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

Alan Milburn and his social mobility team gone:

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/social-mobilty-board-resigns-theresa-may-alan-milburn-brexit-a8089021.html

I’m not sure how many people who would be considering voting Tory would be that moved by this specifically in the face of Brexit, but the impression that she’s fixated on one thing and fucking that up won’t help,

alleged former Labour MP surprised that Tory government not doing much for the poor

Andrew Marr asked Milburn if he was a Centrist Dad today.

glad i held myself back from using that term now

yeah that is the official peak centrist dad watershed, it should be banned from all communications henceforth.

we could go back to calling them Tories

BBC impartiality: Falage, Milburn, Rees-Mogg, some tin-eared American from a capitalist think-tank and one token leftie columnist.

Effect of Tories being called out for lack of interest in social mobility somewhat blunted by the fact that Milburn is vile.

centrist dad good now, also we have always been at war with eastasia :D

https://www.politicshome.com/news/uk/political-parties/labour-party/jeremy-corbyn/news/91117/jeremy-corbyn-i-am-radicalised

zounds! I used to like Gregory Porter, but not now he is doing cheeseball Nat King Cole covers on the Marr show.

Here's a thing, I just watched a discussion on the Sunday Politics on Brexit which contained a number of laboured analogies to football, this was followed by an interview with Michael Howard who carried on the football analogy and then proceeded to say he had every confidence in Theresa May and David Davis so many times I literally lost count, I can only assume he has no idea what this usually means when said about a football manager in a mismanaged team mired in a relegation battle.

with friends like michael howard...

The thing is, no-one in the studio would have picked up on this because, as was obvious from the moment they started the analogy, none of them know anything about football. Should have stuck to rugger.

ok dying

My staff log onto my computer on my desk with my login everyday. Including interns on exchange programmes. For the officer on @BBCNews just now to claim that the computer on Greens desk was accessed and therefore it was Green is utterly preposterous !!

— Nadine Dorries (@NadineDorries) December 2, 2017

whut the hell?

interns on exchange programmes

dawg

*cough* Data Protection Act *cough*

STOP HELPING

Guys it's all going to be okay...

Great to welcome International Trade Secretary @LiamFox to our specialist bassoon business today - we discussed new innovations and the international bassoon market. #bassoons @tradegovuk #SmallBizSatUK pic.twitter.com/kW8zJcuFzG

— Double Reed Ltd. (@doublereedltd) December 2, 2017

LOL excellent!

never mind the oboes, Liam likes them big

As they would say in his home town, he's a fuckin' balloon so a bassoon is near enough.

Why can’t us politicians be sensitive artists, they’re so understanding and open minded

“Have another referendum” support now at 50%, huh

And the survey with that and the Labour poll increase was paid for by the Mail on Sunday!

that probably explains the Labour shutout on Marr earlier.

and the BBC giving a platform to the other right wing extremists.

Marr editor terribly defensive about it all https://twitter.com/RobBurl

http://www.nigelmarlinbalchin.co.uk/photos/book%20covers/web%20mark%20spade%20omnibus.jpg

the myth that labour was ever in some sense vulnerable in the north (caveat: for the purposes of this essay, scotland is not the north)

https://medium.com/@marwood_lennox/the-labour-party-and-the-north-of-england-a-statistical-analysis-aka-the-discourse-must-die-a1be42097c28

Just applied for Universal Credit. If you have been abroad for a period of more than 4 weeks continuously (INCLUDING a holiday), you aren't eligible!

???

What, ever?

(That ought to be a joke, but it isn't. Sadistic fucks are totally capable of putting that in to completely impoverish god knows how many people)

sorry - within the last two years

wtf! This UC travesty doesn't need fine tuning like some moderates are suggesting, the whole system is completely rotten to the core and needs scrapping. Best of luck to you C B.

So, if you worked in Spain, e.g. Ibiza for a summer, 18 months ago, dot dot dot

I'm not sure whether to just lie on the application or to go for job seekers allowance maybe the same is the case there too. I don't know how they check

So, if you worked in Spain, e.g. Ibiza for a summer, 18 months ago, dot dot dot

if you go watch the World Cup!

you should have been saving those pennies you immoral spendthrift

England fans booking off four weeks for the World Cup indicates an attitude to projecting future outcomes that deserves crushing IMHO.

Unless it's meant to stop Nomdomdoms from claiming it?

If more people took their holidays in Blackpool, it would significantly lower the UK's destitution levels :p

the myth that labour was ever in some sense vulnerable in the north (caveat: for the purposes of this essay, scotland is not the north)

https://medium.com/@marwood_lennox/the-labour-party-and-the-north-of-england-a-statistical-analysis-aka-the-discourse-must-die-a1be42097c28

― mark s, Monday, 4 December 2017 00:33 (ten hours ago) Permalink

Liked how it really restricts the North (and defines exactly what the lines are). Thanks.

So if there's a customs border in the Irish sea, does that mean losing the DUP over this or what?

actual regional policy obviously requires more lines and less guesswork and handwaving -- this info has been available to any pundit prepared to do their homework

https://www.rte.ie/news/brexit/2017/1204/924815-single-market-eu-negotiations/

take that lads

a nation once again... in terms of trade

so NI gets to stay in the single market? neat trick

surely this means wales or scotland could try to do so too

The DUP are against this because....it's a further weakening of their place in the union?

Trying to see the downside besides but I......struggle to think like the DUP tbh

but then as alba says, govt loses DUP. and with it its governing majority and.. its authority to negotiate brexit lol seriously tho