itv just covered starmer speech without mentioning the protest at all
― koogs, Thursday, 6 July 2023 21:19 (one year ago) link
despite the video upthread being from itv Twitter
― koogs, Thursday, 6 July 2023 21:20 (one year 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 (one year 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 (one year 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 (one year ago) link
The communist revolution in 2035 is another chance.
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 7 July 2023 07:29 (one year 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 (one year ago) link
Ditto.
― Foot Heads Arms Body (Tom D.), Friday, 7 July 2023 09:12 (one year 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 (one year 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 (one year 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 (one year 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 (one year 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 (one year ago) link
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?
― (picnic, lightning) very very frightening (Chinaski), Friday, 7 July 2023 11:36 (one year ago) link
Obviously what we need is four times as many Ofsted inspections.
― Foot Heads Arms Body (Tom D.), Friday, 7 July 2023 11:55 (one year ago) link
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”
― Tracer Hand, Friday, 7 July 2023 11:59 (one year ago) link
IN KEEPING with
Scottish government wants drug possession to be legalhttps://t.co/XZQxyfOfoN— BBC Scotland News (@BBCScotlandNews) July 7, 2023
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 7 July 2023 12:25 (one year ago) link
a rational and necessary legal change that will no doubt be met with thoughtful discussion from the other parties and the media
― orcas who sign their posts like it's a freaking email (Noodle Vague), Friday, 7 July 2023 12:56 (one year ago) link
> 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?
― koogs, Friday, 7 July 2023 14:18 (one year ago) link
You will be thanked for your contribution to the debate ofc
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 7 July 2023 14:50 (one year ago) link
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"
― orcas who sign their posts like it's a freaking email (Noodle Vague), Friday, 7 July 2023 15:02 (one year ago) link
The speech equivalent of covering up your tattoos (if they're not hands or face)
― Andrew Farrell, Friday, 7 July 2023 16:39 (one year ago) link
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.
― calzino, Friday, 7 July 2023 18:01 (one year ago) link
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 teacherHis 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
― Grandall Flange (wins), Friday, 7 July 2023 18:11 (one year ago) link
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
― calzino, Friday, 7 July 2023 18:20 (one year ago) link
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.
― Foot Heads Arms Body (Tom D.), Friday, 7 July 2023 18:28 (one year ago) link
that might have been his "humble toolmaker" dad, who Starmer is loath to mention - was actually the fucking senior management of this factory!
― calzino, Friday, 7 July 2023 18:31 (one year ago) link
the humble toolmaker created one hell of a tool tbh
― NickB, Friday, 7 July 2023 18:57 (one year ago) link
it just makes me think if we'd had the equivalent of Mao's cultural revolution in the UK, his dad might have got thrown off a bridge or beaten to death by an angry mob before he had a chance to conceive him!
― calzino, Friday, 7 July 2023 19:32 (one year ago) link
Get him, Rishi!
So after promising a new era of "integrity" and "grown up" politics, Rishi Sunak now plans to resurrect exactly the same disgraceful smears used by Boris Johnson against his opponents. pic.twitter.com/G4eoXcKzNU— Adam Bienkov (@AdamBienkov) July 8, 2023
― xyzzzz__, Saturday, 8 July 2023 18:32 (one year ago) link
I love disgraceful smears - but tbf this cunt was DPP and Savile DID NOT get prosecuted under his watch - so fair game.
― calzino, Saturday, 8 July 2023 18:41 (one year ago) link
the Starmer fans will be posting about how close Savile was with Thatcher and the Conservative Party, oooh you've got them there.
― calzino, Saturday, 8 July 2023 18:53 (one year ago) link
Well, Starmer publicly agreed with his party's attack ad that implied that Sunak personally wanted paedos to get lighter sentences, based off the legal guidelines that Sir Keir was involved in drafting.
Live by the sword, get shanked.
Also when you have made lying like a snake your personal brand, you can't complain about any dirty tricks.
― glumdalclitch, Saturday, 8 July 2023 18:59 (one year ago) link
Apologies to my snake brethren, you are without any hyperbole morally and spiritually superior to Sir Keir Starmer
― glumdalclitch, Saturday, 8 July 2023 19:01 (one year ago) link
Sir Kieth must apologise
― orcas who sign their posts like it's a freaking email (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 8 July 2023 19:15 (one year ago) link
As the world records its hottest ever week, Labour sources brief the Sunday Times that Keir Starmer "hates tree huggers" and wants to ditch the party's green agenda pic.twitter.com/8XIrbNZFVT— Adam Bienkov (@AdamBienkov) July 9, 2023
lol we're all very much gonna die
― orcas who sign their posts like it's a freaking email (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 9 July 2023 09:59 (one year ago) link
Just the stupidest cunt imaginable
Oh no. I'm going to go all whiny centrist dad. But I can't help it. This is just a horrible thing to do on someone's wedding. Just maybe leave them the fuck alone. https://t.co/vxcmaWeBMk— Ian Dunt (@IanDunt) July 9, 2023
― half the population ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ (gyac), Sunday, 9 July 2023 10:32 (one year ago) link
Oh the humanity! Someone's attacked George Osborne with confetti!
― Foot Heads Arms Body (Tom D.), Sunday, 9 July 2023 10:38 (one year ago) link
this is a real 'If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face for ever' of an image
https://i.imgur.com/q1MrGcQ.png
― he thinks it's chinese money (soref), Sunday, 9 July 2023 10:38 (one year ago) link
New campaign song.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BLalJpRsrGQ
― Foot Heads Arms Body (Tom D.), Sunday, 9 July 2023 10:42 (one year ago) link
it's just a pity they weren't throwing confetti at Gideon's funeral
― calzino, Sunday, 9 July 2023 10:43 (one year ago) link
The cause of Labour is the no hope of the world
― he thinks it's chinese money (soref), Sunday, 9 July 2023 10:45 (one year ago) link
Dunt is toxic jelly
― orcas who sign their posts like it's a freaking email (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 9 July 2023 10:59 (one year ago) link
Bet you Dorian agrees with him. Hi Dorian! If you see this, you’re still a cunt!
― half the population ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ (gyac), Sunday, 9 July 2023 11:15 (one year ago) link
I genuinely thought this was a parody when I first saw it.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F0k396dXgAEmUdi.jpg
― Piedie Gimbel, Sunday, 9 July 2023 12:03 (one year ago) link
The melts are questioning the source but it's easily as likely to be Labour spin as it is those nasty Tories
― orcas who sign their posts like it's a freaking email (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 9 July 2023 12:04 (one year ago) link
even with a work of fictional dialogue they always have to portray Ed as the chumpish loser
― calzino, Sunday, 9 July 2023 12:35 (one year ago) link
https://twitter.com/BRYN_BORANGA/status/1678037291502120974?t=c6aG-AWH0KR50rcX9iyqVA&s=19
― the world is your octopus (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Sunday, 9 July 2023 13:59 (one year ago) link
twitter embeds broken now?
― the world is your octopus (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Sunday, 9 July 2023 14:00 (one year ago) link