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

Expect more of this.

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/new-spin-doctor-number-ten-18796857

I think they (lame duck cooked goose turkeys voting for Xmas) will just transfer it to 'being too chicken to walk away without a deal' by then.

This is KFC not LBC don’t @ me. https://t.co/VOfnH5kb11

— KFC UK & Ireland (@KFC_UKI) September 6, 2019

so boris is channeling the mirror chicken while dom is possessed by the malevolent spirit of blobby, mere mummers playing the part of puppets, the fowl and the foul

oh fuck

xpost

this culminates in JC wearing a chicken suit y/n

Corbz wearing a blobby suit is the logical end point

Sorry but that image just makes me think of the Dictators (ha!) and their estimable "Go Girl Crazy" album.

https://cdn-s3.allmusic.com/release-covers/500/0001/416/0001416116.jpg

^ JC should do a parody of this.

handsome dick replaced with a large cock?

big drop pic.twitter.com/XWUjnzSuLt

— Vincent Wood (@wood_vincent) September 6, 2019

Remembering how chaotic everything was around the March deadline, it's incredible how easy it has been to get a bill passed mandating a second extension. Boris and Cummings trying to play bad guys for a second and the proroguing thingy really backfired.

Bill passed in the Lord's. Becomes law on Monday

And btw that is how to and that tricky question:

Enjoyable vignette from @PickardJE's lunch with John McDonnell https://t.co/R0actSXeSz pic.twitter.com/x82Dcw4sQo

— Patrick Maguire (@patrickkmaguire) September 6, 2019

Anything less than seeing boris grovelling and eating shit will be a massive disappointment, hopefully this isn't all a part of some dastardly mr huge brain ruse.

perhaps Cummings didn't imagine the opposition organizing itself so well

Sun tzu advised him badly

I hope that chap who asked B to leave Morley never has to buy a pint or cup of tea for himself ever again.

Corbyn also had a great answer (xps to my accelerationist friend):
https://youtu.be/xRjgiqCWvbE

lmao missed this bit yesterday

What is he doing? pic.twitter.com/w16twJInoY

— Adam Bienkov (@AdamBienkov) September 5, 2019

jeremy hunt has been conspicuously quiet recently 👀

Cummings as Daedalus trapped in the Labyrinth of his own devising, Boris as the lumbering Minotaur fatally wounded by Jez Theseus, Chicken King of Athens

Such great minds

Sky News can reveal Boris Johnson described David Cameron as a "girly swot" in a redacted hand-written note which was shown in court this week

— Sky News Breaking (@SkyNewsBreak) September 6, 2019

so is Boris provoking conscience and rebellion where May didn't simply because May adhered to expected decorum and Boris uh does not? seems like that could be the main reason

gyac - 👍

Silby yeah that's a big chunk of it, but also May was trying - badly, but still - to get a deal voted thru, and Johnson is not.

TM was also having to turn a blind eye to rebels because of the numbers whereas BJ just deselected them all and is getting lots of grief from the One Nation type, esp those who’ve ignored their former principles to serve in his cabinet.

is that One Nation or Onanate Nation that Mr jerk at work represents? There really hasn't been One Nation Tories since the early 70's - they just try and keep it more polite whilst they murder the disabled and further impoverish the working poor.

Otm but it’s how they define themselves against the lilico and headbanger types

so... is his only play (short of resignation) to bring back may’s deal and force people to vote for it at threat of no deal ? some suggestion he can’t go for no deal now because he would be pursued in the courts - but... would that not take time ?

https://www.redpepper.org.uk/the-crisis-of-conservatism/

I enjoyed this bit about the demise of toryism and James butler is one of the more readable pundits despite the overly present i-went-to-oxford-isms (I don't know if he really went to Oxford, but it's a style of writing)

The weird “girly swot” jibe reminds me of this:

The relationship with Cameron today is said by friends of the mayor to be in “really good” shape in spite of the public sniping and clear rivalry between the two. Johnson, three years senior to Cameron, still harks back to their days at Eton when he was elected to Pop, the school prefects, whose members are elected by incumbent prefects in the year above, and Cameron was not. At a recent Pop reunion, Johnson entered the room with his hand on brow as if searching for the prime minister and calling: “Where’s Dave?”

Butler and Seymour seem to be reconditely duking it out there over who will be the apprentice Perry Anderson :0

Xp What a feckin eejit. One of the born to rule corollaries that the great unwashed of this country never seem to consider is how these twits are all essentially children for whom this is all a consequence-free game. These are the most irresponsible, feckless know nothings imaginable. They know nothing about the world they presume to govern. They know little of the cause and effect principle that children learn in the cot because nothing they do is, for them, irrevocable. Is this generation currently strutting the boards worse than ever on this front? (A quick glance at Churchill say suggests not) the ever more present cameras reveal a class of people who are supremely juvenile. I hate knowing about their silly little childish games. For most of us those are just the things we have to just get over, it sickens me that their little mirror-stage egos and playground dramas are structuring the very real political and social realities we have to fucking live in.

the one redeeming thing about may being that she was never part of that and did seem to act as though her role actually meant something other than just the opportunity to lord it over everyone else

The big David runciman piece on her from the lrb a couple of years ago got her very right I think. Her pettiness distinguishes itself from bullingdon self-regard but in some respects is an extension on it (CF her delight in firing Osborne)

I think it's the thing I've read that best saw her

It's all under control

New: Tonight’s No. 10 meeting: Dominic Cummings told government aides they needed to be ‘cool like fonzies’ - he said that that ‘this is only the beginning’ and the strategy was to wait for others to melt while No10 rachet it up.

— Katy Balls (@katyballs) September 6, 2019

Cummings does know where the whole 'jumping the shark,' turn of phrase comes from, yes?

— Philip Murray (@SPP_PMurray) September 6, 2019

Nigel Evans voice is murder, no offence to any Welsh ILX but ffs what a detestable accent.

breaking: pm boris johnson tells jeremy corbyn to ‘sit on it’

‘cool like fonzies’

thread delivers

i leave ilx alone for one (1) evening and no one responds to chairman alph's "corbyn in a blobby suit" PROPOSAL by screaming CROBBY CROBBY CROBBY

blobbyn, shurely

why oh why is the left so sectarian

what’s wrong with being sect-y

seems obvious that was left for you mark

you’re only the second biggest fan of Mr Blobby itt though tbf

cool like fonzies

knew that bald prick would be a Tarantino fan

no baldshaming itt pls