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

Also there aren't enough Remoaners flocking to Lib Dems that would hand lots of seats to the Lib Dems.

There might be in some middle class Remainiac areas and, anyway, it could still depress the Labour vote.

― Michael Oliver of Penge Wins £5 (Tom D.), Wednesday, 16 October 2019 bookmarkflaglink

Like I said I am sure there are a few Lab/Lib Dem marginals but from what I am picking up there are higher numbers of Tory/Lib Dem marginals.

No doubt there will be a depression of the vote but I think Remoaners that I am talking about will go to the Greens - which to me is one more reason why that Labour candidate won't be voted off.

*Green as much as Lib Dems

"we are unable to provide a breakdown of the £196bn figure as our members do not feel comfortable doing this..."

We are, however, more than comfortable for any lazy hacks to use this figure, go Boris.

that cbi thing is mostly about cost of re-nationalising the trains.

how is the stopping of the current rail franchise model, mentioned in the recent queen's speech, not the same thing?

https://inews.co.uk/news/politics/queens-speech-policies-boris-johnson-scrap-broken-rail-franchise-system-813497

(and, after the buses, this is the second labour transport policy they've co-opted)

Like I said I am sure there are a few Lab/Lib Dem marginals but from what I am picking up there are higher numbers of Tory/Lib Dem marginals.

No doubt there will be a depression of the vote but I think Remoaners that I am talking about will go to the Greens - which to me is one more reason why that Labour candidate won't be voted off.

fwiw I was responding to the suggestion that the Lib Dem vote would suffer more than the Labour vote if Boris managed to cobble together a deal - I totally disagree with that, I reckon the Lib Dems would benefit from both the Tories and Labour.

Idk Tom what is the LibDems brexit policy this week?

Bollocks to it iirc.

i saw an oddly sweaty-looking swindon being interviewed on bbc breakfast as i was leaving the house this morning and she was pushing for a second ref - weirdly no mention of revoke

revoke A50 is playing bridge with lord lucan rn

after all that fanfare for it at their conference

“BALLOTS TO BREXIT!!”

Cobblers to Corbyn. Balls to Boris. The LD manifesto writes itself.

it's something when a single issue party can't give any clarity on that position!

is calling jo swinson jo swindon a deliberate thing?

nope it’s autocorrect

see also: having to delete the apostrophe out of Lib Dems EVERY TIME

jo swindon is her one true name, speaking it diminishes her occult power

like beloved ilx comrade karl malone, i never make typos

196 billion? Johnson can pledge/bung that before breakfast.

i saw an oddly sweaty-looking swindon being interviewed on bbc breakfast as i was leaving the house this morning and she was pushing for a second ref - weirdly no mention of revoke

No one has the faintest idea what she looks like so it might have been someone else

it's quite confusing what with 'swindon' being the surname of jezza's arguably most-beloved twitter attack hound

her and that ilk of nominally left twitter are so shit!

and a lot of that type are CW apologists or reactionary Labour Right tools.

TS: the crank left Vs the crank melts

AOC endorsing Bernie reminds me of this all time classic tweet pic.twitter.com/ffI9t6XgBp

— 🎃 The Spooky Leftorium 👻 (@LeftoriumThe) October 16, 2019

i don't mean blatantly labour Right, but it's under the surface of much of their shitposting.

"I totally disagree with that, I reckon the Lib Dems would benefit from both the Tories and Labour."

Are the Lib Dems getting hold of Lambeth or something?

certainly this is the first time that boris johnson has found himself in hot water over consent

Consent, not customs, is the sticking point between Johnson and the DUP now, according to a government source

— Henry Zeffman (@hzeffman) October 16, 2019

Re that JessPhillips/AOC tweet. One of my colleagues has stated similar before. He used the word 'bolshy' and I think maybe 'ballsy'

who gives a fuck about ideology, the only important thing is appearing 'badass' to people for whom politics is entertainment

TS: the crank left Vs the crank melts
🐦[AOC endorsing Bernie reminds me of this all time classic tweet pic.twitter.com/ffI9t6XgBp🕸
— 🎃 The Spooky Leftorium 👻 (@LeftoriumThe) October 16, 2019🕸]🐦

yeah, there's a lot of problematic content in that one very short tweet right enough

freeman's twitter handle is clue enough as to her value as a person

presumably she's on the Spiked team now

I know J Phillips is content seen as low hanging fruit on here, but jesus that quip about filling no 10 Downing st with Ikea furniture as an authentocrat of the ppl statement!

I can't keep up today but I need to lol J Phillips

i hadn't heard about that so i looked it up and found this from the same interview, which... *shudder*

“I do want to do Strictly,” she added. “I’m not going to make any bones about that. I wouldn’t ever do it while I’m still a politician though.

"I would rather be the Prime Minister then go on Strictly, but I don’t see why I can’t be the first ex-Prime Minister to do it. I think there is an opening. Not in a Theresa May way - I can actually dance."

publically crowing about planning to fill downing street with mass-produced stuff from a multibillion-dollar foreign company rather than eg sustainably-produced furniture handmade in the uk seems pretty revealing about her priorities

and she talks like IKEA is cheap, it's like over a hundred quid for a basic kitchen table ffs!

but her epic clapbacks tho

BREAKING: two senior EU sources say the main stumbling block to a deal has been removed with the DUP accepting the latest proposals on consent... Optimism a deal can now be done...

— Tony Connelly (@tconnellyRTE) October 16, 2019

scoop!

can you move stumbling blocks with bales of cash?

Look I don't want to be a misogynist but Jess is dregs

why u hate women smdh

I'm saving all my misogynistic contempt for when her zany sitcom starts on the bbc.

Somebody called Tom McTague (no, seriously) contradicting Tony Connelly's tweet.

Tom McTague wrote betting the house, which is great, but he is a total prick about/to Irish people.

aye good book that, typical English cunt tho!

irish name, english attitude!

He is plainly not of good Irish peasant stock like yer man, O'Neill.

his ancestors couldn't get on a boat to New York because they were of peasant stock likely to be tossed over the side long before the approach to Ellis Island.

"...actually, I think you'll find that dying of diphtheria in Cattle Class is the preferred choice of us sturdy peasant yeomen, contrary to what the sneering toffs at the so-called Captain's Table might have you believe" [is heaved into the mid-Atlantic]

lol I just saw this severely terrible thread from this morning

While the default position of many (most?) is to mock or disdain the DUP, it’s worth trying to understand their perspective, the challenges they now face—and why any grown up should hope that whatever is agreed no side in Northern Ireland feels humiliated. Thread 1/15

— Tom McTague (@TomMcTague) October 16, 2019