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

she'll want to outdo big Bazza who is the hero of the day (oddly for wetting his pants and getting pwned by Cox).

There ways Jess Phillips versus Alexandra Phillips FITE! in front of a reporter today, the only time I’ve ever wanted JP to backhand someone (AP said through interruptions that she was ‘trying to elucidate facts for your benefit’ or similar and JP got a ‘yeah right’ under that, so AP called her rude while aggressively pointing at JP).

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A thread on the Jennifer Arcuri & Boris Johnson story & why it’s a bigger scandal than you think.

Where to start?

The press are reporting that she is a “business woman” or a “model”.

Wrong. When she met Boris Johnson, Jennifer had just....

— Nick🇬🇧🇪🇺 (@nicktolhurst) September 25, 2019

Have you never watched the House of Commons before?

Yep, seen it a couple of times. Saw some people applauding a lying sack of shit

Yeah, you just did. You don't get applause in the House of Commons after statements to the House - especially not pisspoor ones.

No i didn't see this one, only read about it here! This was some other times, though maybe it was cheering not applause. Definitely a lying sack of shit was speaking though

I think a lot SNP MPs, new to the House, applauded a speech once and people were like, "What are they doing?"

I saw Matthew Parris interviewed earlier and he was adamant that it was this Jennifer Arcuri business that would be Boris' downfall not proroguing Parliament.

somebody just been sitting on this story for an opportune moment?

That Nicktolhurst link is truly shocking.

Yes, I still have the ability to be shocked.

Fucking hell

What a fucking disgrace Boris Johnson is. In response to a tearful Paula Sheriff speaking about her murdered friend, the prime minister replies that he has never heard ''such humbug'' in all his life. Shameful behaviour.

— Kirsty Strickland (@KirstyStricklan) September 25, 2019

Genuinely quite shocked by Boris Johnson describing as 'humbug' Paula Sheriff's complaint about his language in which she talked about Jo Cox and said that she and other colleagues had received death threats. I've transcribed what happened: pic.twitter.com/WNmiA893Qv

— Isabel Hardman (@IsabelHardman) September 25, 2019

haven't seen a cunt on telly that needs decking as badly as this since ground force was on

yeah that is disgusting. unseriousness isn’t just unserious it’s deadly.

i can’t remember whether the technical term is psychopath or sociopath but this is in that territory.

he's just going to turn and turn the screws until the pressure in the system is unbearable

it’s psychopath i just checked.

Psychopathy is traditionally a personality disorder characterized by persistent antisocial behavior, impaired empathy and remorse, and bold, disinhibited, and egotistical traits.

I'm ok with everything but my word this attack on civility really is just too far

I'm happy sticking with sack of shit tbh.

yeah was going to say. no need to get fancy here

Good news is a whole succession of Labour female MPs are sticking the boot into the sack of shit - he must be hating it.

One of the posh comedians (Marcus Brigstocke, I think?) said he understood a certain tranche of Tories as being psychopathic because, like them, he'd been sent away at 8 to boarding school and had his heart broken too - which is why they're so dangerous.

And I know the Trump parallels are tedious but this does have the stink of ah, this will be the thing that gets him.

combination of you just love too see it and ah well nevertheless

labour will beat him on policy not shame

i mean i don’t want to just be retweeting here but holy mother of god:

Boris Johnson has just said MPs would help ensure their own personal safety by getting Brexit done.

“The best way to ensure that every Parliamentarian is properly safe and we dial down the current anxiety in this country is to get Brexit done”

— Ross Hawkins (@rosschawkins) September 25, 2019

hope he dies

fucking hell

if i were a labour politician hearing that i'd have attempted to endanger that bastard's safety forthwith

legitimate passions!

There are legitimate passions on all sides - but not even many Tory MPs mightl comfortable defending this- Johnson accused one of Jo Cox's friends and Parliamentary neighbours, one of many who's faced serious threats, of 'humbug' when she asked him to be careful with his words https://t.co/FMxQOisQHl

— Laura Kuenssberg (@bbclaurak) September 25, 2019

“tone” not “role”. new iphone swipe keyboard not working for me.

i think johnson will get crucified for this. and while the knee-jerk reaction is “but let’s face it it won’t make any difference” i’m not sure that’s the case.

yeah even Laura K sounded mildly censorious

when bending over backwards to be fair to the fascists in one's reporting curdles into affection for them, so that they when they get all fascisty one is like, 'alas'

He might be able to get away with this, whether he'll be able to get away with this on top of the torrent of other shit that's happened in the past month is a different question.

Fuck are they still doing the Tory conference next week?

thing is even May was using this WWII-adjacent language, "saboteurs" etc, it goes a long way back and they're never really called on it, expect a lot of snowflake talk on the way to/during a GE

Fuck are they still doing the Tory conference next week?
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 25 September 2019 20:15 (one minute ago) bookmarkflaglink

suggestion labour won't support a recess so MPs will have to cart back and forth between london and manchester for votes

If only there was a high-speed line between the two of them- oh shit.

i think Corbs this morning said "no recess unless you confirm you'll follow the spirit of the Benn bill" so no recess it is then

Paula is my MP and had to hire security and received multiple death threats from far right fringe lunatics. She is a brilliant constituency MP, my partner has had multiple letters from her about concerns like PIP, UC, and LA funding for SEN and all sorts and she follows me on twitter. So fuck you Boris you prick, I sincerely hope you die cunt.

The best way to ensure that every Parliamentarian is properly safe and we dial down the current anxiety in this country is to get Brexit done

As a rhetorical device this is identical to the way they make threats in Mafia films.

thing is even May was using this WWII-adjacent language, "saboteurs" etc, it goes a long way back and they're never really called on it, expect a lot of snowflake talk on the way to/during a GE

xxp please send her a nice message, I am sure she could do with it

expect a lot of snowflake talk on the way to/during a GE

They'll be going totally alt-right, I think.

“Maximising the white vote”, wasn’t it?

"There are legitimate passions on all sides" vs. "You also had people that were very fine people, on both sides..."

legitimate passions is just cretinous unless mendaciously deliberate.

“no matter how wild and dangerous you are, if you feel *passionate* about it, we’ll legitimise it”.

once again the extreme forms are useful for explaining the quieter less obvious ones.

or, my other version of this is a twat at work who says “i feel v passionately/strongly this is the right/wrong thing to do”. it’s like what are we supposed to do with the strength of that alone my dude. all you’re asking is to challenge your emotional response in the hope that we won’t because it’s too embarrassing.

NO ONE QUOTE YEATS PLZ. but passion or expressed strength of feeling means nothing.

see T Blair's excellent simulacrum of sincerity 1997-present day