Free as a Dodo: UK Politics Welcomes 2021

Masks beneath masks until suddenly the bare bloodless skull

ftp always and forever

Hearing details about how dehumanising police treatment of protesters and LOs has been. One person got told remove their hijab in a room full of male officers. Reports of invasive and unwarranted search procedures too.

— Moya Lothian-Mclean (@mlothianmclean) April 4, 2021

Nothing to see here just @roysmithpolice, who was the boss of cops who took selfies with the bodies of murdered Nicole Smallman and Bibaa Henry but has since been promoted, RTing Turning Point UK, a far right group. pic.twitter.com/Ist51MrhEC

— Simon Vessey (@Simon_Vessey) April 4, 2021

Here are some other recent tweets. This is aggro-copaganda on social media. pic.twitter.com/KsV9flgpXB

— Simon Vessey (@Simon_Vessey) April 4, 2021

🚨@blkprotestlegal Legal Observers out now, last released at 9am. But there are many ppl still in custody in stations across #London. If anyone has capacity please volunteer for arrestee support today - info below. Solidarity to all legends supporting in last 24 hrs #KillTheBill https://t.co/BilOiWK2iV

— Zehrah Hasan (@zedhas3) April 4, 2021

Love how “your tiny circle of friends online” turned out to be a mass movement that shut down 25 cities today

Ngl the people that were arguing against abolishing the police back in early 2020, claiming “its not popular on the doorstep”, i’d seriously be looking at my politics rn pic.twitter.com/skX1nzG2wL

— Read Black Marxism (@decolonialcommi) April 3, 2021

Police lie all the time, especially about incidents involving them. The worst thing isn’t even that they lie, but that the media, journalists, politicians and commentators will uphold and repeat those lies without question and this is somehow normal

— end police violence (@LCAPSV) March 25, 2021

Yesterday we saw horrendous scenes of police violence at #KillTheBill protests across the UK. People were pepper sprayed, attacked, and violently arrested.

The police will continue to escalate their attack towards those of us opposing their bill.

We will not be cowed. pic.twitter.com/3tk4zhVK8p

— Sisters Uncut (@SistersUncut) April 4, 2021

During a series of #KillTheBill raids in Bristol, plain-clothed police pretending they were postal workers forced their way into homes of two young women, with one threatened with a Taser. Neither was arrested.

This is a shameful abuse of police power https://t.co/tQCeiTL21U

— Netpol (@netpol) April 4, 2021

fucking violent gestapo agents disguised as postal workers

ppl defending coppers on social media rn need to choke on their fucking flags

thing is when Kieth is trying to attack the Tories for being incompetent on Law & Order is he suggesting that cops need an extra free hand to additionally throttle people while they are smashing their heads in? Such a great time to be pushing the dialogue even further to the authoritarian hard right, cheers mate. Maybe Labour will be running with Prisons Prisons Prisons by 2023.

Hi @metpoliceuk @MPFed. Who are "these people"? The man posing who altered the message by holding two banners together to change it is American anti-Left activist/writer Barrett Brown. As we can see he's clearly in your employ, as he is allowed free reign behind your cordon. https://t.co/M1Dbeey8Di pic.twitter.com/E37ZNkpESS

— ❄Steel Snowflake❄💙🟨🟥 (@Groot66) April 4, 2021

All this fuss over a COP SKILL banner idgi

A Sunday night tweet

Given the amount of times I've had my passport or provisional drivers license scanned to get into a club, vaccine certification for the riskiest events (like nightclubs) just doesn't seem very dystopian to me. Am I being complacent?

— Michael Walker (@michaeljswalker) April 4, 2021

As one who doesn't possess a passport nor a provisional driving license, glad I've been to the same club as this smug LSE prick! I'm really starting to hate that novara media crew with a passion. As usual when it comes to opposing creeping authoritarianism old lefties like Jeremy Corbyn and David Davis are on the correct side of the argument!

never been

I did wonder

within a decade Novara will be the new Spiked - you saw it here first! Ash Sakar is a self-declared "libertarian communist" with a more than modest buy-to-let portfolio and also now appears on the Moral Maze every week. It's written in the stars!

and Bastani is a fucking bell-end.

to anyone who considers themselves a socialist of any stripe, the concept of a vaccine inequity driven ID scheme should be a fucking no-brainer.

I tried to get a provisional driving license when they were unrolling UC after reading some horror stories but abandoned the project because it cost thirty odd quid and I couldn't think of anyone to give me a reference. Obv I didn't try very hard but like with voter ID it's all geared towards favouring middle-class + upwards people, not foreigns, poor workers or subhuman benefits scum.

Buy-to-let portfolio? This is... news?

