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

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although it can't counterbalance the long article abt the war in yemen that would leave an uninformed reader with the impression that britian is not involved, there's a nice piece in today's guardian by chantal mouffe abt populism, centrism and brexit

i regret to inform you that katie hopkins is being horny on main

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EFvPQl4UYAAwCyz?format=jpg&name=medium

if this isn't ample proof that she needs to be permanently deplatformed once and for all i dunno what is

I was wondering what a "buffer zone" 10 miles either side of the border was going to do to that bit of Donegal that's less than 10 miles wide, and, welp, there it is all painted red on that map. Can the UK really make Ireland put up infrastructure on their side though?

xp Toby Young has said something like - " back in the good old days you'd be offended if Boris didn't squeeze your thigh". Why do these fuckwits lurve him so much?

cause he's so fuckin' hot

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/ce/21/3f/ce213f1a87fd50200c1d70395a9cd536.jpg

it's strange how such a deformed and useless specimen as TY would rep for bringing back the eugenics movement without being concerned it might want to take his ugly arse out of the gene pool

Possibly a bit niche when so many other bizarre statements are emanating from the Tory conference, but this is annoying me today - presumably from the mind of Dominic Cummings, Brain Genius and Science Enthusiast (NB not an actual scientist) (nor am I)

.@Conservatives have ‘announced plans to design, develop and build…a commercially viable fusion power plant by 2040.’ For, er, <checks notes> £200 million! Funding for fusion is good news, but this is so ridiculous as to be a simple lie. https://t.co/tvJ1wqWAZY

— Andrew Steele (@statto) September 30, 2019

(waves from 8 miles away from the Joint European Torus, the great still-not-quite-realised hope of 80s/90s science and still going, funding & staffing now in question what with Theresa May deciding that Brexit meant Brexit meant pulling out of Euratom for no reason whatsoever, funding also very much in the "a lot more than that number there" category)

harnessing fusion power is probably an easier problem to solve than the irish border tbh

"There will be an Englishman on the moon by 2040, and that is a promise!" *cheers*

£200 m might be enough tho, especially if you use a 2 dimensional architect for the structure!

Nuclear wipe-put much preferred over black death tbf

*wipe-out

"Roughly an Englishman's worth of atoms should be among the ejecta covering the moon from the explosion of the earth."

[Boris Johnson]
297 (Tories and DUP)

[Jeremy Corbyn]
284 (Lab, SNP, PC, Grn)

[ Ken Clarke, Harriet Harman, Vardy - someone who commands the respect of the house ]
44 (LDs, TIG, Tory rebels)

the only stats that matter in temp governments, Swinson and her tory pals foolish manoeuvring will be the end of her leadership and aid a NDB.

Boris in control

Did anyone spot this moment at the Conservative Party Conference?@BorisJohnson was handed a plastic coffee cup by an aide, before another aide immediately snatched it away.

"No disposable cups", she was heard saying. pic.twitter.com/i1nYZ5AFjF

— On Demand News (@ODN) October 1, 2019

zero use cups. even less environmentally sustainable

There are no circumstances in which former Labour MPs sitting as independents, such as John Woodcock, Ian Austin or Gavin Shuker, will vote to put a man they regard as unfit to be prime minister in No 10.

great set of lads whose bitterness and personal enmity towards Corbyn is more important than preventing NDB. Bush says it isn't Swinson's fault but on my count she has enough MP's to make a majority so I'll beg to differ. And his recent pathetic fawning over Cameron is putting me off reading him these days tbh

Torture junkie and incontinent user of the word 'resile' also won't back Corbz. Great loss.

https://news.sky.com/story/jeremy-corbyn-in-power-would-end-in-tears-says-ex-home-secretary-jack-straw-11823899

t/s: £350m a week for the nhs vs O N E B I L L I O N lost in trade each week

Despite extensive preparations at Dover, the port’s chief executive said that it still expects to see a drop in trade worth £1bn a week should Britain leave the EU without a deal. Addressing a ConservativeHome/Port of Dover fringe event at the conference, transport minister George Freeman confirmed that the government was assuming that disruption would roughly halve - a range of 40-60% - the traffic on Britain’s main trading link for three months.

Doug Bannister, the chief executive of Port of Dover, said that the assumed drop in traffic would cut £1bn a trade every week. He said:

That’s how critical it is. If there’s a no-deal Brexit, it’s not going to be OK. But people are doing all they can to ensure Britain keeps trading.

