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

It's a cliche to say you couldn't make it up, because you so could. But it would need a team of scriptwriters

I wonder if my friend’s niece (recently elected Lab councillor in Southall) will try for Pound’s seat?

every time i see a tweet from kate mccann it takes a second to remember it’s not madeline mccann’s mum so the one xyzzz just posted was particularly confusing/exciting

Jo!!

― Le Bateau Ivre, Thursday, 5 September 2019 10:45 (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

Jo! out

A+

Looks increasingly like swathes of Labour MPs will not vote for a GE, at least not before Nov 1. Did Crombin speak too soon saying "first the NDB off the table, then elections"? Seems like this could bite him in the bum.

I don’t know if anyone will notice this day of brotherly love

doesn't the frit thing just go away once an election is called? it's not as if team crobby can somehow source a line that will get strong MSM approval -- they will be harshly attacked whatever they do

yup - the attack line has some short term traction but won't survive a GE being called... which will now only be done when JC is good and ready

JC is PM confirmed

This is horrendous, JRM comparing the doctor to Andrew fucking Wakefield. Could be actionable if he hadn’t said it in parliament.

Astonishing: in the Commons, Jacob Rees-Mogg calls Dr David Nicholl, with whom he clashed over no-deal Brexit, "as irresponsible as Dr (Andrew) Wakefield", the disgraced anti-vaccines campaigner.

Background:https://t.co/SmgM2Leoat

— Peter Walker (@peterwalker99) September 5, 2019

A statement was made by a govt minister this am which I believe 2 be defamatory but is protected by Parliam privilege.
I am currently catching train 2 London 2 speak to @bbcpm Im happy 2 speak to any other legitimate journo on College Green afterwards.Apologies 2 my dentist.

— Dr David Nicholl, Esq (@djnicholl) September 5, 2019

"apologies to my dentist" is the new "hold my coat"

"apologies 2 my dentist" lmao

so.... if BJ would rather resign than seek an extension.... why would labour not simply sit on their hands until 31/10 ?

I think they will do just that.

Well you might want to have an election against someone as unstable as he has proven to be.

Tory PM running as the weak and unstable candidate this time round perhaps.

If Boris Johnson is gonna flail, let it be for awhile so even low information voters know all these new ways in which he’s awful.

bbc news going big on a new expedition to find the loch ness monster, good to see the regularly-scheduled silly season is still on despite the future of the uk teetering on a knife edge

silly season is later in the year now bcz climate change iirc

running out of big beasts elsewhere i should've thought

xp Tbf they are killing time before Boris J and the Security of the 1st World's big fashy electioneering speech

Anyone watching this super cringe?! He's doing that "joke" again (who opened up abt this, about him at some donor night) by deliberately messing up a punch line.

It's infrastructure week in the uk

Hope the thirty cops behind him arrest him.

Lol at these square jawed piglets trying not to fidget while he waffles on endlessly

The Great Orator is stumbling staccato through this drag of a "speech"

"Jo doesn't agree with me abt the EU, but he would agree that we need to get on and sort this thing out"

loool

Johnson asks police what the police caution is.

None of them read it out to him, so he tries to recite it himself. You do not have to say anything, but anything you do say may be taken down as evidence and used in evidence against you.

(Except Johnson does not say it coherently. He stumbles, and gives up half way through. Is he expecting someone to help him out? It is not clear, but it looks as though he has given no thought at all to what he wants to say.)

sounds like a cracking gig

Is this... supposed to be his election campaign launch speech? Oh this is hilarious.

think I perhaps didn't truly appreciate his vast capacity for fucking up absolutely everything before

he's even more 'he's be... he'she's... he's he's a coward'

Haha, third media question that begins with "if even your own brother" lol

Q: Shouldn’t you be next to resign?

Johnson says MPs said they would respect the referendum.

He says there is a stark contrast between his approach and Jeremy Corbyn’s. He says they are making it impossible for the country to leave the EU, and for the country to have an election. He says Corbyn must be the first opposition lead to oppose an election. That goes against his job description, he says.

"I'd rather be dead in a ditch than going back to Brussels asking for a delay."

already kinda looks like he's kinda not into this

wonder if any of these policemen have any thoughts on the subject of leaving people dead in ditches

this is... not good

no this is very good

he's now exploding about jezza again, chocking on syllables

Listening to Boris Johnson's police speech now & it's like when the guy in the Thirty-Nine Steps has to give a lecture in order to avoid getting killed by spies

— Paul Duane (@MrPaulDuane) September 5, 2019

one of the cops sitting down because it's taken so long?

fs some rozzer just collapsed

Did that cop behind him just pass out?

Panic attack maybe?

standing directly in the sun in all-black garb can't be helping

Missed a prime opportunity to barf on his head.

wonder if any of these policemen have any thoughts on the subject of leaving people dead in ditches

Good to see here's a leader that really reaches out when someone's in need amirite

That Ian Paisley quote isn’t any better the more he repeats it.

this is astounding

You absolutely love to see it 😁*

The Telegraph has been told by two sources in the rebel group that relations between Boris Johnson and Dominic Cummings are becoming strained thanks to the behaviour of his chief adviser https://t.co/GFtDbuFWsO

— The Telegraph (@Telegraph) September 5, 2019

Apologies to my dentist

remember when May got a cough and the letters fell off? seems like sheer statesmanship

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EDqnV7BUYAAiDoW?format=jpg&name=small

He's going to start dancing soon :(