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

i'm honestly not sure what his actual point is?

Workers are afraid of socialism, foreigners and the green new deal afaict.

i'm honestly not sure what his actual point is?

in this single tweet or on a more fundamental, existential level?

he's basically saying voters want to maintain the status quo, which in his neck of the woods is the reason why the manufacturing/heavy industries are dead. We want a manifesto with no industrial strategy - and we want it now!

so glad that jeremy corbyn didn't win so that the rich weren't compelled to flee our newly-minted socialist republic

EXCLUSIVE: Billionaire hedge-fund manager Alan Howard and former Lehman Brothers bigwig Jeremy Isaacs - both Conservative Party donors - have quietly applied for Cypriot citizenship, reports @clarebaldwin. Meet the Brits who won't Brexit. https://t.co/kVU5n1BXCU

— Andrew RC Marshall (@Journotopia) December 19, 2019

(VO: you cannot actually meet them)

I'm sure if these exciting opportunities to pursue careers throughout the EU were available for all then People's Vote would piss a 2nd ref. As they aren't available to vast swathes of the country, then the disenfranchised will vote with their fists and give proxy Leave votes to right-wing tories who will fuck their lives up even more.

― calzino, Thursday, December 19, 2019 11:03 AM (four hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

I know what you mean but it's wishful thinking to say the Brexit disruption will only affect precious rich people and their careers. My bro in law, not hugely loaded, has been sent to do his sales of industrial parts in east Asia, whereas before he got sent to France but this has changed because brexit, so travel time is vastly longer and time spent with family reduced to almost nil. Very typical of the disruption

"it's wishful thinking to say the Brexit disruption will only affect precious rich people"

where did I say this?

Xp which is to say all sorts of middle income jobs rely on EU freedom of movement/streamlining, and all sorts of low income jobs rely on some sort of product or service being sold in EU or bought from

You didn't literally say it but I felt it was implied. Don't get me wrong. A lot of remain discourse is hideously class blind, like the article I saw saying the BBC has to recruit top talent from abroad and can't possibly be expected to recruit British people.

But the people on 50k complaining about Brexit disruption are only the vocal, able to speak tip of the iceberg of people who will be fucked over

I was just simply pointing out that not everyone is born middle class and often don't see these opportunities or benefits of EU membership, any implications you project onto the post are your own baggage.

I think maybe this guy should be the labour leader idk

He might be leaving, but he still knows how to torch the Tories on the NHS. They don’t like hearing the truth. #QueensSpeech pic.twitter.com/5GUu3QqsIq

— Rachael Swindon (@Rachael_Swindon) December 19, 2019

>> Strange times <<
The poll winners' party

It probably won't surprise you to learn that champagne corks were popping at 10pm prompt at the Baby Shard on Thursday night, as the Times and the Sun celebrated the projected result of the exit poll.

It's also unlikely to surprise you to learn that Rupert Murdoch, Rebekah Brooks, Les Hinton and all the usual News UK suspects were there too, getting their fourth and fifth trolleys of booze brought in to the office by the time Blyth Valley announced.

The one thing that might surprise you though is that in among the revellers was... Cate Blanchett.

https://media.giphy.com/media/StnSCsvTGIhaM/giphy.gif

Xp @Calzino let's not be snarling each other

Snarling? give it up!

Blanchett was in the Hudds Examiner interviewing a Syrian refugee Cheesemaker yesterday. I don't know why that give me the idea she might not be a tory voter. I mean she's half Aussie/US for starters.

@gyac, where's that from? I might be asked to provide evidence when I refer to her as Tory scum

it would be a real hypocritical dick-move to be pictured with a Syrian refugee and giving lip service to the positives of having a humane immigration system and then popping champers with the party of hostile environment.

xp popbitch mailout

THIS is voter suppression.

After the 2017 election there was only ONE conviction of voter fraud in the U.K.

that’s 0.000063%.

