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

The Sunday Times quoted one unnamed Tory MP as saying: “The moment is coming when the knife gets heated, stuck in her front and twisted. She’ll be dead soon.”

Another said May was now entering “the killing zone”, and a third remarked: “Assassination is in the air.” In the Mail on Sunday, another quote was that May should “bring her own noose” to a meeting of backbench Tories.

bit of harmless bantz from the ERG boys, they are also available for children's parties.

it's alright, they're sacking Bercow so no MP will ever behave like this again

I'm not saying I don't care about the conditions MPs have to work in, but number of sleepless nights spent fretting over their welfare so far = nil!

rees-mogg has always had something of the toht from raiders of the lost ark about him, i assume that first quote is his

The pricks are so clearly loving every minute of that that I wonder if they're going to go for Halloween for the ultimate in dramatic effect.

As somebody who hates May even more that the rest of them, those quotes are still way too much for me, what adult even says that stuff?

public school weasels who think they're in game of thrones and forget that a sitting mp was actually murdered two years ago would be my guess

forget and/or don't care probably more accurate

the speed with which jo cox has been erased from history is really fucking disgusting

the EDL rhetoric of our current Home Sec would suggest they are oblivious/willfully ignorant to the forces that were behind Cox's murder.

Very cool how campaigners and mumsnet are focusing on Labour being misogynistic, I say.

xxp George Osborne had that awful line about her chopped up in his freezer ffs

It's almost as if they're complete sociopaths oh wait.

Do the Tories actually have the slightest clue who they want their next leader to be? Feels like Gove, Johnson, Davis, Rees-Mogg etc would all struggle to get the requisite number of Parliamentary votes, especially if they're all in the ring at once. Like I get the feeling that this road ends with Jeremy Hunt as PM by default, because he's the only one that no one's bothered to build a coalition against.

it's like a Darwinian struggle where the weakest prevails!

This kind of thing doesn’t go unnoticed, is the thing. I can’t remember the exact figures, but there was a fairly noticeable swing to Labour among female voters from 2015 to 2017. As with all the other changes, it was even more notable among young female voters (I think I was surprised by how strong the Conservative support was among women in 2015?)

jeremy cunt ending up as pm by mistake would be the natural endpoint of his long career of failing upwards

Ah, it was the BES. Data is pretty interesting.
https://www.britishelectionstudy.com/bes-findings/women-men-and-the-2017-general-election-by-jane-green-and-chris-prosser/

xp on that basis Chris "weren't me guv" Grayling for PM!

stephen bush said the weekend that he felt that hunt was in the best-placed position, at least to keep out whoever the erg-y face would be (mordaunt i suspect who tf knows)

The one who makes the least noise in the run up to the contest is the one who usually wins but I think Grayling might be a step too far.

Mordaunt looks like a strong contender, purely based on being monikered and completely looking like the pantomime baddie in the tory gritverse netflix series.

i’m not clear what they’re marching for

a lot of it seems to boil down to "I wish this had never happened and I would now like it to just go away"

Boris Johnson says we must not 'turn a blind eye' to Khashoggi murder

Former foreign secretary Boris Johnson has said Britain should “refuse to turn a blind eye” to the murder of dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi and pressure Saudi Arabia into ending the brutal civil war in Yemen.

Johnson compared the Istanbul killing with the Novichok attack in Salisbury in March, calling them “state-sponsored plots” designed to “send a terrifying public warning” to opponents.

His comments in the Telegraph came as one of his predecessors as foreign secretary, Jack Straw, said “the scales now have to fall from our eyes” and firm action is needed to reduce the destabilising power of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.

The Gulf kingdom admitted on Friday that Washington Post columnist Khashoggi, a vocal critic of Riyadh, was killed at its Istanbul consulate but claimed he died after a fight broke out.

Johnson said “we cannot just let it pass” and, while the UK has crucial trade and security links with the Gulf state, “the UK and the US must lead other countries in holding Saudi Arabia properly to account”.

Wow, could this mean he'd plea for stopping the sale of arms to Saudi Arabia?! Why no, of course not.. adsgfastdfa

Robert Halfon, a Tory MP for the sometimes Bellwether seat of Harlow, has been on the airwaves again after warning at the weekend that his party faces an “existential crisis.”

