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

Mods, can we vote on whether calz's username should be forcefully changed to 'Patrick'?

patzino

Relevant:

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/pazzino

(It's pronounced 'patzino'.)

I can't even remember choosing it, but if I did it shows rebellious I was. Unlike those Turks choosing their surnames from the Ataturk era who chose to be called names like Gonad or Arse for the lols.

How is that rebellious? It’s a saint’s name! One of my friends chose Jesus.

I think he meant that it shows how rebellious he was, i.e. not at all.

yep, wouldn't even say boo to a bishop.

This is not my best day posting on this thread! But still having a better one than Chuka.

"patzino" was good though

does Blair take the hosts in his hands, with some heat resistant gloves on. Not impressed with his fake Catholicism, he should have to spend a night in a coffin with Cardinal Hume's decaying corpse to prove he really has converted.

Catholic talk has sent gyac into self flagellation mode:p

It was!

2xp

fs lmao

Striking intervention by the newest LD MP, just 24 hours in https://t.co/KMg5EREvLo

— Tom Clark (@prospect_clark) August 15, 2019

No flagellation, just harsh reality!

that sweet, sweet message discipline
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what a day in british politics eh

the last best hope for humanity fuck knows tbh

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4UqMyldS7Q

nightmare situation developing within the LDs

chuka turning on the lib dems already, not a man to be trusted at all pic.twitter.com/B1qAsFV3ul

— eustachy r daewo (@uncoolfellazone) August 15, 2019

please chuka please jo i’m begging u,,, don’t make me choose

please Chuka don't hurt 'em

think it’s a fake but basically it’s correct so feel fairly relaxed about it.

that Chuka thing was a fake, i'm told. Have deleted.

— jamie k (@jkbloodtreasure) August 15, 2019

I had this feeling that Chuka and Jo might not be best of pals but he'd be on his best behaviour as a new member of the gang.

I thought Blair did very quietly convert to Catholicism and they refused to confirm it because of the obvious havoc it would have caused with the Northern Ireland peace process?

NEW: numbers looking even trickier, never mind for putting Corbyn in but for a motion of confidence itself. Chris Leslie tells me the five Change MPs might not vote against the govt in September.

— Lewis Goodall (@lewis_goodall) August 15, 2019

pic.twitter.com/C9WNfqzjHN

— Jonny (@mynnoj) August 15, 2019

He converted a few months after he stepped down, I think?

(For communion, I was told that kids took it with their hands because you don't want to drop the host, though I never thought to ask why that didn't apply to the dodderier end of the congregation)

This was missed in all yesterday's fun but its important:

Obsession with white working class fuels inequality in north, study warns

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/aug/15/white-working-class-fuels-inequality-north?CMP

incred to see the number of ppl moving talk of the peterloo bicentenary on to "...and today the main civil rights struggle is against the EU and sharia law"

make Lisa Nandy and Ken Loach the ministers for northern inequality, that'll sort it all out:p

https://www.disabilitynewsservice.com/citizens-advice-signed-gagging-clause-in-return-for-share-of-51m-from-dwp/

another toothless charity that does the bare minimum to protect it's clients: Citizen's Advice signs a gagging clause in return for DWP funding. My own experience with them is that they are a set of fucking useless cunts.

it doesn’t say anything about the advice the bureau provides to citizens being good tbf

they don't even do a service with any basic humanity. When my missus lost her PIP appeal her advocate simply said: you've lost, your taxi will be here soon - I've got a busy day so bye. A big part of the humiliating shitshow that led to her OD attempt.

xp same here. absolutely fucking useless. I've asked for advice a couple of times because I had problems with rental accommodation I was living in, mould, landlord breaking rules etc, and their advice was "well that's your fault for moving in, sucks to be you"

My sister briefly volunteered for them and I'm not joking she says her trainer told her: Just treat 'em like shit and then they won't come back!

makes sense, last time I called they were practically mocking me for living in a shithole

disagree- the CAB does a lot of good work in trying circumstances, it's rubbish you both had bad experiences but the CAB gets dumped on as a result of making up the shortfall for totally inadequate local and central government services

There are better charities out there imo. The service I got from Carers Count made the CA look like the useless cunts they are. When their contempt and laziness nearly causes a death in my family - I will hate them to the death!

yeah fair enough

It isnt charities that are suffering from austerity, they sign the DWP gagging orders and tale the money with a heavy heart no doubt. But it is their clients who end up in penury or dead.

I hope the fact that Rafael Behr's piss is being boiled this morning can all cheer you up. I'd read yesterday's "We all know Corbyn is thrash but he won't go as we tell him so install him as PM" again. It's great.

I do sometimes wonder if you can actually read.

Don't wonder about me.

All the remainer heroes showing themselves:

Jo here, trying to talk tories out of working with the leader of the opposition to block no deal. Very constructive. https://t.co/WNIzgu1hab

— Steve Jail (@DrStedx) August 16, 2019

labour’s politicking: bad
my west wing fanfic politicking: very, very good

This Ken Clarke/Harriet Harman for Emergency Prime Minister thing is one of the most absurd episodes I can remember in British politics - it is bonkers.

But it's the father and mother of the house of commons where is your respect

Nothing says grownup politics like appealing to the imaginary status of mummy and daddy of parliament

Considering what a toxic figure Harman is to much of the Labour membership to describe her (or indeed Ken) as a neutral is fucking risible shit.