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Have at it.

TY FRANCE HATES TEXAS CONFIRMED (gyac), Friday, 9 June 2023 21:51 (two years ago)

rip are boris truly u were the people's cunt i wish u hadn't been murdered by the perfidious johnny eu

rick semper moranis (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 9 June 2023 22:30 (two years ago)

‘he's a most notable coward, an infinite and endless liar, an hourly promise-breaker, the owner of no one good quality worthy your lordship's entertainment…’

yeah, but enough about Kieth.

calzino, Saturday, 10 June 2023 08:12 (two years ago)

It's been heavily briefed already that The Times will back Labour, and with Boris Johnson resigning from parliament, Tony Gallagher hasn't the slightest reason to change course. https://t.co/0mlq6swyW8

— Elvis Buñuelo (@Mr_Considerate) June 10, 2023

xyzzzz__, Saturday, 10 June 2023 12:17 (two years ago)

Some Tory MP and Boris brown-noser I've never heard of has just resigned "with immediate effect", so that's three by-elections to look forward to!

Renaissance of the Celtic Trumpet (Tom D.), Saturday, 10 June 2023 13:05 (two years ago)

Strange to think that these fuckers could well limp on for another 18 months, they seem like a placeholder government already

I question your commitment to the revolution (Matt #2), Saturday, 10 June 2023 13:27 (two years ago)

I assume Dorries is just going down with her shit, she has several conversations with Boris yesterday (disclaimer: the source for this is almost certainly Dorries)

Andrew Farrell, Saturday, 10 June 2023 13:48 (two years ago)

going down with her shit

Can't tell if this is a typo or not.

you gotta roll with the pączki to get to what's real (snoball), Saturday, 10 June 2023 13:56 (two years ago)

circling the drain

Tracer Hand, Saturday, 10 June 2023 14:55 (two years ago)

every time I see the two main dead-eyed freakazoids of the Labour Party with ghastly voices talking up nothing as something I only feel anger + despair at how wretched they are. I don't feel any relief that the tories are knackered at all.

calzino, Saturday, 10 June 2023 21:44 (two years ago)

Remembering how 'knackered' (in other words not really knackered at all) the Tories were just before the 1997 GE and comparing them to how knackered the Tories are now more than anything else shows how absolutely knackered Labour are now.

you gotta roll with the pączki to get to what's real (snoball), Sunday, 11 June 2023 08:45 (two years ago)

last year I was chatting with old bloke who is a long time on/off Labour member who was disgusted with the Kinnock purges and first cancelled their membership over clause 4, but keeps going back to them on the rationale that they are the only vehicle for change and is too much of a party history geek to ever totally give up on them. He was a bit lukewarm and critical of Corbyn but not as hostile as yer average melts were at the time and gave me a telling off for dissing Kieth at the start of his leadership. But now he's really really glum about Kieth.

calzino, Sunday, 11 June 2023 10:18 (two years ago)

if Starmer gets in it’s up to all of us to push him in the right direction, and i suspect that will have to come from outside the party. i mean he is a chickenshit with no principles so it’s not like he won’t change his mind for expediency. we just need to make the right moves expedient for him

Tracer Hand, Sunday, 11 June 2023 11:44 (two years ago)

either that or get him on mic calling some old lady a bigot

Tracer Hand, Sunday, 11 June 2023 11:45 (two years ago)

You're more likely to get some old lady on a mic calling him a bigot.

Renaissance of the Celtic Trumpet (Tom D.), Sunday, 11 June 2023 11:55 (two years ago)

Police Scotland: A 52-year-old woman has been arrested as a suspect in connection with the investigation into the SNP's funding and finances.

Nicola Ferguson Sturgeon is a Scottish politician who served as First Minister of Scotland and Leader of the Scottish National Party from 2014 to 2023. Wikipedia
Born: 19 July 1970 (age 52 years), Ayrshire Central Hospital, Irvine.

Just sayin' like.

Renaissance of the Celtic Trumpet (Tom D.), Sunday, 11 June 2023 13:35 (two years ago)

What!

