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

god no I'd never Campbellise somebody I don't hate

Favourite bit is when Rudd refers to Johnson's comments as "colourful" and Mair just responds "...colourful..." with this perfect mixture of weariness and contempt. Also his repeated urge for her to refer to the security breach as something more than "disappointing".

amber rudd is a very bad interviewee

eddie mair is a national treasure tbh

love a mair murder

"What's she going to do next, grow a beard and start an allotment"

lmao

god mair fucking hates boris. god bless him.

at one point rudd says something about 'taking the fight back to labour', which seemed pretty telling - i dunno if she'd willingly acknowledge they've been on the back foot since the election but it's obvious they're aware of it

yeah mair's longstanding borisphobia is one of his most endearing qualities

i love when he makes her say "i don't want to get sucked down the boris vortex"

gonna make that my ringtone

i love when he makes her say "i don't want to get sucked down the boris vortex"

― Bein' Sean Bean (LocalGarda), Thursday, 5 October 2017 10:39 (thirty-nine minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

One thing from the conference and from that interview is that she clearly hates boris johnson as well. Doing that thing where you have to defend and support a colleague in an external meeting even though you hate them and think they're totally incompetent, and agree with the people telling you so.

wow, what an interview.

there was an interesting moment when a journo caught AR en route to a meeting at the conference, and the journo asked her re BJ and his latest quips.
to say she rolled her eyes and snapped back re showing more interest in the the home secretary not the foreign secretary would be an understatement.
i.e. i suspect fizzles is spot on with that post.

Eddie Mair not looking too well in that second photo.

Boris is the terrible lead singer of a terrible band and all his terrible bandmates are sick of him sucking up all the press attention

Nah he's the showboating guitarist upstaging the uncharismatic lead singer.

love a mair murder

― Bein' Sean Bean (LocalGarda), Thursday, October 5, 2017 10:34 AM (two hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

well this is unfortunate, esp on a uk politics thread

*gulp*

yeah Matt I thought about the guitarist analogy but I'd got halfway thru typing and couldn't be bothered to change it

say what u like about boris he fucking shreds on the kit

https://i.makeagif.com/media/9-21-2015/ZygLH9.gif

TIL* grant shapps's brother andre plays keybs in big audio dynamite

*from suzy

No words necessary pic.twitter.com/bUwlrKZFuN

— Paul Mainwaring (@islwynpaul) October 6, 2017

More Gumby than hitler.

https://baginskiblog.files.wordpress.com/2013/07/doctor.png

probably a thin line betwixt them.

xps Grant's older brother Adrian Shapps plays with his cousin in BAD.

― hatcat marnell (suzy), Thursday, 31 October 2013 12:59

Andre Shapps hasn't been in BAD for sixteen years, and only joined in the "Big Audio" era, post-BAD II.

― ͼѾͽ (sic), Thursday, 31 October 2013 13:42

https://image.ibb.co/mj4fiw/sprk.jpg

worst sparks tribute act evah

Numbers 1 Song in Hell

the sparks song most popular among tories atm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8jQ7oYjQE8

Most of the 'Propaganda' LP will be on Theresa May's iPod when she gets gone ('Thanks But No Thanks', 'Something For The Girl With Everything', 'Who Don't Like Kids', 'Achoo'...).

https://thelunaticarms.files.wordpress.com/2010/03/hitler-mangledbum.jpg
More Gumby Mandy than hitler.

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2011/05/21/article-0-08DAADE8000005DC-776_306x423.jpg
In fact the fake moustache is quite lame and unnecessary. he already looks like a glowering nazi cunt.

looks more like bill pertwee/air raid warden hodges in that one

https://www.buzzfeed.com/matthewchampion/this-is-what-its-like-to-be-the-only-tory-on-campus?utm_term=.awNrYBBx#.lfPzammE

Masir said that views hardening against Conservatives felt “universal”: “Almost as if supporting the Conservative party is a form of barbarism, and that you are not enlightened enough to be admitted into civilised conversation.

Keep up the good work, students. It is hard out there for a Young Conservative in higher education.

Tfw when ur on the verge of a breakthrough

"almost as if"

No safe space for the lads eh.

This kinda seems like the key line: The young Tories we spoke to said there had been a “vacuum” left by Conservative Future, the youth group that was shut down in 2015 after a bullying and blackmail scandal, and the suicide of a young activist.

those were the days eh

“There are a lot of freshers I’m having to message constantly, so I’ve literally spent most of my day responding to constant questions, just to make sure they know it’s not as bad as they hear. You don’t need to be afraid on campus, you just need to be smart about it and just not do anything stupid like that dude burning £50 notes,” he said.

Got to love how he considers that burning a £50 note in front of a homeless person is always possibility with someone who wants to join a student Conservative Soc.

smart about "it"

When they get round to making the high denomination notes plastic, will we see a spate of tories asphyxiating themselves setting fire to them

Under-30s support for Labour & the Conservatives since 1964

#CPC17#Lab17 pic.twitter.com/pwJfFxJFaS

— Matthew Goodwin (@GoodwinMJ) October 2, 2017

This is interesting and missing a couple of key years (chiefly 1979) but it confirms I wasn't imagining a bump in pro-Tory sentiment among the young around 07-10 or so, but wow look at the turnaround since. Labour obviously a beneficiary of the LibDem collapse since as well.

such a plug-ugly dog's breakfast of a flag

Really? You want to take that away from us too?

Utter nonsense anyway - I’d trade you but ours is on the moon

Damn

Jasper Johns proved that flags always look prettier when rendered onto plywood with oil-paint imo

well isn't this special
http://peterjnorth.blogspot.co.uk/2017/10/i-dont-like-this-brexit-but-i-will-live.html?m=1

Do we really need to share deranged accelerationist bullshit here?

The preceding link contains the sentence I expect to see a cultural revolution where young people actually start doing surprising and reckless things again rather than becoming tedious hipsters drinking energy drinks in pop-up cereal bar book shops or whatever it is they do these days. in case anyone was tempted to click it.

brexit is the real punk rock, didn't anybody tell you

lmao knew it would come down to old man shaking his fist at hipsters

also peter north lol