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

good line in this good NS profile of cummings:

He knows that Johnson will accept almost any plan, and delegate any power, as long as the outcome works for him.

what the fuck

Trad hero and lying Brexiteer Gove is completely drunk in parliament while his country is in a constitutional crisis. https://t.co/khCMkA7owf

— Jelmer Evers (@jelmerevers) September 26, 2019

Yeah, but about someone else.

(xp to Tom)

fs
https://metro.co.uk/2019/09/26/man-tries-break-jess-phillips-mps-office-shouting-fascist-10814664/

mere humbug

no idea how to post tweets, but there is an amazing clip doing the rounds of Gove being absolutey bladdered last night during the vote.

xpost : haha ! glad someone else got there.

Skinny, drunk and stupid is *totally* a way to go thru life, son

(xp to mark e: click the arrow-pointing-upwards icon, below right under a tweet, select 'copy link to tweet', paste (ctrl/cmd v) on here, prof$it)

ah .. cheers LBI !

Johnson is running a Trump campaign. The worst possible response is to gripe about how unfair and uncivilised he is, and do nothing but that. When they go low, we go somewhere else: drag him onto class politics, 99% vs 1%, and back it up with real policy. Otherwise we lose.

— James Meadway (@meadwaj) September 26, 2019

meadway otm. cummings' strategy is the timothy strategy on steroids:

Tory MPs are no longer talking about how best to win back those voters who supported David Cameron in 2010 and 2015, but defected to Labour in 2017. Instead, they wonder how to “maximise the white vote”, as one Conservative MP puts it. In constituency terms, that means eking out narrow wins in Labour-held marginals in the Midlands, Wales and the north of England, such as Bishop Auckland, Darlington, Newcastle-under-Lyme, Wrexham and Ashfield. (All have fewer graduates, Remain voters or ethnic minorities than the average Labour seat.)

suspect the labour leadership are too canny to fall for this

this is key too: ... it’s a strategy for clinging to power rather than winning a majority or revitalising the country.

"If you google 'ERG fascists' you get 237,000 results and ERG extremists' you get 176,000" says ERG member Owen Paterson in the Commons. I think he's trying to make a point about incendiary language.

"I'm not sure this is helping us" mutters a colleague off camera near a mic. 😂 pic.twitter.com/uLVQMaXuuc

— John Bull (@garius) September 26, 2019

In this afternoon's debate on the principles of democracy, I reminded the @HouseofCommons that the best way to address widespread public anger at the idea of democracy being thwarted is to deliver on the vote of the referendum and ensure that we leave the EU on the 31st October. pic.twitter.com/ATXeiprh4z

— Owen Paterson MP (@OwenPaterson) September 26, 2019

I have written to @LouHaigh after she nominated me for the @_DHOTYA Awards. The man who approached me unsolicited on the Tube encouraging me to continue urging the Government to deliver Brexit gave me his card and she is most welcome to come to my office to see it for herself! pic.twitter.com/yOMoTnbMIN

— Owen Paterson MP (@OwenPaterson) March 20, 2019

Dominic Cummings,

"I don’t think anyone is going to listen to reason because a lot of people (MPs) become really badly disconnected from what people in the real world and England outside central London thinks."

I mean yeah

hi folks, i just wanted to ask what people's opinions are about the desirability of reverting to the danelaw

am just raging that action krankie won't still be in situ at the next time of the GE - would be delicious watching her squirm as they lose all 13 MPs

another elite establishment arsehole who continually blithers on about the political establishment and his tireless campaign to take it on..

