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

whom jools thinks i like for some reason (i don't)

And Frank Field ffs

loooool the very next one is frank field, these are just going to be blue labour aren't they

lol xp

i wonder if queen caroline of brighton gets on ok with any of the tory backbenchers

i mean, zac goldsmith i guess? maybe they beef though, could go either way

I always link Frank Field with Barry Sheerman. Both the same age and both complete safe seat oxygen thieves. The former recently voiced the opinion that disabled people should work for reduced wages, the latter - the first fucking arsewipe to register as a lobbyist!

haha callllled it

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/green-party-leader-caroline-lucas-praises-zac-goldsmith-for-brilliant-environmental-work-a3390296.html

hmm it's kinda half beef actually. certainly not going to psoe for any nauseating photos together

yeah, was going to say, sounds more like grudging respect on a single issue rather than best buds

Jonathon Bartley: Jonathan spends whatever free time he has gigging with his band, the Mustangs, and was nominated for Blues Drummer of the Year Award in 2010.

He didn't seem like a "bands" type, but I suppose historically a lot of those LSE alumni have been.

what happened to the tory mp that wrote a pre-election jingle, the one who'd had a melody maker coverline in 1984 or thereabouts?

yes i cover the issues that matter

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greg_Knight ?

He plays the drums and is a founder member of MP4[12]—the world's only parliamentary rock group. The others are fellow MPs Kevin Brennan and Peter Wishart and former MP Ian Cawsey.

brennan = labour, wishart = snp

this lot should have been the only thing in that article

"an increased majority in the general election of 2017" so everyone who mocked his jingle on these boards is told, i guess

I'm surprised he isn't pally with Alan Johnson, and they were featured in that Graun article above about cross party Tories that overcome their enormous ideological differences to hang out together.

bah they shd be called Centrist Dadrock

lol

in the spirit of loathsome camaraderie (very much at arms length), i have it on fairly good authority that this guy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Baron_(politician) is actually a very good local mp and a decent man, aside from the whole arch-brexiteer thing (his war voting record certainly stands out)

we get a fabulously low budget local TV station called Estuary and altho i mainly watch it for NGW Wrestling i keep seeing a trailer of Johnson on some show voicing his very legitimate concerns about migration.

the racist Tory twat.

xp - yeah, ok, but of course there's this - https://www.theyworkforyou.com/mp/10715/john_baron/basildon_and_billericay/votes#welfare

(Sometimes I wish I had spent a little longer choosing a user name and hadn't just used the name of the track I was listening to at the time)

we could call you Caal if that helps

well he is a Tory xp

calling bullshit on shami chakraborty even being in that piece: she's (since not very long ago) a labour peer; she is not now and has never been an elected politician

she was director of Liberty -- aka the National Council for Civil Liberties -- until last year: in its own words a "cross party, non-party membership organisation at the heart of the movement for fundamental rights and freedoms in the UK"

House of Lords is parliament I suppose, but yeah, looks like padding

Quite a few months' worth of pile-on to Laura Pidcock's comment now..

There will be many extra people in the foodbank queues over the next couple of months who share Laura's partisan approach to life. The other day I couldn't even read that Deborah Orr piece on austerity hitting children. From the same tin-eared arse who thought zero hours contracts/the gig economy were great because they worked for people that teach yoga p/t.

I suspect the main reason for cross-party friendships is good old careerist paranoia and mistrust, you're not going to be stabbed in the back by someone on the opposite benches but everyone who sits near you is a potential rival.

Also Tories mostly just don't take this shit that seriously so they're always going to be prepared to extend the hand if there are a few drinks in it.

massively o/t, but back in WW2 days the coalition govt sent uber-lefty Stafford Cripps as the Uk ambassador to the Soviet Union, thinking that would please the Bolsheviks. Maisky revealed in his diary that they were totally displeased with Cripps and had a preference for dealing with outright Tories. "at least you know where you stand with a good old fashioned fascist". I made that quote up.

Number of zeroes on a screen somewhere mysteriously relocate.

Extraordinary - tmr's business pages of the Brexit supporting Telegraph: "the apparent resilience of FDI flows after Brexit was an illusion" pic.twitter.com/lL5pSj00Jp

— Chuka Umunna (@ChukaUmunna) October 15, 2017

waht

does minus £490 bn reduce GDP per capita enough to knock the UK down the wealth table a bit? I find it hard enough to believe the UK is the 5th wealthiest country as it is.

I recently found out how few qualified accountants there are within the Treasury and today's announcement makes perfect sense in that context.

meh! who needs experts?

... or money.

Imagine if this had broke before the referendum.

Leave would only have spun it that we definitely couln't afford the £350m a week the EU were costing us.

This seems like quite a big story, that got conveniently blown away today. I mean if half a trillion is no biggie then let it go then.

Absolutely, LOLz at the Telegraph hiding it away in their Business section.

wheeeee

Due to the pressure from @UKLabour the Tories have just caved in and dropped the call charges on the Universal Credit helpline.

— Rachael Maskell MP (@RachaelMaskell) October 18, 2017

hopefully the first of a sequence of victories today.

That would explain Amber Rudd's lack of response to an interview question about that. She must have been thinking "That's Ridiculous!"

this is my favourite ever party logo:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DMYNqjgWsAAxlEz.jpg

(possibly a fake or a parody: there are so MANY would-be anti-brexit parties attempting to form currently)

i like the way it highlights the percentage of the vote they will attract

Splitting the (tw)atom.

lol

Squeezing a pimple!

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