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

Get in here, loons

Very good

Oddly starting this with Mason news.

Breaking: ISLINGTON NORTH Labour shortlist Sem Moema . Praful Nargund

— lee harpin (@lmharpin) May 22, 2024

breaking: stoya cancelling travel plans

From The Guardian blog quoting a tweet by a pol analyst:

Was in Westminster all day. Understand there’s 5 major reasons for @RishiSunak July 4 election gamble

1/ Key aides told PM inflation is now at its “election sweet spot” - 2.3% was today’s print - & warned it may rise again by autumn

2/ No fiscal space for NI cuts in Sept 1/

3/ Concern legal challenges will further delay/block flights to Rwanda taking off

4/ Mess in the English Channel with small boats during the summer months

5/ Nigel Farage hasn’t yet decided whether to front Reform UK, so snap poll may boost Tory prospects

Praful Nargund?

if they won't accept Comrade Mason they should offer a spot to Dunty

https://x.com/IanDunt/status/1793343773667480015

truly the most perfect idiot in the whole world, a brain as smooth as his scalp

Nargund is a private IVF clinic chief executive, who really cares about healthcare inequities

Dunt isn't an idiot, he just plays one for money.

Mason the early Starmer adopter, most consistent apologist/obsequious toady towards him for almost 5 years and all he gets in return is one humiliating rejection after another - which is all he deserves tbf.

I am sorry Tom D you will not be able to vote for this man

I didn't make the shortlist in @IslingtonNorth . Thanks to all those in the CLP who signed up to campaign for me, and to SERA for endorsing me. It's vital that we get out the vote the selected candidate, and keep Islington North red! ✊

— Paul Mason (@paulmasonnews) May 23, 2024

No-one likes him he does care.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtTdQm57_MU

100 empty spots to fill, keep on keeping on Paul

If he wasn't such a weirdo who likes making a shit ton of noise he would've got into one of those.

as well as being a foolish and deeply unlikable man I don't think he's ever been forgiven by the right for his supporting Corbyn years.

Yeah there's no place in today's Labour for people whose politics change with the wind to support their own personal aggrandisement

that's what they'll throw at Starmer, he can offer evidence that he helped finish off Corbyn by quoting the "People's Vote was a conspiracy" parts of the Eagleton book!

he's an embarrassment because he actually believes things, even if he has forced himself to believe them to fit in. I remember a kid like him at school.

No Rwanda flights till after the election. If Reform get their act together its even worse for the Tories.

It also means a very grim debate where Starmer has to promise deportations of sone kind.

Getting suicide-by-cop vibes from all of this, like Sunak is pleading with the election to put him out of his misery.

the guy just wants a long summer break in california so he can pick out a house, move there ASAP, and die horribly in the record-breaking wildfires of 2028 enjoy a long and happy life

maybe it was just a case of lose a suicide-election in the summertime or lose a confidence vote and resign

The calculations are that Rwanda flights will never get off the ground, that inflation might go up (so no interest rate cuts), and that they cannot offer anything but tax rises bcz of the state of public finances.

to gazzara's point, the domiciled tax status laws are getting changed next year yeah?

the way he brought up the furlough scheme yesterday seemed desperate, it was almost like he was inferring he paid it all out of his own pocket.

it was like in the manner of a slimy boss giving you a tiny inconsequential pay rise and then never letting you forget about it

The only time the guy was popular is when he gave lots of people money.

also when he gave us rona dinners

How soon we forget "dishy Rishi".

eat out to help out just a porn video name to most people now

a furlough scheme that was actually proposed and pushed for by McDonnell iirc and which sunak was originally dead set against…

and a furlough scheme which deliberately excluded hundreds of thousands of self-employed people, my wife being among them

xp
to me there's no question that if Corbyn and McDonnell hadn't been at the despatch box in early 2020 we would never have got the furlough measures we did get, flawed as they were

Quietly impressed by The Green Party response here. Has the right people crying about it.

