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 (one year ago) link
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 (one year ago) link
he's history's greatest monster
― Critique of the Goth Programme (Neil S), Thursday, 15 June 2023 13:56 (one year ago) link
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 (one year ago) link
Now endless videos and pics of him jogging.
― TY FRANCE HATES TEXAS CONFIRMED (gyac), Thursday, 15 June 2023 14:03 (one year ago) link
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
― mike t-diva, Thursday, 15 June 2023 20:06 (one year ago) link
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.
― calzino, Thursday, 15 June 2023 20:42 (one year ago) link
...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.
― mike t-diva, Thursday, 15 June 2023 20:57 (one year ago) link
How dare Jambone Crumhorn say anything ever
― two grills one tap (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 15 June 2023 21:11 (one year ago) link
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.
― calzino, Thursday, 15 June 2023 21:12 (one year ago) link
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.
― steely flan (suzy), Friday, 16 June 2023 06:21 (one year ago) link
turd that won't flush transferred to new bowl
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FyvnYv5WcAIMp4a?format=jpg&name=large
― rick semper moranis (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 16 June 2023 12:42 (one year ago) link
― TY FRANCE HATES TEXAS CONFIRMED (gyac), Friday, 16 June 2023 12:51 (one year ago) link
"-and it'll be required that we only say nice things about him from now on"
xpost obv
― Mark G, Friday, 16 June 2023 14:29 (one year ago) link
apparently johnson's first mail column will be essentially an advert for a new weight loss drug.
― the world is your octopus (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 16 June 2023 18:01 (one year ago) link
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.
― mark e, Friday, 16 June 2023 18:50 (one year ago) link
He's no Adrian Chiles.
― Renaissance of the Celtic Trumpet (Tom D.), Friday, 16 June 2023 19:01 (one year ago) link
God that was a slog, makes me yearn for the exquisite prose of Adrian Chiles. Wonder who actually wrote it?
lolworthy xpost
― darts macabre (Matt #2), Friday, 16 June 2023 19:03 (one year ago) link
I think they'll need endless videos and pics of him jogging for this column to work.
― Renaissance of the Celtic Trumpet (Tom D.), Friday, 16 June 2023 19:07 (one year ago) link
Next column: the responsibilities of fatherhood.
― darts macabre (Matt #2), Friday, 16 June 2023 19:10 (one year ago) link
... how to avoid them.
― Renaissance of the Celtic Trumpet (Tom D.), Friday, 16 June 2023 19:16 (one year ago) link
Wes Streeting: ‘If I’m going out, I’m a binge drinker – terrible messaging for the shadow health secretary!’
― TWELVE Michelob stars?!? (seandalai), Saturday, 17 June 2023 13:06 (one year ago) link
Surely this is contraindicated by his recent health izsuesy
― two grills one tap (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 17 June 2023 13:06 (one year ago) link
Lol typo got away from me
― two grills one tap (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 17 June 2023 13:07 (one year ago) link
I'd be very surprised if Wes really is a binge drinker, it was only a few years ago he had major surgery for stomach cancer. Maybe he just wants the Westminster piss-head crew to think he's one of them.
― calzino, Saturday, 17 June 2023 13:44 (one year ago) link
Kidney cancer (and if he’d had stomach cancer so young, that might be indicative of extra drinking).
― steely flan (suzy), Saturday, 17 June 2023 16:42 (one year ago) link
ah, I remembered it wrong. If his posting is to be believed a steady diet of ultra processed beef from McDs would also put him at risk. Not that I believe anything this fucker says.
― calzino, Saturday, 17 June 2023 17:33 (one year ago) link
I was probably born with the kidney cancer my doctor found when I was four, so I can’t really speak to that bit of his experience.
― steely flan (suzy), Saturday, 17 June 2023 18:54 (one year ago) link
Even I as a non-dancer, am a bit embarrassed for them.
EXCLUSIVE: First ever Partygate video revealed as Tories drink, dance and laugh at Covid rulespic.twitter.com/vIHbuIqWWf— The Mirror (@DailyMirror) June 17, 2023
― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 18 June 2023 08:59 (one year ago) link
the tories are flailing. Strong Colin Hunt vibes from the male "dancer".
― calzino, Sunday, 18 June 2023 09:14 (one year ago) link
wonder how long this video has been available to journalists who've chosen not to share it
i'm not particularly bothered by this party compared to the many government decisions which actually killed people during the pandemic, always interesting to see what's considered newsworthy and worthy of outrage showboating tho
― two grills one tap (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 18 June 2023 09:19 (one year ago) link
I personally don't care either, but can understand why it's emotive to people who couldn't attend funerals or had family die alone and how UK media cynically publishes this stuff when it suits their agenda. Although saying that I detest funerals and would be happy to die alone, so perhaps I'm not normal!