Not really conclusive proof nor reliable, but there was a post from a regular shitposter showing some companies house details with her name on it a couple of weeks back that confirmed to me she profits from black mould!

i for one welcome all these new clubs for the vaccinated over 50s that only play stuff from the 80s and close at 9 so we can be home and asleep at a sensible hour.

xp fairly sure this was some stupid twitter account finding some company called Sarkar Ltd that rents property on companies house... thankfully she’s the only person with that surname in this country

Yeah, ridiculous. Just checked Companies House and nobody with her full first name is down as an officer of any company listed there.

Otherwise was gonna say getting libelled by Julie Burchill must’ve paid well, LOL.

She's welcome to libel me any time she wants. Of course, I might lose the case.

I did say it was unreliable, but not unrealistic!

I'd trust a principled tory shithead wanker like Peter Oborne to not be as rotten to the core as this Novara crew will be with 5-10 years. all the warning signs are there. An increasing addiction to contrarianism for the sake of clicks for starters.

https://t.co/m1Cn9pRBCm pic.twitter.com/I7hrNHYPqj

— Charlotte Salomon (@SalomonSoup) April 4, 2021

Not reading any of the 'one year on' write-ups but this looks bang on. I do wonder that lead is sustainable beyond the rollout. Even so, competence based opposition is v weak.

I feel like at least one of the "Starmer one year on" deep dives could have acknowledged his most conspicuous fuckup: relying on a process and competence-based critique of the government's pandemic response, which then crashed into the wall of the vaccine rollout.

— Simon (@simonk_133) April 4, 2021

there hasn't been much serious analysis in these "deep dives" from what I've seen, but that would entail some level of humility and self-reflection from the usual suspects that made some wild and now looking quite foolhardy claims about all these qualities that Starmer possesses in spades. Most people probably don't even notice or even care about him averaging a few gaffes a week lately, but when a general election comes up these incidents will be front page and that isn't going to do much for his weak as piss competence-based approach.

Was just thinking the other day that if I were a brexiteer I'd feel pretty vindicated right now: the foreigners are all leaving and the EU's vaccine rollout is like the worst tory caricature of what the EU is like made manifest.

Perennial ‘adults in the room’ Canada not looking great either.

I bet even if there were serious Brexit related food shortages it would just give them a self-righteous sense of victimhood and appeal to their ration-book cosplaying.

Cinemas need targeted Government support now to #KeepTheMagicAlive

Many are in danger of closing for good but we need our cultural venues more than ever,@Cinema_UK

— Jeremy Corbyn (@jeremycorbyn) April 4, 2021

Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer has been criticised for visiting a church that has homophobic links.

Shadow Cabinet Office Minister, Rachel Reeves says 'he was visiting a vaccine centre, that doesn't mean we endorse their views.'

Latest: https://t.co/EGEUY65CnO pic.twitter.com/drIf0k3bqq

— Sky News (@SkyNews) April 5, 2021

oh so it's a vaccine centre now rather than a church that supports conversion therapy. quelle difference!

https://t.co/UstaG42zs7 pic.twitter.com/uJfj5SfU97

— gem (@dudley_duoflush) April 5, 2021

Visiting on Good Friday and talking about how much good the church community had done was simply coincidental.

“I’m not one for ‘let’s close the borders’ but you can’t have a situation where later on today Boris Johnson is announcing a sort of red, amber, green system for those of us who are thinking about a summer holiday, and then we find out that the whole world and their aunt can come in, breeze into Britain,” he told LBC radio.

O_o

Who "he"?

Lammy

Ah.

So, he *is* one for etc

lammy has form here but lot of ppl who like(d) him for other stuff are / would be disappointed. to be fair literally every MP supports ethnic cleansing (euphamised as border controls)- it comes with the job

Tory MP Cheryl Gillan has died, this means a by-election of course, but she represents Chesham and Amersham in Buckinghamshire, which has never dropped below 50% tory vote since its creation in 1974, so nothing to see here.

I completely disagree with Jesus House’s beliefs on LGBT+ rights, which I was not aware of before my visit. I apologise for the hurt my visit caused and have taken down the video. It was a mistake and I accept that.

— Keir Starmer (@Keir_Starmer) April 5, 2021

An admission of error! I thought the miracles were meant to be yesterday.

A bit harsh of him to call his odious shadow chancellor of the duchy of lancaster a total fucking liar!

um

Hartlepool, constituency voting intention:

CON: 49% (+20)
LAB: 42% (+4)
NIP: 2% (+2)
LDEM: 1% (-3)
REFUK: 1% (-25)
GRN: 1% (+1)

via @Survation

— Britain Elects (@BritainElects) April 5, 2021

The ppl Starmer is chasing clearly appreciate it.

The -25 is the key here, the Tories would have won Hartlepool in 2019 if not for the Brexit party.

Still, you have to laugh, grimly.

a "20 points ahead" gain for the tories in a seat that Corbyn Labour won twice and yet the melts are already blaming his legacy for Kieth parachuting a total cock into Hartlepool that is likely to lose by a fair margin. And lol at NIP reducing the LibDems to Count Binface status.

and fuck Hartlepool tbf!

and fuck Hartlepool tbf!

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