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

(local elections seem increasingly important and up for grabs everywhere; i wonder if this signifies anything)

or disaggregated voters that identify regionally in national elections

This is like a calz mind-to-text reader

The words most associated with Starmer.

I particularly like 'tosser', 'twat' and 'dick' pic.twitter.com/FW4xTHLb3Y

— j (@jrc1921) June 13, 2022

the first two that come to mind for me (unimaginative and stickler) aren't there, but can generally agree with that

poll

I was talking to a friend recently and he casually dropped into the conversation the fact that he used to know the Starmers! Lived in the same N. London street, kids played together etc. Apparently she's really nice and he's pleasant enough too. So I had to change my analysis of him from 'cunt' to 'Tory cunt', which seemed to be acceptable.

Anyway. Normal thread service will now resume!

Don't give right wing cunts imagination ffs.

there was a GRT woman on R4 this morning talking about that racist caravan burning procession that DPP Starmer decided did not merit any further investigation or prosecution. So I'd add EVIL RACIST CUNT

#Breaking Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer is being investigated by the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards over potential breaches of rules on earnings and gifts, the parliamentary website shows pic.twitter.com/4qixsYWTtF

— PA Media (@PA) June 13, 2022

Read that as earrings and gifts tbh.

the earrings of madame ke

oh dear he might need to turn down the sanctimonious drivel a few notches now

The Banks vs Cadwalladr libel result is interesting, suggesting that her TED talk was defamatory and the statements she made were untrue but it was not clear that she intended her statement to have the meaning it did and there was a public interest defence on the meaning that she may have plausibly intended.

I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s appealed.

(xp) A fee notches more, first it was Sir Beer Korma now it's Sir Keir Earner.

Understand this is about a handful of minor late declarations – but should get more detail soon https://t.co/sXbQHPy2ru

— Sienna Rodgers (@siennamarla) June 13, 2022

If yr explaining yr losing

The late declarations – for which they've apologised – are understood to relate to hospitality, such as football tickets, and book payments.

— Sienna Rodgers (@siennamarla) June 13, 2022

.@Keir_Starmer says he is 'absolutely confident there's no problem here' when asked about claims he broke the MPs' code of conduct in relation by breaching the rules on declaring interests https://t.co/HnK9xMWLbX pic.twitter.com/nJb2KMv9GO

— ITV News Politics (@ITVNewsPolitics) June 13, 2022

hah not looking remotely worried... gulp!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mNWZo0UjLNQ

Boris Johnson on the current economic problems:

...[it's] so different from the economic crises I remember when I was younger in the 80s, in the 90s, millions of people … told they were on the scrap heap because of mass unemployment.

i.e. when Thatcher was in power.

hah not looking remotely worried... gulp!

https://members.parliament.uk/member/4514/registeredinterests

£9259.64 donated to Starmer in corporate box tickets by various football and rugby clubs, mofo doesn't like to pay!

Most jaw-dropping passage I've read in a newspaper for ages. Maybe the full report will provide some wider answers or context when it's published - sadly, Times reporting isn't above cheap & misleading sensationalism – but it's mostly quotes from heads. https://t.co/lkpLK4XDag pic.twitter.com/MhSjs8e6FW

— James B (@piercepenniless) June 13, 2022

That was Starmer at his most passionate and convincing.

When Keir Starmer eventually resigns, I think the only policy position I'll remember he ever advanced is that "geronimo the alpaca must die"

— Philip Proudfoot 🟨🟥 (@PhilipProudfoot) June 13, 2022

after he's resigned he might find those grands worth of prem ticket *donations* he's become so accustomed to have been downgraded to the cheapest seats with the plebs, lol. It looks quite avaricious really, an already wealthy barrister, "mr integrity + decency" with no doubt some lucrative side gigs and a fat MP's salary and he just can't get enough free prem tickets and maybe that is the reason they haven't all been declared. Scared some Sun hack will make something of it, rather than office oversight.

pure evil despicable cunts

'Instead of booking 50 people on each flight to Rwanda, book 250 people on it then when they stop half of them from travelling you still have a full flight - come on, get on and send them'

Tory MP Peter Bone says 'lefty lawyers' have blocked Rwanda deportations pic.twitter.com/f38lmO2TBy

— ITV News Politics (@ITVNewsPolitics) June 13, 2022

Allah Akbar

More than three quarters of a million workers on the cards to take industrial action in a “long hot summer” of strikes. Union leaders are not ruling out coordinated action. Train drivers, bus drivers, civil servants and teachers all out!

