Both Dawn Foster and Frances Young are otm about how it's completely offensive that you are supposed to treat politics like a game and not take it personally that vile detritus like Swinson have consistently supported horrible policies that have plunged people into poverty, homelessness and death. You should just dust yourself down + metaphorically shake hands with them and say well played, you won fairly by the rules, jolly good show.
― calzino, Tuesday, 23 July 2019 13:49 (four years ago) link
FBPE-ers be dreamin':
If one, just one Tory MP crosses the house today, Boris will not become PM tomorrow...— Boris_Johnson's_Picaninny #FBPE (@SmartyPants_PT) July 23, 2019
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 23 July 2019 13:56 (four years ago) link
if one, just one tory sprouts rotors today, they'll be a helicopter tomorrow
― Welshy's Lean Bulk - ****loads of pics (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 23 July 2019 13:57 (four years ago) link
he is your pm - deal with it ya melt. hashtag.
― calzino, Tuesday, 23 July 2019 14:02 (four years ago) link
This is great too:
We have the first BAME and mixed-race Prime Minister: a mixture of English Christians, Turkish Muslims and Eastern European Jews.— Alexander Brindle (@Brindle_Alex) July 23, 2019
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 23 July 2019 14:06 (four years ago) link
absolutely nuclear take, incredible
― Welshy's Lean Bulk - ****loads of pics (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 23 July 2019 14:07 (four years ago) link
We must make up a prize for some of these tweets
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 23 July 2019 14:09 (four years ago) link
lol IDS getting down to ancestry.com as we type.
― calzino, Tuesday, 23 July 2019 14:13 (four years ago) link
And what about Disraeli? Anti-semitism, or what?
― Arthur Lowe & Love (Tom D.), Tuesday, 23 July 2019 14:19 (four years ago) link
tbfttl:
Second! Disraeli was Sephardic Jewish. They are both mixed race too.— Alexander Brindle (@Brindle_Alex) July 23, 2019
― Welshy's Lean Bulk - ****loads of pics (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 23 July 2019 14:21 (four years ago) link
Trump just said Johnson is going to be 'great'. Good job, Tories! Emancipation is nigh.
― pomenitul, Tuesday, 23 July 2019 14:27 (four years ago) link
president xi, fire when ready etc
― Welshy's Lean Bulk - ****loads of pics (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 23 July 2019 14:29 (four years ago) link
Nice display name there from the tweet linked - it’s funny how racism is ok when you’re mocking a racist?
― gyac, Tuesday, 23 July 2019 14:33 (four years ago) link
Lol@ Brindle tweet, if that were true he wouldn’t have got the vote.
― gyac, Tuesday, 23 July 2019 14:34 (four years ago) link
― gyac, Tuesday, 23 July 2019 14:40 (four years ago) link
it reminds me of that young labour twonk who was white but wanted to be a bame representative on the strength that his mother once had a black bf.
― calzino, Tuesday, 23 July 2019 14:42 (four years ago) link
i think young brindle was attempting an irony that got out from under him there but WHO KNOWS EH
― mark s, Tuesday, 23 July 2019 14:56 (four years ago) link
check his replies to that tweet - if he's doing an irony, he's remarkably committed to the bit
also he rest of his timeline is cancer
― Welshy's Lean Bulk - ****loads of pics (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 23 July 2019 14:59 (four years ago) link
the irony at issue isn't any more ambitious or insightful than "isn't it ironic that boris (= a tory) is our first BAME PM -- oh wait actually i mean second (first also a tory)"
― mark s, Tuesday, 23 July 2019 15:03 (four years ago) link
I am using irony to make a joke which is intended to get people to think about these concepts in the context of modern Britain, with all its diversity and multiculturalism. Apologies to any offended, I understand I could be misinterpreted.— Alexander Brindle (@Brindle_Alex) July 23, 2019
the rest of his timeline is still cancer tho
― Welshy's Lean Bulk - ****loads of pics (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 23 July 2019 15:06 (four years ago) link
How is BAME pronounced btw? Seems like a UK-specific concept.
― pomenitul, Tuesday, 23 July 2019 15:06 (four years ago) link
i think the options are spelling out the letters or rhyming it with DAME, if other options exist i am happy to adopt them in order to puzzle people
― mark s, Tuesday, 23 July 2019 15:11 (four years ago) link
it's pronounced 'hen fap' iirc
― Welshy's Lean Bulk - ****loads of pics (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 23 July 2019 15:12 (four years ago) link
Tempted by BAH-MEH (instinctively, because that’s what it would sound like in Romanian).
― pomenitul, Tuesday, 23 July 2019 15:12 (four years ago) link
The BAH-ME PM
― gyac, Tuesday, 23 July 2019 15:13 (four years ago) link
Lol he has done a whole thread about it now
But having a person who is a melting pot of backgrounds in a high profile position will probably inspire some young mixed people to be ambitious, and that is a good thing. We should celebrate diversity.— Alexander Brindle (@Brindle_Alex) July 23, 2019
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 23 July 2019 15:14 (four years ago) link
That's my personal highlight
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 23 July 2019 15:15 (four years ago) link
🗣HEY ALEXANDER, DO THE MIXED PEOPLE HAVE TO LOOK AS WHITE AS BORIS?
