Free as a Dodo: UK Politics Welcomes 2021

i got a brian rose leaflet through my door the other day. had no idea who he was. picture has him wearing a red tie and pocket square, very labour. apparently he’s launched kickstarters to fund a covid denialism website and a series of “accelerate your business” videos which are basically pyramid schemes. how the fuck are people like this not only 1) not in jail but 2) running for mayor?? this guy might as well have a flashing sign strapped to his head that says CON ARTIST

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lool!

Ohhh you meant in London, okay yes

He looks like the spiv who used to leaflet my block offering to buy ‘old gold’ that people might have languishing in a ‘draw’. Best of all, he had a yute sidekick in a tracksuit who looked like seriously rough trade.

he's got a strong "unlicensed body building supplements" energy about him

looks like a peter serafinowicz character.

didn't realise there was an election until I got a shaun bailey leaflet, which is just fascinating in how cagey it is about which party it's from

pretty sure he was the baddie in Line of Duty last night

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"the man with no time for crime"

nothing worse than a supposed crim who is a bit too busy for any law-breaking

The Queen is to address the nation in a televised speech at 5pm today https://t.co/0ucEvTOPUh

— Manchester News MEN (@MENnewsdesk) March 7, 2021

"are you ready to laugh?"

A tsunami of national grief to follow... Looool!

o fuck

It’s Commonwealth Day, usual message I think.

It’s a prerecorded commonwealth day thing unfortunately

ffs I need a win right now

- Jurgen Klopp

The text of this "Commonwealth message" will be pored over line by line and played backwards for hidden meaning by left twitter

and everything she's wearing and everything in the background

Lot of people trying to bigtime the queen by proudly announcing that they'll be watching a boring football match instead

ffs I need a win right now

― calzino, Sunday, 7 March 2021 15:36 (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

- Jurgen Klopp

― fuck this for a game of soldiers (Matt #2), Sunday, 7 March 2021 15:38 (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

Usually when struggling at home theyd take a couple of cheap wins against minnows away but thats drying up too

I mean what are we expecting from Meghan in this interview anyway? "yeah big Phil said he asked them to chase Diana down the tunnel, and Andy said to me he doesn't even like pizza"

commiserations and congratulations to Anas Sarwar pic.twitter.com/2tkucHjEhA

— Kieran Hurley (@kieran_hurley) March 7, 2021

What are the Jags then, chopped liver?

when he's talking to Jags fans he says I support my legs and my legs support me!

https://tribunemag.co.uk/2021/03/why-britain-needs-a-democratic-revolution

"the millions who work hard, play by the rules, but struggle to get by"

I always bristle at this kind of speak from left wing Labour MP's. It always sounds just one step away from "but not those lazy benefit bludging fuckers".

There are many resentments for people who have paid into the system their whole lives, paid their mortgages off and are voting Tory no matter what.

Kieth needs to seize the day and retriangulate his patriotism again, perhaps there always was a "progressive republicanism" element to his pro-monarchy stance towards a bunch of ugly inbred racists - the matriarch of which he said "speaks for the whole country".

"the millions who work hard, play by the rules, but struggle to get by"

I like to imagine these people boiling with rage reading Viz's 'Elton John's Dole Fiddles' strip

Lol! No getting point getting bitter because you haven't found any decent opportunities to fiddle the system yet, fiddling rules man. Like a previous millionaire boss I had whose smallest fiddle was paying himself and his wife minimum wage through the company and claim working tax credits.

it would be so refreshing to for once hear a Labour politician to talk about how small beer benefits fraud is in the scheme of things and how in many ways it is a symptom rather than a disease, unless you are talking about the crime gangs that have been exploiting the shit out of weaknesses in the Universal Credit system.

it's good

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two good fiddlers!

some old thread identifies "play by the rules" as a cameronism which seems right, though I can hear blair saying it. never not part of some punitive authoritarian selectively-belt-tightening bollocks on any issue, regardless of whether rule abiders are supposed to be the main point or a minor exception to it

I suppose the idea is to maintain working poverty wages and help convert the resultant despair of these workers into angry political capitol against the wrong targets. It definitely helps when Labour MP's use wearisome soundbites about what heroic people they are for playing by the rules.

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strikes are wrong, let down by both sides, reckless and provocative manner etc

A snapshot of where we are at rn: There was a pic of a 50 odd year old nurse getting arrested at a peaceful covid safe protest by a cop with a blue lives matter badge.

Not only arrested but fined £10,000. I don't think the 1% pay rise will cover that.

All the story needs is Starmer saying a £10,000 fine is not enough, a custodial sentence would be more appropriate.

the absolute violence of this enforced “heroism”

(I typed that before seeing the above. christ)

(and of course no one would trust an obviously enthusiastic scab/grass like starmer with plans or hopes for industrial action)

in other news the official representatives of the biggest imperial project in history might have a racism problem

Lmao she destroyed him pic.twitter.com/MGuJ754ZJI

— a$hok kumar (@broseph_stalin) March 8, 2021

Looking for opposition wherever I can find it

would love to see Dr Shola forensically grilling Kieth on his BLM flip-flop and failed attempts at flag-fucking/nativist populism

look at how desperate this scum is to play the I’m being silenced card when he wants to silence someone

piers I mean

but we should literally grill starmer

this is absolutely fucking true as well

I’m at a point where I don’t even think putting colonial history on the curriculum will change things. These people know they did that shit and they’re proud of it https://t.co/4NpFcTjl1s

— Jason Okundaye (@jasebyjason) March 8, 2021

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take of the day from The Irish Times