#Things Can Only Get Better

[nights-are-better]

[llyfrenfys]

i'm hilarious

[litres-of-cocaine]

keir starmer is a coward and a fuckwit, not least because he refuses to speak on genocide but also because he has no discernible values beyond appealing to tory converts. i do not want him as a prime minister. but anyone who thinks that spoiling ballots or voting for green in a place where labour is set to have a majority has no fucking clue how the world works.

tactical voting is important in places with no chance of swinging left. voting lib dem or green in places where conservative majorities aren’t going to be supplanted by labour is a great idea. but not voting labour because ‘they are definitely going to win and it sends a message’ will not work. everyone thought labour were going to get in last election. admittedly, it looked like it was going to be less of a landslide, but a lot of the public (i.e. average people not political forecasters) thought a labour win was certain. and guess what! boris johnson got in. boris johnson. the meme. the joke, who no one took seriously. there isn’t a guarantee that labour will get in. the ‘message’ that you’re trying to send to labour will just end up in the conservatives lap. you can’t send a message if it gets delivered to the wrong house.

vote labour, vote tactically, vote any way that decreases the power of the conservatives.

it’s fucking horrible, it’s vile, but the chance of a better option swooping in is nearing the impossible.

[misschinablue]

welcome to the UK, where world leading healthcare is free at the point of use! hopefully you don't need it though. underfunding and shitty management of the public health sector by non clinicians mean you could wait up to six months for an urgent referral. hope all your organs are in good working order because you could die waiting if they're not :) and god forbid you should need to see a GP or a practice nurse for something more minor - the demand highly outweighs the supply and you'll be engaging in the hunger games to maybe get a 10 minute telephone appointment in September 2026 :) mental health suffering? well you are shit out of luck my friend - again, demand far outweighs supply - everything has been cut down to less than the absolute bare minimum - and the criteria for services is sky high now. make a cup of tea and take the crisis line number. you'll be fine right?

welcome to the UK, one of the richest economies in the world! how is it then that living standards are as low as they were in the 1970s, what with the old cossie lives and wages that were already laughably meagre now completely out of sync with how fucking expensive everything is?? i know you worked hard to get your education and onto your graduate scheme and did everything society asked of you to make it in life, but things are different now so here's your mouldy room in a shared house where the rent is a million pounds a month and lol what disposable income aren't you just happy to have a roof of your head?? stop going to Costa every morning for your soy triple shot vanilla latte you entitled little shit! it's not like we've had 14 years of complete mismanagement of the economy or anything! ps. aren't you so tired of hearing that it's all your fault?

welcome to the UK, where we have a welfare system designed to help people.in need, I.e. those out of work and those too sick to work! but good luck accessing that too. and if you want to try - LMFAO! oh honey no one LIKES working. but all this pretending to be too unwell to work ain't fooling anyone! come on mate drop that defeatist attitude and get on indeed.com. none of your conditions are even real. stop using your multiple sclerosis/depression/long covid/terminal cancer as an excuse. fucking sickness culture in this country. the high rates of mental illness especially have no obvious cause at all do they?

welcome to the UK, a tiny country that prides itself on tolerance and has historically seen great benefits to the economy and culturally from immigration! but god forbid we make this an easy place to live for trans people! this Woke has gone too far! and oh my GOD aren't all these refugees SO annoying?! they clearly just want to come here for the free healthcare (you know that non existent thing) and to get welfare benefits (you know asylum seekers aren't entitled to benefits apart from a pittance allowance from the home office right?) and they're absolutely not braving a life threatening journey to escape horrific conditions and persecution in their own country. but whatever. not our problem. off to Rwanda with you. human rights are stupid lmao. empathy? compassion? never heard of her.

welcome to the UK, where we support genocide and saying certain things in opposition of it is actually fucking illegal. i wish i was kidding.

welcome to the UK, where nothing works and everyone is sad.

welcome to the UK. god i fucking hate it here.

british tumblr - even if you don't think it will make a difference, even if you recognise there is just a lesser of two evils here, even if you don't trust any of them, even if you're fucked off and burnt out, i am BEGGING you to vote to get these absolute cretins out of power. we cannot have another five years under tory rule. there will be nothing left.

[claustrophobicandexcatholic]

Blair, scribbled for uni and finished for my own amusement

[tomorrowusa]

« After Boris Johnson and Liz Truss, Sunak could not clean up the wreckage because he was the wreckage; unable to understand or acknowledge profound national inequality, the rot at the heart of the Tory party, or those ideological beliefs that deliver less and less for more and more. To admit that the model is broken would be to admit that he is not its poster child, but its cautionary tale. »

— Columnist Nesrine Malik at The Guardian.

