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

lol was xp'ed by mfktz there as well!

tbf she was the only woman who agreed to take part out of the great many they surely invited

No Brendan O'Neill, credibility.

I love the dozens of extremely normal messages I get every day now pic.twitter.com/RVfkWXQOdX

— Megan (@mmegannnolan) October 25, 2018

Meanhwile one of Ruth Davidson's caring sharing new breed of Scottish Tories has been speaking out...

https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/17005153.tory-msp-rape-clause-is-fair-as-it-means-poor-have-fewer-kids

(xp) There are no Irish cricketers - apart from the captain of the England one-day team.

I think you mean foreign hurling

TS: some Irish bag of wank sport vs some English one!

it's all hurling when i've finished with it stew

sharivari to thread

I love it how someone with six brats is deeply concerned about poor ppl breeding like rats. (READ POST AS A RAP)

The next time Ireland beats the West Indies at cricket I’m going to suggest we take up hurling out of spite and aim to replicate those crossover matches where Gaelic football teams go and play Aussie Rules teams and get flattened.

Hurling is legit good tho, even if you are compelled to support one of the hopeless counties.

The unnamed British businessman has just been named as Philip Green, which I'm sure will have bankrupted bookies across the UK.

Peter Hain did a Giggsy and just named him in Parliament.

fuck i can't believe i put £100 on it being clive sinclair

I think the Telegraph's story has fucked up and left them exposed - they're free to report on Peter Hain and to reveal the details of their court case in the same story but at one point they used the definite article instead of the indefinite which, as I read it, breaches their injunction.

TBH I was absolutely sure that it was going to be the guy named after a leafy salad vegetable but it appears rather a lot of leading British businessmen have left their companies under a cloud this year.

I thought it was Herman Lollo-Rosso as well.

re Megan N's tweet up there (btw her article was excellent), I knew nothing about cricket whatsoever until my A-Level Computing coursework was to write a simple program for recording cricket scores, and even what scores meant and when the game ended and so on was a mystery to me, so I had to ask my dad to explain the basics to me

which I now barely remember, but just enough to save myself from a boring "you ladies probably don't know how long a cricket match lasts! let me explain to you" conversation recently

I wanted to say that people would frown on setting such a girl- & foreigner-unfriendly topic for today's A-Level Computing exams but then I remembered what this country is like, so no, they probably wouldn't

(I found myself in an Irish pub in Oxford this summer when a hurling match happened to be on the big screens and was surprised how many people were in to watch it - lots of tension & cheering etc. I was baffled by that game too, I'm afraid, but it did at least look a lot better than cricket)

my dad used to listen to it on the wireless (or was it Gaelic football?) when I was kid, with some faint hissy LW signal blasting out in the kitchen iirc. I only got into football to piss him off tbh!

Love hating on Jess Phillips obviously, but her knife in the front comment is the first time in this timeline I heard a politician talk like that. I remember thinking it seemed wildly inappropriate, even more so given her constant reference to previous work with women who have experienced domestic/intimate partner violence. The radical centre press really celebrated her for it at the time, and she seemed to really revel in the frisson generated by the violence of the imagery. I remember thinking that it was weird how she constantly drew attention to her friendship with Jo Cox in the aftermath of her death, used it as a way of talking about the abuse that MPs face (while proudly taking about telling the most abused MP in the house to fuck off). She reminds me of so many abusive people I have met, the angry way she recasts culpability as a kind of victimhood. She likes to talk about her work with women who have been victims of violence, but I doubt she ever really had much to do with vulnerable people. She's too obviously a bully.

Anyway, absolutely mugged:

"It was never my intention to threaten Jeremy Corbyn."

Following criticism about violent language used by MPs relating to Theresa May, Jess Phillips is asked whether she regrets saying "I won't knife you in the back, I will knife you in the front" of Jeremy Corbyn, back in 2015. pic.twitter.com/OTj43eQKdR

— Channel 4 News (@Channel4News) October 24, 2018

Diane Abbott said Jess Phillips never told her to fuck off, which contributes to my idea of JP being just the sort of person full of big confrontational talk in front of third parties she’s trying to impress, but who would never confront someone like DA to their face.

