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

and “let’s work together”

fs tom laying it on a bit thick like

Sky News has seen documents which suggest attorney general Geoffrey Cox advised the Government proroguing Parliament was legal

— Sky News Breaking (@SkyNewsBreak) September 24, 2019

can't wait to hear his resignation speech in that hilariously pompous stentorian voice of his

cox out

I strongly suspect that this is exactly like the legal advice over Iraq. Everything is arguably legal until a judge tells you it isn’t. You provide the best argument you can for the decision the government has already taken.

The rule of bad Twitter QCs continues

As the PM says, we will respect the SC’s judgment, the judicial process and Rule of Law, even though the Gov’t respectfully disagrees with the Court’s decision. The Gov’t will deliver Brexit on 31st Oct, levelling up our education system, investing in the NHS and cutting crime.

— Robert Buckland QC MP (@RobertBuckland) September 24, 2019

lovely replies here

If you’re a young journalist at a major UK newspaper who’s been told to spend the afternoon digging up dirt on Supreme Court judges – from where their kids go to school, to whether they like idk French cheese – remember…… you don’t need to do that.

— Mark Di Stefano 🤙🏻 (@MarkDiStef) September 24, 2019

when famous tinyman & hater of assad apologists 0z k has a more reasonable take than you... time to log off

New: Boris Johnson has been given two weeks by London’s assembly to explain his relationship with an American entrepreneur who received up to £126,000 in public funds during the prime minister’s eight-year tenure as mayor of the UK capital. https://t.co/Hq6PNVZQOj

— Laura Hughes (@Laura_K_Hughes) September 24, 2019

guys I found a party w a confusing brexit policy

The Prime Minister must resign to make way for an emergency Government that can stop a No Deal Brexit. The @LibDems will keep fighting for People’s Vote and to stop Brexit altogether. https://t.co/0YTRHpgFpA

— Jo Swinson (@joswinson) September 24, 2019

God, I hate Katy Balls! That posh voice, that equine face.

Watching spoech post-mortem now.

Dangerous and wrong-headed international interventions have also exacerbated community tensions at home. When Boris Johnson compared Muslim women to letterboxes or bank robbers, it wasn’t a flippant comment, it was calculated to play on people’s fears. Displays of racism, Islamophobia or antisemitism are not signs of strength, but of weakness.

*applauds*

So word on the (Downing) street is that No. 10 leaked Geoffrey Cox's advice on the prorogation to deflect attention from Bozo and provide a convenient scapegoat.

meanwhile matt nails it

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EFP5IFRX4AAmPDf?format=png

i agree with the man with cock and balls for a face

Trump also said that Johnson was “doing a really good job” and that he was going to make “really great progress in October and November”.

“October,” Johnson insisted, referring to his Brexit deadline.

No progress in November.

It’s egress that matters

Great call on @lbc just now.

MAN: “I just want to thank you Nigel, for all you’ve done for British politics. I was an ardent remainer. I voted remain. Until one moment that changed it all”

FARAGE: “Wow. And what was that moment?”

MAN: “I got kicked in the head by a horse.”

— Danny Wallace 🇪🇺 (@dannywallace) September 24, 2019

I'm glad your constitutional crisis didn't last more than a couple weeks

lol it's been going since 1688

The clip for those wondering! pic.twitter.com/XhmrKsk4RU

— Jos Pink (@Jpiinks) September 24, 2019

Final perfect ending to the Gapes self-own from last night

🤷🏿‍♀️https://t.co/67GTcsW0Os

— Diane Abbott (@HackneyAbbott) September 24, 2019

i thought the erroneous apostrophe was part of his grammar lesson, but wtf do I know!

He was just having Germanic thoughts.

If we must have a new thread then "kicked in the head by a horse" is the only possible title

Leader only capitalised when referring to Gary Glitter iirc

Newsnight trying hard to make this about the Labour Party and the opposition parties, bless 'em.

it's not as terrible as i was anticipating but no laura k package yet

hilary benn is a joke

laura k on news at ten was a nightmare.

Who's the woman calling in on video? Her teeth scare me.

brexit party lunatic.

oh yes laura k's usually on the 10.

emily maitlis has completely misheard her largely rubbish guests at least twice

claire fox, former communist party/living marxism now brexit party.

Thanks, that's quite the career path.

there’s a whole tangled ratking of stuff around spiked/living marxism that others here are better at unpicking that’s past of that trajectory.

Spiked has been a beneficiary of Koch Brother(s) funding as well.

it was Dinah Rose who called the result last week, although not the 11-0.

brexit party lunatic.

oh yes laura k's usually on the 10.

emily maitlis has completely misheard her largely rubbish guests at least twice

claire fox, former communist party/living marxism now brexit party.

― Fizzles, Tuesday, 24 September 2019 22:04 (fifty-five minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

Thanks, that's quite the career path.

― Le Bateau Ivre, Tuesday, 24 September 2019 22:11 (forty-eight minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

Talking of which, just had a severely miffed Brendan O'Neill on Sky fuming about elites and the establishment and experts and how 'so-called progressives' on both sides of the Atlantic are resorting to extra-parliamentary procedures to attack elected leaders (not that he's supports Boris or Trump, of course - he's like Claire Fox, he's 'of the left', you see). Why the fuck are these Spiked arseholes on every channel?

Thats a lucrative space and they're actually on a lot less than they could be. I'm pretty surprised we're not getting more "I'm from the left, the left left me" figures in UK media. Seems to be more with actual MPs rather than media figures, and regarding the Labour Party rather than 'liberalism/socialism/progressivism/whatever'. It may be that theres more mileage in other areas when it comes to a UK context.

Rave Dubin, Pim Tool have carved out spaces for themselves in the US with this, though they're probably a lot more purely grift than people like O'Neill

O'neill/Fox were both communists once? The space they currently occupy seems a weird one, its not clear to me what they even are or who their audience is

The only person I know that likes them is my super right-wing cousin. I don't think I would have even heard of them otherwise. He likes them because he likes the concept of a "real" left wing, that agrees with him on "the regressive left"

I'm aware they make a lot of tv appearances but don't recall any.

In some ways seems like another variant of media over-representation of groups of people or perspectives that don't really exist, at least not in significant number

regular discussion of the Spiked/Living Marxism crew can be found on this entertaining thread British Right-Wing Pundits

they're actually on a lot less than they could be.

I don't think so.

Given that they're from a tiny groupuscule they have a very outsized media footprint

I think over time that may change, definitely think they are going to be on more often as times goes on

Given that they're from a tiny groupuscule they have a very outsized media footprint

For real, definitely agreeing here that they are given outsized coverage, given fact they don't really represent anybody at all, but I think the trajectory for the amount of coverage they get is heading upwards not down

Fox's first television appearance was her now famous phone call to Going Live when she abused Five Star. It is now believed that this was due to the teenage Fox misinterpreting the lyrics to the hit Rain or Shine as support for Ian Paisley

lol, someone has been having fun with her wikipedia page

line for labour this morning is surely he’s already broken the law once we can’t trust him to not do so again in pursuit of no deal

sick corbyn burn on pm " everyone knows boris likes to wave his arms around and shout ludicrous things.."

the media seriously have brexit derangement syndrome

“most people care most about brexit”

uhhhhh do they?

regular discussion of the Spiked/Living Marxism crew can be found on this entertaining thread British Right-Wing Pundits🕸

LOL @ Farage, Claire Fox, Richard Tice (and Big Bren) flailing about, having to defend Boris while simultaneously criticizing the decision to prorogue and the ruling against proroguing.