There is no valid legal necessity for such laws, the only reason they would implement this is to disenfranchise the most vulnerable in society https://t.co/gyIaItE3p8

— Becca 🌹 (@becca__lr) December 19, 2019

well, yeah

already planning to steal the next election.. must be worried about how knackered the economy will be by then.

never hurts to start rigging things in your favour as soon as you get a majority

unless you give a shit about democracy, obv

given the result of the election, who is more likely to have benefitted from voter fraud?

since voter fraud essentially doesn’t exist, that’s a difficult question to answer

Jess Phillips Twitter suggests that she's trying to recruit enough new members to elect her leader above the left membership. Which seems optimistic.

this is my own professional bad-not-good bubble but much of the hastings & brighton 80s rockwrite massive -- who are largely *not* public school -- luuurves jess p

(partly i suspect bcz one julie b once announced she wd v happily bang JP and, well, you join the dots) (i take no pleasure in reporting this)

― mark s, Sunday, 15 December 2019 11:05 (four days ago) bookmarkflaglink

^^^these guys in particular add up to a small army of maybe at the outside 7-9

pouring one out for CHUKTIG

We came together & took a stand when others wouldn’t. It was right to shine a spotlight on Britain’s broken politics. But having taken stock and with no voice now in Parliament, we begin the process of winding up our party. Thanks to all who stood with us. https://t.co/QjViYXoQir

— The Independent Group for Change (@ForChange_Now) December 19, 2019

Her page is all "join, if they try and deny your vote it'll be obvious what they're up to, we need to grow our movement" which yes I agreed with last time around as well

Xp lol the definition of pour one out

our politics is broken... and now so are we

pouring out a pint of sour milk for the melts

^^^these guys in particular add up to a small army of maybe at the outside 7-9

but everybody who read them went on to form a Baader-Meinhof gang

🤔 pic.twitter.com/FQHebRdluf

— Pukkah Punjabi (@PukkahPunjabi) December 19, 2019

one julie b once announced she wd v happily bang JP

*Plays Green Day - Good Riddance (Time Of Your Life) *

TBH anything could happen with the registered supporters thing this time around and talking about the membership is a red herring. Anyone who's been paying attention and cares about the result lnows they can bung a few quid to the Labour Party and have a say in the next leader. I doubt that will favour JP in the end but it's unambiguously a good thing in terms of driving democratic engagement.

is this good

Exclusive: Clive Lewis to stand for Labour leader with a pledge to go further than Jeremy Corbyn in giving members a say on policy and a more decisive break with Blair/Brown era https://t.co/P8cSoyYGcL

— Rowena Mason (@rowenamason) December 19, 2019

Yes it is. RLB hasn't made her pitch yet and expect her to match it.

God knows. He’s a liability with some bad political instincts who isn’t particularly liked by the left of the party but elements of the transformative democratic agenda he’s hinting at sound like they could be interesting. There is scepticism as to whether he would follow through on it. He isn’t going to win, so it’s neither here nor there really, but it’s good someone is talking about rooting policy in the membership in a more direct way and RLB will have to cover some of the same ground now.

Xp

Jeremy Corbyn vs Angela Eagle

Could be good in the Shadow cab if he has learnt how to behave, idk.

Is he not currently a junior shadow minister or something? That’s why he does tv appearances

Might be. I thought he resigned over some bollocks.

He did in 17, over triggering a50, but they brought him back soon enough.

Shadow Minister for Sustainable Economics
Incumbent
Assumed office
12 January 2018
Serving with Lyn Brown

Seems about his level tbh. As SV says nothing from his past actions actually makes me think he would do anything, or that he has any of the kind of ruthless discipline needed to carry it out.

Ha, amazing

He was the first member of his family to attend university, reading economics at the University of Bradford before being elected student union president, and later vice-president of the National Union of Students. In November 1995, he was a signatory to a letter that argued for the abolition of student loans, saying "Any loans system will be unfair".

Lewis was suspended from the role in 1996 by then-president Jim Murphy of the NUS for attending a debate on free education organised by the Campaign for Free Education (CFE). Murphy's actions were condemned in an early day motion authored by Ken Livingstone which received the backing of 13 MPs.

friendship ended with parliamentary politics now insurrectionist violence is my best friend https://t.co/uXPIUSgwbN

— LEXIT_LOVER69 (@coso9001) December 19, 2019

gerrymandering and voter ID - how to shape this country like a little US. At this point if some radical group offered me a gun and a brief for a suicide mission to murder some top tories I'd be very tempted to sign up.