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

Seriously French people, come back when you're teetering on the precipice with the rest of the world laughing at you.

Don't really consume much of that squire, this is all from my French fiancee's friends/side of the family.

xpost

The French will generally have you believe they're living in a dictatorial hellscape, regardless of who's in power. That tends to clear up once they've spent a few years abroad.

French people always say everything is a horrid mess: on déteste tout ! before taking a long holiday in the French countryside.
xp lol yes

Every country wants to be a special little dystopia ime, you should hear Portuguese ppl talk about Portugal.

That being said, the French ppl I know here in London seem to be, amongst my foreign lot, the ones least likely to have anything good to say about the situation there (suppose if they did they'd move back).

Anyway, the upshot of this is I should disregard all sources both foreign and French? I guess I can get with that.

How tf did I leave this thread for a while and then return to find the French have colonised it?! Usually all I miss is Blobbyposting or comrade alphabet trolling.

Also next iteration of this thread should surely have “____ calmly as I normally do” as the title.

https://img.wikinut.com/img/3c9dw0md2az2hwzy/jpeg/0/English-king-Harold-s-death-on-Bayeux-Tapestry.jpeg

xxp it was a cunning plan

idk a lot about french healthcare but I cld perhaps be persuaded that it & the concomitant pharmacy culture are inferior

http://www.perc.org.uk/project_posts/englands-rentier-alliance/

This is a very good way of framing the people driving Brexit and the sheer nihilism of the project.

yeah this feels powerfully otm

This suggests that Johnson/Farage is a symptom of prolonged financialisation, in which capital pulls increasingly towards unproductive investments, relying on balance sheet manipulation, negative interest rates and liquidity for its returns (aided substantially by quantitative easing over the past decade). To put that more starkly, these are seriously morbid symptoms, in which all productive opportunities have already been seized, no new ideas or technologies are likely, and no new spheres of social or environmental life are left to exploit and commodify. These are socially nihilistic interests whose only concern with the future involves their children and grandchildren, but otherwise believe that everything good is in the past. The term ‘late capitalism’ was over-used in the past, but this certainly feels like very late capitalism.

je suis calme comme d’hab
xp

Anyone caught the UK HAS TO LEAVE BY 2020 OR LISBON TREATY TAKES EFFECT spam yet? Proper Infowars stuff.

adonis gonna adonis. state of this

‘Mum, you know when I told you in March I was going to slash my wrists if you didn’t do what I said. THIS TIME I REALLY MEAN IT. Just you watch’

‘Darling ...’ https://t.co/ZMDiSb4oxS

— Andrew Adonis (@Andrew_Adonis) August 1, 2019

Lol those cunts can never make up their mind if the Lisbon Treaty is bad or not. There’s a separate conspiracy theory about how the UK has already left due to “legal reasons”.

Musical differences. I blame Michael Dugher.

Julius hasn’t been himself for a while now. Never forget:

‘I have 3 children. A son, a daughter & HS2. And I’m doing my best to stop the country giving birth to a 4th, Brexit.’

Start of my speech to rail industry leaders in Leeds

— Andrew Adonis (@Andrew_Adonis) June 12, 2018

Lol Dugher is the kind of guy who’s so petty and dull that he tweets a line like this and sits back and dusts his palms off, satisfied with a job well done.

I think we should nationalise Jeremy Corbyn... https://t.co/NQnFkeJiLG

— Michael Dugher (@MichaelDugher) March 25, 2017

He said: "In every one of us there is a poet, a writer, a singer of songs, an artist.

But too few of us fulfil our artistic ambition.

And under the Conservatives it's getting worse."

We need more terrible songwriters!

"A Tory MP from Yorkshire called William Wilberforce"

🗣 Party Chairman @JamesCleverly speaking on the anniversary of the Abolition of Slavery Act (1833). pic.twitter.com/LMgYi8Xi5u

— Conservatives (@Conservatives) August 1, 2019

State of this...

apart from the elision of the many black anti-slavery campaigners and all the other people who pressed for abolition throughout the 18th century a mean-spirited pedant might point out that the modern Conservative party was really birthed by Peel in 1835 two years after the Slavery Abolition Act and the death of Tory cunt William Wilberforce

wilberforce was an independent !

also lots of ppl lived in horrendous circumstances with very little meaningful freedom for decades after abolition

We've actually reached the Lincoln was a Republican stage, what a fucking shower.

So it seems it isn't just the PLP that is stuffed with fuckwits who know nothing or have a selectively wrong reading of their party history

He says this on a day there was a protest for Windrush reparations outside Parliament.

sorry ogmor you're right, you'd think i'd've spent enough time sat in his back garden to remember his political affiliations

(most of my animosity is reserved for the reform of manners shit tbh)

Boris Johnson could lose majority overnight as Tory MP considers defecting to Lib Dems

‘At the moment, I’m increasingly feeling politically homeless,’ Phillip Lee says

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/tory-mp-defection-lib-dems-brexit-boris-johnson-majority-phillip-lee-a9030576.html?amp

To every thing:

Former Labour MP Frank Field to make announcement 'on his political future'

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/former-labour-mp-frank-field-18813274

Joining the Tories are we, Frank?

Isn’t FF gone anyway next election? Birkenhead is 100% going to whoever Labour select.

Field on a free to Brexit Party, surely?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birkenhead_(UK_Parliament_constituency)
Allimsaying

Special news conference scheduled for tomorrow to announce the official launch of the Undead Party.

At first they'll rise together, but how long before the vampires, liches and wraiths tear each other apart? (Rooting for the liches btw.)

when you've loved nothing and done nothing but steal oxygen for decades the way Frank has, then, uh, you know absolutely nothing about life.

xxxp finally, John Rentoul’s time to shine

Rentghoul shurely?

https://i2.wp.com/media.giphy.com/media/Y5EsGQlpjnkxq/giphy.gif

Mostly calling me stupid or a vampire

— John Rentoul (@JohnRentoul) June 14, 2018

Old dead eyes is back again :(

*****POLLS HAVE CLOSED IN BRECON AND RADNORSHIRE*****

I can finally talk about it and by God, for me, I can tell you, it's a relief.

First up, what should we be expecting? (THREAD)

The basics:

-Largest constituency in Wales (or England)
-Result expected around 2.30am

— Lewis Goodall (@lewis_goodall) August 1, 2019

Let me guess, Welsh Doormats Fall Hook Line and Sinker For Boris Bounce.

lol maybe not

They got 17 per cent of the vote in 2017, Mark. Totally calm analysis...

— Harry Cole (@MrHarryCole) August 2, 2019

posting as he usually does

BXP taking ten points off a boris-bounce tory party... this is good.

otoh guess nigel will be getting his knighthood after all, if there’s to be an autumn GE.

xp lol they haven’t held that seat since the 70s

Irregular reminder that he’s 34, lol

Looks like a lot of Labour voters opted to vote tactically there and the Brexit Party played a part. The Tory vote is being sliced from two directions here.

Brecon and Radnorshire voted Leave with 51% of the vote as well fwiw - another illustration that a Leave constituency won't necessarily return a Leave MP, especially with the dynamics the way they currently are. There could be a lot of anomalies.

Difficult to see what the Tories are currently doing that is insufficiently Brexity for Brexit Party voters though.

I suppose this is why Farage was claiming that Dominic Cummings (!!!) was not a "true believer" in Brexit earlier this week though.