"we'll change the things that need changing and that's all we'll change": the paSUKification of post-brexit politics 2021

A senior Labour figure told a meeting with the leader’s office that Angela Rayner was “dressed inappropriately” on a visit to Hartlepool. She was wearing leopard-print trousers, heavy-duty stomper boots and a hoodie.

nice blend of misogyny and classism getting leaked from the Starmer office, vile people.

Runners and riders for Labour selection for Batley and Spen by-election, according to local sources: Salma Arif, Leeds council cabinet member for public health, is who some believe the seat will be "stitched up" for

— Patrick Maguire (@patrickkmaguire) May 9, 2021

Owen Jones tweet, guessing he is probably not just making this up

The reason the Labour reshuffle isn’t happening is because the shadow ministers Keir Starmer’s team are trying to demote are refusing to move, and are betting the house on the fact Starmer no longer has any political authority.

— Owen Jones 🌹 (@OwenJones84) May 9, 2021

oh please let this be true

it's a bed-in!

with kieth and jenny and the gang

That's that then. Labour loses control of Bristol City Council, ties for biggest party with the Greens on 24 councillors each

— cryskttlty (@cryskttlty) May 9, 2021

Brabin hasn't officially won yet but still

oh they are still counting, lol I thought I figures I saw on my phone were the final count. 90 000 ahead on first prefs

Are these Greens positioned for a real ascendancy or are they a comedy party

the Greens are not positioned for a real ascendancy

Leeds 2nd pref results through.

Brabin (Lab): 20,312 (112,624 total)
Robinson (Con): 11,579 (72,248 total)

greens = 00s lib dems (?)

What happened to the Sensible Party or whatever the labour exiles were calling themselves,

They lost all their seats and then went off to cushy jobs and non-executive directorships.

One shad cab member tells me they'd quite like to know whether it's worth them turning up for work tomorrow. Nearly 7pm Sunday night and unaware if they're invited to tomorrow's meeting.

— Kate Proctor (@Kate_M_Proctor) May 9, 2021

lol politicians are such pissy bitches

Brabin (Lab): 49,753 (310,923 total)
Robinson (Con): 32,970 (209,137 total)

Tracy Brabin is officially the new Mayor of West Yorkshire.

now confirmed Kieth has another by-election to lose

So many thinkpieces on ee by gum Northeners deserting the Labour Party to write, so little time.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E05uMwfWYAAQS_i?format=png&name=small

You dirty old man!

BBC liveblog has gone with this image

https://i.postimg.cc/3w0n2rBC/Screenshot-20210509-201105-Chrome.jpg

Tim Shipman hasn’t tweeted since he deleted the tweet yesterday #FreeShippers

— Ed (@emcnally96) May 9, 2021

Today’s Sunday Times highlights Labour’s dire financial straits. If Starmer is considering scrapping shadow cabinet posts to make up costs, would make a reshuffle even harder with less posts to go around. pic.twitter.com/2wLGOrMVT8

— James Heale (@JAHeale) May 9, 2021

"an empty husk of a party" that had over 600 000 members

This isn’t as good as John McDonnell liking a tweet about how the hug emoji is a communist though

he's got absolutely no filter on his likes and it's amazing pic.twitter.com/8QXtdDlZ7X

— Doug (@redandriveting) May 9, 2021

Allies of Nick Brown say he has been sacked as chief whip

— Patrick Maguire (@patrickkmaguire) May 9, 2021

I don't really see how party discipline has anything to do with any of Kieth's multitude of problems in the last few days. Lol because was a Brown creature maybe he's too left-wing!

NEW: Rachel Reeves is new shadow chancellor, party source confirms.

— Gabriel Pogrund (@Gabriel_Pogrund) May 9, 2021

well that wasn't going to happen anyway.

Lisa Nandy and Jon Ashworth stay in post
Suggestions that Wes Streeting in line for promotion to a new brief

two of the worst people staying put shocker. Wes making his big entrance into frontline politics.

Rachel Reeves' tweets celebrating a nazi-sympathiser are still up https://t.co/IBdmyAgry7

— Chris (@ChrisKPH) May 9, 2021

Rayner the new shadow chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, lol the promotion she was so happy about last night.

Must be a hell of a hangover

I'm told separately that she wants senior LOTO figures gone. Easy to see why negotiations aren't getting anywhere fast...

— Sienna Rodgers (@siennamarla) May 9, 2021

🚨🌹 | NEW: Keir Starmer's new focus will be "work and jobs", says Labour

— Politics For All (@PoliticsForAlI) May 9, 2021

They've given Rayner a million jobs.

