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

I'm probably bad but I did laugh quite a bit at The People vs Jerry Sadowitz at the time, but was probably high on one thing or another back then!

that heroin addiction thread took me back to me joyful memories of gouching, watching shit tv and hiding in a cupboard while my brother attempted an intervention on me. And watching The People vs. Jerry Sadowitz high as fuck and still managing to laugh! But I've been around long enough now to know that doesn't mean he was good!

you do have to sort of tip your cap to the pure generosity of a man who will pay money to a woman he’s never met and then crusade on behalf of the victims of the crime she accused him of.

Dr Shipman commending the bravery of his patients

as expected the bbc asking the most pertinent questions like: will he be attending the Duke of Edinburgh's memorial mass? My immediate thought as well after witnessing a royal paedophile buy their way out of trouble.

Duke of Edinburgh's memorial mass? Don't let them know in Larkhall.

another fine mass he's gotten himself into

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— Lafargue (@Lafargue) February 15, 2022

Report on #r4today about huge increase in people unable to pay energy bills, relying on food banks and more price rises & inflation coming.
So clear we never should have allowed the government to cut £20 from Universal Credit. I’m still reeling at how little that harmed them.

— Zoe Gardner (@ZoeJardiniere) February 16, 2022

this is incredible, and given the extremely established links between the care system and prostitution, it is probably one of the most effective ways to actually reduce prostitution that I've ever seen. https://t.co/mEWce4yUqZ

— molly smith (@pastachips) February 16, 2022

"The outspoken party boss, who grew up on a Stockport council estate, lashed bleeding-heart liberals in her party for not being tough enough on crime.” 😐 https://t.co/Kod2M766dP

— Elvis Buñuelo (@Mr_Considerate) February 17, 2022

‘Shoot terrorists first and ask questions later’ is quite the line when Cressida Dick is still in the news.

She so kills spiders

2023: angela rayner putting out a hit on the dark web because she can't get the limited release shoes she wanted https://t.co/D19PXxHuCG

— PolProf Wariotifo (@wariotifo) February 17, 2022

she also sends nasty letters of complaint on House of Commons headed paper when she doesn't get her star wars shoes!

she is so openly racist and authoritarian these days I feel like a total simp for ever thinking she might be good. On the day Kieth says he'll end fire and rehire which is a fine pledge to make when your party practises it on their own staff.

lolo the REMAINIACS podcast has rebranded as OH GOD, WHAT NOW?

it seems every episode is about Downing Street office parties, good they've found something new to say oh gosh, what now? about

i insist that a brave ilxor listens to some eps of GOLLY WHAT WHAT? and reports back

(not me, i have some self-respect)

If it serves as an inducement, they have Marie Le Conte and Alex Andreou as guests on the latest episode, which appears to be the third consecutive hour they’ve done on the Downing Street parties.

think of all the letters they could've written to the queen in that time

turns out you can just click on episodes and there'll be quotables in the liner notes.

“Like Matt Hancock, this rambling scandal will disable Johnson – but it’ll be something else that gets rid of him.” – Alex Andreou

“It doesn’t matter if Johnson apologises about the Savile smear. The point is, in the country the moral line has held.” – Ian Dunt

“The penalties for accusing someone of lying are far worse than the lying itself, and that cannot stand.” – Ian Dunt

"Johnson has built a parliamentary party of morons, and surrounded himself with the worst of them." - Alex Andreou

"Dorries' behaviour is so bizarre that people have to come up with explanations, but the basic answer is she's shit." - Ian Dunt

Stellar stuff I'm sure you'll all agree.

the baldest man in the room too boring to make the quotes section!

meanwhile it doesn't seem like Labour have any corrections to make on their deputy leader's enthusiastic support for police death squads

There’s going to be so much more of this shit, turning a big dial that says “bring back hanging” on it and constantly looking at the angry QT blokes meme for approval. It’s very dispiriting unless you’re a podcast blagger who thinks we should celebrate their being “ahead by every measure” even when their pitch is “we will round up the travellers & tell refugees to fuck off competently”

capital punishment always polls well, starmer should go for that, why not, pick up a couple of points somewhere, win-win

Totally consistent from Davis, but how fucking embarrassing.

