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

Help! My eyes have rolled to the back of my head and they won’t come back down again. https://t.co/UXA6X9SruM pic.twitter.com/yyVfINOXtf

— Stephen Bush (@stephenkb) December 28, 2019

bush otm

Has anybody commented on Leo Varadker entertaining the idea of the bridge between NI and Scotland being further researched or cost assesses or something to that effect. I thought the idea was pie in the sky type fantasy cos of weather conditions and exposure etc.

xp re watson

if there were any real journalists about, they'd be laughing him out of the room at this point.

xp that bridge could only be built by the command capitalism of Chairman Xi. UK's only good for filling potholes these days!

They're going to fund it via kickupstairsstarter

Re: the bridge, I assumed Varadker was trolling, or happy to see a study done to show it up as the likely folly it is.

Exactly Mr Dale. These disrespectful thugs should be now made to say "*Sir* Iain Duncan Smith should be in jail for forcing people into extreme poverty, illness and death." https://t.co/jNwa5oyKNH

— Simon Hedges (@Orwell_Fan) December 28, 2019

Oh and you know IDS will INSIST that people use the title, but if we integrate the title to make his acronym SIDS that’s Sudden Infant Death Syndrome.

ok, thread about blue labour (this will get quite long so feel free to mute) pic.twitter.com/e3305yXjwu

— w0ke_space_jesuit.exe (@piagnone) December 27, 2019

i'll be honest i'm way too holiday mode to give this the full in-depth read it deserves right now but this is a really good thread with more to chew on than most politics journos have managed all year

that’s SIR irritable duncan syndrome to you, peon

🐦[Exactly Mr Dale. These disrespectful thugs should be now made to say "*Sir* Iain Duncan Smith should be in jail for forcing people into extreme poverty, illness and death." https://t.co/jNwa5oyKNH🕸
— Simon Hedges (@Orwell_Fan) December 28, 2019🕸]🐦

Reading that Watson interview it seems pretty obvious that Hattenstone thinks that Watson is an impulsive idiot and a serial shit stirrer even if he's taking a pretty light touch approach to saying so. I don't especially rate him as an interviewer but he can usually be relied upon to push his subject's buttons a bit harder than he does here.

He ate bacon and eggs for breakfast, full-fat cheese and walnuts for dessert, and glugged back glasses of double cream if he still wasn’t sated. And the weight just fell away. Even more astonishingly, his diabetes went into remission.

oh god Atkins bores are the worst

Can you strip somebody of a knighthood if Justice ever prevailed like. Genocide of your fellow countrymen should have some consequences not just rewards innit.

xp
apparently this regime is called The Pioppi Diet. I'm on it as well and have just eaten half a giant toblerone.

Awards are for lickspittle monarchists so I don't care who they give them to tbh

the ploppi diet morelike amirite

my asmr is watching old by-elections from the days when mr blobby used to gain more votes than the literal uk independence party https://t.co/wFu7SwWeG9

— a a dril (@demarionunn) December 27, 2019

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/dec/28/government-exposes-addresses-of-new-year-honours-recipients?CMP

I'm sure this will all be fine and that, say, Nadiya Hussein doesn't have any dementedly abusive haters who shouldn't have aceess to this information.

at least I know where to go when I feel like doing the old flaming bag of dogshit trick on IDS

Can't believe that those four dimwitted galoots who twatted Thomas Becket over the head in Canterbury Cathedral on Dec 29th 1170 had received knighthoods. pic.twitter.com/apz4gHoRN0

— Davey Jones (@DHBJones) December 28, 2019

watching the hignfy funniest moments of the year for reasons of sadomasochism, and have to say this bit where a squeaky lad says corbyn is to blame for the tory party inflicting policies which will harm the most vulnerable, while a tory peer nods and laughs... a real rib tickler! pic.twitter.com/68XkpkNHKk

— Stan The Golden Boy (@tristandross) December 28, 2019

even by HIGNFY standards this fucking comedy cretin is something. Remind me why it is the LOTOs fault that tories are evil vindictive cunts again please young man?

Quel surp another showbiz melt with a paternalist world view

they're 'aving a laugh!

