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

See what happens when mark s moves out of Hackney?

oh right this is the one where the Labour candidate was a frothing transphobe

the "one"

Ah!

Tory vote up 47.4%!

How much of this is down to the candidate himself rather than the party? He's been a councillor there for 16 of the last 22 years according to google

a rare Lib Dem turning out to be a Tory

(xp) Bit of both. Labour's vote down 13%.

luckily there are no other Labour candidates who are outspoken poisonous bigots so things should be fine going forward

This is what reporters are up against: Man City and their lawyer Simon Cliff, lobbying government, and the general public (and fans) being told fuck-all about anything the comes of that. Chapeau, Russell. https://t.co/ib3lQNApf6

— Nick Harris (@sportingintel) January 21, 2024

(Baroness) Nicky Morgan, "The two state solution has to be one of the only ways out of the current situation."

Er, yeah, thanks for that one.

🔴 ROCHDALE: there's speculation that political journalist Paul Waugh - currently with the i paper - could be Starmer's favoured candidate to stand for Labour in forthcoming by-election following death of Tony Lloyd.

— @Tomorrow'sMPs (@tomorrowsmps) January 21, 2024

when your name is paul and you're a political journalist and would give anything to be favoured by the labour party as candidate for an available seat and you hear you haven't even made the list of political journalists called paul who are under consideration RIP

The depravity continues.

I'm so desensitised to the moral vacuum of politicians that I didn't even clock the object depravity of Lisa Nandy - the former chair of Labour Friends of Palestine - leading a march to support the people exterminating them through genocide. Jesus fucking Christ. https://t.co/78xM66woBt

— Marl Karx (@BareLeft) January 21, 2024

wretched. I hope her dad disowns her and never speaks another word to her!

I can't really hope in a few short extracts to bring home the power of what Hanan Wahabi - who lost her brother, her sister-in-law and their three children at Grenfell - just said to the representatives of those responsible. But here are a few bits I've transcribed: pic.twitter.com/MCTH0o2qG8

— Peter Apps (@PeteApps) January 24, 2024

— some anti-Sunak plotters met at the J Sheekey fish restaurant in the heart of theatre land

— Sunak loyalist says they’re less Dominic Cummings, more Alan Cumming

— No10 think they’ve flushed out what they see as rabble of disgruntled right-wing aideshttps://t.co/fPN52TG8yq

— Alex Wickham (@alexwickham) January 27, 2024

"Sunak loyalist says [anti-Sunak plotters] less Dominic Cummings, more Alan Cumming"

at a loss as to what this could possibly mean. The article doesn't provide any further context.

I gueeeess they mean they’re not political geniuses but ngl it feels homophobic af

yeah it must be some kind of "less Karl Marx and more Groucho Marx" type jibe, but but by someone for who has instinctive reactions to Dominic Cummings and Alan Cumming that are wildly different than like 95% of the UK public

Is Alan Cumming even very high in the public consciousness in 2024? Just a classic politics nerd out of touch non-joke

was taken to that restaurant for my birthday about ten years ago, was good

Alan Cumming hosts the US Traitors while wearing flashy outfits. Still a baffling line given that people actually like him and he's not a disgraced weirdo

"it's like expecting a glass of champagne and getting a glass of warm piss" - guy who hates drinking champagne and loves drinking warm piss, confusingly

Public schoolboy humour.

My knowledge of Cumming is basically The High Life - oh dear - and I think he's been in some comic book movies

Sunak's bad but at least we don't have Boris, Cumming, all over the country now.

Alan Cumming is probably most famous for playing Russian computer geek Boris Grishenko in ‘Goldeneye’ who ends up frozen solid by liquid nitrogen.

Not in this country

Most famous film is: X2, should be: Josie and the Pussycats.

"met in theatreland" is the fig leaf there, but yeah it seems homophobic and nonsensical - Dominic Cummings is no-one's idea of a manly man!

citing him as the gold standard of machiavellian tory plotters isn't quite right either. He didn't last long in Downing st.

Cummings genuinely hates the Tory Party is key here. doesn't make him a good person

So he says but he still was prepared to help Sunak win the next election. The guy's a massive fucking liar though, as we know.

home office granted asylum to rwandan refugees you literally luv 2 see it

must have been lied to by the Safety of Rwanda Bill

Labour MP Kate Osamor has had the whip suspended following her Holocaust Memorial Day post pic.twitter.com/VKinwLQqTe

— John Stevens (@johnestevens) January 28, 2024

Unreal

Considering that Nandy said Labour supported the defunding of UNRWA, the clown car doesn't know whether the doors have fallen off or not. https://t.co/ENPpX19rbL

— Phil Burton-Cartledge (@philbc3) January 28, 2024

Lammy to be suspended for this egregious antisemitism

In 2019, @AngelaRayner met @DALLOULALNEDER when she visited his shop.

She told him: "I support Palestine", "Palestine must be free."

Now she just stands there as he's dragged out her meeting after his family were butchered in a Labour-backed onslaught. pic.twitter.com/UeooLXAiPL

— Owen Jones (@OwenJones84) January 28, 2024

I saw the horrible video, Rayner not giving a fuck there while someone who holds a pic of his murdered family is frogmarched out by a goon.

His family were killed in Gaza.

As he clutched photos of his dead mother, he was dragged out of this Labour meeting like he was trash.@angelarayner and @jreynoldsMP just stood there.

What an absolutely disgusting spectacle.

I spoke to @DALLOULALNEDER. Please listen to him. pic.twitter.com/CSuJJ2hIcx

— Owen Jones (@OwenJones84) January 28, 2024

hopefully that video will go beyond the twittersphere and come back to haunt Labour when they are campaigning for muslim voters to turn out for them.

It ought to give voters of all backgrounds pause before voting for them, but "get the Tories out" is a great anaesthetic

it's so low stakes I'm more interested in Labour reaping some democratic accountability than getting anybody out.

Lmao

#Breaking Actor-turned-politician Laurence Fox libelled two men when he referred to them as “paedophiles” on social media, a High Court judge has ruled pic.twitter.com/UXLRmqAjUq

— PA Media (@PA) January 29, 2024

Funny how that happens

Did he try the Musk defence ("it was a joooke") but then realised he wasn't rich enough?

"actor-turned-politician"

well I guess he did get more votes than count binface

Realized he wasn't funny enough.

I bet Lawrence Fox's legal team just loved this part of his testimony. Thumbs up to the witness box. 'More of that kind of thing, Lozza.' pic.twitter.com/um7IJkLVcl

— Elvis Buñuelo (@Mr_Considerate) January 29, 2024

The ol' Ugandan jail argument - it's been a minute!

I've called my grandma in hospital twice over the past couple of days (she's fine: probably home tomorrow) and heard a recorded message telling me that calls to patients through the hospital phone system are charged at 13p a minute. This money goes to Hospedia, a private company.

— Simon (@SimonXIX) January 29, 2024