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

got together with a friend last night who has decent government contacts. said the workings of brexit are an absolute disaster. David Davis and Liam Fox are barely ever available (Fox does a couple of hours work in the morning but spends the rest of the time from lunch generally 'relaxing' with a drink), they don't know the meaning of work, and totally believe their own public messaging on the ease of achieving a deal and flag waving etc. There is no grip on detail, and they simply haven't done the basic work required to engage with the EU on a meaningful level.

I mean it shouldn't be surprising, and was more or less obvious, but somehow it still is shocking to have confirmation of the incompetent shitshow of buffoons in charge of trying to negotiate this process.

the attempt to make j-rm a thing feels like gaslighting on a national scale - the tory press would be a feeble joke, were it not for the disproportionate control of the overall tone of the media they seem to wield.

Imago I'll watch tip and run if there's nowt else on and kneejerk cheer the Bears but let's be real

I wonder if there are enough disgruntled Remain Tories who would be aghast enough at the situation Fizzles is describing, to push for a motion of no confidence. I'm guessing that even most centrists would rather see a major economic disaster than a Corbyn government, which they would probably view as the same thing really.

If they are convinced enough that a Corbyn government would be a brief and disastrous affair then they would be persuaded to wield the knife.

I don't think they are at all convinced of that.

agree, and it comes back to the jrm conundrum, who the fuck in the tory party is going to take over from TM? I think suzy said Jo Johnson before, which seems as reasonable a bet as any, but the lack of competence in the party is really amusing.

i've been in the presence of jo johnson a couple of times and he seems to be the kind of guy who'd be handily outmatched in a battle of wits by a scarecrow filled with damp moss

wheeeeee

Westminster voting intention:

LAB: 43% (+2)
CON: 38% (-1)
LDEM: 7% (-1)
UKIP: 4% (-2)

via @Survation

— Britain Elects (@britainelects) September 2, 2017

another royal baby hurrah

glad somebody is thinking of the soylent green plants in the face of post-Brexit scarcity

Well instead of cursing another goddamned royal fetus, maybe we should be looking at what "it" could contribute towards our food self-sufficiency ratio!

it's the leadership this country wants and needs

open on two ragged mums sharing a cup of hot water flavoured with stones as bodies litter the street and cars burn in the background

mum #1:'do you like babies'
mum #2: 'sure they're fine but i couldn't eat a whole one lol'

NEW SOYLENT GREEN: JUST ENOUGH BABY

Scroungers having loads of kids and expecting us taxpayers to pay for it. High society is in the gutter.

Lol is the new royal baby a panicked response to labour opinion poll lead

it's the only rational explanation tbh

Aren't the royals significant landowners and very wealthy in themselves in fact is this not a very lazy angle and are ye not in fact much better than this

we are not and you know this

I refuse to know it and hope for your collective worse-but-sharper nature to show in time

/lj oh god

all wealthy landowners are scroungers ofc

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GAH

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ofc, ofc

about time the fat controller got what was coming to him imo

Nerds, the '97 elections result is being repeated in all its glory on BBC Parliament right now (Blair is now at the palace on the Tx).

it must be emotionally wrenching viewing for some of these many "politically homeless" dewy-eyed centrists. Watching this "golden era" on b+w tv's, in their Hooverville shacks with Chuka warming his pandies next to Lineker on the bumfire, outside.

this is the real account and not the parody, apparently?

Activate is now backing Jacob Rees-Mogg. An official statement will follow shortly. #MayMustGo

— Activate UK (@ActivateBritain) September 4, 2017

For clarification: Activate's Facebook account has been taken over by a May-supporting Activate faction. We are working to take back control

— Activate UK (@ActivateBritain) September 4, 2017

You and everyone else m8s

You'd think an Irishman would have more of an understanding of the inequity of land ownership, but no.

Oh I'm agin it def but if yer in the current system then the royal babies is scroungers lol stuff is weak sauce unless you are sharpening the pitchfork like xxxyyyzzzzz

I know that, that's why I threw in the High Society gag, which was weak, I admit, but didn't feel like I had to dot i's & cross t's.

how many fascist fetuses one can skewer on a standard B+Q pitchfork under violent revolutionary conditions? 6 Mogg pods for every one Saxe-Coburg cabbage sound reasonable?

sorry that is foul!

Just make sure mines done all the way through pls

Good thing Kate isn't on tax credits or she'd have to prove Wills raped her to get support for her third child. #royalbaby

— Sandra Patterson (@SandPatterson) September 4, 2017

oof

harsh but fair

jr-m looks like he's torpedoed himself, good riddance to tory rubbish

how?

Ant gay marriage and anti abortion, even in the case of rape.

Anti-abortion under any circumstances/ anti gay marriage.

He has always been a joke candidate boosted by media ironists so hopefully they will knock that on the head.

Says he is against gay marriage, and abortions, even for women who have been raped

xps

I'd like him leading the Tories. I have seen him getting away with talking all sorts of unmitigated nonsense, under the increased scrutiny of an election campaign - he would be torn to pieces in no time imo.

this is an article about Jacob Rees-Mogg from 2013 https://t.co/60D5Va225L pic.twitter.com/Y4O1MHKO0n

— Matthew Champion (@matthewchampion) September 6, 2017

Oh I saw that - he has no wish to change the laws, it's his personal stupid opinion.

Yeah, let's have another Man Of The people. There must be at least two like him, so. Man of Some People. Or Man of Two People.

Xpost obv.

Dunno if even "personal opinion" will cut it with the electorate, tbf. This separation of personal beliefs and govt duties is tricky to pull off when you're basing a campaign on your personality.

tim farron suggests it won't wash