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

the previous earthquakes bit below on bbc link doesn't even mention the 2007 one and that was a 4.3

there was a 5.2 in 1990

I don't understand how the UK gets earthquakes when it is slap bang in the middle of a huge tectonic plate

The nearest subduction zones to Britain lie at the Hellenic Arc, south of Greece and in the Caribbean.

We have angered the ancient ones obvs

Our spellbinding homage to Her Majesty The #Queen! 👑
We've projected eight portraits of Queen Elizabeth II onto Stonehenge in celebration of the #PlatinumJubilee. pic.twitter.com/vn5vkGHJGt

— Stonehenge (@EH_Stonehenge) May 30, 2022

its the blitz spirit iirc

also i believe techtonic plates are crisscrossed by faultlines, there's one through church stretton

my favourite fact abt the biggest uk quake in living memory, the dogger quake of 1931, is that it caused the head of the dr crippen waxwork at madame tussauds to fall off

Labour news: Sources tell me that on the long list to be the party’s Stretford and Urmston candidate is one @paulmasonnews

— Rachel Wearmouth (@REWearmouth) May 30, 2022

so this explains his understanding of social democracy correctly from a Starmist viewpoint

Stretford and Urmston is ready!

Stoya, come to etc

It’s right that families get the support they need.

But it’s also right that the country knows how the Chancellor is paying for it. https://t.co/s7ecwP9QpC

— Rachel Reeves (@RachelReevesMP) May 31, 2022

Absolutely can’t help themselves.

personally I would fear this bunch of bastards forming a government more than the tories remaining in power

Seems reasonable given the evidence

Suppose that Paul Mason is selected as a candidate (might not happen) and wins (might happen) --

How do you see his career as an MP going?

My hunch is that he would have some kind of junior post, say in defence policy, quite soon.

I also envisage him quitting something, making a big deal of walking out of a post or committee, on principle, and posting lots of tweets and articles explaining why.

I don't think he will find it so easy to blame Stalinists for what goes on in the UK Parliament, as it contains none. Though that hasn't stopped him so far.

He just won't be selected. It would like all my xmasses at once!

Lol @ radical redistribution and constitutional change. What a mess!

Here we … here we … Here we fucking go!!!! https://t.co/uVpyW71nCK pic.twitter.com/gMy3JCZcev

— Elvis Buñuelo (@Mr_Considerate) May 31, 2022

would be quite something if - as retailers are warning - Boris Johnson’s plan to shift to imperial measures pushes up prices further during the cost of living crisis ⁦@FT⁩
https://t.co/shTclzK0BC

— Jim Pickard (@PickardJE) May 30, 2022

if there is one person who positively exudes "radical redistribution" it certainly isn't the shadow chancellor and Mason is thick as pigshit if he doesn't know this already. GND has been gutted and the only major spending program proposed by Labour is on nuclear submarines and military expansion to contribute more to NATO "to maintain parity with potential adversaries" and of course Kieth will offer complete impunity for armed forces to commit torture and murder.

Is the plan not to allow the use of imperial units (i.e permit US goods to be sold without relabelling) rather than ‘switching’ from metric to imperial?

I think Reeves will be fuming that they didn't go lower with their own wind tax credit proposal. Reeves is genuinely dangerous and she probably believes they'd have won in '15 if Miliband hadn't gone for compromised austerity

this measurements bollocks has given the thread title renewed irony

Hmmm.

https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2022/may/31/ears-bleeding-harry-hill-tony-blair-rock-opera-saddam-cherie

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/may/31/keir-starmer-angela-rayner-labour-receive-questionnaires-durham-police

My daughter got a platinum jubilee book about the Queen, she also got a nice mug w/ the Queen's face on it. The book was sent to all kids in the UK and it cost 12 million pounds to do that. Some of her classmates only get to eat during the free school lunch they get.

— Arnesa Buljušmić-Kustura (@Rrrrnessa) June 1, 2022

Literally one of the most corrupt hellholes in the world https://t.co/oOYL2vDiKe

— Arbeitology (@Arbeit_Fish) June 1, 2022

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FUOqtqIXoAAzTS6?format=jpg&name=large

some people are talking about how his £700m apprenticeship company prioritises ethnic diversity and does a lot of good work but I just want to see him thrown off a bridge with a ball & chain

Protesters are carried away by police after interrupting the start of Trooping the Colour.#PlatinumJubilee latest: https://t.co/oEpDBmxlOz

📺 Sky 501, Virgin 602, Freeview 233 and YouTube pic.twitter.com/34oWJBHR4P

— Sky News (@SkyNews) June 2, 2022

There’s a motion @ScotParl right now recognising the #PlatinumJubilee and paying tribute to HM Queen Elizabeth. Every single @scottishgreens MSP has just upped and walked out of the Chamber.

— Murdo Fraser (@murdo_fraser) June 1, 2022

this was once the future of socialism in Britain 🙃 https://t.co/QZilWIGpeA

— Archie Woodrow (@Archimbaldo) June 2, 2022

Garbage party I'll take another 40 years of Tory gov cheers

Fuck the royal family forever.

I hold no brief for this character, and haven't read OE's book (maybe one day), but I find this argument, against OE's narrative, broadly convincing.

The logic works backwards: the unacknowledged premise is we lost the election because of Remain, ergo Remain was a Blairite plot, ergo Starmer made it happen, ergo anyone working with Starmer's plot was undermining LOTO. Little room for nuance or differing views within the left

— Michael Chessum (@michael_chessum) June 2, 2022

It reflects a broader contradictory fact that a) many people on the Left were against Brexit, b) many people on the Left now think being against Brexit was, at best, ill-advised. This contradiction seems involved in much of the awkwardness around this issue.

and Kieth just didn't have the nous to be playing some 3d chess long-game to tether the Left to a corpse. I think he had ambitions for the leadership and a disdain for Corbynism, but events panned out favourably for him rather than some of Eagleton's dubious versions of events. I don't doubt he wanted to destroy the project, but i don't believe he was constantly working towards that end.

Talk about taking the public for mugs, Boris has nothing on the Windsors.

https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/royal-family/prince-andrew-covid-platinum-jubilee-b2092782.html

Corona(tion) virus strikes again!

‘Mesut Ozil has a back injury and will miss the trip to Newcastle’ https://t.co/QsyUuOyybI

— Jacob Hawley (@hawleyjacob) June 2, 2022

Auba's out too

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/jun/02/queen-to-miss-jubilee-thanksgiving-service-at-st-pauls

Tfw you've been caught, neutered and re-released just in time for the jubilee. pic.twitter.com/JHoQawMhZk

— you ought to be paying me for this. (@prostgrad) June 2, 2022

palace says monarch experienced ‘some discomfort’ during platinum jubilee celebrations, tell us abt it lady

My dog experienced some discomfort from the fucking flypast so thanks for that jubilee cunts

Relayed second hand of course i'm not in the countrt lol

https://www.history.com/.image/c_limit%2Ccs_srgb%2Cq_auto:good%2Cw_1240/MTc2NzkxODY1Mzk0MjEwNzU4/lord-mountbatten-funeral-gettyimages-80748387.webp

this is my favourite photo that features a union jack

wow rough

philip has “that” facial expression

Is that Mountbatten in the box?

bits of him

it's a bit a jigsaw with some missing pieces I think

imagine how much damage it would have caused the family business if he'd have lived and all the children he sexually abused started going public, lol total role reversal + he'd be one getting advice and guidance from one of his nephews this time

Lol @ that Chessum thread and the mention of Another Europe is Possible. "Impossible to have disagreements on the left" is the language bad people use.