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

"[they] will fuck us all with their blithe ignorance"

probably potential for a new thread title in there, or even if not good work anyway.

This is what ideologues and gurus do. They don’t really care about the people they claim to champion, they care about their ideology, because within that lies the cowardly definition of their identity & the adulation that that tempers the self doubt. https://t.co/q0ZIdairtB

— Eddie Marsan (@eddiemarsan) December 22, 2018

seagulls .. trawlers etc..

there's no doubt corbyn is a eurosceptic but if the path to downing street required him to soften that stance, he'd do so in a hot minute. marsan is such a little slug

I'd be troubled if I liked him as an actor, but I think just about everything he's in is a pile of steaming.

I can't believe a highly paid television actor thinks the EU is more important than economic reform

there is another luvvie melt who sometimes posts on a htafc board I sometimes read. The cut of his jib is much the same kind of claptrap as Marsan. But the difference is he's a bit more intelligent and takes the time to post about things that are often much more interesting than how bad Corbyn is once in a while.

I didn't realise that recent Stupidgate vid was actually the SECOND time Corbz has said pantomine. It's almost like Barry Chuckle died twice.

Police admit reporting disabled anti-fracking protesters to DWP – to have their benefits cancelled? https://t.co/XcxvoXPFCC

— Haiku Ninja (@Haikuninjatoday) December 24, 2018

basically the Lancs pigs are scum of the earth. It is alleged they have been physically targeting disabled fracking protesters and reporting them to the DWP, because they aren't allowed to get disability benefits and protest apparently.

DWP practices mean anyone investigated for fraud has their benefits stopped before any guilt or innocence is proved. This has prompted some to say that malicious prompting of disabled people for benefit fraud – without evidence – should be considered a hate crime

I am not signing off twitter for Christmas. There is Brexit to be stopped

— Andrew Adonis (@Andrew_Adonis) December 23, 2018

Thank you Andrew. I look forward to waking up on Christmas morning and reading The Tweet that Stopped Brexit.

— Simon Hedges (@Orwell_Fan) December 23, 2018

God bless us everyone.

lool Hedges is too good sometimes.

https://y.yarn.co/9f143220-ed9d-4525-b4ef-b37fd5413768_screenshot.jpg

Andril Adonis

Adonis is such a star, it’s quite the achievement to make your TTOI counterpart look like the real person.

He’s a self-retweeting all galaxy brain all the time. Here’s some of his amazing opinions about the motherland:

My prize for best political leader of 2018 goes to Leo Varadkar for his speech of welcome to the Pope in Dublin - maybe the greatest speech of the year too - & his handling of Brexit. We need to be partners with him not only in Ireland but in the British Isles @campaignforleo

— Andrew Adonis (@Andrew_Adonis) December 21, 2018

Struck by leadership similarity of Ruth Davidson in Scotland & Naomi Long in Northern Ireland. One nominally ‘Tory’ the other ‘Alliance’; both social liberals with strong authenticity. Watch this devastating response by Naomi to Theresa May https://t.co/31w0kHn0qM

— Andrew Adonis (@Andrew_Adonis) July 22, 2018

Insightful by Lewis Goodall - in effect, the Republic has engineered a swift social union with Britain, just as the current British government has decided to trade Ireland, north & Republic, for Brexit https://t.co/6Rb2lT7epT

— Andrew Adonis (@Andrew_Adonis) May 26, 2018

On another note, I’ve really liked this thread this year even when stuff has been infuriating or whatever - it’s a really useful place for me to talk about this stuff and I always appreciate every single post here.

leave the tories alone, they're making the best of a bad lot

this from a guy who goes radge every time somebody likes a record he doesn't get ;-)

yes this thread is good not bad. I post on another forum and the UK politics thread is teeth gnashingly grim

Yeah, I agree.

'250k people sign stupid petition' isn’t news, but the last line is something special.

The EU border in Ireland to be managed simply by having a dual Euro / pound currency as legal tender in both the North and South. Exports to the South would be dealt with in Euro and vice versa when importing to the North. Rates fixed at time of the deal.

https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/229963

EMERGENCY PRIME MINISTER A.C.GRAYLING AND THE CABINET OF ALL THE TALENTS, DANGERS AND WEAPONS

some christmas fun

please outline your cabinet of dangers

real people or twitter people or both?

