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

went to school in reigate. grew up in a place called oxted.

Oh that's no use, that's nowhere near Mogador. However Titsey is a hop, skip and a jump away.

they sure don't make grammar school townies like Harold of Cowlersley any more. Does anyone know if that Ben Pimlott biography on him is worth reading?

I read it years ago. Anything with stories about George Brown in it is worth reading tbh.

"old market town" > "town"

(I throw stuff at Paul from Flog It for various reasons, but him declaring they're in "X, *an old market town*" surely is top of that list for the "ahh memories, English charm 'n all" hives it gives me)

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I fancied that Pimlott book as a diversion from this depressing leadership contest and some escapist nostalgia. Lool there is a foreword by Peter Hennessy from 2016 in the edition I got that spends quite a few paragraphs slating the fuck out of Corbyn. The horseracing analogy he uses is that Harold was a Grand National winner and Corbz is a plodding camel yet to win a point-to-point race. Oh dear, there is no escape!

Deputy leader nominations (there’s a leader page too but cbf to link)

https://labour.org.uk/people/leadership-2020-nominations/deputy-leadership-2020/

gtfo with those 20 people that backed the pickled egghead, wtf!

I think Burgon should give up those compromising pics of Diane he has for the good of the party.

I mean lots of reasonable MPs are backing Burgon, but this is misplaced loyalty at its worst.

Sadly these type of snide comments are now commonplace. The BBC are deaf to complaint or criticism and will doubtless defend this as legitimate commentary. It isn’t and should have no place in the BBC. pic.twitter.com/ImvXvEWeV3

— Andy McDonald MP (@AndyMcDonaldMP) January 8, 2020

amused that seemingly you can nominate yourself but keen strategist Richard Burgon has decided not to

i could imagine some awkwardness about voting for yourself, but it isn't much of a big deal if most of the other candidates are doing it. And it isn't like he comes across as mr self-deprecation and modesty at his best.

Richard Burgon has probably calculated that the Richard Burgon endorsement is a poisoned chalice and decided the Richard Burgon campaign is better off without it. Burgonomics.

Burgon was elected as MP for Leeds East at the 2015 general election.He was described by The Observer as one of "the stars of the [2015] intake"

Observer as prescient and otm as ever. Don't talk to him about sophistication .. he's from Leeds. Although he could up his townie cred by talking about when he went to Harrogate 6th form college.
Harrogate is so posh.. I once went there for a pre-season friendly and got chatting to a posh as fuck BBC producer/novelist in the pub, he gave me an inscribed copy of his not very good crime novel which got binned at some point!

Does he just carry copies of his novel around at Huddersfield games just in case of instances like this?

"News of Bazzmentum has not reached these shores, back to you in the studio, Chris"

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no this was an away trip to Harrogate. I used to be possessed enough to travel to pre-season friendlies.

Labour’s Barry Gardiner has drawn criticism for a gushing tweet praising controversial Indian prime minister, Narendra Modi, who looks set to win another five-year term.

Baz is a genuinely funny weirdo, but his political instincts are dangerously awful.

Why have I only just seen this today? This is priceless. https://t.co/IluxU8rJOU

— Ally Fogg (@AllyFogg) January 9, 2020

I'm not surprised her kid ages so fast when she's dragging him to Downing Street for ill considered publicity stunts

https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fpics.me.me%2Fon-october-3rd-he-asked-me-what-day-it-was-11985583.png&f=1&nofb=1

Big announcement coming today on underperforming Northern Rail. One by one the government is taking the train operators under state control/ownership.

— Andrew Neil (@afneil) January 9, 2020

i look forward to the foaming media denunciations of this unworkable, undemocratic socialist nonsense

HOW ARE WE GOING TO PAY FOR IT BORIS? EH? EH?

