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

Corbyn gets grief for being friends with "non-mainstream" Jews and not being proactive enough about party members' antisemitism. Stephen Pollard completely uninterested that JRM turned up at a (pro-Hitler) Britain First dinner, and blamed his butler for not telling him they were a fascist group. and so and so on.... it goes.

I’ve said this before but I do think the criticism of Corbyn and the party’s approach to antisemitism has a lot of merit to it. But the government doesn’t get anywhere near the scrutiny, which I think is the point of frustration for lots of people.

yep, the double standards are just as infuriating as knobheads like Williamson trying to handwave it all away.

JRM turned up at a (pro-Hitler) Britain First dinner, and blamed his butler for not telling him they were a fascist group

Jeeves didn't inform JRM of Sir Roderick Spode's secret weakness, his proprietorship of the lingerie boutique "Eulalie"

Hostile environment policy still thriving

Home Office sends a 4-month-old baby a letter warning him that his mother was likely to be detained, as she had not paid the £6,000 NHS costs for the birth.

Just another day in Theresa May's Britain...https://t.co/KpZJaQ12HU

— Shoaib M Khan (@ShoaibMKhan) November 7, 2018

when Sajid came in as home sec + said he was going to review the hostile environment policy, he didn't mention he had given it 5 stars and decided it was doing a cracking job.

scrolling down that inews page...

• Four-month-old baby sent letter saying his mum was ‘likely to be detained’

• Good squop captures enemy wink: England’s tiddlywinks grandmaster

• Benefits assessor visited gran with cancer and no hair during chemo treatment and said she was was ‘not in enough pain’

• ‘My costume is my escape’ says ex-police officer who cosplays as a princess

• Mother-of-four blinded when a parasite latched to her eye

poll

my fave local story today was hapless crim who chiselled his way into an empty bookies, set an alarm off on an empty ITbox and fled the scene with nothing, gets 1 year!

real England.

Toby Young using the term "offence archaeology" and some predictably dubious false balance arguments to defend Roger Scrote, I stopped listening tbh. I mean are you supposed to discount everything someone has said and written in the public domain when judging their character? I don't see how any of the homophobic and racist statements he's made can have a context where they aren't racist + homophobic. I understand it causes much despair that people can't get away with that stuff anymore, but the arguments they deploy to defend the likes of Scrote are not cutting it.

particularly when, as with housing and education policy, any appointee will be dealing with areas that will inevitably have a racial dimension to them which any responsible . It's not acceptable to try to claim that previous statements and actions which reflect very badly won't affect a person's ability to do the job in a neutral fashion.

Particularly when it was those statements that lead him to have a visible presence and got him the job in the first place.

indeed, and apologies for a garbled previous post!

David Aaronovitch covering himself in glory again.

I love that Dawn Foster appears to think that Roger Scruton is Katie Hopkins with a knighthood. When did knowing what you’re talking about go so completely out of fashion? @BBCr4today

— David Aaronovitch (@DAaronovitch) November 8, 2018

so you think he's wrong on almost everything and don't know whether he would make a good chair, but you're still sure he knows what he's talking about?

— Adam Bienkov (@AdamBienkov) November 8, 2018

more like David AaWRONGovitch

lol owned

no coming back from that one

Needs this one for context:

"Chief"? Is this your Minder impression? To your question: I think Scruton is completely wrong on that as he is on almost everything. Whether he'd make a good chair of this commission, I have no idea.

— David Aaronovitch (@DAaronovitch) November 8, 2018

Questioning ex-Inside Housing reporter Dawn Foster, who grew up in social housing, on her casting aspersions on some dufton-tufton’s suitability for a role involving... overseeing social housing? What’s his problem with her, could it be based on sex, class, or something else?

rly makes u think

Jo Johnson resignation: "My brother Boris, who led the leave campaign, is as unhappy with the Government’s proposals as I am. Indeed he recently observed that the proposed arrangements were “substantially worse than staying in the EU”. On that he is unquestionably right."

but resigning for the people's vote in his case.

david gentleman shd do a mosaic of all this, at waterloo maybe

lol!

