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

ooh like what Clive's been up to

interesting that clive lewis, a misogynist who resents feminists and the metoo movement for limiting his behaviours, should all of a sudden be a radical feminist when asked a question on trans rights https://t.co/75Fk5fy2tX

— chip spice (@internetratbag) January 10, 2020

Nutters in Scotland never do that two wars thing ime, they're more fixated on 1690. They tend to hate Catholics much more than foreigners.

same thing iirc

lol at 'from what i can see there isn't a problem in norwich' from alan partridge clive there

The thing about the Empire helps explain how it was possible to be a Unionist in Scotland and NI and still hate the English.

Legit felt a small proud of being Irish (an increasingly rare sensation) cos of the RIC backlash this week. Just for the plain fact of people not standing for FG’s revisionism, which ofc is why they have taken it off the compulsory secondary school curriculum. Just genuinely shocked at how little history even politically savvy people I know over here know, like all the time. That’s what’s behind all this ofc.

and now a word from Keir's campaign team

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EN7nXSnW4AASMYl?format=jpg&name=900x900

we may need "take off and nuke the party from orbit" as a second preference

matt pound, fucking hell - how are you supposed to take Starmer in good faith as a centre-left candidate ... oh no don't worry they've got a former Corbyn guy in as well.

xps to NV

Come out ye black and tans number 1in the British charts you say?

It's started... The beacons are lit. pic.twitter.com/iPF15nlQ6O

— LIVERPOOL, CHAMPION OF THE WORLD! (@rorysalad) January 9, 2020

looking forward to my dual West Midlands/People's Republic of Hull passport

monarchy referendum ? kill me now

wait Clive Lewis is good again

why is Cornwall black? Has it been given back to France (where its rocks, tin and sedimentary make-up show it is where it originally belongs!)

a monarchy referendum would be literally the funniest most awesome finale to the UK i can possibly imagine

i mean this is a pointless reverie but still

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/06/Cornish_flag_small.jpg

Cornish flag is black and white iirc calz which is maybe ironic idk

yeah what gyac said

Straight up down question between abolish and romanov https://t.co/4rf9QnkyQx

— Crowsa Luxemburg (@quendergeer) January 10, 2020

i'm still enjoying the imaginary "vote no on the monarchy" tv broadcasts in my head

what about if the Queen had to go on the Masked Singer and the monarchy was abolished if she lost?

xps
I should know I've been to Newquay enough times.

Masked Singer, Love Island, either way

just when you thought the EU referendum unleashed the most morbid aspects of the nation’s id...

i'm still enjoying the imaginary "vote no on the monarchy" tv broadcasts in my head

it would be amazing, and you know there'd be some really surprise celebrity cranks just appearing out of nowhere to stick the guillotine in

Chris Sutton or Arg off of TOWIE suddenly redeeming themselves by coming out as bitter, foaming republicans

he’s ready
https://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2017/12/01/23/46E451E300000578-5138181-image-a-8_1512172387951.jpg

might run some spin-off polls from the wiki entry on "UK republicans"

sorry about megxit :(

if i'm honest with you ums i still haven't got a clue what Meghan and her husband are supposed to have done

mrs markle whodunnit

just some more tedious celeb nonsense, nothing to see.

so far Starmer has (in his "huge tent") the campaign company behind Owen Smith, Jenny Chapman former vice chair of Progress and backer of Owen Smith, Ben Nunn the deputy director of Comms for Owen Smith, former office manager for Chris Leslie, Chris Ward. Matt Pound a member of Labour First a right wing group run by Luke Akehurst. oh yeah and one former Corbyn aide. Such a broad tent he has there.

Yes but what do you think of Keir Starmer?

fucking lovely guy, he'd fucking give you his last £5 note if you were skint. And then report you to the benefits agency fraud line!

Yeah has anyone formally put the question "what the fuck are yous on about" to them royals yet cos ¯\(°_o)/¯

'Matt Pound'

while I reminded them <...> that Brexit really was the main cause for the defeat

How do you dress yourself

This Matt Pound business is certainly a black mark. It's not like he needs the Labour First votes - they won't be going to RLB and he shouldn't fear Phillips or Nandy. Unless his internal polling suggests otherwise...

Sometimes when people reach out to the right it's not reluctantly it's just their natural instinct.

While UK ILX scrambles to cancel every single candidate who isn't RLB though, my abiding concern is that she really isn't very good at being a convincing public presence. Starmer's response to marking Corbyn out of 10 was far better than hers, to give one example. I am rooting for her but I just cannot see how it's going to work. But I've said this almost as many time as calz has called Starmer a Tory so I'm sure you're all very bored

Starmer had best have a good reason for this Pound thing though or I'll have to find an alternative second-choice, and I'm scared it'll have to be Clive Lewis

I might actually 2nd pref Clive as well tbh, despite nothing but contempt for him!

I spent a lot of my adult life given up on the Labour party it won't kill me to give up on it again and the only important things to me about the leadership election at this point in time is the effect on the party itself - I don't care if some charismatic media darling mashup of every smooth talking loveable heart-throb ever is in charge if the party isn't pushing socialism. I maybe just about have some belief that Starmer may not represent the right wing technocrat backlash that he smells of but I gave Blair some benefit of the doubt in 96 and fuck falling for that twice.

Sorry that was all over the place, basically if there's one good choice then bollocks to a second choice

"While UK ILX scrambles to cancel every single candidate who isn't RLB though"

'cringe' and 'cancel' comes easily to people who can't say comrade huh?

I might actually 2nd pref Clive as well tbh, despite nothing but contempt for him!

Like you don’t have to 2nd pref at all, I’m not planning to

Yup, only RLB exists in this contest.

i blame ilx poll culture tbh, just because you *can* vote for a thing doesn't mean you *should*