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

GTTO today, among other things, means let's stop being beastly to Chris Williamson now that he's written a shit apology.

BREAKING: Chris Williamson has been issued with a “notice of investigation for a pattern of behaviour” by Labour, spokesman for Jeremy Corbyn says. He will not be suspended during the investigation.

— Kevin Schofield (@PolhomeEditor) February 27, 2019

Get That Tosspot Out?

They should be able to wrap up that investigation faster than Javid will say "yeah no I meant what the PM said"

CW is not a hillock anybody should choose to die on

Hillock or pillock?

The similarity was entirely intentional

I guess I'm largely in agreement with Jeremy Gilbert tho re the need for Labour to get its fractures sheered off and to restructure itself, but Corbyn's inner circle are still almost certainly fully committed to a continuity Labour except without the anti-socialists, and are gonna continue to pick stupid fights accordingly

“Senior ministers believe that the European Union will insist on a Brexit delay of up to two years if Britain fails to agree a deal in the next few weeks”, Joe Murphy and Nicholas Cecil report in the Evening Standard. “Several sources have told the Standard they do not think the sort of “short, limited extension” of article 50 suggested by Theresa May in the Commons yesterday would be permitted by Brussels.”

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EU otm, really

Well yeah but this feels more public/immediate than Livingstone in some ways and maybe outside of Corbyn's direct control

Also The Independents Group was last week, which might focus the mind.

Has Labour just torn up the carefully worded Brexit policy shift announced on Monday? JC's spokesman post-PMQs says: "We will back a public vote in order to prevent a damaging Tory Brexit or a no-deal outcome...." but then adds a key caveat:

— Paul Waugh (@paulwaugh) February 27, 2019

"But of course we will continue to push for the other options as well, to prevent those outcomes including our alternative plan for a close economic partnership and of course also if possible a general election"

— Paul Waugh (@paulwaugh) February 27, 2019

This is just pissing about, and distracts from their goal of (checks notes) pissing about.

i think the answer to p waugh's 1st question is "no". next?

desperately, desperately trying to resist feeling incredulous at how 'The Independent Group' have become instant media darlings, but have unfortunately just read a glowing article which sincerely compares them to alexandria ocasio-cortez because they had a selfie in nandos pic.twitter.com/9wc5XVW7Aj

— Stan The Golden Boy (@tristandross) February 27, 2019

mike gapes is UK’s AOC

An Oncoming Coronary?

That caveat was implicit in the Labour announcement earlier this week anyway. It was never wholehearted backing of a second referendum, they were putting it on the table if Parliament rejected their own proposed Brexit deal.

It was explicit, not implicit! They outlined the exact goals they wanted May to agree to in order to back a deal and said that a second referendum was a fallback.

Yeah I realised that almost immediately upon posting it. Point is, nothing's changed unless you were one of the people getting so over-excited at the original announcement that you stopped reading at 'Second Referendum'.

Brexit motion debate - Bercow picks amednments;
A - Corbyn's Brexit deal
K - SNP's, banning No Deal
C - Cooper-Letwin bill paving amendment (which they hope not to move)
B - Alberto Costa's EU citizens rights
F - Spelman/Dromey's to enshrine PM's Brexit extension promise

— Tom Newton Dunn (@tnewtondunn) February 27, 2019

Indie Group amendment not on the bill.

Excuse me for not wanting to credit the Indie Group with anything including a sincere attempt to tackle antisemitism

https://media1.tenor.com/images/8642399caa5739bc53ebf53914ec3605/tenor.gif

Their heads are made out of rubber iirc

So Costa is sacked but gov is backing his amendment?

Yep.

xps
you can't beat a cheeky (being told) No can do[s]

“Senior ministers believe that the European Union will insist on a Brexit delay of up to two years if Britain fails to agree a deal in the next few weeks”,

if this happens there will have to be EU parliament elections at which a huge number of brexit party members will get elected.

Chris Williamson, lion of the left.

Oh, wait.https://t.co/IE9vDh3g8Z pic.twitter.com/rDAkc0SrT9

— Michael Chessum (@michael_chessum) February 27, 2019

I've seriously got no memory of CW until the last couple of years.

Yeah, basically. Guess he blended into the background as a Blairite suck-up

“In the end I went along with the whip, and it’s to my eternal regret really that I did that on that occasion,” Williamson laments about the later 2014 debate. “I was conflicted right up to the point to decide which lobby to go in.”

On his previous votes for military intervention, he adds: “I guess I was naïve, if I’m honest, to believe the propaganda that was being put forward at that time to suggest somehow that those military interventions would have a positive effect. Clearly they did not.”

yeah whatever dickhead.. stroll on.

williamson now apparently suspended

Good.

I knew the establishment /msm would collude in his downfall in the end. Rip great man of the left.

Thing is, the only reason he was saying that, even in a local constituency meeting, was because he thought he could get away with it, even in an age where people film everything. The question of why is the pertinent one.

Brilliant news.

xp Labour are and have been historically shit at disciplining racists? Sarah Champion still has the whip after that shocking Rotherham article.

The Indie Group are 0 for 1 tbf

Can’t withdraw the whip if you don’t have a whip.

lmaoooooooooooo

He thinks TIG stands for Thousands of Iraqi Graveyards https://t.co/Ie379F5Ola

— rob delaney (@robdelaney) February 26, 2019

Great news. Someone said that both Williamson and Blair should be suspended and while I agree its far more important to deal with CW.

lol! "I can't be racist, I was involved with the ANL in the 70's"

we all did ANL in the 70s

<3 Johnny mc

I led a debate in Parliament in May 1999 calling for a public inquiry into the murder of Pat Finucane. It’s still needed now.https://t.co/jUzItIUIKp

— John McDonnell MP (@johnmcdonnellMP) February 27, 2019

OMG crying with LOL

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— daffodil stan account (@peterdroberts) February 27, 2019

they’re going to get us all killed

Food for thought, isn’t it, when a man who can’t or won’t get a grip on institutional racism in his own party “could easily” be prime minister.

— Sonia Sodha (@soniasodha) February 28, 2019

Food for thought, isn't it

makes u think

Takes like that are why Whataboutery happens.

‘Food for thought’ is one of those bullshit clichés like ‘with a heavy heart’ that makes me want to blow all the chunks.

Trying to paint Corbyn as Actually The Real Racist is horrible, centrists doing Rove on him is such a good look, considering some of them are happy to drink champagne with Taki at Spectator bashes.

i forget sometimes that most of this vilification is purely tactical, which makes it so much more evil

He's not Actually The Real Racist, but if the reports of him personally intervening to block Williamson's suspension are true, then he'll have pissed off another slice of people, including in this case me.