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

Keep reading that as DJP

Nothing's Happened for a bit.

our poor pm just can't catch a break

As Theresa May left the Finsbury Park mosque she was heckled by a man standing among the media scrum who shouted: “Mrs May, how can you be so quick today?”

He added: “Mrs May, have you had a faster taxi?” in reference to her perceived slowness to meet the victims of the Grenfell Tower fire last week.

A small crowd of protesters from Islington Stand Up To Racism also chanted at her from over the road.

the thing is, those people have always been there, only now the media is paying attention to them. think of the huge anti-austerity protests a few years ago that got only a small mention in national press. there's other axes being ground and its not about the concerns of those protesters.

^ we went to that and my partner, who's french, was really shocked that such a huge demo didn't get more headlines. I'd assumed it just happens too often in London.

Vince Cable it is then. How old was Menzies when they thought he was too old?

now that's how you signal to voters that you've made a decisive break with your unpopular recent past

boycott royal dutch shell imo >:(

http://p3.img.cctvpic.com/photoworkspace/contentimg/2014/11/18/2014111810314836611.jpg

was surprised to discover that Vince is only 2 years younger than Ming, i.e. nearly a full decade older than Ming was during his time as leader in 2006-7.

Vince is only two years younger than Paddy Ashdown too.

https://i.annihil.us/u/prod/marvel//universe3zx/images/7/7b/Cable_head.jpg

idk seems pretty spry to me

And Davis will soon be leader of the Tories, Corbyn has inspired an Old White Guy renaissance .

it is a kind of an unravelling

finally, some good news for old white guys

return-to-our-roots records where the idea went so wrong that it opened up a new space in the artist's music

Those DUP/Theresa May talks, in short...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxpYW_w5pgo

Chakraborrty is furious and at his best here. This is like a howl of rage:

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/jun/20/engels-britain-murders-poor-grenfell-tower?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

it is always good to read Chakrabortty raging against austerity, which is a sharp contrast to the bbc's apologist/damage limitation mode right now.

Frances Ryan is another graun writer I still have respect for, can't think of any others tho.

Gary Younge?

I thought he was mainly writing about the US these days, but a quick search suggests otherwise. Yeah some of his recent pieces are excellent.

yeah, that's a great piece - the 2009 boris johnson 'lol elf-and-safety' torygraph article it links to is horrifying

Lead Brexiteers Boris Johnson and Iain Duncan Smith are set to lose their Commons seats at the next election thanks to the impact of the “Corbyn surge” on Westminster boundary changes, a new study suggests.

The review of all Parliamentary seats in the wake of the 2017 election projects that the Foreign Secretary will be ousted by Labour in the new constituency of Hillingdon and Uxbridge.

Former Work and Pensions Secretary Duncan Smith is also on course to be defeated by Corbyn’s party in the newly created Chingford and Woodford Green seat, according to elections analyst Martin Baxter of the Electoral Calculus website.

both Boris and IDS will have plenty of spare time to develop that lost in the wilderness Ed Balls look by the next election, which can't come soon enough.

stop it, the thought of a uk politics free of boris johnson's pernicious presence is too much to bear

boris is already long over

Can't really see IDS on Strictly Come Dancing tbh. Chewing on kangaroo testicles, possibly, he probably already does that.

surely the knife-fighting for safer constituencies starts here

Next week's lunchtime Radio 2 run is IDS test driving a new career.

boris is already long over

aye but we still have to see his gormless gurning face in the media tho

it's like being haunted by the spectre of a toddler perpetually midway through the process of shitting himself

some striking imagery there, Gazzara!

fingers crossed folks

The Duke of Edinburgh was admitted to hospital last night as a “precautionary measure” for treatment of an infection arising from a pre-existing condition, Buckingham Palace said.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ln3SpXXYTHY

HOW POLITICAL CAREERS SHOULD END: this^^^took place within in a few days of me taking up my very first job after moving to london (teachings maths to an entire family of nigerians of various ages and abilities, at an EFL school in earls' court): the woman who ran the school was crying with laughter abt the exchange the next day

lol the school had been given a long shelf-full of gaddafi's little green book as a gift from a grateful pupil, i half-inched one and still have it somewhere, gorgeous green leather tooled w/gold leaf

blimey nott is still alive, tho he quit the tory party bcz they were "poisonous", good call, if belated

this sense of the permanence of godawful faces is i think a result of 24 hr rolling news plus rolodexes attached to the harassed underpaid imaginations of news bookers

i'd prefer more politicians took the budd dwyer route out of employment tbh

just looking at the bbc coveraeg of the queen's speech now

needs more pomp and circumstance imo

great clip.

got a little worried that the clip had been recovered off a mislabeled pr0n tape at the end though !

all these ermine robes crammed together in the chamber makes it look like they're waiting to start a santa dash

So, this happened last night

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fvcrt2OcvUQ

just a few air-horns away from going full vic berger

i see the dup are doing their best to banish scotland from the top spot of regional parasites draining precious english resources

DUP asking for one billion extra for NHS and one billion extra for infrastructure report colleagues at @BBCnireland

— norman smith (@BBCNormanS) June 21, 2017

That would turn into 15bn extra for Scottish NHS and infra, wouldn't it? Barnett is the gift that keeps giving

paleo-keynesians

also lol bastani is on the moral maze this eve so the rolodexes are at least updating a little

gwan there Corbz for not bowing and scraping to the old parasite, stick to your guns old lad!

(xp) He was on Newsnight last night.

Corbyn *winked* at the Queen. XD XD XD

saucy jez, he's a naughty one

I need a gif of this, stat!

i think it was to a colleague not her ledgesty UNLESS THEY ARE COLLEAGUES omg

Winker: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=U5cGjIIxEYg&feature=youtu.be