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

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).

:D :D :D Kenyan foreign correspondents, you love to see it

absolutely delighted at FOM passing.

and to add to AF’s post this is a beauty:

#BREAKING: African envoys urge UK government to abide by court ruling; warn that the UK could be suspended from the Commonwealth should the government continue to subvert democracy. #Brexit

— gathara (@gathara) September 24, 2019

I feel like Emery’s catchphrase had some currency for a long time after the show ended. I’d guess anyone in their thirties who watches TV is likely to have heard it a couple of times even if they don’t know exactly where it’s from.

Look forward to them announcing leaving the EU with a big front page saying “I’m Free!”, campaigning for immigration restrictions with “Shut That Door”, etc

I assume The Cun has already Photoshopped a fez onto Corbyn and branded him Commie Tooper - get real Mein Secretario, abolishing our brave toff schools would not happen just like that

warn that the UK could be suspended from the Commonwealth should the government continue to subvert democracy.

lolol

The dcms questions on Hacker House, Jennifer Arcuri’s company, were a total shambles.

Matt Warman, DCMS Minister just claimed in Parliament that Hacker House operates in UK because it has a UK telephone number

I just tried it 020 8123 1379

Lady with US accent "Hacker House"

Me "What time is it?"

Her "5:30am'

Me "Where?"

Her: "California"@LaylaMoran

— Brian Wernham 🕷️ (@BrianUkulele) September 25, 2019

. @tom_watson asks why "Hacker House seems to have disappeared" as its website appears offline

— Cat Neilan (@CatNeilan) September 25, 2019

As @tom_watson suggests, it looks like @myhackerhouse has ‘taken the money and run’. - our money, £100,000 of it. Or has ‘UK’ cyber-security specialist Hacker House just been , eh, hacked? 🤔 pic.twitter.com/j48hfYqz3h

— Slimshady (@Slimshady1961) September 25, 2019

Yeah, he's doing well in making sure this doesn't go unnoticed amidst yesterdays ruling.

can we keep Deputy Leader but change its name to Top Sleazehound pls

jen williams is at her worst writing about the labour party but this is somewhat interesting as A Take anyway https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/things-learned-one-weirdest-labour-16978855

Lol:

More bollocks from a 'senior government source.' Client journalism. https://t.co/wJgkgrpzo9

— Peter Oborne (@OborneTweets) September 25, 2019

the 'parliament has not been prorogued' line from hale has this incredible spellcasting quality to it - waving my wand! zip! zoop! 'when the royal commissioners walked into the House of Lords it was as if they walked in with a blank sheet of paper'.. i mean, it's just amazing. she, or rather the law, can 1) go back in time 2) erase pieces of paper. though actually it didn't need to.. because it had been like that ALL THE TIME we just didn't know it. it's like the vision of god being in all places and in all times at once.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRgwr_4l6BE

It's a perfect performative utterance.

I'm guessing for that little show today Bazza had to think of something like the impotent rage he felt when a cheque he received from Kier Construction bounced after he'd been hard lobbying for them .. but it failed because he got totally mugged off by Cox. I notice some of my local MP's are sharing a truncated version of that video!

TBF the only thing that could stop Geoffrey Cox at full pelt would be Brian Blessed giving it the hairdryer treatment, but sadly the latter is not an MP.

hah! I sometimes wonder how he speaks in normal situations like at a deli counter or something.

Helpfully, you can see close approximations of BB having perfectly normal interactions with the wider public in his episode of Who Do You Think You Are?

I can't imagine Cox in normal interaction mode but hopefully the wanker will just be a minor footnote in UK political history and have prefix "discraced" for the rest of his career - although a lucrative future in voice-over is assured

the 'parliament has not been prorogued' line from hale has this incredible spellcasting quality to it - waving my wand! zip! zoop! 'when the royal commissioners walked into the House of Lords it was as if they walked in with a blank sheet of paper'.. i mean, it's just amazing. she, or rather the law, can 1) go back in time 2) erase pieces of paper. though actually it didn't need to.. because it had been like that ALL THE TIME we just didn't know it. it's like the vision of god being in all places and in all times at once.

― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, September 25, 2019 8:12 AM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

I mean The Law in the English tradition has always been about magic words, hasn't it?

including USA in this characterization obviously, like the advent of the SovCit/Freeman-on-the-land cultism is an outgrowth of the magicwordyness of it all

What pic.twitter.com/DqzfxupHUV

— Dawn Foster (@DawnHFoster) September 25, 2019

When your dreams are literally shattered pic.twitter.com/twUeo8zRnH

— Admiral Ackbars Memoriam (@GhostofAckbar) September 25, 2019

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/sep/25/grants-shapps-lifts-sections-of-speech-from-chris-grayling

Lol fucking hell

At the beginning of his statement, Shapps appears to have followed Grayling’s text almost to the letter, simply substituting Thomas Cook for Monarch and adjusting numbers.

“With your permission, I would like to make a statement about the steps the government have been taking to support those affected by the collapse of Monarch Airlines Thomas Cook, in particular the 110,000 150,000 passengers left abroad without a flight back to the UK and the almost 2,0009,000 people who have lost their jobs.”