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

no bogroll, no fowl

bog roll, is that like a sausage roll

oh poaching could become a thing again! fun fun fun

I only use a tablet when I run out of newspaper.

https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/71p9Ru5nX8L._SX522_.jpg

ha!

it's SCOTCH

lookin forward to uk press finally performing a valuable and useful service tbh

oh poaching could become a thing again! fun fun fun

― imago, Friday, January 4, 2019 3:29 PM (ten minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

whom amongst us did not enjoy "danny, the champion of the world"?

be nice to rub some 80's classics like Tarby + Tebbit right up my shitty rectum!

good thread

Going to do a little thread that is obviously inflected by my own prejudices but is my view on the history of the prospects for overturning Brexit / achieving a ~soft~ Brexit.

— Dan Howdon (@danielhowdon) June 23, 2018

Off the back of a Will Gompertz review of the Cumberbatch Brexit movie (soft pass on that) here's an underviewed 30 minute talk by Dom Cummings from last April on why Leave won

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDbRxH9Kiy4

One thing interesting in it is Cummings talking about how unprepared Downing St. at the time supposedly were over the Leave campaign focusing on racism ie the 'millions of Turks will move in next door to you' type stuff (about 9-10 mins in)

First question asked anonymously at the end: Do you ever feel guilty about what you've done?
Cummings: "No, not in the slightest"
*Audience applause*

Things are starting to look up - I found a tin of peas and carrots in a rusty Ford Fiesta.

— ThanetGuide (@ThanetGuide) January 5, 2019

lucky bastard

Speculative milkman pic.twitter.com/l0y7lmC4td

— Kevin Boniface (@MrKevinBoniface) January 5, 2019

nw, this is still a land of plenty.

The people who think Jeremy Corbyn will somehow improve their lives, without being able to explain how, and the people who think Brexit will somehow improve their lives, without being able to explain how, have now joined forces.
What could they possibly have in common?

— James O'Brien (@mrjamesob) January 5, 2019

james pls

They both think the people who think 'Corbyn wants Brexit but doesn't want people to know he wants Brexit ONLY I SEE THROUGH IT' are twats? DASSIT.

Is James O'Brien the really insufferable patronizing guy that talks down to his audience and isn't so good with self awareness?

oh yeah, he is, clicked on the link and recognized him. that photo says it all

MPs were due to vote on whether to move three million benefit claimants onto universal credit in the next few weeks.

But this vote has been pushed back and Parliament will instead be asked to vote on transferring just 10,000 people to the new benefits system.

erm .. how about transferring zero people instead, and admitting it doesn't just need some flaws ironing out - the whole concept of it is abominable and unreliable (it's punitive nature, monthly payments, ridiculously ruthless sanctions, Gideon's cuts of death) and the true cost of it in human and financial terms is spiralling out of control. Although maybe should be pleased something other than brexit has made the news cycle.

https://skwawkbox.org/2019/01/06/labour-abstention-on-deal-stage-1-could-be-route-to-win-no-confidence-vote/

the kind of mental agility and manoeuverability that is likely to be needed

website clearly built on the bones of a fictional blog created for one episode of SVU

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/jan/05/unite-momentum-dominate-labour-selections-candidates-key-marginals

other possible headline: "Less than half of Labour marginal races to be contested by Unite and Momentum candidates"

idk though, anything from a swift change of government up to children of men seems possible

― imago, Friday, 4 January 2019 Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Just scanned through the plot again (I am certainly not watching it) and this is just such nonsense, not least because the UK government has been non-functioning for quite a long time.

I'm not old enough to remember the guardian being a proper left wing paper. during the blair years it didn't seem so egregious, but the drive for clickbait has pushed it into trolling its remaining left wing readers and dragging in the types who'd like to moan at them. w/ the latest vegan sausage roll nonsense I saw someone reposted an article from the summer saying that veganism won't save the world written by someone who runs an extremely sustainable (& spectacularly unproductive) pastoral farm alongside her glamping biz on the estate of her castle with her ~conservationist~ baronet husband who grew up in rhodesia, and idk, it just seems sad; who do the ppl in charge at the guardian think it is for?

it's never really been a "proper left-wing paper": always basically a liberal centrist paper with some leftists on staff

That

who do the ppl in charge at the guardian think it is for?

People like Marina Hyde?

I do like how 99% of columnists have a grudge against Seumas Milne since his CiF days and also find it darkly amusing how people like Rafael Behr take every opportunity to have a crack at Owen Jones (who is much higher profile).

Milne is a difficult bloke to like, more so than Jones I think, even though he's also quite capable of rubbing me the wrong way.

I mean the history of tankiedom is we all rub each other the wrong way, frequently.

Lol.

I don’t like Milne and have definitely commented negatively on his stuff before, but it’s really funny how 99% of mad theories about him come from his ex-colleagues. Like it’s all old Guardian beef rotting away in the discourse.

I saw something recently mentioning that Milne is still apparently good pals with Mandelson, although the idea they make some "odd couple" is nonsense - they are both posh as!

Mandelson has reportedly been giving the Labour leadership advice on the downlow so this doesn't surprise me.

kinda lol but also sad

maybe just a cunning ... ploy to stop him pissing in the tent.

the piss is coming from inside the tent... and landing in it too

a tent full of hot piss is as good at it gets rn!

now is the winter of our piss-filled tent

revolutionary triangulation:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Fouch%C3%A9

NN tick vg!

it's never really been a "proper left-wing paper": always basically a liberal centrist paper with some leftists on staff

― mark s, Sunday, 6 January 2019 16:39 (four hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Right - round about the last election they surveyed editorials of elections past and the one consistent theme over a century is "a Lib-Lab coalition will keep the left's excesses in check"

found it: https://www.theguardian.com/politics/from-the-archive-blog/2015/apr/13/general-election-guardian-editorials-1918-2010

(two elections ago I guess)

time to renew the andrew graham-yooll quote from A State of Fear when he came to the U.K. in 1979:

I went to work at The Guardian, where liberals are conservatives who counsel readers to vote Labour

(also, from earlier in the chapter:

It was strange to discover on Fleet Street how Conservative was the entire British press. In fact, how Conservative the British were as a nation. Scratch the surface of any Briton to find a Conservative beneath even the most articulate Marxist.)

if there's one thing posting to a football forum has taught me, it's that any opportunity to bend the forelock before one's betters will be gladly taken by the most immiserated of villeins

...and british defiance - the fuck-you, the nimby, the calls to violence...are almost always directed down, to whoever somehow occupies lower orders

it is always heartening to see this trend reversed. that's when you know you've found a good'un

now is the winter of our piss-filled tent

Genuine lol.

Talk of Milne’s poshness reminds me of my favourite comedy election article: https://www.tatler.com/gallery/how-posh-is-jeremy-corbyn

Jeremy Corbyn has a Guardian journalist as his head of communications. So far, so left-wing. But hang on a minute - his pal Seumas Milne went to Winchester, then read PPE at Oxford. And he's called Seumas, for goodness' sake. Hardly the kind of name you hear yelled down t'mines. Come to that, nor is Jeremy. So, just how posh is the leader of the Labour Party? Read these 11 facts, then decide.

Have to say it was quite the novelty to read that a (misspelled) Irish name reads as posh now, but maybe Tatler knows something I don’t.

is the name seumas u or non-u