"oh you don't get me I'm the end of the union": lol brexit is how we're all gonna die

I like that they've realised that they can't win by critiquing Labour on any actual policy issue

― stuck in the Lidl with EU (Noodle Vague),

He should be wearing a tshirt that says "i got you on the policy tho innit"

i mean re novara or whatever i'm just contrasting w something like Secular Talk that has 600K subscribers, idk if theres a UK equivalent

Good thing there have never been any Tories who were members of terrorist organisations...

Had to look up who Secular Talk were because I'd never heard of them.

# of youtube subscribers not a definitive metric but Novara still beating the independent on that basis

I'd never heard of Novara but I also thought the Independent had gone bust 5 years ago (or maybe got a new name?). I guess Secular Talk not a fair comparison as not UK focussed

if we're going by subs then it's time we started talking abt one of the most important influencers in the media landscape: hbomberguy

contrapoints or gtfo imo

I think its best she doesn't get involved w british politics

May seems to be enjoying herself here, which is unsettling.

Because after yesterday, she'll get a win. And on it goes.

If everyone in the country who has said the words "just get on with it" in regards to Brexit could be shipped off to some rock in the atlantic, that would probably be a satisfactory solution.

new socialist needs a much firmer sub editor i think -- it's got better and gann is smart and engaged but few of its writers are especially sparky and some of its stuff is still quite needlessly repetitive and graceless :(

(i've actually considered offering but i assume they have no money and it wd be all fights all the time)

Because after yesterday, she'll get a win. And on it goes.

― Ned Trifle X, Wednesday, January 16, 2019 3:58 PM (one minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Yeah. I fear this as well.

If everyone in the country who has said the words "just get on with it" in regards to Brexit could be shipped off to some rock in the atlantic, that would probably be a satisfactory solution.

also this:
https://www.lrb.co.uk/2019/01/16/william-davies/leave-and-leave-again

If everyone in the country who has said the words "just get on with it" in regards to Brexit could be shipped off to some rock in the atlantic, that would probably be a satisfactory solution.

― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Wednesday, 16 January 2019 14:58 (eighteen minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

.. along with those people that say "Why not send Farage/Johnson to Brussels to negotiate Brexit, they seem quite keen on the idea..."

Sending Johnson to Brussels is where this all came from!

This debate is beyond turgid. This MP is up there going “What have the Conservatives ever done for us?” and is listing 8 years of their government’s “achievements”.

The PM values the mental health of the nation - ok.

“Jeremy Corbyn is the Scarlet Pimpernel of Brexit”...jfc this muck. Mr Corbynov, bring down this government!

https://vhistory.files.wordpress.com/2015/11/nigel-planer-and-tim-mcinerney.jpg

Lol, Labour will kill the poor and the Tories care about black people?!

“I feel no shame!”
I believe you.

mad-dog Mercer.

Kemi Badenoch, James Cleverley and Sam Gymiah really going the extra mile these past few days tbh.

Fucking hell Ben Bradshaw - "we need to be honest with ourselves and the public that a general election will not solve the crisis or mess made of Brexit".

And here comes the affectedly shambling figure of Boris Johnson – not so much a statesman as an Oxfam donation bag torn open by a fox – who could conceivably still end up prime minister of no-deal Britain.

Some gems in this Marina Hyde piece tbf

I agree we don't need an election while there are still Tory Labour MPs unexecuted

Soubz is pure garbage. This restriction of the UC rollout to 10000 is pure gesture politics. The full migration of everyone else on it is still running to the same timetable.

German Chamber of commerce says extension to article 50 a bad idea. ‘Better a horrible ending than unending horror’ says Volker Treier of DIHK

— jenny hill (@jennyhillBBC) January 16, 2019

damn, respeck

sehr gut

more like unending horrible ending

Richard Drax is a creature of pure undiluted evil

I thought I was watching some old pathe newsreel for a sec.

He used to be a presenter on South Today when I lived in Southampton in the late 90s and we thought he was a James Bond villain even then (obviously the name helped)

Wes Streeting (!) giving a stirring defence of Corbyn there.

Richard Grosvenor Plunkett-Ernle-Erle-Drax

gawn yourself mcshitter !

Drax lives in his family's ancestral seat, Charborough House - a Grade 1 Listed Manor House in rural Dorset. He holds the lordship of the manor of Longburton.[15]

Drax is the eldest son of Walter Plunkett-Ernle-Erle-Drax JP DL and The Hon. Pamela Weeks and a grandson of Admiral The Hon. Sir Reginald Drax, younger son of the 17th Lord Dunsany thereby being in remainder to the ancient Barony of Dunsany (cr. 1462): the second oldest title in the Peerage of Ireland. His great-uncle was the celebrated writer and playwright the 18th Lord Dunsany, and his maternal grandfather was General the Lord Weeks.

His first wife (divorced 1997) was Zara Legge-Bourke, younger sister of the royal nanny Tiggy Legge-Bourke, relations of the Earl of Dartmouth. Drax married his second wife; Eliza, daughter of Commander James Dugdale RN (related to David Cameron); Drax has remarried and has four children in total.[16]

At least six of his ancestors, including John Samuel Wanley Sawbridge Erle-Drax and the 17th Lord Dunsany, were Members of Parliament for Dorset and Gloucestershire between the 1680s and 1880s. A cousin is the 19th and present Lord Dunsany.[17] In 2013, the BBC revealed that his ancestor John Erle-Drax had been a slave trader, who had received £4,293 12s 6d in compensation when the slave trade was abolished.[18]

In January 2016, a Labour-proposed amendment that would have required private landlords to make their homes "fit for human habitation" was rejected by 312 votes to 219. According to Parliament's register of interests, Drax was one of 72 MPs who voted against the amendment who derived an income from a property. Communities minister Marcus Jones said the Government believed homes should be fit for human habitation but did not want to pass the new law that would explicitly require it.[14]

xp that's a fair sum - he'd have been easily able to afford an extra name from it.

always here for a fleeting mention of tiggy legge-bourke tbf

lord dunsany the horror writer was good not bad

Oh, they got this all screwed up! pic.twitter.com/4IdxAzWlLi

— Ireland Simpsons Fans (@iresimpsonsfans) January 16, 2019

the government is going to survive this no confidence vote isn't it?

Of course.

It took three goes to get rid of Callaghan when Thatcher challenged it.

In January 2016, a Labour-proposed amendment that would have required private landlords to make their homes "fit for human habitation"

Wait what

How was that not already the law

You think *that's* the most awful thing about this govern— etc etc

According to some tories this is an annoyingly centre-left country. Even if thete is a kernel of truth to that, it hasnt been much of a centre-left parliament in the last decade