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

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.

I'm not quite sure if this is imbecilic or accurate.

Culturally I am stuck in the 1990s, so I feel nostalgic that the clothes and political culture is back

— Jess Phillips MP (@jessphillips) June 25, 2021

It's strange when you talk to someone who considers Galloway a good person, particularly when they are Asian and you consider his past approval of a neo-fascist like Bannon. Also that he is a shameless grifter and an opportunist. But it is all Kieth's fault and hate him or hate him - he's become an outlet for dissatisfaction with Labour and that is perfectly legitimate.

the unrelenting Tory sleaze Babs is alluding to feels familiar but there is no ascendant New Labour coming over the horizon, in fact quite the opposite. And I'm not even sure what "90's clothes" are despite living through the era. I've always been half normie/half scruff and that style can't be pinned to a decade!

has naf naf made a comeback?

it’s all global hypercolor as far as the eye can see round these parts

It's strange when you talk to someone who considers Galloway a good person, particularly when they are Asian and you consider his past approval of a neo-fascist like Bannon

Lots of people haven't the foggiest who Bannon is would be my guess, give a good game on the doorstep and cash in on ppl's disenfranchisement and you're golden. Which yes wouldn't happen if Keith hadn't screwed things up in the first place.

I just looked Phillips up and I'm amazed that she is only 39. Thought she was 10 years older!

Jess subtweeting my why no 90's revival thread :/

This tweet is asking the right questions re: Hancock

The fucking Sun running an overt blackmailing protection racket on democratically elected ministers (including, apparently, their news desk having access to CCTV footage of secretary of states' offices??) is really obviously orders of magnitude worse than "having an affair".

— Lafargue (@Lafargue) June 26, 2021

it makes me wonder if they have also hacked the cctv cameras at Kieth's SW1 office, which would also be very wrong but potentially hilarious into the bargain!

Yeah the Sun thing is obviously worse but also no one cares that Hancock had an affair - they care that he handed NHS contracts to his mistress's brother.

Starmer is the kind of man who enters a boxing ring, goes for a big punch and topples over having discovered someone has tied his boots together while he wasn’t looking.

nailed it: https://brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/hancocked-why-the-british-medias

My guess would be that Hancock is pushing for further delays to COVID restrictions being lifted and someone, possibly from the Treasury, has called in a favour with The Sun.

There's something very odd about positioning a security camera so it only shows you who is entering or exiting through a door. Maybe there are many more cameras focused on specific areas of rooms and corridors like that and so there is more footage available (if they were doing it there they were probably doing it other places around the building). And although it might make some sense to stand right against the door to try and obstruct someone else entering, it seems unlikely two people could prevent some suspicion were that to happen.

Sex Pistol Glen Matlock out protesting in central london pic.twitter.com/yCT9Pvm8dX

— Jason Farrell (@JasonFarrellSky) June 26, 2021

My guess would be that Hancock is pushing for further delays to COVID restrictions being lifted and someone, possibly from the Treasury, has called in a favour with The Sun.

― Scampo di tutti i Scampi (ShariVari), Saturday, 26 June 2021 bookmarkflaglink

Garrison: "I never realized Kennedy was so dangerous to the Establishment. Is that why?")
Well, that's the real question, isn't it? Why? The 'How' and the 'Who' is just scenery for the public. Oswald, Ruby, Cuba, the Mafia, keeps 'em guessing like some kind of parlor game. Prevents 'em from asking the most important question: Why? Why was Kennedy killed? Who benefited? Who has the power to cover it up? Who?...

that Glen Matlock photo has him carrying an anti-tory banner, a pro-palestine banner, a climate change banner and loz fox in the comments crying freedom. very mixed messaging there.

yep at least four different protests going on today

Never Mind The Hancocks, Here’s Glen Matlock

Hancock's resigned

BREAKING: Matt Hancock resigns. pic.twitter.com/61hHrBSXTc

— Joe Pike (@joepike) June 26, 2021

Huge political victory for - checks notes - the Prime Minister

The guy who have er, how many kids again?

Matt Hancock has resigned. Video coming

— Tim Shipman (@ShippersUnbound) June 26, 2021

Must have got the hairdryer treatment from his wife.

Murdoch can get his boy in there now, great to know cabinet appointments are made directly by media moguls nowadays

“It is believed that Ms Butler would gain the support of the 34-strong Socialist Campaign Group of MPs”. Well, when I heard this rumour about a Dawn Butler challenge at the start of the week, I sounded out some SCG sources and it was a no from them. https://t.co/057V05NLgH

— Sienna Rodgers (@siennamarla) June 26, 2021

coming soon ....Dawn Butler leadership challenge, apparently.

apparently not I meant

Thornberry is EVERYWHERE all of a sudden.

I bet the Torygraph wouldn't be wrongly describing Dawn as "hard-left" if she was white.

Some people on Twitter seem to think that Michael Gove is poised to take over from Matt Hancock. But are they confident that Gove’s private life is beyond reproach? Maybe Sarah Vine can shed some light on this #BacktoBasics pic.twitter.com/12KXaOeK0C

— Diane Abbott MP (@HackneyAbbott) June 26, 2021