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

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

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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

video fail! but scene from Rio Bravo where JW smashes henchman in heed with a shotgun and then says: "ohh I'm not going to hurt him!"

love that line so much

Saw Man Of The West the other day, that's some psychosexual stew that movie has going on. Blu-ray booklet points out correctly that it sometimes feels like a precursor to The Texas Chainsaw Massacre

pulp westerns were some pre-graphic novel uberviolence shit, we'd a black bag of grandads 1950's paperbacks and the likes of sudden and edge were paragraph upon paragraph of bone splinters and eyeballs blown out.

the sex quotient would vary from writer to writer but there was one particular fella had to wear his lad one side and holster the other and didnt the saloon girls just love him

xxp re Matt Haig and his books. I tried to read one once, it was crap. Had to stop part way through.

Enjoyed this Stephen Bush review of former Blair speechwriter Phillip Collins’ attempt to establish the grounds for a new centre party.

Another example of Bush’s increasingly brisk impatience with many of the political and hack classes (god alone knows how he gets through a weekly podcast with helen lewis, which is truly agonising listening, if anyone is ah foolish enough to do so)

Towards the close of Start Again, Collins grandly claims that the ideas contained in the book are “hard to classify” on the left-right spectrum, but this isn’t true. They are, almost exclusively, policy proposals from the left and centre-left.

Collins dips into one of the more dubious literary traditions – that of the mid-career politician’s book: written not at the end of a political journey but at the start; a way to improve the profile of a middle-ranking minister or the senator of an obscure state to facilitate their bid for a bigger job.
..
There are a few examples of the genre that manage to lift themselves beyond the lamentable: Start Again, regrettably, isn’t one of them.

er, *this* Stephen Bush review (Guardian not Spectator)

also peripherally, on this flight happened to be sitting next to a sociologist, specialising in the situation of people in specific landscapes. was come back from an EU project in Dhaka, and was off to Christmas Island to continue a project encouraging environmental sustainability on the inhabited Pacific atolls.

Anyway, turns out he knew Jeremy Corbyn’s brother Anthony quite well (“helped repair an engine failure in the outback”) who *drove* out to Australia in the late ‘70s i think he said. Was an expert in aircraft sonar and radar. Apparently used to sub in for his brother for global rallies in the ‘80s in South Africa and suchlike because it was impossible for Jeremy to get to all the ones he was invited to.

Of course this could all be a load of phoney baloney and i haven’t had the chance to check but it seemed all above board. Also had scathing words to say about the current Australian PM Scott Morrison.

I can remember Corbz brother mentioned or even interviewed on R4 when he first made it onto the leadership ballot in '15, when he still had curio value rather than the national security threat who won't nuke Iran. Then I've never heard anything about his brother since, and wouldn't blame him if he was keeping a low profile.

"Collins airily dismisses the Liberal Democrats out of hand as too “tarnished” to be worth bothering with, but the book resembles nothing so much as a Liberal Democrat pamphlet from the pre-coalition days."

lol, sounds about right

corbs had a brother called andrew (a geologist who died in 2001)

his (surviving) brother is called piers -- he's a climate crank

andrew, that must have been it. fog of a long journey. and er geologist sounds right ballpark. well. almost.

https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/91y%2BkPYGjqL._SX466_.jpg

GiS has more extremely excellent pix of piers^^^ when older but they link back to guido fawkes and express and such -- he has not yet been spruced up

Piers was the guy who instigated the singing of "The Red Flag" when Corbz was elected leader.

tbf we all looked like that back then, even tom

I have never look like Michael Bentine in my life.

#GlobalWarming #ClimateChange Fraud #Alarmists are mentally defective liars who work in the direct interests of #WallStreet #BigOil #IMF #EU-#4thReich +GIANT #Corporations+SuperRich #Soros evil FILTH who get GIANT payouts from looney #SaveThePlanet-#UN-#IMF #FakeGreen schemes. RT https://t.co/OGL5pxm1DW

— Piers Corbyn (@Piers_Corbyn) November 5, 2018

so that's why you don't hear much about him, although some might say he has been very influential on Labour's green policies.

#hyphenated-#hashtag-#guyfawkesday

bloody hell.

immediately reminded me of this note left on the fridge of somewhere i worked

How ever is using my MILK F*****G DON'T!!!! There is milk there for
you to use for your coffees and teas SO STOP using mine! It is not
like I DON'T have my name writing all over it. How would you feel if I
kept taking something of YOURS!!!

GIANT

I've read Hitchens describing the EU as a continuation of the German Empire in a long winded manner before, he should use this instead: #EU-#4thReich

who *drove* out to Australia in the late ‘70s i think he said

sure, sounds plausible

in a land rover. I BELIEVED IT ALL OK.

the sea is a kind of land

https://s.aolcdn.com/hss/storage/adam/b3aade9028cab4e46e99ebaa75df442d/LR_Heritage_Discovery_Amphibious_01.jpg
ffs what's wrong with you ppl?

VINDICATED

There’s another brother (the eldest one, sounded incredibly posh when interviewed) who was an engineer working on Concorde.

corbsbro was featured heavily in that doc on squatters that kicked off their "lefties" season a year or two back

like everybody else in it he seemed awful just awful

Also had scathing words to say about the current Australian PM Scott Morrison.

Fizzles, I have many, many, many more scathing words about current Australian PM and folksy fascist shitbag Scott Morrison if you have any need for them.

Find yourself someone to hate like Caroline Lucas hates this guy pic.twitter.com/cLZ2WcM0qO

— SheRa Marley-Threepwood (@SheRa_Marley) November 5, 2018

james, i’ve had a bellyful this evening. casually toxic masculinity in full and i feel kinda angry and sad. so yes i participate in your *scathe*.

Caroline Lucas is correct to look at him that way. Only one of those two has ever been elected as an MP, and yet he gets all the coverage. And of course all the other reasons...

Corbyn’s two brothers were both communists, he was the moderate who joined Labour, lol.

some of the ageing 70's Communist Party of Britain members have not matured like a fine wine on the evidence of Piers' barmy as fuck #Alarmists are mentally defective liars#EU-#4thReich hash tag frenzies on twitter.

Some of my Uncles and mum's friends were members in the 70's and must been on the subversives watchlist or something because I can remember a drug bust at my house when i was a kid, cause silly fucking uncle had posted some weed to my mum wrapped in a magazine.

It’s really easy to advocate for open borders and a swelling population in England when you’re on your arse at home in North London all day. The open borders people should be asked to take the appallingly crowded Victoria Line into Central London every morning for a week. pic.twitter.com/eY2vNJ9La7

— Ben Goldsmith (@BenGoldsmith) November 6, 2018

Love too see the dog whistle employed here as well as the Asian person nearest the camera.

the Goldsmith sibling who cares a lot about the environment is still as big a fascist as his bro.

jesus christ

that line is crowded because there are a lot of people there going to their jobs. only way to make it less crowded is either have greater public transport capacity or fewer jobs in central london. nothing to do with immigration or total population size at all

Of course it's busy it's BLOODY EUSTON AT 9.01

zackly

yeah it could be a rush hour pic of the metro/underground in any major city of the world really.

I see he's followed up that tweet with a predictable "I'm not a not a racist but SENSIBLE DISCUSSION ON NUMBERS" racist tweet