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

Lol nobody gives a shit about them!

And their members are idiots too.

Lib Dem social media office need to learn a thing or two and tweet proper bullshit like this.

I had to explain the tube strike to the 17-year-old Ukrainian staying with me. Her father, brother and uncle are all fighting. She’s just got a job in a bar and smiled for the first time last week. Now she can’t go and won’t get paid. ‘But why do they strike?’ she wailed.

— Harriet Sergeant (@HarrietSergeant) June 21, 2022

"You're a LIAR".

Good.

Come on Kieth, come out of your bunker and face this Union Barron who has just insulted your lady!

Mick Lynch tells Baroness Chapman ‘I don’t even know who you are’ pic.twitter.com/WfHltePybc

— Alex (@sankarawasright) June 21, 2022

Just some of the stories here.

https://www.dazeddigital.com/politics/article/56375/1/protest-train-strike-the-real-reasons-young-rmt-workers-are-striking-uk

It's been erm, striking to watch.

Let the bodies hit the floor pic.twitter.com/95vsnoceFx

— Razor Marone (@Streettough) June 21, 2022

He's just wasted Tory MPs and daytime junk.

Head of Public policy at some dark money funded libertarian tank

Strolled straight past the @RMTunion picket line for my train.

A pretty pathetic effort from the strikers. Barely anyone bothered to show up, no screams of “scab”. pic.twitter.com/8m3HBgo04j

— Matthew Lesh (@matthewlesh) June 21, 2022

Everyone is now rightfully trying to destroy his life tonight.

@justinbarbour crazy trade unionist wog. No thankyou. She comes from an even more left faction then Rudd

— Matthew Lesh (@matthewlesh) June 22, 2010

Richard Madeley asking Mick Lynch RMT is he’s a Marxist. 🤦🏻‍♀️ It’s doesn’t go well. Mick tells him he’s talking ‘twaddle’, Richard responds ‘I’m not talking twaddle’. 😂🤣 Yeah you are Richard. More Mick on tv please. 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻pic.twitter.com/dO5QunWAgw

— Teri 💙♿️ #RMT (@mettlesome_teri) June 21, 2022

it's unfair of me to raise the question because i can't say i've followed most of the BBC's coverage of the strike today, but have they devoted as much time to stories about the hardship RMT members are living with as they've devoted to stories about randoms who've been inconvenienced for a day or two?

also i know Lynch's response to Madeley was probably tactically correct but i'd like to have seen Madeley expounding on his knowledge and understanding of Marxism tbh

Madeley has form

is corbyn a marxist?https://t.co/PwoPmsAcl2 pic.twitter.com/Dygm9ZezwK

— acid womble (@acidwomble) February 20, 2019

Emily Thornberry is pathetic. Completely unserious person. If she can’t be bothered to care about an issue she certainly shouldn’t be going on TV to talk about it.

She improved in the second segment, I think?

I dunno. Her default mode of speaking is like the pissy grumble of someone roused from a nap to answer the phone. I just can’t watch it.

This is a terrible look

Asked about the Labour frontbenchers (PPSs) who defied Keir Starmer to join RMT picket lines, Emily Thornberry dismissed them as "bag carriers," which will be of interest to all PPSs (including her own, if LOTO managed to fill the position). pic.twitter.com/SWpSsv95dT

— Alex Nunns (@alexnunns) June 21, 2022

roflmao as they said in the 70s during the war

haha lads come on this is …. This is mental pic.twitter.com/STCtL6uhBa

— Ava-Santina (@AvaSantina) June 21, 2022

Remember when Kieth was DPP and legislated so that people convicted of benefit fraud would face up to 10 year prison sentences, well at the time Thornberry said this was too lenient and they should get more!

even though it has been rubbished here there and everywhere. I will still keep quoting hard facts from that Eagleton book!

Aaargh gyac that’s awful!

I see.

Ken Clarke, the ex-chancellor, has warned the rail strikes "cannot be allowed to look successful".

He said if rail workers secure a large pay rise then "vast amounts of the public sector" will be "induced to go in for the same militancy, the same strike action" to get the same.

— Jack Maidment (@jrmaidment) June 21, 2022

Fingers crossed.

Lol @ this Britpop scab.

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2022/jun/22/glastonbury-festival-welcomes-back-crowds-amid-rail-strikes

"UK Music’s chief executive, Jamie Njoku-Goodwin, said: “For the thousands of music fans who are so keen to get back to festivals and gigs after two years of lockdowns, these strikes risk causing chaos.

