bojo is king, brexit is on, stuff is fvcked, tomorrow starts here -- new govt new thread new battle

And Zarah Sultana as well, had so much shit thrown at her in the runup

"As a working-class Muslim woman, I feel the threats posed by a resurgent hard-right Tory party.

But our movement has before, & will again, beat the forces of hate, division & austerity. The response to injustice is & always will be socialism."

My acceptance speech last night👇🏽 pic.twitter.com/uVH5yzQGP3

— Zarah Sultana (@zarahsultana) December 13, 2019

did we talk about this last night? basically exactly the kind of shit you would expect

We are very far from being perfect at ⁦@BBCNews⁩ — but the bilge about ‘bias’ needs a response. @"GE19 - from the presenter's chair "https://t.co/aVQiGb27KU on @LinkedIn

— Huw Edwards (@huwbbc) December 15, 2019

lol linkedin

Tim Farron has told the BBC that he won’t be standing for the Liberal Democrat eadership. He held the post between 2015 and 2017, but told the BBC that if he were asked to do it again, the answer would be a “definite, definite no”.

didn't realise this dude was still an mp tbqh

I'm also a no

tbh i think farronism was never given the chance to fully blossom, let's bring the milk-loving homophobe back and give the libdems the leadership they so richly deserve

i'm a yes, we have little enough to chuckle at currently

been discussed at party hq and apparently the chairman of the board said give me just a little more tim

Huw Edwards doesn't address any of the specific charges only answers in generalities. This is because is he isn't very good, and probably worthless (though in the interests of balance I should point out I've no idea who he is and didn't read his article)

Just one of the absolute best threads on twitter ever and certainly the best stuff ever written about Tim Farron

pic.twitter.com/fjD8z6J46L

— ian ‘join labour’ mighty (@iammightor) February 3, 2017

Have has my first email from a melt Lab councillor

Blah blah Venezuela -- stfu Fred!

what are you on about lad

As a Lab member I just received an email from a melt reflecting on the election. It's so melty!!

great

what are you going to do about it. imo email him back expressing concern with his position?

might phrase every post to this thread as a question, implying a rising terminal inflection?

It's already glaringly obvious which Corbynites have the capacity to ask themselves painful questions and which ones are beyond hope. Kudos to the former, STFU to the latter.

— Dorian Lynskey (@Dorianlynskey) December 16, 2019

One of the themes of tomorrow's live show. Ultimately remain failed because Labour failed and the chances of success were always slim but hopefully some other ideas will come out of the discussion.

— Dorian Lynskey (@Dorianlynskey) December 16, 2019

xps

can you two just fuck or fight already, this is tedious

DL is calm and tweeting as he always does

It's already glaringly obvious which Corbynites have the capacity to ask themselves painful questions and which ones are beyond hope.

Making a list, checking it twice

at a rapid pace with nary a flutter of consideration

the joy of being a Remainiac is you don't have to ask yourself any painful questions because the project was perfect and only failed because of Jammy Crowbar

I was right that continuity remain would get us all killed. As an Irish citizen, it gives me no pleasure to report this.

great

what are you going to do about it. imo email him back expressing concern with his position?

― imago, Monday, 16 December 2019 bookmarkflaglink

might phrase every post to this thread as a question, implying a rising terminal inflection?

― imago, Monday, 16 December 2019 bookmarkflaglink

No I was thinking of showing some admiration the way you did with Chuka.

gyac otm re: tedious.

Inevitably Nicky Morgan is back in the Cabinet (for Culture, Media and Sport). World Cup 2030 in the bag lads.

one out all out: a brexit from the modern world and every one of its problems please (we're all gonna die lol) they learned fucking NOTHING

xp didn’t she stand down?!

hopefully once the no deal is done we can look forward to many years of privileged liberals framing the political direction of Lesser UK solely in terms of rejoin as the universal panacea

that was all obviously hammed up for the cameras/you xxxxxp. anyway yeah tedious sorry

What’s the podcast gonna be called then? Re-entryists? xp

Nicky Morgan is no longer an MP. Neither is Zac Goldsmith, but they're talking about making him a Lord to keep him in the cabinet, hurrah!

Legit a podcast recorded by regular contributors to this thread would be more otm and 100% less gassy than that podcast, no accounting for taste

@tombarton
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If you were wondering why Nicky Morgan - a former Remain campaigner who stood down as an MP - was doing the rounds on TV and radio campaigning for Boris Johnson, you have your answer:

A seat in the Lords, and around the Cabinet table.

FUCKS SAKE

Imran Ahmad Khan: Taking the Wakefield seat from Mary Creagh, one Labour had held since 1932, he has run businesses in several countries and worked with the UN. Put into the seat after the original candidate, Antony Calvert, was removed over comments about food banks, Khan – who was born in Wakefield – sought to counter the criticism he had been “parachuted” into the seat by literally parachuting into the town.

xp Profiles in Venality

I suppose Morgan was due something for her bullshit performance on Good Morning defending the 50,000 nurses lie.

xxp I was reading about him earlier. He is also (apparently?) the only out gay Muslim politician in the world

Also a Tory bastard.

He’s not the only out gay Muslim politician at Westminster.

how terminally smug and clueless do have to be to post like you are on the winning side of the argument when Leave has won how national votes in a row now? I'll ask DL because I could do with some of the drugs he's on to help deal with the crushing gut-punch of last week - not that it would do me any fucking good really.

He’s not the only out gay Muslim politician at Westminster.

Waheed Alli in the Lords.

The Lords isn’t canon but point taken.

While I was trying to work out who you meant, I found the Wikipedia page of this legend:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shapurji_Saklatvala

I am genuinely interested in how many centrists are going to join the Labour Party in the coming weeks - it's the closest we'll come to a real measure of the Disgusted Silent* Majority.

*not at all silent.

I saw a journalist from the fucking Sun doing it last night, so at least we know we’re set for the next four years of cut up membership cards and “I didn’t leave Labour...the Labour Party left me”

These are the same people who announce shit ‘with a heavy heart’ and explain their insults as ‘light-hearted’ and can’t speak about politics for 30 seconds without resorting to cliché. I never want to hear about the weight of their hearts ever again.

Imagine forming a knitting circle of clueless myopic posho dickheads that spends 3 years slagging off the only party that presented a viable Remain option and then saying the failure of Remain is on that party. Seriously what a fucking prize noggin, good job that cunt doesn't post here any more - he'd be getting more FP's than Fred from me.

I want to turn every office of a former Labour MP into an advice and community action centre funded by members, unions and those who can help run them. We know the Tories won’t even stick a plaster on the problems they have created.

— Alex Sobel MP (@alexsobel) December 16, 2019

how nice is this guy