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

meanwhile, brandown lewis is tackling the big issues

Good morning. The Tory party chairman really, really wants you to know a female Labour candidate has accidentally liked a dickpic on Twitter. He is demanding Jeremy Corbyn comments and is calling for her to be sacked over it. It’s 2019 mate, not sure that is the best look... pic.twitter.com/dOiVMJ9AgC

— Alex Wickham (@alexwickham) February 4, 2019

I was going to say sarcastically she should claim she was hacked but she actually did 🤦🏻‍♀️

didn't Damien Green go through industrial amounts of scented wipes in his office? No biggie :p

lest we forget, two Tory MPs were given back the whip last month to assist the government after facing serious allegations of sexual misconduct

yeah but dick pics tho

A bizarre "overcoming the odds" vibe being pushed here. "Life after Windrush".

Bureaucratic heartlessness dressed up as redemption story...for Amber Rudd!?!

This, & pieces across several newspapers = Amber Rudd being lined up as next ("compassionate", "moderate") Tory leader. pic.twitter.com/JMpSjakdXF

— Yannis Gourtsoyannis (@YannisGourtso) February 3, 2019

fuck the FT for this rinse.

her three-seat constituency mandate demands she is made pm

Is her brother behind this shit/doing her PR?

i must have missed the part where the windrush scandal was officially declared over, i guess

luv2preside over an abhorrent human rights abuse and then make a bid4pm

as i said elsewhere, even at the time the three stated actions the government took were

• stated 'hostile environment' was not an appropriate phrase and changed it to 'compliant environment'
• apologise for windrush (not impact on anyone else)
• resolve specifically the windrush situation(ie the media shitstorm - rather the problems of culture, incentives, structure and process)

Despite this not changing anything this all seemed perfectly satisfactory to the media, once Rudd's head had rolled for not knowing the figures (rather than the hostile environment itself). The pound of flesh being handed over, they also dutifully or even approvingly nodded when she came back into front line politics a scant half a year later.

this prompted by this article from a week or so ago:

A former Commonwealth soldier with post-traumatic stress disorder has been taken into an immigration detention so he can be deported to Jamaica https://t.co/NOjQTNr80Y

— Sky News (@SkyNews) January 26, 2019

not cool imo

I'm sure that stranded stateless in the Caribbean lifelong UK citizen whose last bit of advice from the UK HO was try not to speak in a English accent. Drew much succor from Rudd's fake sacrifice.

It seems the song "Look what you made me do" is appropriate for so many news situations.

lovely to see the left, centrists, liberals and the moderate right coming together to rinse Turning Point UK

— James (@Gilofthepeople) February 2, 2019

https://i.redd.it/9n8041tf3ke21.jpg

the centrists: at last something we can take the piss out of that is even more risible than our latest "breakaway party".

Tory press fails to press Tory

Thousands of people have had their say on @DKShrewsbury's claims over the weekend saying "No Marshall Plan for us only for Germany" https://t.co/PbrSOuXNRr

— Shropshire Star (@ShropshireStar) February 4, 2019

'had their say' on a simple factual matter huh, extremely good journalism

wait how is the academic they quoted to put the record straight called dr dockter?!!!

(the story does not in fact cite any of the people having their "say")

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=APyl6Cnbfzw

... can't you see I'm derping, derping.

doctor doctor, gimme the news - i got a bad case of factual skews

It is about Winning Over The Nation. How the hell can he do it?
― imago, Monday, February 4, 2019 9:18 AM (five hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I mean he’s the only one actually thinking about how to do that but OK

Same MP that wanted Poland to veto May's deal iirc? One to watch for sure.

sorry that was glib but labour are the only force who look like they’re trying to find a position which stitched together the divisions at large in the country (CONs focused on bringing party together, SNP doing their thing, and LDs doing whatever the hell theyre doing ? do they even still exist)

Might help to think of it as not "the nation" but literally a couple of million more votes IDK

not especially germane i suppose but my poisoned brane will not let go of this fact: kawczynski is quite likely the tallest UK MP in history

