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

vials of Toby Young's tears - £7.50 a pop

“Sure members of the Conservative party repeatedly promote, endorse and enact policies that ruin the lives of the poorest & most vulnerable in the country, but a few of them offered me condolences when my dad died so who can say if they’re bad or good?”

*wild centrist applause*

— Labour Towns Source (@judeinlondon2) January 17, 2020

in response to Starmer's Keunnsberg interview where he positions himself as a no holds barred melt-a-fucking-rino!

lol ofc

Could not agree more

— Ayesha Hazarika (@ayeshahazarika) January 17, 2020

Fuck millions of the people I'm supposed to represent - IDS once sent my dad a get well soon card so Tories are fine by me.

oh jesus fuck

I'm two years older than you - we'd have been at school at the same time. The last Labour Government changed the lives of kids like me, and if I'd been elected in December, I'd have been in Parliament, defending our record and fighting to do it all over again and more. https://t.co/1Lc3CU8J8Z

— Beth Miller (@BethMiller91) January 16, 2020

Lol state of her. Profile says she’s ex Bank of England too.

"policy nerd" and its variants is usually shorthand for absolute fucking twat.

i love to get GRANULAR about NOVEL APPROACHES to KILLING the POOR!

The year is 2024. Johnson has been PM for almost 5 years. His hair is just as floppy but now a little grey. He still doesn't know how many kids he has. He is up for election against Jess Phillips. Women, in particular, love her. She wipes the floor with him. The end.

— Beth Miller (@BethMiller91) January 12, 2020

can't wait for it all to be over

absolutely cursed content

Christ I thought that was a parody. It is, but unintentionally so. And then everyone clapped right, and sexism was abolished?*

*white wines only

Women, ffs

That too, though

Think you’d need something stronger to process that.

a pit filled with lime, perhaps

thought "white wines only" was a nod to all those horrible novelty cards/fridge magnets/socks which say things like "bring me a prosecco" and crap puns on "gin"

there's some crossover in vibe/audience w. that tweet, anyway

(however don't let me deter anyone from bringing me prosecco or gin, I mean I admit I am a pretty basic bitch and also I probably consume more booze than 99% of owners of "lol <3 gin" socks. I seem to have a reputation as my evening class alkie as the default post-xmas smalltalk was "so what drinks did you get for Christmas/get in for New Year's?")

https://www.gofundme.com/f/bigbenbongforbrexit

(i thought the bloke in charge had said it's just not possible, regardless of how much is raised, currently £140k)

firing up a big bong for brexit with my friend, ben

I’d have thought the vast numbers of women who have wall transfers in their open-plan kitchen/diners and call other women ‘hunni’ would see right through someone like Jess Phillips.

Single biggest story are the losses from Labour to non-voters. But note also the finely balanced Leave vs Remain losses. https://t.co/i4HnupANe4

— James Meadway (@meadwaj) January 17, 2020

Wait - the Tories didn’t have net losses to the Brexit party?

would've been quite a lot of greens going to labour too imo

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EOfKCKTW4AY3B7g?format=jpg&name=medium

some fine work here by the drunken bakers fellow.

(i thought the bloke in charge had said it's just not possible, regardless of how much is raised, currently £140k)

“I beg the prime minister to step up and tell the Commission they’ve got this wrong, and he and the government will overrule it unless they change their mind,” former Tory leader Iain Duncan Smith tells the Telegraph this morning.

Strong Graeber energy from "there's a commission in their name - charge!"

just finished listening to a gloomy and wonkish "where are we now" on novara (james butler talking to richard seymour = @leninology), which was i think a good and serious and sobering :( :( dissection of some of what went wrong from a left perspective, and what to do about it

i'll post a link when it goes up on the resonance replay page

(nothing matters but) It's kind of amusing if not surprising that the first test of "Are there any significant fracture lines in the Tories, anything that will cause the mad bastards of the ERG to slap on the blue woad again" is something that Boris wandered arse-backwards into when a light bulb appeared over his head live on TV.

lol that was quick (it used to take ages when i did a resonance show): https://www.mixcloud.com/Resonance/novara-fm-17th-january-2020/

Vice have nabbed Loki's story on Jess being bent af and taking undeclared payments from a luxury property developer.

or maybe even declared but still bent af

They also said: “Serious questions should be raised over the affordable housing outline.”

