one out all out: a brexit from the modern world and every one of its problems please (we're all gonna die lol)

I was going to post it there, but thought it might be too graphic and trigerry!

just for some added Worcester sauce one of the fellow torturers (who got 15 years) is an "ex-professional footballer".

ex-Blackburn striker Andre Jermaine Clarke, 30.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamie_Clarke_(footballer,_born_1988)

Doesn't the veracity of the slogan depend to an extent on what the Whitney Houston song was? I mean that Bodyguard soundtrack was a pretty huge seller.

The Greatest Love of Balls

It's not right...

I wanna feel the HEAT with somebody

lol

Ow, well I know..

scalding drug dealer bollocks: it's not right but it's okay

exciting!

Totally agree Laura, it baffles me that the corbynista's think May saying "Austerity is over" could be interpreted as meaning "there will be no austerity measures in the next budget". A review next year to ascertain the possibility of easing off on cuts is really exciting.

— (((Han Dodges))) (@HPJDodges) October 10, 2018

and sorry I know I shouldn't give the twerp publicity

It's a spoof account isn't it?

hah too subtle for me obviously!

Dan Hodges is almost beyond parody but Simon Hedges manages it, somehow. He’s a combination of several centrist treasures but the weirdly tragic Hodges is a key ingredient.

I've been banned from the Labour Party conference and have been forced to attend the Conservative Party conference instead. Just for having an opinion.

— Simon Hedges (@Orwell_Fan) October 2, 2018

The Momentum Militants that have taken over the Labour Party should feel nothing but shame that they've forced me to attend every Tory Party conference of the last 10 years.

— Simon Hedges (@Orwell_Fan) October 1, 2018

pic.twitter.com/GH9uy3lo70

— Simon Hedges (@Orwell_Fan) September 25, 2018

lol class

did enjoy the exchange that lead to owen smith blocking him

xps

well do I feel foolish haven taken absolutely verbatim what some duplicitous tory politico said in a conference speech. What a harsh lesson!

xp I thought I was well up on hedges lore but I don’t think o know this? I remember the Hugo Rifkind one which was funny.

Also this was great:

Hi Simon. It seems a long time now since you were teaching me to be a journalist, great days! If you could just copy and paste this message that would be great: "Really enjoying reading Lost Connections by Johann Hari, highly recommended!" Cheers mate.

— Simon Hedges (@Orwell_Fan) January 27, 2018

I have been asked to make the following statement. Ian Smith MP is not afraid of the golden taste of Hobgoblin. He buys "a wide range of beers and ciders from the supermarket, yes sometimes even own brand lager, there's nothing wrong with that." pic.twitter.com/KS7j94NiYL

— Simon Hedges (@Orwell_Fan) May 11, 2018

at the risk of repeating myself: the list of ppl he follows is beautifully curated. whenever I see an atrocious tweet by an unfamiliar name and I hover over it to see "followed by simon hedges" I smile. he's providing a valuable service

It must be mortifying for some of his targets to see themselves being done like this, if they actually have a modicum of self awareness that is.

This is appalling and shows how much we all need to do just to survive.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/oct/10/corbynism-work-government-borough-haringey

Rather than taking up the traders’ case, Ejiofor and Adje have fobbed them off. Instead of Haringey cracking down on the market manager, last month it sent an enforcement officer to hassle traders. A pregnant woman running a nail bar was found without a licence, and told to close the shop. In a complaint that I have seen, she said she had felt “embarrassed and humiliated” in front of customers and neighbours. Days later, she miscarried.

Article seems to illustrate not so much an ideological problem for the left as the fact that a lot of politicians at all levels are bent.

Power is concentrated on too few a hands, and they aren't made accountable either.

Yeah, the issue is how to make these people more accountable, more quickly. It's unglamorous stuff, I guess, but goes back all the way to what I most wanted from Corbyn when he won the leadership - reform the party structures, get the levers of power into the hands of the people.

Obv ultimately it's not just the structures of the Labour party that need to change, but one step at a time.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/oct/10/nationalising-britain-water-industry-environment?CMP=share_btn_fb

another member with interesting priorities

Well-documented ties to the water industry as well.

i was going thru the Register of Members' Interests on that assumption and could find anything but it's fucking transparent, excuse the pun.

the only fucking liquidity she's concerned about certainly isn't water quality related.

Boris now claiming that a Britain with close ties to the EU would be a "colony". But I thought colonialism was meant to be a good thing?

only if you're the colonists, come on

The British are not an inferior race.

I read a good letter by an engineer the other day that was trashing his bridge to the North Ireland colony idea. The Irish Sea is a 1000 feet deep at points and still full of dangerous ww2 munitions so it would be a hugely expensive and nigh on impossible project. Not that you ever take anything that cunt says seriously.

I'm thinking Scotland does not need something that makes it easier for lunatics from Ulster to get to Ibrox Park or sundry Orange Walks.

aye, marching season would be a mare!

Marching across Boris' bridge.

don't be so hasty, you're talking about something that raises the possibility of Orangemen being swept into the North Atlantic en masse

battle of the buoyant

lol

"political considerations"

https://www.opendemocracy.net/uk/brexitinc/james-cusick-adam-ramsay/met-police-stall-brexit-campaign-investigations-claiming-polit

The problem with attributing even bad ideas to Johnson is that this too is a bridge too far generous.

it took me a while to realise that the Tommy Robinson song has the same tune as Spot The Looney (Tom D and bizarro may be the only people who know what i'm talking about)

No, English football fans sang that song too - it being a perfect distillation of 70s culture, marrying the tune of Chicory Tip's "Son of My Father" to a Monty Python sketch.

ahhhh!

the Son of the Father connection had escaped me until now!

I can't believe I'm seeing a front page on The Times reporting on charities getting gagged from criticising our most charming DWP minister on UC. That's normally a disabled/benefits twitter staple. S Bush otm on how much worse UC is than Poll Tax on it's victims, and how weaker the Tory party is in this clusterfuck that looks like finally threatening to become a "national scandal". Perhaps this is an extension of "anyone but Corbyn" and it's way too fucking late for lots of people.

but didn't the poll tax affected people (superficially) more indiscriminately than this UC scandal still attacks specific groups that can be more effectively othered as leechers or drains on society?