brexit negging when yr mandate is is trash: or further chronicles of a garbage-fire

for heaven's sake woman, go!

that thing where season two tanks even before it goes to air

Difficult first album

definitely maybe not

Mourning Tory

Something that hadn't occurred to me until Owen Jones pointed it out on Twitter is that Farron's resignation leaves the Lib Dems free to make some kind of agreement with the Tories, although it's difficult to believe they could be so stupid as to do it again.

it was mentioned itt earlier but surely even the libdems wouldn't stick their heads in the mincer again so soon after the last disaster

surely...?

Hard Brexit backbench tories would make a lib dem tie up impossible I'd have thought.

Is she gonna cling on until July the... whatever it is solely so she rack up a full calendar year in office.

i imagine the topic will come up in their leadership contest

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DCXfM1WXkAEDgJp.jpg

you'd think this^^^ would deter them from the idea, but who knows?

lib dem
everything is soft-right
tie up
wayyyyyy outta sight

jesus that graph

anyone thinking about a snap election henceforth would do well to reflect on it

the other shock, looking at that, is what an outlier TM's personal popularity was compared to everything else. has anyone ever really explained it?

net negative 34 for may before grenfell is catastrophic

and hilarious, of course

has anyone ever really explained it?

the great british public defies explanation on so many things

i'm thinking of some kind of weird bake-off sugar confection that has startling fluted height but bursts into sticky dust at a touch

in fact that's literally my explanation and it is better than any i've read

as flimsy as a rickety meringue

it's easy to throw around words like "stockholm syndrome" with no appreciation of its actual clinical definition, but perhaps that's why it's so fun. at any rate it's the only foothold i have into it - after the trauma of the brexit vote people respected any show of strength on offer. seems too neat and not historically specific enough tho

Rickie T, good name for a rapper (xp)

May was an enigma to most voters and the election changed that.

May was an enigma to most but she never meant shit to me...

JIM: Who ran away from his nurse, and was eaten by a lion.
by Hillaire Belloc

There was a boy whose name was Jim
His friends were very good to him
They gave him tea and cakes and jam
And slices of delicious ham
And chocolate with pink inside
And little tricycles to ride

They read him stories through and through
And even took him to the zoo
But there it was the awful fate
Befell him, which I now relate
You know (at least you ought to know
For I have often told you so)

That children never are allowed
To leave their nurses in a crowd
Now this was Jim's especial foible
He ran away when he was able
And on this inauspicious day
He slipped his hand and ran away

He hadn't gone a yard when BANG
With open jaws a lion sprang
And hungrily began to eat
The boy, beginning at his feet
Now just imagine how it feels
When first your toes and then your heels

And then by varying degrees
Your shins and ankles, calves and knees
Are slowly eaten bit by bit
No wonder Jim detested it
No wonder that he shouted "Ai"
The honest keeper heard his cry

Though very fat, he almost ran
To help the little gentleman
"Ponto," he ordered as he came
For Ponto was the lion's name
"Ponto," he said with angry frown
"Down sir, let go, put it down!"

The lion made a sudden stop
He let the dainty morsel drop
And slunk reluctant to his cage
Snarling with disappointed rage
But when he bent him over, Jim
The honest keeper's eyes grew dim

The lion having reached his head
The miserable boy was dead
When nurse informed his parents they
Were more concerned than I can say
His mother as she dried her eyes
Said "It gives me no surprise

He would not do as he was told."
His father who was self-controlled
Bade all the children round attend
To James's miserable end.
And always keep ahold of nurse
For fear of finding something worse.

except jim met the absolute ponto and things turned out otherwise

Hilaire Belloc, Liberal MP of course.

yes, the sentiment in the above verses is bad not good -- but i think an element of it does run quite deep significant tranches of the brit psyche

May was at arms-length from austerity decisions and Brexit incompetence before taking over, and had notionally been responsible for security during a period in which there were no major terrorist attacks. None of that is true now.

http://i1247.photobucket.com/albums/gg622/bizarrogazzara/Nope_zpsvw4qyxha.jpg?t=1497453408

the hottest of hot takes from a man who appears to have been dead for some time

well it is a low bar

i do love that the telegraph has a 'royals' tab in its news section

Goebbels Diaries: Chapter Six - Denying Defeat, 1943-44

"We told @theresa_may very directly that she was in breach of the Good Friday Agreement," says Sinn Fein President @GerryAdamsSF pic.twitter.com/h2RAkktudw

— Sky News (@SkyNews) June 15, 2017

Am in Belfast today. If you think London is finding this clusterfuck hilarious it's still only a chuckle next to the absolute hilarity they have here watching middle England meet the Duppers.

i'm off to belfast tomorrow too, i should wander down the shankhill road and see what's up

Finish her John!

'A million people should take to the streets to force Theresa May from power', says @johnmcdonnellMP https://t.co/QNDLdQcl2e pic.twitter.com/z2XM3NaTOr

— Mirror Politics (@MirrorPolitics) June 14, 2017

looking forward to "marching is thuggish and should be banned, except for Orange marches, which should go wherever our friends in the DUP like"

Austerity is over, May tells Tories

Like fuck it is.

Woman ‘forced to sit in her own urine for two hours’ by PIP assessor
BY JOHN PRING JUNE 15, 2017

Heard someone of official clout semi-jokingly use the word Bre-entry today. They told us not to tweet it. Like hell I won't.

— Robert Rotifer (@robertrotifer) June 15, 2017

"Bre-entry", OMG I hope to get acquainted with that phrase.

Bre- is the new -gate.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Bkvcb5ZCcAAW4UU.png:large

dudes it's a week and 20 minutes since the exit poll :)

jesus, it seems so much longer, in a good way. I have spent 2 hours a day with Ramadan fasting Muslim taxi-drivers since then, and they all love Corbyn.

Throughout all the handwringing about The White Working Class, the media never really noticed the extent to which Corbyn was rapturously received by black working class people. The Vice documentary that otherwise made him and his team look ridiculous had this one scene where he visited a housing estate and the residents, who appeared to be mostly middle-aged Afro-Carribean women, greeted him like he was Jesus. Then a year later JME typed 'Corbeezy' and suddenly everyone sat up and took notice.

I do not say this lightly, but I think this could be the most heartbreakingly pathetic tweet I've ever seen. pic.twitter.com/6dTut9Ngp0

— Jamie Ross (@JamieRoss7) June 14, 2017

I was watching a live feed of Jeremy Corbyn meeting community leaders at Grenfell Tower. This one community activist (very tall man in red cap photographed hugging JC) received him in front of the press pool and the two men opened their conversation along the lines of 'how long have we known one another - 30 years? Maybe 40? Yes, it's 40.'

In a nutshell: Corbyn is pretty much embraced by POC/'community leaders'/activists because solidarity is not just a buzzword for him, and I think that 'anti-imperialism' thing decried by posh white talking heads is really anti-colonialism - no wonder a certain type of privileged person still besotted with the idea of pink maps has a massive blind spot about why he connects with a few generations of BAME people, especially in London.

Don't want to police people's emotions but after Wednesday night this seems a … surprising thing to say, let alone get so many retweets

This time a week ago I pissed myself laughing and haven't stopped since.

— Ian Dunt (@IanDunt) June 15, 2017

today is the one-year anniversary of jo cox's murder :(

feels like five years ago tbh

I know, Jesus, time speeds up as you get older but even May standing on downing st berating the EU for "interfering in the election" seems like a year ago.