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

less said about Elphick's suicidal shouldered backpass tour our rookie Polish u21 keeper the better, the keeper might end up being the scapegoat!

but the very idea of Sheerman v Williamson is like Hitler vs Antonescu.

Just had worst coffee&bacon bap in London at Victoria Station.Why can't Camden Food Co employ English staff?

— Barry Sheerman (@BarrySheerman) April 23, 2012

never heard of a coffee & bacon bap before tbf, seems a bit niche

Sorry its an old tweet, he wuz on a learning curve at that moment - he was only 67 back then

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-politics-49257086/dominic-raab-we-sought-mandate-for-no-deal-brexit

cummings cummingness cumming at yat

ya! not yat (first world gap ya probs)

xxp his David Miliband tweets are hilarious

Listening to David Miliband & Martin Taylor @BBCr4today perked me up no end.

— Barry Sheerman (@BarrySheerman) June 28, 2012

he is renowned for being in the pocket of some of the building behemoths and stanning for ridiculously unwanted white elephant projects like making st Georges square a totally covered area and cable cars from the station to that HD1 project where people can ski down kilner bank and breath in them carcinogenic ICI fumes. he's a fucking hideous excuse for a human being.

Oh no

I just discovered I have a much higher amount of my DNA that is from Ireland than I thought likely!

— Barry Sheerman (@BarrySheerman) February 11, 2018

@bbcnickrobinson When any off us tried to tackle Tony Blair on this we were brushed aside as with any concern over immigration.

— Barry Sheerman (@BarrySheerman) January 5, 2014

my fave Sheerman anecdote* is when he turned up in a Hudds pub when the Sheffwed vs Town playoff game was on and cheered when Sheff wed scored and embarrassingly stormed out the pub when everyone laughed at him.

*probably repeating myself here!

but I'm glad I'm glad my parliamentary representative is Paula Sherriff who isn't exactly of the Corbyn wing, but she isn't no Sheerman, nor a self promoting vacuous Jess Phillips type either. I don't have to wear a gas mask into the polling booth.

he visited my sink primary school in Brackenhall in the early 80's and told us what a hard working life it is being an MP.

but hey at least he is a remoaner clown and thinks Trump is evil!

t'rump parliament

Sometimes you guys are as crazy with the acronyms on this thread as actual bureaucrats

quoi?

John McDonnell suggests Labour wouldn't use Westminster veto on #indyref2https://t.co/NxTbZkLBbg

— Radio Clyde News (@RadioClydeNews) August 7, 2019

Who would make the best national unity prime minister in October?

Maybe Sir John Major (returning to the Commons in a by election), Hilary Benn or Ken Clarke?

— Andrew Adonis (@Andrew_Adonis) August 6, 2019

Yvette Cooper
Hilary Benn
Keir Starmer
Dominic Grieve
Caroline Lucas
There are quite a few others

that 117th FBPE fantasy wankfest of the year in full

Actual madness. Think American centrists might be taking Clinton losing better than our lot are taking brexit

i like that they call it a national unity government when clearly the plan is to fuck off a substantial slice - a minority, i know! chill your FBPE boots - of the nation

Cooper is always a regular FBPE mention despite as it is being pointed out she is very much an assumed/nominal remainer and has never backed a 2nd ref. It shows really that their main agenda is anyone but Corbyn, stop brexit 2nd.

#buckinghampalace

God Save the Queen. HM Save The United Kingdom. HRH knows what to do. #BuckinghamPalace #StopBrexitSaveBritain #FBPE pic.twitter.com/jA9uwoh23W

— Andre Camara (@ThatAndreCamara) August 6, 2019

What is the weird cooper cult about anyway. Remember when the guardian kept writing those bizarrely unenthusiastic endorsements for her in the leadership vote. The ones where they only got around to mentioning her in the third paragraph and spent the first two talking about Corbyn. The front page was covered in a load of almost identical photos of her in a pink vest from the same photoshoot.

At least with say Jess Phillips there is some sort of Marmite factor at work where people like her for reasons that make other people HATE her.

Cooper made herself completely toxic to the membership during the milliband years and hasn't even understood the Chris Williamson lesson in opportunism, which is that sincerity and authenticity are valued, even if people know they're ultimately manufactured traits.

I think the point is about something to do with centrism's valuing of professionalism and suspicion of idealism as inherently ideogical. Careerist opportunism is in this worldview the only ideological "pure" position, because it's untainted by personal bias.

