PMs change and lol we're all gonna die (but brexit will never end)

my impression is that although momentum is attractive to lexiters, bennites, ppl w/ grudges against their CLPs, and various older ppl that like to bloviate in meetings while calling ppl comrade, they are not generally at the centre of things and momentum have done a good job at organising locally and broadening their base. I have been surprised by how many of those old left ppl are generally abt tho, I think they're often underestimated.

I think a lot of labour leavers are not that hardcore, mb even a majority are soft lexiters who don't like the EU or remainer discourse but don't as an overwhelming priority, even if they might think it's an obviously opportune moment to leave & be annoyed on democratic grounds etc.

but yes it's very difficult for labour when the constituencies that will decide the election include a lot of scottish ones and some of the most strongly leave english ones

xp. oxford comma is before and!

is it like “and, as if that weren’t bad enough,”

double space after full stops? mogg is a savage

xp. aah. that sounds right

I’ll wait for the gold top hats among us to confirm

I was hoping we weren't going to give this tedious piece of Rees-Mogg personal brand building the oxygen it doesn't deserve.

you must be new to ilx

for matt:

pic.twitter.com/XpnCrNYj67

— Ed Jefferson (@edjeff) July 26, 2019

Andrew Gilligan appointed as transport advisor. Partisan attack dog journalism pays off.

Some big boots for the boy to fill there:p

I was thinking he was stepping into Grayling's job, but no it seems.

I bet JRM doesn't know the word "esquire" is one of the few words of Basque origin in the English language. The fucking newish money ignorant prick, hope he dies soon!

would've thought that would be latin etymology

The learned fellow I got this off was quite surprised as well.

gold-topped dril comma or, gtfo

the correct response to "double space after fullstops" is BIGGER THAN BEFORE

Since when is ‘fullstops’ a compound word? Floreat Etona, Jacob.

https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/243337?fbclid=IwAR2Flmh0wE_Z1N4RelPfWgiMJa8Rqson3hQgwXTwqDNttm-GQ11PPyblzQo

it probably won't make a shit of difference, but it might be worth signing this Jodey Whiting inquest petition. She commit suicide 15 days after her benefits were stopped because during a pneumonia spell in hospital a letter for a capability assessment was sent to her that she was never aware of. The petition is only being backed by Mind. Most the other toothless disability charities (including NAS calmly posting as they usually do) are congratulating the conservative government for apologising for her death and giving her mum 10 grand and are not backing an inquest into this repulsive travesty. Most of these charities proudly wear golden top-hats btw

thought this was an interesting thread

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1/ I've done this before but on a day like today it's worth remembering the striking difference in the way the EU and UK see the backstop. From the Brussels furnace, based on convos with officials/diplomats, the EU perspective (not advocating either way just reporting as ever).

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informative but I'm presuming that he felt that stating "safeguards the GFA" would have been redundant

Suzy is right -- 'full stop' should be written as two separate words.

"fools' stop" if it's followed by two spaces

when you are a posh tryhard grammar pedant it doesn't matter if you are wrong. Just like it doesn't matter that because of class deference you can merrily paint castles in the sky like how foodbanks are very positive + uplifing examples of state paternalism and Great Britain has always been 100% food self-sufficient because of our great farmers and genius advances in agriscience .. and nobody tells you to stfu and quit shit-talking or even interrupts you.

Foodbanks or food banks, what say you, Mr. Rees-Mogg?

Meanwhile Cummings apptly intends Brexit even if election is happening. No Deal was much too soft, let’s No Deal while we’re in purdah and don’t have a government

Am told by a senior No10 source, idea of an election before 31/10 for a ‘mandate’ was “eliminated” by Dominic Cummings in his first meeting this spads and key official last night

More...

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— Sam Coates Sky (@SamCoatesSky) July 27, 2019

I can't remember the option to have an unelected right wing dictatorship on the EU referendum ballot.

> idea of an election before 31/10 for a ‘mandate’ was “eliminated” by Dominic Cummings

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/theresa-may-calls-election-times-she-said-there-would-be-no-snap-election-a7688471.html

Xp "Leave the European Union"

https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/624/cpsprodpb/3B97/production/_105055251_051413932-1.jpg

chatting with a friend last night whose job has brought him into contact with some of these malignant cretins:

Sajid Javid: “Really not very nice. Also left himself logged into his twitter account on my laptop”
Nick Timothy: “Horrible man. Literally no one liked him. Even not very nice people didn’t like him.”

Who'd have thought it?

Wow your friend wasted one hell of an opportunity with the Saj.

I was listening to AQ last night and noticed Geoffrey Cox has a completely ridiculous voice. If you were going to do a pisstake of a classic arrogant tory blowhard you'd do deep booming pompous foghorn like how he speaks. Like every line he speaks is a contemptuous admonishment to some pleb, which is probably how he sees most people tbf.

i know! he did recognise that. but we were more just incredulous at the complacent stupidity - i mean who doesn’t log themselves out of social media on even public computers let alone someone else’s, and as a politician?! come on.

xpost

What are 'spads'? CHECK your work!

Geoffrey Cox sounds like Valentine Dyall doing The Man in Black

lol, there is a bit of a gruffer Patrick Stewart in there as well.

One fact about G Cox: because he speaks so slowly, when he is then quoted on radio news he is given more airtime than others because his sentences take longer than other people's.

Scumbag.

His responses should just be speeded up, like they used to do with Sinn Fein.

turns out the JRM letter about calling people esq and not using metric was real...

Boris Bounce in full effect

Latest Westminster voting intention (25-26 July)
Con: 31% (+6 since 23/24 July)
Lab: 21% (+2)
Lib Dem: 20% (-3)
Brexit Party: 13% (-4)
Green: 8% (-1)https://t.co/Lb0DfZ8Pkz pic.twitter.com/iR5cMRUBfR

— YouGov (@YouGov) July 28, 2019

YouGov gotta keep YouGoving - below is their poll compared to the other 3, so averaging of all the 4 last polls reduces the "bounce" somewhat.

+2 (25%)
+2 (30%)
+5 (30%)
+10 (31%)

The bounce is probably real because a) even Gordon Brown had one and b) people who aren't particularly politically engaged think "let's give this guy a chance" but even then it's significantly lower than May's bounce was and look what happened there.

as someone commented, for a honeymoon period poll it's more of a bump.

First 4 polls of Theresa May Premiership:
+10 (39%)
+11 (40%)
+6 (37%)
+16 (43%)

this.

Hm, still can get 6/5 on there being an election this year.

Buy some money by doubling it with Liverpool to finish 2nd

An election is definitely in the plan but Johnson's entire strategy hinges on pretending that isn't the case.

One thing I would put money in is that the Conservative party's own internal polling doesn't feature the same bounce as the YouGov one.

I hope they're stupid enough to take the bounce seriously, the media no doubt will pretend it's important, while not actually believing it is.

Lol, remember the height of ChUKism after the cheeky nandos putsch, yeah that was a bounce as well I believe.