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

tbf they did have to fit on a floppy disk already full of DD's favourite Bergerac quotes in Clarisworks

I wonder what the nuttallator is up to these days? I could imagine him eating cold beans out of the tin in a badly kept shithole. Earlier it was funny to read that clown from the FT's year old tweet that Labour should be "quaking" over this big dog.

Was Cox always this much of a public dork or did this stuff start when his wife got no-platformed for wondering whether it would be better for trans people to be identified before birth and aborted?

one wd imagine that's the kind of thing that brings out latent bitterness but he's hardly the only celebrity scientist to have reprehensibly "rational" political opinions

It would be odd if Cox started a new party, his wife's already got one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/More_United

I think rationalism applied in a political context is just a euphemism for fucking off your moral compass.

I assume they just aren't thinking too deeply about anything.

european liberalism has been flapping to find a raison d'etre since the advent of socialism, and failing pitifully

The pathetic thing is none of these wannabe Macron start-up parties will ever get one MP to stand in an election. At least the two I've seen so far were nothing more than late night tweets or one or two spots on the radio. They so want to scare Labour into turning their rage towards Brexit and really resent that Labour are reserving that energy to get the Tories on their austerity policies.

This is an excellent, nuanced thread on HDV. Its been reported as a hard-left take over ofc.

1/ Firstly, obviously silly to go on about “purges” or “coups” or “factionalism” as ppl have in the Times.

These were all democratic selection processes and tbh I’m delighted that housing policy is now such a central question in local political debate.

— Luke Barratt (@lukewbarratt) November 28, 2017

i was deep into an answer on how cox had always been a bit of a twerp when i realised i was thinking of ben goldacre, which i guess proves noodle's point quite effectively

I can't think of Brian Cox without thinking of the Horrible Histories sketch about Wonders of Egyptian Universe, unfortunately not on YouTube

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/SbXTbKLH5_k/sddefault.jpg

https://vimeo.com/51091942

£57bn divorce bill - how's the old magic money tree coming along?

gotta push pineapple first iirc

split that bill between the 52% i reckon.

hoooooly sh*t at this story

http://www.politics.co.uk/news/2017/11/28/woman-reports-rape-to-police-and-is-arrested-on-immigration

like a stick of rock from a bad place, you know that is something that will have Theresa May approval stamped right fucking through it.

aside from the most obviously disturbing effect of this on vulnerable groups (for whom tories care nothing about) can't they see the obvious implications for policing? a home environment for immigrants is a safer environment for organised crime.

a HOSTILE environment for immigrants

sorry, blindingly obvious

It's the UK, 2017, folks and the Queen is making sure she doesn't have to bear the stench of even secondhand Papism:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5126203/Meghan-baptised-Church-England.html

Or is this another deal struck with the DUP?

her first husband, US TV producer Trevor Engelson, was Jewish and the couple tied the knot in a Bohemian ceremony at the Jamaica Inn in Ocho Rios, Jamaica

what is a "bohemian ceremony"? is that when the bride wears flip flops and the groom plays bongos? or does it mean you get defenestrated after the first dance?

If it's about throwing Catholics out of windows then the Queen would approve.

"Is this your real wife? Is this just fantasy?"

"shortly before the wedding, the bride will proceed alone to a prepared alcove of st. george's chapel where she is expected to ingest a bound copy of the nicene creed"

Can hear Nicholas Witchell saying that tbh.

Haha NV

There are notably few photos in the GIS for "Queen Tony Blair" which feature windows, it's true. Though most of them have Michael Sheen instead.

classic:

http://www.lbc.co.uk/radio/presenters/james-obrien/this-ex-pat-hates-the-eu-but-lives-in-france/

JOB has been good value on all this lately

We’re paying tens of billions of pounds to leave the world’s largest free trade area while surrendering all of our ability to define its rights & regulations.
All so that we can hopefully start negotiating an inferior arrangement with the world’s largest free trade area.

— James O'Brien (@mrjamesob) November 29, 2017

@andrew_lilico
It's probably an honest mistake, easily done. I RTed something from someone dodgy once, then un-RTed it quickly (to some well-earned derision) & apologised. Surely Trump can be man enough to do the same?

@DPJHodges
Are you being serious.

Trump needs to man up and be more like andrew lolico

or dan hodges

of all the possible hot takes, he found the worst. He smashed it.

would add to that O'Brien tweet: The glacially slow business of negotiating an inferior arrangement to a backdrop of severe economic contraction #usethefull280

https://i.imgur.com/rfA5OrH.jpg

@bbcnickrobinson
One lesson of Trump tweet = careful what you like & share on social media. You may be giving racists & extremists the publicity they crave 1/2

How naive/apologist. And the first reply is a photo of Nick posing with Fransen.

we've all shared fascist propaganda by accident every now and again

Although of course every time any of us mention the orange twat we're also giving a racist and extremist the publicity he craves... anyway back to Lucinda Williams, Aldi Baileys and GT Sport, let other people worry about the world.

I have some trouble splitting hairs between the far right groups from the margins and the ones in government tbh.

One does the shooting, one loads the gun iirc.

and some of them cheerlead for the BBC

aside from the most obviously disturbing effect of this on vulnerable groups (for whom tories care nothing about) can't they see the obvious implications for policing? a home environment for immigrants is a safer environment for organised crime.

― plax (ico), Wednesday, 29 November 2017 Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

a HOSTILE environment for immigrants

― plax (ico), Wednesday, 29 November 2017 Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

As long as organised crime is home-grown:

Huge change. To the extent Brexit was an anti-immigration vote it’s already worked https://t.co/giR5AALhn0

— Tom Clark (@prospect_clark) November 30, 2017

why would any rational person choose to emigrate to the uk now tbf

My cousin did just post-Brexit. He got a job after a couple of months then found himself a British girlfriend and is now engaged and getting married to her next year.

god help him tbh

haha I know.

they'll be stopping people from leaving in 10 years, not stopping them coming in.

In her keynote address on Thursday, the former disability minister will announce the UK’s first global disability summit, to be held in 2018. The summit aims to bring together global leaders and technology companies to tackle the barriers that prevent people with disabilities from fulfilling their potential

“In many parts of the world, people with disabilities simply don’t count,” Mordaunt will say. “They are neglected and isolated. They are attacked and abused. They are invisible”..

the fucking state of this, I presume BMJ representatives or any of the disabled people still actually alive in the UK won't be invited to give their vital input.