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

thanks a lot Kieth. I dreamt about a Tory wipeout for the best part of a decade and now that it's probably imminent I don't even fucking care anymore.

is that Sunak's or Starmer's election slogan?

― rob, Wednesday, 22 May 2024 bookmarkflaglink

Do you know about this terrible song?

― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, May 22, 2024 12:52 PM (four minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

I do not know that song, but fwiw I was joking that your post "Everything is going to get unimaginably stupider from now. No escape." was the slogan

No Ian, don’t go on holidays, what will we do without your milquetoast takes dipped in smugness?!

Ah ok lol xp

Anyway this is what we have to look forward to.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/may/22/labour-mp-rightwing-figurehead-enabled-anti-protest-clampdown

LOL @ Sunak's speech. What a shambles.

classic Graun still implying that Woodcock was at some point "centre Left"

He went to a March as a kid

i don't know whether we should pitch for new thread titles or whether apathetically letting this one drag on would be more apposite

New thread imo for election madness & then new one for whatever government forms after that

Election called for the day before the Euros quarters, what a lift for Our Boys if Ed Davey ascends his rightful throne as is just and true

Our long national nightmare is finally over. Our next long national nightmare is about to start.

— Gavin Jackson (@GavinHJackson) May 22, 2024

propose election thread title: "Everything changes but UK"

mind you i've just seen Kieth say "Stability is Change" which will take some beating

by the way

https://x.com/FromSteveHowell/status/1793327619716350248

I seem to remember another party leader who went into an election boring everybody to tears by droning on about stability.

hung parliament because labour didn’t field enough dead-eyed childkiller cunts as candidates let’s fucking goooooo xp

NV suggestion the best so far

stability is change huh

https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/69cf855063e5383d720235e7f2409d24c37da509/0_136_4539_2724/master/4539.jpg

https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/69cf855063e5383d720235e7f2409d24c37da509/0_136_4539_2724/master/4539.jpg?width=1200&height=900&quality=85&auto=format&fit=crop&s=d8bb9c5401bf24efe7600ba3b9e5e50c

Forced to work in the rain unnecessarily?

Join a union. pic.twitter.com/yiq1jamHIT

— Trades Union Congress (@The_TUC) May 22, 2024

Absolutely baffled he did it in that rain.

Checking the new boundaries again and I guess it's been made even easier for me to not vote Labour now I see we're apparently losing Bell Riberio-Addy and getting Steve effing Reed.

(Ribeiro-Addy)

Tory ministers genuinely struggling to explain why an election has been called for July.

as ever it will be a pleasure not to vote for Diana Johnson

(xp) This guy actually using the example of Corbyn performing better than expected in 2017!

"Things can only get wetter", but obv NV's suggestion is a thing which is better.

Starmer is gonna choke like fuck as soon as he gets any pushback

this is absolutely locked in. it will be epic.

wonder how long it’ll be before we find out what really happened with the deliveroo driver

i’m sure cctv footage of starmer enjoying a delicious beverage in the pub beforehand will mysteriously surface eventually

"..we've returned Labour to the party in service of working people..."

thanks for saving us from the anti-union, pro-zero hours poverty policies of the evil jam man.

Asking the question.

Its 4th July, you live in rainy fash island..

Just amazed that no umbrella was to be found when Sunak announced it...

Not a serious country

👀
Wow! Extraordinary but true - some furious Conservative MPs are tonight working on a plot to CALL OFF the general election by replacing Rishi Sunak as leader before Parliament is dissolved next Thursday.
One rebel Tory MP tells me he believes “several” more letters of no…

— Christopher Hope📝 (@christopherhope) May 22, 2024

https://i.imgur.com/aOWD1Xi.png

Ok ....

i hope they are able to remove sunak as pm asap because that seems like it gets really funny and stupid and is probably the best hope for the election not producing a one party state

new thread is this way -->

Stability is change: crossing the floor from potato to potahto in uk 2024

yeah but does the new thread have discount trainers?

that price is going to shoot right back up on july 5