Free as a Dodo: UK Politics Welcomes 2021

When you think he can't get any worse...

that goes way beyond the bounds of a very dumb faux pas, it's also grossly offensive and insensitive. He's a wretched human being and also not fit to be let loose in public life.

Yeah, genuinely can't imagine even, like, Priti Patel saying something so fucking cretinous... real Trump/Bolsonaro level stuff

those additional policemen catching murderers in full:

https://www.dailydot.com/wp-content/uploads/146/6e/6d78ec0c8c8eaf31.png

might be more accurate to have both spider-men pointing and laughing at the corpse of someone who died in police custody, safe in the knowledge that only one fellow copper has been convicted of the murder of someone in their care since 1969

The source said ministers were considering a rise of more than the 2.1 per cent proposed by the NHS, and suggested that a rise of between 2 and 3 per cent would be “realistic”. There have been suggestions of 5 per cent, although this is “very unlikely”.

starting low and then offering something similar or even higher than what Rayner and Nandy were willing to argue for this week seems to be the game. And it's one they can keep doing over and over again with such cowering opposition.

the morons are inside the house

All that "worse election performance since 1930s" stuff the Starmer fans like to talk about a lot, well, they are on course to exceed that in the locals. Their one approach to tackling what went wrong in 2019, using more rightwing comms to chase rightwing voters, is incompetent https://t.co/nvRa63uLPz

— Stephen Smith (@SteveNickSmith) March 12, 2021

these local election projections are not a new poll but taken from current polling data or something, anyway it doesn't look good! And Starmer's finally hit some kind of 20, but it's a minus 20 approval rating in Scotland unfortunately for SLab.

they've put a new centre right millionaire in charge, I'm sure they'll bounce back

you couldn't get a starker contrast between Sanwar's twitter account and Sturgeon's in terms of numbers and popularity. I recall reading he got half the amount of votes to win the leadership election than he got losing to Richard Leonard the last time. But he was a massive flop as well tbf.

i would've preferred monica lennon obviously but scottish labour is basically secured in 3rd place lib dem style irrelevance forever and it doesn't really matter who the leader is. the membership vote strongly for sarwar, because the only people left in the scottish labour party are older, middle-class, anti-scot nat melts.

So have I got this straight? This is Labour HQ using old, already disproven accusations of voter fraud in largely BAME constituencies, while lying about a police investigation, as cover to suspend two constituency parties, for factional political reasons? https://t.co/PtftzPh830

— Ally Fogg (@AllyFogg) March 12, 2021

Seems bad: part 475.

jesus, is the cunt going to support Voter ID next? They are hellbent on burning this party down and salting the ground just in the name of factional purges. kieth is definitely a plant.

some kind of algae maybe

any labour leader serious about winning an election has to challenge the inherent racism and lies of the non-existent "electoral fraud" that the Tories have been banging on about for years and the idea of Voter ID that goes with it that would disenfranchise at least a million plus potential Labour voters. He's either a secret algaent or an absolute fool who hasn't got a clue what the fuck he is playing with here.

Yes.

Metropolitan Police must believe they have an strategic reserve of inifinite legitimacy that they can set completely on fire by banning a vigil of someone murdered by a member of their own. Can British institutions go on like this forever?

— Cyclist on Starmer's big day out to #BigTesco (@naadirjeewa) March 12, 2021

even all the other terrible human rights barristers seem to be speaking out against this. Not a fucking dickie-bird from kieth who clearly cares not a jot about the erosion of civil liberties.

We are angry. We will not be controlled. We will not be silenced. See you in Clapham at 6.#ReclaimTheseStreets https://t.co/A9O7FRMd4f

— Sisters Uncut (@SistersUncut) March 13, 2021

what do you call them kind of sham democracies with evil murderous cops and apparently unaccountable leaders that crack down on civil liberties without any significant opposition and also spend inordinate amounts on their bloated military?

pic.twitter.com/VQJi6asiIY

— Flying_Rodent (@flying_rodent) March 12, 2021

"Gee, I wish we had one of them doomsday machines."

if we must destroy society it must be the british who lead the way, it is our god-given duty

The new Police act cracking down on protests should be a free hit for Starmer and I’d be slightly surprised if he doesn’t try to use it to rehabilitate some of his civil liberty credentials. If he doesn’t, he’s more of a mug than I think he is.

he is and he won’t

he'd rather look like a no nonsense authoritarian to to 978 people in Workington who are never going to vote for him.