― calzino, Sunday, 18 June 2023 09:26 (one year ago) link
I'd like to believe that the Mirror sat on this for a period because they knew it would give people no motivation to obey the lockdown rules themselves if they saw this. But I think that's probably far too generous an interpretation. I'm also disgusted to read that apparently the Met knew this video existed but did nothing with it.
― boxedjoy, Sunday, 18 June 2023 09:33 (one year ago) link
that the UK govt flouts their own rules isn't really as shocking as them rolling out policies that causes hundreds of thousands of people to die miserable, squalid deaths. I was reminded by a program last week the the first WCA related suicide happened some time before the 2010 GE results came in. This is why any partisan stuff from The Mirror doesn't really work for me, because the people with blood on their hands will likely be ministers in the next Labour govt.
― calzino, Sunday, 18 June 2023 09:48 (one year ago) link
Another Con MP quits, another byelection.
― the pinefox, Sunday, 18 June 2023 11:07 (one year ago) link
the complaints about him are malicious says the Tory MP who admitted he was sniffing cocaine and drinking "incredibly potent" Japanese whisky
― calzino, Sunday, 18 June 2023 12:18 (one year ago) link
I like the BBC headline “I’ll expose my children to homelessness - William”. Not a practice that’s unknown to royal types, not sure people will approve nowadays .
― a hallan shaker loon (dowd), Sunday, 18 June 2023 13:15 (one year ago) link
The prince also revealed when asked there are "absolutely" plans for social housing on the Duchy of Cornwall - the estate given to the heir of the throne, which provides him with an income.
great, another little Poundbury style model village from one of these parasitic fuckwits. So entitled and up his own arsehole he thinks becoming a landlord is an altruistic act.
― calzino, Sunday, 18 June 2023 13:53 (one year ago) link
Can I defect from the UK to go and talk about this on North Korean podcastshttps://t.co/26JPnOes6k pic.twitter.com/JUp8zVBx8N— Alice Podcasts (@AliceAvizandum) June 18, 2023
― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 18 June 2023 17:37 (one year ago) link
let’s fuckin go babey, mad max by 2035 or gtfo
Another pledge broken pic.twitter.com/iv6DlsgEyr— j (@jrc1921) June 18, 2023
― rick semper moranis (bizarro gazzara), Sunday, 18 June 2023 17:46 (one year ago) link
NEW: Church of England clergy, represented by @unitetheunion, have for the first time in their history submitted a formal pay claim, as members struggle with the cost of living.Vicars call for a 9.5% pay rise. Unite says the Church of England has billions in the bank & can pay.— Taj Ali (@Taj_Ali1) June 19, 2023
― xyzzzz__, Monday, 19 June 2023 09:26 (one year ago) link
for god and ulster
― Ár an broc a mhic (darraghmac), Monday, 19 June 2023 09:57 (one year ago) link
EXC: Schools trans guidance revealed - with @NatashaC - No pronoun or uniform change without parental consent- No hiding changes from parents - Head can say no to protect other kids - Competitive sport protected - gender questioning pupils bannedhttps://t.co/HYhcApyhR7— Harry Cole (@MrHarryCole) June 18, 2023
― xyzzzz__, Monday, 19 June 2023 10:40 (one year ago) link
Tories are in massive trouble and it looks like Sunak has chosen to lash out at trans/non-binary people. Horrible.
― xyzzzz__, Monday, 19 June 2023 11:03 (one year ago) link
Probably because you can't get away with open homophobia nowadays, so they choose the next marginal group down the list. Not helped by all the smug JKR-type transphobes slowly but surely pivoting to the far right!
― darts macabre (Matt #2), Monday, 19 June 2023 11:23 (one year ago) link
Absolute depressing filth, what else is there to be said?
― half the population ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ (gyac), Monday, 19 June 2023 11:28 (one year ago) link
i'd say the increasing screeching about Pride covers getting away with open homophobia, albeit this has been enabled by transphobic legitimate concerners all the way
― two grills one tap (Noodle Vague), Monday, 19 June 2023 11:34 (one year ago) link
i've worked with trans kids in the past and some of them need protection from their parents, not subjection to their whims
― two grills one tap (Noodle Vague), Monday, 19 June 2023 11:36 (one year ago) link
good to see government concerned about the sanctity of competitive sports in schools, because teens have been so well served by existing opportunities
https://www.theguardian.com/education/2022/mar/07/uk-girls-lose-interest-in-sport-as-teenagers-women-in-sport-survey
― two grills one tap (Noodle Vague), Monday, 19 June 2023 11:40 (one year ago) link
Probably teach them to be better at evading authority, if anything. But yeah they’ve been going hard for Gillick for a while now and nobody in the press gives a fuck about it cos pRoNoUnS
― half the population ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ (gyac), Monday, 19 June 2023 11:41 (one year ago) link
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 (three months ago) link
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 (three months ago) link
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 (three months ago) link
that price is going to shoot right back up on july 5
― Humanitarian Pause (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 22 May 2024 23:20 (three months ago) link