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

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

That story about lawyers facing possible life imprisonment for helping "illegal migrants" doesn't seem to have been reported anywhere.

https://www.gov.uk/government/speeches/minister-jenricks-statement-on-illegal-migration

barest of coverage on the bbc, just the relevant bit of bbc parliament footage.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001qnkp

in fact the most recent match for jenrick is a piece about how asylum seekers are *enjoying* bibby stockholm (said article doesn't really back up the headline)

Not mentioned by anyone in the Labour Party either - though that doesn't surprise me. And to think we look down our noses at Orban and Trump.

Maybe it's because many interpret it as him saying if you help someone commit fraud you are also doing a crime which...everyone already knows to be a law. I guess Jenrick may be dense enough to genuinely want to try jailing lawyers who fail to successfully defend their clients though, if they fit the profile.

i'm not sure whether the "life" bit was a misspeak or if it's being ignored because even in this fascist shithole nobody seriously thinks this will happen so fuck that showboating cunt

There is a bleak deja vu seeing these front pages again. It is no better than a mob with a pitchfork. Love to every disabled person having to read this bile again. You are worth more than any journalist or minister finding scapegoats for their own gain. pic.twitter.com/MW4gmr4uWY

— Frances Ryan (@DrFrancesRyan) September 6, 2023

sadly it's just the same ideas Labour were talking up back in January, so more disabled people will end up dead no matter who wins the next GE

Liz Kendall has been promoted as DWP head so...

Think there's about 1.6 million people total of working age who aren't employed

Absolutely hilarious. "Tweets" and Harry Potter running through this like a cancer. Shame she can't be kicked out bcz Transphobia.

https://unherd.com/2023/09/the-dark-art-of-toadying-to-starmer/

a real line by line insight into the darkness but weirdly i don't mean Kieth's

Duffield's article manages to be worse, much worse, than I would have imagined.

My recollection is that she owes her position, of which she is so openly proud, to JC and Momentum activists campaigning for her in the past. She now routinely attacks them.

she does not strike me as somebody capable of self-reflection

She is attacking the current lot. Not sure how that works out, she clearly doesn't want to be an MP.

Yeah the summary appears to be "I am committed above all else to wrecking"

couching her bitterness in all that Harry Potter shite is quite embarrassing. Isn't she effectively saying she didn't play the game so got no cabinet promotion - then why be surprised? Like she's a cut above these dickheads and shouldn't have to grovel - lol she's a fucking appalling human being even by Labour Party standards

As Calzino says, the Potter element lowers it even further than it would otherwise be, in its strange, infantile, dated way.

Isn't Duffield actually too old to be into Potter? I mean, even to have been into it as a child, or something?

Lot of adults got into it reading it with their kids. I mean, they're still lamers, but I understand the process.

I hate to break it to you, pinefox, but some adults actually read Harry Potter books too.

(xp)

I've read all the Potter books but it's ok I've got nothing positive to say about them

Isn't she effectively saying she didn't play the game so got no cabinet promotion - then why be surprised? Like she's a cut above these dickheads and shouldn't have to grovel - lol she's a fucking appalling human being even by Labour Party standards

― vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Thursday, 7 September 2023 bookmarkflaglink

The party have become more Transphobic in part to appease the likes of Duffield, but the entitlement and ego are gigantic with her. Serving constituents isn't enough.

You can never appease people like that until a law's been pushed through so being transgender is punishable by lengthy jail sentences, just more evidence of weak leadership.

the British left when the Legacy Bill passes ensuring their soldiers are immune from prosecution for crimes in Ireland: Shaquille O'Neal fast asleep meme

British left when it's time to defend dogs attacking children: Shaq wide awake, eyes glowing, REAL SHIT

— Brian Davey (@b_davey) September 10, 2023

Don't think it's to appease Duffield, a bitter sidelined no mark, so much as Mid England en masse.

“I don’t think it will make up for the pain I suffered at the time.”

Alfie Meadows - who was struck in the head with a police baton thirteen years ago during a protest - explains how he feels after receiving a six-figure compensation package from the Metropolitan Police. pic.twitter.com/xo0dQaZhoh

— Channel 4 News (@Channel4News) September 15, 2023

Does feel like the pigs are paying a lot of people off in an attempt to clean up.

Truss seems to be launching a campaign to push Tory economic policy to the ultra-right, and i strongly suspect this is happening at the behest of at least some section of the government

i.e. she's acting as a herald for what Sunak wants, or she's fronting for another internal coup

Latter I would say.

Insane how a 40 day failure isn't shutting her up.

Families and businesses are being squeezed under the highest tax burden since the Second World War. Cutting taxes would put more money in people's pockets. #IfGTruss pic.twitter.com/CiFryAFQCq

— Liz Truss (@trussliz) September 18, 2023

thinking about thos high-net-worth individuals

this is why it feels like it's not *just* a personal hobbyhorse. i get strong vibes that she represents interests

Great strategy so far - just say the exact same shit as you did before becoming PM after all it worked that time.

"As Conservatives we must make the case for less government intervention"

"There should be no official recognition of social transitioning for under-18s and single sex spaces should be protected in schools. The Government should issue guidance to schools urgently to make this clear."

ah yes companies are relocating because of high tax and not because of brexit or nuffink

well i'm relocating because of the lack of protected single sex spaces in my workplace. i've HAD IT!

speaking of brexit, starmer is going to rescue us from the soylent green factories of sunak's broken britain:

Sir Keir Starmer has promised to seek a major rewrite of Britain’s Brexit deal in 2025 if the Labour party wins the next general election, saying he owes it to his children to rebuild relations with the EU.

Starmer told the Financial Times that he would put a closer trading relationship with Brussels and a new partnership with business at the heart of his efforts to bolster Britain’s economic growth.

Britain’s Trade and Cooperation Agreement with the EU, negotiated by former prime minister Boris Johnson, is due for review in 2025 and Starmer said he saw this as an “important” moment to reset relations.

“Almost everyone recognises the deal Johnson struck is not a good deal — it’s far too thin,” he said in an interview. “As we go into 2025 we will attempt to get a much better deal for the UK.”

he also goes on to say:

But Starmer said: “We have to make it work. That’s not a question of going back in. But I refuse to accept that we can’t make it work. I think about those future generations when I say that.

“I say that as a dad. I’ve got a 15-year-old boy and a 12-year-old girl. I’m not going to let them grow up in a world where all I’ve got to say to them about their future is, it’s going to be worse than it might otherwise have been. I’ve got an utter determination to make this work.”

speaking as a dad, your environment polices are going to ensure my daughter's future is short and miserable you fucking cunt

this is why it feels like it's not *just* a personal hobbyhorse. i get strong vibes that she represents interests

― whatever happened to gravy brain? (Noodle Vague), Monday, 18 September 2023 bookmarkflaglink

Not sure really. She does represent interests and they backed a winner that turned into a loss in 40 days.

No idea why anyone would back her now.