Free as a Dodo: UK Politics Welcomes 2021

hmm.. which one do you vote for?!

just flip a coin lads

"three's a crowd, two is a shortlist"

from chairman Kieth's little red book

Told some councillors so angry they are considering backing the Independent candidate Stephen Yip

Liverpool Labour is not a happy place right now

— Liam Thorp 💙 (@LiamThorpECHO) March 2, 2021

“When you lose an election in a democracy, you deserve to. You don’t look at the electorate and ask them: ‘What were you thinking?’” pic.twitter.com/330jVLFqku

— Tom Williams (@shirleymush) March 2, 2021

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EvgRM8yXMAELAmY?format=jpg&name=medium

Starmer whilst Director of Public Prosecutions desperately wanting a vulnerable autistic man to be extradited and banged up in the US prison system, but then furious because "May the Merciful" overrides him. I missed this one when I was digging into what a horrible piece of shit he was at the DPP.

ffs the poor lad was only an area 51 enthusiast

It'd make a cool movie

which ever way they might decide to conclude this movie the bad guys win

Yep, yep, mhmmm yep.

I remember Alan Johnson also being one of the main baddies in the early and latter days of the McKinnon case. Just a bunch of psychopathic sadists are this lot.

Only the good stuff, mind

#AccidentalPartridge pic.twitter.com/1XSk4YR1S4

— Accidental Partridge (@AccidentalP) March 2, 2021

it's looks like they are on after-school detention and the supervising teacher has nipped out for a smoke.

https://novaramedia.com/2021/03/02/keir-starmer-is-a-long-time-servant-of-the-british-security-state/

Oliver might be advised not to go for long walks in quiet places for a while, especially after his Starmer book comes out. This is one of the best pieces on Starmer I've seen yet. It should be devastating really, but it might even burnish his rep somewhat with the Right.

Calz, is the excerpt on McKinnon that you posted from Oliver's book or somewhere else?

no it's from Oliver's novara piece linked above

some fine research because I'd never seen anyone mention the McKinnon stuff on Starmer before and plenty of people were scrutinising his history

Cheaper to have just kept using the shitty Superman drawing surely

"He immediately struck me as somebody that was going places"

Who is Chancellor Rishi Sunak and what does he believe?#Budget2021 #PoliticsLive https://t.co/FueVCWSl2m pic.twitter.com/JqH0mIH7gg

— BBC Politics (@BBCPolitics) March 3, 2021

how did he so rapidly rise up that slippery slope in 5 years? with a little help from his friends perhaps?

xxp

I remember those days when I was a naive enough simp to think someone who is a human rights lawyer would be against things like the illegal extradition and torture of fellow citizens

The Sturgeon hearing was broadcast live this morning on BBC2, BBC Scotland and BBC News 24. That doesn't seem normal to me on UK budget day in the middle of a global crisis.

The BBC's latest hard-hitting expose on the Chancellor of the Exchequer. pic.twitter.com/kYk3lBEBZ1

— Tom Whyman (@HealthUntoDeath) March 3, 2021

the bbc pol dept and Keunssberg in particular have been going in hard on Sturgeon in the last day, it's almost like they've got some kind of unionist agenda

it's almost like Sturgeon has become the new Jermy Crobwyn now

We're in a weird position where PR has made gaining a majority in the Scottish parliament very difficult (a good thing) and the most popular party by a country mile can be held to ransom on repeated threats of no confidence votes by Tory/Lab/Lib/Greens ganging up.

There's definitely something going on with the wall-to-wall BBC coverage of Scottish politics all of a sudden.

I wonder why Keith has such a disproportionate hatred for hackers? I wonder what's on his hard drive that he wouldn't want someone accessing? 👀👀👀👀

— Professor Piss Shitty (@doctor___fuck) March 3, 2021

lol!

very un-short king behaviour to hide your manlet size with photo tricks pic.twitter.com/2Cmo917EtB

— joe (@spinningjoe) March 3, 2021

it must great fun doing photos with boss line-ups with Rishi

Corporation tax rise by 6% but only for the 10% most profitable firms and I expect it can be dropped or rendered ineffective by 2023 anyway.

well done Kieth - you managed to nudge him into doing the half-arsed CT rise both parties wanted

either that or it was just a pointless self-clowning Comms nightmare that will send Labour further down in the polls

they call it Great Britain for a reason...

(labour party political broadcast, wasn't great)

So from twitter it looks like Sunak borrowed some of Lab left ideas, and Starmer is like five years behind.

he's such a rank amateur - he's opposed a policy popular with the public that was never going to happen anyway for a week. And then revised his position and looked like a complete joke when the tories get all the credit for doing the watered down version compared to the kite they were flying last week. He's fallen into the most rudimentary of traps set for him - so in other words he's a complete fucking idiot.

🚨Rishi Sunak's own well-off seat has been prioritised for levelling up cash.

He says the fund should invest in areas like "ex-industrial areas, deprived towns, coastal communities".

But Richmondshire is 251 out of 317 on govt's own deprivation indexhttps://t.co/vEAhSakBaA

— Arj Singh (@singharj) March 3, 2021

and 90% of the Towns Fund has gone to towns that returned a Tory MP in 2019 - "naked pork barrel politics".

even the Sheep on the Dales in Richmondshire are tories

All sheep are Tories iirc

this is mainly why I quit vegetarianism iirc

Oh aye you shouldn't sympathise with a shep, he'd eat you without conscience given a chance

There should be an 8ft tall statue of Rishi erected in all these red wall Towns that have being recent beneficiaries of tory largesse

Save money by having lifesize statues - 4 ft tall.

there was interview with the little twerp this morning and has this really annoying stylistic affectation of a 10 - 20 second pause before he answers every question, like as if you need some IBM mainframe pause to spit out glib soundbites and bare-faced lies.

he also carried on talking well after the interviewer had finished. i think they put some kind of delay on his line, shaun-ryder-like, lest he let rip with the f-bombs.

Ah right I wondered why there were a lot of pauses of nothing but site noise ambience - it was better than listening to him talk tbf

that noise, and the delay, was actually the North/South divide

it's almost like the BBC management are worried one of their own might accidentally apply some scrutiny to him and then feign technical difficulties + quickly cut back to Justin Webb

Amusing!

It's good to see ILX poster Calzino highlighting the investigative journalism of Oliver Eagleton. His work has impressed me lately and it's remarkable that he is apparently writing a whole book on KS.

obv he has to be very thorough in his research and cautious when writing a book about a QC but now it's been revealed that Kieth isn't even competent enough to navigate the Labour Party into losing a court case they wanted to lose, then perhaps he can let rip a bit more! It's a shame last year we all somehow missed the stuff about the disgraceful intervention in the McKinion business during his DPP leadership, and all the rendition/torture compliance stuff that he didn't put in his campaign vid.

Feels like a bit of a bad business move tbh, a Starmer post-mortem might be a better bet.