Yet this still doesn't really get at her strange cult of lack of personality. I wonder if anyone has any theories on this point?

centrist left punching moved on to a GNU now that labour have unequivocally backed a second referendum. anything to try isolate JC

same horrible dishonest rhetoric as "people's vote", like we can see what you're up to, nobheads

lol GNU just makes me think of this for some reason:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rE7uMsDD050

rainbow coalition of lib dems and anna soubry

you know, the centre

pace recent aditya article

"Boris Johnson wants you to think he's a buffoon. But he's one of the most ruthless politicians I've ever come across", says McDonnell. "His relationship with Donald Trump is one of the biggest threats for this country."

— Assa Samaké-Roman (@Terfele) August 7, 2019

Well again, only a cretin would think otherwise

Ruthless buffoons do exist, Johnny Boy.

Linking PM Johnson with Trump at every available opportunity is good tactics, of course.

full credit to the uk government for continuing to push the frontiers of dystopia

The UN’s investigator into global poverty has warned that innocent people in Britain are being caught up in the mass surveillance system used by the welfare state to combat benefit fraud.

His warning comes as disabled rights activists in the north-west claim that demonstrators with disabilities protesting against austerity cuts are having their personal information passed by police to the Department for Work and Pensions.

Both warnings are to be made at a conference in Belfast on Wednesday on the use of surveillance powers and its impact on social security recipients as well as asylum seekers.

Philip Alston, the UN’s special rapporteur on extreme poverty, described it as a “tragedy” that people imagined that “the ever-more intrusive surveillance system by the UK welfare state” was used only against alleged welfare cheats.

“It’s not – it will soon affect everyone and leave the society much worse off. Everyone needs to pay attention and insist on decent limits,” Alston said.

He accused the UK welfare state surveillance system of standing the presumption of innocence “on its head”. He said this was because everyone applying for a benefit was “screened for potential wrongdoing in a system of total surveillance”.

Among those complaining that they have been caught up unfairly in the state’s use of CCTV cameras – including footage owned by supermarket chains, access to personal bank statements and conversations on social media – are disabled rights campaigners in Manchester.

Rick Burgess, an activist with Manchester Disabled People Against Cuts, said fears that footage of his members and supporters demonstrating was being passed from police to the DWP had had a “chilling effect” on people’s willingness to protest.

“There are people who are not protesting today because they are terrified by what the DWP might know about them. The idea that information the police gather at protests about some of those taking part could be passed to the DWP for welfare fraud investigations is Stasi-like.”

(from https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/aug/07/innocent-people-caught-up-in-uk-welfare-state-surveillance-system)

"innocent people", good work

shithole country.

yeah 'innocent people' kinda gives the game away there

What a dump

the police have also been upping their nasty game against disabled people at anti-austerity marches. I read something about the rotten five o strategically targeting wheel chair users and knocking them over at protest marches. At the hardest hit demo in 2010 -11 there was none of that shit, things have definitely deteriorated in the last decade.

https://www.disabilitynewsservice.com/kicked-punched-knocked-unconscious-tipped-out-of-wheelchairs-campaigners-describe-repeated-police-targeting-of-disabled-anti-fracking-protesters/

fucking filth attacking disabled anti-fracking protesters as well. What a great time we live in and our current mental health minister thinks "window-lickers" is an acceptable term of abuse to use on twitter.

I think the surveillance legislation is the snooper’s charter or RIPA? Both fuck all awful pieces of legislation, I was incredibly disappointed when Corbyn’s Labour voted for the former three years ago.

xxp the home office records show that hate crimes against people with disabilities have increased since the Tories took power.

Page 12: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/748598/hate-crime-1718-hosb2018.pdf

love our big beautiful hostile environment

What do people think of the reports of Labour & the SNP working together to prevent no deal in autumn?

What do people think of the reports of Labour & the SNP working together to prevent no deal in autumn?

Not sure what I think of the reports of Labour & the SNP working together to prevent no deal in autumn.

i've been enjoying Owen Smith going into a pathetic hissy fit over McD's hints about labour backing a 2nd indy ref

Here's the Owen Smith rally in Liverpool, he's giving out free ice cream. pic.twitter.com/PbeeMnTESi

— Andrew Ellis (@Ellis_Samizdat) July 30, 2016