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

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.

last two darragh posts both correct

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/

― gyac, Friday, 13 September 2019 5:55 PM (fifty-nine minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

If Corbyn were a true communist he’d be riding an Orbea (Basque Workers Coop bike manufacturer)

is it 5 or 10 years since 'I hate stand-up' became the new 'I don't even own a TV'

i don't have netflix

i don't even own a stand-up comedian

not hard to pwn the average comedian

stand-up is the pits vs I once injured myself with rambunctious laughter during a Dominic Holland set at edinburgh fringe!

Stand-up is pretty indefensible tbh. Especially in the UK.

i did once have a staff party where we were all taken to a standup comedian and it was very confusing to me that this would be considered by anyone to be anything other than a "niche" taste. I had to do that thing where I pretended to laugh all the way through, just to make it to the bit where we got free booze.

like guitar music or political discussion

but anyway love too see it

Yougov

9/10 Sept

Voting intentions by age 18-24 (65+)

Labour 43% (12%)
Green 22% (4%)
Lib Dem 20% (16%)
Con 8% (46%)
SNP 4% (2%)
Brex P 3% (19%)

% of those voters absolutely certain to vote (absolutely certain not to vote)

18-24 = 48% (14%)
65+ = 74% (4%)

— General Election🇬🇧 (@UKGenElect) September 13, 2019

see if they gave you the free booze first the forced laughter would be that much easier

the worst is when you're accused of suppressing laughter when in fact you've been pretending to find anything funny at all

Unfortunately the communist bike (a Chinese Flying Pigeon rescued from the railings of Tiananmen Square itself) is locked away in the ex-laundry room for this floor of my block, along with a bunch of other relics belonging to my neighbours. I would’ve fixed it by now if I could just find the Council bod with the key to the forbidding brass padlock on the laundry room door.

where to start with this

Lib Dems have gone from 50/1 to 12/1 to win Boris Johnson's seat of Uxbridge and South Ruislip.
Any chance Labour could step aside? pic.twitter.com/057HbKHA8K

— Ladbrokes Politics (@LadPolitics) September 13, 2019

even the bookies are melts!

t/s: 6/1 vs 12/1

General election 2017: Uxbridge and South Ruislip[11][12]
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Conservative Boris Johnson 23,716 50.8 +0.6
Labour Vincent Lo 18,682 40.0 +13.6
Liberal Democrat Rosina Robson 1,835 3.9 -1.0

LadPolitics

tbh I thought Boris might be more like 6/4 by the way people talk up his chances of losing his seat.

1/5, great odds there, Ladbrokes.

I liked it when KFC tweeted a political opinion last week but this is beyond the pale.

I guess it's going viral because loads of indignant Labour supporters are going WTF so as a marketing/clickbait ploy it might be doing pretty well.

Lots of speculation this week that Johnson might be planning to throw the DUP under the bus and I can't really see much reason not to at this stage?

not getting much for his buck seeing as his majority is - 40 odd now.

boris burning bridges (rather than building them) again shocker.

It's about time somebody called the bluff of those smug cunts, sadly I won't be able to enjoy it so much if Boris is the one who does it.

i don't know, i can live with it

In another hung Parliament, which is what a lot of projections are suggesting, he's likely to need them. Luckily they don't have a history of holding grudges so i imagine it'll all work out fine.

Lots of speculation this week that Johnson might be planning to throw the DUP under the bus and I can't really see much reason not to at this stage?

― Matt DC, Friday, September 13, 2019 1:04 PM (twelve minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

How would that benefit him?

more to the point, why "at this stage" as opposed to "every chance you get"

A border-in-the-Irish-sea WA could probably pass. Or at least, it could have passed under May. With 21 fuming Tories and Lexiters fleeing Johnson fast, even that might not pass now

i think when you factor in the bridge MPs will still get behind it

Ladbrokes haven’t got anything on Paddy Power when it comes to stunts
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CDlx1ORWgAAlSL3?format=jpg

oh for a swiss guard eh xp

íosa

“People have died because of austerity. And you’ve got the cheek to come here.” pic.twitter.com/kFLVbQM79N

— Liam Young (@liamyoung) September 13, 2019

yorkshire is good again

or Lancashire maybe!

you quite simply love to see it

it's good that these type of boris exchanges with pissed off northerners are going viral, momentum couldn't pay for better campaigning memes.

This boris heckle was in Doncaster. There might be limits to how better you can make a town by ending austerity - we'll take it one decade at a time Doncaster!

Hahaha