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

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.

even explaining the joke is demeaning

The Lib Dems should have kept their 'ah sure, we'd work with Labour - but not with X as leader' powder dry. It might have a touch more credibility if they hadn't said the exact same thing about Brown and Miliband.

theyd work with blair id say

It's the ultimate 'adults in the room', if you can't respect the people who've been there the longest then what, in the end, is your values system even worth?

dennis skinner is the father of the house of the left, just saying

theyd work with blair id say

And Boris Johnson.

It’s not reasonable to expect Corbyn to publicly concede that doubts about his leadership are sufficiently large that there is no prospect of him forming a government. That would mean Labour going into an election telling the voters that a no-deal Brexit was a calamity that had to be prevented – having publicly conceded that the argument that a Corbyn government is an equal calamity is at least sufficiently worthwhile to be conceded to in order to prevent no deal. No political leader would ever agree to an act of such colossal self-destruction.

theyd work with blair id say

Too left wing for them. Enough said?

p much

Why didnt the LibDems pretend to go along with it, then come out saying Corbyn was wanting to derail everything with some 'gulag' things, and well they did try their best?

Integrity, no doubt.

Ken Clarke: I wouldn't rule out becoming prime minister https://t.co/djjJk9jj1H

— BBC Politics (@BBCPolitics) August 16, 2019

Ken Clarke: I wouldn't rule out sitting in with the John Coltrane Quartet

Ken Clarke:I wouldn't rule out being a spaceman

He hasn't announced his retirement from international football either. Just saying.

Ken Clarke: I wouldn't rule out playing for England

Probably not got the pace to play centre forward any more but he could do a job in midfield.

Fuck it Matt I was getting there

hell yes let’s replace our prime minister who none of us voted for with another one none of use voted for

fuck it, let’s all take turns

but seriously though the position of led zeppelin drummer remains infilled, maybe it’s time for clarkey to shine

a tory wet as prime minister only satisfies lib dems, about a tenth of tory voters, and every member of the london-based media

Cuddly Tories are our natural leaders

crushing the poors, yes, but gently

Nazi Supermen Are Our Superiors

i wonder how bad ken clarke's opinions on jazz are. what does he think about albert ayler?

I feel like he's probably jazzlishly liberal and only economically a complete and utter cunt

Apparently he's got pretty good taste.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/moslive/article-1357525/Louis-Armstrong-Miles-Davis-Kenneth-Clarkes-10-greatest-jazz-albums.html

Free Jazz, like abstract expressionism, was a propaganda invention of the CIA

also: new wave of new grave