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

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Ban on Easter Eggs if I know Swinson
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_XMm2OsWNvVg/S69pJs_likI/AAAAAAAABc0/8qlC6eNA1nc/s1600/jo-swinson-easter-egg.jpg

She is such distilled essence of Liberal Democrat Wasteman it's absurd

I choose not to use the feminine conjugation of wasteman

5p tax on plastic bags in exchange for benefit cuts which hugely increase the number of people who have to count their every last 5p

Say what you want about the carrier bag tax it worked.

Also austerity killed thousands of undesirables but swings and roundabouts.

say what you want about austerity but it worked

It certainly achieved its aims

granted I’m not her target demographic so not particularly predisposed to give her a fair shake... but her delivery here is just... not good. she seems so glib and kinda distracted

Lib Dem leader @joswinson says David Cameron "cannot be forgiven" for calling the EU referendum https://t.co/T0OEQdQJVB #Brexit pic.twitter.com/6MSBtrtdQN

— BBC Politics (@BBCPolitics) September 15, 2019

What about the people who propped him up and put him in a position to call it in the first place?

And actively agitated for it!

how is that jo swinson seems to get worse at communicating each and every time i see her

guys guys - knowing what your own party did is the politics of the past

I looked at the Incredible Hulk thing and I don't want to believe it's real.

it makes that dunderheaded "perfidious albion on speed" quip from francois seem eloquent and thoughtful.

Just going to leave this here for the Lib Dems claiming they could take Chingford & Woodford Green.
The hype is just ridiculous and journalists need to be challenging this!
If Lib Dems want to stop Brexit they shouldn’t risk getting IDS out #marr #sundaypolitics pic.twitter.com/G63LRHJLJp

— Faiza Shaheen (@faizashaheen) September 15, 2019

deborah unger was great in crash tho tbf

deb-a-dee-dee-deb-a-dee-dee-deba-dee
o deborah
you look like a deposit loser
your sunken face is like a galleon
clothed with mysteries of the Spanish main
o deborah
ay ay ay ay ay

o deborah
you lost your deposit-ah
your sunken etc

[erratum pls insert]

lmao jo swinson targeting a "majority LD government"... that's the LDs that currently sitting on 18 seats...

you'd think Lib Dems mourning the loss of Clegg's seat to an improperly vetted newcomer who has been a bit of a disaster (and I do feel sorry for the guy) would wonder if a party, any party, going from 12 MPs to this mythical 320+ within 2 years might just be a slightly bad idea

Get out of Westminster

This is forever my favourite video #LibDemConference pic.twitter.com/BjrM76akzv

— Abdi Duale (@AbdiDuale_) September 15, 2019

And a more recent one, due to popular demand #WinningHere pic.twitter.com/NanbVNnJZr

— Abdi Duale (@AbdiDuale_) September 15, 2019

very big mood

Lib Dems buying into the hard right narrative on Sadiq is it, qwhite an interesting development 👀 https://t.co/R5sJjSIx0z

— Patrick Moûle 🌹 (@patrickmoule) September 15, 2019

good lord why am I listening to Sarah Elliot on Nolan's 5 live show at this time of night? need to neck a couple of co-dydramols with some brandy and hope I can dream about having a holiday in hell next to a lake full of piss!

according to the torygraph next week labour are going to unveil their plan to scrap UC starting with short term fixes like end to sanctions, five week wait etc..

I was just about to link

SCOOP: Labour are set to soon announce plans to scrap Universal Credit in the coming weeks https://t.co/hr7Ox5cH9Q

— Ben Gartside (@BenGartside) September 15, 2019

I still get shudders at that clip of May in the commons sticking up for the rape clause, that is what a feminist looks like indeed

Before UC, all benefit claims were activated in around two weeks from the date of application. As a freelancer I’ve had to price in ridiculous delays to payment - try surviving on £50 while an accounts department dithers for a month or two past the date you expected to be paid, without alibi or apology - and that’s horrible enough. Being at the whim of sanctions and what a Capita/Atos person ate for breakfast that day is absolutely soul-destroying, and anyone in my position should be making common cause with claimants rather than saying ‘if I can hack it, so should you’.

sanctions are effectively the first steps to homelessness or you can google "commits suicide after benefits sanctions" to read pages and pages of needless tragedies caused by these evil fucks

You do have to wonder what strain of crack some people are smoking when they accuse this guy of lacking courage. Having already faced the most sustained, most disgusting character assassination I’ve seen, here he is basically saying “come on then”. https://t.co/I0ttgOcN53

— Socialist Dad (@shirleymush) September 16, 2019

He is - I think partly because more than many politicians he is in many ways very ordinary, takes a real interest in all kinds of ordinary people, likes hearing what they have to say, and that allows him to take a broader view and ignore the BS.

I suppose it helps that, though he is bombarded with vitriol and lies every day, most days of his life he also gets to meet someone for the first time who wants to shake his hand and say that he inspires them. As I once did.

yeah, he gets a lot of shit but there's a lot more love for corbyn out there than nearly any other politician

who's ahead of him? king kenneth of europa?

didn't think so

Philia or agape?

eros m8

(gazzara's not awake yet so I'm just filling in)

Trying to keep it PG-13 here (with apologies for the Americanism).

(gazzara's not awake yet so I'm just filling in)

i have been awake since 6:15am fyi

Former Tory Party Chair Baroness Warsi Is Being Wooed By The Lib Dems But Says She Isn’t Defecting — Yet https://t.co/Bb7gxfp65f via @elashton

— Hannah Al-Othman (@HannahAlOthman) September 16, 2019

You'd have to question her integrity if she remains in such a racist party that continually ignores her legit concerns about Islamophobia and has sidelined her for raising these concerns. But then again I'd have even less respect for her joining the current iteration of the LibDems. So basically she's bad and she should feel bad!

Tories joining the Lib Dems is a wonderful thing.

it's p funny for sure!

It's great for the Labour Party.

Plus big lolz @ Chuka.

Wondering if ex-Labour types might start defecting to the Greens, the final resting home for Blairite "best of both wings" fence-sitters.

no reason why they couldn't also defect to the very ambitious LibDem and Unionist Party, under Swinson the sky is the limit

Greens are not remotely Blairite for all of Lucas' recent vacillating

Asked whether the party would stand aside for Labour candidates, the Lib Dem leader said:

That’s a different question because Labour are not a remain party, Labour are trying to deliver a Labour Brexit. But where we agree with others on stopping Brexit, we are in those discussions.

how is she not getting hammered by interviewers pointing out that labour are committed to a second referendum