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

bier korma must resign

Step aside for Lisa Nanbread.

Andy Bhuna for LOTO

you do realise Nandy is of Indian descent xp

Yes. I'm waiting for Rebecca Long Balti to make a comeback.

These are good gags!

I remembered RLB tonight, and the disgusting treatment of her, and thought: she hasn't commented on KS. Hope she's happy.

In the book it's suggested she didn't want to run, and went on a December holiday she was so not arsed about it and Lavery was willing to step in, but she was a McD protege and Lavery was told to no chance and she was persuaded to run. She was quite lethargic and lacking in conviction, but Eagleton talking about her lack of charisma is wrong imo. Is he saying Kieth had charisma? I don't care about charisma, it's her seeming lack of principles (as well as energy) which was bad about her campaign.

I still agree that the Starmer dog-whistle campaign against her (whilst running as a unity candidate) at the time was a fucking disgrace. But when you are running against someone who is backed by by crooked property developers and bet366, then you've got to be in the game or don't bother at all. But saying that, the cunt would have probably still won - such a set of guileless simps the majority of the membership were at the time.

They have always laughed at us.

i simply would have made this announcement from any other room, wearing any other outfit https://t.co/2u1XNn6Vj5

— rax ‘leads with her crotch’ king (@RaxKingIsDead) May 10, 2022

you do realise Nandy is of Indian descent xp

― imago, Tuesday, 10 May 2022 bookmarkflaglink

Lol who fucking cares.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FSbVEI3XsAEo6pu?format=jpg&name=900x900

it's quite a comforting thought that no matter how fucked you become, you'll always be more dignified than these grotesque freaks

most grotesque freaks poll: Sun sub-editors v. the Royal family

i can't tell -- and i'm not sure the sub-editors can either -- if this is undiluted simpering or undiluted mockery (or somehow both at once)

Conservative MP Lee Anderson says there isn't a massive need for food banks in the UK, it’s just that people “cannot cook properly, they can't cook a meal from scratch, they cannot budget.” pic.twitter.com/sfOrll7v0E

— Adam Bienkov (@AdamBienkov) May 11, 2022

he forgot to mention they can afford smartphones and 50" televisions so therefore can't be in food poverty.

Reported for harassment

During the speeches made by the proposers of the Queen's Speech today, light-hearted, good-natured fun is traditionally poked at the Opposition.
Not once did Angela #Rayner break into a smile, just sat there and sulked. pic.twitter.com/Lkg4oeKV4q

— Michael Fabricant 🇬🇧🇺🇦 (@Mike_Fabricant) May 10, 2022

gosh it must very difficult to remain stern faced during such all-time hilarious banter

x-posts.

"i can't tell -- and i'm not sure the sub-editors can either -- if this is undiluted simpering or undiluted mockery (or somehow both at once)"

Because it's the Sun, I'm assuming it was simpering but ... yes, it doesn't really do Charles any favours does it?

I reckon it's mockery masquerading as simpering.

I've just remembered that Lee "people don't need foodbanks" Anderson is the ex-Labour guy who came up on an earlier incarnation of this thread. I think it was previously about him getting caught unaware the camera was still filming while he was setting up a fictitious random doorstep encounter with a pal.

Yes, he gets wheeled out every time the Tories want to say, "Look, thick Northern scum, you can be a Tory too, like this twat".

He's the kind of ex-Labour MP who quite probably thinks a conservative reactionary like Kieth is some kind of lefty snowflake, which begs the question why did he ever join the party? Well, no it doesn't actually beg any question about his motives tbf!

Sunak: "warming to the idea of a (one-off) windfall tax". Good job Labour didn't propose anything more far-reaching than this. That's it now, their only solid policy offer being floated by the tories, lol.

Where is this being reported? Oh, ok then

Scoop: One of the Conservative Party's biggest donors, and its former treasurer, is suspected of secretly funnelling hundreds of thousands of pounds to the party from a Russian bank account –– according to a report filed to the National Crime Agency. https://t.co/QYhVaotHrl

— Jane Bradley (@jane__bradley) May 12, 2022

This is what they report on, what horror

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/may/12/hate-mail-death-threats-culture-war-matthew-katzman-cancelling-queen?

The prime minister said staff were “more productive, more energetic, more full of ideas” when in the workplace with colleagues.

He said: “My experience of working from home is you spend an awful lot of time making another cup of coffee and then, you know, getting up, walking very slowly to the fridge, hacking off a small piece of cheese, then walking very slowly back to your laptop and then forgetting what it was you’re doing.”

This person works from a free office under his home, or, I think, sometimes from his actual home.

An office that appears to have boozy parties every few day.

