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

Hodge, Sheerman and Harman gone in the same week ... oh the humanity

oh my god the full clip is so so so much worse pic.twitter.com/KjL97JH3It

— Owen Jones 🌹 (@OwenJones84) December 7, 2021

i dont really care about the christmas party as much as i do about the thousands dead

i mean, its tacky

It seems to be the relatives of the dead who are angriest about it?

When I think that my Grandma died with none of us able to properly visit her and that I didn’t go to her funeral to follow the rules. That I had to cancel my Christmas plans and leave mum in tears to follow the rules. And these absolute fuckers were partying & laughing about it.

— Tom (@tomilo) December 7, 2021

People never seem that bothered or interested in what relatives of the dead have to say - it was the same with the Iraq War. I'm sure there's some psychological blocking thing going on.

all the shit they've done in the last couple of decades (both parties) this just seems so small I can't even feel anything about it, not even any kind of mildly ho-hum kind of ennui, never mind anger. Maybe I'm wrong but it's just the way I feel.

They’re lying to you and they’re laughing at you. pic.twitter.com/6VRaDRa3Nl

— The Labour Party (@UKLabour) December 7, 2021

Starmer Labour attempting to hold the moral high ground on honesty lol

"..unfortunately we've got a prime minister who is socially distanced from the truth"

oh gosh this guy really is the worst...remove the fucking plank from thine own eye first you dismal ham.

Yes, that was dismal.

Starmer's asking for an apology. SNP are demanding a resignation.

Yes it's Ian Blackford though, nobody takes any notice of that little prick.

Honestly Starmer needs to just leave this to the effective communicators like idk Ant and Dec? Pmqs going to be even more cringe today than normal

Good evening, Prime Minister! 👀🤭@antanddec #ImACeleb pic.twitter.com/cekIFiwx8N

— I'm A Celebrity... (@imacelebrity) December 7, 2021

Yes, can't stand Ant & Dec but that was better, more effective and more venomous than Starmer has ever got even close to achieving.

I feel zinged by this one tbh

One rule for them, another rule for us.#BorisTheLiar #BorisJohnsonOut pic.twitter.com/lX0LUUrLfX

— Momentum 🌹 (@PeoplesMomentum) December 3, 2021

I really don't mind if the tories get fucked over this, any port in a storm.

Would be more cause to rejoice if there were the possibility of something better getting in instead ofc.

yeah.. that's the problem here, I really don't care a jot for the tories b team.

Otm all, the only consolation is blue-on-blue

Press conference to announce Plan B restrictions at 1730 today, apparently

lmao

pic.twitter.com/xv9336xlMU

— jonny abhors not the virgin’s womb (@sensiblehuman96) December 8, 2021

It doesn’t seem wildly improbable that this has all been leaked in response to rumours that the government was mulling over another set of curbs to socialising over Christmas. Plan C looks almost certainly off the table for the foreseeable future.

Far from improbable.

the usual suspects were very quick out of the gate with the "well any restrictions now will just have to be advice in the wake of these staggering one-rule-for-us relevations"

Only improbable bit of that is that the govt would be looking into further restrictions in the first place imo

Downing Street advisors pic.twitter.com/qqphzetu24

— Nooruddean (@BeardedGenius) December 8, 2021

Jesus, what's the point in PMQs if the second any sort of tricky question is asked, they're able to deflect it with "you're playing politics"?

(you can tell I don't watch it very often, eh?)

Talking of cunts

Will the CABSEC also be asked to investigate the *flat* party on Fri 13 Nov, the other flat parties, & the flat's 'bubble' policy...?

— Dominic Cummings (@Dominic2306) December 8, 2021

Sunak's eyes and general demeanour during PMQs suggested, err, rather less than unequivocal support for Johnson.

Keir invokes the Queen. Nuclear. #pmqs

— Mikey Smith (@mikeysmith) December 8, 2021

of course the best thing about PMQs is reading the imbecilic commentary on it by the lobby hacks who are too stupid to be even considered serious court jesters, but not watching it very often is a very good choice imo.

First name terms is it now?

Stratton's resigned as we all knew she would.

No-one knew what she was being paid for anyway.

Ok, so someone has resigned for letting cat out of bag i.e. telling a truth.

She’s a terrible person who will no doubt land on her feet, absolutely zero sympathy

On the one hand, I think that if heads have to roll this is probably one of the less important ones, on the other it is very funny to see bad people cry. https://t.co/6VCHaIlGEo

— Sinan Kose (@TheSinanKose) December 8, 2021

crying tears because she's temporally lost her £120k Spad position until another highly paid gig shows up boo hoo

Good statement from Sinan Kose.

Anyone who does what Stratton did is a terrible person.

Odd thing is it seems as though she never actually even started her job -- that expensive briefing room was only ever used for this practice briefing which has brought her down?

The way she has handled this -- she will be giving intimate and revealing interviews to the Sunday Telegraph in two month, monthly column in the Spectator, Times Radio regular slot by Easter - etc etc.

All too obvious.

Yes, bad people who will continue to thrive.

They simply cannot help themselves

I've known @AllegraCOP26 for years. She was a brilliant colleague on the show. As I would expect, she has done the honourable thing, and swiftly resigned. Whatever you think of what she said in the clip obtained by @itvnews, she is a model for many in modern politics...

— Robert Peston (@Peston) December 8, 2021

Whatever you think about the Downing St party, it a) clearly happened b) wasn't Allegra's fault c) she is genuinely remorseful, and has resigned with speed and grace. https://t.co/3EDgXTcTkP

— fleetstreetfox (@fleetstreetfox) December 8, 2021

🤮🤮🤮

Circle the wagons.

quick shift of focus to anonymous online trolls and ghouls being mean to decent honest AS

how is 12 months later resigning swiftly?

ITV News has confirmed they’ve had the video of Stratton for weeks and chose not to publish it, which I assume is completely unconnected to her being National Editor of ITV News until 2018.

so they had it pre the mirror publishing it's story?

Nationality and Borders Bill: 'two in every five people from non-white ethnic minorities (41%) are likely to be eligible for deprivation of citizenship, compared with just one in 20 people categorised as white (5%).' - @NewStatesman pic.twitter.com/ccfZ3UAHHS

— Media Diversified (@WritersofColour) December 3, 2021

there are jobs that cannot be done from home (e.g. all the jobs that make it possible for others to work from home), and as long as sick pay is £96/week & there’s no sign of a proper furlough scheme, all the govt are doing is ensuring that any spread is limited to the poor.

— josie sparrow (@ofthesparrows) December 8, 2021

Would also explain why the government are so insistent on forcing benefits claimants back into jobcentres