Free as a Dodo: UK Politics Welcomes 2021

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2021/mar/22/mps-defeat-bid-to-save-leaseholders-from-huge-fire-safety-bills

I'm touched to see the news of Churchill's explosive 1945 reception, 5 minutes from where I am now. The pride of SE13.

the people of E17 booed him as well for his last '45 campaign appearance, they couldn't stand the fucker!

They didn't want him to 'Stay (Prime Minister for) another day'!!!

One of those committee members who claim Nicola Sturgeon misled parliament:

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Fraser lives with his wife and two children in Perthshire. He is a fan of Rangers Football Club.[9]

Away wi' ye.

Hundreds of riot gear clad cops are currently surrounding around 50 terrifying sat-down students on College Green here in Bristol tonight

What’s happening with the protest? #bristolprotest #bristol #killthebill #protest pic.twitter.com/BV9MaiGSUZ

— Arya (@arya_shah09) March 23, 2021

Bristol tonight. If it kicks off who do you think started things. The people in the riot gear and on horses or the ones with their hands up & on their knees? pic.twitter.com/cFMxsKFCPJ

— Aaron Bastani (@AaronBastani) March 23, 2021

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Kieth's cunning plan to become more of a hate figure in Liverpool than Boris is a real masterstroke for erm... oh yeah the fucking Conservative Party.

this is the kind of grown-upness of strategy that Labour was sadly lacking under Milne. bravo.

They brought police from the Met to beat up protesters in Bristol last night. Any idiotic "but they weren't social distancing so they deserve it" arguments put to rest. Cowardly fucks

Bad news flagfuckers

So 15,000 nazis came to the UK but only 10,000 Kindertransportees? The state let in more nazis than Jewish children?

Don't forget 1,000 Kindertransportees were interned as enemy aliens and held off the mainland, some as far as Canada and Australia.

It was never about morality. https://t.co/f9bMxjew0C

— jewdⒶs // ייִדהודה (@jewdas) March 24, 2021

there was an account in the Nikolaus Wachsmann book on the Nazi camp system that was probably the most typical asylum seeking experience in the 30's of a Jewish man who managed to briefly flee Germany on a fake passport and was promptly deported straight back to Germany and put in "protective custody" in Dachau where he died. When UK Politicians like to demonise illegal immigrants and then wax lyrical about what a welcoming country this has always been out the other side of their mouth. I didn't realise they were talking about Nazis!

That's the problem with this thread, too many people who hate Britain. Meanwhile, this took 47 years to resolve:

https://www.theguardian.com/law/2021/mar/23/shrewsbury-24-court-of-appeal-overturns-1970s-picketing-convictions

they need to lock Ricky back up again for backing Kieth rather RLB!

He should do the decent thing and hand himself in at the nearest constabulary.

You're right - it now seems truly odd that he did that.

obviously melting in ten seconds has the net positive benefit of placing him more in the luvvie acquaintanceship of Eddie Marsan rather than Maxine Peake!

mentally i'm beginning to slot Starmer into the same kind of haplessly evil category as Ted Cruz

Time machine ethical quandary: kill Hitler or kill Kieth, it's a toughie.

"haplessly evil" is spot on really although sometimes I support the conspiracy that he actually knows what he is doing and everything is going to plan.

if you had a time machine would you travel back to the 1930s and call for Hitler to resign?

Labour MPs have just been sent a reminder from the PLP office to "only accept media requests and to use signed-off lines from the Labour Party media team" on the Liverpool announcement...

— Jessica Elgot (@jessicaelgot) March 24, 2021

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lol! travel back in time to propose an independent inquiry into Hitler

I hope some of the few principled MP's that are left tell LP media team to go fuck themselves.

Ugh, Jo Coburn on Daily Politics really has it in for Nadia Whittome - she just brought up Nadia not condemning Bristol protestors AGAIN.

Starmer seemingly determined to transform the "he's a plant" line from "wild conspiracy theory only the most delusional crank would entertain" to "Occam's Razor."

— Tom Whyman (@HealthUntoDeath) March 24, 2021

this country is NORMAL

The Union Jack flag is to be flown on UK government buildings every day.

In a statement, culture secretary Oliver Dowden said the new guidance will create "a proud reminder of our history and the ties that bind us.”https://t.co/wG6gV5hwNP

— ITV News (@itvnews) March 24, 2021

Jenrick said the report had identified multiple failures in its regeneration and planning department, including the “awarding of dubious contracts” and a “worrying lack of record keeping” in which some documents were dumped in skips and others created retrospectively.

This really is wild given it has been demonstrated that Jenrick has done these very same things or the equivalent afaik.

gotta wonder if this is to distract from new, possibly illegal, asylum rules announced today?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-56500680

if it turns out we're living in the departed and keir starmer is matt damon who is mark wahlberg. ian lavery? there's no leonardo di caprio of course

I should try, to see the film to which conrad refers! (If it is a film.)

it's a fairly bad Scorsese era remake of Infernal Affairs, that's a bit of a larf if there nowt else on telly.

Kieth wouldn't be impressed because it depicts a cop that routinely breaks the law and is deeply involved in serious and organised crime.

I meant fairly bad, bad-Scorsese era...

jeremy corbyn is leonardo dicaprio and the british labour party is a criminal enterprise

McD could be the kindly nurturing Martin Sheen character, well if he wasn't a fkin cop!

Sell-by dates ‘far too cautious’, says peer who found 20-year-old biscuit 'perfectly edible'

another from the "normal country" series.

It's a best before date if you don't know the difference between that and a use by date then get the fuck out of the legislature

hey remember those police who had broken bones and a punctured lung yeah we lied about that to set a narrative yeah soz!

It's the thought that counts eh?

he says, creating a strawman of the uk left pic.twitter.com/M8MW9pb5uU

— Cynical Bathtub (@cynical_bathtub) March 25, 2021

the Remainiacs/Orwell book clown is - even by aggro-melt standards - still completely removed from reality .

I’m just waiting for the men who run those podcasts to stop using a known sex pest as a contributor.

its like a the end of The Animals Farm where the farm animals look in at the farmhouse window and inside the dogs are playing poker

I think we can judge the good faith of a comment by how much it elides actual stuff that has happened

These are all excellent responses to an unbelievably bad and mendacious tweet!

the name of his podcast is so perfect. Oh God What Now. politics as an irritating interruption to what would otherwise have been a fine state of affairs.

always really sad when ppl whom I like to hear talk about culture and literature express anything but utter contempt for remainiacs dude :(

lol I'd never heard of the "Oh God What Now" remainiacs sequel, still had to check just to make sure you weren't making it up!

Like with the New European, you've got to admire the acumen of finally starting up a vehicle for pro-remain propaganda some time after the referendum