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

Reeves appears to be evil AND hopeless. Good promotion!

she seems to be the current holder of that fake "most feared by the Tories" title awarded by snivelling journos, previous holders include Yvette Cooper, Dave Miliband, Dan Jarvis, Hilary Benn

Good summary

Like when the australian cricket team used to brief journos that Graeme Hick was the guy they really feared in the england team

Lol

Andy McDonald quits shadow cabibet pic.twitter.com/6vcEORphGG

— Sam Coates Sky (@SamCoatesSky) September 27, 2021

he does always seem very principled and decent by Labour standards

Yes, too good for this shower of shits.

rachel reeves' voice is almost as bad as keir starmer's - slightly less strangled but she sounds like her mouth is full of marbles

I believe I've commented on its hideousness before.

Opposing an increase in the minimum wage and statutory sick pay count as two new Starmer policies! #202notout

— Elvis Buñuelo (@Mr_Considerate) September 27, 2021

fao S Bush

Mcdonald resigning today, Bakers union disaffiliating tomorrow, and most damaging for Labour on Wednesday Starmer is going to be making a speech

— Matt Wain (@TheMattWain) September 27, 2021

The interest in making Reeves happen will increase after Kieth's speech. I think it's twice I've put R4 on in the last few days and Nick Robinson is having a very cordial chat with her.

Cathy Newman has deleted her tweet. Absolutely an attempt to stir the pot.

the lovely Emma B walked into the kitchen this morning and as soon as she heard N Robinson’s voice she marched straight to the Pure DAB radio receiver* and turned it off**

*Lanchesterian, nest-ce pas

** My heart gave a little leap

Paul Mason playing cop.

What CLP is she in?

— Paul Mason (@paulmasonnews) September 27, 2021

lol I'd take a punch from a priest over a wooden blackboard duster getting thrown square at my head by a nun. But being the very virtuous person I am - I wouldn't use it as an excuse to employ bigoted stereotypes to undermine and attack the only left wing candidate in the last leadership election. His credibility is so shot he just needs to be quiet and perhaps reflect on how he can be so wrong 99.9% of the time.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2021/sep/27/labour-evokes-blairs-tough-on-slogan-in-bid-to-take-on-tories

A “next-generation neighbourhood watch” using technology including video doorbells and WhatsApp groups would be tasked with bringing people together to share information to tackle crime.

Please recruit the local guy who messaged the neighbourhood trying to track down the owner of the foxes that keep digging up his flowers.

I'd seriously prefer my chances with Chairman Xi's authoritarian hi-tech surveillance state and social credit points system than being up against creepy English curtain twitchers/grassers mobilising and growing bigger in WhatsApp neighbourhood groups

the shadow home secretary will tell delegates at Labour’s annual conference on Tuesday that Priti Patel’s department has been “soft on crime

10 years for statue-botherers? these clowns will make it 11

I seriously believe Kieth when he was DPP was completely inspired by Cameron's Big Society bluster and the Britannia Unchained manifesto.

Absolutely baffled by Mason's latest tweets about this.

Just bizarre and incoherent in every way.

I assume that he has still never admitted that he was simply wrong to support KS.

It would be the simplest and best thing to do.

I might be remembering this wrongly, but I think and am almost sure there was a a point somewhere in the 2015/16 UK political commentariat landscape when Mason was almost a lone pro-Corbyn voice and OJ was *reluctantly* agreeing with the Labour Right that Corbyn should stand down!

Investigations have identified a serious breach of good faith by Southeastern.

To protect taxpayers’ interests and passengers I have ordered the Operator of Last Resort to urgently take over the running of rail services in the South East. [1/3]

— Rt Hon Grant Shapps MP (@grantshapps) September 28, 2021

Wow.

"Over £25m of historic payments due to the Department were not declared - a significant breach of the franchise agreement."

“This is not the moment to be looking at nationalising companies”

I might be remembering this wrongly, but I think and am almost sure there was a a point somewhere in the 2015/16 UK political commentariat landscape when Mason was almost a lone pro-Corbyn voice and OJ was *reluctantly* agreeing with the Labour Right that Corbyn should stand down!

― calzino, Tuesday, 28 September 2021 00:03 (seven hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

I want to say dawn foster and Aditya never turned on him?

oh yes true but Mason seemed to get 2-3 times the exposure of Dawn + Aditya, and my dysfunctional memory. It feels more like a decade ago for some reason.

