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

Labour frontbencher Thangam Debbonaire’s obvious irritation & embarrassment at @zarahsultana upsetting Tories for refusing to retract calling endemic Tory corruption “dodgy” - most ordinary people would use far worse language! - summarises Labour’s weak leadership in a nutshell https://t.co/GZ6x8TklYc

— Marcus Barnett (@marcusbarnett_) November 18, 2021

All you need to know about Tzipi Hovotely is that her appointment as Israeli Ambassador to the UK was opposed by Melanie Phillips.

dacre has pulled out of the ofcom recruitment re-run

lol

an “infelicitous dalliance with the Blob" is how I describe looking into the bathroom mirror these days!

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FElAXoZXIAoOTfI?format=jpg&name=small

"buyer's remorse"

dacre was transparently unqualified for a job that is mainly about frequency bands and technical regulation. they do also now have responsibility for the annual BBC report.

it is *somewhat* reassuring that some governance is still in place for this sort of appointment.

What happens here with almost any charitable efforts in Gaza? Hard to see how that happens while maintaining total distance from Hamas. https://t.co/fWLQmeRJqO

— Tom Gann (@Tom_Gann) November 19, 2021

When you are led by public opinion rather than leading public opinion.
The focus group will never trust Labour on this. Another Tory gov it is! https://t.co/4tjymxDdPe

— Chardine Taylor Stone (@ChardineTaylor) November 19, 2021

this human rights lawyer won't be losing any sleep over the legal status of Gaza charity organisations.

fizzles otm and i reckon dacre must have realised he would have hated doing the job, or even to do the things that would have made it appear that he was doing the job

What a pathetic manbaby.

Writing in a letter in the Times, Dacre said: “To anyone from the private sector, who, God forbid, has convictions, and is thinking of applying for a public appointment, I say the following: the civil service will control (and leak) everything; the process could take a year in which your life will be put on hold; and if you are possessed of an independent mind and are unassociated with the liberal/left, you will have more chance of winning the lottery than getting the job.”

Dacre said he wished Ofcom “all the luck in the world” as it prepared to grapple with “trying to regulate the omnipotent, ruthless and, as we’ve learnt, amoral tech giants without damaging freedom of expression”.

In a final attack on the civil service, Dacre said he was taking up “an exciting new job” in the private sector that “struggles to create the wealth to pay for all those senior civil servants working from home so they can spend more time exercising on their Peloton bikes and polishing their political correctness”.

lol he actually sounds hurt. maybe i’m wrong! as difficult as that would be to believe.

the blob strikes back

Aw diddums.

Maybe Dacre had a 'H!tler rejected by Vienna art school' type trauma in his youth. Couldn't start a World war so did it by other means.

never mind the civil service thwarting his ambitions, it was Corbz who inflicted his biggest defeat - the failed beerhall putsch of '17.

From 1967 he read English at the University of Leeds,[14] while Jack Straw was President of the Students' Union.[13] While at university, he became involved with the Union News newspaper (the Leeds Student from 1970), rising to the position of editor.[15] At this time he identified with the liberal end of the political spectrum on issues including gay rights and drug use,[16] and wrote editorials in support of a student sit-in at Leeds organised by Straw.[17] He introduced a pin-up feature in the newspaper called "Leeds Lovelies".[17][18] He told the British Journalism Review in 2002: "If you don't have a left-wing period when you go to university, you should be shot"[8][17]

jack straw venn diagram klaxon

He should be shot regardless tbf.

As Andrew Marr steps down from the impartial state broadcaster it seems only gracious to remember his finest impartial moment pic.twitter.com/8i7nzrfctx

— Edmund Griffiths (@EdmundGriffiths) November 20, 2021

yeesh

vintage milk

https://thewire.in/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/North-Korean-tv-presenter.jpg

P sure they drag the pink lady in dprk by comparing her to Andrew marr

not a huge grace blakeley stan tbh but i think this is interesting if true (= the UK seen as a strong culturing ground for left thinking perhaps precisely bcz it is now so arid for practical left politics)

Everywhere I’ve been recently - Germany, Norway, the Netherlands, Belgium - socialists have told me a version of the same message: they see so many popular socialist thinkers coming out of the UK, and they wish there were more of those voices in their country.

— Grace Blakeley (@graceblakeley) November 20, 2021

"The next Labour government will not be reintroducing free movement," says Labour's Shadow Home Secretary Nick Thomas-Symonds.

Here's what Keir Starmer promised during his leadership campaign. #marr pic.twitter.com/deHa3gMdYa

— Adam Bienkov (@AdamBienkov) November 21, 2021

Just basically laughing at the idea they can outdo Priti Patel on this. Bunch of pricks.

I'm putting people who vote for Starmer Labour in the same bracket as evil Tory Voters now. Fuck anyone who votes this knave!

losing the all the top-tier shitposters with European wide acclaim for the mildest of centre-left concessions seems like a big price to pay.

i enjoy the Twitter normals still going about how Crombone was a racist and the LP was unspeakably racist under his leadership

Yeah where’s that anti racism they assured us was so important to them then? Cunts.

Imagine standing up in front of an audience and saying that reading a fucking David Baddiel book helped you become a better anti-racist.

can't have racism if you keep the country ethnically pure *taps forehead*

"not a huge grace blakeley stan tbh but i think this is interesting if true"

More of a reflection on who she talks to.

of course but still

lol grace blakely just feels like the most typical illustration of declining opportunities for millenials + z, shouldn't she be the guardian's 'young leftist!' columnist? she's kept her stationary very neat since doing her undergrad and managed a book deal but so far her main gig is a podcast afaiui. anyway one of the most bizarre products of the corbyn era commentary demi-boom, literally who needs her history of chicago school economics? good for her that shes getting smoke blown up her arse all over the continental landmass.

hmm i didn't mean to be quite that rude

maybe not

It’s easy to be pessimistic (not least because we treat cynicism as somehow more intellectually rigorous than hope), but looking over the last 40 years it would be stupid to ignore the progress we’ve made over the last 5 in building platforms for communicating and debating ideas.

— Grace Blakeley (@graceblakeley) November 20, 2021