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

(xp) Now that sentence "bangs".

what Southgate does with his flag behind closed doors shouldn't be the subject of an open letter imo

strong "we are going over the top tomorrow, lads" vibes in that pic Southgate has used. The guy is a prize prick and I'm going to strongly support every side against England, even if I go through a wormhole back in time I'm going to support the fucking Nazis and fascist Italy against Britain!

Imagine going on about the military and racial justice in the same letter and thinking this 'bangs'.

(xp) Oh alright then.

"there's more that unites us with racist scum than divides us"

Gareth chiding some hooligans for chanting no surrender when they should be chanting god save the queen is it?

That letter is pure 'things can only get better'. The works is burning, Gareth!

*world lol.

We do pageantry so well in Britain

Bloody hell Gareth you'll be praising the lads for how well they queue before walking out onto the pitch next

pageantry, bootlicking, preserves: Britain's growth industries

The newsletter is out. It's an alternative view on The Atlantic's much-praised Boris Johnson profile 👇

'Stuffed with Turkish Delight: How The Atlantic fell for the liar Boris Johnson's White Witch grift' https://t.co/bThs8n3l5I pic.twitter.com/aIuY3nk0tK

— Mic Wright (@brokenbottleboy) June 8, 2021

^ cleansing if you read any of that dismal Atlantic piece

McTague presents us Johnson as “people’s tribune… channelling a cry of anger”

what an absolute pumper!

It's a really fun and ruthless deconstruction of the bad West Wing fanfic by McTague. I would never bother reading the piece but it's fun seeing it taken to the cleaners.

and skimming over the disgraceful Zaghari-Ratcliffe incident and omitting the profligate corruption/cronyism of garden bridge isn't fucking journalism of any stripe.

'I don't support that, we should always respect the Queen.'

Plans by Oxford University students to remove a portrait of the Queen due to concerns about colonialism have been branded 'divisive' by Mayor of Greater Manchester Andy Burnham.

the great white hope of the soft-left would so love a threesome with Gareth and his flag.

Removing a portrait of the Queen a very poor substitute for removing the Queen tbh.

ceci n'est pas une reine

Got to start somewhere! xp

The picture's placement dates all the way back to 2013. Makes you want to put your Emeli Sande shellac on the gramophone and cry over Nick Skelton's showjumping gold all over again.

IT'S MAH HISTORY

THE HISTORY OF MAH PEOPLE

Southgate:

For many of that younger generation, your notion of Englishness is quite different from my own. I understand that, too.

I understand that on this island, we have a desire to protect our values and traditions — as we should — but that shouldn’t come at the expense of introspection and progress.

England is not an island.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/64/John_Bull-_Are_these_my_Islands_or_yours%3F_%283269532486%29.jpg

some good old John Bull arrogance from Gareth

If England crash and burn in the euros there'll be a place on the shadow front bench for Southgate lol

shadow minister for moist flags

In that image it looks like Bull is set to fight a representative of the Crown and aristocracy? This must be some kind of 'progressive patriotism' rhetoric. But the Bull figure it so hideous it would put me off totally.

he's supposed be having a punch-up with some landed gentry Tory peer caricature over "our islands" but unfortunately for him the tory is packing steel!

Looks like he brought a riding crop to a gun fight, schoolboy error

England is not an island.

Southgate doing his best to rile up the Scottish team. All good stuff.

that's a peer's robe and coronet in the john bull poster: so it's possibly a reference to this: e.g. when lloyd george was battling the house of lords over their veto power (they kept vetoing his budgets)

where the peer is standing (scotland and northern ireland) feels like it must have symbolic meaning but maybe it's just for a more a dynamic composition lol

(the long battle for the third home rule bill -- passed as the home rule act in 1914 -- was also very much testing the liberals around the same time, but it's a genuinely cluelessly bizarre image for tackling that issue, surely, even for liberals lol)

Unfortunately for Labour, Muslim voters aren't stupid. You can't take anti-Palestinian, anti-Kashmiri, Islamophobic stances for ages, and then expect to win back support with one question to the PM and some leaflets.

Labour is going to lose Batley and Spen. https://t.co/MO6zB3V5LO

— Ammar Kazmi 🇵🇸 (@AmmarKazmi_) June 9, 2021

I shouldn't really be enjoying this impending Tory byelection victory in my local area as much as I am. But chickens coming home to roost, reaping/sowing etc and this party has nothing to offer anyway so fuck them tbh. Lol at Kim Leadbetter who formerly was a political ingenue, personal trainer, platitude talking space-cadet melt till a couple of weeks ago has suddenly developed strong opinions on Palestine and Kashmir! Lol yeah the Kieth office really does believe the lumpen masses are all thick as fucking pigshit!

Mind you all those getting taken in by a grifter like Galloway are rather thick tbf!

First day of a two part interview with the finest songwriter of a generation Noel Gallagher - who remains as irreverent and irrepressible as ever on pretty much everything... #NoelGallagher more tomorrow on his new music and plans for the future.https://t.co/18MSz2utmB pic.twitter.com/aQJfg79uMc

— Simon Boyle (@SimonBoyle87) June 10, 2021

anyone caught using or being described with the word "irreverent" to be in the first cohort for the gulags please

Noel, let's R.I.P.

is that the same Raheem Sterling that the Currant Bun has hounded in a racist fashion for the last god knows how many years?

does the M in MBE stand for "melt"?

Muppet of the British Empire

Quite interesting on unite election and ramifications.

Re Unite GS election etc, it's worth thinking through the ramifications beyond The Fucking Labour Party.

— Tom Williams (@shirleymush) June 8, 2021

Happy birthday to Mr Speaker! pic.twitter.com/7dTeo7SZjg

— PARLY (@PARLYapp) June 10, 2021

total prick is this guy, but it's hard not to admire his genuinely odd sort of Lancashire Gothic aesthetic.

Somebody frame that as "Highway 61 Revisited" or similar?

Tom Williams thread was actual good content, thanks comrade

The Labour leader also said the by-election was 'a circus' that had attracted non-serious candidates

If I had just blocked two serious candidates from the shortlist and circumvented party rules to run a dilettante candidate in what a lot of people have dismissed as a distastefully exploitative move. Then I might have been mindful enough to inspect the shaky ground I'm standing on before running my fucking mouth off about "non-serious candidates" in the local press!

I mean when you put it like that

Very well observed, Calzino. Amusing that Kieth seems to referring to himself!

I'd imagine when the tories take their gloves off on the doorsteps they'll be saying do you want some dotty PE teacher who has decided to have a dabble in politics representing you in Parliament or a *serious* politician with x amount of years experience in local govt etc.. Kieth has made it quite easy for them because they don't even have to resort to smear tactics.

of course I would be sticking up for her here if she was a dotty marxist teacher with a history of union activism, but alas she's just another melt.

Voting intention amongst 18-24s:

LAB: 35%
GRN: 27%
CON: 21%
LD: 12%
SNP: 3%
REF: 1%

Via @YouGov, 9-10 June

— Stats for Lefties (@LeftieStats) June 11, 2021