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

Meanwhile

I was 14 yrs old - the summer after Thatcher's notorious 1981 budget. 'Ghost Town' spoke to me and every other teenage kid. The message of social neglect and division are as relevant now as they were then. Thanks @UK_Music and @SuperSizeArt for this gift.https://t.co/WAE2DO3Ft6 pic.twitter.com/y4hP48Nnt6

— Tom Watson (@tom_watson) October 22, 2019

I can't wait for Tom's coming of age picaresque novel, where he has some tedious bollox about the first time he heard every fucking album in existence!

I've managed to end up with tickets for the Corbyn rally in Bristol tomorrow, the last time I was in the venue was to see Flying Lotus' 3D show on a bucketload of research chemicals. Hoping JC is aware of the competition and pulls out live holograms of Trotsky or something tbh.

brace yourself for drain covers, the triumphs of the steam age and his prize marrow, maybe pack some mogadons this time :p

"THANK YOU, PEOPLE'S POET!!" pic.twitter.com/FjcCTxamGX

— Mark Grout (@MarkSGrout) October 23, 2019

is ...that a Young Ones reference

Aye.

Ruth Davidson finds life as a politician so stressful she's decided to compliment her Holyrood salary with a second job working for a PR firm in the City, advising "some of the biggest players in corporate Britain." Just an unbelievable grifter. https://t.co/Ogw7NnoDZ7

— Jamie Maxwell (@jamiedmaxwell) October 23, 2019

Imagine getting it right less than Dan fucking Hodges

This seems totally at odds with what Prime Minister’s Official Spokesman briefed this afternoon. What is going on? https://t.co/eAmgiBPOyo

— Robert Peston (@Peston) October 23, 2019

peter oborne calling out peston and laura k

https://www.channel4.com/news/peter-oborne-downing-street-putting-out-fake-news

Good! I hope he does write the follow up he mentioned.

https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/opendemocracyuk/british-journalists-have-become-part-of-johnsons-fake-news-machine/

Here's the full article. Essentially the problem is that Twitter isn't journalism in any meaningful sense, both Peston and Kuenssberg are incredibly slapdash in their use of it and the guidelines governing its use as a news-breaking tool aren't worth the paper they're written on.

finally I got a joek/reference on this thread

xp

it's a good piece and fuck Pesto and Laura k, but the rot started long before Boris got into no 10

xp most of them are silly and/or repetitive tbf

no way to talk about your fellow posters

i'm enjoying calzino's inexorable devotion to the two peters. tbf they pretty much fill the job description of 'decent for a tory', peter mannion was probably based on them

I include myself in that remark!

Let’s see that fearless investigatory coverage from the country’s two fiercest political commentators!

RT JoshuaFunnell2: I want someone to look at me the way Laura Kuenssberg looks at Boris when he gives a speech. pic.twitter.com/xjWCVGZHfM

— jfb-letta (@_baeirenej) September 20, 2019

1. why have labour put this person up for newsnight
2. do newsnight know 39 people died in a lorry

xp to this day my favourite Peter Mannion moment is his face when Stewart gets fired.

wait who was the first peter

everyone's favourite drug-loathing surviving-brother

Hitchens?

Ugh am also watching Newsnight and Richard Tice wants a slap. Labour woman not great.

no he doesn't mean Mandy he means Hitch, which is grossly mischaracterising me, but imo the tories that have done the most damage in the last couple of decades are the PLP ones

lol I forgot Mandy

the PLP ones sure but Theresa May and ilk can't be ignored either

Michael Heseltine with a 15ft statue of V.I. Lenin that he spent
£20,000 to have relocated from Latvia to his garden: pic.twitter.com/9o4dlLdctq

— Politics Theory Other podcast (@poltheoryother) October 22, 2019

what was that shit the other week someone posted about a prize marrow in a red rosette returning massive majorities for the Labour party (and then using Guido Fawkes to slur anyone on the left) and lets not forget Frank Field returned massive majorities for the Labour party, these people are the fucking worst and have no connection at all with even the idea of a party of opposition and voting for everything bad that has happened in the last 2 decades. so hence, worse than fucking tories.

