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

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

don't worry I've heard Liz Truss is a sharp negotiator and totally knows what she is doing

she’s doing the only thing tories ever do: enriching parasites

What I actually said in Shadow Cabinet today, "in the run-up to 2017 election, some Labour MPs were crying in my office and in the tearoom as if it's a f***ing funeral, saying Jeremy should stand down, then they all got re-elected with increased majorities" https://t.co/dxWI05d5U4

— Diane Abbott (@HackneyAbbott) October 28, 2019

Diane's little red book is otm

confused about what’s happening tbrr

what does the party mean here

I'm told Corbyn is going to say Labour will support an election bill tomorrow...BUT also told the party is planning a Vote of No Conf later in the week.

— Lewis Goodall (@lewis_goodall) October 28, 2019

Implications for the date if they can’t form a caretaker gov iirc

Ian Blackford just said the SNP "wants to see votes for 16-17 year olds" in December election.

A) not enough time to get them on electoral register

B) if that's a red line then the bill dies.

— Lewis Goodall (@lewis_goodall) October 28, 2019

Corbyn says:

-when no deal off the table
-when date of election can be fixed in law
-when rights of students to vote can be guaranteed

Then Lab will support an election

I.e. they will amend election bill tomorrow on these grounds.

— Lewis Goodall (@lewis_goodall) October 28, 2019

The Tories have launched a data mining website called https://t.co/rlvXjgLHK8. On the website you can pop in your postcode and the website will give you a handy explainer about your MPs Brexit position and why, if they’re not in favour of the Governments position, it’s wrong.

— Mhairi Black MP 🏳️‍🌈 (@MhairiBlack) October 28, 2019

Lol at this though
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EH-vJYOXUAAv91b?format=jpg&name=large

Voted SNP since the 80s...vote to remain in the UK...ok

Corbyn, at the actual despatch box: “He said he’d die in a ditch. Another broken promise.”

Genuinely blaming the the prime minister for still being alive.

— Tom Peck (@tompeck) October 28, 2019

otm, drag his still-living ass

Tom Peck’s invisible lips disappearing even further as he vomits up some tumbleweed of a “joke” is it

you know when people put "Neither Left nor Right" in their online bios they're only half telling a lie

Not saying he’s got some concerning views but
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D_ER3DIX4AAkN-6?format=png&name=small

Jo Swinson, for some unfathomable reason, has decided to dedicate this speech to attacking Labour for not supporting a People's Vote, even though it does support a People's Vote. Apparently this takes priority over challenging the government.

— Ian Dunt (@IanDunt) October 28, 2019

is it unfathomable, dunty?

Selective amnesia is a hell of a drug

Slight interruption in this stale debate as a couple of MPs have broken one of the green benches. Loud crack and it is now apparently sagging.

— Isabel Hardman (@IsabelHardman) October 28, 2019

Gapesy farted again

It wasn’t me...
Actually it was, a bit. But mainly it was @NicDakinMP and @PaulWilliamsMP 😬

— John Woodcock (@JWoodcockMP) October 28, 2019

It wasn’t me...
Actually it was, a bit. But mainly it was @NicDakinMP and @PaulWilliamsMP 😬

— John Woodcock (@JWoodcockMP) October 28, 2019

Felt like I remembered a couple of those names together before and, well, thereweare.gif

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/british-mps-who-accepted-thousands-13444404

Mike Gapes, John Spellar, Dr Paul Williams, John Woodcock, Kevan Jones - Labour
£8,762 a head on Accommodation, travel and hospitality.

Mr Gapes said he had: “long had an interest in the Middle East and the Arab world’.

Dr Williams tweeted: “My previous notions have been blown out of the water. I’ve seen a modern, progressive Saudi Arabia that has totally changed my view of this country.’”

not convinced labour have sufficiently rolled the pitch for this post-extension WAB-trapdoor “we need to take no deal off the table” line

Corbyn’s ‘another broken promise’ line getting huge traction though, may it be the most memorable item from this ridiculous day.

House of Commons vote on an early general election, result:

AYES: 299
NOES: 70

(434 MPs - two thirds majority - required in favour for motion to pass)

— Britain Elects (@britainelects) October 28, 2019

Prime Minister Boris Johnson has announced the Government will table a bill for a 12 December General Election tomorrow.

— Britain Elects (@britainelects) October 28, 2019

don’t like smug contented look on tories’ faces lately

wary

I've completely forgotten why the fixed term parliaments act was passed.

it was passed because they couldn't find anything more important that they agreed on

I've completely forgotten why the fixed term parliaments act was passed.

"The Lib Dems want a date of 9 December, while students are still at university, but the Tories favour 12 December, after some have broken up for Christmas."

ah democracy

https://twitter.com/stephenkb/status/1188898118152130561

not sure why that didn’t embed but:


“In terms of "term dates and students": in the closest university marginal (Canterbury), term doesn't end until 18 December. AFAIK, the only university in a marginal constituency where the date is beforehand is Warwick and Leamington.”

xxxxp
I thought it was a case that most students have fucked off much earlier?

than both of them dates i meant.

changed a lot the last few years cos of semesterization

well I suppose like many of us, the students do have a lot to thank the LibDems for:p

Yeah the issue is not whenever they actually close for Christmas but when students start going home

The Labour MP Stephen Doughty says he was wrong when he suggested earlier that there were rumours that Boris Johnson could stand as a candidate in East Yorkshire, not in his current constituency, Uxbridge and South Ruislip. (See 5.42pm.) He says the Tory MP for East Yorkshire, Sir Greg Knight, has been readopted as a candidate. Doughty says he muddled the constituency up with another one.

Crushing it.

Trouble from the Lib Dems

Jo Swinson implies they might not back Dec 12 election:

'If Boris Johnson wants a General Election he could have supported our bill for a GE on Dec 9th

'Instead he has chosen to stick to his original plan for Dec 12 which we have already rejected'

— Steven Swinford (@Steven_Swinford) October 28, 2019