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Update: it is usually shown here on Monday nights and has been pulled from the schedule. I have, however, seen the rain-soaked, what I assume was the end, bit on Twitter and it was perfection. I’m always here for someone using the word ‘cockwomble’.
I very much assume the YouTube upload later in the week will be geoblocked too but I have ways and means
Excited to see that Johnny O has covered the UK election. Only problem is that it almost certainly can’t be broadcast here. Or at least not until after the election
#also calling the tories cunts is a++++++ work and entirely accurate#god I cannot wait until the morning of the 5th July to say goodbye to these fuckwits#it will be fucking epic#(though I never entirely trust the opinion polls but very much 🤞🤞🤞)#john oliver#last week tonight
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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.
#no one is actually going to read this but i needed a rant#labour#keir starmer#uk politics#things can only get better#because a hundred mile below acceptable governance is still an improvement on a million miles below acceptable governance
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Election day PSA for my fellow Brits
Before you go and vote, I recommend taking a quick look at this website:
You can enter your postcode, and it'll tell you what constituency you're in and which party to vote for for the best chance of keeping the Tories and Reform out!
Remember, polls are open from 7am to 10pm and you need to bring photo ID to vote (just one shit thing the Tories need to be punished for). Let's try and kick out of many of those bigoted fuckwits as we possibly can!
#political crap#uk politics#uk election#uk election 2024#fuck the tories#i think in quite a few seats the tories and reform aren't in with a chance anyway thankfully#so if you're lucky enough to live in one of those vote with your conscience#in case you were wondering my seat is a lib dem/tory marginal this time so i'm going lib dem#they may be wet farts but at least they're nominally the least anti-trans and most pro-palestine major party in england so that's something
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Seeing SNP with low numbers oh I am so scared for what these fuckwits up here have voted for 😕
i think for the SNP it is a shame the tories were quite so bad, because it became about 'anything but the tories' which equates to labour normally, or lib dem, rather than a party which campaignes on less national policies
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Welcome to the UK, where we have not been allowed to access Covid boosters of any kind since the end of 2021. There's an increasingly reduced NHS plan to provide them for the elderly and clinically vulnerable, but the parameters for this get more and more restrictive every year.
Legally we should all just be able to at least pay for the fucking things at a pharmacy the same way we do for annual flu jabs if we want to access them and don't meet NHS parameters, but??? None of the pharma companies seem interested in letting us do that either. Maybe next year apparently...!! Gotta love late stage capitalism and a fuckwit Tory government in action.
CDC finally fuckin' recommended the new COVID boosters for everyone in the US. letting my american followers who don't check the news know because i've been turned away for wanting to get an extra booster & now won't be anymore & it's Lovely. most americans are not going to get these and are going to grumble about them, which sucks as far as spread goes - but DOES mean u can schedule with ur local pharmacy sooner rather than later. please do so. ur immunocomprised friends and ur own body will thank u.
#we can't even get reliable covid tests here either (i know for a fact the rapid tests we have in shops didnt reliably detect my covid)#at least i got my flu jab booked in a couple of weeks i guess?? fuck only knows what we're supposed to do about Covid
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Kier Starmer can get in the bin. Dangerous fuckwit is gonna be the next PM and continue the current attacks on queer rights that the tories have unleashed.
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Anthony's Stupid Daily Blog (778): Sat 4th May 2024
My mother normally votes Tory but she forgot that it was voting day on Thursday. This morning she asked me if I voted and I told her that I did. She asked me this afternoon why I didn't remind her that it was voting day and I told her that I forgot which is true I did forget.. in the same way I forgot to spray paint my bank details on the roof of my unlocked car. The big takeaway from the election other than the Tories rightfully getting fucking mauled and Sunak actually having the balls to say that the forthcoming general election result is not a foregone conclusion but rather the fact that Boris Johnson forgot to take his ID with him to vote. This was especially noteworthy because it was Johnson who actually introduced this rule while he was Prime Minister. Someone fuckwits on Twitter were saying he did it on purpose in order to get attention with one user declaring "Unbelievable stage managed publicity stunt and the media fell for it" to which I responded "Right. Kind of like the time you “pissed” yourself during the school play and everyone laughed at you. Those idiot kids, teachers and parents had no idea you deliberately poured water on your pants to make people think you’d pissed yourself. Bunch of marks".
