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

I’ve been impressed by some of the young delegates who’ve spoken this year, there was a 17 year old delegate from Haringey who spoke up about how she’d joined Labour to fight cuts & a lot of the more radical policies have been driven by younger factions. It’s really great to see young leftists energised and winning.

labour leftists: young, energised and winning!

my conference motion to have the horrible goose elected deputy leader was thrown out

so much for the gentler, goosier politics

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EFTZes6WsAAvkNt?format=jpg&name=large
Enjoying today’s order paper with all the VSs

#TechnologyLessons pic.twitter.com/cdfrec2Fqa

— HappyToast ★ (@IamHappyToast) September 25, 2019

Cox is such a drag to listen to

I’m glad his appeal is lost on someone else. Question about the payments to Jennifer Acuri at/around 12.15 👀

His bust-up with his current bird was about a laptop wasn't it? I'm sensing a pattern here.

:)

Cox: "This parliament is a dead parliament. It has no moral right to sit on these green benches."

Cox on a real YOU CANT HANDLE THE TRUTH trip here

Dead Parliament Sketch

Dire.

Oliver Letwin question could prove important.

Asks A-G to rule out further prorogation. He doesn’t do that.

There’s potentially a gap for the Government.

Prorogue Parliament c 10/10. Queen’s Speech 14/10. It falls, government falls. General election. Poll post Brexit day.

— Theo Usherwood (@theousherwood) September 25, 2019

I saw the Sun front page and lol at their admitting they have no readers under 60 years old by referencing Dick Emery

Really happy to see that free movement motion.

all those against? no hands go up. this would have been unimaginable under miliband even

Scenes from #Lab19 floor when the @labfreemvmt motion passed.

Labour now has possibly the most radical, socialist policy on immigration it has ever had. We're making history.

Well done to all the legends who campaigned with us. Especially when saying these things was unpopular. pic.twitter.com/zz5LtqolLA

— Ana Oppenheim🌹 (@AnaOpp) September 25, 2019

i'm fairly certain that analysis by theo usherwood is rubbish

amazing conference - party has knocked it out the park

You need 25 working days to hold an election. Theo Usherwood is talking shit.

they certainly knocked baggymp out of the park

Usherwood works for LBC so what do you expect

He’s the clown who let Steve Bannon on air and was then appalled at Bannon’s behaviour.

Now officially in the bin: pic.twitter.com/zEvRiYdLRk

— Labour for Free Mvmt (@labfreemvmt) September 25, 2019

The fucking GALL of this government pontificating about morals!

this entire conference would've been unimagineable under any previous leadership

and i hope we get some entertaining pushback from centrist patriots showing their true colours

👍👍👍 to mugs in bins

no nose-pegs required on GE day now.

apart from poor bastards who have to put the X next to Barry Sheerman

might still be some muck in there, sadly eg hire lots of rozzers

the ranter on the sun: http://www.harrowell.org.uk/blog/2019/09/25/how-did-the-sun-get-so-weak/

i'd add -- since alex h is too young to know this -- that dick emery was never a comic with any venom in him: he didn't dislike the weekly parade of mild weirdoes he was playing, and i doubt the viewer did either. i can't pretend his worldview was at all woke, but it wasn't spiteful either (nor savile-esque). to me, aged like 12 or so, it was mainly boring, bcz it wasn';t very good? catchphrases, funny voices, funny walks -- everything ritually repeated, no invention to it. not remotely missed when it was was all swept from the screens.

they haven't spat out the Trident dummy yet either

I might be reading Usherwood wrong, but isn't he saying that because you need 25 working days for an election, voting down the queen's speech would mean that the election would be after Brexit day, and so this is a path to No deal

I think it's nonsense all the same - it would mean not even trying to put a deal to the EU at the summit on the 17th, and since Labour is (AFAIK) feeling no ill effects from refusing an election under special circumstances, would they be scared of approving the queen's speech on the same basis?

It's nonsense because these wheezes don't work when everybody else (including the EU) is actively looking out for wheezes. Like in what world does the EU allow crash-out to happen on the eve of an election?

So looks like doubling down and going on the offensive is the order of the day from HM Government.

Trump also knows how to read a room. Pretending he doesnt have these skills is the dumb thing]

an aside: wrong skills. as a conman he is extremely good at persuading marks, but any footage or reports of him talking to actual people in a room, going back decades, consistently fails to find him reading it.

"And where are they now?"

"Didn't expect that reaction, but that's okay."

Sorry calz, I regret to announce that Barry Sheerman is good now

"For a man like him, a party like this, and a leader like this to talk about morals and morality is a disgrace!"

Labour's Barry Sheerman makes a furious attack on the government, as Attorney General Geoffrey Cox defends the decision to suspend Parliamenthttps://t.co/HmSdXmVh5m pic.twitter.com/9xfyEWT6Vk

— BBC Politics (@BBCPolitics) September 25, 2019

i would have thought - and i'm no Geoffrey Cox, so i could be wrong - that there would still be the opportunity for somebody else to come forward as capable of forming a government and therefore if the anti No Deal camp had its shit together they could just appoint a new PM, apply for the extension and go for the GE after this was done

so you're saying it's time for ken clarke to shine

isn't he saying that because you need 25 working days for an election, voting down the queen's speech would mean that the election would be after Brexit day, and so this is a path to No deal

Oh and ofc - The Queen’s speech failing is no longer the automatic trigger for an election because of a FTPA

Like in what world does the EU allow crash-out to happen on the eve of an election?

I mean, are we talking tanks here? The law at the moment says the UK leaves on Oct 31 - if Johnson can get around the Benn law, then the EU can't force an extension that the UK hasn't asked for.

xp oh yeah good point, sorry.

xp to gyac
I thought Cox won that encounter with Bazza hands down. It was a bad performance of anger straight from the Jess Phillips school of parliamentary histrionics imo

we have some very good contenders for what to call this parliament but The Dead Parliament will take some beating

an aside: wrong skills. as a conman he is extremely good at persuading marks, but any footage or reports of him talking to actual people in a room, going back decades, consistently fails to find him reading it.

"And where are they now?"

"Didn't expect that reaction, but that's okay."

― now let's play big lunch take little lunch (sic),

Ha fair enough, I'll take the reading a room assertion back. I could sorta say something like there are rooms beside the one he's currently in, but then thats something different so I'll take it back!

I'm sticking with him being an effective communicator though, opponents and allies alike, we get what he's saying. Even if the individual pieces make no sense, the overall message hits

Big fan of Kenyans analyzing Britain the way Brits analyze them pic.twitter.com/yFm3Y2FLsI

— Ben Coates (@bencoates1) September 25, 2019

mark s otm about Dick Emery, although his name might have some slight currency with Sun readers because of the name of the 'new' Arsenal manager (Unai Emery) and jokes around that, and of course Ooh ... You Are Awful was also the title of the Dick Emery spin-off film, shown regularly on TV even after the series itself had finished (although I imagine its now been some time since it has had a terrestrial TV screening).