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

this week in The Onion

https://twitter.com/i/events/1446776567657426947

New 888 phone service to protect women walking home 'backed by home secretary' https://t.co/oLHcVRyzmf

— Sky News (@SkyNews) October 9, 2021

what

the

fuck

MAIL: Home working left Britons at Taliban’s mercy #TomorrowsPapersToday pic.twitter.com/dJuNSVipkK

— Neil Henderson (@hendopolis) October 9, 2021

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FBSkpb5WYAA5hbO?format=jpg&name=large

years away from an election and he's already an unpitied figure of fun in The Sun, like TR posted earlier he's got to that Graham Taylor turniphead stage of clowndom from which there is no return to respectability.

These are the blokes whose votes the special k is after

Found some guys pic.twitter.com/nDI6C5A3Pn

— black lives matter (@jrc1921) October 10, 2021

Who amongst us hasn't spent a lot of time working out if we could defend our family physically?

lol I don't think I've seen tinned potatoes looking so appetising since the 80's. Although I have some vague memory of deep-frying some one night when I was pished.

If my family was under threat I would want a 58 year old anthropomorphic fry-up to defend them

What is it with these boomers who cosplay as old geezers who lived through the war, rationing, national service etc?

I blame Mike & The Mechanics

the Living (on readymeals) Years

Wasting their time shouting about refugees. Many of whom commit suicide.

This is a really disturbing ongoing story that @DaaroYouth has been trying to draw attention to for quite a while now. It should be raising serious questions about the asylum system and its ability to protect children. https://t.co/3sMrSbGlUz

— Daniel Trilling (@trillingual) October 11, 2021

some rural posh families are about to become radicalised when they can’t dry their Barbour jackets and wellies properly pic.twitter.com/BOmBaD1yS2

— 🖕🤠🖕 (@Georgina666_) October 10, 2021

these days you have to keep your jacket on inside to feel the benefit

Kieth: "The government is awesome"

Morning,

“One of the worst public health failures the UK has ever experienced” is the verdict of a major #Covid report by MPs.

Thousands of deaths could have been prevented with an earlier lockdown and deaths in care homes were “among the worst in Europe”. pic.twitter.com/mstCxdZL75

— Tamara Cohen (@tamcohen) October 12, 2021

I dunno most of the big media brains seem to think lol nothing matters

Maybe this has something to do with it

pic.twitter.com/WTtD2x1C0I

— black lives matter (@jrc1921) October 12, 2021

The real reason Britain failed on coronavirus https://t.co/n4p7WqqpIx

— Robert Peston (@Peston) October 12, 2021

This is v good too

not interested in any coronavirus what-when-wrongs that don't mention a decade plus of gutting everything from healthcare supply lines to housing standards to employment conditions. i truly believe there's nothing real to be learned without proper reflection on austerity

— michael wave: gourd boy edition (@SzMarsupial) October 12, 2021

Amol Rajan was surprisingly (to me) combative on Today this morning with whoever the fuck was on from the government about the delay on lockdown 2

(Jeremy Hunt was doing the 8:10 interview. i turned it off about 10 seconds later)

it was a game of two halves, apparently, and, according to him, the same people were responsible for both halves.

Amol Rajan was surprisingly (to me) combative on Today this morning with whoever the fuck was on from the government about the delay on lockdown 2

― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 12 October 2021 bookmarkflaglink

Good to have some opposition lol

Meanwhile..

"You'd have failed your test"

Labour leader Keir Starmer gets crash course in HGV driving https://t.co/Ohgh5evytS pic.twitter.com/KDxAvzuIDE

— BBC Politics (@BBCPolitics) October 12, 2021

Kieth's inability to turn left is a bit on the nose

It's just too fucking good

starting to have a suspicion that keir has been some sort of prank from day one.

“You’d have failed your test”

“Ok, good. Very good.”

always a very good idea for a labour leader to do a stupid publicity stunt involving something that he's clearly no good at when he's already become a f/t running gag

The Liverpool Echo has published an apology in print today after writing that Keir Starmer had broken a promise to never speak to The Sun newspaper. The Echo accepts this was not true.

— Benjamin Butterworth (@benjaminbutter) October 12, 2021

if only there wasn't hundreds of people that saw him saying this at a Liverpool hustings and probably at least a hundred thousand + seeing the vid online just the day before he reneged and told a Fabian audience he would deal with The Sun.

clever old keir actually said “I certainly won’t be giving any interviews to The Sun during this campaign” which means no one can be angry about it

there's that brilliant lawyer's brain of his getting one over on his enemies, the labour voters of Liverpool.

"ok keir you may not have said you'd never speak to the sun but that's what people thought you said and now they have yet another reason to hate your guts."

"ok, good. very good."

Liverpool one of those metropolitan elite cities that can be relied on to vote Labour, so fuck them so we can talk directly to some Tory-voting twat who want even listen in Nottinghamshire,

Be surprised if Lab make it to much over 25% at the next election. Never mind the broken promises he is just such a shit candidate.

https://thumbor.forbes.com/thumbor/fit-in/416x416/filters:format(jpg)/https:%2F%2Fspecials-images.forbesimg.com%2Fimageserve%2F5637f505e4b0ffa7afe695ea%2F0x0.jpg%3Ffit%3Dscale%26background%3D000000

his net approval rating has dropped to -44. But the fieldwork was carried out before he failed a HGV test and told Liverpool to get fucked.

pretty much the worst case scenario is that the kid missed some or all of a single school day. like that is *such* a minor inconvenience. the curriculum is a load of nationalistic lies and half-truths anyway, who gives a fuck. all this “tHiNk oF tHe KiDs” feels like ‘90s america. https://t.co/WAhADAZh22

— katie but halloween flavoured 🎃 (@SpookyLovejoy) October 13, 2021

i have plenty of ideological and tactical differences with these lads but the sight of people boiling with anger at being late but not at impending environmental catastrophe is something deeply depressing

Hilarious piece, tweeted by a cheerleader for austerity.

In a supremely well researched and erudite @FT Magazine piece, @TimHarford is not optimistic that something will turn up to rescue the UK economy

(If you don't read it for the pessimism, read it for the intellectual journey towards the conclusion) https://t.co/iLp50E93GC

— Chris Giles (@ChrisGiles_) October 14, 2021

Shortages are only meant to happen in planned economies, apparently.

This is delusional.

The figures show unemployment in March 2020 was 1.2 million. It's now over 2 million.

In Croydon unemployment was 10,835 in March 2020. It's now 18,925. https://t.co/BO9XJoxxFn

— Andrew Fisher (@FisherAndrew79) October 13, 2021

Also this, from yesterday:
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/oct/13/uk-border-force-could-be-given-immunity-over-refugee-deaths

I know there has been much of a take-up from Polish HGV drivers to save Xmas but the government are going all out for a version of the guest worker scheme that you see in the middle-east and will drive down conditions.

ITV News understands immigration rules will be temporarily lifted for foreign butchers to avoid a mass cull of more than 100,000 pigs https://t.co/Tw8DeEoMnR

— ITV News (@itvnews) October 14, 2021

*hasn't

US Congresswoman @IlhanMN tells @AnushkaAsthana why Margaret Thatcher is one of her political role models. 🇺🇸 🇬🇧

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#Peston pic.twitter.com/O5Wl2eRizZ

— Peston (@itvpeston) October 13, 2021

lol my hero was a pro-apartheid monster cos she was a triumph for representation

ffs another clueless American

oh jfc I didn't want to hate her, now I have to hate her.

whatever the grown-up and nuanced take on this is, like hey this isn't an endorsement of Thatcher values blah blah blah ... I don't want to hear it!