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

twirling, twirling, twirling towards freedom!

post Truss, they all know it doesn't matter how embarrassing, widely mocked and self-debasing their conference speeches are - they've still got a shot at leadership.

it's true people seem to have forgotten all the bizarre shit thatcher came out with on a daily basis

Ok this government is fucked

Mate you need to tell your photoshop team to bear in mind that when they search for stock images, "UK" also stands for University of Kentucky. https://t.co/1iuvCBcjSb

— Ledbury Dan (@LedburyGas) October 5, 2023

Step one. Seize the land, demolish homes and businesses.
Step two: Sell off the land for billions of pounds and take the profits elsewhere. https://t.co/MKZhITAUGP

— Richard Osley (@RichardOsley) October 5, 2023

RIP the Bree Louise

Turns out there are University of Kentucky fans in Cornwall, UK government to last 100 years

Sorry that was in response to Alphie's first link there, which is now dead - a recent picture of Rishi and some delighted fans looked like a bad (subject) photoshop when it's probably just a bad (methods) photoshop.

They may or may not be from the UK and he may or may not have met them, but its certainly a photoshop... pic.twitter.com/BOIRT5Qnpg

— David (@WondrousDavid) October 5, 2023

Correct number of fingers = That'll do

That’s not exactly a given with tories

they should have mirked up the teeth a bit

we've probably got the worst, most unaffordable dental care system of the G7, so no point shopping these young happy looking descendents of the Mayfair pilgrims with pearly white smiles!

lol Mayfair ... I meant Mayflower

top-shelf dental care

Saw Mayfair Pilgrims during the Onka's Big Mocha tour. Great days.

I just had a filling today where half the tooth had broken off and the dentist put's a huge glob of dental cement on it and sculps it into something resembling a full tooth. £180 it cost me and his parting comment was basically "it's looking solid, but try not to use it too much"

😬

Are you sure this was an actual dentist?

well he was wearing a cowboy hat. Tbh he seemed better than my last dentist, two of his fillings failed on me. Because this was an urgent care appointment that I was paying for, the lack of contempt I used to get as an NHS patient was quite noticeable.

the proper option would be to get it crowned but that's effing £600

as i’ve gotten older i’ve taken out dental insurance and it’s already paid for itself many times over. my teeth are a fucking disaster zone

I use to be quite shocked and saddened at losing a tooth like it was a death in the family or something. Now I'm just like.. hey ho.. there goes another of the fuckers

English dentists:

My dentist can do it all, from a simple cleaning to identifying my charred remains

— josh (oldfriend99) (@oldfriend99) November 18, 2017

The white van drivers tho'

this is surely bad politics? He ought to be planning-blighting that land like [tasteless historical simile removed]. Just say "we'll be needing that land in less than eighteen months so don't go building anything you'd be sad to see knocked down" https://t.co/jf3W9n1foQ

— Dan Davies (@dsquareddigest) October 5, 2023

Don't know specifics but first impression is that a 30% turnout at the next election is great for the Lab right

Rutherglen was a high profile by-election and the main political parties will have channelled huge resources into it.

A 37% turnout is grim. It’s 13% lower than the average Westminster by-election in recent decades, and nearly 30% lower than turnout at the last general election.

— Miriam Brett (@MiriamBrett) October 6, 2023

it's ok because some passionate centrist radicals are pointing out that the entire constituency are druggies and scum

Who was the leader when Labour last won the seat from the SNP? On a 63.5% turnout, without the advantage of the last SNP MP being convicted of breaking COVID rules? Without the SNP being mired in financial scandals and led by a donkey? Why, only the Evil Jeremy Crippen!

I'm not sure that all tracks - the turnout was even higher when the seat was lost in 2019. You're absolutely right that no-one seems to want to consider the circumstances of the recall - Scotland's first. But Labour only lost 700 votes from 2019, SNP lost 15k, Tories 7k, even the Lib Dems found 2k to lose - I don't like it but it's a Labour win.

pleased to say i did my part in contributing to that dismal turnout yesterday

winning by default is just worthless cynical opportunism. Failing to make a credible case of why more people should gaf about voting for your garbage party is not a plan and it will come back and bite them hard. The apathy might bring them to power for one electoral cycle, and then they'll get wiped out next time and it will serve them right.

Lol @ green party linking to this piece arguing against HS2 that uses Concorde as an example of worthless infrastructure

#HS2

Even in far larger nations, “Sometimes, the auditors concluded, a better solution would have been “upgrading existing conventional lines”, but this had seldom even been considered.”https://t.co/fpmsUs2Mt7

— Natalie Bennett (@natalieben) October 5, 2023

And the money from cutting HS2 won't be used for an upgrade. These greens also need their heads chopped off

sometimes they make it really hard to adopt them as a Labour alternative

They just aren't that, though in Scotland they seem to be a bit more lined up with those principles.

i consider them an alternative to the extent that it would be nice to mark the refusal to vote for Labour by transferring the votes elsewhere

i know in my heart all parliamentary politics is futile, obv

I'll probably go through the rest of my life without ever voting again but it would nice to leave some permanent mark on the electoral stats, that resoundingly says fuck off die Labour without actually voting for any of the other awful parties.

You will never get that seat mate

At a time when socialists should be calling for restraint, and condemning attacks on civilians, the leader of the Progressive International tweets this: there are two Labour MPs plus @jeremycorbyn on the Council of PI - they should resign immediately 👇🏽 pic.twitter.com/vFoL2oflzW

— Paul Mason (@paulmasonnews) October 7, 2023

it doesn’t really matter which wet losers on the British left are decrying the resistance offensive because thankfully Palestine is being liberated by it’s own people

— Nihal | نهال (@nihalist___) October 7, 2023

BREAKING: Foreign Secretary James Cleverly runs for cover in Israel after siren warning of incoming rocket fire goes offhttps://t.co/Itk5K8jytO

— Sky News (@SkyNews) October 11, 2023

would that be a casualty it's ok to celebrate?

Another one who has been zapped by Jezza's lawyers.

I have deleted the tweet and I am happy to retract that comment to correct the record. I apologise for any damage caused to Jeremy Corbyn's reputation

— Rachel Cunliffe (@RMCunliffe) October 11, 2023

Bizarre.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/oct/12/snp-mp-lisa-cameron-defects-tory-party-toxic-bullying-treatment

Apparently she is no longer backing independence as it's too "divisive"

Who'd hae thocht?

it's almost as if being a politician is a career path for some people and the pay, conditions and sense of importance are the motivators rather than actually believing in anything

Imagine seeing the Tory party as a bully-free zone.

I am devastated by the ongoing violence in Palestine and Israel. My statement: pic.twitter.com/9e4vy4Cd9w

— Zarah Sultana MP (@zarahsultana) October 12, 2023

Reliable as ever. My what a lot of bluetick non-entities in the replies.

A reliable source of gammonati blocks.

The U.K. immigration minister is threatening deportation, on national security grounds, for expressing solidarity for Palestinian liberation…which the government is equating with support for Hamas https://t.co/kupBDxuUCW

— Yaz (@ontologoff) October 13, 2023