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

lol, they don't even credit him for his night courts endorsement, having a vulnerable Asian autistic man extradited to the US on fabricated terrorist charges, for ruling that racist Lynch mobs require no police investigation etc...etc... all his greatest hits as DPP should actually make him a top bloke to The S*n

Reading the odd piece on Kids Company as a window on what this country is like if you aren't born on the right side of the tracks.

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/jan/09/the-hidden-life-of-camila-batmanghelidjh-why-was-her-exoneration-so-widely-ignored

xp - the worst of it is Starmer may become PM but he'll be bullied by the press just like that. Shame, such a top bloke

they'll keep doing this at least partially because he's encouraged them to do it

the party fucking loves this shit it's like a kink or something

media/tories: you caused a financial crisis through welfare spending!
labour: yeah we kind of did didn't we that one's on us

media: you secretly called a racist lady racist!
labour: yes we did and it just goes to show how terrible and out of touch we are

it's so weird how this is their whole thing now and maybe the problem with corbynism was they just couldn't get it off during that period

What about the rest of the IT/management consulting which receive government contracts resulting in projects that aren't delivered on time, are poorly thought out in the first place and -- though consequences aren't as catastrophic as this -- fail?

Fujitsu will be 'held accountable' legally or financially if the public inquiry finds it blundered in the Post Office Horizon scandal, Downing Street has said https://t.co/iDKJcicpms

— ITV News Politics (@ITVNewsPolitics) January 9, 2024

If government built in IT servicing of its own again it would bankrupt a lot of the private IT service sector, stocks would tank, and you would make a lot of Tories in SE England weep.

So it won't happen.

the report has been posted and some of the code, albeit reverse engineered, looks terrible - reversing the sign of a number by taking it away from itself twice...

PDF Download - https://www.postofficehorizoninquiry.org.uk/file/871/download?token=gDkssh69

(the report = a report from 1998)

terrible that Fujitsu willfully decided to prosecute and imprison hundreds of innocent people

imagine if they'd fucked the code up in a way that allowed sub post-masters to pocket grands of excess cash every week. Horizon would have been flagged up as not fit for purpose in weeks.

Of course.

Or, if it had nominated etc

Disabled widower from Caerphilly, 78, prosecuted for not insuring a car he no longer uses.

He's not coping after his wife's death and his papers were destroyed in a flood

Convicted via Single Justice Procedure, court bill: £106

DVLA didn't read this letter. pic.twitter.com/65z8TkStDB

— Tristan Kirk (@kirkkorner) January 10, 2024

I wish sir kid harmer a very don't ever sleep again as his predecessor comments on the trial in the hague. Funny that we'll now have 2 Labour PMs in a row that have been complicit in war crimes/crimes against humanity.

Real Labour Values

(ugh sorry forgot about G Brown but anyway)

When reports of Batmanghelidjh’s death emerged last week, it was alarming how many people admitted on social media that they had been unaware she had been exonerated by the high court nearly three years ago..

same here. The kid's company piece was a sad read. I think I might have harshly judged batmanghelidjh for doing chummy meetings with Cameron at the time and thought she was probably a grifter.

same, but i think there's something cautionary there about the nature of charities and the kinds of grift most of them seem comfortable engaging in

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-67950501

"Sir Keir Starmer says he wasn't aware of the three Horizon cases brought against sub-postmasters by the Crown Prosecution Service when he led it.

The Labour leader was director of public prosecutions from 2008 to 2013.

Asked by the BBC if he should have been more curious, he said the CPS handled four million cases in that period."

xp

oh hell yes, but I also had some invaluable help from Carer's Count. Some of the frontline workers/volunteers for charities are really good people. I just feel strongly they i: they shouldn't exist ii: Charities that are easily neutered by the UK govt through waivers signed under threat of funding withdrawn are not a good model for a charitable organisation. iii: Some of these fuckers are grifters.

hah hah!

"I was too busy shielding Sir Jimmy Savile from the cps at the time"

Lol

Seconded

it feels strange to see a UK military campaign that mostly isn't being framed as a humanitarian intervention but rather as a hard-headed defence of UK national interests, it feels like it's been a while since that was the case?