I meant Paterson but that could be Cummings as well xps

who'd have predicted in '17 that the Con & Unionist party would be responsible for resurrecting indy ref 2 and killing Ruthie

"I've had death threats overnight... it's a disgrace"

Labour MP Karl Turner's staff film an encounter with Boris Johnson's senior adviser, Dominic Cummingshttps://t.co/2JL9D2WW2f pic.twitter.com/agGnyOiUMR

— BBC Politics (@BBCPolitics) September 26, 2019

I'd drag Bojo and Cummings to The Hague the bottom of the ocean if I could

John Major warning that Johnson might attempt to use the Privy Council as a reacharound to set aside Benn Act, any thoughts from ILX’s constitutional experts here?

who's action krankie?

keep going back to that polling from earlier this year that said

(1) 54% of voters want "a strong leader willing to break the rules";
(2) faith in the UK political system has dropped to a 15-year low;
(3) 66% think politicians should be able to say what is on their mind regardless of what anyone else thinks about their views; and,
(4) 42% think many of the country's problems could be dealt with more effectively if the government didn't have to worry so much about votes in parliament

Cummings has the insouciant twattishness of the school bully lounging against the bike sheds in that clip

ruth davidson

As I keep saying, the methodology of polls in this country would be illegal even in the US, where ‘push’ polling is not permitted. Those responses are clearly harvested from push-style questioning.

probably right - can probably draw a straight line from that poll to these recent tactics though. meshes too well

LOL @ Maria Miller MP claiming to have been scared by Mad Barry Sheerman's geriatric outburst.

Maybe scared that the auld fella might keel over and die.

I wish, that cunt will outlive Frank Field

folks

what the fuck is going on

today has been much more insane than usual, and usual is insane already

what the fuck

it's turning into a horror movie

the fuck? baroness kuenssberg just straight pushing the government's lines now?

I have just had a very kind invitation to a seminar on 'Effective Parliaments' that's being held in Westminster for people from all over the world... not quite sure what to say

— Laura Kuenssberg (@bbclaurak) September 26, 2019

"not quite sure how to say" = "i'm completely encapsulated by the gov, otherwise what I would/should've said was "fuck off"... losing power... weak... halpmeee!"

fuck LK

Doesn't it seem like really bad timing that Johnson is trying to "do a trump" just as this impeachment thing is starting to look like it might be going well? I mean bad timing for Johnson.

Also I hate him.

Sadly I'm not sure stuff like that matters anymore. Trump "doing a trump" doesn't seem to have any consequence nor causes major outrage among his base. Johnson "doing a Trump" (he's not: he just feels emboldend by other assholes like Trump, so he's doing a "Johnson") doesn't seem to translate to "bad timing". Media translate it as "Bojo doubles down!" which is just a hair away from "wow he's under pressure but he's sure sticking to his ground! Strong capital L Leader!"

I hate him also.
And I hate these times.

the people's chancellor (and some doofus quote-tweeting him)

This is beyond ridiculous https://t.co/6K12ucurE3

— jeremy warner (@JeremyWarnerUK) September 26, 2019

is the country actually "incredibly divided"? everybody keeps saying this and I can see how you would think it if you keep viewing things through the prism of the bubble (media, twitter etc.) but is it actually true.

might live in a privileged bubble myself (and I don't downplay the rising RW extremism and the class divisions entrenched by austerity) but on the most part people seem kinda chill

There's a lot of anger out there... so we keep being told.

People are revolting in the North of England.

i don't have any love for LK but that tweet seems like pretty standard pub snark from a brexit junkie - this parliament has been pretty hamstrung from the get-go

xp
I personally wouldn't judge someone whose entire furniture inventory is a Knackered speaker amp in the middle of the window and a darts board that they might sometimes play whilst eating cold beans out of the can!

is the country actually "incredibly divided"? everybody keeps saying this and I can see how you would think it if you keep viewing things through the prism of the bubble (media, twitter etc.) but is it actually true.

What is 'true', or rather, what is truth? Are there still people outside of a bubble? I doubt it. Instead of a divided country I'd say it's a fractured country - like every country nowadays.

(xp) Is that any way to talk about the Leader of the Opposition?

I was half thinking of him and a fucking idiot that lives around the corner!

Welsh Gammon out in force on Question Time.

the country is massively and terrifyingly divided, yes