Deputy Leader, Shadow First Secretary of State, Shadow Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Shadow Secretary of State for the Future of Work: Angela Rayner

None of those are real jobs

I can't quite believe I'm saying this, but we have our first briefing war of the new "refreshed and renewed" shadow cabinet. Allies of Starmer deny the briefing below: It "isn't true" https://t.co/TvnxCcQYO5

— Henry Zeffman (@hzeffman) May 9, 2021

xp

saves a bit of brass I suppose! Corbz used to have to do the same, not because he couldn't afford them like Kieth obv.

Some bemusement in the PLP at Wes Streeting’s new job title: Shadow Secretary of State *FOR* Child Poverty. Are Labour pro that now?

— Patrick Maguire (@patrickkmaguire) May 9, 2021

Buying them all a Filet O'Fish for tonight's shift

None of those are real jobs

― Scamp Granada (gyac), Sunday, 9 May 2021 bookmarkflaglink

The only jobs being created tonight are the junk consultancy roles/Lord seats for this lot after the Tories end up with a 100 seat majority at the next election.

Oh good "child poverty" again is it? Those poor respectable working class children

"respectable working class" was an expression Mandy used earlier. I haven't got a clue what he means!

Confusion over whether Angela Rayner maintains control over party matters, senior to chair and NCC – allies say yes, sources close to leadership say that's wrong.

— Sienna Rodgers (@siennamarla) May 9, 2021

Jobs Jobs jobs

The shitposters know

almost feel sorry for her, don't think she's realised that she's a sacrificial lamb warming the seat for Rachel Reeves

— Dr. Professor Sir Bane QC KCB MP (@BaneNook) July 8, 2020

if you've not being getting your Rachel Reeves 5 a day and feel like she has been underexposed, well don't you worry no more

.@LucyMPowell — Labours new shadow housing secretary — is... a landlord.

— Greater Manchester Housing Action (@gmhousingaction) May 9, 2021

I'm going to enjoy watching this party die an ignominious death even more now, especially as it seems to be happening much faster than I thought it would under Starmer

"respectable working class" was an expression Mandy used earlier. I haven't got a clue what he means!

he means white

work and jobs eh? never the twain should meet.

xp I know I know, just feigning ignorance for the sake of a post.

it seems to be happening much faster than I thought it would under Starmer

thank the lord no one stabbed him

Hahahaha

I can reveal what happened last night with @michaelgove. Gove gave @BorisJohnson till 9pm to resign. At 8.59pm the prime minister fired him.

— Isabel Oakeshott (@IsabelOakeshott) July 7, 2022

No surprises here, but am told it's no longer a certainty that ministers will publish the Channel 4 sale bill before recess. Having said that, the legislation is all but drafted and releasing it into the wild would not stop a new PM from ripping it up.

— Jake Kanter (@Jake_Kanter) July 7, 2022

I guess he must have realised that if he resigns he can finally leave the wife and kids

That absolute c*nt Steve Baker talking some shit on BBC this morning, apparently even though we might vote for other parties, we're all Tories at heart, get fucked forever sonny. I bet he gets in.

I guess he must have realised that if he resigns he can finally leave the wife and kids

Cummings claims in latest Substack Boris Johnson told him in January 2020 that on account of his "fucking divorce, very expensive", and the pressure of being PM, he wanted to concentrate instead on writing his Shakespeare book. pic.twitter.com/4EG4kITZB1

— Henry Dyer (@Direthoughts) November 12, 2021

Good advice.

I think it’s time for a new thread for the post Boris era.

Hold on though, maybe he won't resign

like the queen this thread will never die

We're relying on you to come up with a snappy title for the new thread

all I care about is the FPN

new thread, titled with all the care and attention you've come to expect
like the queen this thread will never die: in which we ALL resign (ourselves to disgusting miseries to post-boris politics 2022)

"A state led by Sunak, Gove or Truss with reforming zeal would be an unpleasant place to live. But it’s also damaging to be governed by intellectually deficient, personally ambitious, corrupt or simply uninterested ministers. Fewer ministers than ever care about their departments, as the internecine vortex of Westminster and dreams of a slot on Question Time suck in most of their attention. This has been especially true since 2016, though the problem is of longer gestation. It doesn’t entirely explain why Britain, after twelve years of Conservative government, is run-down, stagnant, expensive, underpaid, unequal, corrupt, socially fractured, backward-looking, hungry and fearful. But it doesn’t help. It will take far more than dislodging Johnson to change that."

https://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2022/july/johnson-his-fall

Can we lock the thread now:

Bet y'all are wishing Jo Swinson had been the UK's next Prime Minister right about now, huh?

— Young Liberals (@YoungLiberalsUK) July 7, 2022