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

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

LAB: 36% (-)
CON: 35% (-4)
GRN: 11% (+5)
LDEM: 9% (-)

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@IpsosMORI
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the pinnacle of Starmer Labour, what an emotional day!

lol static Labour and Tory protest votes going to the Greens

Ed Davey: I had to do the grift because I have a child with special needs who needs 24 hour care.


An awkward admission that the 2010 austerity govt he was part of slashed so much off LA budgets that you only get an adequate care package if you can afford it. what a cnut.

"You were in talks to take a job yourself."

"No I wasn't. I was in discussion." pic.twitter.com/f7We5acRes

— Alex Nunns (@alexnunns) November 8, 2021

hah what a shit wanker

so which ghoul is going to write an opinion piece about the important distinction between talks and discussions?

well they've already done "being a minister/writing a shit book is effectively a second job, quelle difference?" so it would hardly be surprising.

A sitting MP and former UK attorney general being hired by BVI to defend itself is against charges brought by…. the UK government is quite something. The fact that he got to spend a month in the Caribbean during lockdown is just… chef’s kiss

His register of financial interests shows he earned £156,916.08 for 140 hours' work between April 29 and May 31.

that's a pretty sick hustle!

Just another month in Super World

Meanwhile his constituents

lol I want to hear him denying all charges of corruption and avarice in his stentorian Brian Blessed voice

However deputy prime minister and justice secretary Dominic Raab has defended his decision this morning, telling Times Radio that: “Having the former attorney general is a legitimate thing to do” in reference to Cox’s offering legal advice to the government of the British Virgin Islands as he has “got some knowledge of what’s going on”.

dominic raab's robust defence of geoffrey cox !

you idiots don't seem to understand: that he was attorney general is precisely what he's cashing in on!

he has “got some knowledge of what’s going on"

yes.... yes i'd say so

He was having him?

can't buy class on 80K

“I hadn’t had any job in consultancy for most of my time as an MP, but then I became the father of a child with severe disabilities who needs 24/7 care"

Lib Dem leader Ed Davey tells #R4Wato he needed to increase his income to look after his son https://t.co/Vd1zwVluGr

— BBC Politics (@BBCPolitics) November 8, 2021

it's rough when you've got to get on the grift because the austerity you voted for has cut down disabled services to much less than the bare minimum. And 80k is fuck all these days!

Those "discussions" in full

ahahaha you couldn't make it up https://t.co/8vB8prCDa1

— bat020 (@bat020) November 9, 2021

https://i.imgflip.com/430zkq.png

hah, beautiful

Weird how he says he gave up his law practice but still did 70 hrs on August https://t.co/l60EARuhw8 pic.twitter.com/bWzoU5k2HN

— Terry Spooky Fuck (@terryfuck45) November 8, 2021

tfw when you can earn a quarter of your huge MP's salary for two days *work* and won't commit to a £15ph minimum wage

The boy's a stranger to the truth and I don't believe that's a professional habit

That Labour Hub story has been yanked but one of my better connected Twitter mutuals knows it’s true and is waiting for permission to confirm.

https://labourlist.org/2017/07/corbyn-could-rule-on-starmers-second-job-at-brexit-law-firm/

Labourlist reported it at the time so I don't know they bothered taking it down

You can think £82,000 a year isn't enough for a family to live on, or you can vote to take £20 a week away from the poorest people in the country, but you cannot, I'm afraid, do both

— Sophie Levin (@sophielevin11) November 9, 2021

u absolutely can tho

xp Labourlist reporting is different from Labour Hub in that the latter said Corbyn kiboshed the job, but Labourlist didn’t say that.

yeah from the details in that one a horrible lying fucker like him could say it wasn't Corbyn who blocked him from taking the Mishcon de Reya gig - he turned it down, but it wouldn't be a very convincing lie!

Genuinely in awe at how onside the media are in this whole "scandal", loyally turning it into the red herring issue of second jobs and inadequate pay of 80k, Michael Crick digging up John Smith's legal work from 1983, it's really formidable how bought and sold our lobby journos are.

I know... John Smith eh? what a gotcha!

michael crick adding john smith to his big spreadsheet of ppl who are basically memebers of militant

"memebers is what i call them"
— bob marley

In the 1940s and 1950s, it was still common to suggest that MPs’ pay might be variable, in order to compensate for the cost of being a member while maintaining members in their original social classes. J.F.S. Ross in Parliamentary Representation (1948), for example, argued that ‘a working-class member, used to making ends meet on a few pounds a week’ could manage on less than ‘a professional or business man used to some degree of comfort and obliged to maintain a fairly high standard of appearances.’