You can’t invoke Thatcher in 2025, that’s bananas. That’s wacky if you’re a Tory, let alone Labour. Look what she’s done. Look at the fucking state of everything. At one point she said Blair was her greatest creation. It’s not true anymore, her greatest creation is now Starmer. - ThreadSky | a Reddit-style client for Bluesky

soozuk.bsky.social • 26 days ago

You can’t invoke Thatcher in 2025, that’s bananas. That’s wacky if you’re a Tory, let alone Labour. Look what she’s done. Look at the fucking state of everything. At one point she said Blair was her greatest creation. It’s not true anymore, her greatest creation is now Starmer.

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Pound shop Boris Johnson.

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pokeparadox.bsky.social•26 days ago

He'll turn left any minute...

Any... minute now...

...

michaelwi.bsky.social•26 days ago

In fairness I’d agree with him and also compare his government in many ways to thatchers.

Difference is that I would in no way be intending for it to be a compliment.

adamprotz.bsky.social•26 days ago

A really great way to make yourself seem relatable to the general public is to say "Bureaucracy has spread through the economy like Japanese knotweed"

xxiainxx.bsky.social•26 days ago

It's like the 3rd time he's compared himself to Thatcher over the years and each time the sensible liberals says "oh, he doesn't mean it"

soozuk.bsky.social•26 days ago

“But if he DOES mean it? That’s good!”

xxiainxx.bsky.social•26 days ago

"Because he's Labour, not a Tory and it's good when Labour do things and bad when the Tories do the same thing. You see, it's like a game of football. Sometimes your team cheats but you've got to support your team because they're your team. I only started paying attention in 2016"

alexingart.bsky.social•26 days ago

ugh.

lmfsilva.bsky.social•26 days ago

"we go live to Westminster, as people line up to show to Keir Starmer the proper respect they show to Margaret Thatcher's grave"

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ladyaranea.bsky.social•26 days ago

That building doesn't deserve this bullshit. Wonderful things happen there, unlike parliament.

slatteroo.bsky.social•26 days ago

Oh wow so he knows nothing about running a country nor about Japanese Knotweed cos “hacking” knotweed is exactly how you get it to spread.

outside.bsky.social•26 days ago

People got spooked about oil costs and diminishing rates of profits in the 1970s. (That's 50 years ago by the way.) Now we need to do cargo cult economics for all eternity because a bunch of economic cranks were ready to swoop in and pollute discourse for the next century.

soozuk.bsky.social•26 days ago

Yeah basically there was one dodgy summer when my mum was in her disco era and now socialism is some sort of death warrant apparently.

avin-oops.bsky.social•26 days ago

Let's not forget the bins went unemptied for a couple of weeks in 1978 so now we all have to pay landlords their tribute until we're dead

outside.bsky.social•26 days ago

I've heard that survivors of the Great Bin Overflow of 1978 have tattoos to commemorate what they went through. Like the cast of the Lord of the Rings Movies or the original SAS squaddies.

outside.bsky.social•26 days ago

Yes, but don't forget the miners wanted slightly better working conditions, so we showed them at least. I never hear the miners complain about things anymore.

mjqwrites.bsky.social•26 days ago

The most batshit thing about the UK, is how we have come to like deify Thatcher across the political spectrum. She has somehow become like this patron saint of shit politicians,

But on the other hand, it is also like the Tory's great poisoned challice, they are obsessed with finding her Heir

mjqwrites.bsky.social•26 days ago

but no one they ever put forward as the heir to Thatcher ever quite lives up to the hype and ends up nuking their political career.

soozuk.bsky.social•26 days ago

Well by the time she left office people fucking hated her,

alisonfoster.bsky.social•26 days ago

They still do. A man and a woman in the train seat behind me last week were having a heartfelt conversation about how much they detested her and her legacy. Really cheered me up!

thesump.bsky.social•26 days ago

Demonic possession is more easily achieved once the demon has shed it's physical form.

macburns.bsky.social•26 days ago

Thatchers greatest creation is the Nazis in England.

