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

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

well just imagine how different this could be under a Labour govt i.e. even possibly worse!

Communism:

Thursday's Telegraph: “Don't go to work, but do go to parties” #BBCPapers #TomorrowsPapersToday https://t.co/7FuHsAa3Vz pic.twitter.com/QrYbMdyWpf

— BBC News (UK) (@BBCNews) December 8, 2021

I'd vote for almost any party that ran that headline as the crux of their manifesto

“almost” doing hevvy liftin’ yeah

LOL @ Sajid Javid's hilarious squirming on breakfast TV, he was "too upset" to appear on TV yesterday because he "didn't like" the video of Allegra Stratton and chums. Diddums.

Javo-two-zero was out of government during the period in question wasn't he lol. Poor-mouthing Ayn Rand worshipping sons of Pakistani bus drivers ftw

"Don't go to work but do go to parties" does indeed sound like a trap

Allister Heath is surely the poshest person to have a phonetically spelled name like that

Now that’s what I call a truth bomb

No shortage of people weeping for e.g. batoned protesters in Cuba or Iran who would be only too happy to see them getting whacked in the dome right outside their front doors

— Flying_Rodent (@flying_rodent) December 9, 2021

Scoop! Geronimo post-mortem examination finds no trace of TB https://t.co/ONww5IrJyZ

— John Stevens (@johnestevens) December 9, 2021

one step forward two steps backward

Down inna Kiethylon!

In Left Media News:

Aaron Bastani has been banned from Twitter.

I suspect it relates to today's Julian Assange hearing, but that's merely a guess.

wow there's two people I should really be supportive towards, but I can't stand either of them!

I've just been chuckling at some CLOWN on twitter with "Anarchist" in his bio who has posted that he will vote for Starmer Labour if they back PR.