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

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

Tom Williams thread was actual good content, thanks comrade

― Lage Lage Lage Shooting (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 10 June 2021 bookmarkflaglink

Lab are on course to lose another 50 seats at the next election so it's worth a look.

it might take more than a flaky showman like Burnham to undo the damage Kieth has done here with young voters, he's done a job on them.

"booing the knee" has to be one of the most Chris Morris-esque phrases to become part of the national conversation

https://i.imgur.com/y854GX8.png

also can't stop thinking of "disparaging the boot is a bootable offense" when all of this devolves into arguments about responses to responses to responses to whatever the original point was meant to be

Do I want to know what the hashtag in that cunt’s username means

apparently "Great Barrington Declaration"? yeah me neither

Nearly 10 minutes of various Finns laid out now

government at Trump levels of dog whistle fascism, fortunately the world-renowned UK press is here to hold them to account

apparently "Great Barrington Declaration"? yeah me neither

The Great Barrington Declaration, a statement written by three public health experts from Harvard, Stanford, and Oxford, encourages governments to lift lockdown restrictions on young and healthy people while focusing protection measures on the elderly. This would allow COVID-19 to spread in a population where it is less likely to be deadly, the authors state, encouraging widespread immunity that is not dependent on a vaccine.

I notice it doesn't mention they come from the Universities

The implicit “fuck young people” part of that declaration certainly seems like it’s in play now as the variant of (alleged) concern is being encouraged to circulate and the concomitant rise in hospitalisation is shrugged off as the necessary price of being able to have beverages inside slightly earlier

Yeah they are just delaying opening fully isn't it? Rather than restricting again. What's 100 deaths a day, when it was 10x that in winter quit crying snowflakes etc.

it must be genuinely depressing to want to be a journalist but live in the uk

Only in the sense that many of my ostensible colleagues are melts, TERFs, and Tories.

I fucking hate it because it was already a foregone conclusion that this would happen, that once indoor dining and drinking & all the rest came in cases would spread to the significant unvaccinated or part-vaccinated cohort, that this was basically the plan such as it was, and the fast-spreading delta variant that would make this worse was already known before the relaxation in May — but we have to hear about it constantly for a full month as though it’s news, and “we are looking at it” & either they will press on regardless or swerve at half past too late for the nth time and all of it is so wearing xxp

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E3tc8uZWUAENfEn?format=jpg&name=900x900

le stopped clock

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E3tc8uZWUAENfEn?format=jpg&name=900x900

Macron should realise that poking the brexiter ants next may be fun, but poking the sectarian hornets nest is ultimately much less fun.

It's pretty rich coming from France as well, but he's still completely correct!