bierincognito.bsky.social•26 days ago

Her greatest creation was soft serve ice cream

jindre.bsky.social•26 days ago

The problem with neoliberalism is that you eventually run out of other people’s assets

soozuk.bsky.social•26 days ago

I frequently get told I just hate Starmer and refuse to see anything good he’s done. But why would that be true? It’s not some playground feud. He didn’t steal my science book in year 7. It’s stuff he actually says and does that I criticise, not his shit hair.

bronwen.bsky.social•26 days ago

I know it's like "yes, I, a labour party member, just randomly decided to despise the labour leader and leave the party for no reason other than maybe he's a bit awkward". Please be serious

eschatonblog.com•26 days ago

awkward? what happened to the sexy super ninja lawyer

bronwen.bsky.social•26 days ago

Even the centrists had to abandon that one

ppkfs.bsky.social•26 days ago

and yet if you ask these people about the good he's done, the response is only ever "well he's not a tory!"

I mean, that's starting to look very dubious

soozuk.bsky.social•26 days ago

haha I've seen one of those already this morning, a "what other choice was there?"

Well...Green? Independent? "They can't win" Yeah if you all just vote Labour they probably can't.

murieston.bsky.social•26 days ago

The problem with Labour is that its problems don't just lie with Starmer. For example pre-election, Sarwar the "Scottish" Labour leader said "no austerity". Well not for millionaires like him. Labour are finished as a party I'd vote for. I'd like to see a coalition with Greens in control in UK.

johnsteel.bsky.social•26 days ago

Had this exact convo many times before the last GE.

katymontgomerie.com•26 days ago

I hate Starmer and can't stop seeing awful stuff that he's done

theangelremiel.bsky.social•26 days ago

It would be easier to tell if I gave Starmer credit for good stuff he's done if he did some good stuff.

ddigitalmedia.bsky.social•26 days ago

Good stuff? Nah

soozuk.bsky.social•26 days ago

I like private schools having to pay VAT for example. I think that's a good policy on paper and if they were hardcore about actually DOING it: that's good. But it's relative pennies. It's a token.

faoileanngrinmhar.bsky.social•26 days ago

Personally (and im no political expert) but i think thats Starmer's Labour's problem in a nutshell though, they will do "good things" but only insofar as it doesn upset the apple-cart (or the market or their new conservative voters) too much so actual structure reform is off the table

michaelwi.bsky.social•26 days ago

Exactly this. He has accepted his role as seat warmer for the next time there’s a Tory government.

soozuk.bsky.social•26 days ago

Oh for sure. There's even less of that than I expected but you're bang on.

ddigitalmedia.bsky.social•26 days ago

I keep waiting for the U-turn on that. I don't trust them on anything.

laotianrockrat.bsky.social•26 days ago

I'm happy to criticise all the abhorrent things he's done and also the fact that he looks like a hungover Arnold Rimmer

johnnypleb.bsky.social•26 days ago

His hair’s the best thing about him!

gizmotron.bsky.social•26 days ago

I quite like his hair.

eccieddentist.bsky.social•26 days ago

Good to see he's still making the moral case for socialism.

marchpayne.bsky.social•26 days ago

Maybe someone needs to sit Starmer down and very gently explain that he's the leader of the Labour party, not the Conservatives. Actually maybe the whole of the current Labour party need to be sat down and have this explained to them.

goatsarah.org•26 days ago

This is like how Clinton went to see Kissinger just before her 2016 debacle.

These idiots think their own navel gazing silo bullshit is what matters to the total exclusion of actually appealing to their literal own electorate.

“Thanks for voting for us. Now we’ll do everything you hate. Fuck you”

benbartlett.bsky.social•26 days ago

Standing in the smoking ruins of the Blitz and proudly announcing I'm going to follow the example of our friends in Germany and bomb the rest of London to create opportunities for growth

bertyboi.bsky.social•26 days ago

We’ll have to check out wheelie for that monster

quietnotabot.bsky.social•26 days ago

Deregulation for dummies: making stuff that’s illegal (usually because that stuff has hurt or killed people) legal.

keyuzo.bsky.social•26 days ago

I would give Starmer shit for this stupidity, but since my country is currently speed-running a Fall of the British Empire reenactment I should probably stfu