Not a single member of the Tory Party voted for this amendment, which would have allowed unaccompanied refugee children to be reunited with their families after Brexit. A moral test that they failed - monstrous behaviour rooted in their callous, hard right dogma. Shame on them. pic.twitter.com/Z9gm1Qdm5G

— Laura Pidcock (@LauraPidcock) January 9, 2020

A lot of Remainer FBPE types are going on about the EU Erasmus programme cancellation. This is the really outrageous vote though. Barbaric.

feels like a harbinger of much worse to come once the numbers of people fleeing homes rendered uninhabitable by climate change really start ramping up

(als:, laura pidcock, miss u)

isn't there even a small clique of "wets" in the Tory party these days? Not one dissenter. The most vulnerable in this country are really screwed.

isn't there even a small clique of "wets" in the Tory party these days?

Think that after the last culling they've learned their lesson, any sign of even vague concessions to human decency gets you thrown out of the party.

The child in the picture?
Richard Burgon pic.twitter.com/pVEwYyYk2N

— Estelle Hart (@estellehart) January 8, 2020

twitter have taken down that n1k c04en thread but the poster says no reason given why and no talk of legal action yet.

meanwhile, a million tweets from white supremacists remain undeleted

The guy has no money and is not worth suing. If there is any legal action, it’s likely to be against people retweeting / reporting, as per the Rachel Riley case against a solicitor who retweeted a bullying allegation.

*re-posting

How naive of me to think the point of a libel action might be to correct a lie

Any claimant, however right or wrong, needs to factor in the cost of bringing an action - which is tens of thousands of Pounds at minimum, usually. Damages aside, you pretty much need to guarantee that whoever you are suing can cover those costs if you win.

The Guardisn removed his @ from an article they published which was stranger

That’s not strange if he is potentially using that @ to libel their journalists and HR department.

Not sure why twitter would leave the tweets up in that case

the medium post has come down down but the related twitter thread has not (yet)

Twitter thread now deleted by its author.

It made me so angry to see [handsy writer] just chattering away on a few mutuals’ FB threads over the past few days.

Spoon-bending psychic Uri Geller believes his “paranormal abilities” could help the Government secure post-Brexit trade deals with the US and the European Union.

The 73-year-old illusionist has put his name forward for a role in Boris Johnson’s administration following a call for “weirdos” to apply for jobs in Downing Street.

He told the PA news agency that his “psychic powers” and “telepathic abilities” – as well as his “charisma, chutzpah and contacts” – would ensure the UK reaches a deal by the end of 2020.

Geller said there was “no doubt in my mind” that he would be able to help the Government if he was given a role at Number 10.

“With my energies, with my mind power, with my know-how, with my connections to world leaders, I can definitely help with the Brexit negotiations,” he said.

Speaking from Old Jaffa in Israel, he said he did not know what name they would give his role if he was successful, but that he sees himself as an “international ambassador” to the Prime Minister.

old jaffa indeed

Would still not be the biggest shyster in this gov

Have we seen this yet?

The Jess Phillips Campaign so far pic.twitter.com/vjmWlnbQeb

— Guybrush Tweetgood (@Gordopolitz) January 8, 2020

I've just remembered this iconic moment from the 2015 Leadership campaign: pic.twitter.com/KKiX6hqVvn

— Ben Gartside (@BenGartside) January 8, 2020

5 years ago is such a distant galaxy

Corbyn really dropped the ball on these dicks

so apparently our fave working class hero of the midlands took some huge undeclared donation from a property developer that her campaign staff are nervous about or something*. How much fucking money does one household need? She's got her grasping hands in more pies than ..erm Fray "Bentos as a nine pound note" McBentos.

*obv not true at all and I don't believe a word of it

I did allude to that upthread! Loki dude on Twitter getting threatening DMs from people who may or may not be part of JP’s campaign along the lines of ‘there couldn’t possibly be anything to see here, right? RIGHT?’

More to the point who's got money to waste on Jess Phillips's patently doomed leadership campaign/prelude to forming Nu Babor?

I had a slightly deeper read into it and it is sounding more like previous expenses corruption rather than boris style dark money donations, which is probably easier to prove and easier to prosecute the unmentioned MP over? perhaps?