Quite something to be the ‘11th Marquess of Annaville’ when there has never been a first, and there is in fact no such peerage. The Indy have been stung here. https://t.co/wYOu5yQZR8

— Elvis Buñuelo (@Mr_Considerate) March 13, 2021

lol/Jesus Christ

".. and I'm The 12th Earl Of Bofa"

Hereditary baronetcy conferred by updog

We are here. We will not be silenced. Sisters united will never be defeated ❤️ pic.twitter.com/xKjiZbbVwq

— Sisters Uncut (@SistersUncut) March 13, 2021

The Survation poll in tomorrow's @TheSundayMirror puts Conservatives on 43%, Labour on 33%, Lib Dems on 9% and Greens on 5%

— Nigel Nelson (@NigelNelson) March 13, 2021

The pubs haven't even opened yet

xps

it’s erupted here as the police try clear the bandstand. it’s unclear whether arrests have been made but chants of “let her go” and “arrest your own” can be heard as thousands of people put their phone lights on, lighting up the police. it’s an incredible image.

— huck (@HUCKmagazine) March 13, 2021

The pubs haven't even opened yet

Ha, good point!

remember all that "way behind in the polls" shit that was slung at Abbott on QT, when three of the pollsters had Labour ahead and YouGov had them 5 pts behind?

If you ever needed an argument for why political values are more important than diversity, remember that the two people running the show tonight are Priti Patel and Cressida Dick.

— Minnie Rahman (@minnierahman) March 13, 2021

Just cops attacking women for protesting against the system that let a a cop kill a woman. Another day of protecting and serving. pic.twitter.com/iZOzBpQn8E

— Eleanor Penny (@eleanorkpenny) March 13, 2021

Kieth has copy and pasted the insipid Boris response: I'm going to light a candle. No mention of further cop on women violence at a peaceful protest or the erosion of civil liberties. You might as well shove the candle up your arse mate.

Keir Starmer’s office frantically googling “are there ‘women’ in the Red Wall?”

— Dawn Foster (@DawnHFoster) March 13, 2021

oh Kieth has spoken some lukewarm criticism of the police and can't remember abstaining on spy cops bill.

check the identity of the dude claiming to be the leader of the opposition that day imo

a lot of focus on him clunkily (or intentionally) using the word "protest" to describe what was intended to be a vigil. I didn't know that myself tbh, but I'm not the leader of the opposition who some said could spin 10 plates whilst drafting a minute.

and recognising an unimportant moment when he sees one

Even Patel is signalling her displeasure.

tbf i heard Caroline Nokes on the radio bemoaning this and she managed to not say a word about the leader of her party being a serial domestic abuser so hey

Harriet Harman has quote-tweet corrected Kieth on the vigil/protest framing and come out with something a bit stronger. Is Cressida Dick going to be in trouble? I wouldn't hold my breath.

look if you start suspecting the police of criminality the hard left win

Have seen some saying this is them signalling whose side they are on before the vote next week, but seems more self-defeating (and likely to give the bill a tougher ride). Cops gonna cop, more like.

well she's lost the lib dems it seems

Cressida Dick has lost the confidence of the millions of women in London and should resign.

The scenes this evening of the policing of the Clapham Common vigil in memory of Sarah Everard are utterly disgraceful and shame the Metropolitan Police. pic.twitter.com/rj6pbdR64w

— Liberal Democrats (@LibDems) March 13, 2021

Swear I've just seen Kier Starmer opening a night court in Clapham

— Babble (@Babble____) March 13, 2021