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

"King Starmer"

“The foundation of Israel was a repudiation of the worldview of those who committed the Shoah” — @Keir_Starmer at LFI’s Annual Lunch

— Labour Friends of Israel (@_LFI) November 16, 2021

and i imagine the HS2 stuff (which is not yet fact) has pissed off a lot of the red wall

Bradford still not on the mainline
Oh, just like Sister Ray said

The ban on MPs acting as paid political consultants and lobbyists won't be popular with the old guard, who are allegedly at war with the new crop (though I feel there is always some of this).

According to the polling he's not very popular rn but that isn't necessarily terminal.

Sure, but his popularity is his main asset - it's definitely not his principled conservative views. His malleability means a lot of people can write a lot of fanfic about him (I'd have thought the ban was such), but if he's not going to win the next election then he's fucked - there'll be a lot of whispering that really, anyone could have given Labour that drubbing, did you see the state of them? And of course if you're going to change PM, the sooner the better.
xp yes the HS2 stuff and also the terminal mismanagement of Owen Patterson and the continued existence of Christopher Chope...

Damage limitation.

"Paid Consultancy" = bad
"Newspaper columnist" = that's alright.

"My resolve was hardened when @Baddiel gave me a copy of his brilliant book – “#JewsDontCount, which demonstrates so clearly how racism against Jews is held to a different standard from other kinds of racism."

Blackface Baddiel - the newest member of Starmer's shadow equalities team!

different not lower eh

if he was being honest he'd fess up to not really caring a jot about anti-black racism and islamophobia, especially if the latter racism is being directed at Zarah Sultana.

Really good piece on the ongoings at Yorkshire.

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/blog/2021/nov/16/azeem-rafiqs-testimony-exposes-how-power-works-in-cricket-and-in-britain

It should be read, especially by people who are ok with that racist Starmer being PM just because he isn't a Tory in name.

Bradford still not on the mainline
Oh, just like Sister Ray said

― calzino, Tuesday, November 16, 2021

Superb, underrated post, Calzino !!

was thinking there is a fair bit of needle towards Bradford's "big city pretensions" from the little scruffy towns of West Yorkshire. I reckon some of the so called Red Wall gone blue constituencies are not that arsed about HS2 and there is plenty of nimby opposition to it in some of the rural zones.

was thinking there is a fair bit of needle towards Bradford's "big city pretensions"racism from the little scruffy towns of West Yorkshire.

well maybe some of that but I'm talking about The Heavy Woollen District here, which has pretty much the same racial makeup as Bradford. Same history of South Asian immigration into the area to work in the dark satanic textiles mills.

xp ^ just a shitpost tbh, by all means clown on Bradford, I've got a lot of time for the crabs in a bucket rivalry of northern towns

Hey na na na

crabs in a bucket!

you do get some feighting at the Batley Bulldogs vs Dewsbury Rams derby, which isn't very RL

BREAKING: Nine #InsulateBritain protesters are jailed for terms of between three and six months for breaching injunctions banning them from protesting on the M25

— Damien Gayle (@damiengayle) November 17, 2021

my question is: if you've glued your face to the road, what happens when the protest finishes? are they still there?

if you've ever wired an upstairs lighting radial in a loft with 3 layers of insulation - choking up on the fibres from it and itching like crazy, lets talk about the anti-insulation side of the argument!

Tory MP Andrew Rosindell on £20 uplift to UC: "I think there are people that quite like getting the extra £20 but maybe they don’t need it."

