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

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.

... how to avoid them.

Wes Streeting: ‘If I’m going out, I’m a binge drinker – terrible messaging for the shadow health secretary!’

Surely this is contraindicated by his recent health izsuesy

Lol typo got away from me

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.

Kidney cancer (and if he’d had stomach cancer so young, that might be indicative of extra drinking).

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.

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.

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

the tories are flailing. Strong Colin Hunt vibes from the male "dancer".

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

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!

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.

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.

Another Con MP quits, another byelection.

the complaints about him are malicious says the Tory MP who admitted he was sniffing cocaine and drinking "incredibly potent" Japanese whisky

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 .

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.

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

let’s fuckin go babey, mad max by 2035 or gtfo

Another pledge broken pic.twitter.com/iv6DlsgEyr

— j (@jrc1921) June 18, 2023

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

for god and ulster

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

Tories are in massive trouble and it looks like Sunak has chosen to lash out at trans/non-binary people. Horrible.

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!

Absolute depressing filth, what else is there to be said?

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

i've worked with trans kids in the past and some of them need protection from their parents, not subjection to their whims

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

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

there are thousands of young people, not just trans kids but obviously including them, for whom school is a refuge from the fuckery of their home lives. obviously this needs to be stopped

Mis-gendering is widespread irrespective of parental awareness and acceptance and not sure what kids can do about staff or peers not respecting their wish about pretty much anything. On uniform I suppose this is to some extent also about 'protecting' centuries of related bullshit like girls not allowed to wear trousers.

'No hiding changes from parents' is gibberish or maybe implies school staff are expected to snoop and ask parents if they know their kid has 'changed' in some way that might not be obvious to them but sounds (intentionally?) unworkable.

It seems parents are a bit like the market, they know best.

There's an article a few days ago in noted left-wing rag the Daily Mail where the Chief Rabbi points out that "schools must tell parents" is an enormous safeguarding failure.

He's still gonna vote Tory tho

child liberation now

parents are inherently reactionary as a political bloc and anything that empowers them abuses children by design

when I was 17 my stepdad threw me out the house for two nights upon learning of my homosexuality. I was lucky to have friends whose parents welcomed me in with open arms and didn't have any issue with it, and I went home on the condition that it was to be kept secret and not mentioned in case anyone else was embarassed by it. I only ever thought of myself as "lucky" in the few years after that, because my perspective was that it could have been (and I expected it to be) a lot worse, and it's only when I got I realised that actually, it was just shit and not something to ever forgive.

This is worse than Section 28, because Section 28 didn't come with a mandate to out me to my parents. If a teacher had told my stepdad there was a whiff of gayness about me I can only imagine how difficult my life would have become.

Yeah, the idea they could "nip it in the bud" right?

Probably because you can't get away with open homophobia nowadays, so they choose the next marginal group down the list.

This is the dynamic in the U.S., without a doubt.