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

What? No it isn’t.

I'm a bit surprised at the feeling that I have never actually seen Connolly's statue, though I have walked around those streets enough times. It must be near Liberty Hall, if that's still what the socialist skyscraper is called?

The Charity Commission, which is an independent, non-ministerial government department, said: "We have been in ongoing contact with the trustees of the Captain Tom Foundation on its set-up and governance arrangements and as part of this work will now assess the charity's recently submitted accounts."

lol lol lol!

tbf he probably deserved to be ruthlessly exploited and murdered by his own family

I have definitely missed that statue in the past - a bad omission given that it looks like it should be easy to find. I would certainly have taken pictures had I ever found it.

People can knock Dublin but to me it remains quite impressive that it has statues of Connolly, Larkin and Joyce within a kilometre of each other.

Sounds like a good reason to revisit, pf!

Yes, I hope to do so this year -- which will be basically the first time I have been anywhere since 2019. (Which is when I saw the Heaney exhibition on Westmoreland Street - that was a marvellous surprise.)

[This is now going very off topic for the thread that's mainly about people's justified hatred of the LOTO.]

Pf you should come on the autumn meet-up then

Truss’ visit to Moscow going about as well as expected.

Things behind the scenes were even worse, according to @ElenaChernenko.

Lavrov said, "Do you recognize Russia's sovereignty over Rostov and Voronezh oblasts?"

Truss said the UK would "never" do so – before the ambassador told her they're not in Ukrainehttps://t.co/n2FkadhSHY

— max seddon (@maxseddon) February 10, 2022

She is a major dimwit.

BREAK: Prince Charles has tested positive for COVID.

He is now self-isolating according to Clarence House.

— Joe Pike (@joepike) February 10, 2022

Yes, I hope to do so this year -- which will be basically the first time I have been anywhere since 2019. (Which is when I saw the Heaney exhibition on Westmoreland Street - that was a marvellous surprise.)

[This is now going very off topic for the thread that's mainly about people's justified hatred of the LOTO.]

― the pinefox, Thursday, 10 February 2022 12:37 PM bookmarkflaglink

you should take some time to visit the anna livia bogs in dublin airport:

https://i.imgur.com/WNTaWnr.jpg

now wildly off topic ofc.

The EHRC seems to have completely lost the plot. This would not simply be bad advice for a human rights org to give, it’s clearly illegal:

https://www.vice.com/en/article/3ab5my/leaked-ehrc-guidance-trans-people-gender-recognition-certificates

I guess that’s why they haven’t published it but it’s an astonishing position they’ve put themselves in.

“we’ve never been a ‘papers please’ society”

I’m assuming this guidance would extend implicitly to cis women who the toilet police decide don’t look feminine enough but ofc, they “can always tell“.

on that subject, is this a jobs creation program? lotta toilets out there

Met Commissioner expected to be leaving her job - announcement shortly

— Laura Kuenssberg (@bbclaurak) February 10, 2022

This despite her best efforts to save Boris' bacon.

The was on the radio about four hours ago saying she had no plans to step down. I wonder what happened.

*she*

her resignation letter says sadiq khan is what happened

didn't BJ force her predecessor out?

It's pretty much the only thing London mayors actually ever do.

*a* predecesssor: there were two in-between

(one of whom had to resign for being mixed up the phone-hacking scandal, lol what a gang)

phew, now one of the unbigoted uncorrupt apolitical senior pigs can take over

Cressida Dick resigns honourably & with dignity setting an excellent example of responsible behaviour in public life!

— Barry Sheerman MP (@BarrySheerman) February 10, 2022

Thank you, Barry.

lol some big shoes to fill there for whoever is selected to succeed big Bazza!

Dick shouldn't have even had a top level police career after being the cop in the control room during the cold blooded murder of Jean Charles de Menezes. But Kieth was giving her his full support to her just a couple of months back and talking about his time working with her in glowing terms.

yes. I mean she obviously should have lost her job at the very least. instead she basically Steve Coogan swimming pool security guarded it away and ended up promoted.

A Personal Statement on My Interaction With Neil Coyle https://t.co/yHxa3nvMHl

— Henry Dyer (@Direthoughts) February 10, 2022

I know the day isn't over yet but I've managed to avoid seeing Boris Johnson wearing camouflage today, so far. I mean, I presume that's what he's doing?

