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

Unexpected endorsement for Corbs (from TOWIE’s Gemma Collins):

Revealing she’s a fan of the divisive political figure, she added: “He’s not just for the rich getting rich. He wants to make everything equal.

“He’s got values on education, and he says every child should learn a musical instrument - that’s about giving children something to do, so they’re not hanging around on the streets.

“At his age now - I’m not saying he’s old, old - the fact that he’s out there riding a bicycle and he doesn’t have a car... a lot of people say they’ve got beliefs. But he actually backs what he says.”

She concluded: “Do you know why I love Jeremy? He wants to end hospital car parking charges.

“I’m not being funny, but someone’s died - a member of your family - and you’ve gotta put three quid in the meter?

“It’s just not the time. Your mum has a heart attack, yet you’ve got to rustle around in your bag for £5? It’s not the one.”

I mean, all things said and done, that’s not a bad summary of the policies.

she’s absolutely seen off dickie angell

YES

but not even the strangest endorsement of the day!

Bit of a Late Registration 😉

Thanks for the follow @kanyewest 👋 https://t.co/jfODJ8II1y

— Caroline Lucas (@CarolineLucas) October 31, 2018

is it worth replacing my EU passport (which officially expires early 2020) before next March? or will it not make any difference, practically?

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DqsqOfXXcAAcQ3r.jpg

I knew I was hearing echoes. Repeatedly telling the same big lie .. something something .. redacted godwin's law edit!

the times is arguably worse than the daily mail now

I'd say they've successfully filled the Dacre void, but they were just as hateful and appalling while he was still at the Mail.

RIP Arron Banks, heaven needed a Mr Toad

my missus just got that dreaded DWP letter saying they have viewed all her medical evidence and now the PIP decision will be made. This time she had help from a charity with her forms and we got a GP's letter telling them ATOS mofos that they aren't dragging someone with severe MS to some Kafkaesque "assessment building" and it worked, so fingers crossed for the next letter!

oh is he under arrest?

referred to the National Crime Agency. No doubt his defence will be along the lines of "that money was just resting in my account"

He's been pretty blatant about it:

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2017/apr/02/arron-banks-interview-brexit-ukip-far-right-trump-putin-russia

Modern online campaigning has fundamentally changed everything, Tambini tells me. “And the existing framework is utterly weak and helpless.” The cost of building databases, money poured into third-party campaigns, offshore spending – these were either largely or totally unregulated. There is no longer any way, with current legislation, of guaranteeing a free and fair election.

Or as Banks puts it: “We were just cleverer than the regulators and the politicians. Of course we were.”

He didn’t break the law, he says. He “pushed the boundary of everything, right to the edge. It was war.” And later: “You’re looking for a smoking gun but there’s a smoking gun on every table! And no one cares. No one cares!”

Thing is he's probably right unless the government can be brave, which they definitely can't and won't do. The only thing that might make any material difference here to anyone that isn't Arron Banks would be if it were proven that the money came from Russia. The same people who have been ranting on about hammering Putin in revenge for Salisbury might find themselves with divided loyalties here.

they already had just short of a million from some of Putin's pals worth of divided loyalties, and that's just the declared figure.

matt dc otm.
nothing will happen other than a verbal slap on the wrists followed by Aaron and his mate Andy breaking open the Russian imported vodka.
and they know it, hence their perma-grin'd arrogance on twitter.

Brexiters Conservatives People are quite capable of holding contradictory political thoughts in their heads and do so all the time, anti-Russian jingoism/legitimate distrust of the Putin regime will have no more impact on the convinced Brexiteer than if it was suddenly revealed that Banks got all his money from selling crack to schoolchildren. so the only forces that can contend with him at all are the legal and political systems ;_;

I think there has previously been an element of bluff-calling by Banks and Wigmore, that might change now actual (long-overdue) charges might be laid. But yes I can understand the cynicism about this.

i mean that any charge or conviction for Banks won't undermine what he's achieved. sticking him in jail would be amusing, but either the referendum was fought illegaly or it wasn't. i don't see anybody having the guts to rule that it was.

Yes, I see that. I'm not sure there's even a legal mechanism that could rule the referendum illegal in any simple sense, it would probably require a new Act of Parliament.

yeah. so this is at best schadenfreude, which is not nothing, but it isn't much.

i guess i wonder how much this ends up feeding the deep state liberal elite fantasies of the wingnuts too but what can you do? everything feeds those fantasies

The establishment's persecution of prominent Leave campaigners continues: https://t.co/hQjCIrStGG The real scandal is that the government used vast amounts of taxpayers' money and the civil service to push pro-Remain propaganda.

— Richard Wellings (@RichardWellings) November 1, 2018

who are the REAL crooks hmmm?

lol called it

Challenging opinion - most people who voted leave don't give a flying fuck about any of these people or their conspiracy theories and feel no affinity to them at all. Farage might be an exception but that's because he worked out how to give a more-or-less convincing impression of an ordinary person.

Richard Wellings

https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/903557983011004417/gPBblIxb_400x400.jpg

most people are not rampaging Freemen or SWPers but lots of people gather these unexamined back-of-the-mind assumptions about the way the world really works that may or may not sometimes influence their voting patterns or social interactions, i agree this probably negligible in the big scheme of things but i wouldn't discount the soup of ideas that we all simmer in

Richard Wellings is Deputy Director, Academic and Research, at the Institute of Economic Affairs and Director of IEA Transport. He was educated at Oxford and the London School of Economics, completing a PhD on transport policy in 2004.

Far be it from me to cast doubt on these impeccable anti-establishment credentials but remind me who funds the IEA again?

I know it's all about setting ~mood music~ really but this sort of stuff has a habit of working until the exact moment that it doesn't.

That comment makes me of an older post on an older thread about drunken fools pulling broken levers in the mistaken belief that they are still very useful and important ppl.

post posted by an older poster iirc

but we are all olderposter

Big Tobacco's long years out in the cold have made it an expert on anti-establishment attitudes. Also those people are naturally cool, and so naturally smoke.

Good luck to you and your missus, calzino.

it's only out in the cold this time of year, don't mind standing outside in summer ;_;

that pic of richard wellings is very

https://image.ibb.co/cni5V0/6a00d8341e1c7853ef0133f1dfe1fb970b.jpg

nazi knut btw

There's a smoking gun on every table. And nobody cares.

If the tables are occupied I suggest beating Banks with chairs.

One of the fundamental themes of the current mood music - "they're all at it"

you can sing "if we don't sell weapons of death to them, someone else will" to the same tune!

xps

cheers AF, I'm not worried and quietly confident this time, and even if I'm wrong then fuck 'em anyway!

Tracey Crouch has walked over the prevarication from the gov on reducing FOBT stakes to £2 max.

obv lots of politicos with divided loyalties again!

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DrLEJu-WoAEHqWX.jpg:large

I took a screenshot of this beauty for the archives, cos I knew it would be ridiculed into deletion by the time I got home.

the Louise Woodward of world babysitters

goya.jpg

Every now and then an idiot Matt Haig tweet passes my eyes without my wanting it to, and I wonder just how awful his books must be.

his no.1 bestselling book is apparently a centrist dad guide to not getting stressed out by the modern world. It probably helps to be completely delusional about 20/21st century geopolitics and pretend the world is a 50's Western with the goodies all in the west of course.

unfair to 50s westerns, which are often morally complex and ambiguous

truedat, apologies to Howard Hawks

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lIt_54ZcnqY&feature=youtu.be&t=230