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

since the bbc let Mair go and the extremely smooth lick-spittle arsewipe Evan Davies take over PM it's never been the same. Maybe it's not incredibly important that he run roughshod over a simpleton like Truss, but is such good fun. As it was when he did the same to Boris twice.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/aug/04/liz-truss-trade-deal-food-safety-deregulation?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

“Boris Johnson promised that a trade deal with the US would not jeopardise our food and animal welfare standards. People will be watching closely to see whether these words mean anything at all.”

lol yeah sure

"One briefing note reveals that Truss was keen to hear “what we can learn from ‘Reaganomics’ on things like regulation and red tape”."

*shudders*

Eddie Mair tremendous.

Chris Williamson is another dangerously thick bigot who makes Truss look brainy. Can't be arsed linking to the moron, but he thinks those class politics are divisible from identity politics and are diametrically opposed to each other. Just doubling down on his ignorance and stupidity again.

he also wrongly asserts that New Labour concentrated too much on identity politics.. where the fuck is he even coming from?

somewhere white and straight and shtoopid

he's probably the victim of a global conspiracy of some sort *scratches chin*

lol stop abusing your mod powers DC

Michael Richmond tore Aaron Bastani a new one on Twitter the other day for his continued attempts to rehabilitate Chris Williamson in the public eye.

Obviously we all know Bastani is a ridiculous clown but overlooking that for a second - it's not like Williamson has any kind of irreplaceable talent that would make it worth trying to be rehabilitate him in any case. Deep down he must know that this stuff makes the Labour left look worse so I can only assume its a rallying cry for a subset of awful people.

(I made an autocorrect typo that needed to be expunged asap - sorry!)

nah joking, obviously my response to a post you hadn't yet made was part of a global conspiracy of some kind

CW is slowly doing a full reveal of himself as the cretinous blue Labour career pol he always was before the opportunistic makeover

Bastani & CW are both careerists who’ve shifted their politics with the times. CW only really gets a hearing because he makes himself out as being the MP who listens to the membership - not difficult when so much of the PLP is openly disdainful of them. Both are colossal wastes of time & actively damaging.

Michael Richmond is the best, btw.

Williamson has a genuinely diplodocan vibe about him, seems like the slowest witted of bullies. I mean idk this is absolutely a type in all politically parties, they rise slowly thru the ranks (up to a limited point) from sheer persistence and lack of anything else going on in their lives

http://66.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m7oj1jiZoZ1qkx3d4o2_250.gif

lool, he pretends to be a vegan

Awesome use of mod powers, DC

Hey, whaidaminnit!!

been in london three days and havent even heard a whisper about brexit tbh

its nice

cheap an all

not as cheap as it will be

well on the one hand ridiculous exchange rate but on the other hand nothing left to actually buy

London is many things but cheap it is not.

At least it's not fucking Oxford…

lads, lads, it's all fucking ludicrously expensive down your way

London is many things but cheap it is not.

― How to Book Michael Fish (Tom D.), Sunday, 4 August 2019 13:47 (fifteen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

Everywhere in Ireland costs the earth

yeah was gonna say

just noticed this offer in my local Coop: two pizzas and either a four bottle pack of Budweiser or Cola for £5. Squeezing that last bit of the cheap food + booze era for all it is worth before it all goes tits up, yes.

Looking at the menu for my local centra and yr basic Cadbury’s slabs cost €1.50! Wtf. But yeah, exchange rate means I’m not looking forward to going home next week.

That co op offer is making me fat(ter)

The pizzas aren't the best, but for that price they will do for me when I can't be arsed cooking. And even if you don't like bud it is fine for making beef stews.

Ha, I've been taking advantage of that offer ~a lot~ over the past month or so.

plax nv and gyac know the score

its why we pay our middle management civil servants so much

long may it last obv

It is insane how cheap decent prepared food is in the UK relative to anywhere else I’ve ever lived. Also the fact that Ikea in the uk does veggie hot dogs is a major quality of life issue.

Lol, I went to the press reveal of the IKEA veggie hot dog. It's one of the weirder experiences in my life. So much corporation speak about a 10 kr hotdog.

xxp I have to say I did not realise you could pre order a custom breakfast roll for a time of your choice, what a time to be alive

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2019/aug/04/spudulike-closes-all-37-outlets-as-high-street-downturn-continues

levy presumably hit them for image rights

Spud-oo-licky closing?

buying a "cheap" bottle of wine in Ireland is always really depressing. I can also never understand how everyone always seems to have so much money there. You go to the pub and everyone's buying huge rounds!

sorry to report ikea veggie hot dogs are bad now. they changed the recipe : /

at the moment you can get 2 packs of frozen L McCartney 1/4lb mozzarella burgers for a quid. They make very nice cheeseburgers and aren't half bad at all for soylent green based burgers.

i'm sure they've ran out of the eponymous ingredient by now

https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/future/images/a/ad/Infant_hybrid.png/revision/latest?cb=20140727140437

spud-u-dislike

xps yeah, supermarket wine was the thing that horrified us price-wise last time we were over; brands in the £6-7 range here were €11+. of course after Brexit we'll long for 2018 Irish wine prices...

I've never quite worked out Irish pay rates. an inlaw was earning 45k in her 1st entry-level admin job in Dublin several years back which made us go ???* but that side of the family always seems to land on its feet and be oblivious to their good fortune so I hesitate to assume it's representative

* our confusion was that this sounded like a lot, just to clarify, seeing as we had a conversation at cross-purposes with step-MIL along similar lines at one point, where we expressed surprise at someone (else)'s salary bcz it sounded high to us and she agreed with our surprise then said "that's terrible, how can anyone live on that?" uh... never mind

That's not exactly typical. Around 28k would be the norm

xxp

I wasn't allowed to call Andrew Bridgen the MP for North West Bullshitshire in the paper. But I can here...https://t.co/vZ88VB5qR6 pic.twitter.com/d99t26WIP4

— Matt Chorley (@MattChorley) November 17, 2018

I was thinking perhaps Walmart's new dissolution of holidays/overtime/bank holiday pay contracts were something they had planned to roll out in a post Brexit UK. Then they thought wtf just roll it out anyway.

"The new contract cuts holiday entitlement, slashes bank holiday and night shift pay, and introduces an any time, any place, anywhere culture which risks a hugely damaging impact on the predominately part time, low paid, female workforce, who need flexibility that works for them.

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Where are you reading this, calz?