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Eddie Izzard announced her campaign to stand for parliament representing Sheffield Central with an inspiring video. You can watch it on twitter with the link above or on YouTube.

Notice the price rising from 80p to 90p in less than two months

This is the best take.

also there’s no pithy, Tumblr-friendly way of simultaneously saying ‘Rishi Sunak being a man of colour doesn’t let him off the hook for the crappy Tory policies he’ll undoubtedly install’

and ‘the left needs to make sure that their criticism of Rishi Sunak does not veer into racism because racism is unacceptable even when directed at Tories’ 

and ‘Britain having its first British Asian PM is a big freaking deal and is going to be significant to Brits of colour across the political spectrum’ 

and ‘the fact that Rishi Sunak has not been elected by the general public in such a time of political upheaval is just plain appalling, ‘mandate from the people’ my arse’

but that doesn’t mean it isn’t all true

I had to see this so now all you fuckers have to.