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

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"

"thank you very much, thaaaank you very much, thaaank you very much, thaaank you"

polite!

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.

i wonder if any previous Labour governments took over a fucked economy and achieved anything

“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

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.

tough on poverty, tough on people in poverty

lmao

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

God what a cunt. Good on them

Cannot get over the repeated 'thank you v much'. What a fucking piece of cardboard.

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?

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?

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

yeah, I had no idea that he died in Leeds as well

Wow.

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.

i just remember his death was announced quite a while after he'd passed away

oh yeah, that as well

itv just covered starmer speech without mentioning the protest at all

despite the video upthread being from itv Twitter

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 56

A girl who "[can't] even stand up" can't consenthttps://t.co/doxnwdpWFx

— Seph Hallow (@SephHallow) July 7, 2023

I've got no idea what's going on here but my mind is somewhat blown by George Osborne being only 52.

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 communist revolution in 2035 is another chance.

Osborne is a very bad man but god the style of that email, couldn't finish it

Ditto.

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

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

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

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

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.

I just typed a long post about our last Ofsted inspection but eh, what's the point? The whole process is cunty, for all involved. I could be generous and say some of the outcomes were positive but the way it's delivered is so ugly. Anyone who has been in contact with the process is scarred by it. Why does no one listen to this?

Obviously what we need is four times as many Ofsted inspections.

this is entirely with Starmer’s annoying middle manager character sheet

“senior leadership feel the business will operate better if we have 4 performance reviews per year”

IN KEEPING with

Scottish government wants drug possession to be legalhttps://t.co/XZQxyfOfoN

— BBC Scotland News (@BBCScotlandNews) July 7, 2023

a rational and necessary legal change that will no doubt be met with thoughtful discussion from the other parties and the media

> speaking lessons so poor kids can pass as middle class.

what if they use their new found assertiveness to point out your own hypocrisy at u-turns in eco promises?

You will be thanked for your contribution to the debate ofc

i was gonna say "oratory" instead of "speaking lessons" but i suspect that what's proposed isn't anything as sophisticated as oratory, it will literally be "being appropriate at work"

The speech equivalent of covering up your tattoos (if they're not hands or face)

Feeling despair and hopelessness because of the gross inequities of the UK class system and from a poor background? You need to ingratiate yourself with people who consider you a lower class of lifeform by talking like a total prick - that's all that is preventing you from becoming a useful person.

As has already been posted, you couldn't find a worse example of a person (re: their oratory skills) to announce a garbage policy like this. Nothing about student fees and grants for students from poor backgrounds or free school meals. I wouldn't vote Labour if someone tried to force me to at gunpoint.

For a foresmic King’s Counsel he is an incredibly weak public speaker, flubs like “the family outstairs” quite common in prepared speeches, easily rattled, general mien of a supply teacher

His poor articulation doesn’t seem to have impeded his opportunities much but I’m sure it’s all that’s standing in the way of poor BAME kids and nothing else needs to be addressed ever

yeah I wonder if talking fluently in an establishment approved style will shield BAME kids from racist police officers who abuse their stop and search powers

You forget Starmer comes from a Four Yorkshiremen Sketch background where his entire family spoke in inarticulate grunts and he was the first in his family to master human speech.

that might have been his "humble toolmaker" dad, who Starmer is loath to mention - was actually the fucking senior management of this factory!

the humble toolmaker created one hell of a tool tbh