I started re-reading Philip K Dick’s Solar Lottery in the garden. When I decided I was going to read all Philip K Dick's books about a year ago I started with Solar Lottery because I thought that this was his first novel but I later found out it was the first published in his lifetime but not the first he ever wrote. Indeed there were half a dozen stories he wrote before Solar Lottery came out so I decided to go back to the very beginning, read those half dozen books then go over Solar Lottery again. I still think that the plot is one of the best of all PKD's novels. It's about an alternate Earth which has decided that the only way to have true justice in the world is through random chance and as such every leader of the world is chosen once every five years via a lottery. To coincide with this new president the lottery process also selects one person randomly to try and assassinate this leader and if they do they become the new leader or "Quizmaster". The current Quizmaster Verrick is coming to the end of his term and has survived his assassination attempt but does not want to give up his leadership role. The new leader Cartwright has his own personal medium that he intends to use to thwart any potential assassination attempt. In order to prevent the handover of power Verrick has built a robot that can be controlled by numerous people and has hired a group of around thirty assassins to mind control the robot and plans to switch assassins at random intervals which he thinks will confuse the medium and make it impossible for them to predict the robot's behaviour. My favourite part of the book is where the robot is walking through the offices where Cartwright is and someone is screaming over the PA system "THE ASSASIN IS IN THE BUILDING!" as pandemonium is happening all around. Some of Dick's works seem to be begging to be adapted for the cinema and I can totally see this scene being the most memorable if such a cinematic adaptation of Solar Lottery were to happen.
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Dickheads of the Month: June 2023
As it seems that there are people who say or do things that are remarkably dickheaded yet somehow people try to make excuses for them or pretend it never happened, here is a collection of some of the dickheaded actions we saw in the month of June 2023 to make sure that they are never forgotten.
Who could have guessed that OceanGate sending people to the Titanic wreck in a steel tube that can only be opened from outside, which is operated with a knockoff Xbox controller, that has no communications system or a rescue beacon in case of trouble could go wrong?
...although why The Sun and Daily Mail splashed that over their front pages the following morning, rather than their boy Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson having several hundred people vote to agree he was a liar does post a few pertinent questions
...and then billionaire manchild Elon Musk had a meltdown all because Snopes pointed out that Starlink were providing the internet support for the ship the death tube submarine was launched from. But on the plus side, at least he didn’t accuse anyone mounting the rescue operation of being a paedophile, so I guess that counts as personal growth
...and then along came proven liar Boris Johnson to use his Daily Mail column to waffle some utter bollocks about “pushing human frontiers” instead of “rich people having a jolly at something which was discovered in the mid-1980s” all as an excuse to have a pop at his political opponents...sorry, let me narrow that down, his left-wing political opponents, given both sides of the aisle are sick and fucking tired of him at this point
The tantrum thrown by proven liar Boris Johnson when he reached the “...and find out” part of the transaction after he was found to have breached ministerial code, lied to parliament, and when facing a potential suspension he resigned as an MP so he could harrumph about Harriet Harman having it in for him as if the five Tories on the panel also didn't vote for him being a sociopathic fuckwit who thinks the rules don't apply to him while pretending he was thrown out by an undemocratic cabal while coincidentally dodging a by-election
...with sycophants such as Andrea Jenkyns and Brendan Clarke Smith eager to prove their mettle as proven liar Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson's versions of Lauren Boebert and Marjorie Taylor Greene
...and yet in spite of Jacob Rees Mogg and Lia Nici (to name but two) all talking a big game prior to the vote that proven liar Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson was an honest and decent man, when the vote came they abstained en masse, leaving him with just seven votes saying he wasn't a bullshitter
In the mind of Luke Akehurst sharing a stage with Ken Loach is now grounds to be dismissed from Keir Starmer’s Labour Party and not, say, deciding that Jamie Driscoll - the democratically elected as mayor of North Tyne - is not good enough to be included on the longlist for the prospective Mayor of the North East as they want another Blairite drone installed, and may as well tar Ken Loach as an antisemite in the process when scrambling to give a reason
...and yet when Keir Starmer’s Labour Party were asked for the reasoning for Discoll not being considered they fobbed that off with saying they wouldn't comment on individual cases...while “a source” repeated the incoherent babble about Ken Loach which echoed what Luke Akehurst and Lee Harpin were posting to their personal Twitter accounts on the subject to the letter
