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

Alastair Campbell, welcome to the growing army of the politically homeless. Frightened, cold, hungry for leadership.

Sitting down here in the campfire light, with the ghost of old 2012 Olympics. At least until we can all meet up at the BAFTAs.

— Simon Hedges Esq. (@Orwell_Fan) July 30, 2019

https://www.theguardian.com/education/2019/jul/30/jo-grady-miners-daughter-preparing-for-university-picket-lines

Excellent interview. Good unions and strikes will have to play a part in the future.

raab is the reanimated corpse of rik mayall and i claim my five pounds

Well, maybe Alan B’stard...

...with NDAs concerning female employees.

some numbers on this for an hour old tweet - we welcome their hatred is good not bad imo

Perhaps our NHS could have the money back from when you sued it? https://t.co/MzIQKs2cqZ

— Jeremy Corbyn (@jeremycorbyn) July 30, 2019

that's the corbz i like.

get him, king

An alternative is available over here

― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 30 July 2019 5:43 PM (four hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

We did send our demonically possessed potato of a Home affairs minister over this week, presumably to swap tips on how best to lock up immigrants and do islamoophobia the right way.

https://www.theguardian.com/education/2019/jul/30/jo-grady-miners-daughter-preparing-for-university-picket-lines

Excellent interview. Good unions and strikes will have to play a part in the future.

― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, July 30, 2019 10:08 AM (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

agreed, I had the pleasure of voting for Jo Grady for UCU General Secretary, I think she will be excellent

MIRROR: Boris hires Mirror chicken as adviser #tomorrowspaperstoday pic.twitter.com/CUfYIfgwbM

— Neil Henderson (@hendopolis) July 29, 2019

.@JohnMcDonnellMP to @CampbellClaret:

“You’re the person, above all else, who actually created a political environment where no-one believed a word a politician said...you took us to the edge...we’re trying to restore honesty & confidence in politics again, that you destroyed.” pic.twitter.com/AvLFt85kuY

— James Foster (@JamesEFoster) July 30, 2019

you, quite literally, love to see it

There is only one question for you, who funds you? 🤔 https://t.co/8PfLBuiccY

— Angela Rayner (@AngelaRayner) July 30, 2019

good day for Labour twitter.

that McD quote kills it.

otm. really cheered me up. corbyn, mcdonnell and others being on their A game with this sort of thing will matter for morale and also wider communication of policy thinking and approach in a way that won’t be communicated via media and can’t be communicated by standard press releases.

the sense of drift is i think as much as anything bcz (stubbornly! and perhaps correctly!)* lab comms still has has a low opjnion of the value and efficacy of first response (and is somewhat ideologically leery of it)

me upthread, now being made a fool of :) i too hope they keep this up

The labour candidate to face bojo actually tweeted about Jews being cheap and 9/11 being an inside job?

...as a teenager? He’s done a lot more than simply apologise - gone on educational trips to Auschwitz, etc and worked hard to put those tweets behind him.

that's great but the tweets should've been deleted

Agree totally!

• Standing aside in the upcoming by-election to hand Green votes to the pro-austerity Lib-Dems.

• Lucas warmly welcoming pro-austerity, pro-fracking, anti-worker Swinson the other day.

• Jenny Jones begging for a Green/Lib-Dem pact just today.

It's all very off putting.

— Another Angry Voice (@Angry_Voice) July 30, 2019

those lovely Greens showing their true colours...

Chartreuse?

the international colour of LibDems in disguise? What colour represents vomit?

Deleting offensive tweets is kinda silly to me. Better to own them in perpetuity and showcase the possibility of growth

xxp
mind you that awesome carrier bag charge bill (at the cost of taking motability off how many disabled ppl?) is definitely making a big impact on the plastic levels in the oceans and wasn't bs gestural politics at their worst at all. So I can understand why Caroline and the Greens would happily work with Swinson.

It used to be a Lib Dem seat and they’re still the second polling party. Makes sense for Greens to stand aside.

and yeah Lucas can't be blamed for one of theirs calling for a LibDem coalition, but to me they will always be much closer to the LibDems then they will admit, I will be proved correct over time capn save a Green!

whose to say those green votes won't all go to the LibDems?

not really a challop: in a lib dem/con marginal, voting labour is stupid and wrong (unless they're close enough to flip it)

I didn't realise it was in a libdem/con marginal, but that's twitter for you! Feeding my prejudices!

the way lib dems are looking atm I'm not sure they count as 'not tory' enough to vote for on tactical grounds

years of being the party of christian homophobia and austerity hasn't done their nice image much good.

bitter pill to swallow but despite disliking them fairly intensely i'd be forced to vote for them if they were the only statistical alternative to a tory mp. this is the time for tactics, not principles

fortunately i live in a safe labour seat, which means i can vote green with impunity ;)

imago...otm?

I think considering they are a tory proxy coalition in waiting- tactically voting for them is futile.

they surely wouldn't ally themselves with the tories as they are now (yes, as they have always been, but 'optics' idk)

wanna bet?

Disliking them 'fairly intensely' not enough, must be with the intensity of a thousand suns.

They would ally themselves with the Tories in a heartbeat.

risk of coalition is real and quite a few lib dem mps have atrocious voting records

yep, the only coalition Swinson has categorically ruled out is a Labour one

not in any way a fan of lib dems, but pretty sure whatever individuals are in charge, they have been given a huge shock in last 5 years and have serious incentives not to be seen to be working with the tories again for the foreseeable future

mind you that awesome carrier bag charge bill (at the cost of taking motability off how many disabled ppl?) is definitely making a big impact on the plastic levels in the oceans and wasn't bs gestural politics at their worst at all.

Don't really see what connects disabled people's motability and plastic bag taxes, Calzino, but yes, the majority of the plastic waste in the oceans is generated by the fishing industry.

They would ally themselves with the Tories in a heartbeat.

How would it work though? The Lib Dems being so anti-Brexit and the Tories all wanting a Brexit of some kind or another?

You are presuming these people actually have ethics, they'd justify by saying they had to prevent a marxist getting into no 10.

Jettisoning strongly held principles has never stopped them before. I can imagine the scenario, post-Brexit, for the good of the country, we can be a moderating force etc, the same shite they came out with before.

xxp, referring to this (original tweet now deleted)

https://www.socialistparty.org.uk/pic/medium/23/23957.jpg

Yes, Corbyn and McDonnell are the real enemy.

Charlie is a long time dead.

what principles and incentives would come into play if the lib dems were offered a second ref to go into coalition w the tories