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

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!

You are not here.

https://ctl.s6img.com/society6/img/j26CSBFtd1td9oxJz0Eb3o8xJ7Y/h_550,w_550/prints/~artwork/s6-0015/a/5358302_12706541/~~/e-pluribus-anus-ml7-prints.jpg

Jolyon the mark

Putting the o in "Oh Overton Window".

here's another:

Delighted to have established a network of people interested in supporting (& in many cases helping to set up) a possible @RadicalsUK party.

— Jeremy Cliffe (@JeremyCliffe) October 18, 2017

hurrah for the Radical Suk party!

A pro-tech, pro-Europe, social liberal movement

ohmygod you crazy radicals will you draw a line nowhere?

maybe they mean 'radical' more in the bill & ted sense, duder

I mean I can understand why if you're the middlest of the middle class you might wanna dress it up a bit but you're not really fooling anybody

the political scene suddenly being full of centrist ultras fighting over the status quo would be entertaining as hell tho

ok it wasn't between 1995 and 2010 but this is different

luv2radically occupy the blandest space on the political spectrum

seems appropriate that the 'r' in their logo is beige

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tk1dd1D2Kts

before I clicked I thought it was gonna be the election bit from Futurama, so close

Zapp Brannigan OTM: "What makes a man turn neutral? Lust for gold? Power? Or were you just born with a heart full of neutrality?"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JY6RyRkl9uo

radical suk have just retweeted this, fittingly the most equivocal piece of praise imaginable

Bored by the tonnes of scorn poured on @JeremyCliffe and @RadicalsUK. Ofc it's probs doomed to fail, but good on them for having a go anyway

— Raphael Hogarth (@Raphael_Hogarth) October 18, 2017

as they said to the lads at Gallipoli

tell you what, if they get Blair or Clarke on board this could be the steamroller broad front centrist Tory party that fans of lulz like me have been crying out for

Raphael Hogarth, voice of the common man.

he's named after 2 ninja turtles, how common do you want?

I've gotta do a new Think Tank poll, "Working to make government more effective" is the most pulse-pounding mission statement I've ever seen

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Party_of_Moderate_Progress_Within_the_Bounds_of_the_Law

Ideology Recession[citation needed]

he's named after 2 ninja turtles, how common do you want?

lol

What is the actual point of non-binding parliamentary voting? Just a bit of a lark in the funhouse and MP's add to their How They Vote stats.

"MPs vote 299 to 0 and therefore the “pause and fix” to Universal Credit motion passed after the government called a three-line whip for Tories to abstain."

Tory Sarah Woolaston and deputy DUP leader Nigel Dodds both voted with Labour.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DMcOAgSX4AAMUJx.jpg
John Redwood agreed with me, before they lost their majority.

lol i googled yr question and arrived at the exact same page and DID NOT CLICK

Ahh, that first dose of John Redwood in a day is like a blast of holy sunshine!

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DMcj2r6WsAA_0BK.jpg

This is so otm from Frances Ryan.

Odd development. Dodds has said he *didn't vote* for Labour motion. Mistaken for Anneliese Dodds on the ayes list https://t.co/BuQE5gmjUJ

— Ashley Cowburn (@ashcowburn) October 18, 2017

lol! Correction, I thought this sounded a bit so not going to happen.

https://www.theguardian.com/education/2017/oct/19/ministers-plan-fines-for-universities-which-fail-to-uphold-free-speech

Genuinely bizarre. The majority of events in question are held by student unions, rather than the universities themselves, so i have no idea how they're meant to mandate speakers the SU doesn't want to invite are included.

Wouldn't Germaine Greer talking to a tiny audience of Young Conservatives in a empty hall be such an amazing victory for freedom of speech.

Johnson said that free speech was one of the foundations on which the UK’s higher education tradition was built.

this is an out and out ahistorical lie

presumably this is to bring universities in line with the UK's constitutional right to freedom of speech tho

So they've given up on trying to win the youth vote already then?

Premium

standard.co.uk/news/politics/tory-mp-tim-loughton-spends-an-hour-in-the-bath-every-morning-just-thinking-about-things-a3661406.html

“It's like going to the gym for the mind."

lonely guy just thinking baout things in the bath

He made the remarks while speaking at a conference about how meditation and greater self-awareness can improve the way politicians operate.

i think u might have fallen at the first hurdle there pal

Next time you’re making a significant purchase, a house perhaps, start by saying “I will not accept no deal” and see how the negotiations go

— James Cleverly (@JamesCleverly) October 19, 2017

Cleverly, MP for BrainGenious

next time you're making a purchase, a house perhaps, start by throwing in a confusing double-negative and see how quickly the other party starts crying