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

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.

between him and whoever writes his stuff for him it's screamingly obvious he has no idea how real life works

because who the hell would suggest bringing home-made sandwiches to the pub. it's like his speechwriter is freeware ChatGPT

You’d get kicked out of a pub if you brought your own food anyway, so this is bollocks.

tbh I sort of enjoyed the implication he's too mean to buy his sister pub food, probably using some torturous condescending metaphor about fucking taps

when your relatable anecdotes are a) completely unrelatable and b) make you sound like a cunt

Kieth is kind of a master of this

I used to smuggle the odd bottle of liquor into a dodgy dive nightclub when I was a teenager. The idea of the adult sister of the UK LOTO smuggling sandwiches into a pub as tale of noble stoicism 😝😝😝

All signs point to his being from a weird AF family.

On top of everything else he's a total fucking weirdo.

(xp)

No wonder he's such a fan of Thatcher.

Katherine Swabey, a former NHS nurse, works gruelling 12-hour shifts in a care home for the elderly close to the village of Westerham, Kent where she is responsible for overseeing dozens of vulnerable residents.

Her background is in nursing, but some job adverts listed at the care home show staff are paid an hourly rate of between £8.25 to £8.50.

As recently as last month, Ms Swabey, 57, a mother of four, was sharing a cramped annex adjoining a large, detached house with one of her grown up children and two grandchildren.

She was helping her son to pay rent of around around £1,000 per month in the tiny, three-bedroom annex but has now moved to East Grinstead, where friends revealed she has bought a ‘modest home.’

Ms Swabey’s situation and struggle to make ends meet was highlighted by her illustrious brother Sir Keir in the House of Commons as he lashed out at Boris Johnson’s plans to reform social care.

tbf she does intially sound to be struggling from this Mail piece from a couple of years back, but there is also a hint that Kieth might have got the sandwiches in for her.

ffs the cunt is loaded and he can't even dip his hands in his pocket to help his sister out

the dream move to a modest house in East Grimstead he fixed for her was contingent on her never expecting him to pay for her sandwiches ever again!

'modest homes' in east grinstead cost an absolute fortune btw

£300-400k for modest 3br in that area.

I had a feeling that would be the case

Any old tale where it's a 'lets do austerity' at the end. It's almost insulting how they can't be bothered to lie properly to justify this misery.

L. Ron Hubbard's old stamping ground. Talking of weirdoes.

We want to help people on welfare and into work. We want to reduce pressure on housing and public services, and also to build a more socially cohesive and united country, which is difficult, I would argue impossible, when such large numbers of people are coming into the country.

Sir, this is a Dominos

lol

No one here understands that Starmer is trying to appeal to Conservative voters in the "red wall", who like to vote for people who are nasty, mean-spirited and out of touch. Or something.

It's a grand strategy. Also stop intimating that he doesn't have to pretend, that's a slur

Sir, this is a Dominos

Is that some kind of meme, because it remains me of this from The Day Today?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xXwFzRA56sI

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/sir-this-is-an-arbys

That Day Today clip is a similar idea!

🤔🤔🤔

John Crace
@JohnJCrace
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19h
My daughter will no longer be able to come back from America and live with her US husband in the UK

Thank you
@RishiSunak

The UK government: keeping families apart

A few weeks ago one politics reporter was complaining about childcare costs on twitter. Fools thought they'd be insulated from this.

they shouldn't have kids if they can't afford to bring them up ;)

Too busy spending their money on mobile phones and wide-screen tellies.

this is a reply I got when I talked about this on twitter yesterday. I do have to wonder how many of the people I see in public every day think like this, and how far they would be willing to go for their ideas.

There is no cruelty to this policy. If a person wishes to marry a foreign national, then they should go and live in that country.

— Linda Anne Goodman (@Lags71Anne) December 5, 2023

it wouldn't be the first time I've seen a mean-spirited, probable racist crank account with a cute black Labrador for a profile pic!

used to be a "racist pets" twitter account but seems they stopped bothering a while back.

Black labs matter

https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/1193537319787225088/0Dg2Ec5h_400x400.jpg

BREAKING: Rwanda government threatens to pull out of the deal if it does not adhere to international law.

Hugely problematic - and potentially humiliating - for govt if its partner country decides the deal is too toxic.

Statement below 👇 pic.twitter.com/2pGfxNwKXp

— Paul Brand (@PaulBrandITV) December 6, 2023

can't see how any self-respecting nation would want to be associated with the UK gov

Robert Jenrick resigning apparently.
He's the minister for immigration apparently.
or he was the minister for immigration, idk

John Crace
@JohnJCrace
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19h
My daughter will no longer be able to come back from America and live with her US husband in the UK

Thank you
@RishiSunak

i kindly refer you to a daily telegraph writer !

A friend has just messaged in a blind panic to ask if @JamesCleverly’s immigration plan means he can’t bring his partner into the country.

The Gov is doubling the salary required of a British subject to bring a spouse or dependent into the country - to £38,700. 🧵

— Tim Stanley (@timothy_stanley) December 4, 2023

spouses on family visas already have to pay the healthcare surchage https://www.gov.uk/healthcare-immigration-application/who-needs-pay, so the goal is here is certainly not to offset the public funds spent on the average person.
it's to ensure only rich[*] people move the UK.

[*] "rich" here means above the median UK household[**] income, which completely coincidentally (!) is almost exactly the new income requirement.

[**] that tweet above is wrong. the new requirement (38.7k) and the old one (18k) apply to the household income, not just the income of the UK citizen. https://www.gov.uk/uk-family-visa/proof-income.