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

as the bloke on radio 4 this morning pointed out, the tories recently mocked corbs for talking about improving bus services.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/jul/06/jeremy-corbyn-buses-labour

RW press seem unnervingly relaxed recently - not much mud slinging nor smearing going on

not just the tories - but a significant proportion of our _centrist_ commentariat

xp

Not sure I’d say that when the MoS was running with a blatantly antisemitic story yesterday & the Telegraph has been like
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EFqPa5JX0AUh0WE?format=jpg&name=large

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EFVsst7XUAAM60l?format=jpg&name=medium

Telegraph's gone completely feral in the last few months - like it's the 70s again with a readership of dyspeptic ex-army officers plotting coups against Harold Wilson and cheerleading Ian Smith.

"Harry: call me a hippy, but we must co-exist with nature"

Um it's not a choice

Some confusion. At Bruges group meeting with John Redwood, Mark Francois and Arlene Foster calling Withdrawal Agreement surrender document. Boris thinks the Benn Act is surrender document. The enemy is everywhere

— John Crace (@JohnJCrace) September 30, 2019

https://i.imgur.com/INXNg33.jpg
xp

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

Esther McVey is talking about these revolutionary new "3d-Architects" who have realised the days of 2d design are finished.

about time, I'm sick of living in this Pac-Man maze

whatever you could throw at Tories in the past I don't think they were ever this stoopid.

The government has been pretty clever in tabling the Domestic Abuse Bill on Wednesday. The opposition aren't going to want to vote that down, so it doesn't matter if half of all Tory MPs are in Manchester for Boris Johnson's speech.

— Hannah Al-Othman (@HannahAlOthman) September 30, 2019

there won't a vonc this week then

Eventually, Gove knifes everyone. https://t.co/k1cFEeCC1b

— David Timoney (@fromarsetoelbow) September 30, 2019

Gove scheming to take out Cummings and Boris?

While Cummings deeply unpopular with Tory MPs, there’s also a growing recognition - not just from more soft/remain ToryMPs - that Boris Johnson may not be the electoral asset they thought in the summer.

Internal Tory polling shows Johnson now toxic with young/London/Liberals (this was known) but that his image now going into decline in “Brexit friendly” northern/midland seats, too.

they should have listened to me and not tom d

You love to RT it.

> Boris Johnson may not be the electoral asset they thought in the summer.

and gove is?

Whither Hunt?

meanwhile here's today's weather:

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EFsv8oDXoAEp8_P?format=png

(xxp) Not sure I believe any of that tbh.

it does read a bit like wishful thinking rather than In The Know, it would sound rather more credible if it mentioned Gove was plotting this coup between gulps of single malt and permanently pukingly drunk.

love this talk of "levelling up" the country, straight out of the Cummings playbook

don't think you need a focus group to work out that Johnson is probably going to be losing favour with all but the rawest of gammons

“going into decline”

p sure everyone outside the M25 (and a fair few inside) have BJ’s number - not convinced he is a winner

the republicans had years (and a much more pliant media) to tea party large parts of their electoral base - looks like the tories’ activist base have been successfully radicalised but not sure that trend has been mirrored in the wider country

It's also a big If as to whether or not they've had managed it with anyone who wasn't Trump.

The big flaw in the whole cunning Boris plan is that this is the approach that blew a hole in May's election, it isn't going to work dialed up to 10 and with a few spending announcements that no one believes anyway.

Also the US isn't divided on age in the same way as UK is.

Last time out the Tories pulled similar %s among BAME voters to Trump. So who’s got the lowest % of female votes in history?

Andrea Jenkyns says she’s supporting @eleanor4epping for Speaker - “she’s into a lot of these women’s rights, which I’m not, I believe in meritocracy” and because she can “pull a lot of the left vote”

— Aubrey Allegretti (@breeallegretti) September 30, 2019

If you look at 2015 & 2017 voting, female and BAME votes were critical when it came to winning Cameron’s majority, but 2015 Tories went from winning the majority to female voters to being behind in almost all working age groups. Interesting too that AB men voted 50-34 Con to Lab, but the gap for women in the same group was only 43-40.

lol

Cleverly says he was wincing during the Labour conference and thought: "Please make it stop."

Blanchard: "You did make it stop by losing in the Supreme Court."

— Emilio Casalicchio (@e_casalicchio) September 30, 2019

At last one brave Tory has dug up the corpse of Alan Clark to defend Johnson's wanderin' hands.

"How do I know my advances have been unwanted until I've made them?"

Congratulations Alex Deane (@ajcdeane) for making me and @ayeshahazarika absolutely sick.
I've heard a lot of "excuses" for sexual harassment in my day but this... pic.twitter.com/WojP31s9tp

— Femi (@Femi_Sorry) September 30, 2019

Why the fuck do they get these non-entities to talk about anything? This guy's big moment was being Cameron's "chief of staff" (hollow lol) at education for 8 months in 2005.

Sleeping Tories at conference.#SleepingTories #CPC19 pic.twitter.com/o0PmSoSRPf

— David (@IwantJC4PM) September 29, 2019

#SleepingTories #CPC2019 #CPC19 pic.twitter.com/EB9jl3tmUN

— David (@IwantJC4PM) September 30, 2019

Esther McVey is telling Tory conference about “3D architects” who are “doing it on a computer”. I don’t know much about the process of designing buildings but I thought that was quite normal, especially the 3D element 🏠

— Isabel Hardman (@IsabelHardman) September 30, 2019

That utter dumbshit has never heard of AutoCAD.

Looks like the actual McVey video hasn't been posted on here, it has to be seen to be believed.

Confirmation. We are governed by idiots. pic.twitter.com/ReBlj3ZrH3

— David Schneider (@davidschneider) September 30, 2019

that was amazing!

the mention of Alan Clark brings back memories of his wife saying "he shouldn't have slept with below stairs people" after his screwing around brought him trouble

how thick do have to be to be a government minister these days?

Surely somebody sat down and wrote that speech of McVey's - maybe on a computer - and at least read it back before they gave it to her?

yep and maybe they hate her and know she's thick enough to stick the script!

once an anchor

can he request the extension on parliament's behalf i.e. not sign the letter from himself personally?

Calz, the attitude that non-U women are undeserving of respect is mainly kept alive by Tory wives.

All the people I know of with Boris stories are posher than him. A few of them don't wish to come forward because of the embarrassment it would cause to family members.

yeah I think the women Clark's wife was referring to was from an upper middle class South African family and her husband was a top solicitor - but still below stairs to the landed gentry.

this is just sketchy memories from some tabloid report 20 odd years ago, so the general jist of it ftr

Clark wasn't the landed gentry, his ancestors were weavers from Paisley one of whom invented the cotton spool and thereafter made a fortune from having 12 year olds working 16 hours a day in his mills.

The town hall in Paisley is named after one of his horrible bastard family.

I should have known that, to my shame (it came with some book club bundle) for a few years I had an edition of the Alan Clark Dairies in my bathroom pile of on the crapper reading, he was an absolute bell end. My favourite passage was where he nearly drowned in the Falkland Islands, although I think that was 90% self-dramatising bullshit.

He was just milking it by that point..

not so great beast Crowley gone

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/sep/30/veteran-boris-johnson-aide-quits-as-downing-street-adviser