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

If only the Labour Party had a leader with the easy ability to appeal to voters of all classes, genders and ethnicities, like Boris Johnson.

Carrie Lam might be available soon

Sic often has an aggressively rude style of posting, so it's not like you feel duty bound to take off your gloves and keep it polite when he starts posting ill informed bollox on this thread. And at a rare moment of triumph as well ffs! I can't even count these moments on one hand.

In terms of Corbyn's appeal yes he is a common enough person in a way that most of us know someone like him, and whether that brings revulsion or not - and most people don't really know a Cameron or a Johnson. I do see people with his politics who can't stand JC. So its something beyond policy. I don't know if that in itself will be enough to keep him from No 10.

this morning Bush was talking about how JRM arrogantly lolling memes are something that has serious negative cut through traction for the tories outside the twitter commentariat, and Cameron worked hard at disguising his own poshness for a good reason.

me being me I thought he looked kinda beautiful and sad and I would feel a pang of regret watching him mount the scaffold

He looked humiliated afterwards, you hate to see it

all I can see is subhuman vermin... this long war has taken its toll on me!

(the calz/xyz rhetorical style of screaming and shooting wildly at literally anyone who gets close enough for them to see the whites of the eyes has my full endorsement as a method of coping with the stress of society's incipient collapse, but it can leave onlookers & victims alike unelucidated as to what opinions they actually wish everyone would hold)

Glad I caught on this one gem of a post (usually looking at the last 50). Oh I am so sorry you feel like this sic please post Ian Dunt's opinions on this thread more often I'll try to keep my 'screaming' to myself.

hey I endorsed it

I do see people with his politics who can't stand JC. So its something beyond policy. I don't know if that in itself will be enough to keep him from No 10.

― xyzzzz__,

Its true that if Pidcock, Vardy or any other person on the left gets in they too will undergo similar treatment and become mysteriously disliked too....but only to an extent. Its much deeper than policy which huge sections of the electorate dgaf anyway. Its psychological and deep rooted, the fact of the matter is some people don't like geography teachers and university lecturers.

But until his Leicester contract runs out it is what it is

me being me I thought he looked kinda beautiful and sad and I would feel a pang of regret watching him mount the scaffold

soon, my friend. Soon.

my fav articulated knee-jerk disgust at corbs was nakh (rip) describing him as "shambling fakir/low church preacher"

In my London bubble the people I see disliking Corbyn are:

1. People who think he hasn’t done enough on Brexit or are Corbyn Leave Voter truthers (to which I have always said, that’s bollocks, Ireland/ECJ, long game, bear with him).
2. ‘That’s not leadership/we have NO OPPOSITION’ tbh he is not following the leadership model drilled into British people from school onward, it’s a bit more Woodcraft in Corbynworld. These people are never able to nutshell exactly what leadership means to them but often mentioned Yvette Cooper, LOL.
3. Jewish people/Islamophobes/hawks who were reluctant to vote for Ed Miliband after he made it party policy in 2014 to recognise Palestinian statehood claims and left then (when Jewish support for Labour nosedived) but a gentile advocating the exact same thing is obvs a raging antisemite who will endanger Jewish people and cares more about The Muslims.
4. Privileged feminists and TERFs banging on about The Brocialists, who say they are now voting LibDem.

I thought it was pom/Fred level 'he is Putin's puppet'

Hey Alphie, has it ever occurred to you… that you might be a bully and a troll and a liar?

Give it a rest ffs.

removing the whip from 20+ MPs (including churchill's grandson no less!) going down like a bucket of cold sick today - you simply love to see it. makes them look slightly deranged - though have to admire the chutzpah... and only wish JC had been half as ruthless.

That list is growing pom.

the list is largely innaccurate bcz you don't read carefully, you can't just liken ppl to fred and not expect pushback

Apols if point already made but I thought the Slouching Mogg picture was a great visual representation of the man’s hypocrisy - had it been anyone else he’d have been on his feet making some long-winded speech of admonishment for the poor form.

