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

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!

Rachel Reeves is very talented

I am convinced the right wing of the Labour Party use ‘talented’ to mean ‘Tory in a cheap disguise’.

I can remember Stephen Bush gushing about her *talent* during the dying days of Corbyn. Also he came out as a sad Cameron groupie when he put that dire self apologia book out.

Nobody's talking about Cleverly calling Stockton a shithole in parliament then?

I asked the Prime Minister why 34% of children in Stockton North are living in poverty.  The Home Secretary James Cleverly can apparently be heard saying it is a "sh**hole".

This comment shames the Home Secretary, the Government and his party and he should apologise. pic.twitter.com/hgmCLBdqCx

— Alex Cunningham MP (@ACunninghamMP) November 22, 2023

call a shithole a shithole and shame the devil I say. I say this as someone who lives in a shithole myself!

He's claiming what he actually said was Alex Cunningham is a shit MP.

... he definitely does NOT say that btw.

yeah, and it took him and his PR team 24 hours to come up with that hopeful get out clause.

Funnily enough I was talking to someone about Stockton at the weekend, he was saying it's got about four fairly decent music venues.

The Georgian Stockton Theatre is a great venue. Saw a smoking hot gig by The Comet is Coming in 2019 and The Mountain Goats back in early 2000s.

it's always easy for garbage Labour MP's to get all sanctimonious about some of the more colourful language Tories use about shithole Towns. But when they were in power they did fuck all for these regions that Thatcher annihilated and are still offering them nothing.

yeah, the feigned outrage is pathetic. if Tory voters don't know what the party thinks of them by now then i think you can safely leave them to it

Know what else has been shockingly high? Excess deaths from illness, post-Brexit staff shortages, international student tuition fees...

Geert Starmer. pic.twitter.com/ga90Yg8Rjs

— Perry PoMo (@paulewart23) November 24, 2023

really interesting that Kieth and his team are doubling down on the same rhetoric that's driving electoral victory for fascists across Europe. it must be grown-up politics or something

Stupid man.

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John Burn-Murdoch
@jburnmurdoch
The British left: the NHS is under immense pressure please someone help

The NHS: okay we’re adopting new technology that doctors have been calling for for years which will make their jobs easier and improve patient outcomes

The British left: no not like that

I usually find "gaffe churn" a bit tedious even about Tories I hate, but the Sunak hammer video is actually jaw dropping, isn't it?. The woman with him is surely saying "oh come on".

You're going to have to explain that entire sentence to me.

Hope you can see twitter

https://x.com/DachshundColin/status/1728046746138222681?t=VVVoT6Tg3gRiSmPF15R5-w&s=08

I can but the original tweet has been deleted.

🚨 BREAKING: The full clip has now been released showing the worker explicitly telling Rishi Sunak to use the side of the hammer pic.twitter.com/rlteuMQMzN https://t.co/uY7QlvOjYp

— Politics UK (@PolitlcsUK) November 24, 2023

yeah lol i just saw. well it was a funny few hours

I'm just trying to imagine this imbecile trying to survive in the real world

still, I've seen fresh out of school kids use a hammer with more conviction.

"stop trying to tickle the nail, lad!"

All 'PM visits a workplace and tries to do some of the work' charades are contemptible.

no need to be shaming people with a PPE fetish

give him a sickle as well next time

Sky News
@SkyNews
BREAKING: Nottingham City Council declares itself effectively bankrupt

and so it begins.
suspect there will be plenty of other councils sat there waiting to press the button.

I got a LA letter the other day "post 16 transport for disabled students in it's current form is unsustainable" ... let's have a consultation blah blah blah.. how about let's not have a consultation and you all go fuck yourselves. Not really a sustainable response, but it is all I've got for now.

Got a cheery leaflet from the council saying good news we're going from weekly landfill collection to fortnightly. Disastrous from what I know of some neighbours.

we got new food waste bins, probably big enough for a family of four for a month. and the contents have to go into compostable bags and into the communal food waste outside for collection. only nobody has a) read the leaflet explaining this and b) I'm not sure there is a communal food waste bin anywhere.

rishi's 7 bins...

fortnightly landfill collection has been fine round our way. never see overflowing bins etc

Time to take a big sip of sewage-contaminated water and update will the uk have levelled up by 2030

Very funny how OJ is lawyering up. Good to see.

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Harriet Sergeant
@HarrietSergeant
@OwenJones84
I apologise. I was using hyperbole to make my point. It was never meant to be taken literally. But in this febrile and emotional time that was unwise. I have deleted the tweet

Yeah, and I'm sure he'd rather have the retractions than actually sue

Fascist scum throughout the media

Liam Barker
@liambarker
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5h
Raising the minimum salary for a skilled foreign worker from £26,200 to over £35,000 means no junior doctors, nurses, allied health professionals. This is definitely not going to work

I mean yeah but none of it fucking works and they still do it, so

Followed by a tale about his sister bringing her own sandwiches to the pub lunch because she's so poor pic.twitter.com/zbLtTK7ICA

— j (@jrc1921) December 4, 2023

It’s ridiculous even for Keir.