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
― xyzzzz__, Monday, 3 July 2023 20:05 (one year ago) link
doesn't look like we've mentioned farage's latest debacle yet. 'the woke banks are all out to get me'...
― koogs, Wednesday, 5 July 2023 08:10 (eleven months ago) link
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.
― calzino, Wednesday, 5 July 2023 08:15 (eleven months ago) link
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
― the world is your octopus (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Wednesday, 5 July 2023 08:27 (eleven months ago) link
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
― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 5 July 2023 15:24 (eleven months ago) link
"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.
― calzino, Thursday, 6 July 2023 08:11 (eleven months ago) link
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.
― the pinefox, Thursday, 6 July 2023 08:15 (eleven months ago) link
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!
― calzino, Thursday, 6 July 2023 08:34 (eleven months ago) link
(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.
― Foot Heads Arms Body (Tom D.), Thursday, 6 July 2023 08:40 (eleven months ago) link
"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.
"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.
― calzino, Thursday, 6 July 2023 08:42 (eleven months ago) link
ironic given the lawyer-bureaucrat-politician verbal mush he spouts
― Critique of the Goth Programme (Neil S), Thursday, 6 July 2023 08:50 (eleven months ago) link
Yes. He does not talk fluently at all.
― the pinefox, Thursday, 6 July 2023 08:52 (eleven months ago) link
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.
― half the population ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ (gyac), Thursday, 6 July 2023 08:59 (eleven months ago) link
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
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 6 July 2023 09:26 (eleven months ago) link
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
― nashwan, Thursday, 6 July 2023 10:23 (eleven months ago) link
Fantastic!
🚨🚨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
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 6 July 2023 10:37 (eleven months ago) link
when your props aren't supposed to talk back
― orcas who sign their posts like it's a freaking email (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 6 July 2023 10:49 (eleven months ago) link
“Wish I could tase you, bro”
― half the population ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ (gyac), Thursday, 6 July 2023 10:55 (eleven months ago) link
"which side are the labour party on?"
"we are on the side of economic growth"
― conrad, Thursday, 6 July 2023 11:05 (eleven months ago) link
"thank you very much, thaaaank you very much, thaaank you very much, thaaank you"
polite!
― conrad, Thursday, 6 July 2023 11:07 (eleven months ago) link
Starmer says, if Labour takes power, it will inherit an economy that is badly damaged. It won’t be like 1997, he says.
I guess when you're *double digits* ahead you can aim this low.
― nashwan, Thursday, 6 July 2023 11:10 (eleven months ago) link
i wonder if any previous Labour governments took over a fucked economy and achieved anything
― orcas who sign their posts like it's a freaking email (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 6 July 2023 11:32 (eleven months ago) link
“We can’t do anything good because of the mess we inherited from the previous lot” is 2010 Tory austerity chat, literally the exact same line. I don’t know how much more evidence anyone needs of the cunt continuity we’re saddled with whatever happens at the GE but some ppl love to get their wallets inspected
― Grandall Flange (wins), Thursday, 6 July 2023 12:25 (eleven months ago) link
Due to rate rises and gilt market stuff there probably is a lot of pressure on what the chancellor/Treasury can do. Even if we had an anti-austerity chancellor it might've been difficult.
Though there are things government can do to alleviate poverty and we could put in rent controls.
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 6 July 2023 12:40 (eleven months ago) link
tough on poverty, tough on people in poverty
― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 6 July 2023 12:49 (eleven months ago) link
lmao
― vexingvexillologist, Thursday, 6 July 2023 13:26 (eleven months ago) link
Found a better video :)
Sir Keir Starmer's major education speech is disrupted by climate protesters who ask him if he'll reinstate Labour's pledge to commit £28bn to tackling climate change pic.twitter.com/2OlSYwIP1c— ITV News Politics (@ITVNewsPolitics) July 6, 2023
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 6 July 2023 14:21 (eleven months ago) link
God what a cunt. Good on them
― Grandall Flange (wins), Thursday, 6 July 2023 15:48 (eleven months ago) link
Cannot get over the repeated 'thank you v much'. What a fucking piece of cardboard.
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 6 July 2023 16:31 (eleven months ago) link
Because Luke’s been telling everyone what happened that night in 2019. With you and that girl in a toilet cubicle. That girl who couldn’t even stand up. Remember her?
― LaMDA barry-stanners (||||||||), Thursday, 6 July 2023 19:46 (eleven months ago) link
How about that little girl in Bruton you came across that night? Remember that? Did you know she’d only just turned 16? How old were you then, George, 49?
