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

if a meteor has to crash into a podcast studio then I can't think of a better one.

will be interesting to see which supposedly centre-left "tory-hating" commentators express any kind of objection to this.

they could have called it "FAILING UP" maybe then somebody would listen

I'm just trying to think about what they'd politically disagree on, possibly Trump would be a dividing line and that's probably about it.

Rwanda asylum plan ruled unlawful... again.

... by Court of Appeal this time.

I'm just trying to think about what they'd politically disagree on, possibly Trump would be a dividing line and that's probably about it.

Osborne would want the NHS to be entirely privatized (and his mates get all the money), Balls would want there to be a public-private partnership (in which Osborne's mates get all the money).

the ideological differences of the UK political spectrum laid bare

Balls thinks Osborne's titanium tax doesn't go too far enough

I'm learning about grown up economics from the UK media commentariat today. It's bad for water companies to be nationalised because the taxpayer foots the bill and it requires govts to borrow heavily for infrastructure investment. It's good for water companies to borrow heavily/increase bills/cut infrastructure investment so they can pay £72 billion in shareholder dividends, because at least it doesn't require govt funding. That is until the hollowed out, heavily leveraged shell of the water company has run completely dry.

Usually my TheyWorkForYou e-mails show a clean record of Abbott voting on the losing side of every vote, but today I was surprised that she voted yes on something that went through - apparently a bill allowing the Secretary of State to use funds to build a memorial in rememberance of the holocaust, as well as an associated learning centre. 10 votes against, by the way - 9 tories and one DUP.

for a second there I thought you meant she'd voted against it!

surprisingly despite the shameful anti-semitism that holds hegemony over the labour left they all voted for it

Dead on arrival.

I wrote for the @NewStatesman about the lessons Keir Starmer should learn if he wants to avoid ending up like François Hollandehttps://t.co/N8PTorFm5X

— David Klemperer (@dmk1793) June 29, 2023

Not reading that but in reply to the URL…. so_gonna_happen

lol sorry i mean tweet, not URL but what’s the d’urgence these days

Yeah not reading it either

Does that mean we get our own Macron after Starmer. And our own Let Pen after that.

I don't know a lot about French politics, but my understanding was that hollande was elected with high expectations on a fairly left wing platform and then jettisoned many of his policy commitments and shifted to the right, starmer seems like he's making sure to disappoint everyone before he's actually elected

Britain's most racist professor reckons Sunak not getting what he wants is good for Sunak actually

And are 'the British people' in the room with us now pic.twitter.com/uF1T7EfqLj

— Jeremy Noel-Tod (@jntod) June 29, 2023

every Goodwin treat can be reduced to 14 words

hollande also famously was the actual President of France, triumphantly beating Sarkozy, and then decided not to seek re-election when his personal popularity had somewhat declined to.... 4%

his party now holds 27 of 577 seats in the national assembly

Oh dear Zak has resigned, and obv takes the high ground

He runnin for London mayor again or something

Interesting as to why the Spanish government is set to lose elections next month:

Here are actual “hard choices” being implemented- the Spanish govt standing up to energy companies, landlords & business profiteering for the benefit of the people. When UK politicians invoke “hard choices” they means screwing the people for landlords, business and profiteers. https://t.co/SjpZAfzrh3

— Mr Demos of Pnyx (@gem_ste) June 30, 2023

"Anything to drink, Mr Kawczynski?"
"I'll have a glass of wine and gottle o' geer for the PM".

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/content/dam/politics/2023/06/29/TELEMMGLPICT000341003652_16880458823200_trans_NvBQzQNjv4BqaEUq9GYqankD6q6yihpLUBfkVGkvNq4T0Te3y8rlrgc.jpeg

xp ya unfortunately that's bad politics as majority of people want to be screwed lol

if you're not permanently worse off and miserable is it even grownup politics?

it's more mature and serious to vote for a govt of corrupt lackeys that run down all public services and is a mere client of the financial markets, lol just the way it is I'm afraid.

Hilariously, it seems like Labour has now expelled Neal Lawson, head of soft-left thinktank Compass, for the heinous crime of describing cross-party co-operation scheme in Oxfordshire as "grown-up politics".

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jun/30/labour-expelling-mp-activist-neal-lawson

don't talk about any of the Scottish Labour/Conservative council shenanigans that have been going on then. That will definitely get you booted out of the party as well.

xp ya unfortunately that's bad politics as majority of people want to be screwed lol

― the best minds of my generation destroyed by woke (Bananaman Begins), Friday, 30 June 2023 bookmarkflaglink

Lool we probably need a bit more info before coming to that conclusion. Not everywhere is England.

Only really pay attention to foreign politics to extent necessary to confirm my pre-existing prejudices tbrr

Lol

I think of the support I gave Keir Starmer, personally, publicly, to win the leadership, when he absolutely knew I held these views that are apparently now anathema to the Labour Project. I thought I was too old to be disappointed in a politician.

— @zoesqwilli✧✧✧@min✧✧✧.soc✧✧✧ (@zoesqwilliams) June 30, 2023

This is a hell of a story. Besides being presumably completely illegal, they thought it would be a good idea to invite *checks notes* WIll Hutton??

https://uk.finance.yahoo.com/news/secret-email-severn-trent-boss-070627641.html

Hilarious how Liz Truss has kept being blamed. Only 40 days as PM.

that Zoe Williams tweet is so delicious i think i've put on more weight

lol it’s true

Muahaha! Three years into the biggest Labour Right led factional purge of members since the Kinnock years and Zoe isn't playing anymore because they've gone after one of her soft-left drinking buddies.

I don’t say this lightly, but if Starmer, or anyone from his frontbench team who have remained silent as Labour has thrown LGBTQ+ people under the bus, show up at #LondonPride they deserve to be heckled.

They’re taking the votes of queer people for granted. https://t.co/obp9oqirH2

— Alex Feis-Bryce (@Alex_FeisBryce) June 30, 2023

making these people unwelcome wherever they go is praxis

because I never let anything go and I'm a dickhead - I just can't help remembering when OJ and ZW were both urging Corbyn to step down as leader. It seemed quite obvious at the time that any of the other leadership front runners would be at least as terrible as Starmer is. It sounds like OJ might have learned something in the intervening years since but ZW is an incorrigible graun brained melt.

it's warming up nicely

Of course Labour can't possibly eject Neal Lawson of Compass for a 2-year-old tweet of great good sense. Even to threaten risks stirring a mighty rebellion - and not by the usual suspects. The majority of the members voted for proportional representation! Sack the lot?

— Polly Toynbee (@pollytoynbee) June 30, 2023

and this shows pretty clearly that it's not about political differences, it's about cliques and cronies

Labour can’t possibly be dismissive of its own membership’s concerns

"a mighty rebellion" heh! classic Toynbee

i assume she's asked to speak to the manager

Just something to think there would be a rebellion over...Neal from er, Compass.

transport and tax incentives are no substitute for a development plan. (also - you could have put a tram system in every British town over 500k population for the money spent on this white elephant) https://t.co/vDcE3Ml69B

— Dan Davies (@dsquareddigest) July 1, 2023

some say the IRA's own development plan for CW was a wicked act, but think of the long term benefits if they had used a more powerful bomb!

the Jess Phillips vs Katharine Birbalsingh twitter beef is way too grim to pick a side, but Phillips actually comes out of it looking the biggest arsehole as usual. Birbalsingh has wrote a tldr letter of complaint to Kieth about the incident in which she alleges Babs has unconscious bias issues with black people on the conservative end of the pol spectrum. Probably not correct because Abbott is not a conservative and Phillips had issues with her as well for shome mysterious reason