I'd make that the dictionary definition of "Self-Own"

All 16 members of Wakefield's CLP executive ctte have resigned in protest this morning. Local party members are understood to be furious that Labour HQ have spurned local candidates in favour of those from outside the area.

well played, alienate all the local activists and local CLP by disregarding the selection process because you want to parachute in someone who fits the profile of “competent” and “normal”. Creagh wasn't popular there but lets just parachute in another robotic melt just in case any possible local candidates don't look right or have their own ideas about what is good for the region.

Incredibly on brand

Absolutely appalling that the Uk jury didn’t give a single point to Ukraine

— Chris Bryant (@RhonddaBryant) May 14, 2022

LOL fucking idiot

A10 blocked by people trying to stop an immigration raid. pic.twitter.com/kL6SrLDzq5

— John Eden (@johnedenuk) May 14, 2022

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FSzBZCxXwAAnSj1?format=jpg&name=900x900

this is much better than drinking fizzy grand cru from some poxy trophy

what a prize twat. I bet his mam taught him the art of turning on the waterworks.

Mystery man throws first eggs at the new Thatcher statue unveiled today in Grantham pic.twitter.com/js2cwaidw5

— Dee Barnes Designs (@DesignsBarnes) May 15, 2022

Give it some fucking welly, bloke couldn't hit a dead cow with a throw like that

what you really need is a water balloon full of tomato puree and salt - the acid in the tomato puree to break down the outer layer, the salt to start the copper alloy rotting from within.

didn't the last one get decapitated?

perhaps all small deindustrialised shithole towns should have Thatcher statues to vandalise

I heard boos for Prince William yesterday, wasn't sure I was really hearing it.

Then it seemed to continue through the National Anthem.

Then today it's the first 3pp of the Mail on Sunday, with a special explainer on how scousers are Irish and into Militant. Genuinely.

I don't, at this point, have especially strong feelings about the monarchy, but I'm impressed at the thought that many 1000s of Liverpool fans can act so concertedly in this defiant anti-establishment way (if it's all true and not mainly a media fiction).

I didn't notice the booing because it was on the living room tv with the sound turned down and was mainly out in the garden. But was angrily thinking about what a fucking shite tory-fest football is when I saw Prince William. So a very good response by the Liverpool fans. I used to sit down looking as nonchalant as possible whilst Alex made loud stimming noises during the minute's silence for Armistice. Just feeding off the tutting and hatred from the solemn looking gammon crews who wanted to beat me death or exchanging approving glances from other refuseniks was much more fun than watching the game.

Objectively very funny pic.twitter.com/0KGxJvSKbT

— touched by the hand of tonty sopranty (@alexeptable) May 15, 2022

The weekend after the Queen Mother died I was at an Ipswich game when Liverpool were the away team, at the start of the minute’s silence there was a very loud, “viva la revolution” shouted from the away end.

him opening Parliament the other day, droning contemptuously while looking like a guy in Homebase dressed up as Michael Jackson circa HIStory was fucking incredible. I think Elizabeth II might be made eternal monarch, Kim Il Sung style

— Owen Hatherley (@owenhatherley) May 15, 2022

I think Charles's contempt for the public is key to understanding him and also very understandable - how anyone with human feelings be heir to the throne and not have contempt for their future subjects? You can't respect people who bow in scrape in front of you unless you're unusually self-assured, and of course you resent the people who openly resent you. I think his love of Spike Milligan is rooted in this, that it's the misanthropy in Milligan that appeals to him.

an absolute classic tweet by Hatherley. I think Milligan referred to him as bastard once, but purely in the spirit of royal brownnosing and trying to humanise the despicable freak.

https://i.imgur.com/E2HNRG1.jpg

Xpost yes, and Charles, by all accounts, hated it (and him)

I really don't know about that, it was an awards ceremony where Prince Charles said a lot of nice things about Milligan (who I've always heard he was a big fan of) and Milligan called him a "little grovelling bastard"

Reflecting upon his intemperate comment afterwards, Milligan faxed Charles: ‘I suppose a knighthood is out of the question now?’

But he underestimated the Happy Prince, who duly arranged for the Irish citizen (Milligan refused to swear the oath of allegiance necessary to obtain a British passport) to receive a foreigners’ Honorary Knighthood at the age of 82.

Midway through the ceremony Milligan suddenly asked: ‘Do you know there are no dry cleaners in Peru? I thought the statistic would interest you.’

And the Prince chuckled happily.

https://flashbak.com/the-story-of-prince-charles-comedy-from-the-goons-to-nowhere-15455/

just tapping that flickering neon sign that reads ALL COMEDIANS ARE BAD

pic.twitter.com/khGs3DCSJO

— Neville Southall MBE (@NevilleSouthall) May 15, 2022