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

Oops, vfp.

"It is not only the Mace and the despatch boxes that we have exported to the Ugandan parliament. With five seats reserved for the disabled, five for 'youth' and 54 for women, it is the most politically correct assembly in the world. I will never forget the expression on the faces of the tribal elders who came to meet us by some jacaranda tree. There they were, beaming with pride in some new Unicef-funded municipal shack, when a Norwegian Unicef girl stepped forward. She was wearing lipstick, earrings, court shoes, and she barked, in all seriousness, 'Where are the women?

'Why are there no women in this group?' she wanted to know, and the poor lads shuffled and scratched their Aids-blotched heads. Almost every dollar of Western aid seems tied to some programme of female emancipation — stamping out clitorectomy, polygamy, bride-price, or whatever. And while some readers may feel vaguely that the African male should not be stampeded into abandoning his ancient prerogatives, one cannot doubt the care — bordering on obsession — with which Western workers pursue their ends."

jesus fuck at that dwp tweet, almost comically evil

Don't forget 2008. The year Labour crashed the economy by not preventing benefits fraud and giving lollipops to the disabled.

all those gov tweets are old, if it's any consolation. not from this year. dunno if dwp etc have changed their innocent smoothie bullshit approach since then. think we went into it before - their mascot was called 'workie' etc.

at least i've yet to see one of the handful going around today that is from 2019.

was he not considered to be a cunt at the time though?

He was generally considered a warmongering strikebreaking gloryhunting hasbeen of a cunt before WWII and then a warmongering strikebreaking gloryhunting cunt thereafter.

... oops, forgot drunk and senile.

The real reason John McDonnell could never praise Winston Churchill is surely his role against the IRA with whom Mr McDonnell associated so closely https://t.co/I4pbPeS5bg

— John Woodcock (@JWoodcockMP) February 13, 2019

You forgot that he fought the Ra!

trenchant contribution from the member of parliament for BAE systems there

yes, surely that's the real reason, you've got mcdonnell 100% bang to rights there

xp

But like...does he mean the original IRA? Like in the war of independence? Cos that’s a whole other order of 😬

i think you're perhaps crediting john woodcock mp with more historical knowledge than he merits

he has plenty of "history" tho.

lol China's deputy pm has cancelled trade talks with Hammond over big Gav's hardman gunboat diplomacy talk. way to go Global Britain.

China had been expected to lift bans on British poultry and cosmetics which have not been tested on animals during the planned trade talks, opening up access to markets worth an estimated £10.2 billion (S$17.74 billion) over five years.

However, China only offered junior officials for the trade talks, ending hopes that two Memorandums of Understanding would be signed.

president xi, pls annex the united kingdom i'm begging u

I don't want to end up picking up dogshit up in the park all day, just to get some social credit points tho!

it's either picking dogshit up under president xi's stewardship or eating it under prime minister may's - pick yr poison

I had heard that Williamson got strips torn off him at cabinet, suggesting that he was seriously off piste - though of course the sources for that are all going to be people who have an interest in knifing him up good.

Which is everyone? They didn’t hold back when he was appointed to Defence.

Heb jij al gecheckt welke gevolgen Brexit voor jou of je bedrijf heeft? Doe de Brexit Impact Scan op https://t.co/eytAlAwphK of kijk op https://t.co/U64nYectmE. Zorg dat Brexit jou niet in de weg zit....of ligt. pic.twitter.com/LWKOLnLPQl

— Stef Blok (@ministerBlok) February 14, 2019

The Dutch minister of FA presenting the danger of brexit as.. Some sort of blue chewbacca? Mr. Blobby it is not.

while he was by no means unique I reckon churchill has a shot at cracking a 'top 5 british imperial cunts' list. churchill's handling of the famine managed to outrage leo amery, the secretary of state for india, who had campaigned against appeasement with churchill and was a big time tory militaristic imperialist, enough for him to be I think the first person to compare him to hitler. as with all these Big Men, being a product of empire doesn't mean he wasn't also defining it

I still cringe from the memory (from the Stalin & Roosevelt book a few years back) of that anecdote of a pissed up UK foreign office diplomat who was part of Churchill's entourage, who tried to say in the Kremlin in '43(?) that the Blitz had been much more murderous than what the Russians had suffered in this war so far. I think it must have been fucking Gavin Williamson's dad tbh.

like when someone on ilx compared the london riots to the siege of leningrad

I’m pretty sure Gavin Williamson’s dad is not a Tory, I’m sure I read some profile ages ago that alluded to it and his deeply strange Instagram has said much the same.

.. he got bit by a spider..

xxp

lol .. reports of cannibalism in waitrose.

RIP govt motion

what does anything mean

going to be any disciplining of those labour MPs that defied the whip tonight on the SNP amendment ?

also MPs - if they eventually throw their lot in with may - have some serious explaining to do to businesses that have effected their no deal contingency plans

They never are, zebra, despite old man Corbyn’s notorious authoritarian ways. I notice the porcelain Churchill stan votes with the government again.

He’s got some classic tweets in the canon, lol.

Disgrace: Farage "admires" brutal dictator who arms Assad & murders opponents. Would Thatcher say this? Churchill? http://t.co/sElETG2kHN

— Ian Austin (@IanAustinMP) March 31, 2014

Did David Cameron really just compare himself to Churchill? The greatest Brit tht ever lived? Must say the similarity's not struck me before

— Ian Austin (@IanAustinMP) September 29, 2014

6 minutes of guff about election debates & finally at 10.23, they find time for 50th anniversary of Churchill's death - greatest ever Briton

— Ian Austin (@IanAustinMP) January 23, 2015

I’ve always got on with @GavinWilliamson - he’s the next door MP and we’ve worked together on one or two local issues, but I must admit I’d never spotted the resemblance to Churchill before ... https://t.co/M7yonOiYvt

— Ian Austin (@IanAustinMP) February 20, 2018

Also!

If you think the Tories are at war now, just wait till you see the story breaking at 8pm. #staytuned

— Kevin Schofield (@PolhomeEditor) February 14, 2019

big john refusing to call thatcher a villain on channel 4 news is it ? red tory confirmed

Johnny Mc has probably had enough press outrage for one day.

In 2010, Mr McDonnell caused a furore by suggesting he would like to travel back in time and kill Margaret Thatcher in the Labour leadership contest. He subsequently apologised after he was condemned by both Tory and Labour MPs.

However on Monday new footage of Mr McDonnell from 2014 emerged of him joking about the incident and insisting that there was "massive support" for assassinating Mrs Thatcher, a year after she passed away.

mcdonnell otm, truly he is the greatest briton

mcdonnell for the fourth plinth imo

RIP The Milquetoast I mean Malthouse Compromise.

In an interview with @theHouse_mag, business minister Richard Harrington:
* Says Tory eurosceptic MPs are 'traitors' who should quit and join Nigel Farage's new party.
* Says the Malthouse Compromise is 'fanciful nonsense'
* Slams PM's Brexit strategyhttps://t.co/IJHbguAIfg

— Kevin Schofield (@PolhomeEditor) February 14, 2019

looking forward to a round of stories tomorrow following JRM's insistence on QT that concentration camps are good actually

"the concentration camps that churchill used weren't that bad: the mortality rate was the same as found in glasgow"

uh I have some bad news for you about glasgow and imperial britain

geoff norcott. a comedian who is a tory. how fucking completely novel.

rachel johnson getting her tits out for remain now - 2nd deatherendum.

just a pale rip-off of Dr Victoria Bateman's performances

Isn't david peace writing a novel about geoff norcott

he's certainly humorless enough

I can find out?