TY FRANCE HATES TEXAS CONFIRMED (gyac), Sunday, 11 June 2023 13:45 (two years ago)

Sorry Scots, looks like you'll be yoked to perfidious Albion for a while yet

darts macabre (Matt #2), Sunday, 11 June 2023 13:49 (two years ago)

I blame that shifty husband of hers.

Renaissance of the Celtic Trumpet (Tom D.), Sunday, 11 June 2023 14:09 (two years ago)

https://dkanut5j171nq.cloudfront.net/catalogue-images/ti104236.jpg

calzino, Sunday, 11 June 2023 14:35 (two years ago)

Getting arrested or indicted is all the rage these days

StanM, Sunday, 11 June 2023 14:48 (two years ago)

Given she posted her driving theory test yesterday, polis clearly thought she was a flight risk, hence the lifting

— Michael Scanlan is on MAB (@ScanlanWithAnA) June 11, 2023

two grills one tap (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 11 June 2023 15:11 (two years ago)

NEW: Seven hours after her arrest, Nicola Sturgeon has been released by police without charge. pic.twitter.com/Y541IJImwu

— Lewis Goodall (@lewis_goodall) June 11, 2023

two grills one tap (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 11 June 2023 17:01 (two years ago)

IT'S ALMOST AS IF

two grills one tap (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 11 June 2023 17:02 (two years ago)

LOCK HER UP

rick semper moranis (bizarro gazzara), Sunday, 11 June 2023 17:04 (two years ago)

Last year I planned to take my own life. I saved up my antidepressants with a plan to overdose on them. I didn't tell anyone, my girlfriends found out and staged an intervention.
I reached out to my MP (and someone I consider a friend) @KirstySNP ahead of this debate. https://t.co/qS3GsFx9KI

— Heather Herbert (@HeatherHerbert_) June 13, 2023

xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 13 June 2023 10:47 (two years ago)

Not sure where else to post this, but I am feeling a bit shat up about the attacks this morning: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-nottinghamshire-65887752

emil.y, Tuesday, 13 June 2023 13:31 (two years ago)

that, and another incredibly bleak and depressing child murder as a result of chronically under-funded and over-stretched social services, thank you Tory Britain

Critique of the Goth Programme (Neil S), Tuesday, 13 June 2023 13:46 (two years ago)

twitter was not a good place to try and find any accurate reports about the carnage in Nottingham this morning. I had to scroll past hundreds of grotesque idiots linking it with asylum seekers and the French attack from last week.

calzino, Tuesday, 13 June 2023 14:14 (two years ago)

The only time I can find on the news reports is 4am, which strikes me as a very poor choice of time to do terrorism, so I'd be surprised if it did turn out to be a 'terror attack'. I think Neil S is more likely to be correct.

emil.y, Tuesday, 13 June 2023 14:59 (two years ago)

also the judge that gave a 24 month sentence to someone with 3 kids, one of them disabled, in that abortion pill case is a total dick.

calzino, Tuesday, 13 June 2023 15:27 (two years ago)

I found the Nottingham incidents particularly difficult because:
a) my oldest friend died early this morning, very near to where one of the attacks occurred, and I was scared that the medical people were going to be delayed in reaching her (thankfully they weren’t).
b) someone else I know, who lives in the next street to where one of the attacks occurred, couldn’t sleep and took a night time walk down that very street, an hour before it all happened.
c) one of the streets that was sealed off was the same street where my oldest friend and I lived next door to each other, 40 years ago.

mike t-diva, Tuesday, 13 June 2023 22:48 (two years ago)

sorry to hear that Mike, that's awful.

the world is your octopus (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Wednesday, 14 June 2023 06:27 (two years ago)

yeah, horrible

Daniel_Rf, Wednesday, 14 June 2023 09:30 (two years ago)

Oh god, Mike, that's all terrible, I'm so sorry. In my friend group there was a lot of working out exactly where it all happened and who lived there and if everyone was alright yesterday, but that sounds so much more intense.

emil.y, Wednesday, 14 June 2023 14:05 (two years ago)

It's horrible for you both. Horrible when the violence is so near. Sorry to hear it.

xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 14 June 2023 14:18 (two years ago)

My non-music job is as an informatics/analytics lead for a major London trust and I have seen many “AI” automation proposals. All of them have been staggeringly unworkable in almost every way, largely proposed by (albeit well-meaning) folk with no working knowledge of NHS data. https://t.co/qJyZVIomjg

— Phexioenesystems (@phxsys) June 14, 2023

xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 14 June 2023 16:04 (two years ago)

I'd like to see old Boris wriggle his way out of this one!

