alex  Jul 1
Honestly hoping kendall loses her job tomorrow for staking her entire career on this farcical mess
Show threadalex  Jul 1
editorial cartoon idea going free to any of the toff broadsheets: liz kendall leading a chant of "death death to the disabled". it's very topical and it would be better than the usual shit they do.
Show threadalex  Jul 1
"vote for the placeholder bill and we'll come up with the details later"
Show threadalex  Jul 1
guardian is saying labour is conceding the 4 point rule as something to be decided on at the timms review (i.e. it will no longer be in the bill itself). guardian reckons that means there's a good chance the 4 point rule might never be implemented after all.
Show threadalex  Jul 1
liz kendall... liz truss... 🤔 i'm starting to see a pattern here....
Show threadalex  Jul 1
POV you are writing a bill while it's being voted on in parliament and everything's going wrong
Show threadalex  Jul 1
"After Stephen Timms made his dramatic concession in the Commons, Andy McDonald (Lab) used a point of order to claim that it was now was not clear what MPs were voting on." lol
Show threadalex  Jul 1
still no apparent discussion on halving the UC disability component though
Show threadalex  Jul 1
"John McDonnell, the suspended Labour MP, asks if the conclusions of the Timms review will be implemented in primary or secondary legislation.
Timms says it will depend what the recommendations are." lmao they are straight making this up as they go along
Show threadalex  Jul 1
the wrecking amendment has been voted down :-(
Show threadalex  Jul 1
the bill passed. 335 for, 260 against
Show threadalex  Jul 1
this means it goes to stage 3. it's not law yet.
Show threadalex  Jul 1
every MP: this bill is shit. it makes no sense. every interested party has condemned it. it relies entirely on a pinky promise that it will be changed to be good at some random point in the future. it is garbage. we are going to pass it.
Show threadalex  Jul 1
next vote on it is next week (they're really rushing it through)
Show threadalex  Jul 1
actual fucking scum
Show threadalex  Jul 1
"Debbie Abrahams backs PM, saying 'there's been lots of learning on how to make better policy'"
oh well i'm glad they're figuring out how to do their job as they go along
Show threadalex  
kendall says she's not going to resign. ha ha ha
Jul 1 at 6:53pmWeb
Show threadalex  Jul 1
"all tories" means "all labour" too.
Show threadalex  Jul 1
from the coverage, it seemed they didn't even have time to discuss UC or "severe" criteria. the bill had so much wrong with it they just spent all that time on PIP. fucking hell.
Show threadalex  Jul 1
Can't believe Liz kendall spent over 10 years plotting her revenge against disabled people and it resulted in something this shoddy
Show threadAngela Glansbury 🚽Jul 1

@alex
(can't remember if this is the precise quote so possibly a slight paraphrase)

"As plotters they're fucking shit"
== John McDonnell

Show threadChip ButtyJul 1
@alex the actual benefit that helps keep people in work (I know you know but I feel the rest of England need to be constantly reminded)
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Show threadalex  Jul 1
POV you are writing a bill while it's being voted on in parliament and everything's going wrong
Show threadalex  Jul 1
"After Stephen Timms made his dramatic concession in the Commons, Andy McDonald (Lab) used a point of order to claim that it was now was not clear what MPs were voting on." lol
Show threadalex  Jul 1
still no apparent discussion on halving the UC disability component though
Show threadalex  Jul 1
"John McDonnell, the suspended Labour MP, asks if the conclusions of the Timms review will be implemented in primary or secondary legislation.
Timms says it will depend what the recommendations are." lmao they are straight making this up as they go along
Show threadalex  Jul 1
the wrecking amendment has been voted down :-(
Show threadalex  Jul 1
the bill passed. 335 for, 260 against
Show threadalex  Jul 1
this means it goes to stage 3. it's not law yet.
Show threadalex  Jul 1
every MP: this bill is shit. it makes no sense. every interested party has condemned it. it relies entirely on a pinky promise that it will be changed to be good at some random point in the future. it is garbage. we are going to pass it.
Show threadalex  Jul 1
next vote on it is next week (they're really rushing it through)
Show threadalex  Jul 1
actual fucking scum
Show threadalex  Jul 1
"Debbie Abrahams backs PM, saying 'there's been lots of learning on how to make better policy'"
oh well i'm glad they're figuring out how to do their job as they go along
Show threadalex  Jul 1
kendall says she's not going to resign. ha ha ha
Show threadalex  Jul 1
"all tories" means "all labour" too.
Show threadalex  Jul 1
from the coverage, it seemed they didn't even have time to discuss UC or "severe" criteria. the bill had so much wrong with it they just spent all that time on PIP. fucking hell.
Show threadalex  Jul 1
Can't believe Liz kendall spent over 10 years plotting her revenge against disabled people and it resulted in something this shoddy
Show threadAngela Glansbury 🚽Jul 1

@alex
(can't remember if this is the precise quote so possibly a slight paraphrase)

"As plotters they're fucking shit"
== John McDonnell

Show threadChip ButtyJul 1
@alex the actual benefit that helps keep people in work (I know you know but I feel the rest of England need to be constantly reminded)
Show threadJohn ParkerJul 1
@alex Still very much focused on the “let’s fuck-over disabled people” angle, but *such* great learning. 😡
Show threadAngela Glansbury 🚽Jul 1
@alex
some astronomical 6 figure sum every year times 335 for all the scrutiny of the churchill dog. someone is taking the UK for a ride all right and it's not the disabled.
Show threadThe Crafty MissJul 1

@alex A member of this household forgot a container of leftover soup in a bedroom last week. It sat there all through the heatwave.

Tonight, the container blew open and spewed the nearly sentient, fermented soup across the entire room: walls, ceiling, floor, furniture. It smelled like cheesy, sour sick and fish. The explosion destroyed several items.

The substance and experience were still substantially more charming, welcome, and fundamentally good than those Ayes

Show threadYzaJul 2

@alex i know we call modern labour red tories a lot, but this realld does look like a recolour of your typical vote distribution from the past conservative governments. the only ones who will vote for it are those toeing the party line

actually, fuck that. even the conservatives would usually have ukip or whoever voting with their bloc

labour are going to lose the next general so fucking hard they'll look like 2024 dems

Show threadBimboJul 2
@alex [forced] labour, party of the worker.
Show threadCrocodile SlatternJul 1
@alex my MP abstained, the coward because I know he said he wasn't going up vote for it
Show threadCrocodile SlatternJul 1
@alex oh fuck
Show threadTundraWolfJul 1

@alex @PsyChuan You mean the desperate attempts by Labour to win over a Daily Mail that will always hate any party not to the right of Adolf Hitler is a shambles?

Who could have foreseen it?

Show threadYzaJul 1
@alex when i hear a labour mp is suspended i automatically find myself asking what decent thing they did