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

having an 11 week meltdown over a denied peerage is pretty funny!

OTM. Also sticking the boot right into that grinning jackass Sunak.

it's the children i feel sorry for...

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F4wyj7PWEAAs6T1?format=png&name=360x360

do you want to be in his gang

depressing that the "I should be able to drive my car wherever I want even if it means suffocating and running over toddlers" lobby has become the single most powerful voice in British politics

Another day, another unhinged Torygraph front page.

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at least the pro-pollution lobby now have their leader of the gang!

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at least the pro-pollution lobby now have their leader of the gang!

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This guy was cheering on the Lib Dems at the last election, and now he’s been selected to stand as a Labour MP.

Meanwhile, left wing members are being banished from Labour for liking a Green Party tweet in 2012.

The hypocrisy of the Labour right knows no bounds! https://t.co/yjuk4lnXwt pic.twitter.com/opKO9EH7DC

— Phil Gould 🇵🇸🖕🥁 (@bongosaloon) August 30, 2023

you reckon i could crowdfund £10k for the express purpose of bribing the Labour Party to do some funny shit? now we know how cheaply they can be bought....

— wariotifo (@wariotifo) August 31, 2023

Ofc, these are Labour right MPs setting themselves up for jobs in privatised entities and consultancy work. They are setting policy now and taking care of their future.

Didn't know we were at war.

A couple of Tory backbenchers not happy with Grant Shapps being appointed Defense Secretary.

Sam Coates: "This man doesn't get across detail & only cares about photos & gimmicky press releases... what a wasted opportunity"

"He sold encyclopedias. It's a joke given we're at war" pic.twitter.com/tiG89dWQoJ

— Haggis_UK 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 (@Haggis_UK) August 31, 2023

we'm always at war

…on woke

We've always been at war with Eastasia.

🚨BREAKING: For the first time in NHS history, junior doctors and consultants will coordinate strike action in a major escalation.

4 joint days of strike action across September and October alongside additional days of strike action.

— Taj Ali (@Taj_Ali1) August 31, 2023

i recognise there's a bit of symbolic fun to be had but i can't remember the last time i gave less of a shit about a news story than RAAC concrete

Quite a meaty story for silly season maybe?

Definitely better than 10 minutes about some “AI popstar”

it's probably that there's some underlying conclusions to be drawn from the story that the news media have got no interest in covering

lmao

https://x.com/chuckgrassley/status/1697693257621442620?s=46&t=qPVoWeaBvuQlPo1UKf4yww

Senate Dems wake-up and take a cue fr British Labor Party. Read Shadow Chancellor of Exchequer Reeves interview in Telegraph No tax increases and no wealth tax. She is for wealth creation She feels u don’t tax ur way out economic prob. U grow ur way out. VERY REAGANESQUE

— Chuck Grassley (@ChuckGrassley) September 1, 2023

lol i just saw that, i'm sure the shadow cabinet are pleased with the endorsement tbh

I can't believe the republicans would admire such a vicious right-wing ghoul

oh yeah .. I mean I can believe it

a fucking Labour shadow chancellor espousing Reaganomics in the Torygraph. Do the GTTO crew think this anything other than terrible?

:-(

Young woman left fighting for her life after swimming in sewage-filled Pembrokeshire seahttps://t.co/0sFAchX5CU

— ITV News (@itvnews) September 2, 2023

Slater said the DfE told Treasury that to avoid this critical risk to life – including *kids'* lives - they needed to replace 300-400 schools/yr. Sunak would only pay for 100/yr, and then halved that to 50. This has the potential to be very, very damaging for the PM.

— Peter Walker (@peterwalker99) September 4, 2023

There was also something about them preferring to spend the money on building more "free" schools. Figures.

we could feed the dead children to the remaining children #outsidethebox

the tories treating us to more pancake days! UK schools are already dangerous enough with all the asbestos in the walls, ceilings, support posts and pipe lagging. Some of these schools should have been demolished decades ago - loads of the prefab ones are half a century beyond the 15 yr lifespan they were supposed to have when they were hastily knocked up in the 50's. Shithole country.

the school around the corner, the listed, goldfinger-designed school, has just had months of asbestos work done on it

the attack lines from a theoretically confident labour party finding its stride (lol) write themselves. there's a direct line from austerity to bonfire of the regs to theresa may skirting around the outside of the grenfell estate to this schools disaster. public services literally hollowed out from the inside. the tories literally didn't bother even pretending to deal with this until they were back from holiday.

possibly Labour are trying to work out how many of these buildings were built or ignored on their watch. but also any attack lines will have to be carefully worded to avoid promising to do anything about this in government

yes :/

the school buildings containing RAAC were built between the 50's and the 90's and it apparently was known to have a 30 year life span before becoming structurally unsafe. So Labour while in govt have been equally negligent here.

This is a load of bollocks isn't it? She's trying to be jonathan fucking pie.

Education secretary Gillian Keegan is recorded on camera saying others ‘have been sat on their a***s’ on schools Raac crisis and shares frustration about not being thanked for doing ‘a f***ing good job’https://t.co/c02gI4dXiM pic.twitter.com/jWbYTVZl5D

— ITV News Politics (@ITVNewsPolitics) September 4, 2023

to be fair the tories axed school renovations already in train - part of a broad investment in public schools from the labour govt - the instant they clubbed with clegg in 2010. here’s an article from that time.

https://www.theguardian.com/education/2010/jul/08/schools-building-michael-gove-public-anger

I saw a teachers' representative being interviewed this morning saying what we need is for the next Labour government to promise to reintroduce their school building programme which the Tories scrapped. I thought. "Don't hold your breath, mate".

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I believe that any of the potential Labour govts post 2010 (apart from when Corbyn was leader) would have done the same!

the excuse being made for Labour not making any pledges or manifesto commitments is that this huge lead Kieth is holding is a fragile ming vase that will shatter in his hands the minute he pledges that there won't be starving children under a Labour govt.

men who are afraid of commitment eh? typical

footy mad Kieth is very much committed to Arsenal. "Hurrah! Play up you magnificent gunners!" he shouts from the corporate box, ironically paid for by the arms industry.

lol, I'm old enough to remember when Starmer wouldn't even endorse Biden in 2020!

Birmingham city council has gone bust

It was going to happen to a big city soon enough. And Birmingham was always one of the likely candidates. Even the cities that have been very well run (Manchester, Leeds, very probably many others) are struggling now. Birmingham has at times made mistakes. They catch up. https://t.co/rQyVH0WjPu

— Tom Forth (@thomasforth) September 5, 2023

obv fuck the rapist enabling SWP forever but I do get a kick out of following the evolution of their posters, they are such brazen opportunists. For a while they were trying to associate themselves with Corbyn then after the elections there was a period of doing a lot of BLM type stuff. Now their latest is "From Oppenheimer To Today - A Socialist View on Nuclear Weapons". It's like one of those 60's producers who chased after every new trend with each single, except it's (barely) a political party.

lol, even with a pic of Cillian Murphy

seems a bit much

Robert Jenrick pushing this #ToryFascistDictatorship to the next level😏

Threatening LIFE IN PRISON to lawyers who help refugees which the government deem to be illegals

Somethings gone badly wrong in this country.

#GeneralElectionN0W pic.twitter.com/qLVWRJyB4m

— kerry ✊💙Save Our NHS (@hewitson10) September 5, 2023

I’m really happy I was just imagining contemporary anti-Irish sentiment 🥰🥰🥰

BREAK: Commons passes Bill to end historical prosecutions in Northern Ireland.

— David Blevins (@skydavidblevins) September 6, 2023

i wish i hadn't read the comments