― gyac, Tuesday, 23 July 2019 15:18 (four years ago) link
His brain has clearly melted in the hellish heat of a Boris bus or he’s high off the fumes of melting plastic everywhere
― gyac, Tuesday, 23 July 2019 15:20 (four years ago) link
Oh I see, I haven’t seen the social experiment excuse in ages.
Yeah they are really going for it. I was just trying to use irony to make people laugh and think about the concept of ethnicity, and mixed heritage in today's Britain. People infer what they want to infer.— Alexander Brindle (@Brindle_Alex) July 23, 2019
― gyac, Tuesday, 23 July 2019 15:22 (four years ago) link
in further news abt his brain (acc.his twitter bio): ppe student, fabian, boxing blues captain
― mark s, Tuesday, 23 July 2019 15:23 (four years ago) link
godspeed you! bame prime minister
― Br. Des Shadows (NickB), Tuesday, 23 July 2019 15:27 (four years ago) link
i for one welcome our new prime minister *checks notes* 'don't know'
https://preview.redd.it/ll5a9sz5p1c31.jpg?width=768&auto=webp&s=242bbe3852d10a1e85714f9db4614607e724b794
― Welshy's Lean Bulk - ****loads of pics (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 23 July 2019 15:29 (four years ago) link
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I walked into the Sky studio and they asked me if I was a lady by the name of ‘Jo Swinson’. Unbelievable par so early in the morning, I’m going back to bed.— Eleanor Penny (@eleanorkpenny) July 23, 2019
― nashwan, Tuesday, 23 July 2019 15:35 (four years ago) link
Should’ve Guy Goma’d it and announced full communism under the Swinson era.
― gyac, Tuesday, 23 July 2019 16:05 (four years ago) link
Boris Johnson is the first journalist to become Prime Minister. That, by itself, is inspiring to me.— Sam Bowman (@s8mb) July 23, 2019
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 23 July 2019 16:14 (four years ago) link
Wow the Lib Dems are back, can’t believe swinston has already achieved the level of household recognition of whatsisname and the Jesus one
― shhh / let peaceful like things (wins), Tuesday, 23 July 2019 16:15 (four years ago) link
There can't be a journalist in the land who isn't looking at Boris today and thinking, "if he can, why can't I?". Whatever else he achieves, that is something special.— Sam Bowman (@s8mb) July 23, 2019
Follow up tweet is even worse
― Le Bateau Ivre, Tuesday, 23 July 2019 16:22 (four years ago) link
http://publishing.cdlib.org/ucpressebooks/data/13030/8d/ft709nb48d/figures/ft709nb48d_00003.jpg
(l)progressive politics,(r) Jo Swinson.
― calzino, Tuesday, 23 July 2019 16:23 (four years ago) link
This day is getting better by the hour:
I’d like to congratulate @BorisJohnson on becoming Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.I for one hope that he takes a harder line with Varadkar, the Irish Government have treated us shamefully in recent months. All military options should be explored to deliver #Brexit— Ian Paisley MP⚪ (@lanPaisleyMP) July 23, 2019
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 23 July 2019 16:32 (four years ago) link
awww yiss
― Welshy's Lean Bulk - ****loads of pics (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 23 July 2019 16:54 (four years ago) link
that's a parody account obv
― bookmarkflaglink (jim in vancouver), Tuesday, 23 July 2019 16:57 (four years ago) link
So looking forward to us invading Ireland. All over by Christmas Halloween.
― Dan Worsley, Tuesday, 23 July 2019 16:57 (four years ago) link
we are certainly now in a world where very obvious parody accounts have the power to start non-parody wars
― mark s, Tuesday, 23 July 2019 17:00 (four years ago) link
There can't be a journalist in the land who isn't looking at Boris today and thinking, "if he can, why can't I?".
Are all Brit journalists as lacking in moral compass and as ready to embrace any position to fulfill their ambitions as Mr. Johnson?
― A is for (Aimless), Tuesday, 23 July 2019 17:06 (four years ago) link
Churchill was a journalist for a while, was he not? FFS do these cunts know nothing about the history of the Tory Party?
― Arthur Lowe & Love (Tom D.), Tuesday, 23 July 2019 17:07 (four years ago) link
Most of the journos who’ve recently turned candidate are Greens.
― suzy, Tuesday, 23 July 2019 17:08 (four years ago) link
xxp that was rhetorical i take it
― jou're much too jung, girl (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 23 July 2019 17:10 (four years ago) link
churchill as a journalist and an auton:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/bd/Churchill_1904_Q_42037.jpg
― mark s, Tuesday, 23 July 2019 17:12 (four years ago) link
― gyac, Tuesday, 23 July 2019 17:20 (four years ago) link