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

if Debbonaire insists all their policy making is subject to Conservative Party approval and the right-wing press getting the final word, then a very fine opposition party they are.

National treasure Mary Beard there, defending the appointment of George Osborne as part of their efforts to make the British Museum, and I quote, "more diverse" https://t.co/PiWEWt9aBp

— Dan Hancox (@danhancox) June 25, 2021

another from the bbc history dept I'm cancelling forever.

Mary beard is pretty horrible

A real know your place pleb peddler in the great reithian tradition

I have always wanted to like Mary because she consistently takes flak from scumbags but she is responsible for some of the stupidest bits of narration I've ever heard in a TV history doc

Also she's clearly a fucking tory ffs

Mary Beard is bad for other reasons Plax is probably alluding to but it doesn’t look like she’s defending appointing Osborne on diversity grounds there.

I think her comments about the Oxfam scandals and subsequent behaviour when called out was pretty gross and very much in line with pretty grim pronouncements on Rhodes must fall etc. I think her main commitment is to institutions and power and whether or not she realises how commensurate this is with white supremacy is of little interest to me but seemingly to her also

but claiming they are committed to diversity after appointing Gideon is pretty much the same as imo

I found the moment when I gave up on her:

Mary Beard's Julius Caesar documentary this week was so bad that I turned it off twice.

Opening pointless scene of somebody giving birth, "not many people know that the C in C Section stands for Caesarean" ffs, turned over

Flipped back 30 minutes later "not many people know that July is named after Julius Caesar" ffmfffs, OFF

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is it too late to note that rolf's royal portrait resembles no one so much as rory mcgrath

the moral arc of an ilx thread can be long, but it bends toward rory mcgrath

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omg - it's true what they say - the eyes follow you

Lol dying at "not many know that everything is named after Julius Caesar"

I can accept that some of the more mildly left-wing history profs might not get space on the bbc in the current milieu, but that doesn't strictly mean the horribly meltish + tory ones have to be so fucking tedious and unwatchable!

mark s at 11:35 25 Jun 21
is it too late to note that rolf's royal portrait resembles no one so much as rory mcgrath

Shouldn't she have a kangaroo peeking out from under her crown or something?

never heard it called that before!

I don't like Mary Beard. She has been very over-promoted.

No-one should defend the appointment of Osborne to anything, as she was doing.

re: Labour and free social care? -- what I don't get, as usual, is: why do pensioners and homeowners, notoriously, not vote Labour? (Leaving aside the direness of KS's particular Labour.)

I have written here before that I think it makes sense for a homeowner to want social democracy.

I add that the elderly, pensioners, et al also ought to want social democracy, guaranteed state pensions, a better NHS, and yes, especially - free social care. Why on earth would that policy be a vote-loser among that particular consitutency?

I can see one possible reason for an old homeowner to fear Labour, namely: inheritance tax. (ie: fear for what will happen *after* they die!) But that's hypothetical; I'm not sure that Labour has even had a distinct position on inheritance tax.

I think these pundits somewhat agree with me that free social care should logically be a popular, not unpopular, policy among older people.

So true. The turning point of the 2017 election was Labour rejecting putting the costs of adult social care onto individuals.

The grim truth with Starmer’s corporate Labour is they would have called the dementia tax a good idea. https://t.co/Gz3I82TLBS

— Aaron Bastani (@AaronBastani) June 24, 2021

Labour-controlled Kirklees council whose priority, I am repeatedly told, is to divert funds to nearby Huddersfield

this bit from the Bastani B+S piece made me laugh, because every person you could ever talk to in Batley/Dewsbury has a chip on their shoulder about all the money going to that shining metropolis, downtown Hudds. Also interesting to discover that the Francis Bacon painting at Hudds library that is worth £20 mill was nabbed from Batley art gallery in 1952 and the original legal conditions of its gifting to them still stands thus preventing the fuckers from selling it!

Please read this. I love the music of Mumford & Sons. Now cancel culture has cancelled one of its talent. I wish Winston Marshall didn't feel he needed to walk away to maintain his integrity. What are we doing to ourselves, our creatives, our talents? Our freedom to speak? https://t.co/0z6nuPw2T7

— Angela Richardson MP (@AJRichardsonMP) June 24, 2021

"I love the music of Mumford & Sons"

imagine doing this to yourself

Listening to Mumford to own the libs is pretty much its own punishment

Where was Angela Richardson MP when GG Allin was being cancelled?

