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

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

The Alarm must reform

Think it's only right and proper that Bananaman got the first Peter North LOL in

those very robust folk on the 30's hunger marches were bristling with ingenuity. No poncy "safe spaces" or softy welfare state etc!

James Dyson probs airs the same type of opinions behind closed doors.

See a headline around May accepting ECJ rulings during the transition period so no I don't think a ten year recession to toughen us all up is happening anytime soon.

b-but Twitter tells me Peter J North is the thinking person's Brexiter

love when Leave campaigners come out with "yes it will all be very very bad because we're not doing it my particular way which was always vanishingly unlikely and not agreed on by anyone else and it's actually very difficult for a series of entirely predictable reasons, but it's still definitely not my fault for telling people it would be easy and glorious etc"

North, Dominic Cummings, Oliver Norgrove...

I didn't share the North piece with any faith in the nightmare visions he presents, more as a kind of "this is what the people who actually *support Brexit are saying will happen". He seems like an utter shitwad, obvs.

It's completely psychotic, but probably does accurately reflect the thinking of a majority of brexiters now, right up to cabinet level. Hammond and May are wary because this Katastrophenpolitik will need scapegoats, and they're it. But they're too inept and weak to negotiate anything that would save themselves and avoid the cliff-edge, so they'll probably end up going along with it.

The way the person who I got the link from put it was as evidence of Brexit as some sociopathic death cult. I'm fine with that description of it.

I suspect the proportion of Brexiters who are gleefully embracing the oncoming catastrophe are significantly outweighed by those still anticipating the sunlit uplands of a Britannia unchained but whatever.

I suspect there are enough Tory MPs who are sociopathic enough to believe it, but there's no way that scenario plays out without turbo-charging Remain/Return pressure across the country. The more pragmatic Brexiters surely recognise that's what happens in the event of no deal.

The only way of getting out of that is if they find a way to pin it on the EU/Labour (they will) and make it stick (less likely).