Some people are just never wrong are they? JP doesn't come across as on speaking terms with humility

she's always seems to be playing to the gallery, with the tough talk or the blatant "my big pal JRM" trolling. And then when piles of comments section scorn lands on her (of which loads probably crosses the line of decency tbf at times) she wasn't in the best position to take the moral high ground this time and was caught totally off balance!

🇬🇧🎸😞 pic.twitter.com/HJie3AWgMk

— Poppy® Watch (@giantpoppywatch) October 23, 2018

https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/72x72/1f61e.png is otm

Yeah Jess Phillips is a showboater, I actually don't know what she believes at all, I just know of individuals she's opposed to. The Commons has been full of showboaters over the decades obviously but it's a bit easier for people to join the dots these days.

She's probably a very good constituency MP, I just hate people who self-identify as 'gobby' and she does come across like a Big Brother contestant who is slowly realising they've been playing the game wrong from the start.

Also knife talk has been part of political plotting since the Macmillan era at least, people are just a little more circumspect about it now for obvious reasons.

"it's a well trodden formulae"

Yeah I know it was a misspeak, but gtf outta here!

Blimey I've watched that and in trying to defend herself JP just undermined everything that Yvette Cooper was trying to say with all that "it's just a metaphor" stuff.

Set herself up for a legion of scumbags "just a metaphor"ing on Twitter etc

Go fuck yourself is a metaphor

Also, there was definitely an intent in her stab in the front remark intended to exaggerate the violence of the imagery.

I'm not really sure giving these MP's so much airtime and publicity is such a good idea

mark s at 1:33 25 Oct 18

my idea of a "public intellectual" is me so clearly they're ppl we shd never pay attention to

This was really brought home to me last night when some masochistic urge led me to watch the video of Owen Jones interviewing Zizek

the subheading to the video was classic Zizek challops along the lines of "Clinton is the real problem", was it as bad as that makes it sound?

No, but worse, it was exactly the same thing he's said before, not even phrased differently or examined, just repeated, with OJ doing his 'I am carefully pondering this' nod and not questioning it at all.

hmmm really makes you think

stroking your chin and pretending some slobbering halfwit is saying something profound is an ideal skill set to be a music journalist. Just in case OJ is looking for other options.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CoNXkG8WYAA25Ew.jpg
"he had 'people' there to check but completely missed the point of my portrait."

it's worth noting all the ways in which this woman was treated terribly

"At the time there were no red flags with how she was behaving."

https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/i-just-cant-find-way-15331347

"austerity is over"

yeah sure, how sickening, the poor woman. And I'd like to add my experience of actually getting some LA respite was so substandard and not fit for purpose that it just added a whole extra dimension of stress to all parties involved. And this is definitely related to how badly funded it is.

The respite centre used to be a huge Victorian mansion left by some rich Victorian industrialist for disabled kids for perpetuity. The cash strapped LA flogged it off to housing developers and built a little bungalow behind the new posh housing site, where these props are going for something 750k each.

The little bungalow is supposed to house up 8 disabled kids at once and the staff are poorly paid, poorly trained.

The "austerity is over" show is something that needs seriously challenging. It was good to see McDonnell pledging extra billions the other day, but while this lot are in power people are literally dying.

apols for rambling chainposts..

Councils who flog off property left to them in perpetuity for a specific reason are THE WORST.

the sight of people walking kids with noise sensitive autism issues through a badly segregated building site, struck me as an image of the times.

could do with a hilarious May dancing gif rn, lol what a tonic!

andy burnham has realised he doesn't have the power to fix manchester's exciting transport crisis. I live by a road with an 'illegal' level of pollution, I hope to see the police arresting everyone who drives along it.