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

No, the ones I’m thinking of were all on Cromer Street by McGlynn’s and The Boot. Also Derby Lodge on Britannia Street, just south of the station. There’s a fab documentary where Kenneth Williams tours the area in the 1970s because he was brought up there. The short life/ex-squat flats north of Euston Road were in Battle Bridge Road and Stanley Buildings (which I think was the one with ‘120 people live here’ because it’s on St Pancras Way.

i do wonder how much genuine ideological difference two people could sustain and still love each other

Well first you'd need genuine ideological views, which I think most people don't?

kinda what i was getting at Andrew, i'm sure there's plenty of "Tory"/"Labour" couples who don't really disagree about much at all

i'm about the furthest thing from a model for relationship advice but i cannot imagine sustaining love for somebody espousing the casual cruelty at the core of a lot of those parties' politics

Yeah, not disagreeing, sorry!

Suzy - is that Battle Bridge Place? I'm only roused to pedantry because I'm familiar with Battle Bridge Lane, which I know from being near another big station-adjacent regeneration by London Bridge.

i'm sure there's plenty of "Tory"/"Labour" couples who don't really disagree about much at all

I used to have a morbid fascination with Guardian columnbot Lucy Mangan, who got much mileage and column inches from fake exasperated stories of her Toryboy partner. Turned out her husband was former Director of Vote Leave and former DUP Chief of Staff, national conservative ghoul Chris Montgomery.

"Our relationship has never been built on raw physical attraction, but on a kind of sick, intellectual curiosity and an emotional masochism on both our parts that neither of us had hitherto suspected. Your expanding girth will hardly change that."

👀

Lucy Mangan is a terf.

bizarre that she is paid actual money to write that shit

and confirms my suspicion that any non-tory in a relationship with a tory is at the very least tory-curious

Polly Filla-style columnists are generally selected by editors who get fixated on some aspect of their personal life and/or social position, not for merit.

Apsana Begum MP
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Seeing the footage of Tower Hamlets students striking for Palestine this week, reminds of when I joined protests as a teenager, to oppose the Iraq war.

I am SO proud of our vibrant young people — who are boldly demonstrating moral compass and leadership

I WLTM a cis couple where the man is the lefty.

Harman and Sheerman complaining that these voters/future voters are getting a bit uppity, what with thinking their representatives represent them, grassed them to the police, and this is the upshot:

Police say “no offences were committted” at the protest outside Tower Hamlets Labour on Cambridge Heath Rd. No threats or intimidation reported in the article @HarrietHarman links to. https://t.co/ql3HUgwInJ pic.twitter.com/Qb3M5TFYBF

— Sarah_Woolley (@Sarah_Woolley) November 17, 2023

Harman and Sheerman complaining that these voters/future voters are getting a bit uppity, what with thinking their representatives represent them, grassed them to the police, and this is the upshot:

Police say “no offences were committted” at the protest outside Tower Hamlets Labour on Cambridge Heath Rd. No threats or intimidation reported in the article @HarrietHarman links to. https://t.co/ql3HUgwInJ pic.twitter.com/Qb3M5TFYBF

— Sarah_Woolley (@Sarah_Woolley) November 17, 2023

No clue why that posted twice, apologies.

i'm reporting the double post as a hate crime

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so embarrassing for a party to be this thirsty for cop shit and the cops won't even play with them

cis couple where the man is the lefty

I've known a few straight couples where the man is "the lefty" in the sense of using leftist theory and rhetoric as a form of intellectual domination against their partner and/or others in their lives - fuck those guys

I WLTM a cis couple where the man is the lefty.

Their son probably considers himself the lefty in our marriage.

https://cdn.comedy.co.uk/images/library/comedies/900x450/n/nuts_in_may.jpg

another Kieth whose lefty pretensions swiftly dissolve into authoritarian violence

Corbyn agreeing for some reason to be interviewed by Piers Morgan so Starmer can use it as the new excuse to keep him out of Labour. But leaving aside Jeremy's judgement it also highlights how stupid Starmer seems for apparently not wanting/having a conversation with Corbyn so he can find out directly what he thinks about anything.