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Records_of_members_of_parliament_of_the_United_Kingdom#Tallest

Among pre-20th-century MPs, Sir John Cheyne (c. 1442 – 1499), known among contemporaries as the "Vigorous Knight" and MP for Wiltshire between 1471 and 1481, has been estimated to have been 6 feet 8 inches (2.03 m) tall, based on analysis of his femur (measuring 21 inches / 53 cm) found in his tomb.[25]

thousands of people have had their say on kawczynski's height

How high is "the height of infamy"? - Straight Dope Message Board
https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=739051
30 Oct 2014 - The inverse of the depth of ignorance. X = Height of Infamy, Y = Depth of Ignorance. XY = 1. Determine Y and solve for X, and you have your ...

wait how is the academic they quoted to put the record straight called dr dockter?!!!

Lol we’re all going to die

GOODS shipped to Britain from the EU are to be waved through 20 UK ports without checks in a No Deal to avoid huge jams – HMRC has declared.
In official advice released today, HM Revenue & Customs said that “for a temporary period” it would allow “most” shipments into the country before companies have even informed them they’ve arrived.

holy shit

There's a Lib Dem advert on Facebook that starts with "Brexit is a national embarrassment"

*looks to camera*

Also I’m sorry but the most incredible article has been posted on CH: https://www.conservativehome.com/platform/2019/02/james-bundy-a-department-for-the-union-would-strengthen-our-united-kingdom.html

British culture has been evaporating bit by bit and has been replaced by a European culture which embraces secularism and republicanism. The drastic drop in those who believe in Christianity, the decline of Christian moral values and the growing calls for a future republic all demonstrate this culturally change.

Our Union, which used to be the envy of the world, would be known as simply another European country. Pride in being British would diminish much further and people would desperately seek identity of any sorts – be it Scottish, Irish, Welsh, Mancunian, Scouse and so on.

...

As Unionists, we must do all that we can do to make people feel proud to be British. As Conservatives, we must do all that we can do to ensure that our United Kingdom functions properly. Our departure of the European Union was a cry from the British people for national renewal. As Conservatives and Unionists, let’s deliver this national renewal by creating the Department for the Union.

The comments hilariously go against this, and are all English nationalists complaining about Wales and Scotland.

Nothing has ever unified the UK more than Christianity tbf

OK he's just some student, no mileage in ripping the piss out of the amazing depth of ignorance

I'm prepared to go out on a limb and suggest that Brexit is more of a national embarrassment than the Liberal Democrats.

Why do you guys hate the Lib Dems so much? (Genuine question, no one ever talks about them outside of the UK and all I know is that they're very much against Brexit.)

they formed a governing co-partnership with the tories in 2010 and allowed them to pass some of the most egregiously anti-poor legislation ever

Classical centrists whose political strategy is only dictated by defining themselves against whichever party in a constituency they think they have most chance of beating

"Tories without their kicking boots on"

Enabled a coalition government that was the first step towards empowering Cameron to ultimately call the referendum

Historical hatred of philanthropic paternalism

Party of choice for people who think free market capitalism is great but are marginally too ashamed to admit to themselves or others that they are Tories

can we stop with the shaming feels like ye could clarify a lot

Last time a lib dem leader was caught actually believing in something it was that homosexuality was a sin

In what way(s) are they leftier than the Tories?

chris williamson on ch4 news defending maduro

ken livingstone on this week defending maduro was embarassing

answering pom: when charles kennedy was leader (1999-2006) the LDs took a strongly principled stand against the iraq war in particular and the various authoritarian nu-lab terror-legislation encroachments on civil rights in general. kennedy was also pro scottish independence (if this actually counts *eyes sparkle with mischief* as a left position)

after kennedy lost the leadership they swerved sharply towards orange book neoliberalism and then coalition with the tories -- tho they have long had a rep in local government for unprincipled triangulation on local issues

Not sure Charlie was pro-Scottish independence (Kennedy that is, not Bonnie Prince).