VICE asked Jess Phillips's campaign if her donations from McCourt and his company came from somebody who shared Labour's values on housing, and whether they gave him any influence over her position.

A spokesperson said: “We are not commenting on individual donations. Jess’ campaign is aiming to raise a large portion of our funds from small individual donations from the public and we are very grateful to everyone who has donated so far through our crowdfunder. Of course no donation gives an individual any say or influence over policy positions or the direction of the campaign.”

would've been quite a lot of greens going to labour too imo
― jazz fusion is sex (NickB), Friday, 17 January 2020 13:23

I don't doubt there were a lot of Green supporters who lent their vote to Labour because there was no chance of the Greens winning in their constituency, but I think exactly the same thing happened in 2017. There's no reason to think more of them switched this time round.

o no a twaet

So far, nine CLPs have nominated candidates.

For leader:

Keir Starmer: 6
Rebecca Long-Bailey: 3

For deputy leader:

Angela Rayner: 5
Richard Burgon: 1
Dawn Butler: 1
Ian Murray: 1

— CLP Nominations (@CLPNominations) January 16, 2020

cool!
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EOfH1S1WoAED_fV?format=jpg&name=900x900

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EOfMX_8XkAEt33B?format=jpg&name=small

what an utterly embittered and bigoted fucking idiot, just do the right wing media's work for them cos some of Corbyn's team thought you were a bit of a joke and wouldn't give you a job.

Reading politics twitter over the past 24h has been a bit like every time we're in Belfast and I ask the o/h what some cryptic piece of graffiti means and I usually end up going "...oh. oh no"

(much love to a few spots of cryptic wall-art which turned out not to stand for "fuck the Pope" or similar)

xpost!

literally me every 12th of July new story telling colleagues & friends what the KAT on all those big bonfires stands for

2019 mason: on the sesh
2020 mason: on the sash

— josie sparrow (@ofthesparrows) January 17, 2020

I'm open-minded about who 'should' be Labour leader, which is a way of saying I'm not over-bothered as I think in practice RLB & Starmer would be surprisingly similar, but the notable thing is all the obvious non-Labour voters who seem to have strong opinions on it.

— Joe Kennedy (@joekennedy81) January 17, 2020

Stoya, come to the Vatican, the Swiss Guards have taken over the Labour NEC

— Dawn Foster (@DawnHFoster) January 17, 2020

on that Resonance chat that mark linked upthread more damning evidence from Starmer's past was mentioned in passing. This from during the London riots:

The director of public prosecutions, Keir Starmer, made a morale-boosting visit to Highbury magistrates court, north London, at about 4am during one of its night sittings at the height of the August riots, and later praised the efficient response to the disorder.

In the appeal court judgment on riot sentences (which generally upheld the lower courts' ruling), the lord chief justice praised the "committed and dedicated" way in which courts rose to the challenge of the riots – and singled out those which had sat through the night.

Either you're a cop or you're not

The wrong Highbury, the wrong cop! The Starmer dossier is growing by the minute comrades!

I think even some of the most ardent capn save a barrister types are running out of excuses for this prat.

What’s wrong with Highbury? True, some of it is the richer part of Islington north, but some of it isn’t, plus they elected Cromblyn for longer than I’ve been alive.

The Times are printing some ludicrous story about me being in a picture alongside dangerous revolutionary Sacha Ismail.

Here's me with another dangerous revolutionary 👍🏽 pic.twitter.com/DJ4fIFKHCU

— Nadia Whittome (@NadiaWhittomeMP) January 17, 2020

Stet can we please have a button that turns off Twitter embeds on a particular thread? I think it would be good for everyone's sanity at this stage.

Candidate by drug of choice:

RLB: weed
Keir Starmer: cocaine
Emily Thornberry: MDMA
Lisa Nandy: towns
Jess Phillips: Jess Phillips

— Labour Campaign bot (@LabourBot) January 17, 2020

Lol stop drawing me to the E candidate

Thornberry and MDMA have about the same chance of appearing on the ballot tbh

MDMA? morelike FBPE innit.

Little scouse bearded gobshite has backed Kier.

Who? Spicebag? He can have him.