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

The government has made it harder to get student visas, has stuck with strongly negative messaging around student immigration and has cut off routes to limited-time post-study employment - all of which has seen numbers from most Asian countries (particularly India and Nepal) tank. However, the potential shortfall has mostly been met by an increased reliance on students from China over the last few years. The thing that would shake the sector more than anything would be a downturn in the Chinese economy, tbh.

There is a suspicion that they’ll loosen the requirements, or at least take a very different tone, to try to get some of the students they’re currently missing out on back, in the event of large numbers of EU learners deciding to go elsewhere, though it remains to be seen how effective that would be.

Just by comments I've read about the French tuition fees and their benefits system on here. I get the feeling if Macron tried to impose UK level austerity on them, there would be some serious bastilles getting stormed. Forget about those high viz numpts - this would be the real thing. Well perhaps.

must be nice not living in a neolib hellscape

still being social conditioned into thinking not killing disabled ppl and ultra low tuition fees are hard-left utopian policies in the UK.

Yes, it really costs about 300 € a year to go to university here, whether you're local or a foreigner! I imagine our universities would be very attractive globally if our courses weren't all in French.

My previous employer, in the USA, recently took out insurance to guard itself against a downturn in Chinese enrollment, who pay a little more than the max tuition chargeable to USA students. I suppose that could be an option for UK unis.

US engineering giant Bechtel is suing the £56bn railway company over claims its procurement process for the development of the station, which will link with Crossrail when it opens, was unfair.

more expensive Grayling incompetence ahoy!

xunts the most dangerous man in britain

Tom Watson writing a letter(!) to the boss of google asking him to remove Tommy Robinson's youtube page. Not sure if this is something he is doing on his own time, or in his role as important man

Forgot to googleproof Watsons name

pumping iron is something he does often on his own time these days apparently. Big tech are shitting themselves!

Getting a bit above himself these days is he not?

Further to what I said upthread about Labour being shit at dealing with racism:

In the Labour Party, accusing Pakistani men (like me) of being culturally inclined to rape white girls doesn't merit having the whip withdrawn.

From Sarah Champion (in case you all forgot). pic.twitter.com/5vPSlU5HS0

— Umaar Kazmi 🤝🌹🎗 (@UmaarKazmi) March 3, 2019

same kind of nominative determinism at work there as with James Cleverly.

Oh, also:

Understand that the incident with Jeremy Corbyn today is a little more serious than originally reported. No egg was thrown but a man is alleged to have hit Corbyn on the head, while holding an egg in his fist.

— Jessica Elgot (@jessicaelgot) March 3, 2019

Corbyn apprently carried on with his duties. The attack occured at Finsbury Park mosque. The Guardian is reporting this was done by a "pro-Brexit campaigner" and I am expecting the worst as we learn more.

meanwhile, rachel riley has called him a nazi

Who, Corbyn or the egger?

Corbyn.

Richard Whiteley would have approved.

anticapitalism is antisemitic, suggest siobhan mcdonagh on today before trying to row back ineloquently, perhaps realising what she’s said herself is potentially antisemitic.

I mean, Rachel Riley has brought up a tweet of Owen Jones's where he defends egging Nick Griffin, is the extent of 'Corbyn is a Nazi'.

She clearly did it to draw a parallel between the two.

It only counts if she sang it.

struggling towns funding seems deliberately engineered to be KB’d by wavering labour MPs.

wonder if may smells opportunity in the combination of TIG plus the media’s loud insistence that labour have now “pivoted behind a 2nd ref” (ie are brexit wreckers) and is engineering the failure of her own deal so she can go to the country seeking better parliamentary arithmetic to enact brexit. seems risky to me

I suppose this 1.6B will be hailed as "the Brexit dividend" which is not a thing.

xxxp do you think this is a legitimate comparison? How many groups would be at risk from a BNP government (or even just their ideas being mainstreamed - lol, imagine living in a world where that happened!)? How does it serve the cause of anti racism to make a ludicrous comparison that is both red meat for conspiracist types and also undermines a socialist being assaulted by a member of the far right? Or in case this is too rambly, is the enemy of my enemy a good stance to take when the first enemy is Nick fucking Griffin?

