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

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

one of those arguments where you hope they both lose

losing is the bare minimum i wish for them

Big day for fearless British journalism as the Guardian publishes an article Will Hutton was paid to write by the CEO’s of private water firms https://t.co/xpXOgeH9ME

— Metal Bizkit Rising (@allforthanookie) July 2, 2023

he could have at least reeled off some examples of the success of privatising water from around the globe, oh I see nobody else does it apart from Chile and it's a Pinochet legacy.

"But in the utilities especially – and I would argue more generally – successful companies must unite their stakeholders around a common purpose."

you've just got the simple task of persuading greedy parasitic speculators and foreign investment firms that some negligible quantity of less shit pumped into the waterways of England and Wales means means you get lower share dividends and this is a good thing.

Today's atrocity:

The BDS bill is having its first debate in parliament today, just hours after Israel launched its biggest Israeli military assault on the West Bank in years.

At 2.30pm, Palestinian children will be dying in Jenin hospitals as Tory MPs tell us that to oppose this is anti-semitic.

— Rivkah Brown (@RivkahBrown) July 3, 2023

Reading this thread from an incredibly brave woman and you see how the trans panic distracts from the issues we face.

There've been thousands of tweets full of hate, cruelty & attempts at ridicule directed at me this week. But it's #Pride weekend, queers are & always will be queers, and you can't erase us. Here's me & my kid having fun watching @AidaHDeeDrag story time at #Pride yesterday. https://t.co/WrQXaWznx0 pic.twitter.com/Nq2iddnyjx

— Mika Minio-Paluello (@mikaminio) July 2, 2023

Katharine Birbalsingh's tweets becoming increasingly dril-like

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F0DRkkKXoAEb7ZC?format=jpg&name=900x900

thanks mainly to "withering financial support from Central Government" the respite centre at the NAS run Robert Ogden school is closing at extremely short notice. It's just a small regional story of austerity stripping away essential services, but it will be devastating for lots of young autistic people and their carers. My heart nearly stopped when I got told a muddled version of events and thought they were closing the school, but it is still awfully sad. Anyway, fuck this heartless right-wing tory country and all its garbage political parties.

Will Hutton: love water companies. Social business.

Pollution released by Thames Water turned river black, court hears https://t.co/tz71Kvtyyx

— BBC News (UK) (@BBCNews) July 3, 2023

doesn't look like we've mentioned farage's latest debacle yet. 'the woke banks are all out to get me'...

it was mentioned on the Novashite Media thread. Just another opportunity for the bbc to interview their favourite blustering racist about a non-story. Or as Bastani would have it - it's a serious civil rights issue.

these fuckers

Society is broken when these people feel confident to say these things on camera with their faces uncovered pic.twitter.com/GyRxILUuPR

— Mic Wright is reporting. (@brokenbottleboy) July 4, 2023

This is another one, it does sound like some lame landlords are getting screwed.

Turns out he’s getting absolutely hammered pic.twitter.com/B9Li5h8F53

— Mike Cosgrove (@mikecosgrove) July 4, 2023

"smashing the class ceiling"

hackneyed soundbite about adding elocution lessons to the national curriculum. I think funding free school meals would be a better idea. It's not like as if loads of kids start talking in an rp voice then structural inequalities will be broken through, more fucking insipid shite from the Labour brains trust.

It's surprising how often I still hear quite intelligent people say things like 'not long till we get the Tories out'.

I seem to be more unusual than I had thought in thinking that the potential replacement government is equally bad.

I think I'd actually prefer Hunt continuing as the scared-to-break-anything post Truss chancellor over Reeves, she seems like a ruthlessly malevolent psychopath and she might actually have some dangerous ideas about dealing with the *economically inactive*. i.e. ppl like me!

(xxp) He surely didn't mention elocution lessons did he? I did hear him droning on this morning about how his dad was a toolfitter or whatever he supposedly was. Like anyone gives a fuck.

"The ability to speak well and express yourself should be something that every child is entitled to and should master,"

"But the curriculum doesn't allow us to provide this. This is short-sighted. An inability to articulate your thoughts fluently is a key barrier to getting on and thriving in life.

ironic given the lawyer-bureaucrat-politician verbal mush he spouts

Yes. He does not talk fluently at all.

I think the policy is about communicating confidently rather than actually elocution, but maybe working class kids would communicate more confidently if anyone listened or cared about what they had to say when they spoke? Idk I’m not a big brain Labour leader though.

A lot of MPs articulating their wants in the HoC.

EXC - In rare move, parliamentary aide goes on record to say she’s “very angry” with harassment & sexual misconduct around HoC. 25yr old Ellie Varley says she was asked to sit on MP’s lap & felt she had no choice but to do so “to get him off my case” 1/ https://t.co/wXTZKtAN5k

— Sima Kotecha (@sima_kotecha) July 5, 2023

Starmer claims Just Stop Oil are 'riddled with arrogance' and says he can't wait for their protests to stop

Some people have too many rights eh Keef

Fantastic!

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one of the youngsters placed behind Starmer for his education speech starts heckling him about watering down the £28bn green promise - before being escorted off the premises pic.twitter.com/TReh2wD9RW

— Jim Pickard 🐋 (@PickardJE) July 6, 2023

when your props aren't supposed to talk back

“Wish I could tase you, bro”

"which side are the labour party on?"

"we are on the side of economic growth"