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

BREAKING: More than 70 barristers have accused the lord chief justice of having “tainted” his independence by attempting to “intimidate” criminal law barristers who are striking over pay, in an open letter to @thetimes https://t.co/xZ0wlDCef7

— Catherine Baksi (@legalhackette) June 23, 2022

at least Dimbleby tried to finnesse a parodic charade of impartiality and yes it was still bad. Bruce is so complacent and smug she doesn't even bother with any of that nonsense!

Never noticed how much Oliver Dowden looks like Iain Dowie.

good morning

Good morning. The Lib Dems and most of Labour are also anti-union so it doesn't matter who is in Government.

Also if Boris survives this he would win the next election. So join a union and grind the fuckers down #classWar

He wouldn't win a majority. Probably. But the sooner he goes the more likely he comes back a few years later is still my weird belief.

good morning

nashwan booked for over-celebrating

Assumed it was a reference to the tedious uspol thread habit 🫠

oh it def was! he's come in here with his bald eagle on his arm

Imago, you might know this, where is a good thread to share my pictures of stained glass windows from a a church in Kent?

I agree with the statements made here about the direness of QT.

The odd thing is that up until just, what, 5-6 years ago, I used to watch QT, having first watched c. 30 years ago.

Maybe my judgment was simply bad, but I also feel sure that the programme itself became much, much worse within the last decade or so.

The idea of watching Mr Lynch appealed but the idea of watching 45 minutes of other bad people didn't so I'm glad I didn't watch any of it at all.

By-elections? That sounds more interesting.

xp this looks like a decent bet Favorite Church, Mosque, Cathedral and such

(xp) I don't know that we'll be seeing much more of the Tory woman on the panel,she seemed kind of crotchety and ratty. Her failed gotcha moment with the letter will definitely be making its way on to the Mick Lynch showreel.

Also are foodbanks entirely staffed by Tory MPs or is that just the impression they like to give when pressed on the subject?

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FV_T5eHXkAQTDNO.jpg While nothing is going to change in the short-term, at least let us enjoy these meagre lols.

very telling how tory rachel maclean managed to amp up the barbs, condescension, finger pointing and interrupting when the black man in the audience criticised the rwanda deportation scheme pic.twitter.com/RSlXJLg9jy

— pez says up the workers (@periuspb) June 24, 2022

That was noted.

Lol.

Audience member: "Poor Boris caught covid. He deserves our loyalty."

Mick Lynch: "Well I don't think being able to catch covid is a particular qualification." #bbcqt pic.twitter.com/h1uifi8EUo

— Auni Akhtar (@AunMohammed90) June 23, 2022

There was a nice piece by Stefan Collini on the LRB a couple of months ago, he was reviewing a couple of books about the BBC. Effectively discussing how the BBC has been seen as either Marxist or Tory depending on your politics and how that history of perception really goes back very far.

He never touched on QT and the last few years in any depth. As funny as those clips are the discussion can get a bit too conspiratorial.

"look what happened to happened to the dinosaurs"

yes they were destroyed by a non-negotiable rock that was the size of Manhattan hitting the earth at a speed of 30km per second. But at least Mick made the point they were here for a long time tbf!

'Look what happened to the dinosaurs'

Lynch 'Well they were around for a very long time, 130 million years' pic.twitter.com/xfFDvy0NKf

— j (@jrc1921) June 23, 2022

Fiona Bruce’s husband has a £4m contract to produce Tory content, so could she please fuck off back to Antiques Roadshow?

You really have to be a certain age to pick up on all this anti-union jargon that the Tories and media have had to dust off and repurpose. I'm sure there are younger people thinking, "Hold on, Mick Lynch is not actually a Baron is he?"

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Did we learn nothing from the Ed Stone pic.twitter.com/q5toxddlBc

— Katherine Augustine 🍐 (@kebayf) June 24, 2022

George Osborne was very fond of using the ‘union baron’ cliché to describe Len McLuskey, despite being in line to be the 18th Baron Osborne. I believe it was noted at the time.

There are very few positives to draw from the UK politics world right now, but one bright point is that this "winter of discontent" anti-union narrative seems to be not just wrong but incomprehensible to anyone under the age of 35, save for a handful of ghouls.

