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

Katie Hopkins just been booted off some Aussie show, maybe she's waiting in the wings too

more 'if we don't do this now then when?' talk on radio news this morning. all these people would fail the marshmallow test.

Labour is a party “in which all the forces pressing towards the future are mortgaged absolutely to the past and have the life drained from them in useless, secondary struggle”. - Tom Nairn, always apt

— Paul O’Connell (@pmpoc) July 18, 2021

First item on Radio 4 news: Tony Blair, making a weekly rare intervention with his opinions on pandemic management.

He wants the PM not to isolate but to be at work. This shows TB's dire judgment, as much else has done.

they've already said they'll be at work but testing daily.

Johnson has had it before and is double jabbed.

They’ve U-turned & said they will isolate after all

A farcical shambles but they'll get away with it, as always.

Probably too late for a u-turn on Freedom (For Covid) Day unfortunately, wonder how they'll sell the subsequent lockdown to the great unwashed?

Photos of rammed clubs, sorrowful shaking of the head that cash-strapped landlords didn’t act “responsibly” and demand vaccine passports at venue doors, long lens shots of parks, basically anything that blames it on other, common-sense-lacking, non-Tory-voting, parts of the GBP

Stealth national lockdown done using 50m individual pings

Labour MP for Westminster North and shadow minister for DWP.

There’s always an Ayn Rand quote.. pic.twitter.com/DW8thOhAa6

— Karen Buck (@KarenPBuckMP) July 18, 2021

In the absence of Keith

In the absence of leadership from the Government …

If you’re travelling on public transport in GM tomorrow, please wear a mask out of consideration for others 🙏🏻

We do things differently here and that means looking out for each other and not buying the “Freedom Day” rhetoric. https://t.co/6OYJt9lnHw

— Andy Burnham (@AndyBurnhamGM) July 18, 2021

So much going on that requires an opposition and Kieth is too busy doing purges of lefty fringe groups within the membership so he can look taller than 5"3 to the right wing press. I hope the little fucking cunt dies... painfully.

the sad thing is that there isn't really anything odd or jarring about the shadow DWP posting a Rand meme, it's Starmer Labour.

We thank you all for your feedback regarding an intention to ring the Cathedral bells tomorrow marking “Freedom Day”.

We apologise sincerely for the insensitivity of this plan and for any upset cause.

The bells will not ring tomorrow. pic.twitter.com/jiILf7na2G

— Chester Cathedral (@ChesterCath) July 18, 2021

I don't know, funeral bells might have been apt.

That reminds me, is the Festival of Brexit still on or did it happen already?

I'm still waiting for my 50p coin

did you guys seriously go through with that whole brexit thing? dang.

I thought that Karen Buck tweet was a dig at massive Rand fanboy The Saj but it appears to have… landed badly.

lol that is unfortunate for her, if it was Zarah Sultana or RLB posting the same then people would have twigged it was humour. But melts have to be more careful!

it's amusing to me and possibly quite indicative of where Labour are at that 99% of people assumed she was probably a genuine right-libertarianism leaning Rand fan. All she had to post was "it was a pop at Saj you humourless fuckers" but she just seemed to have left it awkwardly hanging there!

Ironically enough, Ayn Rand would have been drummed out of the Labour Party for opposing military adventurism.

— Elvis Buñuelo (@Mr_Considerate) July 19, 2021

So what's it like out there today? Has everyone abandoned the mask-wearing?

Most places I had to go this morning (café, bank) are still doing masks.

"Freedom Day is just the latest in a long list of slogans not backed up by policy."

Kieth is now the official leader of the opposition against himself.

Actual strong uptick in ppl wearing masks on the streets here!

Went to post office and sainsburys, both fully masked up, customers as well as staff.

Good to see tbh, restrictions were already weak

"We're all drinking again, no social distancing, this is what life is about"

Clubbers in Leeds counted down the second to return to the dancefloor, after Covid restrictions in England eased overnighthttps://t.co/s9iPUpJBNC pic.twitter.com/lVDFhtxlXK

— BBC News (UK) (@BBCNews) July 19, 2021

going to see Frankie Boyle at Soho Theatre tonight. i will report back.