Freeman said he hoped that goodwill would prevail should a deal not be agreed by October 31. Asked what preparations the government was making for “malign interventions” such as a potential blockade by French fishermen, Freeman said he had seen cabinet papers showing that “the Ministry of Defence are actively looking at it”, raising the potential for alarming escalation.

Less videos of Boris featuring seething sexual tension itt, pls.

(also fewer)

the man can't help his raw sexual charisma andrew, stop borisshaming

Torture junkie and incontinent user of the word 'resile'

you forgot "racist cunt"

Watching BBC parliament and Paula Sheriff is asking a question about homelessness. (There is, ofc, no answer).

The thing about Corbyn calling Labour “the anti racist party”, besides it being untrue, is that it gives cover to the likes of Straw, Woolas, etc

maybe not Skinnock

Omg

John McDonnell has just told journalists he believes Jo Swinson can be persuaded to accept Corbyn as PM. "I was brought up a Catholic. I'm a great believer in the powers of conversion."

— Emily Ashton (@elashton) October 1, 2019

Now told by security that ONLY press are being kept out. https://t.co/qaZ6m8uwgD

— Alex Cadier (@alexcadier) October 1, 2019

that's... odd

A punch-up broke out at the Conservative Party Conference after a senior MP tried to get in without a pass. The event, being held in Manchester, is believed to be on ‘lockdown’, following a ‘punch-up’ between MP Sir Geoffrey Clifton-Brown and security. Armed police and paramedics are on the scene following the incident, which is believed to have happened inside the International Lounge at the conference centre. The Cotswolds MP did not deny the reports, and said: ‘I’ve got nothing further to say about it. I don’t want to comment on it, really.’ A staff member guarding the door of the lounge said the incident was sparked by a disagreement, adding: ‘It was a small misunderstanding’.

says Metro

lol

A punch-up broke out at the Conservative Party Conference after a senior MP tried to get in without a pass. The event, being held in Manchester, is believed to be on ‘lockdown’, following a ‘punch-up’ between MP Sir Geoffrey Clifton-Brown and security. Armed police and paramedics are on the scene following the incident, which is believed to have happened inside the International Lounge at the conference centre. The Cotswolds MP did not deny the reports, and said: ‘I’ve got nothing further to say about it. I don’t want to comment on it, really.’

https://i0.wp.com/metro.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/PRC_87829710.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&zoom=1&resize=964%2C506&ssl=1

beaten, quite literally, to the punch by nv there

he seems like a good egg, dunno what could have been behind his decision to act the cunt

In January 2016, the Labour Party unsuccessfully proposed an amendment in Parliament that would have required private landlords to make their homes "fit for human habitation". According to Parliament's register of interests, Clifton-Brown was one of 72 Conservative MPs who voted against the amendment who personally derived an income from renting out property.

Hmmmmmm after lunch

International Lunge

Johnson's intemperate use of language leading to 66 year old MPs brawling with doormen.

Talking of which, I notice Kate Hoey's No Surrender comment has been extensively covered in the national press.

Priti Patel, the home secretary, is speaking now.

She starts by saying the Conservatives have restored their reputation as the party of law and order.

Start off with a funny line is always good practice when it comes to speechmaking.

didn’t boris do a crime recently and also were the leadership candidates not all having a drug off

tom kibasi article seems on point

anyone paid to comment on this circus and tweeting "lol it's just like TTOI" should be put onto minimum wage.

still think he’ll resign and fight the next GE as CP leader/hard man

@MarkDiStef
26m
Home Secretary Priti Patel laced with populist rhetoric:
"Because, let me tell you something.
This daughter of immigrants, needs no lectures from the North London metropolitan liberal elite."

dogwhistle antisemitism y/n?

LATTE MUNCHING MANSCAPER HEGEMONS

Dummy journalist face-off:

Note to ⁦@patel4witham⁩’s speech writer: you should have deleted the word “north” from this trope because it has connotations I know the Home Secretary would be embarrassed by (I say this as a North Londoner born and bred) pic.twitter.com/Rq9XxDHa8j

— Robert Peston (@Peston) October 1, 2019

Priti Patel uses her conference speech to lambast the "North London metropolitan liberal elite".

It might be a niche issue, but no one ever mentions the South London metropolitan liberal elite, which seems an oversight given how sizeable it is.

— Peter Walker (@peterwalker99) October 1, 2019

But yeah totally dogwhistley, same as Paxman’s NORTH LONDON GEEK

The thing about the thing with the disposable cup is, Johnson's response is a homeresque "woop-woop-woop" - I'd like to think (but I'd be wrong) that it would be impossible to see this and still think of him as a steely-eyed leader. I hate to quote Ronin, but he genuinely got ambushed by a coffee cup.