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

Here we fuckin' go - Part 2 (... and so it starts)

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-49526876

(xp) btw anvil, your physical description of the Lib Dem Bloke you encountered exactly corresponded to a Lib Dem Bloke I met a few years back, though this guy was older.

i lived like two minutes away from there until the end of last year! xp

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DuAg2OdW4AE6oln.jpg

https://imgur.com/a/fjEJ7cs

SNP exploiting adolescent anxiety about getting seen adjusting your fly...

https://i.imgur.com/NuK9Nln.jpg

At the Bristol protest march right now, pretty strong turnout

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/content/dam/politics/2019/08/31/TELEMMGLPICT000207875767_trans_NvBQzQNjv4BqEDjTm7JpzhSGR1_8ApEWQA1vLvhkMtVb21dMmpQBfEs.jpeg

you love to see it!

(that's shrewsbury old market hall)

(shropshire is feudal-reactionary as balls mostly but its market town does have an earnest largely ageing liberal stripe)

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EDSubqJWsAAn3fx?format=jpg&name=small

newcastle earlier.

the shrewsbury pret is out of the picture behind the photographer iirc

dont worry lads, After brexit the entire country will be one big pret. in singapore(?) with a proper english name.

but don't forget without the abundance of actual affordable housing there is in Singapore, that would be "populism"!

brexit is good again

lack of zeal and disdain for politics is not a defining lib dem trait imo - it equally applies to lots of Tories - so much as an aversion to 'partisan' and 'factional' politics and ideology in general. lib dems I know are working class and sick of labour corruption (which is fair enough in Manchester) and desperate for some sort of objective, policy-based transcendent politics. not 'grown up' as in cynical/'realistic' abt human nature but very rationalist and wary of the more clannish tendencies of the left

lack of zeal and disdain for politics

Its not lack of zeal though, its disapproval of the image of zealousness from those who like to imagine themselves above it. And its not disdain for politics, its disinterest in policies as being central to politics

As for the rest of what you're saying I can agree to an extent, and thats how I might have characterized the Lib Dems pre-coalition. There'll be disagreement here on this but I don't think LibDems of today and LibDems pre-coalitions are the same (for a variety, of reasons both internal and external to them)

I can see how the Lib Dems at local government level are functionally a different beast to the national party or at least their support seems very rooted in experience of the other parties' terrible councillors. I guess this applies in other directions depending on the local authority.

They've consistently come up with new and exciting ways to squat by the side of a road and glumly point at a pothole, you mean?

Kerbs to the left of them, potholes to the right

some of them like to diversify into standing in car parks with disapproving grimaces - to show how much they are displeased by the spiralling costs of parking charges.

Its not lack of zeal though, its disapproval of the image of zealousness from those who like to imagine themselves above it. And its not disdain for politics, its disinterest in policies as being central to politics

This also applies to a lot of Tories. I think the lib dem approach is to venerate policy and 'smart' (cheap) innovations to big problems (esp if they involve an app)

Pret A Manger locations overlaid on to Brexit voting patterns. Still my favourite map 😀 pic.twitter.com/fRy8cPaDgy

— Ian Warren (@election_data) August 31, 2019

lol Hull had a Pret maybe 10 years ago, didn't last 6 months

Changing my DN to reflect the current situ (and the best poster from the marches today).

i guess to get process liberals sharpening the guillotine you have to, casaully and insultingly, fuck with process

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EDTyRVqWwAAiM2x?format=jpg

wait that pret map says there isn't one in shrewsbury, but there is, i call bullshit

It's old perhaps? Scottish map would be interesting - St Andrews has one, and it's kind of Lib Demmy here.

fuck me even i wouldn't compare this shower to Charles I, that guy knew how to pâté la bourgeoisie

omg i'm starving.

the only respectable pret sandwich is ham butter and cornichons fuiud btw

pret is horrible tho, the thing making me hungry is the talk of pate i want to point out

the only respectable pret sandwich is ham butter and cornichons fuiud btw

cosine

pret is horrible tho

no

People are literally marching on Buckingham Palace. Honestly incredible pic.twitter.com/APQRBfrb9s

— William Kedjanyi (@KeejayOV2) August 31, 2019

I used to go to pret for a coronation chicken sandwich every time I was in London in the late 90s, now prets are everywhere and they don't do anything as plebian as a coronation chicken sandwich, so I don't go.

another reason to march on the palace

plax otm on both counts

xp liz is indirectly responsible for the situation, yes

Never been to a pret.

a Mekons classic

if they don't do kebabs and pizzas and mind the bad publicity of losing a few FSA hygiene stars then they ain't happening in Dewsbury any time soon!

i am always otm about everything

To all protesting in London today:

1) thank you

2) please, PLEASE do NOT go near Buckingham Palace. The Queen is as much of a victim of Johnson’s baloney as we all are. She had no choice.

To demonstrate there is wrong and will anger many.

This is on Johnson & Cummings alone

— Buck Frexit! 🇪🇺🔶 #StoptheCoup #REMAIN🎪 (@Beany_1) August 31, 2019

counterpoint: stfu bootlicker

good old beany 1

best pret is veggie new yorker on rye fuiud

there are 71 prêts in glasgow - probably explains why it is so remainy

These Republican FBPE posts are like a window back to 1648

stoya come to buck house, the revolution is happening

in my experience

with this i can't

i mean

best pret is veggie new yorker on rye fuiud

(c+p error)

but also omg who wants a refrigerated sandwich? sandwiches should be fried in chest pains

xxp irl lol

sorry that was to mark!

I just checked his tl and he’s definitely thought about it