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

I have heard tell of there being a painting in Lynskey's attic

Ah yes, the painting of a really clever, interesting guy lol

pic.twitter.com/AwJxqLNuFw

— ਜੀਵਨ ਰਾਏ🔻 (@jeevanrai) May 5, 2022

"Kinnock looks ok for 80, dinno what those other two wastemans excuse is"

Blood from human babies makes brains of elderly mice young again

tbf Kinnock is that obscenely rich he can afford the good baby plasma!

Anneliese Dodds saying Labour “never expected big gains” but results “will show the progress we have made under Keir’s leadership”. As Starmer said months ago, Labour will want people to compare these results to the 2019 general election rather than the 2018 locals.

— Sienna Rodgers (@siennamarla) May 5, 2022

yeah I always compare local council election results with general election results, just completely the same thing really, apart from everything.

Lab are going to use gains in *checks notes* cities to show that they are making progress.

if you did trend lines for wandsworth etc over the last 20 years i’d be pretty surprised if labour outperformed the trend

feels like the uk is winding up where the US has been for some time, with the ostensibly centre-left party representing urban voters and the conservatives everybody else

weird, I thought the metropolitan elite were thoroughly discarded by this shower. Good enough to use their votes, as always!

exactly!!

for all the spin it's important to remember 2018 for labour was a decent night but on a downward trajectory, yesterday was a middling night for them, essentially back to 2018 levels with some geographic shifting and mild tory ribbing, but on an upward trajectory. pic.twitter.com/2xR8mtSOem

— 𝔐𝔞𝔤𝔫𝔢𝔱𝔰 🧲 (@PerthshireMags) May 6, 2022

The local election results are in, hold the front page! Nah, on second thoughts, let's not bother.

lol

'The trouble is outside of London, actually Labour's vote is a little bit lower than 2018, it hasn't done quite as well as Jeremy Corbyn' pic.twitter.com/LWza38uswv

— j (@jrc1921) May 6, 2022

ShariVari
Posted: 20 March 2019 at 10:09:40
Lieutenant Colonel Thomas Georg John Tugendhat will be the man to eventually unseat her imo.

You can’t stop Tugmentum when it gets going.

Tugmentum? Sounds like...

Far be it from me to make a crude masturbation joke, Mark. Speaking of wankers…

oh my god pic.twitter.com/lSasR2YUUB

— Clare Hymer (@ClareHymer) May 5, 2022

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🇬🇧🇯🇵 Fish and vegetables grown near the old Fukushima nuclear plant in Japan can be freely sold in Britain after the Food Standards Agency scrapped a rule on radioactivity levels in produce https://t.co/cqzQtJy86Q

— Telegraph Politics (@TelePolitics) May 5, 2022

comedy jam and mutant marmalades

every modern kitchen should have a cooking thermometer geiger counter

it's an incredible feat to be the biggest wanker in the studio when you are sat across from Jonathan Ashworth

radioactive food ffs? for Tory post-Brexit trade deals we've reached an all-time glow

Middleton Park (Leeds):

SDP: 50.8% (+28.5)
LAB: 36.1% (-25.0)
CON: 7.7% (-3.6)
GRN: 3.9% (New)
LDM: 1.5% (-3.8)

SDP GAIN from Labour.

lol ... whut?

dirty leeds, messy leeds

Oh isn’t this the new cryptofash SDP (distinct from the old crypto crypto fash)?

according to the comments they are the 3rd iteration of the SDP and are more like a fiscally left UKIP these days.

Sad how Lab in certain areas are receiving the benefits from doing fuck all for votes besides 'send a message to Boris'.

it's fascinating that @BarnetLabour won the council here, given that i had no idea what their programme was beyond "we're not boris and we're not jeremy"! i voted for the green candidate who actually had positive ideas. here's my wishlist for if they want my vote next time: pic.twitter.com/qufGP2DZTk

— josie sparrow (@ofthesparrows) May 6, 2022

lmao

Transphobes got 126 votes, beaten by the Tories. I hope the Jo Cherry/Rowling team are confused by their performance, as after all the "silent majority" agree with them. (Apparently non voting majority too!) #RespectMySex #lmao https://t.co/7iCDlOGnys

— James Billingham (@oolon) May 6, 2022

This is the shambolic.