― LaMDA barry-stanners (||||||||), Thursday, 6 July 2023 19:48 (eleven months ago) link
Bumped his own thread but i had no idea that MF Doom's death was an NHS fuck-up or that he had died in Leeds:
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2023/jul/06/leeds-hospital-trust-apologises-after-rapper-mf-doom-died-in-its-care?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
― NickB, Thursday, 6 July 2023 20:42 (eleven months ago) link
yeah, I had no idea that he died in Leeds as well
― calzino, Thursday, 6 July 2023 20:54 (eleven months ago) link
Wow.
― Foot Heads Arms Body (Tom D.), Thursday, 6 July 2023 20:59 (eleven months ago) link
actually flashing back here. I think I remember being surprised that he had died in Leeds at the time when it was mentioned in various obits, but had completely forgotten this.
― calzino, Thursday, 6 July 2023 21:03 (eleven months ago) link
i just remember his death was announced quite a while after he'd passed away
― NickB, Thursday, 6 July 2023 21:05 (eleven months ago) link
oh yeah, that as well
― calzino, Thursday, 6 July 2023 21:12 (eleven months ago) link
itv just covered starmer speech without mentioning the protest at all
― koogs, Thursday, 6 July 2023 21:19 (eleven months ago) link
despite the video upthread being from itv Twitter
― koogs, Thursday, 6 July 2023 21:20 (eleven months ago) link
not sure if I can share it directly on here, but this tweet has a link to the George Osborne email people are talking about this morning
George Osborne is a political piece of shit, sure, but a part of the email that I've not seen a single comment on yet is the rape accusation on line 56A girl who "[can't] even stand up" can't consenthttps://t.co/doxnwdpWFx— Seph Hallow (@SephHallow) July 7, 2023
― the world is your octopus (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 7 July 2023 06:53 (eleven months ago) link
I've got no idea what's going on here but my mind is somewhat blown by George Osborne being only 52.
― Foot Heads Arms Body (Tom D.), Friday, 7 July 2023 07:11 (eleven months ago) link
it's an anonymous email sent to all the guests at his wedding + apparently everyone in tory politics & the media. so gossip about an utter cunt circulated among a load of other cunts. however does contain some very serious allegations and probably the best shot he has at any consequences for his crimes
― the world is your octopus (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 7 July 2023 07:25 (eleven months ago) link
The communist revolution in 2035 is another chance.
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 7 July 2023 07:29 (eleven months ago) link
Osborne is a very bad man but god the style of that email, couldn't finish it
― orcas who sign their posts like it's a freaking email (Noodle Vague), Friday, 7 July 2023 07:40 (eleven months ago) link
Ditto.
― Foot Heads Arms Body (Tom D.), Friday, 7 July 2023 09:12 (eleven months ago) link
teachers retire early because of Ofsted, a teacher even killed herself because of Ofsted. The inspectors usually don’t have a clue about teaching. Absolutely insane this. What a way to get literally every single teacher out on the picket line https://t.co/rud3gHE1Ss— tom (@tomrade_) July 7, 2023
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 7 July 2023 09:56 (eleven months ago) link
Ofsted, like means testing, is at the core of right wing Labour DNA. it's all about the managerialism, bureaucracy, "playing by the rules", respectability. this whole insulting speaking lessons so poor kids can pass as middle class. when Labourites talk about aspiration what they mean is everybody should aspire to join the bourgeoisie, and if you don't then you can be happily ignored and left to your service jobs, serving the aspirational well-spoken real people
― orcas who sign their posts like it's a freaking email (Noodle Vague), Friday, 7 July 2023 10:55 (eleven months ago) link
and the education system that offers nothing except prepping tools for their appropriate slot in the workforce isn't wrong-headed, it just needs MORE utilitarianism, more league tables, more outcomes, more numbers
― orcas who sign their posts like it's a freaking email (Noodle Vague), Friday, 7 July 2023 10:57 (eleven months ago) link
once my year 6 son finished his SATs suddenly school was such a happier place, teachers taught what they wanted, kids were suddenly engaged and interested
― Tracer Hand, Friday, 7 July 2023 11:06 (eleven months ago) link
I had an Ofsted inspector on the phone earlier. My son has been selected as a sample student to observe at the SEND college he attends. When the college have been crap I've been quick to let them know about it, but they are doing a great job now. Still I'd never say anything negative or critical about the college to an inspector, that would be nasty. The poor staff have had them in since yesterday now and all seem on high levels of stressed outness.
― calzino, Friday, 7 July 2023 11:15 (eleven months ago) link