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

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.

"The time is out of joint: O cursed spite,/That ever I was born to set it right!"

brb rereading specters of marx

Andrea Leadsom getting it in the ear on Sky News from a some guy in the street over the fact that Theresa May and 'no-one from your party' has bothered to meet any of the victims or their families, unlike Jeremy Corbyn ('a good man') and Sadiq Khan.

They are continuing to get this completely wrong.

The guy, without realizing it, I'm sure, recycling May's "Enough is enough" soundbite.

i can only assume they're so shook because they know they have no defence - austerity caused this, simple as that, and none of them are brave and/or stupid enough to try toughing it out one-on-one with members of the public

their efforts to kick the can down the road by announcing an inquiry are not fooling anyone

even those tabs trying to redirect the rage* are still also busily stoking it: which of course they have the technology and the appetite and the previous for! but i do not feel it is taking the situation in the direction their owners ultimately want it taken

*(express attempting to blame an EU regulation lol) (not that the EU is blameless re austerity but this won't fly)

But the Express readership is still 10 pensioners in Kent, right?

This narrative of Kindly Korbyn vs. The Maybot seems pretty well set.

The Maybot seems to have passed almost entirely from referring to her mechanical regurgitation of soundbites to her coldness and lack of empathy.

Which makes me slightly queasy tbh.

whatever else, reintroducing the concept of empathy as a political good is pretty useful right now

It's five months since May threatened the EU that she would make the UK a Singapore style low tax, low regulation haven if she didn't get the Brexit she wanted, but we already are and that's why these people died or have otherwise had their lives destroyed.

& that fool from the women's conservative alliance, or w/e, on QT last night going on about how people in the uk weren't suited to living in hi rises (she even said "they may be okay elsewhere" and looked at Rob Delaney) and no one challenged her at all or said that rich people live in hi rises too, ones that are twice as tall as Grenfell tower perfectly safely and happily.

Or, at least buy them for investment and don't live in them.

My mum in perfectly happy in her 11th floor flat with light and fantastic views.

Add to Scottish Tories and Yorkshire Tories, Union Jack-waving British patriots from the Republic of Ireland.

Those Unionists in NI who are Scots with Stockholm Syndrome when you get right down to it.

wait, are there unionists in the republic?

i mean, i imagine there are, but aren't their numbers p vanishingly tiny?

They wouldn't last long in a place like Tralee.

https://www.lrb.co.uk/v04/n06/tom-paulin/paisleys-progress

^^^this now open to re-read btw: better guide i think to what the DUP actually are/were (= chthonic anti-papist separatists, deep down: british patriots not a very good description)

We have had the occasional infestation of English over the years, everything has some people who will be nostalgic for it.

There are definitely those (though increasingly vanishing) who are massive anglophiles but prefer to stay in Ireland and pine for the better country.

I assume it's a sex thing.

apropos of nothing

https://res.cloudinary.com/dods/image/upload/c_fill,g_center,h_500,w_1120/v1/UK%20public%20affairs/barwell_irfuzz.jpg

gavin barwell looks like karl pilkington fucked a chipmunk