Andrew Rosindell, on banning MPs from 2nd jobs: “We have to realise we have human beings who have families & responsibilities”#Newsnight pic.twitter.com/cm87ORGWwe

— David (@Zero_4) November 16, 2021

^^^
that kind of response is precisely why I don't feel even flicker of empathy when one of these scumbags get offed

Cool cool

‘As a fresher I wandered into Balliol JCR one day and found a shiny glamazon with naughty eyes holding court astride a table, a high-heeled boot resting on my brother Boris’s thigh’

✍️ Rachel Johnson on Ghislaine Maxwellhttps://t.co/0Gsu3MFdzd

— The Spectator (@spectator) November 17, 2021

I'd counter and say people know exactly what they have elected.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2021/nov/17/new-bill-quietly-gives-powers-to-remove-british-citizenship-without-notice

looks like the currfent crew at the DM have had their wings clipped after their recent anti-boris campaign.
gotta love this cuntrys so called 'freedom of press'.

"Ted Verity" !

Many years ago I briefly worked with Ted Verity, apparently the new editor of the Daily Mail.
I recall him as one of the most wretched and inadequate people I’ve ever met. And in Fleet St journalism, that’s a high bar to clear.

— Katherine O'Donnell (@kathy__odonnell) November 17, 2021

so it's going to be more like it was under Dacre i.e. just as vile but not going to upset the govt under his watch.

clearly some folks up the DM chain have been bollocked/spoken to.

Good for him.

Corbyn finally taking his revenge on us forcing him to be Labour leader for 4 miserable years and destroying his life by creating a legal precedent for suing people for posting distasteful poor quality photoshops of politicians https://t.co/S3eMYSeERg

— Europe's Leading Soccer Futurologist (@TreborRhurbarb) November 17, 2021

if he was to successfully sue everyone who had defamed him with shopped photos he'd be pulling more buck than Geoffrey Cox.

> “As soon as I was able I deleted the comments.”'

i'd've done it sooner but i hadn't posted it yet.

gibbo is coming! pic.twitter.com/Fg6qXGj7Me

— joolsd (@joolsd) November 17, 2021

just was listening to that ghoul Reeves squirming when very gently pressed by Amol Raj on Starmer's hypocrisy on 2nd jobs... b...but it was different when he was getting £500 ph from Gibraltar. So much more he could have brought up but they're in softly softly mode right now. The idea of a Labour party with so many MP's in the pocket of property developers, or shilling for the betting industry, big water, big booze etc - as a clean anti-corruption party is a very bad joke.

Keir Starmer’s spokesman gives a pointed warning to Tory MPs who vote against today’s anti-sleaze motions: “We’ve got the digital ads ready to go in those constituencies.”

paper tiger lols.

One more thing that's never happening here.

V exciting breakthrough in Portugal, banning bosses from contacting workers after hours. The annexation and surveillance of our free time by capital is made ever easier by technology - and has been intensified by the pandemic. Time to push back! https://t.co/SEndHjFowH

— Dan Hancox (@danhancox) November 18, 2021

Wouldn't put it past Rosie to switch to the Tories.

This is Rosie Duffield’s constituency https://t.co/bmgq39bVOu

— Owen Jones 🌹 (@OwenJones84) November 19, 2021

I saw her on Daily Politics yesterday and, well, she just simpers nonstop, doesn’t she?

Question Time wisely deciding that the ideal person to weigh in on racism in cricket is Jordan B. Petersson.

This was noted on the Cricket thread.

Daniel is like most normal people and doesn’t consider cricket a real sport

I am as qualified to be on the cricket thread as Petersson is to be on a discussion about racism in cricket tbh.

I saw four faces, one mad
A brother from the gutter
They looked me up and down a bit
And turned to each other

I say
I don't like cricket (Oh no!)
It's shit

You people.

bunch of weirdos!

test cricket on the radio>>>football on the radio

ukpol cancel culture has gone too far this time

I can't stand tests on the radio
I'll give you five fingers for a one man show

The lack of any opposition to this from Labour and the, frankly, viciously racist speech Starmer gave alongside the far-right Hotovely have really hardened my resolve against the party for as long as as he remains leader https://t.co/njTAoyCCiG

— Abi Wilkinson (@AbiWilks) November 18, 2021

I'd counter and say people know exactly what they have elected.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2021/nov/17/new-bill-quietly-gives-powers-to-remove-british-citizenship-without-notice🕸