ALL THE TALENTS

nm I’m going in

PM: Simon Hedges
Foreign secretary: JKR
Home Secretary: Frances Barber
Chancellor: Peter Shilton
Brexit: AC Grayling
DWP: woman in front of me on the train alternating between coughing & chewing her gum/phlegm mixture with her mouth open
Transport: Andrew Adonis
Women & equalities: Glinner
Health and social care: James Ball
Justice: Jolyon Maughan
Defence: Andrew Lilico

Women & equalities: Glinner

jfc lmaoooooooooo

christmas is a time of gothick horror after all

cabinet of hallucinated drones ftw

International trade: Aaron Banks
Education: Aaron Bastani
DEFRA: Jilly Cooper
Housing, communities & local government: special talent visa for the RENT IS TOO HIGH legend
Scotland: Limmy
Wales: Carole Cadwallr
NI: double Adonis portfolio
DCMS: bring 👏🏻back👏🏻Dacre👏🏻

xxxp I’m obsessed with his latest lunacy jfc

I don't have twitter but I hear he has an assistant tweeting for him now or something? lol

like obviously glinner pretending to be his own assistant is funny, but the alternative - that his assistant is on the phone reading tweets about him while he gets progressively redder and madder - is arguably even funnier

— a a dril (@demarionunn) December 23, 2018

Graham Linehan's assistant on Christmas Eve: pic.twitter.com/OgK028FpwK

— 6ft artificial Ryan (@RyanPlugs) December 23, 2018

I just saw someone on Twitter refer to Glinner as English and my "he's Irish actually" automatic reflex response didn't even twitch for a moment, that's how much he's ruined himself.

Ye can fuckin' have him

— Rónán Comaskey (@ChakaCannot) December 23, 2018

FUCK

swap in Lord Kilclooney for NI pls

Culture secretary shd just be a disintegration loop of the Olympic opening ceremony projected onto a banky

they've actually put a helter skelter on the mittal tower, as we all wanted them to. that is my culture secretary

Or, as he’s also known, charlton brooker xp

Communities Secretary = this clip of zac goldsmith talking about his favourite Bollywood film
https://youtu.be/vViUKsJ42ZM

like, even I could have just chucked out Lagaan

Even you!

most people would have gone for Bride And Prejudice I guess

did i mention the Bollywood movie I was an extra in

Home Secretary: Blobby

Blobby: Not Fit For Purpose.

purpose to be determined

MY BREXIT PLAN

We feed the rats to the cats and the cats to the rats and get the cat skins for nothing! Try doing that under EU guidelines!

Baby-naked, heel to bonce
All yellow dots, the flabby nonce
A blobby figure tall and pink,
With sharp blue eyes, half spin half squint,
Bulbous, bald, with rubber skin,
No tuft on cheek nor beard on chin…
But lips where smiles went out and in--
There was no guessing his kith and kin!
And nobody could enough admire
The tall man and his quaint attire.
Quoth one: “It’s as if my great-grandsire,
Starting up at the Trump of Doom’s tone,
Had walked this way from his painted tombstone!”

bcz robert browning hasn't suffered enough

picking up the media's slack brokenshire has declared that the tories need to ask themselves some hard questions

has there been any good writing on unpicking the validity of the UK’s unemployment figures ?

I mean by all accounts the conservatives have delivered a jobs miracle - unemployment is at historic lows if we go with the headline figures but it doesn’t seem to really square with what is going on in the wider economy (eg an economy purring along at full employment would expect to see significant improvement in wages; the retail sector wouldn’t be dying in a ditch etc). my hunch - and I’ve not seen anything unpicking this - is that there are two (related) factors at play: 1 quite a lot of “employed” people are actually struggling self-employed; and 2 a lot of the employed people are very under employed.

im-anecdotal-e as a highly skilled professional (lol) who would quite like to change jobs - were the economy actually in the midst of a jobs miracle I’d have a pick of rewarding roles to move into. this is decidedly not the case. and it has knock on effects eg mutes my household spending

merry wobs

It really angers me when complete arsehole BBC correspondents refer to this "jobs miracle" like it doesn't come with any appalling caveats.

most stuff I've read or heard is from people at the sharp end of UC fuckery.

to further develop my thesis that all social injustices in this country are expressed/come to a head in the dire housing/property sitch: the rise in contract work is a big factor in the housing crisis

I was listening to a homeless labourer guy talking about how he was evicted because of being in between contract work and UC taking too long to process + pay him for his Landlord's liking. Sympathy rating started dropping when he started going on about how wasn't a scrounger and was in fact a decent tax paying citizen etc...