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

suzy otm on those numbers. people having a look at the specific claims are saying they’re bollocks.

finance, including well-known Tories, looking to position itself to make money out of brexit tho - absolutely.

i'm guessing that hedge funds will be hedging against all possible outcomes, this is after all exactly what (in a broader sense) they're for: insurance against market tumbles of one kind or another, to ensure the air isn't sucked out of every cranny of the market at the same time

still I think betting on food/medicine shortages is outrageous form from polls and they should be strung up and bled out for such appalling practices.

It's the donations that are the scandal, not the fact of the bets themselves.

it's these kind of distinctions that are turning me full communist!

You hardly needed much encouragement there

Idly searching TW’s twitter account normally as I always do & found this:

"It's like people are tranquilised. All the rights...are being clawed back by extremists." I love Bobby Gillespie: http://t.co/PjejYVuYkF

— Tom Watson (@tom_watson) March 14, 2013

On Monday at 8pm, David Cameron breaks his silence. pic.twitter.com/GSLPjNZs84

— tom bradby (@tombradby) September 12, 2019

gyac u r nuts

wow that's impressive, cameron is being interviewed by cumberbatch playing cummings was my first thought.

xp I was hoping to find a Blobby reference to make it real

Also

Lots of news around yesterday, but important this doesn't get missed: Tory MPs 'less likely' to help black people to register to vote, UCL study suggests.https://t.co/4Of17bLqQD

— Paul Waugh (@paulwaugh) September 12, 2019

I- pic.twitter.com/0C3D8qzQA0

— Tyron (@TyronWilson) September 12, 2019

lol that doesn't really change my assessment

does "fantasy" imply things that the respondent has not done because i have questions

I think we all have questions

I know a LD & they have him bang to rights tbh

"Sex with a sports star" in Theresa May's fantasises they always finish with a post-coital offer of a knighthood

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D_lGTBUX4AA7Cc3?format=jpg&name=large

^^^currently not out overnight, and ready for more!!

Have we done this yet? Should be unsurprising to everyone here and I'm not sure about the numbers but it's getting some traction.

Big scoop from @Byline_Media - extraordinary amounts of money amounting to £8.3bn placed by Boris Johnson and Vote Leave backers on a no deal crashout on 31 October #DisasterCapitalism https://t.co/VvFutCmKwt pic.twitter.com/WvV2D1d1NA

— Byline (@Byline_Media) September 11, 2019

― Matt DC, Thursday, 12 September 2019 07:49 (ten hours ago) link

Very dark part of me suspects that stories like this aren't so much ignored, it's just that they make Johnson and No Deal slightly more popular among the plain people of england

xxp can we identify lanyard prick in the background feels like he's a) very ridiculeable and memeable b) some tory boy prick who deserves it

We could but that’s TM’s husband right beside her

Wait for a second there I thought the lanyard guy was former narnia actor skandar keynes
https://cdn.images.express.co.uk/img/dynamic/36/590x/secondary/SKANDAR-1282007.jpg

about time this thread had some Charlie Mullins related content, he's disappeared off the map since he went LibDem!

https://www.pimlicoplumbers.com/img/DSC_1933.jpg

lol check those reg plates out!

no takers for NICK CI3GG

or J0 SW1NS0N

creasing @ “T1m Fa110n”

IIY0D G30RGE

^^^currently not out overnight, and ready for more!!

― imago, Thursday, September 12, 2019 6:48 PM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

that's Curran of the Tom persuasion

This is a counter to that story posted by Matt:

https://stumblingandmumbling.typepad.com/stumbling_and_mumbling/2019/09/doubting-disaster-capitalism.html

"the vast majority of fund managers in our data set were not simply unlucky, they were genuinely unskilled"

lines you read in an adam curtis voice

I believe several studies have shown that totally random investment choices/choices made by monkeys pointing at the financial pages make more money than investment choices by fund managers.

Alexei would be at home on our thread

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0008bbc

more power to the talentless unfunny shouty wanker, but I'm not clicking on that!

It’s funny. He lives around the corner from me, and gave me a communist bike once.

he gave you a what now

Xp
When he used to ruin episodes of the young ones when I was a kid he taught me an important lesson : all stand up comedians are not remotely funny and bad.

I should have known even the Tankie’s Tankie wouldn’t raise a smile around here.

I have seen the communist bike and it is as described.

More Maoist than Stalinist iirc

the other night i heard a joke from his current Radio 4 show about Idris Elba as James Bond and it made me give a little chortle and then i thought about ILX and i felt bad

If we’re talking communist bikes, how about the time the Telegraph paid someone to dissect an image of Corbyn getting on his (communist) bike?
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/health-fitness/body/what-we-can-learn-about-jeremy-corbyn-from-his-trusty-red-bicycl/

Every time I've bumped into some of his R 4 stuff in recent years I feel like he's even more unfunny than I remembered him

Of course the Telegraph zoomed in not once but twice on both crotch and gnawed-at-saddle xp

I’m not going to cast aspersions on the person who commissioned that article, but I think it’s fairly obvious they had a weird kink for that image, going by the number of times it appears in the piece.

Mark Steel is another comedy dud the broadsheets hired to write something rambunctiously chortlesome about Corbz as well

i can only say that by some small degree the 80s SWP stand-up crew are at least morally preferable to today's angling-for-my-own-panel-show-about-centrist-biscuits-on-Dave stand-up crew

mark will be along shortly to correct me as to the precisely delineated ideological alignment of 80s stand-ups

a friend of mine is mates with a comedy writer who once got hired to write some material for Gryf Rhys Jones who apparently said he didn't want anything less than "rambunctiously hilarious" so they do have industry standards!

"sorry, I can only do you rib-ticklingly mirthful at best"

I'd say if a comedian was complete tory I wouldn't care if they were funny, but the most "out" tory comedian right now seems to be Geoff Norcott who makes that shtick his entire act and he's a poisonous alt-right pimple alright.

if a comedian was funny i wouldnt care what they were rly

nb theres like three funny comedians none of em tory afaict

and one of them was cancelled by the bbc for being too weird or something.