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

Can’t wait for them to poll at 2010 levels again

Cooper has become such a mythical figure amongst melt groupthink that Dunty seems to have forgotten that he used to pretend to hate her for being so racist and right-wing. And this nonsense about how great she is at dispatch box pantomime didn't do her any good when Corbyn made her look rather trivial and empty in 2015. She's got a wafer thin majority as well and probably almost a dead cert to lose her seat in the next election.

It's like Hatherley just posted. Kieth attacking Johnson for dishonesty is not a very bright move and when it comes to election time they will "this you" him with all the pledges he feigned to con the membership into voting for him, which both makes him look dishonest or even deceptively progressive to the Tory voters he's trying to win over.

haha, yes i hadn't thought about the second part of that. it not only reminds the left of the party that he lied, it parades the pledges in front of right wing voters they're trying to win. lol

Idk, maybe right wing voters will find it funny that labour members got so comprehensively clowned. Who really cares about their political enemies being betrayed?

of course that won't bother them, it's the pledges that will do the damage - even if he had no intention of honouring them it will plant the seed that this guy is a progressive in a Tory suit disguise.

periodical reminder that most of Corbyn's (let alone early-Starmer's) policies were >50% favoured when polled in isolation

alive in here i'm alive in here i'm aliiiiive in heeeeere

and Labour don't get the same free pass with barefaced lying as the Tories do.

Yes the old racists whose “trust” they are trying to “win back” will always insist that labour want to open the door to all the immigrants no matter how frantically they signal the opposite

Yeah but what I'm saying is that Starmer's initial pledges would still be broadly popular even if he has gone back on all of them for Blairite reasons

ask the Hastings RNLI workers on how "Defend Migrants’ Rights" is polling with Tory voters in their town!

Possible for something to be >50% popular but also widely despised by gammons whom Labour should never be pandering to

My faith is that this nation is not majority gammon. Brexit wasn't in itself a gammon referendum. Many have recanted; many voted out of frustration and spite rather than deeply-held xenophobia

I’d want to see some evidence of that

I did say 'faith' tbf lol

Faith isn't evidence

one Starmer aide told the Politico newsletter – a daily note for Westminster insiders – that the reshuffle had put, “fresh hungry effective message-carriers in key briefs”.

jesus fucking wept

hungry hungry hypocrites

Fresh hungry effective budgie smugglers or tight briefs.

Everybody knows Boris is a liar, they just don't care that he's a liar.

BBC radio coverage of reshuffle: "there's an emphasis on YOUTH, as Wes Streeting is promoted".

Not what they would say if the much younger Zarah Sultana was promoted.

If you can count on European heads of state to do anything, it’s calling centuries of colonial domination + nurtured dependency “friendship” https://t.co/I9jYRxU6HY

— Zoé (@ztsamudzi) November 30, 2021

Streeting is 38, am reminded of when Jo Swindon was asked about how to get young people into politics and responded “I’m a young politician!” (She was 39 at the time)

If I had £80k+ pa and full bennies and the rest, well I might feel 10-20 years younger!

As if the queen isn’t turning in her grave over Barbados becoming a republic

That's amusing about "Swindon". Who has gone to oblivion.

Surprised Streeting wasn't given Shadow Minister for McDonald's, but I guess lobbying for them is sort of his main hobby anyway so no need?

Good luck to these good ppl

Senior managers in our sector are generally total incompetents and become bullies to compensate. They make outrageous salaries and contribute literally nothing that makes the lives of students or university staff better. https://t.co/ewqIBQaOml

— Jack Saundrs ❤🖤 (@jack_saundrs) December 1, 2021

I laughed the other day when some muppet described McShitter as "soft-left" in a reshuffle report, lol what a joke.

lol BYE

Yes!! Labour’s main union backer says it will cut political funding https://t.co/iLCFhJOM3J

— Chardine Taylor Stone (@ChardineTaylor) December 2, 2021

In a move that could blow a hole in Keir Starmer’s general election war chest, Graham said that while Unite would still pay £1m in affiliation fees to Labour, “there’s a lot of other money that we use from our political fund where, actually, I’m not sure we’re getting the best value for it”.

Graham, speaking to the Guardian to mark her first 100 days as leader of Britain’s biggest private sector union, said: “The fact that I am being quite robust is because Labour needs to talk about workers, needs to defend workers and needs to defend communities.”

