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

yeee haw!

looking at Cawthorne’s bibliography now and his past works include “Sex Lives of the Great Dictators” and “Flight MH370: The Mystery.

sex lives of the great kieth starmer QC370: the mystery

Oliver Eagleton is also writing a book!

his publishers seem quite keen to get this rooting-tooting book on the shelves at least a few weeks before the Batley & Spen byelection!

in conclusion, Keir Starmer is a life of contrasts

I canvassed in Ladbroke Grove for Emma Dent Coad in Kensington and for the most part, it was good but there was one vile red trouser man in training who was like ‘how DARE you canvass here!’ and someone who wasn’t sure how to vote despite EDC reuniting him with his lost wallet and keys earlier in the year. We were like ‘dude! She did you a solid there - how could you even consider voting for someone else?’ EDC herself was excellent, particularly later in the pub.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2021/may/25/labour-needs-more-real-people-in-parliament-says-kim-leadbeater-sister-of-murdered-mp-jo-cox?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

"I don’t have a traditional route into politics"

apart from the distasteful and undemocratic nepotism that has put her there she's a real fucking trailblazer. "civility" "robust debate" "fact-based" "real people" "Westminster bubble" "latte-sipping croissant munchers" well 4 out of 5 ain't bad.

That’s six things.

civility + robust debate come together as one

COBRA meetings do sound boring af tbfttc

Cummings says he and other Downing Street officials deliberately stopped Boris Johnson from chairing COBRA because Johnson thought it was all just a scare story and would have made the meetings pointless.

— Arieh Kovler (@ariehkovler) May 26, 2021

If you can remember the COBRA meetings you weren't there

Cummings said he doesn't remember whether he attended COBRA meetings in February.

Says he didn't recommend the PM did.

Again- central tension. Cummings saying ministers and officials wasn't taking Covid seriously. But DC wasn't attending COBRA and wasn't saying PM should.

— Lewis Goodall (@lewis_goodall) May 26, 2021

Dominic Cummings: <Dies>

Me: Hmmm, what angle is he working here?

He disagrees with the WHO messaging on death.

will Boris ever recover from these devastating revelations that he's still in fact Boris Johnson.

bbc news need to ration these Breaking News phone alerts more judiciously ffs. I've had about 8 in the last hour and nothing has actually happened.

Did they do one for this?

"The main person I spoke to in the whole of 2020 was @bbclaurak [...] I could give guidance to her on very big stories" says Dominic Cummings

— Moya Lothian-Mclean (@mlothianmclean) May 26, 2021

laura k was live tweeting the whole thing and then suddenly stopped 37 minutes ago, what could have happened? 🤔

Breaking News: Laura K is a CCHQ stenographer and not a real journalist

BREAKING: Hillsborough: The judge has STOPPED the trial of two ex South Yorkshire police officers and the force's lawyer, for perverting the course of justice over amending officers' statements.

He has ruled there is NO case to answer.

1/3

— David Conn (@david_conn) May 26, 2021

ya don't say https://t.co/eSRHX1wmnI pic.twitter.com/YielEwdpHx

— Simon Vessey (@Simon_Vessey) May 26, 2021

Prof here:

oh for such a universe pic.twitter.com/WfNPRtoldd

— michael (@Sisyphusa) May 26, 2021

no accountability ever all round then

also twitter has thoroughly destroyed any lingering meritocratic delusions I had about credentialed academics

Tories +10

This is probably the most chilling thing I’ve seen so far this morning.
“Who do we not save?”#DominicCummings pic.twitter.com/4hxniCNr6h

— Kit Yates (@Kit_Yates_Maths) May 26, 2021

well well well well well pic.twitter.com/Eb1eTcTdG5

— jonathan nunn (@demarionunn) May 26, 2021

https://images-production.bookshop.org/spree/images/attachments/11204772/original/9781675297063.jpg?1577335328

who didn't know what the tories were about even before they literally already culled a large part of the population from 2010. a lot of people apparently

as ever, the pundit class faces no penalty for being wrong in real time ever

Was that ever the case? One or two high profile fuck-ups aside...

Lol @ the 35 second mark in this video

Here is video of the BBC coverage of the moment Dominic Cummings names Laura Kuenssberg as the media person he kept leaking to. pic.twitter.com/NRP6REAv17

— Card5hark 🌍 🇪🇺 🇬🇧 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 (@Card5hark) May 26, 2021

"It doesn’t matter if you’ve got great people doing communications. If the prime minister changes his mind 10 times a day, and then calls up the media and contradicts his own policy, day after day after day, you’re going to have communications disasters."

As an example, he says Boris Johnson was warned by his head of communications, Lee Cain, not to pick a fight with Marcus Rashford over school meals. But Johnson ignored that advice, and had to back down twice.

Zarah Sultana MP takes part in this Cummings interview via video link! At 14:10.

Surely the best human being to be involved.

yes, she is the best. as for the worst...

Were British weapons used to murder Tala (13), Rula (5), her big sister Yara (9), and hundreds of other Palestinians in Gaza in Israel's latest bombardment?

The Prime Minister couldn't answer this question at #PMQs today. Horrific. pic.twitter.com/XHn3FYUgHD

— Zarah Sultana MP (@zarahsultana) May 26, 2021

Live footage of Johnson reacting to today's revelations.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-dorset-57253967

Today on Normal Island we have a senior government advisor attempting to describe the Spiderman meme to an inquiry into 130,000 deathspic.twitter.com/KVMTSmYvYI

— James Felton (@JimMFelton) May 26, 2021

How. How are they like this.

HAHAHAHAHA pic.twitter.com/l68G7LiBfD

— Tom Williams (@shirleymush) May 26, 2021

as thick as thieves these liars and knaves are!

On point:

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/may/26/dominic-cummings-circus-indictment-governing-class-failures-uk

And today there was v, v slight increase in hospital admissions btw

How come there's no briefing campaign against Cummings? Does the govt think it will just blow over no matter what he says? Would have expected at least some anonymously sourced stories about how he once kissed an EU flag and vomited on a statue of Princess Diana.

because they treat him like the mad kid in the playground that the bullies leave alone in case he explodes. This all really kicked off after the last attempt to brief against him, after all.

It'll be forgotten by the this time next week, Tories will up to 50% in the opinion polls.

Cummings briefs against himself. Tories I've chatted to tonight agree that yeah it's mostly true but fuck him,it's self-servingly true. And lol nothing matters

it'll be forgotten by the weekend and at next PMQ's some loud voice from the backbenches will shout : Shut up Kieth! during some forensic questioning and the whole house will break down in uproarious laughter.

*government voice* oh thank god, a public inquiry https://t.co/Js6jBgWX3B

— RP Corp International Division (@RPCorpIntl) May 26, 2021

reaction to this (not on this thead) reminded me a little bit of #resistance types watching james comey give evidence to congress, lot of magical thinking going on.

Anybody but Boris would be 30 points ahead by now

What do #resistance types think will happen if Boris goes? It would be a shuffling the decks exercise, with a Tory in.

And this guy.

Remember a few days ago when it was announced Starmer was going on Piers Morgan’s show & everyone was like what a bad idea. pmsl https://t.co/L7MDDDHmu9

— peach ☭ (@peachlux_) May 26, 2021

I'm assuming coke