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

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

It’s the Scottish Gaelic spelling.

His father was Alasdair Milne, after all.

conditional on the person being a media entity, an irish or scottish name reads as old money to me.

I suppose I took the more recent drift rightwards for part of a more sustained trend. I heard c p scott was a somewhat nervous supporter of the suffragettes but that still seems preferable to the 2019 guardian, which on recent form wld prob pay an earl to patronisingly express some very sensible thoughts indeed about the perils of women voting which these hot-headed populists are unable to see through their zealotry

pic.twitter.com/uspD1e6iFU

— No Context Scottish Left (@NoContextLeft) January 5, 2019

wtf? but also I love Dabbing so kudos.

Holding my hands up re Seumas, I did not know that! Also my own fault for knowing nothing about his dad. He’s still going to ship me to the gulag for trolling his article, though.

don't worry now that its out that Seumas Yezhov hangs out and bends an ear to Mandy, the gulag you'd end up in would be contracted out to some hopelessly inefficient at working ppl to death private sector pals of his.

Oh yeah, on that note the 2016 NS profile of him (which is really good) says they go way back.

Others recall his curious closeness to Peter Mandelson, the two apparently brought together by a love of plotting and a mutual loathing of Gordon Brown.

https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk/2016/04/thin-controller

tbf on Milne he's always been otm on 7/7, Lee Rigby etc and some of the cowardly, mealy mouthed shit I've heard from some of his Labour colleagues (not just talking bout Hillary "bomber" Benn either) is enough to remind you how little you have in common with some of these fucking people.

Some journalists saw him as a slightly sinister, furtive, cold figure, always pacing the corridors while on his mobile phone, talking almost daily to his close friend George Galloway, whom he addressed as “chief”.

^^^
but this is where his rep is irrevocably trashed forever, I'm afraid.

I salute his indefatigability

xp imagine GG tipping his fedora to him

Some real galaxy brains out there today.

Anyone else think "For The Many Not The Few" could be interpreted as "Fuck The Minorities"?

— Barny Skinner (@barnyskinner) January 6, 2019

Broke: The last Labour government had a number of racist policies and was responsible for scapegoating immigrants.
Woke: Corbyn’s Labour, which has spoken out for refugees and the windrush generation as well as people with disabilities etc, is dogwhistling fascism through a seemingly benign slogan.

'just asking questions' is my favourite genre of bad tweet

in other news: lol we're all gonna die

A live rehearsal of an emergency traffic system that will be put in place to prevent congestion in Dover in the event of a no-deal Brexit has been described as “a waste of time” by drivers participating in the test in Kent on Monday.

The Road Haulage Association said the staged dry run of a contingency traffic plan for the port was “too little too late”.

The location for the Department for Transport’s trial was a disused airport north of the Kent port that was once used to test the bouncing bombs employed in the “Dambuster” raids in the second world war.

Under contingency plans, Manston airport will be used as a lorry park for 6,000 lorries, but only 87 trucks participated in the trial staged at 8am on Monday morning.

xxp
old McDonnell had a farm sugar plantation .. makes u think.

In ten years at the Indy, I've been taught literally how to ride a bike by an Olympic cycling coach. I've entered my dog in Crufts. I've trained as a Wimbledon ball boy. I've never been on an assignment anywhere near as stupid as this. pic.twitter.com/TEHOAxn87x

— Tom Peck (@tompeck) January 7, 2019

And if you're wondering how the great British public, and their "blitz spirit" will cope with all this, a woman in a Fiat 500 has just slowed down on her way past the lay by where I and other members of the media have gathered, to honk loudly and mouth at us to "fucking fuck off"

— Tom Peck (@tompeck) January 7, 2019

woman in fiat 500 otm tbh

OK. Panic mode slightly on here. I, just like millions of other people in the UK, am on a fixed contract. Mine happens to run out on 1 April. Brexit happens on 29 March. I literally have the weekend to obtain a new status that will make me employable...

— Alena Ivanova (@bungeeless_jump) January 7, 2019

short thread of brexit fear and uncertainty from an EU immigrant, maybe post-Windrush our Home Office will want to make a show of being appalling to white immigrants as well.

Only to Slavs, and other non-Aryans.

I can't wait until time travel is invented and Sajid McFly goes back in time and in an act of ultimate uncle tommery he disappears in a grandfather paradox by deporting his own fam!

Just met some lovely Tommy Robinson fans and I’d love for you to get to know them too pic.twitter.com/iRom8GavNy

— Owen Jones🌹 (@OwenJones84) January 7, 2019

Tory @Anna_Soubry calls on police to "do their job" after being verbally threatened by protesters outside Parliament.

— norman smith (@BBCNormanS) January 7, 2019

Grimly comic moment as Brexit campaigner Femi Oluwole is spotted by the yellow vest goons near Anna Soubry, and they assume he's David Lammy. https://t.co/pfYGDjL25J

— Peter Walker (@peterwalker99) January 7, 2019

This is grim af, and the police have no excuse.

yelling abuse at politicians has been going on from all sides since forever iirc but those guys are genuinely scary

As numerous ILX-adjacent ppl have been pointing out on Twitter, if they were anarchists, they’d be subject to a dispersal order within about five minutes.

good, clear headed piece on “corbo’s doing brexit” trope
https://gapingsilence.wordpress.com/2019/01/07/wouldnt-start-from-here/

Hence the curious insistence we’ve heard from many that May’s deal is the absolute last word, the only deal possible, the very best deal any British government could conceivably achieve

Yeah this always gets me - the notion that May is in the place where she is because of her abhorrence of FOM is glossed over by centrists who think a Corbyn government could even come within touching distance of this is mad and disingenuous.

The other thing ofc is the attitudes to NI. When May had that weird angry speech after Tusk mocked her on Insta, she was like “no British leader could give away Northern Ireland” and like flash forward to day 1 of a Corbyn supermajority where he’s handing the 6 counties back lol.

Anyway.

I think it’s a good if long post, but their attitude is really frustrating at times.

I could have done without 'four different people have said four different things! but how could one person believe them all?' - the tendency of some level of Corbyn defenders to say things like "we can ask what this scattershot approach tells us about the people criticising Labour" with such a high level of begging the question is pretty annoying.

I regret to inform you that Jeremy Corbyn has been found out.

Ant & Dec are so famous that 84% of the population (via Pointless) know that they are from Newcastle, while 72% know they met on Byker Grove.

I'm sure that man of the people, citizen Corbyn will know all about them, even Alien Autopsy. pic.twitter.com/VNmc29VVfG

— Citizen Corbyn in The Times (@TimesCorbyn) January 6, 2019

Thanks to this diligent soul for their efforts.

shame on u Jezza

apparently the actress that plays spuggie now runs Hezbollahs social media bants