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

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

yes he has a chest-mounted camera pointed at his face, it's like lenin in the sealed train

did mason ever get to fuck stoya or

settled for fucking his rep instead

shame on remainers for cancelling harry's wank https://t.co/jaNXta8qsS

— eustachy r daewo (@uncoolfellazone) August 31, 2019

harold coleold is only like 20 years old. conservatism kills/ages

That’s not the first wank Harry’s had cancelled because of something the PM did...

Jeremy Corbyn in Glasgow doing an impression of Boris Johnson pic.twitter.com/S3sglQa0So

— Conor Riordan (@conorrPA) August 31, 2019

boris absolutely destroyed

*** Breaking News*** Labour drawing up plans to offer all pensioners state-funded care in their homes - If this is to be a policy announcement, it will be very popular. This will be a vote winner for sure.https://t.co/r2rrtRxiEn

— Labours Black PLP (@LaboursBlackPLP) August 31, 2019

this sounds promising and will be popular, especially when ppl start noticing when boris has run out of one-off election bribe money, the long term project is likely much harder austerity.

the FT are running a series on Corbynomics. The first piece is pretty even handed, does contain some cracking quotes tho:

“I would be worried about Jeremy Corbyn, John McDonnell and Seumas Milne, they don’t give a fuck about the City of London,” says one senior Labour figure. “I think a lot of money would be shifted out on day one. There are a lot of people who are worried about the future financial security of the City.”

:’(

gosh i hope they'll be okay

oh noes, will no-one think of the people who destroyed the economy in 2008 without any direct legal repercussions

re: the centrist brainworms upthread. lately that with the "they're all the same, politicians" clichés having become unsustainable and the collapse of TINA discourses, its weirdly even more depressing to think of the hordes of people actively choosing against rescuing the NHS, providing proper social welfare etc. One thing that 'centrism' did was to mask the viciousness of people everywhere by allowing the most craven motives to be repackaged by used care salesmen into balanced and realistic compromises. Now that you can make a clearcut choice between the "kill everyone now" and "let's work together" parties its really disturbing to see how many people can unashamedly get behind the former. Its the only thing that sortof makes me nostalgic for the old days and it makes me understand why its a warm blanket to so many, especially those who have many other means of cosseting themselves from the world.

one senior Labour figure

what "senior" labour figure do we think this is

Omg that Boris impression owns

In her book on GDP, Diane Coyle has a fascinating section on the impact of potentially overestimating the contribution of financial services to the economy. If you get the chance it’s worth reading the chapter “Value Added, Value Subtracted” in its entirety:

The FISIM statistical mirage affects all countries’ GDP. One study of the United States concludes: “Making conservative assumptions, we show that the current official method overestimates the service output of the commercial banking industry by at least 21% (amounting to $ 116.8 billion in 2007: Q4 for example) and GDP by 0.3% ($ 52.9 billion in 2007: Q4 for example) between 1997 and 2007.” For the Eurozone, adjusting for banks’ risk-taking would reduce the measured output of the financial sector by 25–40 percent. If the same factor were applied in the United Kingdom, the measured contribution of the financial sector would have been 6–7.5 percent of GDP in 2008, rather than 9 percent. These figures are staggering: the size of the financial sector in recent years has been overstated by at least one-fifth, maybe even by as much as one-half. Why does it matter that the contribution of the financial services industry to GDP is overstated? The answer is that political leaders shape economic policy around key sectors. During the financial crisis, the industry’s lobbying has had a substantial impact on political decisions about regulatory reform, not just because investment banks make donations to political parties, but also because politicians genuinely believe the industry to be fundamentally important to jobs and economic growth. “Our economy needs the industry,” wrote Alastair Darling, the U.K. chancellor of the exchequer, in his memoir of the crisis, despite having experienced the height of the crisis when the industry had, on the contrary, nearly torpedoed the economy.

There is a genuine problem of methodology here, rather than the finance sector being a complete leach - how do you relate the process of generating additional money by the management of risk to productivity, and what *is* productivity anyway - but it won’t surprise anyone that methodologies heavily favour the financial sector.

there is a question of incentives here as well - that relation of risk to value, which is foundational to finance and which is baked into GDP figures, means their is an incentive to loosen the regulation surrounding risk management in order to generate “value”.

oh noes, will no-one think of the people who destroyed the economy in 2008 without any direct legal repercussions

oh that last para is also from the book - didn’t mean to paste.

think of all the "talent" the UK will lose to capital flight during a Corbyn/McD government though. When it happened in the 70's we all died.

https://twitter.com/uncoolfellazone/status/1168065127288995840/photo/3

ugh and now i can't find the original, it was very funny though (in a ffs kind of a way)

instead of going to the protests @joswinson was at a retreat for "new age corporate strategy" pic.twitter.com/0dZukvvfrX

— eustachy r daewo (@uncoolfellazone) September 1, 2019

this?

Swinson is priceless... well not to big fracking of course. She'll be gone by xmas.

Lol that’s the Peter Walker hoaxer, looks like he used a fake byline this time

Now that you can make a clearcut choice between the "kill everyone now" and "let's work together" parties its really disturbing to see how many people can unashamedly get behind the former.p

I don't think they see it through that lens. The partner of Cristian Eriksen lookalike said about Bernie/Healthcare "Yes thats all well and good but he voted for himself!!! how can I support someone like that?"

I don't think they are getting behind "kill everyone now", I think its more about character, someone that they could have round for dinner. Which then comes round to branding and packaging, maybe they are sort of reachable