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

oh yesssss

very important distinction re the two peters btw: hitchens p has no deeper more hated foe than british summertime -- WHY FALSIFY THE CLOCKS?

Only a few hours to go and Britain will be restored to natural, organic, truthful time after months of pointless dislocation. Let's stay on GMT . You wouldn't falsify a thermometer or a speedometer. Why falsify the clocks?

— Peter Hitchens (@ClarkeMicah) October 26, 2019

https://media.tenor.com/images/d8223af42c18c33bc217eecb2c20cf07/tenor.gif

"You wouldn't falsify a thermometer"

is that a challenge

I'm pretty sure I've seen several Beano characters falsify a thermometer loads of times

Can't believe Diana Johnson got reselected ffs

you know Any Questions has been bad enough over the years, but it has been mostly much better than QT in this era - which isn't really saying much. But I don't think I'm going to listen to it ever again now that Chris Mason is the presenter.

Hahahahahahaha busted, Tim Spoons:

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2019/oct/27/jd-wetherspoon-may-have-breached-law-over-19m-brexit-beer-mats

Also can someone explain what the IMF *is* to him.

I like that the headline in the Guardian article states he "may have" broken the law, while the article goes on to state a series of easily verifiable instances where the law was openly and massively flouted.

Also can someone explain what the IMF *is* to him.

yes that

Extension to 31st January then

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-50205603

At last check daily mail and sky news were still running brexit countdown clocks

Now, will Corbyn break free and vote for an election?

probably not today.

Don't hold your breath.

Clocks go back an hour - Hitch has an aneurysm over phoney clocks of deception

Brexit clocks go forward 2 months - no comment yet.

Is it lack of December election readiness or does he want Johnson to keep stewing in his own juices?

Question as to why Corbyn won't make the call.

No election because there’s still ample possibility of Tories doing a no deal crash-out this time next year after the WA goes through.

Shit scared of losing badly, I would have thought. Not Corbyn, that is, but 'his' MPs

Question as to why Corbyn won't make the call.

i think at the moment there's a perception that it's good to let Johnson take ownership of this WA and his failure to get it through. it also seems as if Corbyn is now pushing for the possible no deal scenario within the WA to be written out before he'll accept an election, but whether that's a pretext or a legitimate goal, god knows. i think there's probably just a general instinct to avoid as far as possible giving Johnson an election on terms of his own choosing.

if the Corbyn-sympathetic MPs in the PLP really want an election now then i suspect there would be the numbers in Parliament to get it through

Yeah but if the whips know most of the PLP won’t vote for it, Corbyn can’t vote for it. It’d be an easy attack line - “his MPs don’t respect him, why should you?”

"Awful rabble". "Hostile crowd". I have to say, the sense of entitlement and barely veiled racism from some middle class white Labour members isn't exactly shocking, but it always manages to be thoroughly sickening. pic.twitter.com/DWM4KKRlF9

— Greggs Truther (@invisibleste) October 28, 2019

some quite sour melts not loving the Momentum-backed Apsana Begum win in Poplar and Limehouse, apparently the venue was too small and there was a crowd of terrifying savages or something.

Appreciate answers all, thanks

Definite upgrade for Nottingham East here

I'm told Nadia Whittome - local anti-Brexit, pro-free movement activist - has won Labour's selection in Nottingham East.

— Sienna Rodgers (@siennamarla) October 27, 2019

The guy replacing Gapes also seems to be good (wouldn't take a lot, but genuinely good).

People on left twitter were less happy about Vauxhall's choice to replace Hoey. Ongoing gains and losses.

I'm astonished that you suggest Gapes can be ..replaced!

Yeah idk much about Florence Eshalomi, beyond her not being the left candidate, but there’s a certain poetic justice in Hoey being replaced by a black woman.

I know Calzino, not sure what the road is for Labour now. Hopefully it will survive without Mike.

He’ll still have a twitter account!

Putin will be delighted. https://t.co/U4Jj59TVR3

— Mike Gapes (@MikeGapes) October 27, 2019

Flo Eshalomi was a second choice for most of the lefty Vauxhall Labour people I saw commenting on socials.

some quite sour melts not loving the Momentum-backed Apsana Begum win in Poplar and Limehouse

apsana's good

lots of people are calling her anti-Semitic. I presume this is based upon her having a Free Palestine car sticker and some dodgy likes on social media 3 years ago.

being Muslim is usually enough tbh

vote for an election ya mad shadow cab fuds

*assuming BJ has written to formally recognise the EU’s extension acceptance

labour abstaining. what’s the line? “what’s an election going to solve?” I can think of a few things it might solve lads

We might be sailing into Gordon Brown in 2007 territory where putting an election off looks worse and worse, but I'm not convinced that electorate is exactly clamouring for a Christmas campaign.

Has anyone polled revoke? Pretty sure a majority of the electorate just wants to forget about this, forever.

just think the line rn is extremely simple “you can’t trust him to keep his do or die promises. let’s elect a labour gov to sort this and the country out”

not sure what line they’re going to be putting round now. SNP and LDs will be out punching the “we’re the real opposition” bruise all week long

lmao pls be true

At today's meeting of the Shadow Cabinet Diane Abbott tore into Labour MPs opposed to an election, saying the PLP can "go f*** themselves".

— Matt Dathan (@matt_dathan) October 28, 2019

YES I WAS JUST COMING HERE

labour abstaining. what’s the line? “what’s an election going to solve?” I can think of a few things it might solve lads

PLP really doing it's best to destroy the leadership now, I see..

Meanwhile

THREAD: 1/10 Dispatches has found that secret meetings have taken place between senior civil servants and representatives of US pharmaceutical firms where the price the NHS pays for its drugs has been discussed.

— Channel 4 Dispatches (@C4Dispatches) October 28, 2019

fucking infuriating

fucking scumbags