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

I know some love the pomp, but when there are 14m people in poverty; when there are 1.6m foodbank parcels being handed out a year; when there are rough sleepers in every corner of our cities, I can’t help finding the opulence on display in Parliament today deeply uncomfortable. pic.twitter.com/3396YamFEm

— Laura Pidcock MP (@LauraPidcockMP) October 14, 2019

the new Contrapoints is called 'Opulence', will enjoy watching that later...

am i supposed to know what the picture on the right by Theresa May is?

keep up granddad, it's an internet classic

(laura pidcock otm as usual btw)

ok i did my meme research

Laura P is otm except the correct follow up to "I know some love the pomp" should be "and they can GET TAE FUCK"

well, that was heavily implied tbf

it felt like an unnecessary nod to civility

she's hiding her true power levels until she takes command of the corbyn brigade's guillotines iirc

I'm worried that she's already showing menshevik tendencies :(

keep up granddad, it's an internet classic

Applebaum explaining to E Davies on PM about how the Justice Party have taken over state media in Poland: It would be like if the BBC was taken over by one UK party and became a propaganda organ for them :p

Niche content I'm aware, but I treasure the memory of Ian Dempsey playing the Stranglers' No More Heroes and following it by wondering "what did happen to Leon Trotsky?"

Anyone else see this very normal warning on their travel apps?
https://i.postimg.cc/G36ZRFX6/368-E8-D86-897-E-43-E1-8-D7-F-BAB73-A06-A84-D.jpg

And before anyone says XR, they’re finishing on Friday.

But that's dated the 7th

Last updated today?

always rated the lads down at panelbase tbf

Latest @Panelbase poll, 9-11 October (changes since GE17)

Con 33% (-11)
Lab 30% (-11)
LD 17% (+9)
BXP 12% (+12)
SNP 4% (+1)
Grn 3% (+1)

[My seat estimate]
Con 301 (-16)
Lab 247 (-15)
SNP 50 (+15)
LD 29 (+17)
BXP 1 (+1)
Oth 24 (-2)

Tories & DUP 311 (-16)
All other MPs 332 (+17)

— Stats for Lefties 🌹 🌹 (@LeftieStats) October 14, 2019

ComRes are a great set of lads as well!

I think that 10 for the DUP is a big ask. Don’t think they’ll retain Belfast South & there’s an outside chance they could lose Belfast north as well.

please someone convince me that boris isn’t going to pass his deal, implement voter id laws and win the election because i’m feeling pretty low about things right now

he has a long, reliable history of fucking up absolutely everything

both labour and libdems would vote down the voter ID bill. i had a similar feeling of hopeless despondency about it the other day, but how does he get it through parliament just before a snap election? i can't see it happening.

his mom has got more of a chance of getting through parliament

that mom in full

https://static.standard.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2015/09/29/12/eLib_5391467.jpg

please someone convince me that boris isn’t going to pass his deal, implement voter id laws and win the election because i’m feeling pretty low about things right now

Also the language from the government suggests the historical veterans cases (ie getting away with war crimes) is getting kicked into the long grass & J0hnny M3rc3r is having a thoroughly normal one vs S0ld1er F Twitter & the Sun atm

i just feel like i can see enough melts voting for a border in the irish sea and jacob rees bitchnose is already saying he'll fall in line. yes maybe it needs a technical extension but that can be handwaved away. it's depressing me. the headlines write themselves. we've already had nine years of these utter dickheads and they just feel dangerously close to getting to say they've 'delivered the will of the people' against all odds etc which will allow them to Finish The Project

Yeah, unknown quantity of Labour melts, Lib Dems that can't be relied on for anything, ousted Tories looking for a prodigal son scenario...i mean surely not but we live in insane times

felt like that when May was polling higher than any other PM in history. I actually went to bed the night of the exit poll because I was so convinced they’d pull a crushing majority & look what happened there. They were feeding info to journalists about campaigning in historically safe Labour seats for weeks. And crucially, Boris is a lot more divisive than TM. He doesn’t have that middle England thing that TM had, and idc what he’s polling now, but under FPTP where you get the votes matters. No point piling them up in safe seats.

