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

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

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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

In a joint statement issued on Saturday, the bishops also urged the country to “consider the nature of our public conversation” and called for more “grace and generosity”.

CoE bishops getting into the old "pray for these fucking idiotic politicians" game as well. If there is going to any godly intervention they're not having those other cunts taking the credit.

"be civil to your executioners" is probably the worst hot take from Christianity

let's pray for these corrupt scumbags, that they can continue rending up the welfare state, then more of those destitute fuckers might start going to church again like in't olden days!

Well, the vicar goes about telling the Idlers that it's quite right for them to do nothing, and that God meant them to have nearly everything that is made by those who work. In fact, he tells them that God made the poor for the use of the rich. Then he goes to the workers and tells them that God meant them to work very hard and to give all the good things they make to those who do nothing, and that they should be very thankful to God and to the idlers for being allowed to have even the very worst food to eat and the rags, and broken boots to wear. He also tells them that they mustn't grumble, or be discontented because they're poor in this world, but that they must wait till they're dead, and then God will reward them by letting them go to a place called Heaven.

Quite the phenomenon this bishops thing, what have they had to say about food banks etc overall?

Rowan Williams and Justin Welby have been two of the strongest ‘establishment’ critics of austerity and food banks tbfttls

Moreover, the right seems to have shifted from ‘the CofE is the bedrock of English culture’ to ‘the church is beset by political correctness and is going down the drain’ in recent years. The bishops are perceived as being vastly more progressive than the laity.

they obv are two bishops that knowsanta god is watching everything they do. I seem to remember the catholic herald being pro-brexit, not that I pay much attention to this type of thing. But haven't heard any papist brexit babble yet!

Justin Welby talking to the TUC, 3 months ago, where he said "Unions are crucial to achieving real living wages.”
https://www.anglicannews.org/news/2018/09/archbishop-justin-welby-urges-government-to-put-food-banks-out-of-business.aspx

just gone down a church times/crux/catholic herald/catholic media google search wormhole and now I feel like I need to go into therapy. So that's why I have a permanent religion filter.

Gove claimed that TMay was UK's "first Catholic PM" and therefore unsuited to delivering brexit iirc.

that seems like a bizarre line of attack, but at least it acknowledges that Blair was a pure fake catholic motherfucker!

I have never loved T May more.

Also Tressell was otm

guys someone has hacked NV's account i think

loool

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-46582705

Imagine thinking you could decide when and when not to call for a vote.

I keep trying to remember what David Lidington looks like or indeed anything about him at all and coming up short. Next PM then.

Shocked to discover he's still an MP

the current game in the Con party is survival of the weakest (even though all the so-called big beasts are weak as well)

stonking speech from sir ivan rogers (speaking, if the accompanying photo is of the actual event, to a largely empty room):

https://news.liverpool.ac.uk/2018/12/13/full-speech-sir-ivan-rogers-on-brexit/

yep i had started that last night and its very good

got the impression that posting itt would probly lead to finding out he was himself an awful man so i decided to labour on in happy ignorance

haha yes. i too have deliberately avoided what would normally be a reflexive google

Moreover, the right seems to have shifted from ‘the CofE is the bedrock of English culture’ to ‘the church is beset by political correctness and is going down the drain’ in recent years. The bishops are perceived as being vastly more progressive than the laity.

I think that's being going on for a long time, as far back as Thatcher, though George Carey did his best to try to drag the CofE rightwards.

More speeches - found this brief one from Donald Tusk interesting on his terrace menace past.

What do they want? Better wigs! #Conservatives #Brexit pic.twitter.com/RuFJrjdJSQ

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good decision by fabricant to stand next to someone who looks even more ridiculous than him for a tv appearance.

Came here to post the Ivan Rogers speech - he's a free-marketeer and a former representative to the EU, but it does seem a good (and very depressing) summary of what's going to happen sans referendum.

uh

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E5S1EMmCWAE

wtf is up with Bennie's accent? Is it supposed to be Scottish or Geordie? Or Southern English when he's by the side of the bus?

James Graham has written two genuinely terrific political plays (This House and Ink) but both are great because we're at a safe distance from the historical moment. He's really good at capturing the moment before a big rupture in British society and it works because we know what happens next and what it means more than any of the characters do.

His last play, Labour of Love, was mediocre in large part because it didn't have that historical distance (although it was also clearly written in a hurry) and it's likely that the Brexit drama will be the same.

yep i had started that last night and its very good

got the impression that posting itt would probly lead to finding out he was himself an awful man so i decided to labour on in happy ignorance

Same

david peace or gtfo xp

Lol the Boris

We need a rolling UK into the shitbin thread https://www.theguardian.com/business/2018/dec/16/jaguar-land-rover-to-axe-up-to-5000-jobs

Should have posted it here too: Rolling UK Economy Into The Shitbin Thread

Yes, good work there, HBO.

him that played unintentionally funny coke dealer in corrie as Aaron Banks seems about right.

Damon Albarn is now involved

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2018/dec/16/damon-albarn-joins-call-for-citizens-assembly-to-break-brexit-deadlock

I'm deffo voting Leave now if there's a 2nd ref!

Rowan Williams, Damon Albarn, Ruth Lister, Laura Janner-Klausner, Jonathan Coe, Ian McEwan, Caitlin Moran, Neal Lawson

say no more!