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

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That's surely a hi-larious Twitter parody?

Are Animated Dads Getting Hotter? (Tom D.), Tuesday, 22 June 2021 20:03 (two years ago) link

I thought it was, people I take seriously are treating it as if it’s real though. if it’s a bit it’s not funny

This One Britain One Nation shite is apparently based out of Bradford. Here's the LEA advertising last year's event. Does anyone know where this came from?https://t.co/SXRXt5L0xZ

— libcom.org (@libcomorg) June 22, 2021

Left, Tuesday, 22 June 2021 20:23 (two years ago) link

idk. regardless tories and labour are fascist

Left, Tuesday, 22 June 2021 20:25 (two years ago) link

Since when are Twitter parodies funny?

Are Animated Dads Getting Hotter? (Tom D.), Tuesday, 22 June 2021 20:26 (two years ago) link

that vid isn't a parody believe it or not, it was put out by the Uk govt's "Union Unit" team

calzino, Tuesday, 22 June 2021 20:32 (two years ago) link

kill me

Left, Tuesday, 22 June 2021 20:39 (two years ago) link

We're encouraging schools across the UK to celebrate One Britain One Nation Day on 25 June, when children can learn about our shared values of tolerance, kindness, pride and respect.#OBONDAY21 @1Britain1Nation

For more information:https://t.co/y7PQblUeDN

— Department for Education (@educationgovuk) June 21, 2021

calzino, Tuesday, 22 June 2021 20:50 (two years ago) link

Ludicrous.

Are Animated Dads Getting Hotter? (Tom D.), Tuesday, 22 June 2021 20:52 (two years ago) link

fwiw, Scottish schools break up for summer on the 24th.

Heavy Messages (jed_), Tuesday, 22 June 2021 21:02 (two years ago) link

Some Union.

Are Animated Dads Getting Hotter? (Tom D.), Tuesday, 22 June 2021 21:03 (two years ago) link

if blood and soil + vague liberal platitudes + pretending to like gays this month colours isn’t june 2021 britain in a nutshell

Left, Tuesday, 22 June 2021 21:13 (two years ago) link

england at least

Left, Tuesday, 22 June 2021 21:14 (two years ago) link

This is anecdotal and I wouldn't necessarily say my school is representative but despite a (in places) static, fusty curriculum I feel like I'm teaching entirely new texts this year - and it's because the discourse is changing from underneath us. Conversations about race, gender and sexuality are charged and informed in ways I've not really experienced before. Shit like this isn't pressed on us from the top and I genuinely think kids would laugh it out of the classroom. It's so fucking good to see and hear.

Vanishing Point (Chinaski), Tuesday, 22 June 2021 21:21 (two years ago) link

That sounds a bit wide-eyed and preachy but there has been a definite shift post-lockdown(s).

Vanishing Point (Chinaski), Tuesday, 22 June 2021 21:22 (two years ago) link

(xxp) ... and Wales I suppose, because I can't imagine them trying to pull this stunt in Northern Ireland, which is part of France anyway.

Are Animated Dads Getting Hotter? (Tom D.), Tuesday, 22 June 2021 21:23 (two years ago) link

England into the last 16 without a goal conceded. We still believe… #ENG

— Keir Starmer (@Keir_Starmer) June 22, 2021

Kieth... the Jordan Pickford of human rights lawyers

calzino, Wednesday, 23 June 2021 06:43 (two years ago) link

Starmer reassured that it's possible to be crushingly dull and anonymous and still succeed.

Are Animated Dads Getting Hotter? (Tom D.), Wednesday, 23 June 2021 07:42 (two years ago) link

England played conservatively so of course he has to praise them

boxedjoy, Wednesday, 23 June 2021 08:12 (two years ago) link

my kids still call Pickford "Spongebob"

they haven't thought enough about Starmer to have a nickname for him lol

Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 23 June 2021 08:13 (two years ago) link

patrick starmer

imago, Wednesday, 23 June 2021 08:42 (two years ago) link

"We still believe ..."

How dire is this?

ENG are a tournament favourite. "We still believe ..." is the kind of thing you might wistfully say when eg SCO are heading out of the tournament at half-time but you "still believe" there's a chance.

You don't say it about a tournament favourite playing tediously, not conceding a goal and topping the group.

Utter berk!

the pinefox, Wednesday, 23 June 2021 09:25 (two years ago) link

Its the kind of thing you wistfully say before a by-election in Batley

anvil, Wednesday, 23 June 2021 09:39 (two years ago) link

also Kieth followed that up with his customary + totally played out to fucking death by now "I might be biased..." (as an Arsenal fan, just in case if you didn't know I was one by now) tweet no 972. Jez used to post about being a Gooner occasionally, but not in such a tediously grasping and overdone manner.

calzino, Wednesday, 23 June 2021 09:54 (two years ago) link

Having an SEN child really does have it’s challenges but I am REAPING THE REWARDS now they’re making the normie kids sing about One Britain. Good luck getting the big guy to sing anything that isn’t from Moana or Frozen.

