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

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.

and spoke on several topics, including his claim that his constituency has the most restaurants with Michelin stars

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

justin webb fanny asked does departure make londoners less safe what a stupid fucking question

I better be careful on the bus home tonight. Cressida Dick's departure will have emboldened every ne'er-do-well in the capital.

if some of these city hall arseholes had an idea of what total implausible fuckwits they sound like to ordinary citizens when they talk like that, they might need to drink as much as Neil Coyle does to cope with the embarrassment.

Surely, given her record, some innocent people might now feel more, not less, safe?

Great, they won't need the left to vote for Starmer come election time. The polls are good.

Having a meltdown about Starmer when Labour are well ahead by every measure reveals that it's not about getting the Tories out, it's about ego and hurt feelings.

— Dorian Lynskey (@Dorianlynskey) February 11, 2022

tedious posh bald cunt who had a 4 year meltdown over Corbyn and Brexit telling people to be grateful for a centre-right Labour Party that is offering next to nothing to them and stop having a meltdown.

must be nice when the extent of your political ambition is getting "the" Tories out

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

lol no thanks I already live in hell. It might be worth attending just to hear Neville declare he's not into politics in the traditional tribal sense of the word and veer into an anecdote about when he was the players union rep.

Upping the war/NATO rhetoric isn't the cost free political boon established and mainstream commentary assume. Recent political movements from Trump, Sanders, Corbyn, Farage tapped into the unspoken but widely felt sentiment that recent military adventures had been disastrous.

— Carl Shoben (@CarlSurvation) February 12, 2022

this from Survation guy is probably right. The STW coalition might have its share of idiots but they have still have been more in tune with popular anti-war opinion than 2001 Labour were and the current shower of shite are.

another day, another bald lib.

EU states almost entirely useless at stopping Russia. Germany in particular disgracefully mute. Our prime minister busy filling out a questionnaire on his own potential criminality, lacking in the gravitas to make any difference anyway. What an unforgivable sight.

— Ian Dunt (@IanDunt) February 12, 2022

this is getting deep into the yucky lore but do DL and ID consciously dialectically spar on their pod (like siskel and ebert lol or hannity and coombes) or do they basically mainly come from the same angle

yes i could give it a listen to find out but i'd prefer if *you* did that

i will never listen to it but i assume their hearts are as one

oh i have plenty of assumptions i just feel if i ever launch a public critique it shd not be based (purely) on ilx dunks from my pals

tho now that i write this out why not

is what i ask myself

i will never listen to it either but i assume DL is the long-suffering voice of reason and dunty is the enfant terrible

the hannity to DL’s colmes, if you will

i spell him coombes

incorrectly

No, you're right, that's how Gaz spells his name.

look not knowing how to spell his name just proves your impartiality

oh i have plenty of assumptions i just feel if i ever launch a public critique it shd not be based (purely) on ilx dunks from my pals

tho now that i write this out why not

is what i ask myself

but it's a pretty good comparison insofar as both of them stan for the most utterly unimaginative version of establishment social liberalism possible and are also simultaneously the worst advocates for it due to extreme wetness

Have you ever considered telling DL he’s a cunt btw, he just seems to get worse and worse

I've seen him every day this week, maybe I should tell him? "Excuse me, you don't know me, but you're a cunt, just passing it on for a friend".

lol I do wish you weren't joking here!

I assume they are both singing from the exact same hymn sheet on their podcast, as they cower from the baleful glare of the elephant in the room - that dunty did brexit

_Have you ever considered telling DL he’s a cunt btw, he just seems to get worse and worse_

I've seen him every day this week, maybe I should tell him? "Excuse me, you don't know me, but you're a cunt, just passing it on for a friend".

and are also simultaneously the worst advocates for it due to extreme wetness

not only that, but both seem to have incredibly short fuses which hey isn't very liberal imo

It's all that testosterone bald men have sloshing about.

hm

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The baldness is spiritual. Thought this was agreed and made into law.

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

there's always a (spiritually bald) drilDunty tweet

Tracer: wetness? Unsure what you mean - I'd say that they're obnoxious, aggressive and reactionary.

there can only be three in the pythagorean triangle of spiritual baldness attributes and perhaps wetness is difficult to transpose into there without creating a fatal imbalance error!

they are both cunts but Dunty seems a bit more dafter and half hearted. DL seems more of a genuinely hateful supercilious spiritually bald posh arsehole who genuinely despises the hoi polloi and has a more stern-faced focus on telling them to understand their place.

.@Keir_Starmer’s NATO interview deliberately whipped up a persistent lie about @jeremycorbyn - that he was or is pro-Putin / Russia, echoing the tired old Cold War trope. It shows an incredible naivety: nothing could be further from the truth. 1/

— Ben Sellers (@MrBenSellers) February 12, 2022

thread on Corbyn's unwavering "neither Washington nor Moscow" record on Putin over the last 20 odd years that shows up Starmer's comments from the other day to be posturing nonsense and lies and an outright smear.

KS is now making his career from generating public outrage at dubious 'smears' against him, having spent the previous two years advancing his career by issuing vicious, libellous lies and career-ending smears against others.

He is a scumbag.

Found the last Ukrainian flag in the entire city of Edinburgh for tomorrow’s @YoungLiberalsUK emergency resolution supporting NATO and the Ukrainian people. Слава Україні! 🇺🇦 pic.twitter.com/jBP5isjMzj

— Peter Douglas Banks 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇺🇦 (@PDBanks_) February 12, 2022

they're ready!