she's lost her mind and clicking likes on some alt-right "admirers" as well. I mean ppl with a history of serious pro-nazi views.

twitter is a fucking cesspit

a short campaign confined narrowly to brexit is extremely risky for labour too - they need to be very clever about broadening to austerity etc. hope they’ve recosted their manifesto too, in light of the accounting changes for student debt

xxp yes and I’m not here for her retweeting people who spend much of their time online attacking young, socialist women - many of whom are Jewish or BAME. And it’s all very well when you disavow the support of Katie Hopkins, but when you give cover for fascists what do you expect?!

Which isn’t saying she necessarily understood what she was doing, but Jesus. Think before you tweet.

engage brain before use mouth

This was inevitable as soon as the CPS was rumoured to have started to look into Bloody Sunday again:

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/minister-seeks-10-year-limit-on-prosecutions-of-soldiers-sctcrrhgj

Isn’t there another case that’s going on that this would apply to?

I am not defending Rachel Riley in any way shape or form beyond pointing out that "RR called Corbyn a Nazi" is a silly thing to say.

What would be an alternative interpretation of her comment?

What was the point being made if not that?

That Owen Jones was previous in favour of eggs being thrown at people - it's a stupid twitter gotcha.

And, also, even if she was saying "these things have equivalent moral weight", which I don't believe for a second she is, that's still not "Corbyn is a Nazi"

In conclusion, burn down Twitter.

*previously

Yeah, don’t get why OJ would be pretending a person with these views getting egged is bad.

Following the Admiral Duncan pub bombing by former BNP member David Copeland, Griffin stated "The TV footage of dozens of 'gay' demonstrators flaunting their perversion in front of the world's journalists showed just why so many ordinary people find these creatures so repulsive."[109] The BNP states that, privately, homosexuality should be tolerated, but that it "should not be promoted or encouraged".[110] It opposed the introduction of civil partnerships and wishes to ban what it perceives as the promotion of homosexuality in schools and the media.

Also don’t get why exactly an old OJ tweet is relevant to Corbyn being assaulted? Unless you want to argue that assaults on the leader of the opposition, who is in favour of democracy and who notably does not advocate for ethnic cleansing, are to be considered the same as a fascist who’d ethnically cleanse the country of BAME people and other “undesirables”.

we can celebrate a new twitter golden age when adversaries C Williamson + Rachel Riley both simultaneously retweet the same holocaust denier/neo-nazi cos they agreed with them. or maybe not.

I am (no snark!) clearly not communicating very well today. I do know who Nick Griffin is, of course - he is indeed a Nazi.

But I don't think there's anything in Rachel Riley's tweet to suggest she's equating the two - she's just making a dumb connection between "Owen Jones doesn't like someone getting egged" and "Owen Jones didn't mind someone else getting egged".

quote tweeting “if you don’t want to get egged don’t be a nazi” with a smug “good advice” is clearly drawing equivalencies and suggesting she’s highlighting (non-existent) hipocrisy is just retconning.

anyway I thought nazis getting punched in the head was supposed to be followed by days of liberal handwringing ?!

Hot centrist take 2.

Whoever threw an egg at an unnamed MP for Islington North, DM me & I’ll buy you a full English. 💋

— frances Barber#FBPE (@francesbarber13) March 3, 2019

I kind of feel sorry for Barber as it seems pretty clear she is unwell or *makes drinking motion with hand* ‘unwell’.

did you just call frances barber a nazi

Imagine your opinions being so bad that you’re on the wrong side of the debate as Piers Morgan.

I’ve seen some disturbed types trying to gotcha Ash Sarkar after she tweeted about Richard Spencer being punches as well. Makes u think.

*wrong side of debate and Piers Morgan isn’t

This clearly fucked my brain when I tried writing it