A food bank has been set up in a BT call centre for staff to use when their pay won’t stretch to the end of the month.

It's got baby food in it https://t.co/XGZoNRpzIF

— Peter Stefanovic (@PeterStefanovi2) June 23, 2022

Have to put some respect on Thatcherism here. Rent to buy creates a generation of property owners. For the next 50 years housing is scarce. All the home-owners sit indoors being MK-Ultra'd by Robert Kilroy-Silk and Richard Madeley until theyre wide-eyed gibbering hateful freaks https://t.co/JWg0a4cxNJ

— gangstalker union rep (@vulnerableserf) June 23, 2022

was just listening to Nandy + Starmer ludicrously trying to talk up the Wakefield result as a pointer for a Labour majority in the next GE. A byelection where the disgraced tory MP was a convicted sex offender cannot be extrapolated as Labour triumph in the next GE. For a start there won't be 80+ nonces defending tory marginals (although there might be a few!). Winning by default is still a win, but with a low turnout and relatively low enthusiasm for Labour, considering the circumstances, is more of a warning sign than a positive imo.

add 1 x unmeasurable fvckton of tactical

was just listening to Nandy + Starmer ludicrously trying to talk up the Wakefield result as a pointer for a Labour majority in the next GE. A byelection where the disgraced tory MP was a convicted sex offender cannot be extrapolated as Labour triumph in the next GE. For a start there won't be 80+ nonces defending tory marginals (although there might be a few!). Winning by default is still a win, but with a low turnout and relatively low enthusiasm for Labour, considering the circumstances, is more of a warning sign than a positive imo.

I've never been a fan of tactical voting (nor voting at all really). The only thing I don't want is either main party winning a large majority. I wish there was some way both sides could lose badly without giving any gains to the piss diamonds!

I guess a hung parliament seems like the best result on paper, but whatever hellish coalition that would follow is something I don't even want to think about.

For a start there won't be 80+ nonces defending tory marginals

post vm not ic

it's a reference to the Wakefield MP who was jailed for sexually assaulting a 15 year old. Is "nonce" bad now? Honestly I don't even know!

I was referring to your assumption that there won't be 80+ nonces, sounds like melt talk to me lol

lads they turned calz

oh right lol, I'm too para today and an idiot. Lol I even put "nonce" into twitter and was relieved to see 260 posts in the last hour containing it from some of the finest shitposters!

although I will say "nonce" is a bit of a crude word and I unreservedly apologise for using it.

As prison slang also said to be an acronym for "Not On Normal Communal Exercise" (Stevens 2012), but this is likely a backronym.

Prison slang cannot be cancelled, even when it's backronym'ed

A teacher once told me that her dad who was a gentle old guy and a retired history teacher once got called a nonce by a parent for striking up a convo with a young girl in some gastropub. She said it wrecked his social confidence for the rest of his life and became insular and sadder after the incident. That's the kind of usage of it I don't like.

:-C

Will kiddy fiddler do instead?

spoonerisms seem to be all the rage these days, perhaps fiddy kiddler?

https://www.lookandlearn.com/history-images/preview/B/B185/B185513_Fiddy-Arrives-with-a-Bang.jpg

So sad. This person should just live.

if you do absolutely everything you're supposed to for the best part of a decade on a salary more twice the average of people your age you will be rewarded with...

a small 1 bed flat you can only hold on to if interest rates don't go up too much. maybe. pic.twitter.com/NIiDwKvCsG

— Ed (@ted_pen) June 24, 2022

although not paying for garbage streaming services is the right choice regardless of whether such a *hard choice* will make any significant difference towards getting a dream mortgage - it won't. It's quite telling how stupid tories keep coming out with corny netflix analogies like it is an exemplar of doing it right, just at the point where it's going badly wrong + the bubble seems to be about to burst: ever increasing garbage content, shareholder pressure on diminishing profits, subscription fees going up, no more account sharing and there is talk of ads etc etc. Yes that is how the NHS should be run.

as comrade alph suggests this is a punishment that the deposit scrimpers are, at least in part, inflicting on themselves

although I will say "nonce" is a bit of a crude word and I unreservedly apologise for using it.

hah forget about it, I was just being dumb as fuck!