— nilu (@nilufer_erdem) June 14, 2022

> chance to persuade the courts to prevent his removal. (The Home Office has refused to climb down despite being aware of his poor mental health.) Second, the govt’s strategy throughout has been to defeat the generic challenges brought by charities by saying each person >

— Alasdair Mackenzie 🧡 (@AlasdairMack66) June 14, 2022

(xp) I've just joined a union!

... good timing.

i hope he stays in charge forever, he cheers me up

Stop calling me boring, Keir Starmer tells shadow cabinet https://t.co/fpopo9w0fk

— The Guardian (@guardian) June 14, 2022

‘Actually what’s really boring is calling people boring so YOU’RE the stupid boring ones’ said the leader of the opposition

good move if wants to remind all the New Labour grandees and Wes fans in his shadow cabinet precisely why they all want shut of him!

please clap

Keir Starmer: “This is a document circulated by his backbench in which they call him the Conservative Corbyn. Prime Minister, I don’t think that was intended as a compliment.”

Boris Johnson makes obvious rejoinder: “First of all he [Starmer] repeatedly tried to get him elected as Prime Minister. Also speaking from experience Mr Corbyn is relatively dynamic by comparison with the rt. hon. Gentleman.”

lol, he's probably better off just sucking in the "boring" label - it's much better than being a renowned halfwit

he starts making tortuous Star Wars references a bit later on, just to show he's "down with the kids"

obviously fuck Starmer and fuck Labour but has any leader of the party been so keen to publicly vilify a former leader than Kieth has? it feels specific to this configuration of wreckers

"you KICK blorbo? you kick blorbo like the plinko? oh! oh! eeby deeby for glup shitto! eeby deeby for glup shitto for one thousand years!"

well ed mili ran with the line that the global financial crisis was caused by alastair darling so

I don't think Kinnock had Michael Foot living in his head rent free - as they say. He was doing a demolition job on the left as well - but without the obsession with publicly attacking his predecessor in parliament and quite childishly trying to brand the party as "whatever he is - we aren't that".

Honestly what is he playing at even on his own nasty, small-minded terms, is he trying to be challenged for the leadership or something

She's no doubt miffed she had to pay for lunch and travel expenses.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2022/06/14/rachel-reeves-utterly-immoral-using-unpaid-student-staff/

foot was already a compromise candidate (= not a bennite and basically there to bring all sides together) (which of course he entirely failed to do)

while easy to criticise from left and right (bcz he was terrible a a leader lol) he was also (a) not really "of the left" except in a sentimental/symbolic sense and (b) widely beloved (bcz he was genuinely a nice old man) and lauded as a great rhetorician and speaker (which he wasn't)

I didn't think he was as left-wing as Corbyn but he did seem to get roughed up by the tabloids a fair bit, from my defective childhood memory. back then ppl didn't say things like "Lol, he's living rent free in Shirley Williams head" but he must have been to some extent!

his strong support for CND (and being a founding member) was probably enough to make him an enema of the state

oh the press went for foot with great intensity -- and were happy to argue he was in the kremlin's pocket etc (cartoonist cummings was very good at brezhnev's eyebrows), while the SDP made much of how ineffectual he was (with some justice even tho fvck them forever)

but foot was tribunite* left really, which is the same milquetoast quarter kinnock was from -- and when it came to laying blame for the 1983 defeat, benn was who was being cordoned off (along with the miners and militant)

*the modern tribune bears little resemblance to the tribune of the 80s, let alonf of the 50s, when foot was its editor

Well that is a turn up. @Keir_Starmer’s “Jedi mind tricks” joke at @BorisJohnson’s expense was funny

— Robert Peston (@Peston) June 15, 2022

Easily impressed?

Been said a thousand times, but he succeeded a man who was tee total and his main hobby was manhole covers, to still manage to look boring by comparison is genuinely impressive.

— molly (@molono) June 16, 2022

Johnson's retort that the allotment man was rather more dynamic than him was quite a sick burn. One thing for sure - they don't want this joke of a man to resign. He's Labour's own IDS but substitute Boring with Quiet Man

The boring man is here to stay and he's turning up the boring.