— 𝕻𝖗𝖎𝖓𝖈𝖊 𝕻𝖍𝖎𝖑𝖎𝖕 (@papasombra) June 23, 2021

calzino, Wednesday, 23 June 2021 12:02 (two years ago) link

BREAKING: police officer Benjamin Monk has been found guilty of the manslaughter of former footballer Dalian Atkinson #c4news. pic.twitter.com/SedyOWHKy2

— Darshna Soni (@darshnasoni) June 23, 2021

xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 23 June 2021 12:47 (two years ago) link

Manslaughter my dick

Full Kit Starmer (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 23 June 2021 13:37 (two years ago) link

Another day in this hell

xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 23 June 2021 13:44 (two years ago) link

C4 are fucked

Our response to today’s announcement by DCMS that it is launching a consultation into the future of Channel 4: pic.twitter.com/h9B03fpKEX

— Channel 4 Press (@C4Press) June 23, 2021

xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 23 June 2021 15:26 (two years ago) link

Oh no who's going to carry out the public service of Four in a Bed and Inside Poundland and Young Swingers and Homes from Hell and Dogging Tales and 21 Kids and Counting and Inside KFC and etc etc etc

Full Kit Starmer (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 23 June 2021 15:43 (two years ago) link

we'll never see the likes of Network 7 and The Word on a publicly owned/commercially run broadcaster ever again ;;

calzino, Wednesday, 23 June 2021 15:56 (two years ago) link

lol how on earth do they make a billion a year in revenue for the govt? Just heard that on the radio btw perhaps I didn't hear it correctly.

calzino, Wednesday, 23 June 2021 16:00 (two years ago) link

Channel 4 has been utterly shit for years. Apart from Gogglebox, what else have they got?

Are Animated Dads Getting Hotter? (Tom D.), Wednesday, 23 June 2021 16:02 (two years ago) link

Technically Rick and Morty, that's it

Full Kit Starmer (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 23 June 2021 16:05 (two years ago) link

Comedy is their strong point, Derry Girls, Year of the Rabbit, Friday Night Dinners etc. It’s a Sin was top notch and one of the few shows which would fit in with the old challenging C4, but yes has been a shadow of its former self.

Dan Worsley, Wednesday, 23 June 2021 16:10 (two years ago) link

Over 16,000 COVID cases reported today, about ten times higher than it was in May. Deaths up by 53% week on week as well. My daughter's school's closed down for the week after numerous positive test results. Never mind opening everything up in July, I'm wondering if they'll have to reverse any of the "irreversible" steps they've already taken.

Nasty, Brutish & Short, Wednesday, 23 June 2021 16:13 (two years ago) link

Yeah, utterly insane to allow 60k for SFs and Finals of the Euros as well.

xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 23 June 2021 16:20 (two years ago) link

we have not been given the term "plague island" for nothing.
countdown to the EU closing their doors to our dirty money.
suspect that's the only time that the penny will drop for most folks.

mark e, Wednesday, 23 June 2021 16:35 (two years ago) link

plague island does sound a lot like some shit you'd get on ch4

calzino, Wednesday, 23 June 2021 16:53 (two years ago) link

especially after they have been sold off.

mark e, Wednesday, 23 June 2021 17:17 (two years ago) link

The Queen described Matt Hancock : "He's full of..."

"Full of beans?" interrupted Boris.

Man, lack of comic timing! Now we'll never know...

Mark G, Wednesday, 23 June 2021 17:35 (two years ago) link

Things can only get worse

EXCL: Keir Starmer has appointed @doylematthew as interim Director of Communications. Labour will then advertise for permanent role.

Doyle has bags of experience as Labour’s head of press, Blunkett Spad, Tony Blair aide at No 10 & political director of his office. Big hire.

— Pippa Crerar (@PippaCrerar) June 23, 2021

xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 23 June 2021 19:41 (two years ago) link

They're advertising? Gonna polish my cv

Full Kit Starmer (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 23 June 2021 19:44 (two years ago) link

And er wow

Genuinely astonishing pic.twitter.com/PZdWobr3U1

— ido vock (@idvck) June 23, 2021

xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 23 June 2021 19:55 (two years ago) link

every day more batshittery - today: A Portrait of Her Majesty in every home.

I think this is a wonderful, patriotic and unifying campaign for our country. I will be writing to the Prime Minister to ask him to give it careful consideration and looking for opportunities to discuss further in Parliament. 👑🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧 pic.twitter.com/Y2nU4yhGRP

— Joy Morrissey MP (@joymorrissey) June 23, 2021

koogs, Thursday, 24 June 2021 10:19 (two years ago) link

That looks nothing like her

Full Kit Starmer (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 24 June 2021 10:20 (two years ago) link

Half my friends have Jamie Reid Jubilee prints but I don’t think she means that!

the thin blue lying (suzy), Thursday, 24 June 2021 10:21 (two years ago) link

The fact that an MP called Joy Morrissey is patron of the British Monarchist Society shows we are now deep into the banter timeline and will never escape.

Piedie Gimbel, Thursday, 24 June 2021 10:24 (two years ago) link

Love too be offered a Queen portrait by a Tory overcompensating for her American accent

nashwan, Thursday, 24 June 2021 10:26 (two years ago) link

if Lucien Freud had done a reclining nude Lilbet it might have got some wall space in my living room.

calzino, Thursday, 24 June 2021 10:52 (two years ago) link


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