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

another review of the eagleton book (harsher on what's missing from it): https://medium.com/@nickbano/take-a-look-at-the-law-man-beating-up-the-wrong-guy-421b443edc18

quite a funny review considering it was written by a barrister.

although he's a homelessness, tenants rights, destitute migrants specialist - so probably a decent one.

As leader, Starmer’s political instincts are so bad, and his strategy of supporting the government but challenging its processes have been so ineffective, that he’s been very useful at challenging the sense of deference which is often, wrongly, given to the legal profession

lol

yeah it's more precise on what starmer is very bad at given what he's good at also lol

GMB WIN 🚨: Manchester bin strike called off after workers win up to 22% pay rise 👏

— GMB Union (@GMB_union) April 29, 2022

not used to good news these days

The (O.) Eagleton project goes on.

https://jacobinmag.com/2022/04/uk-labour-party-keir-starmer-project-left-corbyn-purge

https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/1039888833406533632/Eqq3W1Gp_400x400.jpg

it's an old student photo I think but Eagleton looks like a generic "bands" member here. Perhaps Mark's misgivings about him are quite justifiable!

LOL @ the headline.

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/breaking-tory-neil-parish-quits-26839237

Neil Parish has told the BBC he is resigning as an MP after admitting he watched pornography twice in the House of Commons.

Mr Parish - the MP for Tiverton and Honiton in Devon - said it had been a "moment of madness" and "I was not proud of what I was doing".

He said the first time was accidental after looking at tractors, but the second time was deliberate.

In an exclusive interview with BBC South West, he said: "The situation was that - funnily enough it was tractors I was looking at. I did get into another website that had a very similar name and I watched it for a bit which I shouldn't have done. But my crime - biggest crime - is that on another occasion I went in a second time."

this reads like it's from one of those spoof articles in Viz but is apparently genuine? I wonder what the website with a similar name can have been?

CornHubCaps.com

https://metro.co.uk/2022/04/30/what-is-the-tractor-style-sex-position-and-how-do-you-do-it-16564170/

something something ploughing

i thought about muckspreading but chose to take the high road

if u think an MP watching porn in parliament is shocking wait until you hear about MPs paying me and my pals to peg them

— Lydia Caradonna 💥 (@LydiaCaradonna) April 28, 2022

if you want to get real dirt on MP's just listen to what sex workers have to say about them

Yeah Lydia has dropped that before lol

Not gonna be Cap'n Save An MP but unless they were getting pegged in parliament surely that's less of an issue

which would be fine if they weren't such hypocritical scumbags who wouldn't lift a finger to improve the lives of the sex workers they use, no they'd vote for harsher legislation against them while maintaining a "respectable" public facing image.

oh yeah for sure. but they're also all documented cokeheads who refuse to decriminalize drugs so.

something I wonder about Oliver Eagleton: does he have a Northern Irish accent? I think he grew up in NI.

I dunno, there seems to be a surprising lack of radio/tv interviews out there. Especially for a writer plugging a politics book that is being widely reviewed.

although perhaps mainstream media are a bit reluctant to feature a critical LOTO book with the local elections coming up

"the child prodigy Oliver Eagleton on guitar"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xv6ansLhcHE

eagleton on guitar far left (is it the same oliver? does he look a teeny bit like a young pinefox? who can say?)

https://www.facebook.com/RaucousPorpoise/

just deleted his book off my kindle.

The reality of the situation for us all who hate Starmer is that -- given Tory woes -- he could win quite a lot of councils next Thursday.

Barnet is fuck awful but as Simon Vessey says they can win the council.

https://mediadiversified.org/2022/05/02/labours-local-election-lies-and-the-sham-of-democracy/

does simon vessey have a new twitter account yet

yeah is he still twitter-banned?

I kind of miss him abusing every bigoted Labour arsehole at least a dozen times a day.

Keep screaming, it only makes me happier.

You don’t have to vote Labour in the local elections if you hate Starmer that much.

I just find it a *bit* weird you hate him more than you hate Boris Johnson.

— Aid has a podcast (@aidThompsin) May 2, 2022

one difference between Kieth and Boris is that the latter ran a more honest leadership campaign, and didn't renegade on pledges (or perhaps singular in his case) as soon as the votes were counted, although they are both habitual liars and bigots.

What did Boris even run on? What I react to is that I should vote for someone I hate to get the person I hate even more out of office, when it's not even about personalities.

What did Boris even run on?

same as the main 2019 GE slogan "get brexit done" iirc

Kept that one.

Get Ukraine Done is his new slogan.

he's in a pissing competition with Macron, whoever get's the most publicity shots with Zelensky is top boy.

They're all at it tbf.

Someone who voted Lib Dem on 2019 explaining to me how important it is I vote Labour in the Locals: pic.twitter.com/VbuBznzrb7

— matt ratt 🛸 (@MisterRatt) May 3, 2022

if one thing might drive me off Twitter at the moment it's getting sucked into hate-reading these champs

Fucking hell

Hope the new merch sells enough to make up for losing 200k+ subs pic.twitter.com/zWmw4cnN3z

— aslan (@badwithcolour) May 4, 2022

if you really need to put a war criminal on your fridge at least if you put Hitler on there it could pass as dark ironic humour.

https://shop.labour.org.uk/search?q=corbyn

They used to have a huge amount of official Corbyn merch. On a related note, amused to see this as part of the NPG’s collections.

Found 1 products matching "starmer"

it looks like they are struggling to come up with any Starmer memes, quite a tough task tbf.

he's so easy to lampoon, but making him into a "top bloke" is nigh on impossible

and also doing '97 nostalgia when Blair has recently hinted that Starmer is not up to the job and is apparently on the verge of launching a new centrist party inspires so much confidence in him.

although everyone leapt on the "new centrist party" story with justifiable glee i'm not sure how solidly sourced it is

Why would he launch a new party when he's being rehabilitated as Superman Meets Jesus by the Labour Party?

I have a lovely Jezza mug bought from Labour’s website in 2017.