That’s on top of his own recent defiance of the whip.

slouching towards bedlam

the list is largely innaccurate bcz you don't read carefully, you can't just liken ppl to fred and not expect pushback

― mark s, Wednesday, 4 September 2019 bookmarkflaglink

They are pals I thought he'd be flattered.

Who is he?
- went to Eton
- went to Oxford
- was in Bullingdon
- ran London
- became Foreign Secretary
- was considered great orator, writer & historian
- became PM
- lost his first vote as PM
- eventually got bored with politics.

It’s Archibald Primrose, the Earl of Rosebery.

— Faisal Islam (@faisalislam) September 4, 2019

considered great orator, writer & historian

🤔

the fact of the matter is some people don't like geography teachers and university lecturers.

A relative has a real dislike of McD that when pressed collapses into just 'it's in his eyes, he look untrustworthy' shit osmosed thru negative media spin

"eventually" comes from a careless skim of the wikipedia page i think: rosebery was bored of politics (also bad at it) i think even before he became PM and he was PM for only just over a year before the libs were booted out of power, beginning their great slide to perdition

many of his projects were frustrated by his own party

Oh yeah out in the shires a lot of people think McDonnell is Semtex in human form.

My right wing cousin says about McD that the lack of dislike is the real worry ("Wolf in sheep's clothing", "Dangerous operator"), its the fact that he DOESN'T dislike him that really sets the alarm bells off for him. It should be more obvious on a psychological level that he is a future mass murderer and garage stealer, what if people don't realize?

My guess would be most people in the UK don’t have an opinion on John McDonnell.

I can't imagine why anyone could have any less than utter unconditional love for McD

there is an actor melt who I crossed swords with on a football forum after he said unkind things about McD. The ex-Coronation Street star couldn't articulate what he didn't like about McD, but this was someone who thought Owen Smith "was just the right type of leadership the PLP needs right now".

also this luvvie described the Alan Johnson memoir as "a great read"

bouncing yourself into an election just as the economy is going into recession and real wages are falling. strategic genius

92 amendments tabled in the Lords, they are gonna go hard on the filibuster

Alan Smithee is correct

These are the percentages of voting age adults, not just the Labour party, who responded "I have not heard of them" to each politician:

Barry Gardiner = 87%
Angela Rayner = 66%
Keir Starmer = 58%
John McDonnell = 50%
Tom Watson = 49%
Emily Thornberry = 49%
Shami Chakrabarti = 47%

Barry Gardiner = 87%

thank fsck

Tom Tugendhat = 0%

SV to thread

I have never heard of Tom Watson

feeling very seen and shamed that i *know* who all those ppl are tbrr

i shd take up something non-toxic and useful, maybe pokemon

There are obvious similarities

Watson is that steroids guy who bravely brought down the paedo ring, that Kevin Costner movie The Untouchables is based on him

If this the last week or so is a tactical error by Cummings/Johnson, what should they have done differently. If you want to leave on the most definitive terms possible, what was the right move here?

l-r: johnson, cummings
https://i.imgur.com/8WwvFwG.jpg

xp how would you get the bants when Big Baz goes off though

Last night was a gift to memes

I’d like to bring something to Westminster’s attention pic.twitter.com/rkLcFNHfJz

— Ireland Simpsons Fans (@iresimpsonsfans) September 3, 2019

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— Ireland Simpsons Fans (@iresimpsonsfans) September 4, 2019

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— Ireland Simpsons Fans (@iresimpsonsfans) September 3, 2019

after last night I need a new fav Tory. I'm concerned Tommy Tugz smile is too bland & Dec-ish, but he does apparently speak dari

Scottish judge chucked out the "no proragation" case

Gina McKee and John Majors still at bat tomorrow tho

Northern Ireland one still on, too, I think?

yesterday the FT said Sobez had one with Jess Phillips as well?