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

lol! it looks like John Woodcock is stood next to him as well.

hello police cops I would like to report a murder

Just think, you will be able to recycle this tweet in a few months' time, only using a photo of the Houses of Parliament.

— So-S.A.D. (@TweeTeWoo) February 26, 2019

boooooom

who did this pic.twitter.com/FiYPQLLbzp

— Andy Parmo 🇪🇺 (@andyparmo) February 28, 2019

the maymay challenge

UK supermarkets lowering standards and dropping products ahead of Brexit, study finds

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/brexit-food-shortages-recession-prices-rising-shopping-high-street-a8801926.html

"Consumers may see some changes in what is available every week through the year with more space for offers where retailers can respond quickly to opportunities and deliver surprise," researchers warned.

'deliver surprise' in the 'horsemeat lasagne' sense, one assumes

Rare excellent news:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-47415383

Rules aimed at preventing illegal immigrants from renting properties are "discriminatory" and breach human rights laws, the High Court has ruled.

The "Right to Rent" scheme, which requires landlords to check the immigration status of tenants, was introduced in England in 2016.

Judges said it would be illegal to roll it out in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland without further evaluation.

The Home Office said it was "disappointed" by the ruling.

i fuckin' bet it was

YouTube showed me an ad for spam today

you got spam spam?

Whoever christened Farage’s march the Gammonball Run, thanking u for much-needed LOLs.

Yeah, happy families frying slices of spam in Instagram kitchens

food for thought, isn’t it...

LOL (Ladies of Leave) https://twitter.com/Ladies4Leave

And LOL hoping for a Fyre-esque disaster here, charging people £50 to be 'core marchers' but giving them free food and accommodation during the march https://www.marchtoleave.com/faq

They can't do a single day march because they know they won't get anywhere near the numbers in London a few months back.

good day for the government this

right to rent
ferry settlement
part privatisation of prisons report

Carries on till 2022

Channel 4 have Nick Timothy's first broadcast interview since the last GE. How that helps anyone more than him continue to fail up is anyone's guess.

What is the March to Leave?

It is now clear the Westminster elite are preparing to betray the will of the people over Brexit...

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Checks out pic.twitter.com/sFvY6gzfJn

— Elisha Sessions 🆒 (@elishasessions) March 1, 2019

Idly wondering if anyone's bothered to track how many constituencies on Farage's Brexit march have a Labour MP who is likely to vote against the whip.

the magic money tree just keeps on giving

The government has settled a high court case over the Brexit ferry fiasco after reaching an agreement worth up to £33m with Eurotunnel, which was suing it after the award of a contract to a company with no ships.

The out-of-court settlement led to immediate calls by Labour for the transport secretary, Chris Grayling, to be sacked for “routine incompetence”.

Grayling, said he was disappointed that Eurotunnel had taken him to court on contracts to “ensure the smooth supply of vital medicines”, adding, the new arrangements with the channel tunnel operator would help “ensure that the NHS has essential medicines in the event of a no-deal Brexit.”

"rank incompetence" shurely?

need a campaign for jailing grayling 4 sailing failings

i assume they mean 'routine' in the sense of him waking up, doing breathtaking feats of incompetence all day, then heading off to bed and doing it all over again the next day

yeah probably

xp haha amazing!

wait, what?

"The government has settled a high court case over the Brexit ferry fiasco after reaching an agreement worth up to £33m with Eurotunnel, which was suing it after the award of a contract to a company with no ships."

but...

"Chris Grayling has defended his decision to award a £13.8m contract to charter extra ferries to a “start-up” company that has no ships, as part of no-deal Brexit preparations."

contract, which was later taken away, was worth £14m and yet eurotunnel can sue for nearly 3 times as much and win despite it not happening.

as part of the settlement, he has awarded them a contract worth £33M for carriage of medical supplies in the event of a no deal brexit, so basically a new contract to replace the earlier balls-up

Grayling bailing failing sailing company, er, out

Watson met with Philip Collins, a former adviser to Tony Blair who has been leading talks about a breakaway movement from Labour, at the upmarket Smith and Wollensky steakhouse in Covent Garden.