...and then it was the turn of Paul Richards to state the Starmerite case with an appearance on Newsnight where he debated Driscoll...if by “debated” you mean yelling pre-prepared soundbites at him while dodging Driscoll’s direct questions about what rules he had broken or if he was calling Ken Loach an antisemite, while also acting like an arrogant twunt not least when he leterally said “I know more about the North East than you” or comparing Driscoll to David Brent in a line he was sure sounded more cutting when Akehurst and/or Harpin handed him the piece of paper with the comment written on it
Ultra-relatable nice guy Rishi Sunak decided to prove what an ultra-relatable nice guy he is by suggesting to people concerned that their mortgages would be increasing yet again hold their nerve as opposed to, oh I don’t know, his neck between their ever-constricting hands
Billionaire manchild Elon Musk got Pride Month off to a great start by planning to force a notification to every Twitter user when Matt Walsh’s transphobic documentary went live on the platform - and when Twitter's brand security manager told him that was a fucking insane idea, Musk forced them to resign
...and by the end of Pride Month billionaire manchild Elon Musk decided that the words “cis” and “cisgender” were slurs and using them would lead to an immediate Twitter ban, all because one of the right-wing meatbags that he's desperate to appeal to as nobody else is dumb enough to pay to use a free social media platform cried about being called cis, but remember the billionaire manchild is all about that FREEZE PEACH
One question about Matt Walsh and that transphobic documentary of his: why does he show so many pictures of naked minors?
Frowning thumb Joe Rogan somehow manages to be pig ignorant about vaccines and how they work, yet also knows full well what he's doing when he’s siccing his followers into harassing Dr Peter Hotez to the point they show up to Hotez’s house and films themselves yelling incoherently at him all because he refused to appear on Rogan's podcast alongside Robert Kennedy Jr for fear of giving Kennedy and his utterly batshit opinions credibility - especially as Rogan would, by balance of probability, have been backing up Kennedy throughout
Not only is Kari Lake still screaming that she didn't lose the Arizona gubernatorial election last November, she's now also screaming about Donald Trump being charged with breaking the law and started babbling like a crazy person about using the NRA as a militia to overturn whatever verdict
In the space of a week Keir Starmer’s Labour Party twice got caught trying to bury bad news when attention was elsewhere, firstly by ditching their green energy pledge when Trump was arraigned under the misguided belief that papers wouldn't be looking to put anything but Trump being arraigned on the front pages, and then ditching their Universal Childcare pledge when proven liar Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson was harrumphing out of Commons
...and a week later Keir Starmer’s Labour Party were at it again, sneaking out that they were backing out of the North Sea oil pledge just as the video of the Tory HQ pissup from December 2020 was released to the public
To nobody's surprise Suella Braverman was not happy when the Rwanda deportation policy was ruled unlawful. Also to nobody;s surprise, her response was the exact sort of buzzwords Tufton Street handed to her which would also be on the front page of the next day's Daily Mail
Barking MP Margaret Hodge definitely does not like it when anybody suggests her talk where she howled about people with “different faces” and “different food” moving into middle class areas sound remarkably like Margaret Hodge being comfortably racist in her centrist safe space
Of course Nadine Dorries is the sort of person who will show up on TalkTV saying she won't trigger a by-election even if she were elevated to the House of Lords - and then a few hours later trigger a by-election by announcing her immediate resignation as an MP as she wasn't elevated to the House of Lords
...only for it to turn out that, while Nadine Dorries made a big song and dance of her immediate resignation to any TV channel that would give her an inordinate amount of time to screech about resigning, she hadn't actually gone through with the tedious details of actually resigning
...and then Nadine Dorries started demanding all the evidence from the enquiry that saw her precious BoBo found to have been guilty of the things he was caught doing multiple times, because she wanted to perform her own investigation - and did I mention she still hasn't resigned after saying she was resigning with immediate effect?
...and then in stomped Lee Harpin to yell at any journalists who reported on the words which Hodge had said, because apparently it is not in the matter of public interest to report a sitting MP using a pet shop’s worth of dogwhistles in a speech and asking if Keir Starmer’s Labour Party intended to actually say or do something about this
In the space of 24 hours the BBC interviewed Andrew Tate and Philip Schofield, meaning that they platformed somebody who is on rape charges in the UK and a litany of charges including people smuggling in Romania, then somebody who is in the public eye because GB News would rather talk about that story (with heavy homophobic overtones) than dare mention the whole “Tories being bigger shits than usual over that Covid inquiry” thing that is actually headline news
...which looked particularly good when Andrew Tate was charged with rape and human trafficking by Romanian authorities three weeks after the BBC interview. Funny how BBC Verify wasn't brought up at that moment, eh?
