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

Thread on what Tom Watson is up to - essentially blackmailing the leadership into overturning party democracy.

This is what happened in @tom_watson’s meeting with Labour peers. Party’s deputy leader told them his new group of Labour moderates would be called the Future Britain Group. It would meet next week for first time. And would focus on long-term post-Brexit challenges. He also...

— Robert Peston (@Peston) March 6, 2019

I preferred him when he was fat.

Nolan likes to concern troll way too much but i've occasionally heard him not acting the cunt

I preferred him when he was fat.

A plan not unique to him!

i can't fucking stand Nolan's style - he's pure Talk Sport level high octane shite-talking.

I wish Watson would fuck off out of politics and take up the shitty tv career he clearly craves

now he's pumping iron and on some fucking macrobiotic teatotal diet of rabbit turds and quorn - the cunt will probably live till about 108.

The BBC has been bereft of a chummie Brummie since Adrian Chiles' career went west.

You just made Adrian Goldberg sad

deputy leadership challenge pls

https://www.commonspace.scot/articles/13947/why-we-have-submitted-dossier-islamophobia-labour-party

To think there were ilxors at the time who didn't believe Jack Straw is a racist cunt

TW should be sweating if that dossier ever gets anywhere.

We also informed the press office and deputy leader Tom Watson’s office, asking them if they’ld like to comment on the dossier.

nice touch

cc it to phil woolas while we're at it

Barney McGuigan, aged 41, was shot in the back of the head while he went to the aid of the fatally wounded Patrick Doherty, 31. Mr McGuigan was waving a white handkerchief, Mr Doherty was crawling to safety.

Their deaths were "Dignified and appropriate" says Karen Bradley.

— Claire Allan 🍎🥀 (@ClaireAllan) March 6, 2019

thread

Thugs to be treated like would-be jihadi extremists as PM plans new Prevent-style crackdown to confront knife crime - as Sajid Javid draws up new stop and search ‘surge’ https://t.co/pHI4wDv4Te

— steve hawkes (@steve_hawkes) March 6, 2019

Woody Johnson talking shite about chlorinated chicken again shocker. Claiming their swimming pool chicken has the lowest food poisoning record in the world (yeah your healthcare system is the envy of the world as well) was wrong and food maven on R4 quoting UK/US food lab reports says their food poisoning record/animal welfare standards are in fact much worse than the UK and actually include salmonella deaths, which haven't been seen domestically for years. Deport the arrogant blowhard and close the embassy already ffs.

Not heard it but Humphrey was smugly simpering along rather than challenging many of the at-best dubious claims, from what I understand?

I was listening to an earlier report on it before they'd defrosted the old senile gimp from his cryogenic chamber, but that would be entirely in character.

Isn’t he one of those Sp1k3d cunts?

Ffs wrong thread, but then again...

lol

sounds about right for this thread.

hedges works so well because often you can barely tell the difference between him and the real thing and it isn't so one-note and charmless.

lol I'm posting to the wrong thread as well!

lads its telling that theres no way of uh ...telling

uk politics is in a weird time, anything fits

Hedges has a lot of worldbuilding put into the account t as well, it’s a lot less lazy and otm than right wing equivalents.

guys im not rly one of those ppl but if the karen bradley thing isnt a key event scandalising uk ilx as much or more than anything this year then i dont think we can be friends

Yeah, not to be one of those people but like.

It is! I hope she’s sacked for accidentally telling a certain kind of truth.

It’s an extension of a lot of other stuff that has been happening here over the last few years - a marine hailed as a hero fighting an unjust legal system when there is video of him shooting an injured, unarmed man in the head, the attempt to put a ten year cap on war crimes, the rhetoric against the legal protection of human rights, the justification for drone kill lists, etc, etc

i think fair play to her. northern ireland has been fairly chill of late maybe it's worth shaking things up a bit.

Is this even getting reported in the UK?

it's on bbc.

EHRC investigating unlawful discrimination against jewish people in the labour party (focussing on the complaints process)

The complaints procedures in political parties appear to be fucking terrible precisely because they close rank and try and minimise damage. Look at what happened when people tried to make sexual harassment claims within Labour, the Tories and the SNP.

EHRC story is important but is it top headline when they haven’t even made a decision?

More so than the SoS for NI saying what she did? Really?

Laura K says it's "Very serious" so it must be.

OFCOM investigating the BBC for bias. I looked for a link on the beeb but it's not up yet.

double shock!

Well, Ofcom doing what Jeremy Wright ordered them to do, which is try and find bias.

That's different from "Ofcom sees bias and investigates further". They've already said as much — "we haven't had cause to investigate the BBC but have been asked to so we will" (paraphrased slightly)

A bit like what the EHRC have been asked to do is my point.

Except EHRC have already said that there is cause to investigate.

Except EHRC have already said that there is cause to investigate.

Amber Rudd showing her sympathetic side:

“It’s worst of all if you are a coloured woman. I know that Diane Abbott gets a huge amount of abuse.”

jesus christ

Fuck’s sake

The term "coloured", is an outdated, offensive and revealing choice of words.

— Diane Abbott (@HackneyAbbott) March 7, 2019