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

Tying the two strands together here:

Former Conservative party leader Iain Duncan Smith tells Sky News the prime minister should tell the EU "if you want a deal you'd better damn well step up to the plate"

— Sky News Breaking (@SkyNewsBreak) December 13, 2018

Increasingly feels like the Tory right simply cannot grasp the idea that EU thinks Ireland, one of its member states, is more important than them https://t.co/6F51GE1dCR

— Jon Stone (@joncstone) December 13, 2018

It's all broken. And worse, it's fairly deliberately broken.

I remember when UC was first mooted it was all about "making work pay" and plenty of papers dutifully reported it without the scare quotes. Calz's example shows it's having the opposite effect.

word on the street - from friends who work in very adjacent sectors - is that Job Centres will (continue to?) have sanctions quota targets under UC. also that the DWP induction training for UC is all Kool Aid

was reading about someone who got a one hundred day benefits sanction for missing a phonecall. Anyone who thinks that type of shit is acceptable is pure sub-human (or maybe just all too human) scum. I bet Shilton would say "too fucking right!" though!

i'll be honest, i try not to think too hard about it, it makes me actually ill and this year has been too close at times. but i'm amazed that many, many more people haven't died under austerity

I personally think many have, but if someone ever publishes a report on it (like the BMJ did on disabled deaths) it either get's ignored or dismissed as political.

guardian should do a UC deep dive already

Was listening to a podcast summing things up, and I left with the impression that in a decade or two there'll be another vote to rejoin the EU, which will be met with news that Britain never actually left.

European leaders talking to stupid channel 4 news are my new heroes

Luxembourg: (friendly but regretful) brexit was your choice, not mine

romania: (extremely unfriendly) it is a good deal. i ....recommend....you take it

netherlands: (to some absurdly phrased uk persecution complex shit) you may think that, i couldnt possibly comment

see also the Norwegian (iirc) woman last week referring to UK as your drunk annoying relative

stupid channel 4 news

also managed to pronounce "romania" like "remainer"

some gr8 broadcasting by R4 this morning: Blair on Today yet again, followed by G Barlow on DID. Which tbf is mostly always some Tory twat pretending they like music.

can be renamed to domestic discs after march tbh

desert island economy - the weekly guest lists the top 10 essentials they miss the most.

Understand that , under questioning from EU 27 leaders, one of Theresa May's responses was "Brexit means Brexit."

Jeez.

— James Crisp (@JamesCrisp6) December 14, 2018

As tweeted last night this was disputed by a different source

— James Crisp (@JamesCrisp6) December 14, 2018

obv different source is a lying fucker!

I think the claim is it was one of the ERG lot trying to discredit May but the sad fact is it's totally believable.

would have been better using Dumbledore

Michael Heseltine has become the Obi Wan Kenobi of British politics. He pops up from time to time with authoritative messages to guide us to defeat the dark forces of Brexit. pic.twitter.com/ppdg2EhuNd

— James Melville (@JamesMelville) December 13, 2018

USE THE FORCE, THERESA

this clamour for any old dickhead politician from the 80's/90's as "adults in the room" is just pathetic.

Maybe. But as much as I hate to say it about an old Tory, he's... right?

maybe every old tosser gets their one mufasa moment

I can't play the video right now but no way is Heseltine right about anything, prepared to concede he might be wrong in a pleasing fashion.

this year's Noble Peace Prize goes to Allistair Darling [or insert any other useless twat who is even more loathed than May or Corbyn] for his selfless campaigning to stop help Brexit over the line when it just needed that last push!

Forgot Darling existed, does he have a job nowadays?

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-12-14/how-ireland-outmaneuvered-britain-on-brexit

pretty concise view on irish border issues, barring:

-last line/para/thought is shite
-it systematically dresses up as "cunning Irish strategy" what was and is in fact "negotiating land borders while leaving the EU you fucking idiots"

xp always knew hed fall apart without blackadder or fry to cower behind tbph

xxp
yes, undermining Labour is a f/t position and wise old Remoaner sage, apparently.

and obv working some hedge fund.

The Camera work

This doesn't exactly look like an exchange of pleasantries between Theresa May and Jean-Claude Juncker as the Brexit summit gets underway. #EUCO pic.twitter.com/l0r4NwDj8h

— Philip Sime (@PhilipSime) December 14, 2018

who's the cinematographer?

bullet time

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5JBlwlnJX0

According to Channel 5's crack team of lipreaders, May was objecting to Juncker calling her 'nebulous'

And Juncker denied he'd said it - even though he did.

“Is there any toilet paper?” #janeygodleyvoiceover #TheresaMay #juncker pic.twitter.com/JW1LrZieqO

— Janey Godley (@JaneyGodley) December 14, 2018

NEW - Two expert lipreaders tell 5 News that Theresa May accuses Jean-Claude Juncker of describing her as nebulous.

This is how the conversation went, according to the lipreaders: pic.twitter.com/IuP99fJiXG

— Channel 5 News (@5_News) December 14, 2018

What a time to be alive.

pondering whether Juncker or whoever the other guy was would've put hands on a male Prime Minister like that

watched the Heseltine vid, huge lol at member of Thatcher government hand-wringing about the betrayal of future generations

pondering whether Juncker or whoever the other guy was would've put hands on a male Prime Minister like that

― I Accept the Word of Santa (Noodle Vague), Friday, 14 December 2018 13:55 (thirteen minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

pondering whether mays approach, proximity etc would be fairly describe as aggressive and intense if she were a male prime minister

s'alright she's still wearing stab-proof vest from the other day.

it was lucky it had a back as well as a front

can I just

Hahahaha that’s perfect

I see the Blair and Heseltine adults in the room thing as a sign of how bad it's got. Much like how New Labour's 1990s to 2000s feel like a lost paradise in context of Tory austerity. What we want but are unlikely to get is an acknowledgement of their complicity - Blair did Iraq, Iraq led to Syria, Syria led to the migrant wave, migrant wave led to the grotesque backlash which brevity is part of

Brexit tucking autocorrect clowning my soothsaying

Fucking, bloody

lol