite revival!

Waterloo Subset (Tom D.), Saturday, 6 February 2021 13:42 (three years ago) link


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