The violent imagery voiced by anonymous fellow Tories simply promoted an image of their party as “an awful party in the eyes of the public,” he told BBC’s World at One.

Well, yeah...

I read on twitter from one MP that "everyone knows" who it is and that the mp was "a small man in every respect" and all of the commenters seemed to conclude it was that Andrew Bridgen guy who was going on about reciprocal arrangements for irish passports last week but now i can't find the tweet.

arms to the RA in exchange for irish passports

and kevin nolan to finally declare

nor should we forget this, two years ago this week: https://t.co/9qxsQxsbLC

— tom (@malaiseforever) October 22, 2018

booming Hilary Benn speech that day:p

"let's call him hilary, then the oedipal thing won't even arise"

won't need to lock him up then.

Today: ERG submit an amendment to the NI bill on Wednesday which would make the backstop
Illegal, their hardline followers crow about the DUP saving democracy, only to turn on them in fury hours later after the amendments are drawn due to Labour refusing to support.

Mordaunt looks like a strong contender, purely based on being monikered and completely looking like the pantomime baddie in the tory gritverse netflix series.

She is exactly the sort of evil distant aunt or stepmother they send you to after your parents die at the start of a children's fantasy adventure.

brexit: a series of unfortunate events

as soon as the door closes she turns to you with a piercing look utterly unlike what you'd seen before

scriptwriter: " ... and she's called penny mordaunt"
producers: "READ ANOTHER BOOK"

It's unlikely Corbyn will last that long - either through Labour ructions or more likely through just retiring

The language today (plus ofc Jo Cox's murder) makes me think there's a bigger chance of Corbyn being murdered than being removed by either of the above.

one point of fair comparison betw corbyn and trump is that undoubtedly - were JC to be elected - he would face substantial resistance from the small-c conservative elements in the british deep state (particularly at HMT)

just thought, what if we had an advisory but non-binding referendum on who people want to be leader of the Tory party, that would guage the public mood on Brexit

this thread:

My husband is being forced to retire and being forced to make his employees redundant because of Brexit. His company before the referendum was extremely successful and weathered every recession since the early 1970's. Work has dropped off completely since Brexit.

— Jeannine🇪🇺🇨🇭🇬🇧 (@Jeannin36571196) October 22, 2018

David Davis’s chief of staff calls hospitalised child a “pathetic cretin” for… some reason pic.twitter.com/lMkzTw2Eaf

— Jon Stone (@joncstone) October 22, 2018

Global Dyson not Global Britain - Dyson chooses Singapore for first electric car plant https://t.co/0iafgWyvKT via @financialtimes

— David Edgerton (@DEHEdgerton) October 23, 2018

building your green vehicle plants in a place which is largely only a few metres above sea level shows an impressive amount of faith in electric cars' potential to prevent catastrophic climate change, i guess

Singapore has the money to build really high sea walls. They are contemplating building a power line to the Pilbara so they can power themselves with Australian sunshine. (Wind is crap at the equator and solar is limited by a lack of land area and a lot of cloud)

Which is to say that Singapore is tackling climate change from both ends.

broke: fighting climate change
woke: building electric cars to present the illusion of caring about climate change
bespoke: building seawalls so high they eventually meet and form a dome and we can all live in bioshock

stoke: 4the madness

(also worth reading the phil edwards thread appended):

(1)We are getting a whole new set of "big demos achieve nothing" pundit comment after the "People's Vote" demo. Almost always from people who don't want demos to achieve anything. I'm 100% against a 2nd Referendum, but it's nonsense that "demo's don't ever work"

— Solomon Hughes (@SolHughesWriter) October 23, 2018

' or not ' that is the question

by the time Singapore has been claimed the sea, "global" small-state UK will be a hive of thriving sweatshops and an ideal production hub for scumbag dark satanic Mill owners 2.0 like Dyson. UK workers just need another decade of foodbank austerity to whip them into shape!

IDS's current line is basically "car manufacturing is only 1% of the economy who cares and also I spoke to one guy who said it would make no difference".

heartening to know that our economy is so strong that we can just blithely write off one percent of it

it might be a more than 1% when loads of the financial services bugger off to Holland, France and Eire!