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

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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.

what's with the jolli sailors? she just coincidentally wanted a shag or was it part of some dastardly op to give the CCP UK's "nuclear secrets"*

* i.e. confirmation that their expensively rented US nuclear deterrent doesn't actually work and have failed to launch when tested and is a total waste of money

Lads there's a fucking 16 year-old in charge of a nuclear submarine is the lede here

there are two levels of redundancy with Trident i. It repeatedly fails to launch and is a verified absolute piece of crap WOMD. ii. The Pentagon have a kill switch if it does manage to launch. The UK is like the kid sitting at the front of the train pretending to be the train driver of nuclear weapon states. All this nonsense needs to be ditched. Just a waste of fucking money.

Labour MP is convicted in absentia for corruption charges, both she and the party label the conviction as “flawed & unfair” because there was no jury then both vote here in parliament to remove juries from trials.
Nobody does hypocrisy like Labour does hypocrisy. pic.twitter.com/L03joG2tMW

— Mark N (@Cold8957) April 1, 2026

Labour are claiming that non-jury trials are flawed when applied to their own corrupt MPs in overseas courts, whilst voting to restrict them in the UK.

sometimes i can't help but admire the sheer level of oblivious villainy they maintain. the greatest gov to ever do it.

Sir, Joani Reid let a second captain of a nuclear submarine hit it. https://t.co/WkHvlIgIgA pic.twitter.com/mL0f9yQdKU

— Metal Bizkit Rising (@allforthanookie) April 1, 2026

If a Labour MP tells you their values are patriotic abstinence-focused values, then without doubt they are fucking submarine commanders and snorting coke off classified documents after scanning them for their CCP handler every night or something like that.

‼️BREAKING | Your Party's candidates for 2026 include three councillors who were Conservative members as recently as January 2026

Gaz Ali, Amo Hussain, Izzy Hussain all sat as Tories on Walsall Council until Jan '26. Now backed by Corbyn.

(Leaflet edited to hide phone numbers) pic.twitter.com/azYoWufF0a

— Stats for Lefties 🍉🏳️‍⚧️ (@LeftieStats) April 2, 2026

it seems that Corbyn has some "highest quality candidate" issues himself. It's almost like he thinks anyone who is pro-Palestine is all good to go with YP, no matter how conservative they are. He should ask Kit Malthouse to join next.

I'm completely incapable of seeing that name without saying "built like a kit malthouse" to myself

He's the Tory who said Starmer could end up at The Hague over Gaza.

gaz "coombes" ali

not 1 controversial ex-Tory councillor... no no no ... Three of them!

Come on, this is just Purity Testing

we were all so worried about entryists from the SWP, we forgot to watch out for entryists from The Conservative and Unionist Party of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

apparently one of them has been on The Apprentice, lol!

that is the mark of a solid gold cunt tbf, just the sort of people who thrive in councils

oh no that is a different YP candidate, but still lol

The candidate in my area is a lad who’s been on The Apprentice https://t.co/5JnLk6db5b

— Pro Revolution Soccer (@shirleymush) April 2, 2026

M&S should be ransacked day and night. Awful place.

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/apr/03/marks-spencer-calls-crackdown-retail-crime-clapham

I think there should be more digging into why we have more shoplifting, maybe? Could it be that less and less people have any money? Hate the solution here is some CEO looking for more cops and arrests.

The high street is totally fucked. That M&S displaced a really nice local restaurant to another part of Clapham. They are doing ok, but it was touch and go for a while.

Clapham is full of coffee shop after coffee shop. One private equity backed business chain after another.

where I live the only M+S branch shut down 20 years ago. They maybe couldn't afford the security to defend their overpriced goods, there was no state "Panopticon" on offer for them at the time!

M&S should be ransacked day and night. Awful place.

I agree M&S should be ransacked at night but as a centrist I disagree with ammonia and headbut usage during the day

Timothy Snyder would agree

Did his Justice League cut ever come out?

I was in Clapham on Monday evening briefly and did see 150+ teens just shuffling towards the Common and was wondering what that was about.