Jo Johnson says Theresa May's handling of Brexit "is a failure of British statecraft on a scale unseen since the Suez crisis."

huh .. when did she improve that much?

a stinging rebuke from a man best known as ‘that cunt who isn’t boris’

Last seen trying to give Toby Young a job, but like I keep saying he is sneaky and might be an outlier for leader, now that his brother’s totally fucked it (and everything else in Westminster).

"Theresa May has fucked this up despite the help and support of my brother and his cronies"

The only way he'd be in with a shout as leader right now would be if there were multiple Brexiters on the ballot and only one Remainer and even then it strikes me as unlikely given the compisition of the party as it stands. Wouldn't bet against him making the final two with a fair wind behind him.

Dissolve this so called TA acidly

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2018/nov/11/brexit-whistleblower-shahmir-sanni-taxpayers-alliance-concedes-it-launched-smears

without shadowy right wing think-tanks the BBC would be so lost for panelists, but need to find out if Kate Andrews is impervious to the effects of sulphuric acid.

tbf Dia Chakravarty used to be on the BBC every other day but is on much less since Kate Andrews came along, she must despise her.

Kate hasn't released any CDs yet however.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Bloom_in_Vain_and_Other_Songs

http://uk.businessinsider.com/who-funds-you-ranking-of-think-tanks-transparency-2017-7

Every single think tank mentioned in that article is the lowest category for funding transparency.

a wild GORDON BROWN appeared (ノಠ ∩ಠ)ノ
he used STARK WARNING
it had no effect! ( ﾟoﾟ)

— David Wyllie (@journodave) November 12, 2018

https://www.opendemocracy.net/uk/anthony-barnett/brexit-torpedoed-jo-johnson-boris-johnson

“[Brexit] was meant to be about a brave new future as a deregulated economy. But we’re signing up to the common rule book on standards and health and safety, the environment and all the rest of it. It’s completely incoherent”. He added, it is “riddled with such contradictions as to make no sense at all now at any level”.

This devastating, undeniable verdict describes the deal the cabinet will try to come to and then present to parliament. It may not get that far. If it does Jo Johnson’s intervention has probably ensured it will be voted down. For, simultaneously, he has strengthened three blocks of votes against the deal.

Some brilliant stuff in this latest Barnett piece, including the daft as a brush sinking of the Belgrano/sinking of Boris the "Generalissimo of Brexitannia"(!!) opening but then the Falklands War stuff makes sense (well sort of!) when he brings up some old Boney quotes as well! And this:

"Instead, he (Boris) became the United Kingdom’s home-grown would-be Galtieri only to be deflated by his own brother. It seems poetic justice that a historic, empire state, once so skilled in divide and rule, should see its last days flicker with the jealousies of sibling rivalry.

I think he's overestimating the importance of JoJo's resignation but this all seems to hinge on May coming back with a deal in the first place which seems less and less likely to happen.

Very entertaining stuff nonetheless.

some old Boney quotes as well!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nc9qcYiAiG4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FW4LfmZ_Bw4

on the same day the Brown churl get's back in the ring as well!

> “(Brexit) was meant to be about a brave new future as a deregulated economy. But we’re signing up to the common rule book on standards and health and safety, the environment and all the rest of it. It’s completely incoherent”.

yeah, because standards and health and safety and environment are such bad things to have rules for...

if there's one thing the last 20 years or so of british economic history has taught us, it's that deregulated economies are definitely good not bad

and here's Gordon Brown to explain why

gordon brown, the mohammed atta of economics

I think that Jo Johnson quote was more of strategic attack on the contradictions of the Brexit camp rather than moaning about the lack of deregulation in May's brexit plan, but I might be wrong - just how I read it.

at least atta had the decency to make his big moment in the spotlight a suicide run ffs

yeah you're probably right calz

still, fuck jo johnson

Brown would have missed the fucking tower