She described this week’s Labour reshuffle, regarded by many at Westminster as a shift to the right, as “white noise” and lamented the lack of a shadow secretary of state for employment rights and protections, saying it was “not a good signal” for the party to send.

Sharon Graham always seems to make very good decisions, respect!

They might not get the donors till they ditch the dud. Oh christ they are going to try and make Cooper happen again.

I'd forgotten that when SG had just won the Unite gen sec election, then the Starmer office were trying to spin some copium that it was a good result for him. Lol not looking so good for him now. I can't remember the name of the other left-wing candidate or whatever split the vote with his + SG's supporters but it seems the correct one won it.

Incredible vibe. Calz, you should get in touch with the party, they could be paying you a consultancy fee for this insight!

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FFrfhWCXEAA5s3c?format=jpg&name=large

christ such unbelievably pathetic self-pity/self-victimisation from the guy that has trashed everything in the room and then told hundreds of thousands of people to fuck off!

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FFtDEDRXwAcLEG7?format=png&name=small

lol, two years ago was a hell of a trip

This is a literal death sentence for people with addiction, uncontrolled withdrawal kills.

It will just mean empowering the drug trade in prison, and deepening addictions. https://t.co/2NjmYJJwav

— Rory MacLean (@rory_maclean) December 3, 2021

Really these ppl are pathetic

This is about three people standing outside a mansion with cardboard signs. https://t.co/sB4ZzHdU15 pic.twitter.com/OES0o1R85o

— Euan Yours (@EuanYours) December 2, 2021

that brief paragraph is the worst N American commentariat bullshit seen or heard since erm.. that moment the other day when I heard Steven Pinker say on R4 "even left-wing politicians like Barack Obama and Hilary Clinton used to be against gay marriage".

“I said to Keir Starmer when I met him in this office, I find it disappointing – and I’m being diplomatic – I find it disappointing that Labour are not coming out far more robustly in terms of what’s happening to workers and communities.”

Graham has said she will be seeking to cut donations from Unite to Labour. Not the affiliation fee, but the “awful lot of money on top of the affiliation fee” that the union has been giving to the party from its political fund – an amount she says is “staggering, sometimes, in its nature”. Where will that money go instead? Graham has a clear answer: driving campaigns that her members believe in.

tfw all you can enjoy about the current shitshow is the first bit of REAL opposition (as in hitting them where it really hurts) to the craven bunch of bigoted crooks that are supposed to be the opposition

GPs will be allowed to defer some of their services, not sure how anybody will be able to tell cos nobody I know has had sight of a GP in months

seeing GPs is like white dogshit/chukka boots nostalgia now, although I did manage to talk to a neurologist's secretary the other day, yay NHS!

Remember Owen Smith? He is now government relations director for pharmaceutical company Bristol Myers Squibb who are currently the subject of a $1 billion lawsuit from Guatemala for "roles in a 1940s U.S. government experiment that infected hundreds of Guatemalans with syphilis"

— Glenn Jenkins (@glenninluton) December 3, 2021

Mr Sheerman added he was proud of the work he had done over the past 42 years but was looking forward to spending more time with his family.

Sheerwaste has realised i/ he was probably on course to lose his seat at the next election and only held on in 2019 because the Tories ran The Mekon against him. ii/ he's made so much dosh lobbying for big construction since 1979 that he just doesn't need the hassle of the MP side-gig anymore.

a Good Thread

A little thread getting down some ideas about the "removing citizenship without due process" stuff, and what's (in my view) missing:

— McDuff (@Mc_Heckin_Duff) December 5, 2021

After 40 years as Huddersfield’s Member of Parliament, I have taken the decision that I will not be standing at the next general election.

Serving Huddersfield has been the honour of my life.

Thank you to my constituents for the kindness, support and warmth you have shown me. pic.twitter.com/BsITvzevAq

— Barry Sheerman MP (@BarrySheerman) December 4, 2021

Full video of this announcement.

I guess maybe a few are seeing the writing on the wall. Hodge also gone etc. Though they've been around the circus for long enough.

ffs I can remember the old cunt visiting my school in Brackenhall when I was in short pants!

he didn't tell us about how much grifting you can do as a safe seat wasteman, just a load of bollox about how you "have to put in some serious hours being an MP, it's a tough job"!

NV - that's a really nice thread, thanks.