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

'we want free speech on campus! wait no not that kind of free speech'

more "actually gavin williamson has some good qualities" wikipedia sidenotes: "He was criticised by parliamentary authorities for bringing his pet tarantula Cronus to the Houses of Parliament.[13]"

wtf i love gavin williamson now

owls are well known for eating their own siblings during times of hardship, never heard of one throwing them under a bus before though

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did wonder for a moment if GW was somehow related to otter-bothering nazi Henry Williamson

so far today i have spent significant nay valuable minutes trying to work up a joke abt

a) cronus vs cronut™
b) tarka vs tarkus

Lord Palmer says he's wearing a tie which says "British Meat" all over it

— Esther Webber (@estwebber) November 2, 2017

This is the most Brexit thing I've ever heard.

Let's cut to the chase - the tie IS meat.

Counterpoint:

These and other anti Brexit clothing from https://t.co/4dSQafeRHZ Support enterprise! Save Britain! Stop Brexit pic.twitter.com/9QYtGI3XrG

— Alastair Campbell (@campbellclaret) November 1, 2017

don't understand why all these twats want to save Britain

Would have been nice to stop the iraq war as well, drunken cuntwipe

"Let us not pursue this foreign policy course which is built on lies and which all credible informed opinion agrees will be disastrous..."

a lot going on here:

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DNo9AbWW0AAT1Bo.jpg

The BBC’s political editor, Laura Kuenssberg, said the abuse and threats she faced were meant to try to silence her, as she spoke out for the first time about the subject since she was assigned a bodyguard during the Labour party conference.

was LK hammer not also assigned a bodyguard for conservative party conference?

No, only the Labour Party has problems with misogyny. I think.

There will be a lot of Tesco Value Machiavellis jockeying for position in the Tory party over the next few weeks, most of which we'll never have heard of before, but this Williamson guy looks like he's going to be a treat.

saw a mini-bio on the Midlands local news this evening, he's certainly something

if your friends are claiming woman 'may have mistaken his hand for a table cloth', you're losing
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/11/02/damian-greens-friends-try-save-career-claiming-woman-may-have/?WT.mc_id=tmg_share_tw

Jim Pickard
@PickardJE
Tory MP on Gavin Williamson: "When a man keeps a pet tarantula it's because he doesn't have a better story to tell."

Whips are rarely popular but Williamson seems to be genuinely despised by a huge section of his own party.

that could be a recommendation

Listening to comments on Mair earlier, May has pissed off a lot of the party with this move. They are calling him Dick Cheney and he is widely despised. *pulls up deck chair*

sun story claiming fallon suggested leadsom warm her hands on his balls

I wonder to what extent Williamson's apparent oikishness fuels his colleagues' hatred. Everything I read and see about him makes him look the worst kind of climber

there is a 2nd list flying about apparently #justHookItToMyVeins

and this is a resignation matter: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-41853561

At this rate Tory MPs will only need to ask nicely for a Cabinet position in order to get one.

Or in Hunt's case don't even need to ask.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2017/nov/03/tory-mp-charlie-elphicke-has-whip-suspended-after-serious-allegations

Not be mistaken with Boon ... nor a boon to humanity.

Williamson is one of them fun hippocrates that vote for austerity and then campaign against it in their own constituency. I think much of the hatred of him in the parliamentary party will be from MP's who previously found it galling enough to have one of Cameron's former bag carriers telling them to get in line and no queue jumping, showing his own 'go anywhere do anything attitude' towards party discipline. Creepy Nick Robinson was talking him up as future leader, because of his "Labour voting parents" + comprehensive school background.

Good grief that's completely moronic of Robinson who surely should understand how Tory leadership elections play out by now. Williamson has clearly and self-evidently shot his load too early here, it's not Machiavellian if everyone can see full well what you're up to, and I'd guess that he has about as much chance of getting the requisite number of Tory nominations as a hippo does.

https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/863880635722612736/CM7No5F_.jpg

just on initial impressions he gives out such a creepy vibe, i can't see the electorate warming to him at all. add in the tarantula and the owls and he just makes me think of ann widdecombe's famous quote about michael howard: "he has something of the night about him"

pic.twitter.com/smwlKB0Def

— tom (@malaiseforever) November 2, 2017

lol my auto spelling correction fucked me!

love dat hippo

Standing at the murder scene, with bloody knife in hand isn't good Machiavellian long game practise. But I think the sense of defeatism and impending doom in the party is very strong and perhaps Williamson thinks it is now or never. And maybe he never watched the og House of Cards.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DNyv97sVwAMvoc1.jpg

I like how the picture captures his look of fear as he dreads being crushed by the Godzilla-like boot of matriarchy

Indeed. He looks genuinely terrified, but ever so slightly aroused.

The Times, I think, are running a story on Damien Green having been caught with teen pornography on his work computer.

Green claims a former Met AC is trying to defame him.

What I don't understand is that senior politicians surely need to have security clearance, in which case all of this would have been found out (as I understand it one reason why they check up on your past is to test how likely you can be blackmailed).

MPs don’t need security clearance. Their staff do.

aiui

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"it is understood Quick intended to report the discovery of pornographic material to parliamentary authorities, but was forced to quit his job before the leaks inquiry was completed.." Definitely no love lost between these two. I'm not even sure how serious this is, as in porn described as "extreme" and "legal" in the same paragraph. But if it brings down this odious tosser it'll do for me.

there’s a thread on problematic use of extreme (from a legal pov) here:

The use of the term "extreme" by the police here is problematic and a bit confusing (brief thread). https://t.co/GHwQQzt1wQ

— James Chalmers (@ProfChalmers) November 4, 2017

"Extreme pornography" has a narrow legal meaning which you can find set out in this legislation: https://t.co/GYtLEHIdNH

— James Chalmers (@ProfChalmers) November 4, 2017

But that legislation did not come into force until early 2009, and could not apply here.

— James Chalmers (@ProfChalmers) November 4, 2017

The suggestion is apparently that it was legal then and now but specialist police officers had to be drafted in to verify that as it wasn’t immediately obvious.

Green is right that these rumours have been circulating for nine years and no newspapers have printed them for lack of evidence. This obviously raises the question of why they are being printed now. The options are probably that they have been corroborated by other police officers and the ST has been sitting on the story for maximum impact or that there isn’t anything to substantiate the story but there is a pretty good chance that Green won’t sue given the other allegations against him. It could be open season on a number of MPs either way.

Rachel Johnson is sticking the knife into Andrea Leadsom atm:

This intra-Tory warfare on men’s right to be lechers is genuinely mind-boggling. pic.twitter.com/6goOBOqBon

— Elvis Buñuelo (@Mr_Considerate) November 5, 2017

The war within the party isn’t going to blow over any time soon.

imagine being on that rota. you'd need a thick skin and a wicked sense of humour. xpost