We need our security services to make the "right" decision not a "shoot first, ask questions later decision."

This kind of heavy handed approach cost Jean Charles de Menezes his life. I wonder if the former Director of Public Prosecutions would back such a move @Keir_Starmer 🤔 https://t.co/w3KAwga806

— David Davis (@DavidDavisMP) February 17, 2022

I’m looking forward to see how / if she spins it.

she'd be spinning all over the shop if she'd got those R2D2 high heels! It would take some seriously implausible bullshit to try and walk back what she's said and make out it was taken out of context or whatever. Starmer will like it because it's quite on message and also makes her look very bad at the same time. The way she keeps referring to him as "the boss" is cringeworthy, even if it's meant as a pisstake.

This aims to make certain aspects of the covid lockdowns, which saw the complete cancellation of association time, permanent, and is partly the result of pressure by the Prison Officers Association, which wants a stricter authoritarian control over prisons and prisoners.

— a dangerous form of decadence (@MediocreDave) February 18, 2022

Given all that has been said about this MP, I am surprised by this:

Even though it was windy it was a pleasure to speak and show my solidarity to @leicesterucu taking action fighting to protect pensions, terms & conditions and wages. @DrJoGrady @ucu pic.twitter.com/kOnWadrDVg

— Jonathan Ashworth (@JonAshworth) February 17, 2022

Can't wait for the month of May

Same happening in a lot of University cities. Tories basically dead in local government terms. Greens scooping up their voters. Greens are the new conservative opposition to progressive Labour in these cities - anti student, anti housing, anti growth.

— Ben Bradshaw (@BenPBradshaw) February 18, 2022

xp
re: Ashworth

selective lip service is very cheap. he's a creepy merchant-banker and hasn't given any support to the Coventry bin strike - total cunt and looks like a prize arsehole standing on a bench when it looks like the crowd is barely dozens!

in the build-up to that Bradshaw Tweet Luke Akehurst describes the Green vote as tactical, looks like NHS stocks of copium are still good

all the real labour-right heads (including Luke) know it's the EDL and the lib dems and some of the tory wets who are the real *progressive alliance*

Big Jet TV man is on R4 saying they had 238k viewers yesterday & @bbcnickrobinson says “they dream of that at GB News”.

Really unattractive attitude. Arrogant, even.

— Rachel Wearmouth (@REWearmouth) February 19, 2022

lol Nick Robinson may be a cunt but you love to see those land

So did Big Jet TV

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aw look it's saturday morning ok

Very little chat on here about the Trojan Horse podcast - been bingeing it and despite the usual annoying NPR house style in terms of reporting it's pretty great, and anger inducing.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/feb/20/queen-tests-positive-for-covid

"light duties" 🤔

making princess zara chop the firewood

New season of the cron just dropped

Work will needed to be ended at this rate.

We will likely hear a lot more noise about ending legally required isolation and testing, but it really is a fucking disgrace that we've come through two years of a pandemic with nothing to show for it when it comes to sick pay and workers rights. https://t.co/LDbV9Q40C9

— Danielle (@dseddon91) February 21, 2022

It's all going one way.

it's all working out pretty much as you'd expect it to - far from redressing pre-pandemic inequalities in any way, the net effect in the longer term is to make them even worse https://t.co/4NT8N7OjyD pic.twitter.com/ROPObpiBsa

— Tom Blackburn (@malaiseforever) February 21, 2022

This is a time for weirdos.

There is one person above all I do not want to hear from over Ukraine: Ed Miliband.
His decision to vote against military action in Syria remains the most shameful single act of any major British politician of my lifetime, with consequences far beyond anything he considered

— Stephen Pollard (@stephenpollard) February 22, 2022

Sat in their home offices wearing tin hats furiously wanking over their model soldiers

the oversize level of hatred that Labour right/neoconservative types have for Ed Miliband is amazing, like the Jimmy Carter "he's history's greatest monster" bit from the Simpsons but for real.

He killed his brother, he can't eat a bacon sandwich and his father hated Britain, is that not reason enough?

Don’t forget that he also made it Labour policy to recognise Palestine and that also boils the usual people’s piss.