That reminds me, has William Bennett been cancelled yet? Or is he considered a problem only for Holyrood?

Is there any point in cancelling someone no-one's heard of?

What's DJ Benetti done now?

idk about this. Her choice.

The worst thing about Batley and Spen is the LP has thrown someone completely unprepared into a shit show with some awful cunts and they are torpedoing her campaign by being shite on everything else and she is having to soak up the anger people feel towards the leadership

— Metal Bizkit Rising (@allforthanookie) June 25, 2021

Her choice to run, sure, but idk if she’d have anticipated Labour turning the whole campaign into a vehicle for apportioning blame for losing an election that was still weeks away.

I would agree that this is not “the worst thing” about it, tho.

even if the Starmer office hadn't made B&S even more toxic by insulting/shaming longtime supporters as anti-Semites. I'm not sure her strategy of running a campaign like she's in a local council election (potholes, bin collections, litter) was ever going to be a winning strategy in a by-election within a Labour controlled council. She and the people who encouraged her to run were obv very naive or hadn't looked at the math of the 2019 result which showed they were already in trouble even before you factor in the widespread discontent towards Starmer from other UK South Asian communities in the local elections.

"but idk if she’d have anticipated Labour turning the whole campaign into a vehicle for apportioning blame for losing an election that was still weeks away."

Maybe, 'non-political' people who decide to do politics are bizarre to me. You do a thing like that in public you should know who you are going about with.

Should've run as an independent.

She shouldn’t have run at all but I am not sure a more seasoned politician would have anticipated quite how wildly, and maliciously, the party has sabotaged itself here either.

"'non-political' people who decide to do politics are bizarre to me"

when Kim has been put on the spot, like when OJ asked her about the UK selling weapons of death to repressive states. She reveals herself to actually be quite political after all and starts equivocating with a typical bullshit Labour Right response.

New: Labour director of communications: runners and riders

• Patrick Hennessy
• Rob Burley
• Dan Hodges

omg!

🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮

The full list is pretty interesting. A couple of more substantial former Times / Telegraph writers, Pippa Cretar, Damian McBride….

*Crerar

I didn't think Hodges would really be a front runner, particularly after he admitted voting for Theresa May in 2017. Or maybe as long as you hated Corbyn then your in with a shot!

oh christ there is a video as well - don't watch it! I've not seen such sweaty and desperate fumbling hands since I was at a teenage disco night at the Cats Bar in Halifax circa 1989

I'm sorry, I've seen it now you have to

🚨🚨 | BREAKING: Matt Hancock full video with lover

Via @TheSun pic.twitter.com/PNmKb7rsPc

— Politics For All (@PoliticsForAlI) June 25, 2021

warning: contains scenes of matt hancock’s bald spot which some viewers may find disturbing

MY EYES

Console yourselves with thoughts of what the atmosphere must be like chez Hancock right now.

"MY EYES" currently #1 trending topic on UK twitter

Not tonight Satan!!!

lol

When you don’t understand how people leaving a mosque works? Because I’m not in any way defending Galloway or that idiot screaming homophobia but you’d think you’d want to be accurate on what’s actually happening? https://t.co/0sD8w7mzwp

— The Trashies (@TheTrashiesUK) June 25, 2021

so if you catch Galloway and some hate-mongering homophobic gobshite from outside the area in the same shot with people leaving the mosque after Friday prayers then you can falsely report that they are all complicit with the verbal abuse Leadbeater received.

the homophobic gobshite is shockingly a friend of Katie Hopkins it seems

Watching Novara Media last night reminded me of the very obvious fact that Kim L's sister was murdered 5 years ago while trying to do the job that Kim L is trying to attain.

This did, for me, put aggression against her in a different light.

They also stated that she is a lesbian, and that this would make LGBT abuse against her worse. I had not been aware of this at all.

Overall, while I am not sure that I would vote for her, I think it is very bad that some individuals are deliberately raising tension and aggression in this of all constituencies.

If there were a Green candidate I would probably vote for them.

It is extraordinary btw how no-one seems sure how to pronounce "Leadbeater". I keep seeing the same people say it different ways in the space of the same clip.