The grown-up in politics that is Keir Starmer showed just what a political grown-up he is by harrumphing that children should not identify as cats - in other words, regurgitating that culture war bollocks Katharine Birbalsingh has been spouting for months almost word-for-word that we’ve also seen GB News pick up on, all pretending the source isn't some American alt-right douche twisting schools having cat litter in classrooms so kids have somewhere to pee when the school is in lockdown due to there being an active shooter into the usual gender-based culture war bollocks
...although that didn't stop Kemi Badenoch demanding a snap Ofsted inspection of the school where nobody identified as a cat contrary to what Birbalsingh of GB News repeatedly claimed even after it was proven the entire story was complete and utter bollocks
Quite the stance from Rick Scott when saying that anybody who does not share his exact political ideology is not welcome to live of vacation in Florida, then banging on about liking “freedom” in the same sentence
We have reached the point where Rosie Duffield feels empowered enough to tweet out casual transphobia knowing that Keir Starmer’s Labour Party won't do a damn thing about it, since they haven’t done a damn thing about the numerous complaints of her homophobia and transphobia before
The lack of self-awareness from Lance Armstrong when he decided to get in on the anti-trans grift and deciding the platform he'd use was to wail about fairness in sports is quite astounding, given the amount of asterisks the Tour de France now has entirely because Lance was so disinterested in fairness in sports he took so many steroids his balls shrivelled up and died
Washed-up husk of a sitcom star Roseanne Barr decided to try for the double whammy of not only denying that the Holocaust happened, but saying that the Holocaust should have happened due to Jews causing all the problems in the world. Gee, I wonder why her career is deader than a diplodocus...?
The one thing that GB News shows any form of aptitude for is sinking even lower, as ably demonstrated by Lewis Schaffer saying on air that Covid doesn't exist and government aides know this - leading to Leo Kerse trying to diffuse the situation (and desperately try to avoid Ofcom fines) by claiming this was a joke when it clearly wasn't, while drawing attention to the fact Kerse was sat there looking gormless as Schaffer said it
There was two issues with Fiona Bruce blurting out that Question Time vets audience member’s social media before letting them on: firstly that’s creepy as fuck, and secondly if they vetted people’s social media then they should be able to tell if somebody is a Tory councillor or has stood for election as a member of the National Front, but apparently that slips their attention quite a lot
...especially the following week, where Question Time thought nobody would notice UKIP’s Cain Griffiths was in the audience and, by complete coincidence, was given the first question of the night where he said something remarkably dogwhistly about Rishi Sunak
Thanks to Philip Collins we know there is a place for racism in Keir Starmer’s Labour party: as Starmer’s speechwriter, given Collins responded to Rishi Sunak tweeting in support of England at the Ashes by dogwhistling very fucking loudly about how Sunak should be supporting India - and when called on it, said his half-Indian children support India as if that somehow counters telling somebody born in Southampton they can't support England
Once again the BBC proved just how spineless they are by benching Clive Myrie from hosting their news programming because he made jokes about proven liar Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson when hosting Have I Got News For You - that is the HIGNFY which the BBC legal department reviewed the script for prior to the taping, the taping which was a day before the BBC aired the episode, so had plenty of opportunities to remove the “offensive” material if they so wished - but, of course, before it aired the Daily Mail hadn't had the chance to whinge and the BBC overcompensated in a way that only serves to make them look both weak and totalitarian - just as they did with Gary Lineker
Perhaps if Brendan Clarke-Smith spent a fraction of the energy he puts into yelling on Twitter at women who criticise him into being an MP, maybe his constituents wouldn’t already be planning for life after him
Soon-to-be-convict Andrew Tate decided to share his wisdom with the world and says that depression isn't a real thing. That sound you heard was innumerous people bookmarking that tweet, ready to quote it back to him for the inevitable “I’m so depressed in jail” whining he’ll be giving us soon enough
...and then billionaire manchild Elon Musk parroted those same arguments, and as is typical of him he attempted to pass the comments off as his own because all he can do is copy, paste, or do a racism
Waffling gargoyle Nigel Farage was quite upset that his bank wants nothing more to do with him or his business. Of course, what he neglected to mention was his account is with Coutts, which has just the one branch and you need to have savings worth at least £3m to open an account, as that little detail wouldn't fit in with pretending he isn't a grifting turd with a lot of gullible saps making it possible for him to open an account with Coutts that £500,000 worth of Russian money can be deposited into
How can Chelsea Mitchell be the “fastest girl in Connecticut” as she has dubbed herself when she came sixth in a race which featured one trans athlete - a trans athlete who didn't win the race, who Mitchell had beaten in races several times that season, and contrary to Mitchell’s claims had no role in her failing to get a scholarship - due to the minor fact that Mitchell had already got the scholarship she claims to have been denied. But no, may as well get on that Riley Gaines grift instead
Failed nepo baby Lawrence Fox not only seemed to be weirdly determined to make Pride Month all about himself, but spent Fathers Day lurching around all on his lonesome on his patio burning Pride flags and posting the video of him doing so to his Twitter
No, seriously, why did Colleen Ballinger think the best way to address grooming allegations was to whip out a ukelele and sing for ten minutes while skipping over that whole “apologising” part of an apology video - and then release the apology singalong a second time, but with better reverb?
