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

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.

what the fuck
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/dec/18/the-rights-accusations-of-antisemitism-against-sanders-are-cynical-and-dangerous

fuck this country

their bosses at the SIS building don't mind them stanning for liberal democracy in other countries

It doesn't need to be insurrection but organised protest and strike action to fight for working conditions that are about to be scrapped.

Again this isn't getting away from the potentially seismic events in the economy and climate. Brexit is still the main concern here.

fao Cardamon I didn't really have much time to post earlier and was out and about. But ftr I did vote Remain. But being critical of the tone of FBPE'ers that talk like the whole country is middle class and the insipid class condescension style of the Remain campaign (that will always cause it to fail) doesn't really warrant you projecting crap positions onto me that I wasn't even taking.

Upgrading my "do I mind Clive?" from "no" to "yes" I do mind him. Rapidly emerging as a pattern here. https://t.co/yKoqNYd6zG

— Sinan Kose (@TheSinanKose) December 19, 2019

yeah, these ex-armed forces boys are not to be trusted tbh. I can recall (i think at labour conference '17) some "get down bitch" type comment that made him look like a boorish macho prick.

Yeah that was a shit look at best.

Yes, he's a bit of a wide-o.

Can't believe an officer of her majesty's armed forces would be a boor

maybe drill sergeant Dan Jarvis could whip him into shape and turn him into a slightly more reserved macho boor!

ex-Army in politics is always bad, because they'll just keep voting down the dictatorship of the proletariat.

In hysterics at centrists theorising the left like Rebecca Long-Bailey because they can call her “RLB” like “AOC” because it “sounds cool”.

— Dawn Foster (@DawnHFoster) December 19, 2019

dealing with some deep thinkers here. Tbf they've only had 4 years to get their act together.

if only we could find some melts with double-barrelled names

just feel like dropping: Admiral Hon. Sir Reginald Aylmer Ranfurly Plunkett-Ernle-Erle-Drax, KCB, DSO, JP, DL to thread!

I don't know what DL stands for.

Dogging Lover

after already receiving so many honours at least there was slightly less kneeling for that one

or at least kneeling on soft terra firma!

dog latin

Dastardly Liberals

Good night all

Electoral Calculus Projection of GE2019 Results on Proposed new seat boundaries:

CON: 352
LAB: 174
SNP: 47
LDM: 7
DUP: 7
SF: 7
PLC: 2
SDLP: 2
ALL: 1

CON majority of 104. pic.twitter.com/gz6XeoQQvc

— Election Maps UK (@ElectionMapsUK) December 19, 2019

yeah but enough of badly they'd do under Starmer :p

how

Jeremy Corbyn wearing a ‘you can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep spring from coming’ is a mood.

📷 by mona._moon on Instagram pic.twitter.com/9cGzk3afgK

— George Aylett (@GeorgeAylett) December 19, 2019

Boris Johnson’s EU withdrawal agreement bill has been published, with protections on workers’ rights, unaccompanied refugee children and parliament’s say over the future relationship stripped out.


https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/dec/19/johnson-revises-eu-bill-to-limit-parliaments-role-in-brexit-talks

That T-shirt is how I want to feel. Pruning and fertilising the soil with your enemies metaphors, could become very popular the way this govt is going

Can't believe we've had all these eulogies about CUK-TIG without mentioning Babygapes pic.twitter.com/GHzyBB2dpN

— Red Robbo (@Orwell_Fan_Fan) December 19, 2019

rip small man

I thought the explosion of the "was it Brexit, or Corbyn? Brexit, or Corbyn?" argument with this data was fascinating - for so many, the problem became the same thing, 2017-19 pic.twitter.com/4IbOGslevW

— Dan Hancox (@danhancox) December 19, 2019

Banter timeline demands the bill fails - but we may no longer be on that timeline.

banter is over
time to take cover
while others just talk and talk
somebody's watching where the others don't walk

RIP that timeline.

This is what's at stake, a report on strikes in France. We may not have a choice but to build these things again here:

https://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2019/december/dans-la-salle-d-accouchement?fbclid=IwAR0yyn6Xa7Xp7jMLaiM1uZMSr12jG1QSTNqtMluA7ge3S7o2vAfgzs9UPDE

According to Larry Elliott it's forget re-joining the EU:

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/dec/20/labour-embrace-progressive-brexit-tories-interventionist

That would Starmer a very poor candidate.

I am going to be singing this all day

That "one really great single" was Nando's. We will always have Nando's. https://t.co/cJmax2QJd4

— Simon Hedges (@Orwell_Fan) December 20, 2019

There was something in the air that night, the centre-right, at Nando's

— Hywel Roberts (@HywelRoberts2) December 20, 2019

lolllll

amazing

capital fare

That is fantastic.