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

Your occasional reminder that one of the country's leading political journalists is a thicko. https://t.co/Lkr1b5lkBn

— Phil BC (@philbc3) January 7, 2020

This is a well put together thread that explains what a dangerous time this is:

(1)Discussion of Migration completely misunderstands Tory Migration Policy:they don't want to reduce the 'number' of migrants : They want to reduce the Rights of Migrants.The policy is for 100k's of migrants who are charged extra for NHS and need a not from their Employer to stay

— Solomon Hughes (@SolHughesWriter) January 7, 2020

As I was trying and failing to explain to my mother, people who have a problem with EU immigrants in this future hate that we are treated equally under the law. Which is not excusing the disgraceful treatment of non-EU immigrants in this country, which the same crowd don’t think is harsh enough anyway.

i started my current job in may 2012. there's a woman i know here who started in june 2012. to me she will always, ALWAYS be 'the new hire'. i feel like i have some kind of advantage of seniority over her. ridiculous. but it's deep in my lizard brain. i feel like humans are always going to have this weird tribal, in/out selfish obsession with who has what privileges. how do we mitigate this chimp quality?

in the electrical game it used to be if you aren't an apprentice served and qualified sparky then your a boy, regardless of age or gravitas etc. It used to amuse me when companies would bring in agency labourers in their 30's/40's and some lil' shit in his mid 20's would point and yell "get those fucking boys sweeping up some rubble, don't just let them dawdle about!"

I've been reading this from the middle of last year about the creation of "Essex man", it's not related except it's a picture of how you create a new constituency (you need the wash of money to do so though, and while it's clear that Boris would like to, it's not clear there's as much around)

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2019/jun/27/the-invention-of-essex-how-a-county-became-a-caricature

Rory Stewart wrapping it up! pic.twitter.com/MsULP4fSio

— Eye Spy MP (@eyespymp) January 7, 2020

Eye Spy MP (retired)

I am waiting for the big Johnny Mc endorsement and remembering this proud father tweet from an insanely long time ago

I know Becky Long Bailey’s lovely parents and they will be very proud of their daughter today as she triumphed against the Tories at #PMQs today. https://t.co/D4THCFzskl

— John McDonnell MP (@johnmcdonnellMP) June 5, 2019

rory stewart's interest in wraps presumably sparked by seeing rolled-up afghan rugs when he walked across afghanistan and did u know he speaks dari

I've zapped a few posts here - there has been a lot of smoke around this particular individual for some time but it's really not a great idea to bring potentially libellous content onto this thread.

did you delete the richard virgin stuff

I've got proof!

xp deleted from our thread but not our memories

virgin on the ridiculous, but not libellous!

aw shucks i missed the fun. was it Labour's oldest living Burgon?

xxxp why post the thread but not the proof then?

I meant about Burgon's virginity!

Ah right, work away.

process of elimination, hmmm. Peston is thick = not libellous, Ian Murray looks like a Pokeball = not libellous, Jess Phillips not actually working class = not libellous. nah i'm stumped.

Allegation that Rory S might have links to the security services judiciously nipped in the bud.

it was a twitter thread involving someone who isn't a politician but who is involved in politics which would probably be best placed on the Weinstein thread, can I say more than that?

NV: look up a thread by twitter user Loki Belmont@Lokinash06 about a seasoned melt hack who is goen nowhere!

oh i see Laura K has finally been outed for REDACTED the fuck out of REDACTED whilst on REDACTED

got it, not so much a melt as a REDACTED REDACTED REDACTED

Dead-behind-the-eyes slug-like hater of left is allegedly a sex pest.

... that covers a lot of people in the media though.

Ted Rogers to the thread!

banned_for_my_aquaphibian_gif, anything can happen in the next half hour EXCEPT FREE SPEECH APPARENTLY

I meant about Burgon's virginity!

I’ve definitely heard stuff about [redacted] and definitely have seen screenshots of him making inappropriate comments toward female writers. My only interaction with him ever was correcting him on a particularly satisfying factual error on a colleague’s thread and he did not like that one bit. I hope his cock falls off.

I’ve definitely heard stuff about *redacted* and definitely have seen screenshots of him making inappropriate comments toward female writers. My only interaction with him ever was correcting him on a particularly satisfying factual error on a colleague’s thread and he did not like that one bit. I hope his cock falls off.

BTW that enlightening Twitter account has reasonable claims that Jess Phillips is corrupt AF.

it's just become the best twitter account going at the moment!

I wish my melty media pals who are IRL pals with redacto-man and who also complain about media abusers would get one backbone between them, but that’s a lot to ask.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ENqvRjPXYAUb7Dt?format=jpg&name=900x900

Remember the time she got relentlessly trounced running in Hackney North & Stoke Newington? No reason.

Like this infantilising RL-B who is:

- a trained solicitor
- 40
- has a backbone of steel considering what she’s doing

lol I thought she was talking about young interns/journos and [redacted]

such condescending nonsense from such a lightweight in every sense of the word.

40 is young these days and anyone who argues otherwise is wrong.

.. or knocking on 50!

ok groomer

That's a TERRIBLE thing to say about Helen Lewis.

40 is young these days and anyone who argues otherwise is wrong.

xp you cannot say enough terrible things about that woman imo

40 will be young when the average life expectancy is 100+

Sincerely hope I’m dead long before then

https://labourlist.org/2020/01/long-bailey-if-you-have-a-deterrent-you-have-to-be-prepared-to-use-it/

oh for fuck's sake here we go

i would prefer not to

surely a simple "only a de facto psychopath contemplates the use of nukes" would suffice?

RL-B’s Irish parents (I include big John here): have a fucking word would ye? But hey, that’s hardly her taking her policy from Corbyn...