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

If the line about nannies didn’t give it away this makes it painfully obvious that the real issue is the 7% all have telegraph columns pic.twitter.com/IyqXcTLnLR

— Tom Hunter (@OneLifeStand87) August 7, 2021

Tom was at uni with me, he was student union president but i assume he got his degree at some point

wasn't one of his parents a Labour MP or a councillor? If so that might explain a lot.

Seriously worried about how this autumn combo - rising energy bills and Universal Credit cut - will play out. We’ve crunched our numbers and it’s troubling. (THREAD-->)https://t.co/FjPpvxboWJ

— James Plunkett (@jamestplunkett) August 6, 2021

Huge congratulations to the traders, organisers, and the Latin American community in Tottenham, who fought so hard for this victory ✊🏽

It’s crucial that the community plan is now implemented. Our cities & towns must be remade for the people, not greedy property developers. https://t.co/Gpkrg4fbly

— Zarah Sultana MP (@zarahsultana) August 7, 2021

i have to say i assumed this was a council stitch-up well lost a long time ago so well done the latin village for sticking to their guns

also this is very belated and may have been registered upthread but u *have* to salute nick cohen's go-4-broke boldness for starting a column with the sentence "tucker carlson isn't much to look at" right under a photo of… nick cohen

There's some shitty new high rise development directly across the street from there, guess the developers thought it'd be waved through as a result.

xpost

last time i was reading up on it -- admittedly more than a year ago and very much iirc -- the new council in haringey, who had successfully kicked out the previous leadership (a very compromised centrist faction), had then (nevertheless and of course it seemed inevitably) simply signed off themselves on shutting the latin city down (just like the precedecessors)?

That's great and amazing news.

Klassic Kieth

What an absolute joke of a party:

“Labour has said Johnson’s pledge to cut UK carbon emissions by 68% by 2030 compared with 1990 levels is inadequate and that the target should be 70% as a minimum.” https://t.co/0jwcc5FIAz

— Ed (@emcnally96) August 9, 2021

you might think it could be a misleading quote or even a parody, but no this is real.

"OK, I'll settle for 69% but no less!"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YCiaWE9w9h0

Thank goodness the slick Mandelsonian comms operation is back

Labour have been in touch now to say there was an error in earlier briefing, and their target is to cut emissions by considerably above 70% https://t.co/N0b1J9Us9P

— AndrewSparrow (@AndrewSparrow) August 9, 2021

The article that got her the sack from The Guardian is no.2 on the most viewed comments pieces rn

https://www.theguardian.com/uk/commentisfree🕸

🐦[❤️🧡💛💚💙💜 pic.twitter.com/7zqT0A2gJj🕸
— luke prokop (@lukeprokop_6) July 19, 2021🕸]🐦

https://www.cbc.ca/sports/hockey/nhl-predators-prokop-announcement-1.6108113🕸

very cool moment

Bugfuck thing I forgot about the previous administration #543: Trump autographing giant portraits of murder victims held up by their families at an anti-immigration presser in 2018.

🐦[As Biden delivers a speech at the White House today on crime, I was reminded of the time Trump did that and autographed photos of murder victims -- low key one of the most bizarre political moments of the last five years. https://t.co/0Sp9NK4SEH🕸
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) July 22, 2021🕸]🐦

🐦[Trump holds up an autographed photo of a murder victim, quips that the man is "Tom Selleck, except better looking." pic.twitter.com/8iOsdCT4xo🕸
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) June 22, 2018🕸]🐦

🐦[put them back together or else pic.twitter.com/fd1qS4XxU6🕸
— Rob N Roll (@thegallowboob) July 25, 2021🕸]🐦

this is the kind of thing that gets you sacked from the Graun eventually

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/aug/02/political-class-fault-british-politics-guy-who-did-this🕸

🐦[Read between the lines Zach
— Chad Loder (@chadloder) August 1, 2021🕸]🐦

🐦[Huge congratulations to the traders, organisers, and the Latin American community in Tottenham, who fought so hard for this victory ✊🏽

It’s crucial that the community plan is now implemented. Our cities & towns must be remade for the people, not greedy property developers. https://t.co/Gpkrg4fbly🕸
— Zarah Sultana MP (@zarahsultana) August 7, 2021🕸]🐦

They are carving "Keir Starmer -- Alpaca Harmer" into a rock right now. They are very excited about this re launch.

