Free as a Dodo: UK Politics Welcomes 2021

There will be a £1000 penalty for those who arrive without a test or who refuse a test alongside a £2000 penalty for those who refuse a second test. There will also be an automatic extension of quarantine for 14 days. There will also be a £10,000 fixed penalty for those who refuse to quarantine.

so anyone who has £13k to burn can waltz off a flight and go about their superspreading activities unimpeded, great news for tory donors

Angola
Argentina
Bolivia
Botswana
Brazil
Burundi
Cape Verde
Chile
Colombia
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Ecuador
Eswatini
French Guiana
Guyana
Lesotho
Malawi
Mauritius
Mozambique
Namibia
Panama
Paraguay
Peru
Portugal (including Madeira and the Azores)
Rwanda
Seychelles
South Africa
Suriname
Tanzania
United Arab Emirates (UAE)
Uruguay
Venezuela
Zambia
Zimbabwe

what criteria do they use to determine these

Shameka
Keisha
Tara
Shawna
Sabrina
Crystal
Daronda
Felicia
Tenisha
Sharon
Monique
Christina
Yolanda

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x88Z5txBc7w

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Q73LMKKxbc

Looks like a lot of those countries could be at risk of becoming involved in gang activity iykwim

(including Madeira and the Azores)

0 active cases in the Azores last week, how many cases do u have uk?

JP Morgan hires Chuka Umunna for senior sustainability role https://t.co/y5jA7yUAlC

— The Guardian (@guardian) February 10, 2021

chuka gets career sustainability role (again)

Couldn't even sustain his own political career ffs

I bet his CV is an entertaining read

He's failed to sustain my interest in his comings and goings, that's for sure.

You can tell he's Labour to the core from his choice of employers

a year of almost zero border measures followed by the threat of a decade in prison sounds about exactly what comes next

Racist attack on a Gypsy home in the last few days. Notice the petrol can under the trailer door. Is this the natural result of @pritipatel 's performative prejudice unveiling plans for new anti-Gypsy legislation? pic.twitter.com/qGwqSKpclC

— Jake Bowers (@bowers_jake) February 10, 2021

it's not like brits need tory encouragement to be openly genocidal about/toward travellers and roma (the shit i've heard from proud tory-bashers regarding what should be done about the miniscule local traveller presence...) but of course it makes everything worse

Westminster voting intention:

CON: 41% (-)
LAB: 36% (-1)
GRN: 7% (+1)
LDEM: 6% (-)
REFUK: 3% (-)

via @YouGov, 09 - 10 Feb
Chgs. w/ 03 Feb

— Britain Elects (@BritainElects) February 11, 2021

The Greens are the next Lib Dems

what are the UK greens like? weird and bad like everywhere else?

Yay Kieth, you're killing 'em

xp mostly yeah

tbf also a refuge for a bunch of disaffected leftish Labour peeps probly

They get co-opted by Liberals or parties to the right most of the time. No class politics, so it's ultimately no good.

The co-opting needs work on from a Pol sci level. Scottish Greens are to the left of English Greens, is my impression.

Scottish Greens are also pro-independence. Trying to find some polling from Scotland - basically the SNP are hovering around 50%, so the game's a bogey.

like 00s lib dems the greens will promise all kinds of nice sounding things as long as they can't win. here they seem to be a mix of hippies, desperate leftists and zac goldsmith style green tory remainers which sounds like the worst company ever

PR means the Scot Greens have had some sway over SNP in recent years where they've fallen short of a majority. They seem more lefty-hippy progressive than the wider UK party but I haven't looked too closely.

it's not like brits need tory encouragement to be openly genocidal about/toward travellers and roma

This sadly true of most of Europe as well.

we all have our priorities i guess pic.twitter.com/xnk8z1EV7H

— 𝔐𝔞𝔤𝔫𝔢𝔱𝔰 🧲 (@PerthshireMags) February 11, 2021

what are the UK greens like? weird and bad like everywhere else?

https://i.guim.co.uk/img/static/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2014/7/18/1405662197602/1e557c46-dab8-469c-a396-560228ba418a-2060x1236.jpeg

FP'd you for racism

tsk

https://i.imgur.com/zDkZ447.jpg

In an interview with Huff Post, Keir Starmer's PPS, Carolyn Harris, says that Jeremy Corbyn's policy platform was "nonsense" that Keir Starmer needed to "get rid of". pic.twitter.com/nibOIzcaoT

— Evolve Politics (@evolvepolitics) February 11, 2021

It's like watching a corpse rot in real time

what about all the rotten useless MP's he helped to retain their seats in 2017 despite the best efforts of Labour officials to wreck the whole fucking campaign .. oh fuck it anyway

weird how they keep having to insist no one wants things which are way more popular than anything they're selling apart from flags and racism

so is he going to be just another out of touch north london lefty now that he's fucked it

there are umpteen reasons to ignore this nonsense, probably enough reasons to convince yourself it doesn't define the Labour Party. but if the battle to win the Party becomes as remote and difficult as the battle to win voters then where's the point? even Camus would've told Sisyphus to drop this rock

https://t.co/Zk1ptnqsgg pic.twitter.com/bxT1fPkz37

— Professor Piss Shitty (@doctor___fuck) February 11, 2021

I lolled!

Well.

Jacob Rees-Mogg rambles on about weetabix with hot milk, and loving nannies marmalade, it’s then quite fitting that someone mutters “Such a c*nt”

Well they’re not lying are they... pic.twitter.com/ui6fru5jDB

— Nigel-la! Soooouuuttthh 🏳️‍🌈 (@nothing_human) February 11, 2021

Kind of admire how JRM gives you the real soul of the Tory party raw and uncut

whenever they put him out there I just think it looks like "yes, we can do absolutely anything we like now, and we will never answer for it"

It's good that Tory voters are clear about what they're voting for, no excuses, that's what you want

is it though? I guess it's better to know who the British people really are, but can't help feeling it was in some way a good thing that they used to at least be embarrassed about it.

I think the lunch being naked is a good thing, but understandably not for our collective mental health. I don't think mystification or shyness or dishonesty are a positive tho, that's what led us here

Same applies to the Labour Right being forced to crawl into the daylight and own their true values

I don't know, if the result is the whole political class being openly evil and the public accepting and being ok with that, where do we go from there? Shaming people into not being evil might not have worked in the past, but what's the alternative.

Hopefully enough people becoming angry about the choices on offer to them and demanding a genuine change. Which, yeah, you may say I'm a dreamer etc

JR-M makes me feel like I'm being trolled in real life.

Yeah, there are moments where I do wish someone would pipe up in parliament that if we're just talking about fish being happy about being British or some other unfunny shite we might as well stop having it altogether. The disdain for democracy is so obvious.

Westminster Voting Intention:

CON: 39% (-1)
LAB: 33% (-5)
LDM: 9% (+2)
GRN: 7% (+2)
SNP: 5% (+1)

Via @Survation, 5-6 Feb
Changes w/ 12-13 Jan.

— Election Maps UK (@ElectionMapsUK) February 12, 2021

It doesn't look like Kier is on the road to being 20 pts ahead to me.

Fuck, that’s not even margin of error is it? Everyone knew the vaccine bounce would fuck them and they’ve failed to make their mark.

Flag-waving going well, I see.