Collins said: “I was pushing my book on him as I gather he's in the market for policy ideas. Not sure he bought it, either metaphorically or literally.”

what’s that called I wonder

How We Can Fix Our Broken Politics by Philip Collins

“Broken Politics” huh ? hmmmm seems familiar

The central thesis is that the two big political parties are in a terrible mess: the Conservatives have “dragged the nation into its own private feud” over Brexit, while Labour, beset by antisemitism, anti-capitalism and anti-Americanism, is “no longer a noble institution”. As for the Liberal Democrats, their brand is “fatally tarnished” and they should give up and shut up shop.

double hmmmmmm

btw his book was absolutely ethered here:
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/nov/05/start-again-how-we-can-fix-our-broken-politics-philip-collins-review

fkn hell:

Hackney North CLP passed this utter disgrace of a motion this evening, 45 votes to 35. Jewish members bravely spoke up and their lived experience was ignored and denied. I feel ashamed and bereft that my political home of over a decade has sunk so low. pic.twitter.com/vOisgD4i1J

— Patrick Moûle (@patrickmoule) February 28, 2019

see also the motion in sheffield hallam

while bad and not seeking to make apologies for it - I think this is a natural (morbid) consequence of the largely bad faith environment in which this issue has been discussed. the membership (looking at itself) doesn’t recognise the characterisation being portrayed in the media and here we are

This motion was passed by Sheffield Hallam CLP by 40 voted to 1 pic.twitter.com/SCPbHPQwji

— Luisa Attfield (@l_attfield) March 1, 2019

I can understand the context up to a point, but those kind of responses are, at a bare minimum, fucking asinine.

I agree with lots of bits of it in isolation. Put it all together...and just no. I'm assuming this was done on the back of CW's suspension and its just not on.

Hackney Gazette reporting something that makes it even more complicated: the proposer and seconder of the CLP motion were Jewish.

Ugh, what a shitshow.

Related:

It is with only sadness that I post this and they are my only comments on events last night. I shall not be adding to them here or elsewhere as I have a borough to represent. pic.twitter.com/ElfcMwWYwj

— PhilipGlanville (@PhilipGlanville) March 1, 2019

good

NEW: Letter from Jennie Formby to Tom Watson, where all Labour MPs and Lords were CCed. pic.twitter.com/9ajxyDIqup

— Ben Gartside (@BenGartside) March 1, 2019

This is on different political scale but tories also have a problem here 👇🏼 https://t.co/PV1tpxDWsM

— Laura Kuenssberg (@bbclaurak) March 1, 2019

laura....... thank's

Another Lisa Nandy woosh

I like and admire Caroline Lucas but this undermines us all. When we’re not in the chamber we’re helping constituents, speaking at events, getting up to speed on legislation, even occasionally seeing our families. The shirkers narrative belongs to the Tories not progressives https://t.co/bFl8SGreqQ

— Lisa Nandy (@lisanandy) March 1, 2019

Labour 'beset by anti-capitalism"? To quote Johnny Thunders, ,"Yeah? So? What's it to ya?"

it takes a first-class poker face to say you have full confidence in Chris Grayling without a punchline.

Soubry is complaining about the dearth of big beasts in the Conservative Party, bit of a self own really.

Read “beasts” with an extra letter and it seemed plausible

https://media-cdn.tripadvisor.com/media/photo-s/05/b9/57/b0/nando-s.jpg

Whenever I'm reading anything that reads like delusive bullshit writing to me, the internal reading voice in my head is Chris Grayling's.

baroness Warsi talking to deaf ears again, maybe she'll be the next to jump?

Yeah cos the Indie Kids really give one fuck about Islamophobia

they like peri peri chicken, what more do want?

would strongly disagree with Warsi on everything probably, but it's having some integrity that would mark her out as unsuitable for the Shed 7 gang.