let's be fucking having them

am worried the prospects of an election might recede into the distance now, tho...

this phoney war is brutal

Feel like this is bad for the government - they’ve got to strike while the iron is hot. Potentially also for us because Cummings is supposed to be stepping down on the 31st

I think trying pull a move like the voter ID one smacks of fear, behind the scenes - as has been previously posted on here - they are probably plotting to hang on to power somehow rather than win an election that is beyond their appeal to win. Always loads of cunts will vote tories, but their appeal has narrowed a lot since '17 and a stronger LibDems this time could be a winner for Labour.

the bbc just replayed the Boris: Lenin purging poor old Trostky segment from today. not doing their man any favours there.

Not saying the voter ID thing isn’t the grubby anti democratic power grab we all know it is, but there’s a fair chance of it being gutted in amendments even if it passed

much like the press didn't twig about the radicalisation of the conservative party membership until they started trying to deselect all their moderate faves... our esteemed media have shown a similar lack of curiosity towards all of the campaigning that labour (and momentum) have been doing week-in week-out since the 2017 result. there is the potential for something big to be happening, right under our noses, and we wouldn't really know about it because 1. the polls might not pick it up because the momentum canvassing numbers are so large they're reaching people that haven't voted before and 2. the press only ever go on about momentum thugs' crass stalinism. IDS, rudd, and bojo are all potential scalps (though suspect they'll move him to contest another seat.)

How’s he going to pass his deal without an extension and losing ground to the headbangers?

expect to see a lot of lifetime peerages and knighthoods handed out of this gets through.

Didn’t work for May when she knighted John Redwood lol

I might have if it had been a promise based on a reciprocal arrangement.

Go ask <insert anyone here> what a promise from Boris is worth.

I'm somewhat surprised by your lack of cynicism. if this goes through it will be all about deals being done and arrangements being made behind closed doors.

I guess we'll see if Mark Francois is Sir Mark Francois in time.

A Liberal Democrat staffer has been forced to apologise after he claimed that Labour’s Dawn Butler invented her experience of racial discrimination in parliament.
The shadow equalities minister wrote to the Lib Dem leader, Jo Swinson, asking for the suspension of Steve Wilson. He had criticised Butler on Twitter by saying her account of being confused for a cleaner in a lift in parliament because she was black was was “just not true” and she should stop “propagating” such “stories”.

Wilson is an office manager for his wife, the former Labour MP Angela Smith, who was briefly part of the Change UK grouping and drew controversy shortly after its foundation by saying people from black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds had a “funny tinge” during an appearance on the BBC Two programme Politics Live. She subsequently said she had misspoken and apologised...

In a reply to a post Butler made on Twitter sharing the article, Wilson wrote: “Sorry but this is just not true. I’ve worked in parliament for 15 years and the lifts have always been for the use of everyone. Only time MPs have priority is during a division. Stories like this don’t do anyone any justice and anyone propagating then (sic)should stop it.”

Lol ok

Breaking: the UK will table fresh proposals to break the Brexit deadlock this morning, @rtenews understands

— Tony Connelly (@tconnellyRTE) October 15, 2019

3/ It follows a 90 minute meeting between Boris Johnson and DUP leader Arlene Foster, and deputy leader Nigel Dodds in Downing Street last night

— Tony Connelly (@tconnellyRTE) October 15, 2019

but hold on... didn't they break the deadlock last week?

someone in the comments otm that it is like watching a fly repeatedly banging its head into a pane of glass.

90 minutes sounds like just enough time to finally sort this all out right enough

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2019/oct/15/neil-woodford-equity-income-fund-wound-up

Woodford continued to charge the fund fees of about £65,000 a day, angering locked-out investors. The fund manager argued that the fees were needed to pay wages and other costs while he shifted investments away from smaller, illiquid assets into larger publicly quoted companies.

imagine paying yourself 65 grand a day for being such a shitty failure as a fund manager that you get sacked by the administrator, not that I'm crying any tears for the investors whose money he's pissed away on failed doorstep lenders and estate agents.