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

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

Hospedia, we meet again. From 2011:

The Conservative cabinet minister's face appears on bedside entertainment systems on a continuous loop saying that their care "really matters to me" and asking them to thank NHS staff.

In some wards with multiple beds, the screens have the effect of a television showroom, reported the Independent.

It was reported that the only way to turn the health secretary's recorded message off, patients first had to register under a system which sees patients charged more than £5 a day to access TV, email and phone services – though those who just want to use the radio do not have to pay when they do so.

A bit of light relief, it seems that a fun little legal precedent has just been set

brutal: it cannot be defamatory to call Laurence Fox a racist since his reputation on the matter is so low it can scarcely be damaged. pic.twitter.com/7ki1j14YZ0

— bat020 (@bat020) January 29, 2024

No noooo you don't understand, when he lied about all the other bad pledges to the non-people I knew he would never lie to me about the good pledge

And there we have it pic.twitter.com/4nVWGhKSmD

— j (@jrc1921) January 29, 2024

still worth voting for them if you enjoy racism and transphobia and hate ninja swords tho

take my ninja sword from my cold dead hands you fraudulent cunt, Kieth . lol, my stepdad once got attacked by a guy with a ninja sword at work, the said ninja maniac is now a children's magician known as Chavracadabra.

Labour is the party of business.
 
Former Conservative supporter and Iceland’s Executive Chairman @IcelandRichard agrees 👇 pic.twitter.com/LQr8PGWc9a

— The Labour Party (@UKLabour) January 29, 2024

Labour is the party of business, that why it's called Labour

that Iceland dickhead needs dropping into a volcano. Well of course such a "does a lot of good work for charidee" one nation tory cunt is going to be a big Kieth stan.

Does anyone have any solid information on what the guarantees and imminent legislation that unlocked Stormont are? I'm not inclined to believe that the DUP would have asked for anything doable, or that the UK government would have considered whether the EU will play ball, if needed.

Tee hee, all new old racism in the all new completely non-racist cleansed of all racist sentiments Labour Party

Labour shadow minister: "It is right that people who are in areas where there is a real acute challenge with housing, know that housing does go to people who are born & raised in certain communities"

Not even a dog whistle. Actual racism. pic.twitter.com/mT25nZ6gih

— Saul Staniforth (@SaulStaniforth) January 30, 2024

Does anyone have any solid information on what the guarantees and imminent legislation that unlocked Stormont are? I'm not inclined to believe that the DUP would have asked for anything doable, or that the UK government would have considered whether the EU will play ball, if needed.

I'm no nearer to understanding what this is all about than when it started. One thing I do know is that the DUP know there will be an election this year and know that they are in line to take a hiding if if they didn't drop the No Surrender shite.

So grim that I gave Peter Kyle my votes when JC was leader :(

Fire sale of failing English council assets:

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/jan/30/ministers-plan-to-push-english-councils-to-sell-assets-to-plug-budget-holes-condemned

But not this one:

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2024/jan/30/telegraph-could-become-pr-arm-of-uae-after-proposed-takeover-mps-warned

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/jan/30/labour-acts-on-fears-muslims-will-not-vote-for-party-over-gaza-stance

Keir Starmer’s office has begun polling British Muslim voters amid growing concern in senior Labour ranks about the damage done to their core vote by the row over the party’s position on the Middle East.

Labour sources have told the Guardian that the party is running polls and holding focus groups around the country after senior officials became concerned they were losing support among one of their staunchest bases of support.

The outreach effort is just one aspect of how the Middle East crisis has transformed the party in the last few months. MPs who care about the issue have established new groups to lobby Starmer, while the leader’s office has been forced to rethink how it communicates with parts of the party who say they have long been ignored.

One senior Labour MP said: “Muslims are not only predominantly Labour supporters but they are also geographically important. There are many of them in a range of key target seats in both the south and the north-west, and we need to pay attention to that.”

polls and focus groups! now you know they’re serious

i guess ignoring all the dead bodies piling up isn't such great PR after all?

they should just expel Muslim voters

Especially the women.

Comes across so blatantly that they're bothered about losing votes but not about why

my son's college transport escort is an Asian woman from Batley and she detests Starmer but said she doesn't often bother voting but did vote for Corbz in '19. Also she says her husband who is a dwp employee has said he wont be voting for Labour again and he also detests Starmer. Just adding my own focus group results here.

I’m noticing a lot of local people (not just Muslims) saying Labour can’t rely on their vote, because of broken pledges, Gaza, and not dealing with multiple types of racism. I live in Starmer’s constituency.

unhorse him i say

New Tory PM just dropped.

God bless us, every one! https://t.co/rAy6F0MS4P pic.twitter.com/6Y05O5slp2

— Elvis Buñuelo (@Mr_Considerate) January 31, 2024

A fiercely bright, hard-working boy, who is learning Spanish and Mandarin at school, Hebrew at home, and teaching himself Hindi and Slovak in his spare time

To be fair to the little cunt chap he does say the Campaign Against Anti-Semitism makes everyone they interview look anti-Semitic.

Extremist right-wing white boy child... was born on Christmas day

apologies to Boney M

"Fiercely bright" euphemism for intensely irritating little know-it-all.

*taps the old sign that reads "little pigs should be seen and not heard"*

an argument for post-birth abortion

i’m sorry but this has really cracked me up, everything’s just crumbling isn’t it pic.twitter.com/WBLlXWHIHx

— Dan Douglas (@dandouglas) February 4, 2024

Ambulolz

https://www.ambulnz.com/

we're so fucked

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FT-JED8X0AALv-6.jpg:large

at this point I'm going to prematurely state that Wes Streeting is probably the worst fucking person in the world to arrest this rampant privatisation already on the go. Or I could just say he is actually one of of the worst people in the world anyway.

I think this is going to get much worse under Labour, if anything

ding ding ding ding

isn't the thing causing long waiting times the time spent unloading at hospitals? more ambulances isn't going to fix that.

it's almost as if Wesley's repeated emphasis on "free at the point of use" is meant to cover up the bit where he mutters "and massive contracts for private profiteers" under his breath

It is probably going to get progressively worse but the important thing is that 6 months into the new parliament the press are going to go to town on the collapse and non-functionality of the NHS on a way they never did under the tories, and Streeting et al will take this as their signal to go further into the privatization rabbit hole with the media's full complicity. I imagine they've already priced that in tbh, cynical fuckers that they are.

That suggests some degree of competency and forward planning (even if it’s to make a bad decision), which I just think may be too much for them.

LOL @ Jeffrey Donaldson repeatedly insisting Michelle O'Neill is not the First Minister of Northern Ireland but the Joint First Minister of Northern Ireland. Sorry, SIR Jeffrey Donaldson.

This is an unsustainable situation.

https://www.theguardian.com/money/2024/feb/05/i-cant-take-it-much-longer-workers-too-young-for-uk-pension