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

Lammy should know he's really fucked it when even Kieth Flett (who was at the Bernie Grant event with JC and him last year) is bitterly disappointed with him: "Rewriting history doesnt work"!

If you've lost Flett then you've lost the narrative

lol that's right

I was at a party of a Labour MP in 2017 and he gave a speech where he was laughing at the members of his party that had stood up and applauded Corbyn in Parliament after the election. He said, “Isn’t it funny how people’s minds change…when there’s a whiff of power.”

Guess who?!

— BlackWomansHour (@hour_womans) December 28, 2021

David Lammy apologised for … voting for the Iraq war? Fiddling MPs expenses? Saying parents should be allowed to hit their children? The bombing of Libya?

No - he apologised for playing a small, accidental part in allowing a glimmer of hope emerge in British politics

— Paul O’Connell (@pmpoc) December 28, 2021

Wouldn't be surprised if he'd never actually read the 2019 manifesto he claimed was not costed.

My late uncle who used to live in Tottenham said he was an unpleasant reactionary and a fraud and not fit to walk in Bernie Grant's shoes and he was never wrong about any politicians.

Torsten Bell of the Resolution Foundation -the folk Rachel Reeves is quoting - just said on R4Today that Reeves plans for fuel Vat suspension are too little for any real impact : Govt in real trouble, but Labour's urge to demand very little could let them off the hook pic.twitter.com/FrxAFIurgx

— Solomon Hughes (@SolHughesWriter) December 29, 2021

the worst possible time for a pro-austerity opposition of minor adjustments, this ex HBOS ghoul shouldn't be let anywhere near the Labour party.

George Galloway has alleged that his daughter 'was racially abused in a Tesco for being English'

A POLICE investigation is underway after George Galloway claimed his daughter was told to "get back to England" at a supermarket.

The alleged incident is said to have occurred at Tesco in Dumfries on Tuesday afternoon.

My mum and stepdad used to holiday in Scotland. The Irish accent did well for her in non-tourist pubs, he used to cop some anti-English attitude because he's an arrogant blowhard with a Yorkshire accent, but he enjoys that kind of exchange. I can't imagine Galloway's daughter was told to go back to her "racial homeland" without some provocation.

Could've been worse, she could've been arrested and thrown in jail

yes, I was briefly going to post it to the Stewart Lee thread!

She wouldn't have too far to go from in Dumfries. Seems an unlikely place for anti-Englisj sentiment tbh.

a 40 minute drive from Carlisle, and was a Tory hold in 2019. And the constituency region is called Dumfries & Galloway!

Lol, yes. I think the Borders and, at the opposite end, Orkney and Shetland are the most pro-Union, or at least anti-independence, regions of Scotland.

SNP didn't shame themselves in 2019 in Dumfries, but they were up against a shitload of Tory voters.

Central belt doesn't need the rest of scotland, the oil, sheep, scenery etc- could get by just on production line of gallus wee bastards imo let the rump uk take shortbread scotland

Happy NY!

Oh my god……. pic.twitter.com/bbca36aOQP

— William Kedjanyi (@KeejayOV3) December 30, 2021

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FH7EQeuVUAE30gu?format=jpg&name=900x900

i forgot when the queen emerges from her chrysalis in her new and vast all-vengeful form?

https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/000/117/021/enhanced-buzz-28895-1301694293-0.jpg

Knight of The Most Noble Order of the Garter - what a fucking country

Tony Blair is now about as equal as a citizen can get to Prince Andrew, congrats m8!

to quote James Ellroy "Good evening peepers, prowlers, pederasts, panty-sniffers, punks and pimps"

Lord Adonis is going to fucking jizz his soldier off

— Tom Williams (@shirleymush) December 31, 2021

Trouble at t'baitfarm

🚨🚨🚨 | BREAKING: Twitter has SUSPENDED the entire Politics For All empire.