I mean, supporters are arguing that it's morally justified, and emphasising how bad an reactionary the Houthis are, but it feels different than most wars the UK has been involved in over the last 30 years where they've been framed as helping liberate a subjugated people or preventing an imminent crime against humanity

Operation Liberate Genocide

Paul Mason is on twitter trying to argue that it's about protecting "working class seafarers", but even he doesn't seem to really have his heart in it

Rubbish Jeremy. The strikes were a last resort after terrorists repeatedly attacked working class seafarers. Do the right thing and support those risking their lives to keep civilian ships safe from terrorism 👇🏽 https://t.co/h051e9vxpp

— Paul Mason (@paulmasonnews) January 12, 2024

xp wait till that lunatic in Argentina invaded the Falklands

Mason's shtick is so predictable at this stage he might as well just own is Strasseriteness

God imagine being stuck in a pub with Mason and Embery

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/jan/12/done-with-labour-and-tories-reform-uk-angry-voters

They were similarly unimpressed by Sunak’s Labour opponent. While the group expected a Labour victory this year, they dismissed Keir Starmer as “more of the same”, a “Red Tory”. Others thought (mistakenly) that he had defended Jimmy Savile and couldn’t vote for him as a result.

Tories will have a tricky balancing act this year between blaming Starmer for anything and everything from when he was DPP, and overegging the pudding so dumbfuck morons like the above get bored of it and require fresh stimulation.

Starmer's pretty easy to blame just for being Starmer tbf

Love that "mistakenly".

I heard he fitted up the sub-postmasters as well

This is a lad who'd sound shifty and guilty as fuck even if he had nothing to do with something

I'm not going to amplify these scurrilous conspiracy theories that muddy the reputation of Sir Keir Starmer here, no way. That might blunt their impact, save them for when the election campaign begins.

Love that "mistakenly".

― Bulky Pee Pants (Tom D.), Friday, 12 January 2024 bookmarkflaglink

Really. As if these ppl weren't pushing their own conspiracies while Corbyn was leader.

It's so they don't get sued, I know you know this..

Also when Tory voters are calling you a Red Tory...

'Mistakenly' could've been applied to p much everything the Reform converts said/repeated from what they read or heard from all the usual suspects.

Love to see it

Sir Ed Davey has refused to apologise over his position in the Post Office scandal, despite being asked to more than ten times in an interview with ITV News' @PaulBrandITV https://t.co/iC6gR2m0KG pic.twitter.com/hhgPQuXIHE

— ITV News Politics (@ITVNewsPolitics) January 12, 2024

i guess you could say there's a man who at least honestly understands that he doesn't have to give one fuck and there'll be no consequences for that

Inevitably

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/jan/14/luciana-berger-given-key-labour-role-after-quitting-over-antisemitism

Reform UK - the party for whom two arms are not enough.

I and my fellow Prospective Parliamentary Candidates in the Reform UK party do not have the ability to take action on illegal immigration at the moment. But when you vote us all in as MPs, watch this space! This government should hang their heads in shame! pic.twitter.com/kvWnGNEq7M

— Reform PPC Central Suffolk & North Ipswich (@michael_hallatt) January 14, 2024

Two arms for crossing and looking serious, one spare for a salute*

*salute to be specified at a later date

"working class seafarers" sounds like a decemberists song

Mick Lynch uses the same term when talking about the salty seadogs who are members of the RMT, but obv Mason is just doing his usual fuckwitted sophistry here.

Astonishing stat: 40% of council houses sold through Right to Buy are now rented by private landlords (up to 70% in some places) at double the cost of council housing. Presumably with many of those renters supported by housing benefit. Utter madness!

— Harry Quilter-Pinner (@harry_qp) January 16, 2024

Evelyn Waugh characters clowning on rtb now

I almost feel a sense of relief when I see sweary kids playing in the middle of the road and telling their parents to fuck off. Some of these RtB snobs think they are middle class now! And the private renter next door feels he is entitled to live in silence. I told him to go rent a croft in the Outer Hebrides if wants silence and never darken my doorstep again with frivolous complaints. I'm glad the cunt is paying double social rent because he's a fucking tool.

I don't know who this Quilty lad is but he knows fuck all about how housing costs are paid thru the benefits system

(clue, it's hardly ever thru Housing Benefit)