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

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

So shit

Matt Hancock is right to resign. But Boris Johnson should have sacked him.

— Keir Starmer (@Keir_Starmer) June 26, 2021

🤭

er, xp

Lol

Matt Hancock should have resigned over the Serco contract, the Care Home deaths, the PPE disaster and the treatment of NHS workers and carers.

— Jeremy Corbyn (@jeremycorbyn) June 26, 2021

well, yeah

Cummings sounds remarkably like DJ Martian calling for #systemsthinking from #plankboris

So Carrie appoints Saj! NB If I hadn't tricked PM into firing Saj, we'd have had a HMT with useless SoS/spads, no furlough scheme, total chaos instead of JOINT 10/11 team which was a big success. Saj = bog standard = chasing headlines + failing = awful for NHS. Need #RegimeChange

— Dominic Cummings (@Dominic2306) June 26, 2021

lol

melts of a feather

— schick magnet (@jeremywhorebyn) June 26, 2021

Always good to see the children of bus drivers do well! Congrats @sajidjavid on your appointment as Health Secretary.

Look forward to working together to protect our communites from this awful pandemic, get London vaccinated and continue opening up our city and country safely.

— Sadiq Khan (@SadiqKhan) June 26, 2021

Sajid Javid is the new Secretary of State for Health and Social Care.

Alongside being an MP, last year Javid was hired as a paid senior advisor to the US bank JP Morgan.

JP Morgan is a major player in private healthcare.

The NHS isn't safe in the Conservatives' hands.

— Zarah Sultana MP (@zarahsultana) June 26, 2021

god Khan is such a cunt

Get under that bus Khan!

some sympathy with Martha Hancock this morning but ultimately she did choose to marry Matt Hancock

No sympathy for Tory wives.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E41JVbxXwAU4GyC?format=jpg&name=900x900

Trevor Sinclair getting called a helmet by the artful dodger for sympathising with a Tory is good content imo!

Pre-emptive tweet about Southgate

"Sajid Javid vows to ensure 'return to normal as soon as possible' as he starts work"

"School chaos as coronavirus cases up 70% in week"

he obv means "return to normal" in some deeply twisted and psychopathic Randian sense here. I heard some Tory on the radio this morning spinning it like a Top Trumps accolade that this useless cunt has "held two great offices of state".

'People are also sick of thinking there's a magic money tree, there isn't, so we've got to be clear about that.'

Labour's candidate for Batley and Spen using 2017 Tory attack lines to explain why she won't back a proper pay rise for nurses and teachers. pic.twitter.com/KuJ8afyIvN

— black lives matter (@jrc1921) June 27, 2021

feigning being a non-political person who just cares about people in some hand-wavey bollox manner and then quoting that horrible sound bite Theresa May used to defend austerity. Lol she deserves to lose.

One of those stories where the journo knows exactly what they're getting at but is regrettably unable to share their wisdom with the reader. pic.twitter.com/942ySeAAET

— Simon (@simonk_133) June 27, 2021

I’m curious, did Gina Coladangelo lose her job as well?

(xp)What, CCTV footage is about to emerge of Michael Gove snogging and fondling Dominic Cummings' bum?

Haha.

It does look like your government has things well in hand tho.

https://apnews.com/article/europe-government-and-politics-14e899a86d27a0e27f79564bf23662f0

“Report: Classified UK defense papers found at bus stop”

Kim Leadbeater doesn't seem very bright. She seems to give answers to questions that any of us could give, ie:

"I don't know the details - I haven't seen the figures - I'd like nurses to be paid more, but I don't know how much".

That's what I would say if you casually asked me. But she's standing for Parliament!

Angela Rayner has been at it as well and was using the Tories fave "credit card maxed out" analogy this morning. Isn't it supposed to be the Tory Chancellor's job to justify austerity not the deputy leader of the opposition? What's the point of any of these wankers.

This whole approach of thinking you can outflank the tories from the right, it's so self-evidently nonsense.

They don't have the political convictions to tell their advisors to stuff that shit.

yeah I know but even from a totally cynical electoralist pov it seems like a giant miscalculation

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E49iZhjXwAMeCOb?format=png&name=900x900

this from the Huff Post piece is hilarious!

Also very funny that Starmer’s supporters want him to prioritise changing the leadership rules to permanently exclude the left but recognise that, with the threat from the left gone, he’d probably be couped immediately.

That's how it goes in the 'soft left'