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.

That Daily Mail front page spooked him eh

(yes, I know this is what he wants too)

Trump is not gonna care what Starmer does or doesn't do. That trip has a lot of humiliation potential.

i don't know, Kieth won't back down from a pledge

this is precisely what he got into politics for in the first place, to so thoroughly debase himself on the world stage he'll forever be remembered as a joke, just gagging on a KKK pensioner's dick for no positive outcome at all!

A funny detail from the HBOS whistleblower report on Rachel Reeves’ expenses - imagine finding out a colleague used your work as an excuse to expense themselves a bottle of Moet https://t.co/2YK70J5Zsx pic.twitter.com/oPOTlz5Go1

— G (@_georgeabby) February 15, 2025

Rachel Reeves takes the art of being an absolute piece of shit to absolute perfection. I'm just completely obsessed with her exceptional levels of shittiness.

how have we come to have the pettiest, most grasping, craven, selfish leaders of all time???? wtf!!

they all represent parties within political systems entirely captured by the interests of global capital, being a malleable fraud is basically the only way to get this job now

even when she commits expense fraud, which normally is a victimless crime. She has to make a victim/dupee out of a colleague. That's a deeply fucked up person imo.

a sociopath who despises humanity is my amateur psyche report!

fuck's sake played pretty well for 10 minutes

Reeves?

She's playing Liverpool at Anfield as we speak.

lol i haven't even had a drink

Reeverhampton Wanderers.

even at our feckless worst that's a gross calumny

Come on the Reeves!

I'm drinking moet as a tribute to our multifaceted chancellor who is growing the UK economy so fucking fast whilst also playing as a prop forward for St Helens!

Reeves has a top class CV she will work it out.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/feb/15/rachel-reeves-has-three-options-to-dodge-an-economic-crisis-and-all-are-unthinkable

Growth has stalled – the Bank of England said earlier this month that it had reduced its growth forecastnever heard of Rachel Reeves

it’s weird how being a craven moron actually has consequences. (not for the moron herself, obviously)

A confusing moment at this pathetic ARC thing

Also appearing on a panel was the Labour peer and proponent of the socially conservative Blue Labour movement, Maurice Glasman. The peer, who is on ARC’s advisory board, said he agreed with those at the event who believed that capitalism “desecrates humanity” when it treated human beings as commodities.

more like White Labour

meanwhile tbh i'm not really feeling the whole Cold War 2 thing

oh and i got a letter from my MP yesterday telling me how tough she's gonna be on antisocial behaviour and asking how many extra cops i'd like to order

I want to see some tougher laws and crackdowns on expense fiddling frauds who con their way into top government positions they aren't fit or capable of doing. Not going to fucking happen tho is it!

Its not gonna be that easy.

Hope you're all ready because we are rapidly approaching the conditions ripe to trigger a revolution in Britain.

— Marl Karx (@BareLeft) February 17, 2025

Reeves trying to shield corrupt wrongdoing banks from paying compensation because it "undermines their competitiveness". Honestly, just fire this piece of shit into space.

ppl say it doesn't matter that her CV is a bullshit work of fiction. They should be bothered when she is trying supress the truth about banks screwing consumers and trying to shield these corrupt fucks from accountability

the fact that she was told to f off by m' learned friends is also very funny

If some UK Supreme Court judges did actually say something like "our ruling is fuck off and die Rachel Reeves" in a courtroom. I'd say fair play to these lads!

Talking of which:

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/feb/18/top-judge-deeply-troubled-by-pmqs-exchange-on-gaza-asylum-case

Streeting giving his tuppence-worth on the Lucy Letby case recently too, so much for judicial independence if you think it'll please the Reform voter base to pretend it doesn't exist

you've really got to question getting into this Letby-truther quagmire, especially by whom her loudest advocates are, like Toby fucking Young and P Hitchens!

There's only one person who knows what happened, and she ain't talking! Actually she is but a jury of non-experts sent her dungeon-wards anyway. Toby Young certainly isn't "in the know", that's one thing I can tell you for sure.

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/feb/19/uk-inflation-increases-rising-prices-squeeze-households

Wonder what has pushed up food costs and whether climate change has anything to do with it? *thinking emoji face*

no point asking Reeves, when she is eating in constituency restaurants, she demands the celebrity discount of no service charges on the £300 bill she has run up and no doubt claims the bill back on expenses. She didn't get into politics to struggle to pay for food like some two-bit loser!

war economy + rationing will sort this right out

it's working gangbusters in Russia. Some great opportunities for entrepreneurs over there if they can manage to steal a shitload of butter!

I think there must be a huge correlation of UK people who are simultaneously mad keen to fight Putin and also way beyond conscription age or beyond any fucking use to armed forces

Also National Service was 65 years ago, so hardly any of them will have experienced that let alone fought in any wars.

the average age of ukrainian soliders is 45, these guys had better be careful what they wish for lest they find themselves next year in the newly-conscripted gammon division in some godforsaken oblast facing down a barrage of incoming cannon fire

I don’t think anyone is angling for a war with Russia. Even sending troops to support a peace deal is unlikely, as Russia is adamant that they won’t agree to one in those circumstances.

The Russian objective is pretty clearly to con Trump into agreeing to a deal in return for vague promises of pivoting away from China and use their absence of support for Ukraine to push for full control, either through annexation or installation of a puppet government. Positioning any post-deal territorial split as backed by European / U.K. security guarantees makes that plan a lot harder, if not impossible. If anyone thinks that Russia is going to negotiate a deal backed by European security guarantees and then invade Ukraine again, leading to fighting with British troops, there is not much off the table beyond that - including the invasion of EU member states. The goal is to undermine a ‘sell-out’.

It sucks but, unless things change, NATO is basically dead and the US is, at best, going to act like a protection racket or, quite plausibly, an actively hostile enemy. The era of being able to rely on their insane defence spending for a measure of security is over, for now.

Last month I was wondering what was happening with the N Korean troops and kept finding horrific PPV drone footage where the drone camera cuts out as it explodes near the target. This was stuff taken from Ukraine army telegram account. Because I was wondering if it was AI produced propaganda. It just hit me that this was what the horror of the meatgrinder is now like on a modern battlefield. There are probably drone operators who have remotely killed thousands of people. Apparently the Russian Army are losing 1500 a day through "meat assault" tactics. It's absolutely terrifying and bleak to think about this shit.

Another one at it.

The Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) has said it will reinvestigate business secretary Jonathan Reynolds over accusations he misrepresented his legal career after “further information” came to light, PA Media reports.

The business secretary worked for Addleshaw Goddard LLP in Manchester as a trainee solicitor before he was elected as Labour MP in 2010 and never qualified as a solicitor.

Mr Reynolds has been accused of describing himself as a solicitor on several occasions - including on his LinkedIn page, in the Commons and on an old constituency website that is no longer online - when he had actually only worked as a trainee.

lol, love this shit. like most politicians, why go through the hard work of gaining any real qualifications when you can get into the ultimate easy money game of being an MP!

We can bring criminal proceedings when: an unqualified person has acted as a solicitor (Section 20 of the Solicitors Act 1974) or pretended to be or used the title, or a description, implying that they are a solicitor (Section 21 of the Solicitors Act 1974)

lol, this dickhead could be in real trouble as well (sadly, probably not)

BREAKING: Scottish Labour have pledged to create an Elon Musk-style 'Doge' to find public spending cuts.

It comes just days after the Scottish Tories announced the same idea pic.twitter.com/kebruwEwJR

— The National (@ScotNational) February 21, 2025

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