Most seasoned melts would probably have phrased that more carefully, he's just copying what they say and playing it by ear - you can see in his eyes he's not even that confident about he's saying. If the crowd cheer the he's obv doing it right. Never mind that if a duplicitous and unprincipled Tory peer is nodding along to this nonsense then alarm bells should be ringing very loudly mate!

and obv "Can I criticise Corbyn now" is beyond self-parody

i think that's just how the unfunny twat normally looks tbh

I've done quite a good job of avoiding these cunts in recent times - so don't know who he is tbh.

Jon Joel Richardson is an English comedian. He is known for his appearances on 8 Out of 10 Cats and 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown and his work as co-host with Russell Howard on BBC 6 Music.

what a fucking pedigree chump!

So glad I grew up in a time when children's books weren't subject to such analysis; no-one gave a shit about Jennings and Darybishire, afaik.

and obv "Can I criticise Corbyn now" is beyond self-parody

to top it all off he's a fookin' L**ds Utd Fan. Although tbf on them these days (not that you should be) their current manager is a cool dude and a bit of a commie apparently!

sorry ..the vile revenant to use their full ilx title

This year by the numbers:
✊✊Two People’s Vote Marches
👩‍👩‍👧‍👦Over a million people at each march
💷Record fundraising year
📃5 Million leaflets distributed
🎤3,000 events all over the country
✉️Hundreds of thousands of letters sent to MPs

— People's Vote UK (@peoplesvote_uk) December 28, 2019

They missed out "Helped Get Brexit Done"

i for one am glad these plucky underdogs managed to fight back against overwhelming odds to oh ffs

One fox brained by baseball bat.

80 MP majority! 0 chance of 2nd referendum.

imagine if all that energy had been directed towards something actually useful eh readers?

like... fuckin litter picking or running on giant hamster wheels to generate renewable energy or building pipe bombs

I can understand the pressure to pay lip service to the brexit voters in northern marginals that went blue. But “progressive patriotism” is just absolutely rank Blairite style nonsense, that hurts my ears and eyes!

Is it really any better than "legitimate concerns" Arguably yes... but it still stinks of garbage.

Horrible.

The Guardian is making a huge deal of it. This seems quite distinct from Blue Labour:

From ex-miners in Blyth Valley to migrant cleaners in Brixton, from small businesses in Stoke-on-Trent to the self-employed in Salford, we have to unite our communities in all their diversity. Britain has a long history of patriotism rooted in working life, built on unity and pride in the common interests and shared life of everyone. This history is internationalist: as in 1862 when Lancashire’s mill workers supported Abraham Lincoln’s anti-slavery blockade of cotton from the American south. To win we must revive this progressive patriotism and solidarity in a form fit for modern Britain. While Boris Johnson criticises single mothers and likens Muslim women to bank robbers, we must stand for pride in our communities, dignity in our work and a common purpose that unites communities across the country.

This history is internationalist: as in 1862 when Lancashire’s mill workers supported Abraham Lincoln’s anti-slavery blockade of cotton from the American south.

... and Clydeside shipbuilders provided the vessels which helped the Confederacy to break the blockade.

exactly! also just need to channel that spirit of 1862 when roughly 0.00001 % of the UK population was non-white - seems a bit awkward! I can't see a phrase like PP cutting the mustard with bigots and can see it annoying non-whites who might consider it at odds with their own experience of "patriotic" types.

While Boris Johnson criticises single mothers and likens Muslim women to bank robbers, we must stand for pride in our communities, dignity in our work and a common purpose that unites communities across the country.

just got to lose the bigots to the tories if you can't win them with policies, this kind of ahistorical and retrogressive claptrap is not doing her rep any favours.

The pitch is to the membership not the country so I'm not too bothered by 1862 and all that.

Progressive patriotism vs solidarity. Comes down to what policy we can have for migrants. The question is how far it's removed is it from Blue Lab.

of course it is directed towards the membership, but jesus wept it's still an awful pitch.

You can't and shouldn't try condescending to or winning over bigots on their own terms. It fell flat on it's arse for Labour in 2015 and will do again, as thick as many of them are - provincial racists can discern between genuine racist pols and a "concerned face of Lisa Nando" faux-racism sham and will vote for the real thing.