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

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.

yep, he should put "booting Loach out of the party" as his 11th pledge in the leadership election. At least then he boast he'd honoured at least one of them.

I'm not a massive Loach fan tbh, but love the price of coal and wind that shakes the barley. And it is quite disgusting really.

compromise position : loach can stay in the party but he has to direct something for the MCU behemoth

meanwhile this is very good, sharp and to the point:

Bolton and Pitts, Corbynism, and the occupation of Afghanistan.

Read: https://t.co/RYVAAG5Mzm

— Lafargue (@Lafargue) August 14, 2021

there isn't really a US Ken Loach equivalent I can think of, but it would probably raise some eyebrows if the Dems expelled them

it's fine for Sheerman to post antisemitic jibes but as far I can see Ken's biggest crime is being down with some crank left elements.

the time Robert Downey jr did the best transatlantic Barnsley accent since Brian Glover in Alien 3

"sit the fook darn!"

McDonnell has come out in support of Loach and would presumably be eligible for suspension himself, if that’s a fight they want to pick.

The image of Mike Gapes forlornly wailing 'but i've got a pass!' is bringing me a really weird amount of joy. pic.twitter.com/jfUoksJJMe

— House of Lucci (@misslucyp) August 14, 2021

Calzino: Michael Moore?

Fred Wiseman

yeah I suppose Spirit of 45 is very similar to Moore's rose tinted view of post-war America. I think Wiseman is better than Loach tbh.

not that it is fair to compare them because they do different things

Yeah Wiseman is better but I do rate loach more than most here I think. As a kind of maverick, enduring figure and standard bearer of a slightly anachronistic version of their respective politics (American liberalism, British socialism) they seem like rough equivalents.

imagine being such a foul rotten piece of shit LOTO that you'd put more energy into factional purges and wooing tory voting racists than mounting a serious opposition campaign. The guy needs to die.

I can't disagree, Calzino.

To expel such a fine socialist who has done so much to further the cause of socialism is a disgrace. Ken’s films have exposed the inequalities in our society, have given us hope for change & inspired us to fight back. I send my solidarity to my friend and comrade @KenLoachSixteen https://t.co/GboZLrcVYK

— John McDonnell MP (@johnmcdonnellMP) August 14, 2021

pic.twitter.com/acT7N8mAFK

— Ian Lavery MP (@IanLaveryMP) August 14, 2021

“Senior military sources say the Home Office is reluctant to give many of these people asylum because of the message it will send to other refugees.” https://t.co/TobmZ6o71u

— Daniel Trilling (@trillingual) August 14, 2021

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2021/aug/15/a-million-jobs-in-peril-as-one-in-16-firms-say-they-are-at-risk-of-closure

Having helped destabilise Afghanistan & the wider region, Britain has a particular obligation to welcome refugees from the country.

That means actively providing safe, open passage & quickly processing asylum claims. After all the destruction, it’s the least we can do.

— Zarah Sultana MP (@zarahsultana) August 13, 2021

seriously

From the writer of Borat 2 pic.twitter.com/HZZD1yTvER

— Matt Wain (@TheMattWain) August 16, 2021

clearly some of the Loach haters know very little about cinema but then again I saw lefty posters yesterday taking the piss out of their ignorance + then posting "watch some blummin Shane Meadows movies, fule"!

It's not really not knowing about cinema, it's knowing that you'll always get props from a certain type for coming up with faux-populist attacks on Serious Directors. Totally cynical move.

I saw one of them reeling off a list of "proper" movies and it was quite clear this guy probably had seen a handful of movies since the days of Blockbusters

It doesn't what you think of Ken Loach, even casual movie watchers of my age know Kes is an untouchable str8 banger!

If there's a competition for worst Ken Loach take

Ian Austin proving not only is he a massive arsehole to write such a thing, but that he's also a massive coward to delete it a minute later. pic.twitter.com/iDaVmU09EL

— Matt Thomas (@Trickyjabs) August 15, 2021

xxp

I meant to say proper movie directors, lol he listed Sam Mendes

What was the actual unabridged Loach quote? Is there a clip?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=anRhI2xezgA

here is what Loach wrote after

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/oct/05/ken-loach-i-give-no-legitimacy-to-holocaust-denial