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

a big enough hypocrite to nudge Abbott out of the way, loudly criticising a policy she was complete stan for.

aditya chakrabortty does it again in the grauniad with a piece on the un rapporteur's visit to our sceptred isle which concludes

Whether it’s Tony Blair and his “big conversation” or Cameron and his false belief that the Brexit vote was in the bag, leading British politicians don’t do listening – for the simple reason that they wouldn’t like what they’d hear. The evidence about austerity, about economic hollowing-out, about a shoulder-shrugging bureaucracy was all readily available before Alston flew over from the UN. But the government, like most of the press, didn’t want the truth to be acknowledged – because then it would be compelled to act. This is what Britain has been reduced to: hoping that a foreigner has the stomach and integrity to hear and record our decade of shame.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/nov/14/un-austerity-destroying-lives-philip-alston-poverty-uk

Christ alive that Yvette Cooper tweet. I remember when people were fawning over her because of her handling of the Windrush affair while erasing Diane Abbott from the conversation.

Yepppppp.

It also undermines the fondly trotted out and complacent line that everything pre-2016 (or 2010, depending on your viewpoint) was about 'cosmopolitan liberalism'. If you were well off or otherwise lucky (read, white) you got cosmopolitan liberalism. If you weren't you got a surveillance state and constant hassle from police or immigration authorities.

i uh wtf is this supposed to mean

“If the officers won’t stop this then the poor bloody infantry will have to” - ERG bod on PMs Brexit deal

— norman smith (@BBCNormanS) November 14, 2018

credit to Graun, I thought the un rapporteur's visit had been cancelled or something.

there is a disability campaigner I have a lot of respect for who is a complete Cooper apologist and reckons she wouldn't have had anything to do with the ruinous ATOS means testing assessments if she knew how bad they were going to be. I don't believe that shit for a minute.

there was a dece channel 4 news piece on the rapporteur's visit too tbf

I don't really think that Cooper believes half the shit she comes out with, it's entirely about political positioning.

can brexit be stopped

next Dr Who ep?

If you weren't you got a surveillance state and constant hassle from police or immigration authorities.

Much of this is why it matters that Corbyn/Abbott/McD voted against a lot of this legislation (although being on the left means they would understand the issues anyway). DA had a great speech about the balance between civil liberties and security that won her an award from the Spectator in the dying days of the last Lab government.

seems like a very hypothetical qn at this point to which the answer is probably 'no, not really' given that parliament cannot agree on much of anything to do w brexit

xp

It's either no deal or the can being consistently kicked down the road until everyone gets bored.

With the spotlight so much on cabinet, you'd have thought Blair might have saved this for another day. But I guess he's a busy man and the petro-police states he consults for don't like to be kept waiting. pic.twitter.com/9FYS0ELp3j

— Elvis Buñuelo (@Mr_Considerate) November 14, 2018

I don't have any witty political commentary to offer but this picture made me laugh:

https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/155b3a7eb2574df6e73ec74cd6b0ac38c545dec2/0_97_5082_3049/master/5082.jpg?width=780&quality=45&auto=format&fit=max&dpr=2&s=df290dc4e014558bf1b23db612ddd7f1

The amount of diversity represented therein is truly staggering.

Trying to work out which Francis Bacon triptych that middle one reminds me of

https://www.tate.org.uk/art/images/work/N/N06/N06171_10.jpg

or

https://assets.phillips.com/image/upload/t_Website_LotDetailMainImage/v1/auctions/UK030116/17_001.jpg

or

http://www.artsjournal.com/realcleararts/wp/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/Bacon-Freud-Christies.jpg

I'm gonna go with Three Studies for Figures at the Base of a Crucifixion on account of its greater dynamism, which is fittingly dance-like.

and it has Boris in the middle.

Rather charming protest outside Downing Street. They must have been up all night painting these. pic.twitter.com/LRUVm0SW7L

— Harry Cole (@MrHarryCole) November 14, 2018

Could you draw Ireland's border with Northern Ireland? The border with Northern Ireland has become a major Brexit stumbling block. pic.twitter.com/yyqCRpPFuW

— Channel 4 News (@Channel4News) November 28, 2017

what is wrong with these people https://t.co/ko6NvnsZ9X

— James Gilmour (@Gillofthepeople) November 14, 2018

Intoxicated by (paper) poppies.

Kuenssberg is hyping up the idea there will be a no-confidence vote tomorrow.

and the pound is responding

well, not that much in context of the past couple of months, but it's very volatile

One source in Parliament tells me new move to get more letters sparking vote of confidence in May is 'imminent' but disrupted by Cabinet chaos. We've heard this before but maybe this time it's going to happen?

— Paul Waugh (@paulwaugh) November 14, 2018

Are y’all calling May “Her Accidency” yet? It’s a good one u should steal it

over-stoked by the madness tbph

Not often I watch BBC News but the impending roffles are irresistible

Screen full of DUP MPs completely fucks the colour balance on my TV

Red, white, blue and orange.

May looked and sounded dreadful just now. Very drained.

Presumably she’s aware that everyone is just waiting to see which of the cabinet is jumping first.

None of them with the guts to say it to her face

She made it sound like going back to square one would be bad, somehow

Imagine how much the DUP are gonna cost this time

are they the type to propose a reconquista

it’ll be fun when the dup ends up triggering the breaking apart of the united kingdom

whoops

God no, they've barely got the numbers behind them in the little territory they've got now

Xp

im not given to little chickening but im actually starting to wonder at what stage we do have to start worrying about a crimea effort from you nutters

https://78.media.tumblr.com/5806f45f32081efcd8f5ff4adbcbad01/tumblr_oazhsdZOIC1tho85xo1_400.gif

im not given to little chickening but im actually starting to wonder at what stage we do have to start worrying about a crimea effort from you nutters

I wonder how many political careers are going to be obliterated in the next four or five months.

i actually like marsan as an actor but

Disagree with Theresa May all you like, but she’s come up with the best possible Brexit at the same time as acknowledging the truth, that it can be stopped. Corbyn refuses to acknowledge the truth because he puts his ideology before the country.

— Eddie Marsan (@eddiemarsan) November 14, 2018

His case of Corbyn Derangement Syndrome has put me right off watching him act in anything.

all actors are bad people except tracer, it's an iron law

that guy has brain worms

Marsan could maybe just get on with the acting life in the US, doing that garbage Sopranos knock off that nobody ever talks about. And maybe occasionally say on twitter he doesn't quite agree with Corbyn's leadership of Labour. But it's a full time job for this prick! His twitter beats the Simon Hedges parody hands down, it's the ultimate melt-zone with a New Labour themed wallpaper, some makes-u-think orwell type quote in the biog. constant Chuka, Lammy, Joylon, D Hodges retweets!

yes i only ever see it third hand, i have crafted my bubble semi-effectively

At least David Lammy gives a shit about poor people. The chief thing about slugmelts is that they’re too busy meltsignaling to all the other FBPEs about “magic grandpa” to notice that people are sleeping on the streets and being cheated out of their benefits etc etc.

That sounds like literally 60% of posters on the Charlton forum I post to (the other 40% are Brexiters)