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

https://pics.me.me/a-strange-game-the-only-winning-move-is-not-to-6657317.png

Did Boris Johnson go to Wakefield just to mess with the SEO for Jacob Rees Mogg's Andrew Wakefield comparison

my febrile Brexit brain believes this, and that his studiedly awkward bus nonsense was too

He was up in the area though and in Morley and outwood (really marginal) and Wakefield itself is also pretty marginal and they’ve indicated they want to target Northern labour seats.

I think the last few days have established they’re as incompetent as they are malicious

JRM has apologised I see - obviously not going well with whoever this crowd actually listens to

Ed Balls lost Morley by about 200 iirc

Shd've danced harder

BJ's repeatedly referring to the SNP as "separatists" really does just make him look daft and unserious

JRM has apologised I see - obviously not going well with whoever this crowd actually listens to

― gyac, Friday, 6 September 2019 07:59 (sixteen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

can one climb down from a slouch

Props for Cummings from you? Really?
― lefal junglist platton (wtev), Thursday, 5 September 2019 bookmarkflaglink

Yes, he is making Tories suffer. Cummings is like a consultant coming in and telling the CEO his modernisation involves making thousands redundant, and probably getting rid of management who aren't up to scratch. Tory cunts like Soames would be praising it, and instead are crying because it's happening to them. You gotta enjoy it on some level.

I'm enjoying it on many, many levels

That's the spirit

In Labour there are different views on exactly when an early election should take place, and there is as yet no settled view.

journalists really are over-labouring this - it is a fast-moving and complex situation and so no wonder there has been some slight slips on the precise timing of when an election should be. the important point is that no deal has to be off the table first

Putting the guy saying "please leave my town" on a loop.

"Sir Michael Fallon, the former defence secretary, has joined the longish list of Tories who have decided to stand down at the next election. Fallon, 67, told the Today programme this morning that he was planning to stand down at the end of this parliament anyway, but he did express concerns about Boris Johnson’s decision to purge the 21 Conservatives who rebelled against the government on Tuesday. He said he hoped they might have the whip restored."

I’ve had it with journalists making the screw-face and saying ‘we don’t understand what the position is’ (looking at you, Fiona Bruce, since it’s actually really difficult to convey the screw-face from behind a wall of Botox injections) because the position is:

*Call an election after the Benn thingummy has Royal assent and the UK has an extension to A50 in place.

*When Labour wins that election, they go to the EU and draw up a new WA based on their parameters, showing that they respect the 2016 vote.

*Ratification of new WA in public vote v. Remain, with MPs free to campaign for whichever option (as in 1975) so that it doesn’t become a confidence issue around Corbyn if his deal is beaten by Remain.

xxp

Yorkshire is good again

the govt's proposed a "new towns fund" to address some of the deprivation they've been nurturing over the past decade. obviously they could never empower or properly fund an elected body like a council, so instead they've drawn up this list of 100 towns (bc round numbers are the truth) to pour some money in a patchwork fashion they can control. all 100 towns in england, don't know what a lot of them are like and here are some worthy ones here but also posh stockport suburb cheadle (tory seat with a 4k majority), so a whiff of corruption on top of everything else

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/100-places-to-benefit-from-new-towns-fund

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/5d716db6ed915d08f9a72a7c/list-of-100-places.pdf

quick skim of that list looks v random to me, also whole councils are apparently towns, East Riding of Yorkshire ffs Tory thru and thru

quangos are a great way of ignoring democracy tho

you couldn't get a more starker contrast than posh af Todmorden and Dewsbury, and then a Labour safe seat like Huddersfield doesn't qualify - yet has taken a real battering from austerity and I can see some con/lab marginals on there, that type of crude electoral bribery/fraud surely doesn't happen in the country with the mother of all parliaments.

xp think you misread it, East Riding of Yorkshire isn't in the town column

if anyone wants to play a game you could see if you can find a town that voted remain on that list

news to me that Wakefield is a district of Leeds City Council.

Wakefield Council didn't fight to keep white on black street signs only to become a rump district of that damned city!

Lol

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/sep/06/boris-johnson-prorogation-of-parliament-is-lawful-high-court-rules

These people must have money to burn

A load of old bullocks and one very ornery bull

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/live/2019/sep/06/brexit-boris-johnson-news-latest-eu-labour-confirms-it-will-not-vote-on-monday-night-for-early-election-live-newsbior#img-1

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9PG6sITiNEs&list=RD9PG6sITiNEs&start_radio=1

youtube fail = Jake Thackray - The Bull

Proroguation issue cleared to go to Supreme Court on the 17th. It’s not over yet.

https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/a174bbb15dcf2663419007e12287c7b644384967/92_336_3205_1923/master/3205.jpg?width=620&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=94857fb14363455025f067999cfccd66

soz, Ed's pic didn't load for me

These people must have money to burn

― Joe Proroguin' (Noodle Vague), Friday, 6 September 2019 bookmarkflaglink

Elites have awful tastes.

Yorkshire is good again

Going too far now.

This piece by Curtice is pretty good on Labour's best timing for an election. Nothing that hasn't been thought about but a decent enough summary.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/sep/06/early-late-election-labour-brexit-october-johnson

so of those 100 towns only 6 voted majority remain: cheadle, newhaven, norwich, southport, staveley & truro

still and all lads it's some craic isnt it

certainly keeps this thread ticking over nicely

Are Norwich and Truro not cities?

They are

imagining that in emperor joaquin phoenix delivery obv

Already established I can't make head nor tail of the pdf tho

best of luck to the lad

Chuka Umunna, the former Labour MP who joined the Lib Dems this year, has announced that he plans to stand for his new party in The Cities of London & Westminster at the next election, Joe Murphy reveals in the Evening Standard. As Murphy writes, this is “a flagship [Conservative] seat that covers the City, Buckingham Palace and 10 Downing Street”.

The current MP, Mark Field, had a majority of 3,148 over Labour at the 2017 election. The Lib Dems were a poor third in the seat in that election, but in this year’s European election they came top in the constituency.

Umunna says he cannot stand again in his current constituency, Streatham, because the Lib Dems already have a candidate there. Standing for Labour in Streatham two years ago, Umunna had a majority of 26,285.

Great post by Suzy on Labour position.

I turned on Radio 4 this morning.

They were asking: Should JC resign?

Follow up, should he be hanged?

Posts that could've been made any day in the last 3 years

General election 2017: Cities of London and Westminster
CON - 18,005 -7.5
LAB - 14,857 +11.0
LD - 4,270 +4.1

good luck chuka

I turned on Professor Henry Higgins this morning.

He was asking: why can't a woman be more like a man?

Lab could possibly win that seat, cunt could split the vote instead xp

it would be hilarious if chuka’s final achievement in politics was helping labour win a conservative seat

like i said, best of luck to the lad