The paupers at Disney are apparently so hard up for cash that, rather than pay somebody to create the opening titles for Secret Invasion, instead they just used AI art, which is really good to know just before they hike the subscription fee for their streaming platform
Perhaps if Time did their research they wouldn't have run the headline suggesting the Kakhova Dam collapse could be Ukraine's Chernobyl, what with Chernobyl being Ukraine's Chernobyl and all that
...although the New York Times decided to one-up them with a headline about Alternative für Deutschland staging a comeback meaning the far-right have taken control of Germany for the first time
Beanie-wearing testicle Tim Pool got so wound up at Tom Morello bringing up the German saying that if nine people sit at a table with a Nazi without protest meaning there are ten Nazis at the table (I wonder why that triggered Tim so much...?) that he responded in the only way he knew how: by recording a cover of Killing in the Name so cringe-inducing that it's barely worth pointing out that it's obvious he doesn't even know what the song’s about
...and because beanie-wearing testicle Tim Pool is such a mature and serious person, the mere suggestion that his cringe-inducing cover version of Killing in the Name has shitty audio is enough to get him red-faced and ranting about a psy-op which meddled with its audio somehow, which is one of the many reasons his interview with Emma Vigeland was hilarious even before the beanie-wearing testicle started crying on his own show
It was quite amusing to see the far-centre extremists ranting and raving about the Percy Shelley poem which Jeremy Corbyn tweeted, because they are that far removed from common sense that they see Corbyn tweet something so immediately assume it was his work and so must be chastised and criticised immediately - which worked out so well for them that even The Guardian said they were being moronic
Perhaps the Tories shouldn't let Oliver Dowden handle PMQs anymore if the best he can offer is trying to make a direct comparison between the £200m+ of taxpayer’s moneys that (Tory peer) Michelle Mone siphoned off into her bank accounts with Angela Rayner claiming a pair of Air Pods on her expenses
And finally, there’s registered sex offender Donald Trump completely and utterly losing his shit to being charged for stashing classified documents by his toilet in his bathroom, which for some reason has a chandelier in it
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As crowds across the street look on and boo, Boris attempts to dominate the First Minister, Nicola Sturgeon by ushering her into Bute house. This is what UN consultant and former diplomatic attaché had to say about it....
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This seems relevant today
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Bringing this back with the news that Boris is trying to find a way to muscle in on the Tory leadership content.
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Genuinely with the way this country is heading, I would not be suprised if we actually enter a civil war/all out rebellion. All I can really say then is stay safe and make sure loved ones know you love them
#uk politics#fuck the tories#not long learnt that the petition to nationalise energy was cast aside because apparently the national energy grid in the 70's sucked#yeah because you fuckwits were gutting it for private companies#tory cunts can burn in hell and on earth for all i care
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Yeah honestly I can't take anyone seriously who tries to tell me the democrats are just the same as the republicans, like yes they're both shit and I'm glad they're not my only two choices (not that ours are much better but we do at least have parties who get seats in local government that aren't Tory or Labour, it's a start), but Jesus, look at SCOTUS people. Look at the rulings that have been made because Trump got to put a couple of utter fuckwits on the court. Then vote 🤷🏻
(They also called me a dullard for voting Democrat right after the post where I pointed out I can't vote Democrat because I'm literally not American, so I'm like... my dude 😬 It's noticeable that folks who claim to be leftists always come crawling out of the woodwork claiming they're all exactly the same and voting makes no difference right when the American election cycle starts winding up, isn't it?)
right now it’s almost halfway through 2023, and 2024 is an election year in the US. I have started to see a growing proliferation of posts suggesting that there is no difference between the republican and democratic parties–the exact same kind of posts I saw an awful lot of before the last major election here. I am unfollowing folks who post or reblog these sort of posts, as I consider these posts to be fascist propaganda framed as leftist discourse, designed to suppress anti-fascist votes and voters.