Nothing to see here. Just @TheGreenParty⁩ leader on Radio 4 failing to condemn one of her fellow Green candidates for liking a post which said "we have to destroy Zionism". And she has the chutzpah to refer to the EHRC report into Labour's antisemitism to boot. What a state. pic.twitter.com/QrAo4fynZz

— Mike Katz (@mikekatz) May 23, 2024

From a locked acc:

"On Politics Weekly, Kiran explains that Sunak would rather get drenched than be compared to noted brolly loser Steve McLaren. Optics discourse is incredible"

Union Jack gazebos are a thing:

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/165496541979

behold, the Racism Cube

Don't let Starmer know or he'll be doing his press conferences from inside one.

he already is, psychically

dismal

Keir Starmer needs you to vote for Reform on July 4th.

A vote for Reform is a vote to put Keir Starmer into power. pic.twitter.com/CGVoo5snGc

— Conservatives (@Conservatives) May 23, 2024

in fairness his politics are more or less identical to theirs

And I would have got away with it if it hadn't been for you meddling Conservative Party Central Office political advisers.

A more abstract approach would be better: "vote Labour, you get Starmer as pm" with Starmer getting a Starmer mask yanked off, revealing that this confirms that he is indeed Starmer.

^^
I'm giving this one for free, if my name was saatchi & saatchi I could charge millions for this shit!

I like that, you'll go far in this game

Still an opportunity for Paul Mason

NEW
 
Conservative HQ have emailed asking for candidates in almost 100 seats
 
When candidates ask when the deadline is, they have been told it’s 48 hours, according to 2 I’ve spoken to
 
Some Tory associations are pretty livid at having been left in such an unprepared situation pic.twitter.com/baBLr6TiMK

— Paul McNamara (@PGMcNamara) May 23, 2024

lol, only a matter of time before serial carpetbagger Mason declares that the only way to advance the class struggle is by running as a Tory candidate.

Islington North too, he could run against Corbyn after all!

It’s official!

https://www.islingtontribune.co.uk/article/jeremy-corbyn-why-i-am-standing-as-an-independent-candidate-at-the-general-election

Excited for the Lab right focusing a proportionate amount of time and attention on this.

you were the victim of badly losing an election pic.twitter.com/hJU63pMgci

— Ben Smoke (@bencsmoke) December 3, 2024

heh, check out this loser. It was paywalled, unfortunately. I did want learn more about disinformation.

LOL he was a terrible candidate, judging by the amount of effort Islington Labour Party put into his campaign I'd say even they cottoned on to that fact very early on.

(1)Praful Nargund, the Blairite private health businessman who lost to Corbyn has set up a "Good Growth Foundation to promote... himself- this is actually from this "Foundation's" front page. It's a ridiculous vanity project . pic.twitter.com/Z6wWH1sn7P

— Solomon Hughes (@SolHughesWriter) December 3, 2024

Its all 'disinformation' when I lose too, my sympathies go to *scrolls up to read tweet again* Praful.

just had to sit through a job centre group training session on interview skills and the guy just grifted about AI, chatgpt and grindset bullshit the whole time… i can’t believe government money is being spent like this

— seosamh 🇵🇸 (@dayglowj0e) December 3, 2024

I can believe govt cash is being burnt like this

Labour parking it's tanks on the Conservatives' Reform's the BNP's lawn

WATCH: Kemi Badenoch was one of the leading lobbyists for the Tories’ open borders experiment. pic.twitter.com/IzV51ssofv

— The Labour Party (@UKLabour) December 4, 2024

I'm gently impressed they're tapping into deeper veins of evil than I wdve predicted

What.

https://news.stv.tv/east-central/edinburgh-council-leader-suspended-by-labour-after-sexual-messages-to-refugees

The clammy hands of Cammy Day.

Starmer speaking at RAF Akrotiri in Cyprus: "Quite a bit of what goes on here can't necessarily be talked about all of the time... we can't necessarily tell the world what you're doing"

RAF Akrotiri is the base from which the RAF flies missions to assist Israel in its genocide. pic.twitter.com/bUKdhaZulV

— Saul Staniforth (@SaulStaniforth) December 10, 2024

I look forward to the day when this video is played back to Starmer in court one day

at least the real villians are being dealt with eh?