How is whether the couples oncerned are cis or trans relevant to this discussion? Seems a strange qualifier.

I think it's not unreasonable to assume trans men are less likely to be right wing than cis men, since vast swathes of the right wouldn't view them as men anyway.

I WLTM a cis couple where the man is the lefty.

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me for 7 months in 2008. also CAAL otm lol, my partner does enjoy calling me Keith whenever i get a bit 'let's do this'

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/nov/17/elon-musk-antisemitic-tweet-apple-pausing-ads

Maybe I've missed the uproar about the British Prime Minister and his recent fawning arselicking interview with a known antisemite?

Xp not unreasonable to assume trans men are less likely to be right wing than cis men, since vast swathes of the right wouldn't view them as men anyway.
Certainly not unreasonable to suppose that, Daniel, but it still doesn't necessarily reflect reality, not least because people's politics doesn't always undergo a sea change when they come out/transition

Well sure gg but the op's gambit wasn't "trans men (or trans women or cis women) are never right wing", it was "I've never seen a cis couple where the woman is the right wing one", and that just doesn't translate in couples where one or more ppl are trans.

Now I come to think of it I did once finish a relationship where I learnt over the course of it that she was more RW than me. Wasn't the only or core reason I ended it tho.

Regarding Sunak hob-nobbing with Musk: can totally see why he'd feel it advantageous/necessary speshly w.r.t. the dire straits his party are in. Still think the worst people are those who *don't* pull their ads from the socials when their head honcho spout toxic inflammatory white, eithe5 coz of an economic calculation or coz they either agree or couldn't care less.

xxxp

Jeremy Cunt was cheerfully enthusing about a chat he had with the known antisemite yesterday as well. I'll be awaiting the Jewish Chronicle commentary about the Tory antisemitism problem with baited breath.

Musk has banned the "from the river" chant on twitter so officially not an anti-semite for Sunak's purposes.

Whose use of it has he banned?

It's trending right now - is it another "He's said loudly that he'll do this but he'll never get around to it"?

https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/musk-from-the-river-to-the-sea-twitter-suspension-1234886216/

Tories continuing their war on people with disabilities:

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/nov/21/disabled-people-work-from-home-laura-trott-benefits

according to the prime minister, not doing some meaningless bullshit job to make money for someone else is "an enormous waste of human potential"

A good thread on what will help. Sadly, for this government, it requires a lot of investment in the country.

Can't sleep so here's a thread about what *actually* would help with getting the long term unemployed, or sick and disabled back into work.

As you read this remember, any or all of these only help *some* of us. Many aren't able to work under *any* circumstances...

— Louisa Britain (@RoadsideMum) November 19, 2023

https://members-api.parliament.uk/api/Members/4780/Portrait?cropType=ThreeFour&webVersion=false

she's sure got a strong aura of warmth and compassion about her has Laura Trott. She wouldn't lose a minute's sleep over a wheelchair bound ESA claimant ending up dead in a cold house after their money is stopped because Pathways into Death is also a Labour policy.

I'm just remembering Trott is the one who couldn't conceal her visceral hatred of Dawn Butler on the bbc one time. God knows what problem she had with a prominent black woman appearing on a bbc panel.

Glad you shared that xyzzy, the real scandal is of course the number of disabled people who really want to work but are excluded because bullshit and the government have proposed precisely nothing to address that

those cold dead eyes really follow you round the room

To Thatch a Keith

*applause*

Did Rachel Reeves just coin a new word in her response to Hunt's autumn statement in the Conmons? Pretty sure I just heard her say "taxcreases".

in the age of securonomics anything is possible

ah shite, I'm not hard working or a family, and I'm not doing everything right, lol in fact I've barely lifted a finger in 10 years - that's me shut out of securobollox!