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

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— r e n o i r (@BignessAsUsual) October 3, 2019

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actually made me lol but tbf talking cows are always funny.

tbf matt is always funny

(despite inexplicable absence of cock and balls on a matt cowface)

tbf matt is always funny

fp

many xp's to the Bristol West polls chat

I live in Bristol West and there is no way Stevie Williams (coming from the body heat) is getting in.

can you confirm or deny that rabid packs of green voters roam the streets cheering on neoliberalism

that depends what they think of the electoral pact their leadership has made with the LibDems last month. Don't you think moves like that will affect how membership and voters think of a foul pro-austerity party?

Some of them might lose respect for the leadership, but like i said a poll said more than half would tactically vote LibDem, they can't all be in Con LibDem marginals

Bit racist...

It’s like a reverse Key & Peele 😅 pic.twitter.com/2pGDDQH08R

— Tez (@tezilyas) October 3, 2019

A tad

OK I'll bite on this - if all the next PM has to do is request and extension and immediately call an election, why does it matter who it is? Even if it isn't Corbyn it doesn't make any difference, he'll still fight the next election as Labour leader? Stopping No Deal is more important than anything else and eventually they'll all realise that.

Weirdly the one figure who might conceivably be able to command enough support for this very limited set of tasks might be Bercow but I've no idea if that would work logistically or constitutionally?

I think Swinson overrates how much Corbyn being PM for a couple of days will legitimise his evil brand of Marxism. Either that or she's just a childish dickhead. But at this stage I'll take a melt hydra temp PM with the heads of ken c, harriet h, chuka, and gapes' hairy arsehole over NDB.

Constitutionally* doesn’t the speaker take the children hundreds as soon as they ‘retire’ and get the coronet and ermine at the earliest possible opportunity?

*not written down so anything goes really

So here's @michaelgove standing next to Luftwaffe band on Day of German Unity, telling German audience that decision to leave EU on par with fall of Berlin Wall and East Germans' quest for freedom. Shouts from audience: "Nonsense" pic.twitter.com/lFG9ZpdTkY

— Peter R. Neumann (@PeterRNeumann) October 3, 2019

This was interesting:

https://medium.com/@mikehind/the-real-problem-for-corbyn-and-everyone-else-a503e55ede18

can someone explain to me why everyone is still talking like a No-Deal Brexit on Oct 31st is still a possibility? I thought the Act that passed was to prevent that. Is the idea that Boris just... won't follow the law?

The PM continues to say we’re leaving then (without explaining how), but it keeps it in the discussion

From what I can glean, Boris is mainly laying the groundwork for using the Benn Act as a cudgel to bludgeon his opponents with in the next election. He wants the whole world to know that, if he complies with it, it will be with the same level of enthusiasm he would bring to having his eyes gouged out.

Because BJ will find a way to bypass the Benn act and force a NDB? There's several options to do this if banter heuristics are to believed

iirc he has to send a letter to the EU requesting an extension but he can send a second one immediately telling them fuck off.

Yes, that's bound to work.

not pathetic at all, totally serious non-joke country power move

maybe the cabinet minister will deliver the letter with his fingers crossed, but not behind his back, in front, so the EU can see that they're crossed

Both our countries are captured by arcane spells that require us to do what only a few people want because what the most people want is “too controversial”

Corbyn is divisive; therefore the UK must divide itself

There’s also a rumour going around (because Hungarian officials have been spotted taking meetings at the Cabinet Office) that BJ intends to convince Hungary to deny the extension request, which has to be unanimously agreed by all the 27 EU countries. Which would be collusion with a foreign power to frustrate the will of Parliament, but he could try it on.

Boris is mainly laying the groundwork for using the Benn Act as a cudgel to bludgeon his opponents with in the next election. He wants the whole world to know that, if he complies with it, it will be with the same level of enthusiasm he would bring to having his eyes gouged out.

This is true but I think his ideal scenario is for a Labour PM to be the one requesting the extension. It's one reason why it might be better for Corbyn not to be the one pushing the button.

I think there is a strong argument being temp PM will damage Corbyn and some unity melt with nothing to lose might well be a better option. And if Corbyn says: ok have your unity melt, then he emerges as more grown up and willing to prevent NDB at his own cost. Swinson's posturing is so annoying though. I'm in two minds about this tbh.

brexit the ultimate hot potato

a spuduhate, if u will

btw i just think it should be recorded that greg hands did some extremely unsettling lurching around on tonight's newsnight. i'm surprised his interview didn't end with him vanishing in a puff of oily smoke.

Corbyn is obviously worried that if he cedes on the temp PM question, he'll basically be admitting that he's too divisive a figure to be PM even for just a few weeks. But I think there's a way he could frame it to his benefit, playing the adult in the room and saying avoiding no deal brexit is more important than any tactical manoeuvring or personal ambition. He might come out looking good and the lib dems looking petulant.

that smug creepazoid Bartley was cooing on Today about how they are "the least tribal party" like as if a pro-remain alliance is above tribalism, sorry but when you signal to more than 4 million of the hardest hit people in this country that you will happily step aside for a pro-austerity party in some seats that is tribalism, dickhead.

It's official: Rory is a Tory no more.

Rory Stewart quitting and not standing in next election. Goodnight, sweet prince.

RIP best_pic.jpg

heaven needed a patrician cunt who speaks Dari

this is the beginning of a new adventure for the littlest hobo.

oh god now i've got that song stuck in my head

"♫♫maybe tomorrow .. i'll smoke crack in a council flat in Gateshead ♫♫"

SOUNDS LIKE A PLAN

... and then of course engage with these plebs and put some light and meaning into their worthless lifes, and take some selfies

whats simon reeve going to do when Walking & Listening with Rory Stewart renders him redundant?

rip big man, heaven needed a frog-faced former royal-educator who once walked across afghanistan and did u know actually speaks dari

NEVER FORGET

thank you, thank you, (not you), thank you https://t.co/HELWHcznJX

— putting on bjork - vespertine at a house party (@loubegatherion) August 29, 2019

classic material

Probably going for a meeting at the BBC sharpish - watch out, Dan Snow and Michael Portillo.

a true classic

hadn't seen this from the replies before and now i'm lolling irl

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— Spooky Username Tom (@elbows_selbo) August 30, 2019

Haha

This morning i heard some report that there is going to be a wider enquiry into that Westminster paedo-ring travesty and one matter that was repeated how daft pols shouldn't be allowed to influence police enquiries as much as occurred here. What's on baggymps ipod today?

"I fucked a kid and I liked it"