So far 3 Labour cllrs in Barnet elected who the party protected from evidenced complaints of racism and bigotry. It was anti-black racism and islamophobia though which we know don't matter.

— Sii (@skippy_0h) May 6, 2022

It's not all doom and gloom

Congratulations to our new Faraday Ward councillors, Sam Foster, Kim McIntosh and Ketzia Harper.

A new generation of town hall socialists elected to represent our community. pic.twitter.com/IXoT1yFfBk

— Faraday Labour (@FaradayLabour) May 6, 2022

Omg

The lad from 7up who wanted to be an astronaut but ended up as a Lib Dem has been re-elected again pic.twitter.com/jtalLCcTvx

— Simon (@simonk_133) May 6, 2022

This is incredibly funny, sorry now

If Durham were to reverse their position and issue retrospective fines this would be devastating for Starmer. He would have two choices- eat all of his words about the prime minister and partygate, be levelled with the charge of profound hypocrisy, or resign. https://t.co/xnQzy0DDvr

— Lewis Goodall (@lewis_goodall) May 6, 2022

It was almost a raging certainty that Labour would get caught out over this.

Stupid to go in so hard on this if they weren’t sure they were whiter than white and the cost of living crisis right there but they already fucked the pandemic so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

lol, he'd be hated more for his rank hypocrisy than for breaking the rules and then if he get's fined and there are calls for him to resign the Tories might think it's an opportune moment to call a shock snap election.

There was s a protest vote for The Greens, except in this case it has cost two left wing councillors.

Absolutely dreadful news. We’ve lost 2 actual left wing councillors for these charlatans https://t.co/cHNqBMaTOC

— maintenant, la revanche (@judeinlondon2) May 6, 2022

Despite record gains in London, one Labour MP said they would not be participating in any media interviews for the next few days, in fear of being asked to defend Sir Keir. His actions were "indefensible," they said.

yes yes yes.. even though it is low grade unnamed source stuff still feels like it could be the start of his ending, to quote Mobb Deep

Solidarity

Angry Barnet Tory candidate in West Hendon launches attack on the media at Barnet count saying ‘the press killled Diana’ pic.twitter.com/GxRaqwbWKA

— lee harpin (@lmharpin) May 6, 2022

it was different when the Tories broke the rules "because they make the rules" says Labour spksperson. lol, UK law doesn't work like that I'm afraid

who could have predicted that failing to articulate a single principle or indeed policy to improve people's lives in favour of disingenuous high-horse platitudes about playing by the rules could have come back to haunt this labour party so exactly in the face WHO i ask you

nailed it

'I searched for 'flagellation' and accidentally stumbled upon our election results'⁠

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— Matt Cartoons (@MattCartoonist) May 6, 2022

lol at all the centrists calling for starmer to stand down (if fined) and thus remove boris by the power of moral pressure

this would be funny sorry if this offends

funnier stil if boris then doesn't resign and toughs it out lol

A few might be thinking that sacrificing Starmer might be worth it to tank Rayner.

Boris will never resign.

He will when he’s bored and wants to make that sweet think tank/after dinner stealing money I bet.

That's what I meant to say, he'll go when he wants to go.

Jeremy Corbyn describes the police investigation into allegations Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer broke covid rules “very serious” and “a huge development”.

lol drag his ass dude

Lol

Bromley Local Elections 2022

Results for Chislehurst Ward.

Elected =
Michael William Jack (Chislehurst Matters)
Mark Jeffrey Smith (Chislehurst Matters)
Alison Margaret Stammers (Chislehurst Matters)

For full election results visit, https://t.co/tWqVOkh7Ow#LE2022

— Bromley Council (@LBofBromley) May 6, 2022

Good take from Aditya. And as his follow-up says, Starmer as PM is more than possible.

Much of England is entering an era of no-party politics, in which voters stay at home or vote grudgingly at best. A lot of protest voters looking for a suitable outlet.
Very reminiscent of the period immediately before the Brexit vote -- only without UKIP

— Aditya Chakrabortty (@chakrabortty) May 6, 2022