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

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.

Kim Jong Un congratulates Queen Elizabeth II on the anniversary of her ascension to the throne, his first public message to the monarch. North Korea and the UK established diplomatic relations in 2000. https://t.co/ooS9Ca0tuD

— Bloomberg (@business) June 3, 2022

didn't expect this milkshake duck

The estimated value of this hat (made from plundered jewels) is between £3billion and £5billion. Sell it and help everyone who is struggling to pay for food and heating. What a jubilee gift to the people that would be pic.twitter.com/yxBWd1XZnO

— Tim Burgess (@Tim_Burgess) June 3, 2022

More fucking Britpop.

now we've got the sodding charlatans frontman trying to take up the slack from the crimes of britain account!

Unlike many others, I haven't read THE STARMER PROJECT. But if I was having doubts about its merit, this tweet is tending to dispel them.

It's a dire book - apart from the "bad Keir theory of history" it skips really critical events in Starmer's rise - like the 2019 conference fiasco - with barely a paragraph. Either you were there, or you do your research thoroughly.

— Paul Mason (@paulmasonnews) June 3, 2022

Eagleton deserves criticism for the brexit section but the parts on Starmer's DPP era are excellent and tell you more about what kind of a scumbag he is than Mason claiming he's going to advance the struggle, lol!

*class struggle*

but anyway, yesa Mason is such a duplicitous moron, that when he says something is wrong and bad then perhaps take it with a pinch of salt because he's not a serious person at all.

i think that’s what pinefox was getting at, among a swarm of double negatives lol :)

Mason popped up on a BBC WS program as some kind of social media misinformation eggspurt the other day, of course someone who has shat himself in public so many times will be very concerned about people who haven't got 500K+ followers taking the piss out of him for being an incomprehensible bullshit merchant and f/t clown at the best of times

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FUZ7KC5X0AE4Zby?format=jpg&name=large

some arseholes in Wakefield! Polling suggests they'll piss the byelection despite Starmer's dictatorial selection process angering the local clp and creating disquiet in the area. If it's a low turnout it might be more closely run than the polling suggests.

https://huggingface.co/spaces/dalle-mini/dalle-mini

this is the app that has turned everyone into Banky. I got some amusing results from "kier starmer drinking piss out of a wellington boot" and "kier starmer passionately kissing jimmy savile". I did a Corbyn one and it made look like Popeye, lol.

The BBC programme that Calzino refers to is actually quite sinister. My understanding is that the journalist involved has tried to get one of the people interviewed / challenged on the programme (a socialist media analyst) fired from his job. It seems that Mason has been involved with this, certainly seems to have approved of it.

In other words it's going beyond knockabout allegations, let alone the free exchange of ideas, into a level more like McCarthyism.

I'd not read that background story to the program, the journalist who did it is also an old work colleague of Mason's from his ch 4 News days.

It's one thing being concerned about mostly insignificant people clicking like on Russian state affiliated media posts. But Mason with his biggish media platform accusing rando lefties of being Putin apologists is not good. Although one of the college lecturers featured on the program was an anti vaxer.

67 letters of no confidence? Enjoyed this para from Shipperz' analysis

<Q>If there is a contest Liz Truss, the foreign secretary, will present herself as a proto-Thatcherite tax cutter. Her allies hope that Priti Patel, the home secretary, also runs, as one senior Tory put it, “so she is not the lunatic".<q>

that assumes the Tories won't vote for the lunatic

pic.twitter.com/H2x63sg2kn

— joolsd (@joolsd) June 5, 2022

you can waste a few hours with that app, it's good fun!