The accounts of Politics For All (@PoliticsForAlI), News For All (@NewsForAIl), and Football For All (@FootballlForAll) are all affected.

The account of PFA boss, Nick Moar (@nickgmoar), is also down.

— Evolve Politics (@evolvepolitics) January 2, 2022

even when it came out it was a little tory shit behind the account ppl were still boosting his misleading headlines so I muted him ages ago

Imagine my shock... pic.twitter.com/2G2Ycv87v3

— Election Maps UK (@ElectionMapsUK) January 2, 2022

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FIHh5mhXwAQoMpl?format=jpg&name=medium

literally not happening, all I've seen is people flooding his HNY tweet with Where is the Forde Report? or just telling him to fuck off!

Very strange tweet!

Some fools have unsuccessfully tried to make the argument that "Kieth" is a classist slur, which is an accusation so preposterous that nobody gave a fuck. Well "Magic Grandpa" is definitely ageist and such a very poor school playground level epithet that it more induces groans of embarrassment rather than the successful trolling effect of Kieth. This is all imo of course!

I thought the accusation was that Kieth was xenophobic... or something?

Kieth is massively xenophobic obv

oh you meant the name

"magic grandpa" was an extremely effective piece of delegitimating political invective (and i *think* that DQ coined it)

I think there was also an accusation that "Kieth" was xenophobic. lol the guy who brought rampant islamophobe Trevor Phillips back to the party a victim of xenophobic name-shaming - what a hoot!

xp

it's embarrassing though

very David Quantick tbf. Lol I didn't know he'd coined the phrase.

it his best work since he contributed towards the most badly aged parts of Brasseye no doubt

I think there was also an accusation that "Kieth" was xenophobic. lol the guy who brought rampant islamophobe Trevor Phillips back to the party a victim of xenophobic name-shaming - what a hoot!

Tony Blair 'rejected Hillsborough inquiry as a favour for Rupert Murdoch' - Mirror Online https://t.co/bTZfBG8WoC

— Wendy Seabrook 🌹 (@wfseabrook) January 3, 2022

yeah but tax credits

"I was only there to ask for directions on how to get away from there."

I've only been once to 5 Hertford St - the club of choice for Liz Truss to waste taxpayers' money in - and I can confirm it's as sickeningly opulent as it looks here ... why throw a strop to book it when other places were available? https://t.co/IOAoBEI56S

— Paul Mason (@paulmasonnews) January 2, 2022

yeah but tax credits

Petition to strip Sir Tony Blair of knighthood surpasses 370,000 signatures

if this could reach a few million at least it would cause some embarrassment, but on the other hand they can stick their honours system up their arse.

Meanwhile fucking hell

Taskforce Officers were out recently doing drug swabs in Shoreditch as part of a wider operation to ensure the night time economy is a safe place for all pic.twitter.com/UtMbayPwpt

— Metropolitan Police (@metpoliceuk) January 2, 2022

yeah but tax credits

Sure Start

― mardheamac (gyac), Monday, 3 January 2022 12:08 (seven minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

freshening up my act :D

if this could reach a few million at least it would cause some embarrassment, but on the other hand they can stick their honours system up their arse.

if a million people taking to the streets to protest blair's ambition to murder hundreds of thousands of people in iraq and afghanistan had no effect then a bunch of digital signatures is v unlikely to move the needle of conscience much either

remember Marsan's wall of New Labour achievements? well here's the good news: Kieth won't be re-opening the 500 Sure Start centres that the Tories closed!

xp

also the problem is that it sort of legitimises the honours system even if that isn't the intention.

Tories may or may not have closed SureStarts but now I'm back on it they were funded for 5 years and were intended to be self funding thru reallocation of budgets and voluntary organisation contributions

so they almost certainly would have closed a third of them since 2010 whoever won the GE. My favourite Sure Start moment was seeing inspirational quotes stuck to the wall in a meeting room at the Ravensthorpe SS. One quote from Ghandi, one from John Lennon and then one from a mumsnet post!