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

she can't pronounce Ireland is a major problem here

Can't bring herself to.

She says "us ... the people have been betrayed" in that fucken accent.

She's fighting the elites, standing up for the little man, like you, me and, er, her.

What an innings by Ben Stokes to keep the #Ashes alive for England.

And that must go down as the best 1* ever from Jack Leach.

Yet another reason that Test cricket should be free to watch on TV.

— Jeremy Corbyn (@jeremycorbyn) August 25, 2019

‘should be free to watch on tv’ is a weird way to spell ‘banned’

LOL riding home from Carnival where people in Corbyn masks and JELLY ME CORBYN signs were throwing out jello shots to the crowd.

(xp) Disgusting savages the pair o' ye.

sport is counter-revolutionary

ban sport

Lol:

This anecdote is a prime example of how Boris Johnson stands out compared to other politicians. Brexit and the backstop are incredibly dry topics, but he uses the image of the prime minister swimming in the sea at 7am, a big rock and beach to cut through: https://t.co/HV3tyfUzXZ

— Sebastian Payne (@SebastianEPayne) August 25, 2019

Sebby is queuing up to have his wallet inspected along with Peston.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/aug/26/telling-porkies-boris-johnson-melton-mowbray-pork-pie-claim-fails-truth-test

I can confirm that it is very difficult to smuggle a pork pie into the USA. I once had on of Mrs Kings finest confiscated by a CBP officer.

"It’s a perishable, short lifespan product”

relatable

Did you all actually die, then? Longest this thread has gone quiet.

bank holiday monday, and apart from “political” “journalists” fawning at the court of johnson little happening.

normal service continues with this bizarre front page article in the guardian: Jeremy Corbyn could support pre-Brexit election to stop no deal

i mean, yes? and

Cracks have increasingly appeared among those MPs committed to preventing a no-deal Brexit.

is a v generous interpretation of a fact we have known for very many months - parliamentary “anti-brexit” MP numbers don’t stack up, with Tories mainly breaking Tory, despite being styled “rebels” by press, and Lib Dems unwilling to work with Labour.

yep + it's silly season and the sun is shining and cheap booze and food are still readily available.. but even the most cheerful expert prognosticators are still predicting we're all going to die.

as Nicky Morgan once said (before she said she'd never work in a Boris cabinet) “One person’s rebel is another person’s freedom fighter” lool stfu!

The leaders of the opposition parties held a productive and detailed meeting on stopping a disastrous No Deal exit from the EU.

Jeremy Corbyn outlined the legal advice he has received from Shadow Attorney General Shami Chakrabarti which calls Boris Johnson’s plans to suspend parliament to force through a No Deal “the gravest abuse of power and attack upon UK Constitutional principle in living memory”.

The attendees agreed that Boris Johnson has shown himself open to using anti-democratic means to force through no deal.

The attendees agreed on the urgency to act together to find practical ways to prevent No Deal, including the possibility of passing legislation and a vote of no confidence.

The party leaders agreed to further meetings.

Killer cliffhanger there

Fingers crossed…

"The attendees agreed on the urgency to act together to find practical ways to prevent No Deal, including the possibility of passing legislation and a vote of no confidence."

https://youtu.be/GM-e46xdcUo

Ha, never seen that. Frakes face is perfect in every instance.

don't worry Swinson has come up with a devastating triple lock against NDB. Her last ditch defence is simply revoke A50 - a cunning plan!

I heard jo is planning to naruto-run through the corridors of no 10 and press the big red ‘revoke article 50’ button on boris’ desk before anyone can catch her

its a trench run scenario if i ever heard one tbh

The guy literally shilled for dictators who locked up, beat and killed journalists and activists. But yes, such fun at parties. https://t.co/f75g1XkECQ

— Padraig Reidy (@mePadraigReidy) August 27, 2019

pic.twitter.com/jIeNhB8FpM

— 𝔅𝔦𝔤 𝔅𝔲𝔡𝔡𝔶 (@socialistbangrs) August 27, 2019

Boom

Peston is a fucking moron, how someone of Jewish heritage could stan for someone who literally would have bent over backwards to represent Hitler's talking brain in a fishtank is beyond me.

lol

that was an unfortunately timed lol for the tweet and NV’s response.

xxxp lol

Also Peston is a moron.

He’s always been shit but this past week has been a new low. Did he leave his brain out of the fridge or something?

Might, eh, want to go give the mighty John H a second look there.

this was coming:

Brexit Party leader @Nigel_Farage says he could agree a "non-aggression pact at the election" with the Conservatives if the Prime Minister opts for no deal. pic.twitter.com/KxGzDSTwnf

— Channel 4 News (@Channel4News) August 27, 2019

how would that work in practice? would mean they couldn't run candidates in the same constituencies surely?

yeah good point. given that would mean doing that in every constituency where the Brexit Party had a chance.

how many other Labour/Brexit Party contested constituencies like Peterborough are there?

Peterborough, Newcastle-under-Lyme, Keighley, Crewe and Nantwich, Canterbury and Glasgow North East (according to the express)

how would that work in practice?

Lord Farage. Richard Tice, UK Ambassador to the United States of America... und so weiter.

ein reich for *you*, and ein reich for *you* and let me see yes there's ein reich for *you at the back* ok who else

jfc

The Archbishop of Canterbury has said he could consider chairing a proposed citizens' forum on Brexit.

He was asked to take on the role by a group of senior MPs who said a forum would "consider how to heal the divisions in our country since the Brexit referendum".

He also said that he wanted the "will of the people to happen" but that his "personal inner likes or dislikes" were "irrelevant".

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-49486371

The very idea that Brexit can be fixed by more fucking "have your say"! Why is this cunt in charge of anything?

to be fair he was invited to do this (by idiots)

https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk/2019/08/even-god-cant-save-mps-having-make-decision-brexit

and also he very much didn’t say he would consider it. he said he would consider it *if* [insert impossible demands here]. ie polite way of saying “this is bullshit and we all know it”.

the deliberate credulity and neutering of thought by reporters for advancement of the narrative is almost too embarrassing to watch these days.

“very much” was too strong there. he did say it but clearly didn’t mean it.

any reporter could have said “these demands are unlikely to be met”.

any reporter of these times wise to hedge bets tbh

Very much not here for scorning at the idea of a citizen’s assembly in that absolute shit of a piece - this was done successfully in Ireland for equal marriage and abortion. The Yes % in the latter actually matched the decision of the Assembly almost dead on to the % point and their recommendation for what the government should legislate for meant there was a huge mandate after the vote because people knew what they were voting for and turned out in numbers for it. But shure what would we know about running referendums?

That said, the citizens assembly is way too late in the game for this and if Cameron wasn’t a gigantic ham-headed prick he might have done this a couple of years in advance of the vote.

not scorning the idea of citizens assemblies in general, but the idea of doing it *now* and making it '52% leavers" and stating from the get-go that it wasn't intended to go against "the will of the people"?

I was talking about this:

The idea, if you want to dignify it by calling it an idea, is as follows: a representative jury of members of the public, overseen by Welby, would listen to evidence – and, heartwarmingly, each other! – before making a series of recommendations on Brexit.

i think the scorn there is directed at the timing, not the principle.