“I take my responsibilities seriously. I did not lie” - UK politics June 23 on

What!

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

I blame that shifty husband of hers.

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Getting arrested or indicted is all the rage these days

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

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

IT'S ALMOST AS IF

LOCK HER UP

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

sorry to hear that Mike, that's awful.

yeah, horrible

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Now endless videos and pics of him jogging.

Now endless videos and pics of him jogging.

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

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

Now endless videos and pics of him jogging.

lol

Jog on Jogson

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

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

he's history's greatest monster

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

Now endless videos and pics of him jogging.

Corbyn on R4 PM today - first on Glenda Jackson, then on Johnson, then on Labour - was excellent. (Twitter thread)

“The meeting went silent, every body turned to stare at each other, and Glenda gave me the biggest wink you’d ever seen”

Former Labour leader, @jeremycorbyn , shares his fond memories of working with Glenda Jackson, who has passed away at age 87.#bbcpm pic.twitter.com/wqqT2WdrMb

— BBCPM (@BBCPM) June 15, 2023

I listened to a GJ interview a few years ago and she was saying Corbyn shouldn't have been the leader because working class people who the Labour Party are supposed to serve are preternaturally a socially conservative bunch of people. Her politics were basically of that detestably condescending noblesse oblige variety of the Labour Right.

...which makes JC's tribute all the more generous, and suggestive of a broader acceptance of differing views than he's generally given credit for.

How dare Jambone Crumhorn say anything ever

he has consistently been very generous towards other party people like that, and it has rarely been reciprocated unless you could take a knife in the back as a friendly gesture. It's all very well being a nice guy, but they were going to destroy him even if he wasn't.

I was living in Primrose Hill with a bunch of Balearic ravers and club runners from a fairly infamous estate in South London and they did terrace chants of GLENDA IS OUR LEADER, OUR LEADER, OUR LEADER when she was elected, which was the only bit of levity in the 1992 election. They were classic ex-terrace hoolies who’d had epiphanies about violence and racism while on pills in Ibiza, and every single one of them hated Thatcher for destroying any cohesion in their community of origin (and the rest).

BTW Glenda Jackson also told anyone who asked that she did not consider Jeremy Corbyn to be antisemitic and that his advocacy for Palestinians was the cause of the accusations.

turd that won't flush transferred to new bowl

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FyvnYv5WcAIMp4a?format=jpg&name=large

Now endless videos and pics of him jogging.

"-and it'll be required that we only say nice things about him from now on"

xpost obv

apparently johnson's first mail column will be essentially an advert for a new weight loss drug.

not 'apparently' it's already online.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/textbased/news/text-12203407/BORIS-JOHNSON-Wonder-drug-hoped-stop-raids-cheddar-chorizo-didnt-work-me.html

and yes, this an advert free way of checking/hatereading their site.

He's no Adrian Chiles.

God that was a slog, makes me yearn for the exquisite prose of Adrian Chiles. Wonder who actually wrote it?

lolworthy xpost

I think they'll need endless videos and pics of him jogging for this column to work.

Next column: the responsibilities of fatherhood.

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

new thread is this way -->

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

yeah but does the new thread have discount trainers?

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

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?

"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.

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

Lol sorry

No it made for a good metaphor

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

Side note: new thread, y/n?

I think we should keep reviving different old ones

That's right

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?

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.

I think we should keep reviving different old ones

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"

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

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.

imagine what a boost it would be for Bluesky

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.

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

this should get the red wall back onside

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!

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.

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

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

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

🤣

Donald Trump please liberate us from this!

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

And this with a leading economist as Chancellor!

in related news https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/jan/09/liz-truss-sends-legal-letter-ordering-starmer-to-stop-saying-she-crashed-economy

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.

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.

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.