Free as a Dodo: UK Politics Welcomes 2021

Lyle has a particular interest in winding up lefties on social media

Oh I think remember him, ex- Charlton and it was no mystery who he was voting for in '19

Yep

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvWwtfKiGUk

no Chris Leslie was the Which mag guy.

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lol you are right, burnham was "john lewis shoppers" so even more appropriate than i remembered!

lol what a prick, but quite ahead of the melt-time continuum on John Lewis tbf!

Lol @ all the quote tweets to this one.

It’s giving... pic.twitter.com/jpevPdE56y

— Vote for London Independence Party ⬛️🟫 (@misanthropicc92) May 7, 2021

Watching the BBC's election coverage, Kirsty Wark is a terrible interviewer, she should should have stuck to whatever it is she's been doing for the last five years. LOL @ Huw Edwards constantly trying bring the discussion around to Wales despite no-one being interested in talking about Wales.

Helen found someone to report on from the north who isn’t a Tory pizza restaurant owner

Paul Dennett, the newly re-elected Labour mayor of Salford, didn't hold back in his criticism of Keir Starmer and the national party in his victory speech pic.twitter.com/bHIizFv0kx

— Helen Pidd (@helenpidd) May 8, 2021

I notice the only (marginal) successes for Labour have been in places where the left still has some influence. Funny that.

This is one for the ages.

I'm blocked but fucking helllllll this is as embarrassing as anything he's ever said, and it's a very crowded field pic.twitter.com/5IZp34UPMl

— johnyhelzapopin (@JohnyHelzapopin) May 8, 2021

Good to see you pay attention to my retweets!

I'd like to know what aside from benefitting from widespread Khan apathy to absolutely no end, is impressive or praiseworthy about the fucking village idiot driving around London in what looks like an SS gaswagen.

Trying not to pay attention to grifters like JOB but Christ he is the worst

I think the only praise I've seen for Bailey was from Stephen Bush admiring the the youthful condition of his skin. There probably is a racist element in the Tories cutting him loose, but that doesn't subtract anything from what an idiot he is.

So looks like the SNP aren't going to get their majority so expect Boris to go into full on Edward Longshanks mode.

it's essential for O'Brien's worldview that there be Noble Tories, the rest is just him automatic writing with no input from his brain as per

I guess if you’re a lot more right wing than you want to admit to yourself the idea of good Tories is necessary to stop you from asking yourself a few difficult questions.

exackly

itisamystery gif working overtime the last couple of days

How long before he changes his mind back to thinking boris is good again

Burnham has won by a huge margin in Manchester, it was a high turnout and he got something like 3 times the votes of the challenging Conservative candidate.

All Keith needed to do was show up like this chump.

Andy Burnham re-elected mayor of Greater Manchester in the first round, with 473,024 votes - with 69.7% of the vote (that's an increase in vote share from 63.4% in 2017)

— Sophy Ridge (@SophyRidgeSky) May 8, 2021

There is also this, so some enthusiasm for the walking corpse that is Labour.

Compare to Teesside and the West Midlands. The political geography of England is being transformed.

Norris doesn't appear to have a meaningful policy program, and is unclear whether he would bring buses under public control. One to watch whether he shifts on that. https://t.co/xunccXsk7t

— Aaron Bastani (@AaronBastani) May 8, 2021

This video though

As I've said before, Keir Starmer's strategy is designed to appeal to a caricature of the British working class, crafted by overpaid consultants. Truly pathetic and patronising. This person sums it up beautifully.pic.twitter.com/3fCrUMF56t

— Ammar Kazmi 🇵🇸 (@AmmarKazmi_) May 8, 2021

I'm really not sure why they think Northerners, and 'working class' people in general, are more patriotic than anyone else - strike that, I do know, it's because they think they're morons.

Roughly what proportion of the West of England electorate is in Bristol?

It’s Greater Bristol basically - includes Bath but after that it’s towns like Chipping Sodbury and Keynsham (the latter seeming more like a suburb the only time I went there, good pubs though).

NEW

Blame game inside Labour escalating tonight 🔥

There's a fight over whether Labour Deputy Leader Angela Rayner should get the blame for elections as formal campaign head - or whether it should be Keir Starmer

Cont

— Sam Coates Sky (@SamCoatesSky) May 8, 2021

it was the coat wot lost it

It's Michael Foot's donkey jacket all over again.

Had it confirmed by two sources that Keir Starmer has sacked Angela Rayner as party chair.

So much for "I take full responsibility" ...

— Andrew Fisher (@FisherAndrew79) May 8, 2021

Cont

Harsh.

But valid.

It’s not all bad news

Results from St. Mary's ward. 🗳️

Chris Jarvis (Green) and Dick Wolff (Green) elected.#LocalElections2021 pic.twitter.com/zsdeOFopD0

— Oxford City Council (@OxfordCity) May 8, 2021

was it Angela who made the decision to parachute Saudi Paul into Hartlepool? I don't think she did tbh.

Yes, but she's just some thick Northern prole innit?

I think alongside all his other fine qualities it's not surprising that Kieth is a vindictive fucking coward as well

Wasn’t there a video from his days as DPP shifting all the blame for something onto a staffer? He has form for this anyway I’m sure

I've seen footage where he blames a female staffer because he's too fucking thick to work out how floppy disks work

Even SR (who I think likes to present herself as a fairly neutral reporter) can't contain herself:

In a series of terrible political management decisions, this has got to be the worst.

— Sienna Rodgers (@siennamarla) May 8, 2021

Lol

Reports confirmed that Angela Rayner has had job of party chair and campaign chair removed from her - she's still deputy of the party, which is an elected position, and popular with members

— Laura Kuenssberg (@bbclaurak) May 8, 2021

It was Jenny Chapman, Kieth's director of politics who championed the move to circumvent party democracy and drop a hopeless candidate into Hartlepool. so is she sacked as well?

yeah I don't think I've seen Sienna Rogers post anything like that before.

FUCK

Hearing this too. Another name doing the rounds is Wes Streeting, who it is thought would be an effective (shadow) ‘minister for the Today programme’ https://t.co/TPfstAILH7

— Henry Zeffman (@hzeffman) May 8, 2021

🤪

— Stephen Bush (@stephenkb) May 8, 2021

You heard it here first.

Re: Streeting, that's the only way this is going now.

bad move to bring in another person much taller than Kieth imo

really smart politics to sack a popular rival who could outflank you from the right on a wave of fantasy red wall credentials tho

Word that even Nandy is being pushed out?? This really is C:UK #2.