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primogeniture isn't applicable here: sons of william i / sons of new labour (a sequel of sorts to my promises webweave)

#OMG #I LOVE HAVING COOL MUTUALS #UR SO INSANE I LOVE IT #ed miliband #david miliband

thesetablesarenumbered

#he’s such a cutie #our little ray of sunshine 🥺

handofhistory

"i will defend tony blair until my death" it's okay man you can just say you love him

mountainofconflict

“his holiness tony” “your best friend tony” reaching new levels of denial…

#blairbell #trip posting #lolitics

hi!

🗞️, 📜, 💍, and ✂️ for the ask game?

🗞️ - fiona millar and cherie blair - it’s hard being the third person in your relationship AND the fourth person in someone else’s

📜 - my favourite anecdote is i think from servants of the people when gordon locks himself in the bathroom at a friend’s house while negotiating his ‘deal’ with tony and has to ring the house phone to get tony to let him out

💍 - gordon brown’s father being a priest - i think it really comes across in the way that he makes speeches and his approach to politics, the adage “preaching to the converted” comes to mind

✂️ - i answered this over on main but for new labour i would probably say the tbgb long haired eras lol

#answered asks #thanks!

chainofclovers

Put in the tags the completely finished (whether cancelled or wrapped up on its own terms) TV series that has YOUR perfect ending, however you define that

Please don’t include huge spoilers for the specifics of the endings, and it would also make me happy if people don’t use this to talk about the shows whose endings they hated

#the thick of it #i just finished a rewatch and rediscovered how absolutely brilliant the ending is #peak tv

cososm13

happy pride month especially to whatever these two had going on

milipeach

i made this stupid meme. i feel like this is true though.

sinewsofhistory

Lolitics Ask Game

🎩 — a prime minister who never was, but should have been

🗞️ — a political friendship or rivalry that deserves more attention

💭 — a counterfactual that's been weighing on your mind

🖼️ — a favourite political cartoon or caricature

📜 — an anecdote that has stuck in your head

💍 — a small but significant detail of a figure's personal life

🗳️ — a turning point that doesn't get the attention it deserves

📁 — an archival or historical gap you wish someone would fill

✂️ — a favourite fashion moment from a political figure

🎤 — a speech you wish you could have heard live

⚔️ — a political rivalry you think history got wrong

🏛️ — a figure you'd place in a different party if they were active today

📖 — a book about your era that everyone should read

🕰️ — a decade in British political history you'd want to live through (for better or worse)

🌀 — a moment where someone made the wrong call and probably knew it

#ask away

ratantics

It's almost like a financial crisis, Brexit, endless austerity, privatisation, underinvestment, the rise of Trump, culture wars, dehumanisation of vulnerable people and groups, a pandemic, war, yankification, landlords still existing, normalising genocide, normalising hate, having no plan for the country, climate change, AI, and turning the UK into a fucking retirement home may have negatively impacted future generations a bit.

Who'd have thunk it?

#being a young person in this day and age is fucking scary

aplaceofgreatersafety

#adam/fergus #the thick of it #ttoi

subaru-copilot

it gets to a point that is just weirder if they didn't fuck

subaru-copilot

you did all this and it was not even because you wanted to bang him? weirdo

#tbgb #tony blair #the most powerful chancellor in british history #and your telling me they didn’t even bang?

afieldinengland

Former PM’s essay on Labour’s self-delusion shows he is the perfect person to provide such a critique

#IM CRYING #WHAT IS THIS #lolitics #new labour #i’m reading this in his voice #it’s too good

gaylittlebillionaires

happy the deal (2003) thursday

#the deal

mountainofconflict

my roman empire is ollie looking physically sick at the end of the episode where he throws glen and hugh under the bus knowing that by season 4 he would sell his spine to blow the most powerful person in the room

mountainofconflict

my bad he has the same expression after his first confirmed kill… i guess he only finds his lack of conscience after backstabbing malcolm

#it could just be the appendicitis #the thick of it #ttoi #ollie reeder