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

"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.’

Corbyn stopped Starmer taking a second job doing high-paid consultancy work for law firm Mishcon de Reya in 2017, several key figures from the Corbyn leadership have confirmed to me.

Starmer argued he should be free to take up the role, but Corbyn decided "absolutely no." >>>

— Alex Nunns (@alexnunns) November 10, 2021

Starmer's office had argued there was nothing to worry about in him taking the job, because the Mishcon training academy, which he would be advising, was "really cool."

lol

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2021/nov/10/find-out-how-much-your-mp-earns-on-top-of-their-salary

I note with interest that my MP "The Lamster" earned £70k+ on various engagements, admittedly none of them shilling for fossil fuel companies. Who knew LBC paid so well? "The Corbster" earned nothing extra at all, fwiw.

all my MP has to declare is two tickets in the FA lounge at some grassroots football event and five VIP passes for the Tramlines music festival, and this is a Tory.

I’m not a fan of Lammy but I don’t particularly think a call in radio show where members of the public can ask an MP anything is bad as a second job. Especially if your own MP is in the West Indies.

worth noting that the person starms is defending thinks that he, a gentile, should not be allowed to be married to his wife, who is jewish https://t.co/8eGSixto4d

— pez (@periuspb) November 10, 2021

This is Professor Nigel Biggar, CBE, in clerical vestments, from the pulpit, using the genocide of Native Americans and Australian peoples to justify Asking Questions about immigration. pic.twitter.com/6YMWb0JhXT

— David Andress (@ProfDaveAndress) November 11, 2021

egged on by "Immigrants ruined Rome" cvnt Boris

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FD8XgM7XoAoi521?format=jpg&name=medium

for a while earlier I thought maybe even he wouldn't be enough of a craven little grasping lying piece of shit to attempt this and was going to sensibly stick to "no comment".

This was a Kelvin Knox joke, the best bit of the joke being the implicit fact you'd be commemorating nazi soldiers, reborn seemingly for real. https://t.co/Ggh1av720n pic.twitter.com/ccN9kWr2Do

— Europe's Leading Soccer Futurologist (@TreborRhurbarb) November 11, 2021

an FBPE killing off satire with a tribute to those brave lads of the 6th army who fell by the banks of the Volga to protect us from communism!

Alex Nunns' latest thread tonight is showing more evidence of the timeline of the Kieth office's 2017 hissy fit when Corbyn blocked him from the lucrative Mishcon de Reya job. Cue lots of "why u helping the tories?" replies from people who spent years smearing Corbyn on the daily. This isn't even a smear, it's just another pointless own goal by an inveterate liar who seems more inclined to dishonesty than some of the worst tories.

the funniest bit is where Starmer's office is pleading that it is "just a limited role of a few hours a month" lool

"awwwwww and look at all that money!!! "

Wrong fucking choice.

Horrific that Durham University is offering training to students who want to be sex workers part-time. Sex work is degrading, dangerous and exploitative. Uni should have nothing to do with it https://t.co/BpuVdaLTmN

— Diane Abbott MP (@HackneyAbbott) November 12, 2021

ladies and gentlemen .. the *progressive* wing of the party of labour

"work is degrading, dangerous and exploitative"

^^^

she's right tho!

first time Labour have broken 40% since Corbyn was in charge. https://t.co/2oA3tLbq5a

— jamie k (@jkbloodtreasure) November 12, 2021

I miss those days when Corbyn was polling 40+ points and people on Newsnight or knobhead US lib interlopers on here would insist he was "10 pts behind"

Lol, it's very easy for me.

If this keeps up some people will really need to think about how they could back down from fundamental opposition to the opposition https://t.co/43RM1UNHKk

— Alex Harrowell (@yorksranter) November 12, 2021

If inflation, corruption, any number of crises are coming down the line this Labour don't have the policies or any skills to get ppl out of it, chump.

and looking even more dodgy on austerity, civil liberties etc - I'd rather shear my balls off with a stihlsaw and eat them than vote for these corrupt racist scumbags