Critique of the Goth Programme (Neil S), Thursday, 15 June 2023 08:24 (two years ago)

well at least our next likely PM is not an unprincipled, lying, adulterous piece of human garbage, lol

calzino, Thursday, 15 June 2023 08:29 (two years ago)

Ouch, they've really done a number on the lying sack of shit.

Renaissance of the Celtic Trumpet (Tom D.), Thursday, 15 June 2023 08:54 (two years ago)

Now endless videos and pics of him jogging.

nashwan, Thursday, 15 June 2023 09:06 (two years ago)

Now endless videos and pics of him jogging.

nashwan, Thursday, 15 June 2023 09:06 (two years ago)

Boris Johnson
Liberal, nuanced, cautious: is this the real Boris Johnson?

the Graun had his number right from the start of his premiership

calzino, Thursday, 15 June 2023 09:12 (two years ago)

Now endless videos and pics of him jogging.

the world is your octopus (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, 15 June 2023 09:19 (two years ago)

lol

Renaissance of the Celtic Trumpet (Tom D.), Thursday, 15 June 2023 09:21 (two years ago)

Jog on Jogson

nashwan, Thursday, 15 June 2023 09:29 (two years ago)

An ok piece laying out our next crisis.

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2023/jun/15/drought-is-on-the-verge-of-becoming-the-next-pandemic

xyzzzz__, Thursday, 15 June 2023 13:03 (two years ago)

Pollster: 'Boris Johnson is more unpopular than Phillip Schofield or Xi Jinping'

Renaissance of the Celtic Trumpet (Tom D.), Thursday, 15 June 2023 13:50 (two years ago)

he's history's greatest monster

Critique of the Goth Programme (Neil S), Thursday, 15 June 2023 13:56 (two years ago)

Unless you're an equally conniving corrupt MP who is now free to act with impunity until the next time the press need a wicker man

two grills one tap (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 15 June 2023 13:57 (two years ago)

Forced to work in the rain unnecessarily?

Join a union. pic.twitter.com/yiq1jamHIT

— Trades Union Congress (@The_TUC) May 22, 2024

katy perry (prison service) (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 22 May 2024 17:29 (one year ago)

Absolutely baffled he did it in that rain.

Checking the new boundaries again and I guess it's been made even easier for me to not vote Labour now I see we're apparently losing Bell Riberio-Addy and getting Steve effing Reed.

nashwan, Wednesday, 22 May 2024 17:33 (one year ago)

(Ribeiro-Addy)

nashwan, Wednesday, 22 May 2024 17:33 (one year ago)

Tory ministers genuinely struggling to explain why an election has been called for July.

I've left the box of soup near your shoes (Tom D.), Wednesday, 22 May 2024 17:35 (one year ago)

as ever it will be a pleasure not to vote for Diana Johnson

Bitchin Doutai (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 22 May 2024 17:35 (one year ago)

(xp) This guy actually using the example of Corbyn performing better than expected in 2017!

I've left the box of soup near your shoes (Tom D.), Wednesday, 22 May 2024 17:37 (one year ago)

"Things can only get wetter", but obv NV's suggestion is a thing which is better.

glumdalclitch, Wednesday, 22 May 2024 17:38 (one year ago)

Starmer is gonna choke like fuck as soon as he gets any pushback

this is absolutely locked in. it will be epic.

Humanitarian Pause (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 22 May 2024 17:48 (one year ago)

wonder how long it’ll be before we find out what really happened with the deliveroo driver

katy perry (prison service) (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 22 May 2024 17:49 (one year ago)

i’m sure cctv footage of starmer enjoying a delicious beverage in the pub beforehand will mysteriously surface eventually

katy perry (prison service) (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 22 May 2024 17:50 (one year ago)

"..we've returned Labour to the party in service of working people..."

thanks for saving us from the anti-union, pro-zero hours poverty policies of the evil jam man.

vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Wednesday, 22 May 2024 18:16 (one year ago)

Asking the question.