I scootered past Motion nightclub on my lunch break, just as their reopening party was kicking off.

On one hand it was great to hear music blaring out on a sunny Monday afternoon, but peering past the gate and seeing so many unmasked kids in such close proximity has definitely made me rethink my plans for the next few weeks.

Sticking to the 'old man pub' beer gardens for the forseeable future as I have a feeling here in Bristol things are going to get baaaad.

Seems to be some fairly large anti-lockdown protest around Westminster today. I understand that these people are fuckwits, but what exactly are they protesting now? Vaccines, maybe? God help us if there's ever some Fukushima-level radiation breach in the UK, these bellends would be 'doing their own research' even as the flesh is stripped from their scalps.

It's vaccines yeah.

lol I see from the pics Piers Corbyn was there.

clubs aren't for ppl like me because I'm an old bastard and I sweat profusely in the heat and can't dance. But the beer garden sounds about the limits of my "freedom" without getting a panic attack. I feel like I'm never going to be comfortable anywhere where there are crowds again tbh.

What did you expect from the anti-Vaccines?

who'll be on telly at 5 given that boris is isolating?

BoJo on video link?

Johnson says he does not want to close nightclubs.

But they have to do the socially responsible thing, and use the Covid pass as a test of entry, he says.

By the end of September, when all over-18s will have had the chance to be vaccinated, proof of vaccination will be necessary for people to go to nightclubs and other places where large crowds gather, he says.

Indoor sports events? Shopping centres? Have to mention 'nightclubs' before those of course - the thing people over 50 least care about

So most of the people in hospital with COVID have been double vaccinated. Great.

Thanks to these retired people we can never retire

Speaking at today's anti-lockdown, anti-vaccine protest in Parliament Square, retired police officer Mark Sexton says if all Covid restrictions are not lifted and vaccinations are not ceased, citizens have a right to arrest ministers and MPs by force and set up common law courts. pic.twitter.com/kEyq8B94zV

— Shayan Sardarizadeh (@Shayan86) July 19, 2021

Bear in mind that they're very possibly in the more vulnerable groups, who didn't quite manage to be wiped out by earlier waves of infection despite the best efforts of Johnson et al.

xpost

Ministers of Health do seem especially vulnerable to infection, true.

Got to say, the scientists don't sound too positive here but they've got their knighthoods to consider so they will carry right on standing shoulder to shoulder with Johnson.

So the guy whose girlfriend Johnson stole finally grows a backbone and asks some awkward questions, Johnson merely grins as if to say, "I stole your woman you little prick".

The Worst Person You Know Just Made etc

Former nurse and anti-vaccine activist Kate Shemirani says Covid vaccines are "bioweapons" and "surveilance systems" with an "electrical charge" that can transmit and receive signals from 5G towers. She adds people who have been vaccinated will likely die "within two years". pic.twitter.com/GrkCQQ3yEd

— Shayan Sardarizadeh (@Shayan86) July 19, 2021

why weren't we told?

these people are plants making anti-vaxxers look like clowns to distract from the real negative elements of the vaccines, right?

can't surveil me when im dead (in two years) wiseheadtap.gif

from frankie boyle’s set tonight

“kier starmer has all the authority of the tag in your shirt that says ‘do not tumble dry’”

“kier starmer has the perpetual look of a man who’s just been asked by a journalist if he’ll fuck her majesty the queen right now and isn’t sure which way he should answer”

“kier starmer’s the guy in the photo that came with the picture frame”

“his head’s so square he could use a bread tin for a motorcycle helmet”

“kier starmer looks so unmemorable that whenever he meets someone he has to adjust his tie to make sure he’s not looking in a mirror”

ah will he though

Cummings claims he had to stop Johnson going to see the Queen in person at the beginning of the pandemic, when staff in Number 10 were already falling ill. I reckon Starmer will want to go big on that one.

— Sienna Rodgers (@siennamarla) July 19, 2021