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

I honestly don't think many people know or care about that - you could get a million signatures for a statue of him tomorrow.

probably correct, a multi-generational groomer through having a vinyl record industrial complex and reached into the Tory heartlands with dire stuff like Home Truths and Grunpy OLd Men ... yah national treasure status achieved

Lolz

Breaking: Owen Paterson resigns as MP for North Shropshire.

— Alan McGuinness (@Alan_McGuinness) November 4, 2021

"I will remain a public servant but outside the cruel world of politics."

loool! what a fucking bag of wind

charitably that's "public" as used in "public school"

when your grift is earning you considerably more than your 80k MP salary, then that is god's way of telling you it's time to leave the cruel world of politics.

the brass fuckin' balls of this guy

Toryballs

When Boris Johnson is leading your party it's hardly surprising the cunts expect to get away with any and everything.

The Daily Mail went full tilt on this story today I expect that helped change their minds

Maybe Johnson cut him a deal and this is the price

Boris Johnson's spokesman now says there will be another vote on whether to suspend Owen Paterson "as soon as possible" with MPs also given a free vote on keeping the current Standards regime.

Total retreat.

— Adam Bienkov (@AdamBienkov) November 4, 2021

Worst of all was seeing people, including MPs, publicly mock and deride Rose’s death and belittle our pain. My children have therefore asked me to leave politics altogether, for my sake as well as theirs.

I agree with them. I do not want my wife’s memory and reputation to become a political football.

No-one else mentioned it you twat

I can believe his kids said "leave politics", all together.

Has Your Personal Data Been Leaked?
Call us on **** *** ****

seriously thinking about this, honestly couldn't give a shit about the data breach but feeling a strong urge to contribute towards bankrupting the Labour party out of pure hatred.

Same

If as they say it’s a third party who lost the data would labour still be liable?

heard somewhere they have to keep yr info for five years if you donated to them?

Not what data protection law says AFAIK

"as long as is reasonable" is something like the wording - membership ceases and they don't have a case to keep it I think

Thing is, there are lots of arguments to be made for what is ‘reasonable’. For example, Gift Aid can be claimed on donations for up to four years, so an organisation could argue that it’s a reasonable policy to retain details for four years in case someone comes back within that time and signs a Gift Aid declaration. There may well be a claim for damages based on how the party has handled peoples data, but I’d be surprised if there was much value in the ‘they should have deleted my data as soon as I left’ argument.

i suspect that they were handing data over to third parties to do social media surveillance but obviously this is just speculation based on them being awful wankers

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FDblhBzWUAEvNHu?format=jpg&name=900x900

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/person/image/4499/s465_lord-wolfson960.jpg

maybe I'm too much of a prudish catholic boy, but I don't even want to know what "family pornography" is nor ever want anyone to have to suffer the long term psychological damage from witnessing video images of this incredibly ugly looking man's naked arse bobbing up and down.

It’s trash reporting.

Wolfson was raising a very basic point around the ambiguity of the wording of the law, as far as I can tell, and the ‘family pornography’ example he gave was a husband taking a photo of his wife in a bikini in a public space.

"for his own sexual gratification"

the wording of law is always such a complex minefield but perhaps he should used something a bit less problematic sounding than "family pornography" because that was always going to be the headline.

He didn’t say it, tbf, it was the interpretation of the Times diarist, not a quote.

ah, a bit of journalistic mischief!

hey SV can I pick your legal brain on the chances of individual or group actions against the Labour Party data breach doing some serious damage?

His actual words were bizarre and unsettling (I watched the clip) already

as if we haven't already had enough David Lynch in the last couple of days. joek obv - not Lynch mobbing!

tbh, I don’t know much about data breaches at all. I’d guess a lot would depend on whether the data they were holding was legitimately kept and the efforts they took to keep it safe.

His actual words were bizarre and unsettling (I watched the clip) already

The point he was raising was fairly important imo, albeit it in a law exam ‘scenario unlikely to happen’ way.

A couple of the other Lords, Paddick in particular, clearly thought he was being difficult for the sake of it, though, and perhaps he was.

once my mum was breastfeeding on a bus in the 80's and some weird septuagenarian posh perv followed her off the bus to complement her on what a great mother she was. And she abruptly ended the exchange with "how would you know?". I guess the new version of this is "could you possibly give me consent take a pic of your lactating tits" or mayne not

Fuck me, a woman with Chemo wins the gift of heating this Winter, the UK is just unimaginably cruel https://t.co/R3hkqpeRVZ

— Nate (@antihashcist) November 5, 2021

https://www.jewishvoiceforlabour.org.uk/article/graham-bash-notice-of-termination-of-membership-of-the-labour-party/

Well well.

and look who has top billing as their patron https://t.co/pRs3aVPfRr pic.twitter.com/yJul1s6LOG

— pez (@periuspb) November 7, 2021

it's poor South Asian women who are the problem according to the pic. Maybe hyper privileged rich old white men that live to be fucking 117 actually need to start dying faster I say.

he commissioned some good tv when he was controller of bbc 2: Alistair Cooke's America, Jacob Bronowski's The Ascent of Man, Pot Black. But that's as far as I'll go, his voice makes me despise nature.

pic.twitter.com/URdcil4mAt

— Stan Cross (@tristandross) November 7, 2021

good nature documentary on this morning

Eric Morecambe looking a bit rough

I don't think Brian Cox repeatedly declaring himself a socialist (aren't all we all darling) and an SNP voter was what Kieth wanted to talk about.

Brian Cox looking delighted to be sitting alongside that wanker.

I think he was dissing Blair as well and said something about being young and ambitious when he did the campaign voiceovers for New Labour in '97, like he regrets it now.

One more nail on Lab's coffin

CWU Conference has just carried a motion which sets a new political strategy for the union.

In short - less money and support to Westminster Labour. More to Labour MPs, Mayors, Councillors and candidates who have our members backs. pic.twitter.com/2ni9BZB2ha

— The CWU (@CWUnews) November 7, 2021

Totally where it's going. Was on a call earlier in the week that was a meet for the few left-wing lab councillors that have been shortlisted. Be lucky if any get through (though they are further in than expected), but if one does they'll get support for their campaign. A right-wing councillor will go to Lord Sainsbury.

The fragmentation continues.

Just read this in an article about mortgages:

"Lenders are still being very picky about self-employed borrowers, particularly those who took any kind of government help over the past 18 months."

Surely this should be illegal???

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2021/nov/08/weetabix-workers-to-hold-four-day-strikes-over-pay-and-conditions?

I'm surprised there is only one Labour MP on the shitlist 30, and that it isn't Bazza Sheerman. But there is still plenty of scope for "good and honest" MP grifting, that doesn't draw the attention of the commons standards committee

Lol @ this cunt

"I don't know where some MPs find the time (for a second job) to be honest."

Wes Streeting, shadow child poverty secretary, says it's time to ban MPs taking work outside parliament except for "common sense exemptions" like doctors.@ayeshahazarika | @StigAbell | @wesstreeting pic.twitter.com/o1ii5Y8g0T

— Times Radio (@TimesRadio) November 8, 2021

https://www.parallelparliament.co.uk/mp/wes-streeting/financial-disclosure

but Wes still finds plenty of time to count all that mullah coming in from multiple dodgy mofos!

MPs with a hundred grand coming in "towards staffing costs" and then you read about them using unpaid internships