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

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.

capitalism is the only rational form of economics

Totally cool and normal stuff courtesy of the Home Office:

https://www.theguardian.com/education/2019/oct/15/uk-deport-academic-to-democratic-republic-of-congo-never-visited-sexual-violence

I'm sure Priti Patel will sort it all out.

"sort it out" would mean fast-tracking her deportation to Priti. Who incidentally her father, who was an immigrant from east Africa previously stood as a UKIP candidate, which won't be shocking news to anybody.

Her family is one of the good ones.

two absolutely horrific stories there

the picture of the letter from dr hassan's nine-year-old son, who isn't allowed to join her in the uk, nearly made me burst into tears at my desk - just actively aggressive, vile behaviour from the home office

fuck's sake

I was listening to Richard Radcliffe talk about his young daughter being returned to him from Iran, and he was saying

...that she didn’t really know him well and that there was a “language barrier”. It was just so matter of fact and heartbreaking.

“They said that because I have lived in Nigeria I will have no trouble establishing a life in the DRC"

I'm going through a visa renewal for my wife right now and cannot read this stuff as it makes me panic

“They said that because I have lived in Nigeria I will have no trouble establishing a life in the DRC"

Kipling-approved.

"Her husband is a humanitarian coordinator for the United Nations in Yemen, designated a “non-family station” because of the conflict there, so their son is being forced to live apart from both parents, with his aunt in Egypt... Despite Hassan’s husband being unable to have his family with him in Yemen, the Home Office said there was no evidence of exceptional circumstances."

wtaf

"Asani grew up in Nigeria. Although she has a Congolese passport, she has never been to the DRC, which has one of the worst human rights records in the world. She does not speak the main language and knows no one there."

wtaaff

here's another stupid immigration ruling threatening to separate a toddler from her parents from this week:

Her parents & all four grandparents are British citizens by birth, but Priti Patel’s immigration rules say 2 year old should be deported https://t.co/d4IcEJDSgN

— Simon Cox (@SimonFRCox) October 13, 2019

it's almost like the windrush disaster had no impact on the government's gleeful embrace of the hostile environment policy

Literally nothing changed as a consequence of windrush, the FO's hostile environment policy only hitting the headlines because it hit a demographic to which people/media are largely sympathetic. Amber Rudd went through the revolving door and rapdily back in again, the name was changed to 'compliant environment' and *nothing else changed* apart from the media were largely appeased and it went away as a problem.

well, yeah

https://www.migrationwatchuk.org/briefing-paper/361/recent-polls-on-immigration

Like anyone believes anything Migration Watch has to say about anything.

Tbf that was from 2016.

Also it was from Migration Watch.

Sorry, I wasn't aware of its background.