If Shakespeare came back to write a play about the UK Conservative Party's 14 years of misrule, we'd be in Act Five with the final scene taking place at the end of this week. While it would be a tragedy overall, it would atypically (for Shakespeare's tragedies) get increasingly comedic towards the end.

Physicist and popular science communicator Prof. Brian Cox was in the band D:Ream in the 1990s. He took time out from explaining the fate of universe a few days ago for a reunion with the band at the Glastonbury festival.

Watch Professor Brian Cox reunite with D:Ream for ‘Things Can Only Get Better’ at Glastonbury 2024

"Things Can Only Get Better" was Labour's theme song in their 1997 landslide victory. The song made a high profile comeback when a political activist blasted the song on Downing Street during Rishi Sunak's soaking announcement of the upcoming election.

Perhaps it's appropriate that the Tory project should end as such a farce.

The election is Thursday July 4th. Never take an election's outcome for granted.

[profoundlyfaded]

Sunak’s election announcement sound bites will be forever accompanied by the subliminal message to vote Labour. Bet Keir Starmer was on the Turntables at the end of Downing Street and had the camera panned, John Prescott would have been dancing like it was 1997

[myimaginaryradio]

Things Can Only Get Better - Howard Jones

[athenepromachos]

Henry's plan for you and the New Year.....

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Wishing a very Happy New Year to one and all 🎇🥳

May your 2023 be peaceful and successful xxxxxx

C and the beasties 🐺🐺🐺

[nights-are-better]

keir im so sorry but you would have been the teacher who got bullied at my secondary school until you cried. please have some more back bone

[unceasingtoe]

Chapter Five, part one of Aria of the Wayward is live on WattPad.

After a rough first day at the College with precious little reprieve, Taiera finds herself thrown in the deep end with Medic Cana: a formidable intellect and rigorous lecturer, who has little pity for the frivolous and unprepared in her classroom(!)

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[spiced-wine-fic]

[wetfishguts]

what the fuck do you mean i might have to do national service. hello???? no thanks????????

[tomorrowusa]

Britain goes to the polls in July. If things go as expected, this July 4th will be Independence Day for TWO countries. ;)

UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak announced a snap general election for July 4 in a statement outside Downing Street on Wednesday evening, as his Conservative Party faces an uphill struggle to extend its 14 years in power. Sunak said outside Downing Street that he had informed King Charles III of the rare summer poll, firing the starting gun on a six-week campaign that is almost universally expected to conclude in the demise of his Conservative government. Soaked by a downpour as he spoke, Sunak said: “Now is the moment for Britain to choose its future.” He also attacked his opponents, saying that by voting for the Labour Party, Britain would “risk going back to square one.” But he admitted: “I cannot and will not claim that we have got everything right.” Sunak was required to hold a vote by January 2025, and had long resisted calls to be specific about his plans. But a fall in inflation rates, announced earlier Wednesday, provided the backdrop for his announcement.

Like most people, I was surprised by the timing. General elections between June 15th and September 1st have not gone well for the party in power since World War II ended.

The post VE-Day election of 05 July 1945 saw Conservative Winston Churchill himself tossed out of power.

The 18 June 1970 election was a shock defeat for Labour which was defending a strong majority in the previous Parliament.

Labour is currently leading the Conservatives by over 20 points in the polls.

Electoral Calculus last month predicted a Labour majority of 294 seats over the Conservatives. Even a best case scenario for Rishi would be 211 seats out of a total of 650 – or 115 seats short of a majority.

^^^ FYI: Because of various by-election losses and defections, the Conservatives were down to 344 seats early Wednesday from the 2019 results.

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak's announcement of the upcoming general election did not go very well.

Sunak, for whatever reason, decided to make the announcement outside in pouring rain and without an umbrella. By the time he finished his remarks he looked like he was wearing a wet suit.

And as he was making the announcement, everybody near the soaking Sunak could hear a loudspeaker down the street blasting Labour's 1997 theme song, "Things Can Only Get Better" by D:Ream – thanks to Steve Bray.

Various headline writers and commenters could not resist the temptation to refer to Rishi's announcement as "things can only get wetter". 🌧

This is a 3-minute Labour ad from 1997 featuring that song. (BTW: the information at the end about voting procedures is now out of date)

The '97 election turned out to be a landslide for Labour in which they won 418 seats – an increase of 146.