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

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.

... though we never thought that we could lose there's no regrets.

https://amp.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/dec/19/left-labour-michael-foot-tony-blair?

This is another one for the long-term trends bucket but too comforting when The Tories could win via voter suppression and re-drawing of the map next time or most times. Certainly a big part of canvassing will be to get everyone on voter id with efforts starting in early 2024.

The worst of this discourse is the tweets you see (Gopal yesterday) saying the old will die soon (she was probably responding to fash trolls) but people over 60 live for a long time so you could be looking at two election cycles of this, and who knows what the world will be like then.

tbf people over 60 live a long time under our current health system, who knows what will happen after our glorious no-deal crashout this time next year

Reckon it could still be customs union where we all get poorer more slowly. Boris can betray the ERG with his majority.

yeah, it's all to play for w/r/t how slowly the noose tightens

keep thinking about america pushing for no-deal in the leaked trade documents tho, feels bad man

Hope my fellow Americans throw the Republicans out of office in favour of a M4A candidate *gulps*

lol we're all gonna die uninsured

Bet the Tories try and rig it in three elections time by resurrecting the dead like in that Simpsons EP I watched when I was all young and innocent

the entirety of the tory manifesto, 2034

https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fstatic.interestingengineering.com%2Fimages%2Fuploads%2Fsizes%2FToynbee-Tiles-FI_md.jpg&f=1&nofb=1

How's about an MPx4A candidate

Please join @UNISON_GSTT and @AngelaRayner in supporting the @SRTRC_England #wrd19 campaign. Please also buy me a comb pic.twitter.com/566tyLxruT

— UNISON GSTT (@UNISON_GSTT) June 19, 2019

Some reporting on how Johnson wants to drop Brexit. Almost like he doesn't want to own the consequences of this like he didn't want to own austerity either.

oh come on, there's absolutely zero chance of him doing that - who the hell is reporting it? (Though agree with your earlier point that he doesn't have to worry about the ERG any more.)

https://m.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/brexit-boris-johnson-downing-street-officials-negotiations_uk_5dfb57f3e4b01834791c02a8

Sorry 'Brexit' as a word.

i think that’s about the narrative of brexit having been “done” - if people keep using the word for another year his promises will sound hollow. makes sense.

He'll need a compliant media for that

christ alive, i hope this isn't indicative of your festive conversation later in the pub. xpost.

Guess what XP to anvil

Nah I'll be good.

speaking of compliant media

“The right candidate could get a good reception in the press” https://t.co/PDzIjxOUKu

— Hold the line, love isn’t always on time 🌹 (@JosieLong) December 20, 2019

also lol at 'the telegraph used to be a decent news organisation'

Yep. New Statesman / Cowley going for the double by trashing RLB and Starmer too.

That said, sections of the left of the party deciding that the only three good MPs are RLB, Dawn Butler and The Ace With The Mace doesn’t particularly bode well for the future either,

from what I can tell Johnson is totally dancing to the ERG tune but perhaps I missed something (likely, for my health)