sorry bit fresh and on the vino and beer tonight and probably loads of edges and contradictions that will look bad tomorrow, but still i mean it!

https://img.buzzfeed.com/buzzfeed-static/static/2016-07/8/10/asset/buzzfeed-prod-fastlane02/sub-buzz-25480-1467989153-4.jpg?downsize=700%3A%2A&output-quality=auto&output-format=auto&output-quality=auto&output-format=auto&downsize=360:*

so that's where that image of a prize marrow came from!

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Really interesting how Brexit twitter isn’t buying this. Read the comments. https://t.co/K2hSsScb72

— Keiran Pedley (@keiranpedley) October 23, 2019

right wing brexit twitter coalescing around Boris deal and sympathetic towards his "disposition" rather than turning to bxp, not exactly what you loves to see - even if it is another Farage fail.

It's only twitter but slightly worrying if you were heartened by the Peterborough result.

Farage has been in relegation form for months surely. Outflanked by Boris since day one

Because Brexit is existential not tangible, what it actually is becomes nebulous. Since Boris came in, he's gradually become its owner, and Farage has ceded control.

There aren't many 'true believers' in the public, and victory is best measured by "are there visibly some losers", and thats remainers and MPs, not the EU itself. Brexit was never about immigration, or about anything at all, and theoretically at least almost anything could successfully be sold as Brexit.

Leave public did become more hardline, but only as response to May's lack of clarity or purpose. Farage's mistake was reading this as a permanent radicalization (easy to do at time). The leave public aren't generally purist about Brexit, Boris just needed to convince them what he's selling is real enough.

Long way back for Farage from here

Farage dropped the ball when he started fantasizing about an electoral pact with the Tories and so decided to soft pedal on Boris. Disappearing from the media and sending out various lieutenants like Richard Tice and Claire "I'm no Tory but..." Fox to say nice things about Boris was a disastrous move - and, amazingly, they're still talking about a Leave Coalition!

when he was polling a couple of points behind Labour it did feel a bit like when Sherwood was applying for big club vacancies

those sherwood club vacancies in full

https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fimage-ticketfly.imgix.net%2F00%2F01%2F07%2F47%2F07-og.jpg%3Fw%3D504%26h%3D700&f=1&nofb=1

Things could swing back again, but I don't know what Farage could have done differently to avoid being outflanked. Probably painted themselves into a corner by being NoDeal Party and not just Brexit Party. Can't even really do the anti-Parliament thing, Boris has taken the wind out of that one too

rip big man, heaven needed a total cunt

you could say outflanked, you could also say "brought his political project to fruition"

he died so that the dream of crushing the poors in a completely deregulated corporate hellscape could become a reality

(xp) Not if he ends up as Nigel Who? and not Lord Farage of Thanet or whatever.

I'm sure being a more famous Dick Braine is not what he had in mind.

there will be no shortage of sinecures for the nige

you could say outflanked, you could also say "brought his political project to fruition"

― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand),

Right, but IF there's a November/December election the extent to which he has been outflanked or not makes a big difference?

(xp) Yes, I think we're stuck with the cunt and I've got no doubt he will be made a Lord one day.

Corbyn on trains again:

Karie Murphy adds: "Anyone who knows Jeremy knows he loves to go on the train to obscure places like the South West or Orkney"

— Gabriel Pogrund (@Gabriel_Pogrund) October 24, 2019

Shots fired

Liar. You call yourself a journalist but spend your time spreading misleading images and fake news, as well as targeting your trolls towards myself and @HackneyAbbott.

I was on my phone as you well know. Delete this pathetic garbage and apologize. https://t.co/ZhafUZ5vQu pic.twitter.com/nYPvIR5r24

— David Lammy (@DavidLammy) October 24, 2019

(xp) A train to Orkney? How does that work?

Pearson RT'ing obviously fake/bot accounts. Off with her head Oborne.