Its 4th July, you live in rainy fash island..

xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 22 May 2024 18:38 (one year ago)

Just amazed that no umbrella was to be found when Sunak announced it...

xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 22 May 2024 19:57 (one year ago)

Not a serious country

👀
Wow! Extraordinary but true - some furious Conservative MPs are tonight working on a plot to CALL OFF the general election by replacing Rishi Sunak as leader before Parliament is dissolved next Thursday.
One rebel Tory MP tells me he believes “several” more letters of no…

— Christopher Hope📝 (@christopherhope) May 22, 2024

This is Dance Anthems, have some respect (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Wednesday, 22 May 2024 21:39 (one year ago)

https://i.imgur.com/aOWD1Xi.png

Humanitarian Pause (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 22 May 2024 22:29 (one year ago)

Ok ....

Mark G, Wednesday, 22 May 2024 22:41 (one year ago)

i hope they are able to remove sunak as pm asap because that seems like it gets really funny and stupid and is probably the best hope for the election not producing a one party state

ufo, Wednesday, 22 May 2024 23:05 (one year ago)

new thread is this way -->

Stability is change: crossing the floor from potato to potahto in uk 2024

Bernard Quidbins (NickB), Wednesday, 22 May 2024 23:17 (one year ago)

yeah but does the new thread have discount trainers?

This is Dance Anthems, have some respect (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Wednesday, 22 May 2024 23:19 (one year ago)

that price is going to shoot right back up on july 5

Humanitarian Pause (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 22 May 2024 23:20 (one year ago)

seven months pass...

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jan/01/2025-economic-recovery-recession-voters-labour

"The public knows, deep down at least, that Britain’s problems are longstanding and are not going to be solved in six months."

Lol ok, large portions possibly understand this: so what is the plan?

xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 1 January 2025 20:27 (six months ago)

"Growth prospects should improve a bit as the year wears on. But even that forecast is based on a number of questionable assumptions. The first of these is that Donald Trump is bluffing about the scale of the tariffs he intends to impose on imported goods into the US, and that, subsequently, fears of a full-scale trade war are overblown. The second is that global stock markets – which look vulnerable to bad news – do not crash. The third is that the era of unexpected bad shocks – pandemics, wars, higher energy prices – is now over and that the global economy can look forward to a period of stability."

The employment rights bills will take care of this.

xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 1 January 2025 20:30 (six months ago)

Look comrade we all want to erase the first 6 months of the Starmer government but reviving this thread is a bit drastic

Zurich is Starmed (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 1 January 2025 20:30 (six months ago)

Lol sorry

xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 1 January 2025 20:31 (six months ago)

No it made for a good metaphor

Zurich is Starmed (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 1 January 2025 20:31 (six months ago)

Incredible.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GgSfpI4WUAAi4gC?format=jpg&name=large

Side note: new thread, y/n?

gyac, Thursday, 2 January 2025 13:48 (six months ago)

I think we should keep reviving different old ones

Sir Kock Farmer (wins), Thursday, 2 January 2025 13:58 (six months ago)

That's right

xyzzzz__, Thursday, 2 January 2025 14:45 (six months ago)

We should have a proper monthly lock and post regime like they have on the US one.

I know ours will barely scrape 50 but what's another thread?

xyzzzz__, Thursday, 2 January 2025 14:47 (six months ago)

New thread! We need to talk about twatty rocket man lecturing Kieth about Oldham, and trying to break Yaxley-Lennon out of gaol through the power of tweets alone.

