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

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

I'm a seethrough myself and sometimes forget it hurts some other peoples feelings, couldn't gaf myself tbh!

Do people really, really think this is how the Royal ascent (sic) thing works? I knew this whole universal suffrage malarky would bite us in the arse eventually.

Cummings is ten steps ahead of them I reckon . Boris only needs to explain to her Majesty that parliament has gone rogue and is trying to betray the democracy of the people and will not even allow an election to validate their position She won’t give the surrender bill ascent.

— Dave (@DavidDlambie1) September 6, 2019

I have literally never heard this term before and !!!

Amusingly twitter search auto censors his name, it tells me that there have been 700 tweets about “Dominic commings” in the last hour though

I mean she doesn't even ACTUALLY give her assent. She's not sitting in Buck house waiting for a piece of paper. I know I shouldn't be because as as been discussed elsewhere here, the teaching of "civics" is patchy at best in the UK, but I am shocked anyone thinks the Queen is actually physically involved in any of this.

I’ve renamed him Quentin Taranchemo because JUST LOOK AT HIM.

no cancershaming itt pls

xp Ah, I see the Express has a headline "No deal Brexit bill PASSED: Only Queen can save no deal now -Could she block royal assent?" and although the article makes it clear she can't I suppose this is enough to give succour to some of Her Maj's intellectually challenged constituents.

I love the smell of royal ass scent in the morning

Incidentally, is this really a Cummings twitter a/c?

A useful tactic in life. pic.twitter.com/7ApySLZRVp

— Odyssean Project (@OdysseanProject) September 4, 2019

xp

BG, you may not know I turned up for my first day of school in a wig because chemotherapy and radiation zapped my hair off as part of very aggressive treatment for childhood cancer. I also get huge survivor’s guilt when friends and loved ones aren’t so lucky. Now that you do, maybe my gallows humour has an appreciable context.

sometimes we need awkward gallows humour - and different rules should apply to the powerful elites that don't care if we live or die by their policies. Although there was a poor young lad at my school with alopecia who used to get called Leukaemia Skywalker - that was shit.

The hounding of Boris Johnson is ugly, ugly stuff. He could eat a sandwich and Remainers would probably find a picture of Mussolini eating a sandwich to make a comparison. Many voters can see through this slippery behaviour and will vote for him as payback come election

— Charlotte Gill (@CharlotteCGill) September 6, 2019

Shame on you all!

i think they don't like it up em?

🤮 Want some sanex @jeremycorbyn? pic.twitter.com/ZhlbDCnYVN

— Andrew Fisher (@FisherAndrew79) September 6, 2019

Stupid woman.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/may/06/sun-front-page-antisemitic-save-our-bacon-ed-miliband

[cummings enters his mind palace. it is stressful. sun tzu, bismarck & machiavelli quotes flash by. a game theory matrix mapping out his possible choices hurtles towards him. von neumann! schelling! kahn! silence. he’s reached his conclusion]

“gonna call corbyn a chicken”

— Joe (@steamedhamms) September 6, 2019

brexit,,,,,,,,,, thank is

Wetherspoons cuts average price of pint by 20p today – you can thank Brexithttps://t.co/PnbWeq5Tsk pic.twitter.com/iERaGIezdB

— Daily Express (@Daily_Express) September 6, 2019

can't wait for spoonies to go out of business thanks to tim martin's determination to make brexit seem profitable

the cunt looks like Thatcher with the hair of Gerry Francis from that politicians with football managers hair account

why doesn't the cunt pay his staff a proper living wage instead?

no footballmanagerhairshaming itt pls

Tom D she has some answers for ya:

One example... Anyway, it's kind of missing the point of my post. People made fun of Ed Miliband eating the sandwich for purely aesthetic reasons. With BoJo anything he does - sneeze, eat, breathe - must be compared to fascism

— Charlotte Gill (@CharlotteCGill) September 6, 2019

NEW: @YouGov poll of voters in the Conservatives’ 13 Scottish seats, for @peoplesvote_uk, shows Westminster voting intention: SNP 42%, Tory 30%, Lib 12% , Lab 7%, Brex 5%. All 13 Tory MPs in Scotland would lose seats under uniform swing pic.twitter.com/qJjxrjcfu0

— Chris Musson (@ChrisMusson) September 6, 2019