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

An hour, and he's much better at this now.

Conclusive proof that Jeremy Corbyn is a dangerous extremist. pic.twitter.com/Whc9gqSlcj

— Daniel Blake's Vest (@WarmongerHodges) September 24, 2017

pictured Theresa May doing that and it went into some kind of Of Mice and Men scenario

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xlxWPd5JO_M
Theresa May interacting with a disabled person.

I thought Trump sucked

btw your mountbatten joke reminded me I've had this open in a tab for like two weeks

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/06/29/the-great-divide-books-dalrymple

Was just talking about the partition the other day with a social worker whose well-educated granddad fled India to work in the mills of West Yorkshire. With it's 70th anniversary just passed recently, there was quite a grueling series on R4, with witnesses talking about becoming quite inured to the sight of corpses everywhere: in the streets, floating down the river etc..

There was one very troubling Partition account that really stuck in my mind. It was about the "ghost trains", which were passenger trains that were full of corpses, pulling into a station to be loaded onto the platform.

I too have now opened that NY'er piece in a tab, ty Tombot.

I know virtually nothing about Mountbatten. He sure got served in the end.

Is this the thread for discussing the Canary shitting themselves in public again?

Making shit up about Keunsberg? There is definitely something unsavoury + disproportionate about the hate dished out + the way a lot of men (or fucking numpts on Twitter that retweet Canary garbage) seem convinced that she is even more Tory than the highly impartial wanker trio of Humphrys + Robinson + Marr.

every time i read a Canary headline i turn a little more Tory

for real. I'd rather read Peter Hitchens railing against cannabis, tbh I often do!

You wrote an erotic story about Tony Blair’s penis. https://t.co/VqCaQUWgkV

— Elvis Buñuelo (@Mr_Considerate) September 27, 2017

Comment: The momentum in British politics is with Jeremy Corbyn. He must be stopped

Corbyn is gonna nationalise Harry potter and there is nothing you can do to stop him https://t.co/PVG03tCJx4

— Ayatollah Cumonme (@Phonycian) September 26, 2017

I hope J k is ok ;)

Listening now to this speech and LOL @ this zing at Dacre. Just awesome.

My god @ this standing ovation (and singing HB!) at Diane Abbott - really moving.

So many pricks:

that famous cult behavior of singing someone happy birthday pic.twitter.com/NybirSLAL5

— Brain Mentality (@ByYourLogic) September 27, 2017

The reflection on Grenfell are powerful, and his reading of Ben Okri's poem was good too.

the richard leonard for leadership campaign sending an email to the Telegraph with the subject "coment [sic] on latest jackie bailie pish"

Xxxpost . Yeah, in a way that was the most satisfying part of the speech. For years party leaders, both left and right, have felt obliged to kowtow to Murdoch/Dacre et al, who certainly have no interest in any progressive change. So to hear Corbyn essentially say IDGAF, you don't matter anymore and we don't need you is a victory of sorts.

https://socialistworker.co.uk/art/45364/We+have+to+make+sure+Marxism+never+succeeds++inside+the+Labour+right+rally+in+Brighton

watching cryptoTories cry and fume never gets any less satisfying

Only a couple of months back Yvette Cooper was plotting to replace Corbyn, now she cuts a desolate figure, doggedly struggling across a windswept plain in a Bela Tarr movie sort of sums up Labour Right rn!

Robinson will also urge the broadcaster to promote and celebrate its impartiality, potentially by publishing the BBC’s so-called “producers’ guidelines” that outlines how its news coverage should be impartial, and by revealing the discussions and decisions at editorial meetings.

Lol! Nick Robinson is obviously high on something in The Graun today. Skipped past all the "Alternative news sites waging guerrilla war on BBC" shit.

Laura K is nowhere near as bad at Robinson or Andrew Neil but BBC interviewers really needs to learn the difference between "impartiality" and "belligerently adopting every contrary bias at once".

In the weeks leading up to the general election, Robinson spent most of his time interviewing inarticulate people from the Labour Heartlands, who despised Corbyn and had abandoned Labour because of him. And repeat.

In the weeks leading up to the general election, Robinson the entire British media spent most of his their time interviewing inarticulate people from the Labour Heartlands, who despised Corbyn and had abandoned Labour because of him. And repeat.

I think I posted somewhere about Sky doing that all through the election campaign.

Inarticulate Speech of the Heartlands = underrated Van Morrison album

LOL excellent.

Only 3 months ago, seems like an age...

Watching Sky News doing one of their regular Vote Conservative features on working class people who used to vote Labour (so they claim) but are considering voting Conservative this time round. Cue lots of grumpy people sitting round drinking tea. However, in the interests of balance, they find one woman who says, despite everything, she still intends to vote Labour, but the Sky reporter diligently finds a possible chink in her armour when she discovers that the woman's daughter would like to become an airline pilot. After trotting out stats about how few working class people become airline pilots, the Sky reporter helpfully reminds the woman of Theresa May's plans for new grammar schools - the woman wobbles, thinking of her eldest child, but sticks to her guns. What a disappointment for the Sky reporter! Next there's some poor geezer, with some sort of disability which prevents him working (aye, right, thinks the Sky Reporter), who has the misfortune to have a council house of his own to live in. The Sky reporter asks him if he has ever thought of buying his own home. No, says the man. Why not, says the Sky reporter. Well, I've lived in council houses all my life, says the man. But what about people who want to better themselves and live in nicer areas, what about them, says the Sky reporter. I'm happy where I am, says the man. The BBC are addicted to this sort of thing too, in case anyone thinks I'm targetting Sky unfairly.

― Punnet of the Grapes (Tom D.), Friday, 2 June 2017 14:02 (three months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

It really does seem like years ago, already.

Theresa May's plans

bahahaha

Latest update from the coalface of the Universal Credit full service rollout: this is a poor system, shittily implemented.

— NAIVE COMMUNIST FOOL (@invisibleste) September 28, 2017

There is a thread here where somebody is describing the fun of being self-employed on zero hours in the Universal Credit era, after a "bumper month".

Are they still rolling that out the week before Christmas? That sounds like a complete disaster in the making for literally everyone involved.

In Kirklees it is rolling out in November. There are reports that some people are waiting months for payments. FFIW I never liked christmas that much anyway:p

fwiw even

ouch

another great idea from our scrooge-like overlords

srsly do these people get up in the morning thinking "how can i appear more like a cartoon villain today?"

(good luck everyone)

I know Tory voters often like to amp up the cartoon villain persona when surrounded by people who aren't cunts like them so like I wouldn't be that surprised if something similar went on at the top of shithead shitaway tree as well?

The annoying thing is, is how moribund and fucked this current lot are rn. This already defeated government going through the motions. If Davies, Boris jr + Rees-Mogg are their best shots - they are doomed for sure. Getting fucked over by such a weak regime, while they make John Major seem dynamic and brilliant, is lame as fuck imo.

^

^^^^^

Henry Bolton then.

i'll give it six weeks, tops

henry bolton once stood as a lib dem against philip hammond. quite the political journey.

anne marie waters the west brit nazi stood for election for labour for lambeth council in 2010. which seems a bit of an indictment of the labour party of those times

his partner has a very European sounding name (Tatiana Smurova-Bolton), but that was no problem for Trump either. Like his football namesake - relegated by February.

farage married to a european too