#propaganda#please vote if you can#and please vote the whole ballot#us politics#know who always always votes#the batshit conservatives who want to legislate people like me out of existence
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If this doesn’t puncture that windbag, nothing will. Now bring on the rest of the fixed-penalty fines & c.
#fuck the Tories etc.#I'm pleased with this result of course#but I would be a lot more pleased if costs Fuckwit Johnson his job
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PMQs live: Boris Johnson refuses to apologise to archbishop of Canterbury after criticising his stance on Rwanda policy
Prime minister refuses to apologise for reported comments about archbishop and denies criticising BBC’s Ukraine coverage
No 10 reinforces PM’s criticism of archbishops over Rwanda plan
PM’s criticism of archbishop of Canterbury ‘a disgraceful slur’
Lebedev’s nomination for peerage ‘paused’ after MI5 advice
Russia-Ukraine war: latest updates
#UK#resign already you fuckwit!#the cruelty is the point#Refugees#rwanda#lockdowns#screw the people#bojo the evil clown#priti vacant patel#lies#WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK TORIES?!#evil#bojo the clown#fuck the tories#corruption#tories#crime#conservative politics#screw the refugees#priti vacunt patel#OMFG#WTAF#EAT THE RICH#but marinate well#and keep antacid handy
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Brief summary from a Midlander before we get Elanor's much better writeup: The scale of this loss so far has been incredible. Their one front they've held has been the Police and Crime Commissioners, because in another fantastic anti-democratic move yon Tory Cunts have changed those from STV to FPTP voting, so the Lib Dem/Labour split who each would probably put the other down second has let the Tories keep a lot of those. The other problem with the PCC elections has been the incredibly low voter turnout - around 32% in some places. Their only big win so far has been the Tees Valley mayor, who was very happy to tell sky news that he didn't care who was prime minister, and who has, along with Andy Street (the west midlands' current mayor and conservative candidate, perhaps even the most likely conservative to do something good for the world(though that is saying a lot)) done his best to distance himself from the conservative party. Despite this, they're touting this as a huge win, with photo ops with Sunak 'n all. The most depressing bit of this whole fuckabout has been the continued platforming of Reform by the BBC and ignoring the Greens, when the former (the fuckwits who were UKIP) have only 2 councillors (both new) and the latter (probably the most moral party in existence even if their nuclear stance is insane) have 159 (gained 65). The country wants environmental action and yet they want to pretend like we want to be racist fucks. Somebody needs to punch Richard Tice on question time one of these days. The Cunts, by the end of day Friday have gone down by 448 of their original 927 councillors. The more important piece is that this leaves them in control of almost nothing - the majority of our councils here are spread between 15-30 wards. In some they have been eliminated, in most they have lost control, and in only a few have they gained anything.
Hope yins have had a good'un. We wait for Saturday now, to see who's won the London and West Midlands mayoral races. Any smart money is on Khan for London again, because the Tories have made the decision to run a racist islamophobe.
Is there going to be an update on the Clown Show soon, as the circus is winding up to leave town, and all the clowns are eager to spray each other with the flowers in their buttonholes in hope of becoming clown in chief?
Lol, innit tho
I've had a few requests, and the answer is 'Maybe, but it's unlikely until Tuesday at the earliest.' The reason being, all I do is write this shit up. The one who researches and makes the timelines is Steff, and he is off this weekend in Machynlleth Comedy Festival and therefore too busy in his job as a more literal clown than the elected politicians of this land.
(And then it's whether or not it's still relevant. He did send me a timeline about three weeks ago, but I was so busy in work I didn't have time to write up, so now it's probably uninteresting for Tumblr release. This may happen after Machynlleth as well.)
But we'll see! At 1.30 this afternoon the results showed the Tories had lost half their councillors trololol so there's a lil spoiler for you all, anyway
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