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

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.

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

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

Manslaughter my dick

Another day in this hell

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

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

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

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.

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

Technically Rick and Morty, that's it

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.

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.

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

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.

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

especially after they have been sold off.

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

"Full of beans?" interrupted Boris.

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

https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/81gd97sK1NL._AC_SX569_.jpg

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

They're advertising? Gonna polish my cv

And er wow

Genuinely astonishing pic.twitter.com/PZdWobr3U1

— ido vock (@idvck) June 23, 2021

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

That looks nothing like her

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

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.

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

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

https://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2014/07/01/1404252881160_wps_6_Rolf_Harris_with_his_new_.jpg

the mysterious case of the paedophile and the portrait that disappeared off the face of the earth!

it was funny at the time when everyone pretended it was a good painting, for some reason

the hack Royal Academy Sunday painter style of it is even more repulsively bad than its subject, utter crap

I want the government to send me lots of pictures of the queen, ones with JMW Turner on the back for preference

Grim that JC are using identifiable pics of visibly Muslim women or elderly Muslim men in their articles on Batley & Spen. Why include random pics of Muslims going about their daily lives in their local area? It’s irrelevant. I’ve blurred pics so you don’t have to give JC clicks pic.twitter.com/Suyp5Mxysx

— M 🇵🇸 (@rosaluxemburgs) June 24, 2021

also the pictures have been taken in Dewsbury Market in a small town called Dewsbury which most certainly isn't a fucking part of the Batley + Spen constituency.

Thangam Debbonaire told female party members at a meeting last weekend that introducing free social care for disabled and older people would “give the Tories a stick to beat Labour with”

She also said that right-wing newspapers would attack the policy and that it would lose Labour the next election.

Several CLPs had passed motions calling for free social care, and a draft composite motion included two references to free social care, including a call for Labour to promise “to make the provision of all social care free to the recipient as is the case for health care under the NHS” and for social care to be “needs-based and publicly funded, free at the point of use”.

But the final version of the motion, prepared just before the meeting, expunged all mentions of free social care.

at this point I'd be happy to see these fuckers literally getting beaten with sticks.

"it would lose them the next election" !!!!!

Like the Tories need any more sticks.

their biggest stick to beat them with is how unpopular and shit the leader is. It's now looking like they are fixing to try and stick with Kieth post Batley + Spen defeat because they are terrified at the prospect of the hard-left socialism that potential successors like Rayner or Burnhim would bring to the party 🤡🤡

have seen some people on Twitter trying to push Rayner to launch a challenge today

i know it's been said itt before but i do find labour's relentless and futile mission to get people who don't vote labour to vote for them whilst simultaneously ensuring people who do vote labour won't astonishing. their unwavering belief in this strategy is breathtaking.

I doubt they actually believe it at this point they just hate lefties and minorities so much

so much of this can only be explained by spite and racism

it's complex when you are a naturally right-wing small c conservative + unprincipled and bigoted career politician who only happened to join the Labour Party because they were winning at the time or it's a family biz - because you have to pretend be moderately centre-left and nice. While at the same time saying fuck off to disabled, trans, muslim ethnic minorities, BAME communities, working poor people - a huge chunk of the non-Tory voting folks the Party needs to build a coalition with if they are really serious about ever being in power again.

the Spenborough Valley side of B+S (not the ilx house band, the constituency!) probably always largely voted tory because it is very white and middle class zone, but not culturally m/c. So the story that should be running isn't working class people switching to the tories - it's Kieth alienating the 20% South Asian Community voters in Batley who had helped Labour stay in power for probably at 3-4 times in recent history. But of course the voters are being blamed and called anti-Semites by the Party and the press because it's a normal country.

from some of their POVs they were doing fine with it until certain people got it in their heads that they didn't need to say fuck off or settle with being told to fuck off. this was perceived as a kind of contagion with the potential to derail their entire career plans and they see themselves as having only barely got it under control now, hence the need to stamp out any traces. this is more important than winning, or keeping the party together, some have said this explicitly. even if a few of them initally believed they were just doing what was necessary to achieve those goals, the goals have long become secondary, and disposable if necessary. what's that shakespeare quote about being steeped so far in blood you can't go back

they want to lose if winning requires the support of the wrong kind of people. this can't be overstated and i've been trying to convince people of this for ages

I can't remember which Labour prick it was it who recently said (I think it was before Hartlepool) that they are "now being more selective about which voters they are chasing". I mean such hubris when you are 14-18 pts behind the tories - oh we don't want any of the rubbish elements of society voting for us, just the high quality voters thank you very much. It might have been Mandelson, actually.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZ6JxAgmxXg

blair said something similar, semi-retired elders are more willing to be candid about it

i know it's been said itt before but i do find labour's relentless and futile mission to get people who don't vote labour to vote for them whilst simultaneously ensuring people who do vote labour won't astonishing. their unwavering belief in this strategy is breathtaking.

Perfect summary

Grim grim prospect that it's shagging a mate that he hired that will do for Matt Hancock.