“The strikes come at a critical time for the live music industry and music businesses, which are battling to recover post-pandemic. Fans face a massive struggle trying to get to Glastonbury because of the disruption, which will add to traffic on the roads at a time when we’re striving to improve sustainability in the music industry.

“We need all sides to get around the table to end these strikes and deliver a crucial financial boost to the industry and a summer of fantastic live music.”"

Jamie Njoku-Goodwin is the Chief Executive of UK Music, the collective voice of the music industry. He is an experienced campaigner, a strategic communications specialist and a former political adviser who has held senior roles at the highest levels of Government.

He most recently worked as a special adviser to the Health Secretary Matt Hancock and was previously a special adviser at DCMS. Before joining the Government, Jamie worked for the election strategist Sir Lynton Crosby and as a political adviser for the Conservative Party.

Jamie holds a Bachelor’s degree in Music from the University of Nottingham, and a Masters in International Relations. He is a trained pianist and conductor, and sits on the advisory boards of the London Philharmonic Orchestra and English National Opera.

Talking of despicable Tory cunts:

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2022/06/22/rail-strikers-putins-friend-says-tobias-ellwood/

"Fans face a massive struggle trying to get to Glastonbury because of the disruption"

things you just don't care about

Also: Do people catch trains to the Glastonbury Festival? I thought the stations were blummin miles away? If I'd only known I wouldn't have driven there, back in the day...

People without cars do, yes

These strikes are just a bit of fun.

Mick Lynch of @RMTunion is on the #Peston show tonight. What's the very silliest question I could ask him?

— Robert Peston (@Peston) June 22, 2022

"Why would you be infinitely better at my job than I am?"

At least Mick Lynch talks like a normal person. We call Peston Pes-ton in our house on account of his tendency to pause between the syllables of words for no good reason.

He also answers questions like a normal person, which is really throwing a lot of people in the media used to prevaricating slippery wankers.

the MI5 file on him will have almost grown to Corbyn dimensions in the last week. It's funny how not being a total cunt makes you a security threat in the UK.

I need a compilation.

“It feels like unions are opposing modernisation”

“You don’t know that, you haven’t been in our position”

Watch @RobertJenrick and Mick Lynch clash over the reasons why @RMTUnion members have been striking on @ITV at 10.45pm#Peston pic.twitter.com/7xcYpbaFHI

— Peston (@itvpeston) June 22, 2022

I hope the TV shows have realised what good box office Mick is and keep booking him.

Hopefully Dave Ward gets his moment in the sun, the man is incredible on Twitter.

I’m bald. https://t.co/2niMFhfzqh

— Dave Ward (@DaveWardGS) November 5, 2019

Really interesting piece on the surprising Government housing paper.

https://tribunemag.co.uk/2022/06/housing-renters-rights-tenants-landlords-section-21-michael-gove

xps here’s your compilation. Includes J***y Ch****n

I’ve figured out who Thornberry reminds me of: Albert Finney as Daddy Warbucks.

Mick has more about him than the rest of these cunts put together and it’s not particularly close.

Though the touchscreen TV lady on Peston made the point earlier that “the 1% have had large pay rises” and just now ridiculed the PLP, so fair play

Omg Jenrick getting absolutely sonned by Lynch here

Mick just toying with Toryboy - who iirc was kicked out of the cabinet for being too corrupt even for Boris Johnson to put up with.

Nice Mic Wright summary of the predictably pathetic media treatment of Lynch
https://brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/not-taking-the-mick

You are a journalist with national exposure. You realise your next major interviewee has spent the last 24 hours battering empty, lazy questions and making interviewees spouting platitudes look like idiots.

Do you

a) do some prep and try to challenge the flaws in your victim's arguments?

b) fuck it, just chat shit, nobody's ever called you on this before ever?

I really hope they continue forgetting A is a possibility.

Next I want Mick Lynch v the football focus guy who somehow made it on the news

finally got someone from the London Irish diaspora who isn't a complete arsehole! Reading his wiki reveals he was an electrician who was subjected to an illegal construction industry blacklist for having the temerity to join a trade union in the 90's.

surprisingly, dan walker has been the only interviewer so far that didn't treat mick lynch like a specimen

You leave the London Irish diaspora alone lol. Anyway, put him in charge of the country tbh, "I'm not a Marxist, I'm settling an industrial dispute" quote of the year

it would be fair to say he's far more likable than Brendan Oh Kneel

He gets better and better

“Who’s your political hero?”

“James Connolly, an Irish socialist republican” pic.twitter.com/JAUkY9G5Nd

— Ronan Burtenshaw (@ronanburtenshaw) June 22, 2022