Grandpont Genie, Thursday, 2 January 2025 19:52 (six months ago)

I think we should keep reviving different old ones


Ilx’s most lovable behaviour

gyac, Thursday, 2 January 2025 19:59 (six months ago)

not feeling a strong consensus for a UK "getting very annoyed with Elon Musk for attacking *checks notes* all the most despised and loathsome villains from the previous half dozen UK pol threads"

vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Thursday, 2 January 2025 21:07 (six months ago)

starmer only deserves a shit old thread like this tbh, fucking wasting new pixels on him

Bernard Quidbins (NickB), Thursday, 2 January 2025 21:09 (six months ago)

Several ministers said they thought this should be the trigger for the government to leave Musk’s platform. Others, however, warned that doing so could cause a diplomatic incident given Musk’s role in the incoming Trump administration.


nods wisely

Humanitarian Pause (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 2 January 2025 21:21 (six months ago)

imagine what a boost it would be for Bluesky

vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Thursday, 2 January 2025 22:20 (six months ago)

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jan/02/labour-economy-agenda-starmer-reeves-trump

This piece is explaining Lab economic policy. Its clearly not going to be enough but one thing is that the communication of it has been appalling.

xyzzzz__, Thursday, 2 January 2025 23:12 (six months ago)

Mesmerising performance from @LukeTheNuke180 to win the World Darts Championship.

Congratulations Luke on being the youngest ever PDC World Darts Champion. An inspirational performance under such pressure to lift the trophy.

You should be really proud of what you've achieved…

— Keir Starmer (@Keir_Starmer) January 3, 2025

xyzzzz__, Friday, 3 January 2025 22:27 (six months ago)

this should get the red wall back onside

Zurich is Starmed (Noodle Vague), Friday, 3 January 2025 22:44 (six months ago)

he's always been a big fan of Bullseye, obv like any knight of the realm hailing from the tory heartlands, who went to a posh selective school - he loves a bit o' bully: Here's what you could have won - a state funded social care sector that doesn't cause vulnerable people to die!

vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Friday, 3 January 2025 22:55 (six months ago)

OK did just lol at the headline Elon Musk turns on Nigel Farage and calls for new leader of Reform but perhaps it's not really surprising given how much Jenrick and others are comfortably out-flanking Farage on saying idiotic, racist AF shit.

nashwan, Sunday, 5 January 2025 17:53 (six months ago)

Ah, international Rats in a Sack, you love to see it…

guillotine vogue (suzy), Sunday, 5 January 2025 18:12 (six months ago)

Labour posts AI slop on TikTok to promote its policies, to the background of a song containing sexually suggestive lyrics about a “young girl” (2025) pic.twitter.com/5gOMsHKBtH

— insane moments in british politics (@PoliticsMoments) January 6, 2025

vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Monday, 6 January 2025 17:44 (six months ago)

Holy shit he's about to find out who was chief prosecutor at the time. I can't look away pic.twitter.com/qPDOAGHAWo

— TheIainDuncanSmiths (@TheIDSmiths) January 5, 2025

🤣

vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Monday, 6 January 2025 21:51 (six months ago)

Donald Trump please liberate us from this!

xyzzzz__, Monday, 6 January 2025 22:17 (six months ago)

Going well isn't it?

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/jan/09/pound-falls-to-14-month-low-as-bond-sell-off-piles-pressure-on-rachel-reeves

Please play Lou Reed's irritating guitar sounds (Tom D.), Thursday, 9 January 2025 14:46 (five months ago)

And this with a leading economist as Chancellor!

Please play Lou Reed's irritating guitar sounds (Tom D.), Thursday, 9 January 2025 14:47 (five months ago)

From these two stories you see a Lab government acting like a Tory one which is the Liz Truss budget becoming the new "there is no money left" letter as cover for the same market driven austerity.

The problem is that 'culturally' the country does expect Lab to spend more so it might be why they have tanked so fast in the polling.

xyzzzz__, Friday, 10 January 2025 11:20 (five months ago)

Truss is an idiot and LOL Lilico (remember him?) but it would hilarious if she managed to sue Starmer for defamation and opened up the floodgates to all sorts of retrospective claims.

Please play Lou Reed's irritating guitar sounds (Tom D.), Friday, 10 January 2025 11:24 (five months ago)

My brother did say I was right not to vote for anyone lol, which I was taken aback by. So I'm using that to say that people expect Lab to sort stuff out, and they are very far from doing that.

OTOH they have plenty of time to waste.

xyzzzz__, Friday, 10 January 2025 11:27 (five months ago)


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