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/dec/11/britain-leads-the-world-in-cracking-down-on-climate-activism-study-finds

villains even

WASPI, another amazing bit of politics, another section of the electorate alienated, another chance to get pilloried by everybody who isn't in the cult, and merely to "save" an insignificant figure

pure performative hard man shite yet again

They are being pilloried with all their tweets about giving WASPI women their fair dues. Fuck Liz Kendall.

it's fun to speculate about why they don't care about how they look

They think the public wants Cameron/Osbourne politics. In 2024. Their brains haven't moved an inch since 2015

the news over the weekend about the record number of deportations wasn't a good look either

They are not going to stop Reform with this

it took years and multiple electoral cycles of Macron trying to fuck over pensioners, constantly trying to impose unwanted austerity on the French public without a legitimate mandate, to become as nationally despised and electorally dead-in-the-water as Kieth is after 5 months.

Hilarious. Guess they can all work for water companies in five years

Water bills to rise 20% (£86) plus inflation in April and then above inflation for the next four years. @Ofwat gives private water companies in England the go-ahead to make customers pay for the investment they have failed to do for 30 years while enriching shareholders and…

— Paul Lewis (@paullewismoney) December 19, 2024

How long will we take this shit?

good luck USA

tbf they've picked a UK establishment figure who was just as close to Jeffrey Epstein as president Trump was

And this week's prize for 'Most Ingenious Way to Blame Jeremy Corbyn for Anything and Everything Under and Beyond the Sun' goes to @helenadollimore. pic.twitter.com/ZRLLRfa9e1

— Mark Berry (@boulezian) December 20, 2024

On the same tip just seen the apparently real headline 'We've evicting our 90 year old tenant because of Labour'.

This is, I am assuming, Sussex prof Jonathan Dollimore’s daughter?

The ombudsman is Jeremy Corbyn, Starmer and Rayner are Jeremy Corbyn, various Tories are Jeremy Corbyn

Jeremy Corbyn is head of Thames Water and all other water companies in England and Wales.

when the first mad friday casualties are announced, just getting in early it was all Jeremy Corbyn's fault for running with a GE manifesto that didn't make ppl want to to top themselves

I'm enjoying the new "the problem is promising to do anything" realism

Starmer will be booted in about three years. There'll be enough damage from Scottish, Welsh and any local elections.

Time to get a nice cup of coffee and look up to see whether Owen Smith is still an MP.

Yes and Corbyn was the problem?

After leaving Parliament, Smith became the UK government relations director for pharmaceutical company Bristol Myers Squibb.

peter mandelson appointed ambassador to the united states of america- he and trump can bond over their shared friendship with the late, lamented jeffrey epstein i guess

Looking forward to the New York Times expose of this "mysterious" British Lord and his many unsavoury connections

if it's ok for Bill Clinton to be a paedo then I guess paedos must be good then

Labour now hiring an attack and rebuttal expert, have at the fake applications:

https://labour.org.uk/about-us/work-with-us/current-vacancies/current-vacancy-head-of-attack-and-rebuttal/

wait they've got a strategy?

Only for the important things.

get full bennies for doing Labour apologia and lose your soul

Honestly would have applied if the job had been advertised during the Corbyn years!

under Cromblyns it would've been the headbuttal expert, amirite?

alphie needs to go deep cover and apply imo

if you went into the job with the idea of coming out with the most preposterous, parodic Orwell_Fan shit possible, just rinse these fuckers, and then McSweeney shakes your hand and gives you the pay rise for being so good at this game!

Trump adviser calls Lord Mandelson a 'moron' as he's named UK's next US ambassador

lol, when they're right they are right!

alphie needs to go deep cover and apply imo

― imago, Saturday, 21 December 2024 bookmarkflaglink

I would be as good as that as you are at writing!

https://t.co/Wvqe8IPWQI pic.twitter.com/wL8OU4HeeE

— Zarah Sultana MP (@zarahsultana) December 20, 2024

amazing

lol, love it!

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