Here are some more details.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/apr/03/experts-respond-to-mass-teen-meet-ups-clapham-london

Timothy Snyder would agree

Doubt it, can't recall the last time Snyder even mentioned M&S

We had the Mods and the Rockers on Brighton Beach in 1964. Is this any worse? If anything it isn't so bad as there don't appear to be two opposing groups fighting.
I am always amazed how quickly people forget what it's like to be a teenager.

you don't need to be Nostradamus to see what the consequences of definite outcomes that are on the way, like galloping inflation, $200 barrels of oil and fertiliser shortages, and this is going to seriously fuck up food supply chains. There will be food riots on the streets of the UK. Not kids having performative rucks. UK People only got a glimpse of what empty shelves look like during the brief interruptions to various supply chains and panic-buying during Covid. This will be more prolonged and existential when it really hits the UK imo. And unfortunately the current UK austerity government is ideologically opposed to actually doing anything.

this bunch of cunts are worst possible govt for a crisis. They aren't even any good maintained decline, never mind a crisis.

‼️BREAKING | Greens surge into LEAD (1st!!)

🟢 Grn: 21.4% (+2.1)
➡️ Ref: 20.9% (-1.4)
🔵 Con: 20.5% (+0.2)
🔴 Lab: 17.0% (-0.4)
🟠 Lib: 9.2% (-1.9)

Poll: @LordAPolls, 26-30 Mar (+/- vs 19-23 Feb) pic.twitter.com/oDVw4cDaFC

— Stats for Lefties 🍉🏳️‍⚧️ (@LeftieStats) April 5, 2026

this is a stunning poll, and it's an Ashcroft poll so has no lefty bias.

Polls are meaningless when people don't like what they show, that's the discourse

oh lol there is going to be some melts melting down over this. And yesterday Hannah sent them into a meltdown with her opinion piece in the Graun. According to Dracula having the opinion that Labour are an inadequate political party for the problems that the UK population are facing is a "conspiracy theory". Incredible stuff.

He clarified that he meant "thinking Kieth is being shit for ideological reasons" is the conspiracy theory

Rentoul is worried about conspiracy thinking in case people get round to "who among us is a member of the undead"

some people get confused and think he's a fossil fuel lobbyist, not true at all. Rather he is literally a fossil.

wes, give it a rest, you are never going to be prime minister. everyone hates you. yeah I know that didn't stop kier.

https://www.politico.eu/article/kanye-west-headlining-uk-wireless-music-festival-appalling-streeting-minister-ye/

They’ve banned him now.

yeah but our health minister had no say in it and had no need to comment

Not to give Wes his due but he was on breakfast tv talking about the BMA strike and at the end he was asked about banning Ye and said it was a home office decision.

is there an offical bar for when somebody is too bigoted to enter the UK? would be nice to get this clear

It’s not completely unusual for ‘promoters of hatred’ to be barred as ‘not conducive to the public good’ but idk how often it has happened in relation to behaviour that has been repudiated. I think Sizzla’s position, when he was barred, was that he’d behave himself once here, not that he no longer believed anything that was said previously.

I see Farage was sad/disappointed

Starmer posting mealy-mouthed condemnations of Kanye West and some tacky, culturally irrelevant music festival on a day when potentially nuclear bombs were being delivered for mass crimes from UK bases. That shit is going to down in history as a defining moment of his leadership qualities.

Lol this cunt can maybe chair a meeting and take some notes.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/apr/08/keir-starmer-visit-gulf-us-iran-ceasefire-trump

he'd be more useful at this meeting as a human chair. Literally nobody in the world apart from perhaps a tiny minority of freakazoids like his weird hagiographer, Tom Baldwin, has one iota of respect for this cunt. He's made himself such an insignificant and unserious lapdog that most people don't even see him as a sentient being.

Is he going to threaten to send another UK Destroyer into the gulf? Lol probably best just parking it up in Portsmouth and not getting it broken again.

i suspect that quite a large number of people thought he could be a good leader simply because of his name, which sounds like the name of an action hero. these are the vagaries upon which the world sometimes turns (or doesn’t)

YP are not backing this excellent candidate lol

https://tribunemag.co.uk/2026/02/the-palestine-hunger-striker-standing-for-election

In my constituency I think?

Yup

Petition: Expel all US military personnel and close all US military bases in the UK https://t.co/pHVZIEhf7R

— Andrew Feinstein (@andrewfeinstein) April 8, 2026

if you don't sign this it won't make fuck all difference, but sign it anyway imo