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

aye it looks like a few zeros have been added

78 replies to that Tweet, guessing 75 of them are dudes pointing out Kate Bush didn't have a record out in 1976

lol it was my first thought tbh!

xps

questions would be asked if my LA was spending 1300 times the adult social care budget on aqua aerobics!

lol it was my first thought too

Surely the £500m is just the total cost for all swimming pools in the UK? (c 4,000 pools) xps

it's all his fault for putting "the cost of running a pool..."

statistical error: fancy piscine georg, who keeps his pool filled with champagne and diamonds, is an outlier adn should not have been counted

There's an estimated 210,000 private swimming pools in the UK (not including the secret underground Russian oligarch ones built under a veil of secrecy like Gus Fring's meth lab)

All the funny money Russian pools join together beneath the streets of Kensington to form a vast underground ocean, in which novel crystalline-based life-forms are developed for reasons unknown. Or so I've heard.

Surely the £500m is just the total cost for all swimming pools in the UK? (c 4,000 pools) xps

you've cracked the case wide open!

I want my half a billion swimming pool already!

Well, I’d better start using the Oasis Centre pool then.

guess they just pooled the figure

Lol

Just saw. Why didn’t you contact me to check? Could’ve provided you evidence of complaints & put you in touch with complainants. Your “sources” within Labour Party have proved expensively unreliable in case of @LenMcCluskey my advice is don’t become Labour Sources spokesperson.

— John McDonnell MP (@johnmcdonnellMP) June 20, 2022

Her sources = a parody account.

Political reporting is a very serious task, indeed a cornerstone of our democracy and ought to be valued more. pic.twitter.com/gUEDcizErk

— Tom Gann (@Tom_Gann) June 20, 2022

Agency workers are going to run rail infrastructure?

EXCL: Ministers will this week change the law to allow striking workers to be replaced temporarily by agency staff.

Too late for this week’s RMT strike but likely to be in force by mid-July https://t.co/ZosjyrO01V

— Henry Zeffman (@hzeffman) June 20, 2022

Wonder if Wearmouth will add Johnny Mac to the list of over 1500 vile trolls she's proudly blocked

Wachel Rearmouth

It's getting better.

sadly neither my cleaner nor her husband are comfortable speaking up but @REWearmouth is a very serious and principled journalist to hear me out and i was wrong to tweet that she is a corbynite on the kremlin payroll when she didn't reply immediately pic.twitter.com/jjglSYm8rX

— the world's best emoter (@axaxaxasfml) June 20, 2022

She is joining the New Statesman, which is perfect.

We Are Mouth

Cry more

HOT WORKER SUMMER ‘22 pic.twitter.com/bCRAawJyff

— Justice for Workers [Goldsmiths] (@CleanersFor) June 20, 2022

Lol come on.

The Telegraph would never run the Johnson/Carrie story in the first place out of loyalty, which is why it became a joke. What grates so much about this is that the Times had prided & marketed itself as a custodian of pluralism, free speech and argument, in an age of extremism

— Will Davies (@davies_will) June 20, 2022

???

i kind of rated davies!

I see Starmer's pathetic equivocation on the strikes has worked out well for him. The Mail is portraying him as Jimmy Hoffa. The Tories are characterising them as "The Labour Strikes". Mostly everyone else with any sympathy for the strikes consider him a natural enemy of unionised labour and a complete arsehole 👏👏👏

LOL exactly, the guy's a genius.

it'd be so much easier if *everybody* could just vote themselves a pay rise

so you've finally come out for full communism - that's a good development!

The @UKLabour was formed by the trade union movement to give working people a political voice

Workers face a cost of living crisis. Rail workers @rmtunion are fighting cuts to pay, job, pensions & conditions

Come what may, I will be on a picket line supporting workers tomorrow https://t.co/hd4AogsjMh

— Kate Osborne MP (@KateOsborneMP) June 20, 2022

Really fucked.

I have people calling me up in tears because they have been told by their estate agent they have to agree to 13%-20% increases in rent.

We need to end this now! PRS rents need to be regulated. https://t.co/VUuwtZJK34

— Aydin Dikerdem (@AydinDikerdem) June 20, 2022

Mick Lynch is smashing it on Newsnight.

The contrast with the smug sheen of this Conservative twit is stark.

Getting tasty: “You’re a liar.”

Chris Philp is completely out of his league.

And we’re off to a package about… the UN? They’re not dedicating the whole show to the strikes?? Insane

Pray for the guillotine for this lot every day.

Michael Green sold a "toolkit" for $497 which promised buyers earnings of $20,000 in 20 days. Upon purchase, the kit was revealed to be an ebook, advising the user to create their own toolkit and recruit 100 "Joint Venture Partners" to resell it for a share of the profits.
1/2

— Dominic Minghella (@DMinghella) June 20, 2022

I heard some snivelling Tory shit use the term "transferable skills" in relation to their strategy to cope with rail strikes. Was only half listening but this but my understanding of it was that they would happily compromise rail safety just to get those trains running and teach those unions a lesson.

Lol it begins.

Kay Burley made herself look quite unhinged by the end of this line of questioning. Mick Lynch didn’t budge from being polite. pic.twitter.com/YQHMprJwfo

— Mic Wright (@brokenbottleboy) June 21, 2022

They’re talking about changing the law to allow temp scabs to run the trains iirc. What could go wrong.

xpost

Finally some opposition

Criminal barristers vote overwhelmingly to strike from next Monday - shutting down courts - in their dispute with Govt over legal aid funding (the cash that pays for defence, allowing many trials to get on). Decision comes after @TheCriminalBar ballot

— Dominic Casciani (@BBCDomC) June 20, 2022

Mick Lynch is smashing it on Newsnight.

― Tracer Hand, Monday, 20 June 2022 bookmarkflaglink

Chris Philip MP forgetting that outside of Parliament, without the protection of the Speaker, lying can be called out pic.twitter.com/OLbi2GZ8d1

— Chin up! (@Rik_Chin) June 20, 2022

xxp

I'm pretty good at Tower Defence games, that transferable skill means I have a good understanding of UK train protection systems!

they'll make the trains crash on time

The government response to this is pathetic, just so feeble, imagine sending out a "who he?" drip like Chris Philip to present their case - if you could dignify it with such a term.

for a second i swore it was this guy

https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/goldenthroats/images/2/27/Hughskinner.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20190222225957

what if, a child, an orphan, is due to meet his new family today in London at Euston station. A new start, after his parents were cruelly taken…on 9/11…an end to the horror that gripped the world. But the trains are cancelled. The orphan stands cold, alone, in Crewe. What then?

— Y (@tinshh) June 21, 2022

On the @RMTunion picket line at the Seven Sisters depot.(But don’t tell Keir Starmer) pic.twitter.com/BnEcdGsuyd

— Diane Abbott MP (@HackneyAbbott) June 21, 2022

Surprised this thread hasn't picked up on the fairly-amusing Lib Dem tweet-and-delete shenanigans that just went down. Their own members furious at them!

Lol nobody gives a shit about them!

And their members are idiots too.