Yah true, just like to keep my little vindictive ledger of fair weather socialists accurate for when the revolution comes

I might be remembering this wrongly, but I think and am almost sure there was a a point somewhere in the 2015/16 UK political commentariat landscape when Mason was almost a lone pro-Corbyn voice and OJ was *reluctantly* agreeing with the Labour Right that Corbyn should stand down!

― calzino, Tuesday, September 28, 2021

Calzino correct here. One of the reasons I liked Mason a lot was the way he stood up for these values, at that time. And he has other qualities too, as a thinker with lots of interests. It's also true that OJ gave up on JC in 2016.

I don't even find it that odd that PM backed KS in 1.2020. What I find a bit more odd is that he's never said that this was simply a mistake. He's trashed his own reputation unnecessarily.

But specifically, this latest nonsense about his being a devout Catholic and demanding what CLP someone is in? FFS Paul!

I think paul mason does now say he thought keir starmer was or would be different - not sure he'll say he was wrong though

still you have to feel for the guy:

11/ Those who do move between the world of the three course dinners at the Grand and the world of lentil curry at #TWT21 are greeted with hostility in both locations. I mean really bitter, open, personal animosity in both locations...

— Paul Mason (@paulmasonnews) September 28, 2021

YEAH mobs...

Mobs that burn vans, smash shops fronts are no better than police that bash reporters or suppress evidence. We need accountability & ability to critique police, but we all need conflict res, peacekeeping/making in our communities & that’s what gov should be allowing police to do.

— Lloyd Russell-Moyle MP🌹🏳️‍🌈 (@lloyd_rm) March 28, 2021

says the guy who was running amok in parliament with the mace!

Thickoes with no ideological critique of policing and law shocker

Tough on Corbyn, tough on the causes of Corbyn.

when you are a landlord like LRM you are always going to be put the protection of property above civil rights

Conrad that from PM is hilarious!

if you're anything like me, every fucker hates you

Duntsy will you ever win

ah, but who among us could have seen this coming? pic.twitter.com/8pzIWUKBQ9

— Adam Smith (@adamndsmith) September 28, 2021

Paul Mason
@paulmasonnews
8/ The deal I thought we had with Starmer is broken. He is retreating from key pledges - nationalising energy, redistributive income taxes - and facilitating attacks on democracy. There are now no left figures in the Shadow Cabinet... worse...

newsflash: Starmer breaks deal that he had with Paul Mason (and associates)

Nick Robinson earlier:

"Isn’t the true story of this conference, Diane Abbott, your faction lost two general elections, you then lost the leadership of the Labour Party. Keir Starmer has decided to roll that back — successfully — and, as they once said in Dad’s Army, “You don’t like it up you?”

Leaving aside how that might be variously offensive, it's inane, as it means something like:

"Faction 1 doesn't like being attacked by Faction 2".

No. It probably doesn't.

But this is to underestimate the direness of NR and everything else that is submerged in what he is saying.

Cop union.

GMB slams Labour Party delegates over AUKUS opposition @GMB_union #Lab21 https://t.co/qGGAcjp81l pic.twitter.com/4FFfWKEPhU

— UnionNewsUK (@Union_NewsUK) September 28, 2021

This guy is such a low-level cunt

Just under 0.5% of the overall #Lab21 conference vote. 16,000 affiliated TU members out of just over 1.8m affiliated to the Party. Just lost its NEC seat yesterday too

— Charlie Mansell (@charliemansell) September 28, 2021

i thought number of members didn't mean fuck all to the likes of him?

Kieth :"I never made a commitment to nationalisation. I made a commitment to common ownership which is worlds apart from nationalisation"

yeah but he put his hand up with RLB when asked which of the candidates would nationalise water and electricity, never mind the weasel worded "common ownership".

🚓 Proud to support the launch of Labour Friends of the Police at #Lab21 today.#newporteast pic.twitter.com/knvIUmteGS

— Jessica Morden MP 💙 (@jessicamordenmp) September 27, 2021

acrid taste of lols in my mouth

Nick Robinson earlier:

"Isn’t the true story of this conference, Diane Abbott, your faction lost two general elections, you then lost the leadership of the Labour Party. Keir Starmer has decided to roll that back — successfully — and, as they once said in Dad’s Army, “You don’t like it up you?”

She should've just answered "Dad's Army is shite, mate".

i'm sure Nick Robinson had no notion of the racist context of that quote

Indeed. "You stupid boy" would have done the trick.