Lol ok

Labour’s entire response to this is: "The Labour Party expects the highest standards of behaviour from all our MPs and we take any allegations of this sort very seriously." Spokesperson would not be drawn on whether Neil Coyle keeps the whip https://t.co/HAOrgROqn5

— Jon Stone (@joncstone) February 10, 2022

on that subject, is this a jobs creation program? lotta toilets out there
― Tracer Hand, Thursday, February 10, 2022

Anna Livia Gents!

Spotted: Neil Coyle bringing Strangers to a silent standstill last night after yelling “fuck off” at a Brexiteer Labour staffer. "you could hear a pin drop" said one observer.
Craig Williams MP tried to calm Coyle down, only for Coyle to tell him to “fuck off and lose some weight”.

this was from last week and confirms the rep Coyle has as a deeply unpleasant shouty pub bore/drunkard/bully. And also that if you are on right-wing of the PLP then anything goes it seems.

been reading that he maintains strong links with people in the whips office so normally complaints about his appalling behaviour are ignored. Now that this racist incident has blown up it will be interesting to observe absolutely no disciplinary action taken against him.

He was incredibly rude, insulted me and more importantly was very dismissive of & patronising about the workers I was organising with at the time, and he stank of booze in the middle of a weekday afternoon.

— Magic Money Tree 🌴 (@charlottor) February 11, 2022

just about everybody who meets him says he's a rude arrogant drunk arsehole. Probably even most of his factional allies hate him.

Starmer ignored antisemitism complaints vs Coyle by prominent Jews incl knighted barrister and professor

the racist prick has no awareness of the history of the anti-Semitic Judaeo-Bolshevism smear and casually uses it, maybe Kieth should have took for some unconscious bias training or something. And meanwhile RLB gets sacked from shadow cabinet for RTing a Maxine Peake tweet. I know it's said been million times but what a repulsive party.

I've not listened to that Trojan Horse podcast but I've read comments that the Americans that made it were learning on their feet that the UK Labour Party has MPs just as into racist smears as any right-wing dem/republican senators. I think the telling quote was something like "we thought contacting Liam Byrne might have been helpful".

Guardian rolling news:

Sadiq Khan is facing criticism from some quarters for the way he handled the departure of Cressida Dick, who announced her resignation from her role as metropolitan police commissioner on Thursday.

Susan Hall, chairwoman of the London Assembly’s police and crime committee, said the mayor handled the situation “extremely badly”.

She told the Today programme on BBC Radio 4:

Confidence in the police at the moment is at an all-time low and this won’t help either. I think the way he said to the media he put her on notice, he should have been talking behind closed doors.

He also renewed her contract only a couple of months ago. If he was that unhappy, then I would wonder why he did that?

Hall said there had been a “big question mark” over what “on notice” meant following comments made by Khan about Dick’s future at the Met before she left her post.

Hall said:

We did a motion at the Assembly yesterday and that was unanimous, cross-party, (on) what exactly ‘on notice’ meant.

She also said she agreed Dick’s departure makes Londoners less safe due to all of the “turmoil” that follows.

She said:

99% of officers are very good, brave officers, and they’ve been absolutely rocked by the latest IOPC reports into misogyny.

They need confidence, they need support, and to have done this in this way, I think Sadiq Khan is completely wrong.

It will leave a void at the top as opposed to a properly managed handover, which is no way to run a service like this, no way to the Metropolitan Police.

Very odd. I greatly dislike Khan but think this may be the best and bravest thing he has done. And he gets attacked for it by an official in his own organization!

Hall is the leader of the Conservatives in the London Assembly, which might be useful context for The Guardian to provide, I think.

"she agreed Dick’s departure makes Londoners less safe"

I think Londoners would be well advised to stay indoors today, it sounds dangerous out there. Even a visit to the local Pret might be less safe.

Coyle whip suspended.

really wasn't expecting that tbh but lol!

It's a flaw of Corbyn's leadership that he never did this blah blah

The Friends Of Neil Coyle

lol

I bet the cunt fancies himself as a Robert Mitcham

a trustworthy guy https://t.co/XOoJdytmDW pic.twitter.com/EzSL23V3p6

— luke (@mothrasattorney) February 11, 2022

It's a pretty impressive performance from Mitchum in that, one of the coolest guys ever to grace the screen doing a credible turn as a sad old racist with zero charisma. Pity he's not around to tackle Neil in the inevitable shitty BBC tv film.

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Very odd. I greatly dislike Khan but think this may be the best and bravest thing he has done. And he gets attacked for it by an official in his own organization!

As mark s pointed out earlier, Boris did the same thing with Ian Blair. I think it's a way for London mayors to show that, in spite of appearances, they're not getting paid to sit around on their arses doing nothing while they wait for their proper political careers to re-start.