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

it sounds like a public-facing entity to take the heat for any fuckups while the private middlemen get pushed further into the shadows but remain firmly there, ensconced in their sweetheart no-bid deals like parasites on a hog’s ass

very nicely put!

i thought you’d like that one :)

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E15blmsX0AIkVmH?format=jpg&name=large

omg I just died!

Westminster voting intention:

CON: 46% (+1)
LAB: 28% (-2)
LDEM: 8% (+1)
GRN: 8% (-)
REFUK: 2% (-)

via @YouGov, 19 - 20 May
Chgs. w/ 12 May

— Britain Elects (@BritainElects) May 22, 2021

I see all that Progressive Britain word salad stuff from last week is really cutting through

Can see Lab giving a couple of points to the Greens, which is 20 points.

What happens when the Tories hit 50% I wonder.

all these lads spontaneously combust

pic.twitter.com/QhyUvWGPfg

— black lives matter (@jrc1921) May 22, 2021

It will take many years to undo the damage done by Corbyn

vs

This IS what a functioning opposition looks like, it is the voters that are wrong

vs

silence

the only time he's looked authoritative and in a position of strength was when he took Shippers to the cleaners for gossiping about his bit on the side. That was his defining moment!

Dunty, come to ILX!

if Corbyn had stepped down after the chicken coup or Smith had a successful leadership challenge, Labour would arguably be in a much more advanced state of decay right now.

So something I noticed RE Starmer and Corbyns social media output

Corbyns visits mostly told through third party engagements

Starmers visits never seem to break out of staged photo ops into real stories.

There's coldness about the labour leadership now, they don't cut through pic.twitter.com/uwKuiCXJud

— Babble (@Babble____) May 22, 2021

if starmer was actually popular that would be populism, which is bad

xps but this is the funniest one

pic.twitter.com/Bja9boQ2Sa

— black lives matter (@jrc1921) May 22, 2021

Yes yes, those are definitely the important parts for the leader of a political party, there’s not an army of aides and interns to take minutes.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E1_4VFtVcAAc72h?format=jpg&name=large

it's all YOU lot that fail to see this guy is *prime ministerial* so it's YOUR failure, not ours. signed, the pundit classes. I would cast doubt on his ability to draft a minute even though I'm not entirely sure what the fuck one is!

Was gonna link to that. Feeling pretty bad for Simon Hedges at this point.

That was definitely not the funniest one

pic.twitter.com/QVNZLkCj4e

— black lives matter (@jrc1921) May 22, 2021

Starmer stock must be bought in crypto

Threpny bitcoins

about that stock:

BREAKING: DeFi100 coin exit scams, and runs away with $32 million in investors funds.

Website is now updated with the message “We scammed you guys, and you can’t do shit about it” pic.twitter.com/uyeYUDgbwo

— Mr. Whale (@CryptoWhale) May 22, 2021

Got a bit of a technical query! Does anyone know a resource to find out how much government grants to particular councils have changed? Particularly post Labour.

that is an interesting question. I seem to recall under May that bankrupt Tory-run Northamptonshire council received a very "cheeky" bailout and that seemed like an outrageous pork barrel handout at the time. Now every time I pass through Batley I'm looking up to see if money is getting dropped from helicopters.

i think lbhf had a note on their website or in the recent council tax leaflet about the change in theirs.

"54% real terms cut in 10 years"

The sage report snuck out tonight seems all kinds of bad news, especially if you haven’t had the second (or any) jab

After reports from @guardian that no.10 blocked @PHE_uk release of B.1.617.2 schools data, @PHE_uk has now released their technical report on variants at 11pm on a Saturday - this still doesn't seem to have data on schools (!), but what it does have looks seriously worrying. 🧵

— Deepti Gurdasani (@dgurdasani1) May 22, 2021

Fair chance 21st June is delayed by a month?

Hancock on the news this morning saying it's nothing to worry about (if you've had two jabs). which makes me worry.

this is an absolute disgrace, and a measure of the man.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2021/may/23/anger-as-starmer-intervenes-to-back-closures-at-popular-primrose-hill

Cop first, ask forensic questions later

lol, even a former barrister in his constituency is saying Kieth is a clueless cunt!

does he just want be hated by absolutely everyone? Even some of the worst right-wing Labour know which side to take in constituency matters, if not out of common decency out of career self-preservation. I think he needs help tbh.

MPs

the more people hate you the more right you are doing iirc

im afraid i dont make the rules

why are you booing me? i’m forensic

he does the turning the racism dial thing but forgets to keep looking back at the audience reaction

Kieth after stepping on the third consecutive rake in a row: " that .... that is dignity"

I can only hope that people go to Primrose Hill and rip down those gates.

im really struggling with the latest iteration of 'who are you going to believe, me or your lying eyes?' re the "revelation" that herd immunity was the governments initial strategy when everyone has known this all along based on them repeatedly telling us so at the time

how is this the sunday times splash?

the shock revelation that a scientifically illiterate, dangerous and irresponsible idea was announced to 16m viewers on live tv, but shit we all just forgot about it cos we smoke to much weed.

in a shocking development no one could have predicted, mr yaxley-fuckface has shown up for the israel solidarity rally in london

I saw a vid where one of the EDL thugs *accidentally* does a seig heil, then remembers where he is.

whole lot of "extremism on both sides" from the usual on social media

i'm seeing some condemnation of their racism and islamophobia from the moderate racists/islamophobes but it's a sign of how fucked things are that their antisemitism doesn't even seem to register to people, not even many anti-racist types - because they're "pro-israel" which is all that matters

you could call it churchillian antisemitism, it's so embedded in the UK mainstream it might as well be invisible

Cummings is now about 50 tweets into trying to distance himself from 2020 gov policy over the last few days

1/ Covid… Summary evidence on lockdowns. For UK political pundits obsessed with spreading nonsense on Sweden/lockdowns, cf. SW econ did a bit WORSE than Denmark which locked down, AND far more deaths in Sweden: https://t.co/A9TV9oRGHU

— Dominic Cummings (@Dominic2306) May 17, 2021

I could have sworn he was quoted as saying something like (in Feb'20): we'll protect the economy and too bad if some old people die.

Cummings has the most unreadable writing style - hectoring, pedantic and unfocused. I gave up on that after about five tweets and switched to the L33 R!gby Foundation tweet below it for the lols. That's just the way it is when you're Galaxy Brain #1 though I guess.