Free as a Dodo: UK Politics Welcomes 2021

Taking back control! (pt. 94)

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-43729508?fbclid=IwAR2t4k7eco46lM9lNGBPxSYMHnSgEHMqHkETfs0Ty_XsVLYI0ZlfyxwvZRc

at least you can eat your fish & chips by the sea in Southend

Shocked Hull didn't make the charts but there are a lot of plus points to living somewhere cheap

course not, why would they, and why would you

Sir Keir Starmer says he will not be calling for Matt Hancock to resign over the unlawful publishing of covid contracts saying "calling for people to resign is not what the public really want to see" #ridge

— Rob Powell (@robpowellnews) February 21, 2021

I hate him so much.

nobody wants to see government ministers held to account for criminal corruption

it's weird i thought Kieth was big on prosecuting people

its almost like he's completely incapable of learning anything from policies that directly cause the deaths of tens of thousands of people

six months ago:

My message to the Prime Minister: I don’t just want all children back at school next month, I expect them back at school.

No ifs, no buts, no equivocation. https://t.co/Q00nsGFH8u

— Keir Starmer (@Keir_Starmer) August 16, 2020

Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer backs the govt's plan to get all pupils back in school on 8 March. Education unions have called for a phased approach & say the PM's plan is "reckless". Starmer says we need to be guided by the data #ridge

— Rob Powell (@robpowellnews) February 21, 2021

(on phone or I wld have thrown in death figures ((ie data)) by timeframe, and him demanding schools reopen two months ago, too)

who would vote for this man

Sir Keir Starmer on his football strategy - "I’m a midfield player in the middle of the pitch, I like to think I’m a box-to-box player which means across the whole pitch" #ridge

— Rob Powell (@robpowellnews) February 21, 2021

he needs putting in a box for sure

even all the top melts are dismayed that he's not calling for a corrupt minister's head

they all wanted a grown-up to replace Corbz and now they are complaining that he's soft and useless, it's almost like they want to keep their melt soufflé and eat it as well!

i guess he doesn't want to shift focus from this week's huge policy blitz which the public are still obsessively scrutinising

On reflection I agree he shouldn't resign.....

He should be sacked & then in court!

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— Jon Trickett MP (@jon_trickett) February 21, 2021

Not even close to an opposition. Pathetic.

Burnham is just as bad as Kieth for being a soft melty shite cross-party bro towards bent Tory ministers who get caught bang-to-rights at it. It's almost like they consider corruption all part of the game.

it's weird i thought Kieth was big on prosecuting people

Suspect he is going softly softly because Labour’s complicit in this due to their inaction and he knows it. It’s that Rentoul tweet about “I hope there’s no inquiry, we don’t need to blame people for this” but as policy.

🐦[Sir Keir Starmer on his football strategy - "I’m a midfield player in the middle of the pitch, I like to think I’m a box-to-box player which means across the whole pitch" #ridge🕸
— Rob Powell (@robpowellnews) February 21, 2021🕸]🐦

Doesn't get that "box to box" and "across the pitch" are not the same thing.

Darren Anderton was a super player, barring injuries

Hes Eric Dier, would have passed off as ok in a successful outfit when everything was working around him and given a tailored role, but put him in the boss man seat and not only does he fuck it and everything around him but his own reactions show his utter unsuitability for the actual profession and he absolutely should be executed

Sorry that turned out more about dier in the end

nobody wants to see government ministers held to account for criminal corruption

I'm assuming this is the No. 1 story on all news outlets? Or are Meghan, Harry and Phil still hogging the limelight?

Anderton was great when he wasn’t injured but how often was that? Starmer was distinguished as a lawyer but absolutely flatlining as leader, hence Anderton.

Doesn't get that "box to box" and "across the pitch" are not the same thing.

It's almost like he hasn't a clue about football but he thinks it'll go down well with the proles.

He plays five a said everybody's box to box ffs

I play just behind the front one in five-a-side.

Kieth the diaphanous midfielder that tries to use his powers of invisibility to prevent managers and fans alike from realising how fucking shit he is.

One of the problems with focus groups is that people say a lot of "common-sense" stuff about bi-partisanship that in reality has very little effect on their actual voting behaviour https://t.co/YbbZpKmB0F

— Jack Saundrs ❤🖤 (@jack_saundrs) February 21, 2021

The moment the shitpost left went mainstream. https://t.co/peabqW4VYv

— Michael S (@ScanlanWithAnA) February 21, 2021

Welcome to the Resistance, Wales

Current drugs laws don’t work. Gangs, Class As, violence, deaths. The status quo has failed.
It’s time for reform.
Time for cannabis decriminalisation.
Time for devolution of the criminal justice system.
Time for substances to be treated as a health issue. https://t.co/9nkbMWkvW7

— Leanne Wood 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 (@LeanneWood) February 21, 2021

what the fuck does this ridiculous pretender even know about drug gangs? he probably thinks they sniff glue and smoke lsd therefore should be banged up for 10 years.

it's not really about drugs is it it's about the necessity for state violence against certain types of people, something no sensible moderate can ever question

Kier Starmer's Hardest Drug Gangs: some kid smoking a bifta with a can of cider in the park

on the subject of drugs remember when labour made fucking mushrooms class A. remember the whole cannabis fiasco. nothing has changed and this guy seems more spooked by potential outrage already than brown was by actual outrage

but all that is secondary to the need to work backwards to justify current and future levels of surveillance and harassment of specific communities

Every time I see an old edition of "Have I got news for you" it looks like the good old days...

idgi the good old days of oh that rascal boris what a buffoon - wouldn't it be jokes to make him mayor ??

No pubs for Easter is the briefing tonight, but all schools on March 8.

did anyone tell the corona virus? it might have different plans?

You'd hope for something, I dunno, cleverer than "all schools", really, wouldn't you?

(Not withstanding that schools are already open).

Xpost to Left

What I mean is that although there was crap things, there was that sense that things could actually get better.

Sometimes, anyway.

When I see old hignfy I think “these ppl are the reason everything got so bad”

I mean I don’t ever see old or new hignfy but if I did

https://i.guim.co.uk/img/static/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2015/4/24/1429890434539/5f88a18f-b20b-4a88-8ec7-65ab41ce647b-620x372.jpeg?width=1200&height=630&quality=85&auto=format&fit=crop&overlay-align=bottom%2Cleft&overlay-width=100p&overlay-base64=L2ltZy9zdGF0aWMvb3ZlcmxheXMvdGctZGVmYXVsdC5wbmc&enable=upscale&s=0b60efbefd7d4eab84e8e136b8b79802

we thought things could only get better. but this was a fantasy

Exactly.

And now, we doubt they will.

the nostalgia is a really tempting dead end

I used to work with someone who would sing "I got a feeling tonight is going to be a fucking shit night" when that Black Eyed Peas song would come on the radio. He was singing Kieth's Anthem!