It is utterly heartbreaking how Labour have wasted the first two years of a historic majority. They needed to do all the unpopular but necessary stuff at the beginning, weather the storm and reap the rewards by the time the next election came round. But the courage and purpose were simply not there.
It's the little things. Steve Coogan in Legends, doing his Northern Working Class accent. But he's eating dinner, and his fork is IN HIS RIGHT HAND, held like a spoon. Been in LA too long, Steve.
Wes fucking Streeting
Just a heard a Reform voter describe the effects of austerity on his town, and blame it on foreigners. Labour's failure to challenge the austerity narrative, and then the Brexit narrative, is coming back to bite us all.
Watching The Boys season 5 and thinking how appropriate it is that the USA's real Homelander is an obese, incontinent octogenarian.
Phrases which are surefire indicators of mindless received opinion:
"Economically illiterate" and variations
"not serious people"
"grown-ups in charge", "grown-up conversation" or anything else with "grown-up" in... How much more puerile can you be?
Why TF is a #Labour govt arranging a rescue package for #ThamesWater? Isn't failure part of "market efficiency"? Why are more foreign private equity vampires being allowed to buy our infrastructure at bargain prices? Why isn't this opportunity being seized to reclaim public assets? #nationalisation
Reform and the Tories will become one party. The only question is which eats which.