— Chris Williams (@Chris_A_W) August 11, 2021

it's a shame it isn't a llama

I heard the alpaca has got some dirt on Kieth just like that meddling dog he incinerated

First it was zoos, now he's singling out individual animals, I think there's a story here

he got a taste for summary executions at the night courts

The alpaca should die but Kieth has to fight it barehanded

In fact I promise to vote Labour in perpetuity if Starmer wrestles an alpaca, why is this coward not reaching out to red wall voters like me?

it has been pointed out that even William Hague is less socially conservative and reactionary than Kieth and his wretched shadow cabinet.

Would it make any difference if I told you that the alpaca can chair a meeting, or draft a minute, or stay calm in an interview? Those skills look simple, but they’re not, and they’re vital.

— Elvis Buñuelo (@Mr_Considerate) August 11, 2021

discourse currently an insult even to entry-lever shitposters tbh

waiting for Kieth's u turn when he finds out alpaca isn't an offshoot of al qaeda

Keir Starmer with the hair of Geronimo the Alpaca. pic.twitter.com/XXRhTwjiDO

— FMHoP (@visualsatire) August 11, 2021

I'm sorry for taking dis course Mark.. but I lolled!

Do expect this to increase as the pandemic ends, but by how much is the question

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/aug/12/scrapped-covid-rules-bring-fewer-than-20-of-uk-city-workers-back-to-the-office

The end of the sandwich economy and commuting for many is extremely welcome.

Misleading URL there, disappointed it's actually 20%.

they love it in the seaside towns

1. Oil & Gas supports thousands of jobs in Scotland so our transition away from fossil fuels must be a just one. But the climate emergency demands that it happens at pace. We cannot ignore the concern that drilling for new oil is not compatible with protecting the planet..

— Nicola Sturgeon (@NicolaSturgeon) August 12, 2021

The planet is melting and so am I!

Lord Ashcroft’s unauthorised biography of Keir Starmer is as dry as the Labour leader
With Red Knight, Michael Ashcroft tries to find dirt on Starmer, but all he unearths is a decent, hardworking man and a bit of a bore

you don't have to do much digging to reveal a lying, insincere, incompetent flop of a leader. But when a tory peer does a biography of a right-wing Labour cunt he doesn't want to cause too much damage to the feeble little scrote when he's doing such a good job of keeping them on top.

He left out the stuff about Kieth bare knuckle boxing ruminants then?

and the premeditated first-degree canine murder and the guy who got life for stealing a bottle of water. I bet there are loads of office underlings who have worked under him who could give some decent anecdotal accounts of what a wanker he is. That's what you should get in a properly researched biography.

trying to brand him as boring but decent is the job of the Starmer office and not an incurious 3rd biographer imo

3rd rate I meant but why not have 3 biographies about the enigma that is Kieth the Killer

Oliver Eagleton is producing a whole book on KS, for Verso next year I believe, which appears to be very thoroughly researched and 100% critical.

seems completely possible that KS will only be a baffling memory by the time this book arrives in that case

both authors owe a debt of gratitude to the good people of Batley and Spen who voted for hope

now way Kieth makes it to a 2022 book launch, altho who will Progress dig up that's more risible but also as comfortingly Tory?

i meant less risible

may i suggest Geronimo is parachuted into a safe seat? put your shirt on it

imagine history recording you as a worse LOTO than Duncan Smith

at least IDS had comedy value and there was no pretence of "decency". Come back with something even half as hilarious as beware of the quiet man you shook little coward!

I hadn't heard this story before – completely and utterly obscene that this man died in prison, having eaten a gingerbread man during the 2011 riots in Croydon https://t.co/3j5RTHyXeJ

— Dan (@d_j_frost) August 12, 2021

don't need to ask who was DPP when you could arrested and thrown in jail for eating a fucking gingerbread biscuit

Tower Hamlets - In May 2018, Labour won this ward by a 1200 vote majority.

Yesterday Labour lost this seat by almost 500 votes to an Independent Party candidate.

Questions must be asked - why and how

Labour taking votes for granted again. pic.twitter.com/YlpMCgyQ9m

— Mish Rahman (@mish_rahman) August 12, 2021

Kieth isn't interested in the successes of Preston model, he prefers indefensibly corrupt and incompetent Labour councils that drive people away from the party.

they have finally got around to expelling Ken Loach from the Labour Party.

Really?

Disgusting.