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

stoya, come to the iranian embassy. If the whole country is being held hostage does that make Kieth the negotiator? maybe he's demanding a 150 grand bespoke treehouse at chequers or the whole country gets it

Hyped to read Alastair Campbell's touching tribute to Jim Varney's Ernest character.

BREAKING: Metropolitan Police has been placed in special measures after litany of failures including Sarah Everard murder, Stephen Port investigation etc - sources confirming reports by @theousherwood

— Pippa Crerar (@PippaCrerar) June 28, 2022

Looks like the state might run out of people to exploit.

turns out that 15 years of falling real wages, extortionate childcare costs and turning people into walking cash machines for landlords are all powerful disincentives for having kids https://t.co/rsLqYs0Mum

— Tom Blackburn (@malaiseforever) June 28, 2022

At the opposite end of the timescale there's legions more potential Tory voters popping up every year. Selfish auld bastards.

Things like climate and worsening healthcare could kill them off earlier so, who is to say what's worse?

that can't be right i'm sure the papers told me the feckless poor keep popping out babies left right and centre

Boris Johnson and Jacob Rees Mogg aren't poor.

how fortuitous that this argument is popping up in the uk after roe v wade gets overturned

makes u think

which is to say, makes u think abt CONTROVERSIAL MOD EDIT

crowd goes ooh

Huge error by Corbyn.

*zero* Labour MPs were deselected under Corbyn's leadership

All the panic & fear that the 'rabid far left' would do this, that was indulged by the media, was projection

We're going to see deselections of left MPs under Starmer's leadership and the media will silently celebrate

— Heather Mendick (@helensclegel) June 29, 2022

if you don't eradicate bacteria the spores reproduce! But saying that deselecting 80%+ of garbage MPs would been an almost impossible task, it's much easier for Starmer to get shut of the few decent ones and the remaining wishy washy soft-left career MPs will step in line like good little bunnies.

it's quite amusing that some of the biggest names to go under Corbyn rather than by deselection they either defected to other parties or campaigned against Labour in return for a peerage and in one case got booted out for sexual harassment and got the peerage. Just thoroughly rotten people who would have been portrayed as loyal, hard working constituency MPs who became victim to the evil Stalinist Corbyn purge.

People who say 'I can't vote for Labour because they haven't got X right' are objectively voting Conservative. But if you can't bear the idea of voting for Labour or Lib Dem, think of it as voting AGAINST the Tories. Let's get them out, for God's sake.

— Philip Pullman (@PhilipPullman) June 28, 2022

multi-millionaire writer of trash fantasy fic in completely lacking imagination shocker. Maybe he should start imagining what reasons why the very online hoi polloi and even lots of the more passive chunks of the electorate (as seen in Wakefield last week) have very little enthusiasm for Labour and the LibDems.

Philip Wasteman

Hitler was a big fan of Karl May, who some might describe as the late 19th century equivalent of fantasy writers like Rowling/Pullman. His characters were as well known as theirs in that era although I couldn't name one from the Pullman books. Makes u think!

Sidetrack: I knew there was a big connection between Karl May and the Spaghetti Western because he's mentioned in Christopher Frayling's book on SWs, but couldn't recall the details. A quick Google served up this gem:

Karl Friedrich May was maybe the most popular adventure story writer in Germany. He was born in Ernsttahl in 1842. In 1912 he died due to a cold in Radebeul, where his grave still exists.

https://www.spaghetti-western.net/index.php/Category:Karl_May

best line in his wikipedia entry: "At age twelve, May was making money at a skittle alley, where he was exposed to rough language.[1]"

he was very a vicarious and successful writer of Westerns who never stepped foot in the US iirc

good to know the deep lineage of the grand pulp surname SHATTERHAND

Well I never...

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2022/jun/30/family-of-captain-sir-tom-moore-face-formal-inquiry-into-charity-setup

it kind of figures that a ruthless killer who committed war crimes in Maylaya would have a psychopathic grifter for a daughter. Evil begets evil.

'I'd still take a bullet for him.'

Bernie Ecclestone says Ukrainian President Zelensky should have listened to Putin to avoid war because Putin 'is a sensible person'. pic.twitter.com/jZ1hLnrYTU

— Good Morning Britain (@GMB) June 30, 2022

this lad flew under Mason's radar for his pro Putin infosphere project

aerodynamically speaking an F1 car is an extremely low-flying aircraft isn't it

if only putin had been a woman...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-61976526

"Ukraine war: Johnson says if Putin were a woman he would not have invaded"

has he expressed an opinion on what the situation would be if his auntie had balls?

if Yeltsin had been a woman she would have drunk slightly less wine, bourbon and vodka every day.

Like many Russians of his generation, Yeltsin considered beer a soft drink

Yeah that was and is quite common I remember user SV explaining this to me when we were in Russia in 2008, that you might see beer for sale in kiosks etc as it wasn’t considered the same as other drinks.

THis was quite good on teh history of beer and its various perspectives from different cultures.
https://open.spotify.com/show/1krsAvYm52tQPrHkP4XBNV?si=c2f049c4ff9d4787
Kate Lister talks about Czech grandmothers drinking beer with breakfast etc.

Although vodka has long been the traditional tipple in Russia, beer has soared in popularity, being marketed as a healthier alternative to spirits.

heh!

Ukraine might have something to say about Johnson's virtue signalling considering Catherine the Great.

Karl May was still pretty huge amongst German boomers, the Winnetou movies were a big part of it. Never checked him out but have a vague idea he'd be progressive by classic western standards as a native american is the hero, tho I'm sure there's plenty of noble savage nonsense in there.

Just catching up on this “If Putin was a woman” lmao WHAT?????

I thought we were all hysterical overly emotional and led by our feelings? You can’t have it both ways on that one Boris!

They've been doing this kind of trolling a lot lately, cf "opposing the deportations to Rwanda is racist".

Textbook Truss: "I think that both women and men are capable of terrible and appalling acts."

Probably better Johnson says nothing about Zara Aleena (assuming he hasn't already).

xp she ain’t wrong, particularly when those women are Tory PMs and senior ministers

Thousands of BT staff will go on strike after the first national strike vote in 35 years.https://t.co/1PDsJ64kFH

— libcom.org (@libcomorg) June 30, 2022

So many highlights in this abysmal piece of political communication. My favourite part is when, after debuting the new "re-energising..." slogan, the old "Security, Prosperity, Mediocrity" slogan flashes up just for some added confusion.pic.twitter.com/neU7GjLEjY

— Alex Nunns (@alexnunns) June 30, 2022

call the fire service, this guy is so lit - he's going to burn the place down

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/jun/30/tory-deputy-chief-whip-resigns-after-embarrassing-myself-and-others

Another!

Bit of an apt name there.

Is he related to Chapman Pincher of cold war red-baiting fame

in other nominative determinism news I just heard on the radio that one of the chief negotiators in the current railway dispute is a Tim Shoveller

have they not gone diesel in west yorkshire yet brah

A nationwide heritage steam railway strike would be dope as fuck though

I hope these people that pay to go on fucking steam trains to Whitby or some forlorn shithole "as featured in Harry Potter" were thoroughly disrupted and angry at the RMT strikes tbh!

aw man the scenery's nice up there

i mean fuck HP sure