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

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!

even Ed got called a dangerous Maoist for proposing some pretty lukewarm rent controls. But if private sector rents weren't so high or social housing not so depleted and demonised by 40+ years of Thatcher. Then maybe the concept of home ownership would go the way it has in Germany. And there would less talk of stringing up landlords.

well we'll all have to make sacrifices

Just screencapping this before they delete. pic.twitter.com/FxcltqgZFQ

— Jamie McLaughlin (@jjsmclaughlin) June 24, 2022

randomly selected audience member on QT was the PM's mother-in-law no less, lol

That's not the same woman.

lads they turned tom d

considering that this is where the tweet comes from, yeah it's not real. would be funny if it were, of course.

Hang on pic.twitter.com/f7RT3BDelV

— Dr Robert 'Rob' Zands PhD (@DrRobertZands) June 23, 2022

To be fair to the woman she chuckled a bit when Mick made his crack about catching COVID being no qualification for anything.

oh no hold on

https://www.bazake.co.uk/bazakefactcheck-did-boris-johnsons-mother-in-law-appear-in-the-audience-of-question-time

if it's passed a rigorous bazake fact-check then it's real!

People that are saying “oh it’s just America” - the UK literally will remove the Human Rights Act in a few weeks. Then our rights will be up for grabs just like theirs. Don’t take your eye off the ball. We need to fight like hell.

— tom (@tmlwrnc) June 24, 2022

I was thinking last night are the most dangerous elements of the British establishment any less deranged than the US Christian right and I'd guess probably not.

Absolutely as deranged and while this country is more secularised they'll take as much of our rights as they can, and the political class (Labour, Tory and Lib Dems) will work to put as many people who fight against this in jail.

Would Carrie's mum be that supportive of Boris?

the tone of strike coverage on the BBC has changed dramatically. just heard a long sympathetic segment with a former labour politician saying the public was with mick lynch and sir kier looks out of step. then you have articles like this

Rail strikes: Union boss urges government to 'tone down rhetoric' https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-61929168

just look at that headline. it’s now the government who’s hysterical! and here’s a subhead

'Our absent wedding guests show just how important rail workers are'

"It really highlights that we as a country really rely on rail workers to connect us to the people who matter to us," he says.

English lit degree at Sheffield Hallam is being “suspended.” University responding to Government who will no longer fund degrees where 60% students don’t end up in “highly skilled” jobs within 6 months.

— Mary Peace (@maryvpeace) June 25, 2022

who needs the humanities eh

Our Amber got an English literature degree, top grade Hons etc. She is now in a very nice job and doing fine.

Another legend with Mick Lynch pic.twitter.com/WdH0mxN7E4

— Barry Maoilow (@JonnyMao) June 25, 2022

David Lammy says “a serious party of government does not join picket lines” So what was he doing on the @ucu picket lines in 2018? https://t.co/Z3lhYdcdJq

— Diane Abbott MP (@HackneyAbbott) June 26, 2022

If only he knew how right he was (because once in government you take care of people so they don't need to strike).