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

I’ve just come from a craft beer place where no stout so had porter, *hic* now have chicken doner, go me!

xp he’d take the shirt off any man’s back

I’d quote from this rather than linking, but I’m having the Zing scroll issue!

NEW: Labour Party members have been left uncertain over leadership hopeful Keir Starmer's stance on The Sun newspaper, after an interview this afternoon: https://t.co/QGyDrbms3A

— LabourList (@LabourList) January 18, 2020

I didn't realize there were so many 'ed miliband posing with a copy of the sun' photos

http://stephentall.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/Ed-Miliband-the-sun.jpg

http://www.libdemvoice.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/Ed_Miliband_the-sun.jpg

the 'roo' headline makes the last one a particularly good time-capsule of a specific, recently passed era of UK history

Rooney on the front and back!

"Surely he needs some Sun readers to make him PM? He said let’s win this first then take it from there" strong stuff as you'd expect from him. Hope he preaches to his Labour First pals about how wrong factionalism is as often as he does to members.

I've no idea who this Miliband cat is but his advisors need to be fired for this posing with the sun shit

If Ralph had lived to see this it might have finished him off

there's always been plenty of Sun readers who vote Labour. the really tragic thing about not just calling it out as a gutter hate rag is that half of its readers would agree with you anyway.

"the 'roo' headline makes the last one a particularly good time-capsule of a specific, recently passed era of UK history"

It's no " 'Auld Slapper's' dying letter to Coleen " in terms of emotional gravitas!

If you're going to use it for your own nefarious purposes a la St Bernard on Fox then go right ahead otherwise go nowhere near it other than implying Murdoch is a nonce

when you play nice with them and then they shit all over you it makes you look doubly weak,

not that shouldn't be telling them to get fucked full stop - whether there is a GE or you are in a leadership election - no difference.

catching up on the hustings, this is the worst political strategy ever suggested:

Why are you the person to beat Boris?

Thornberry said: “I am a girly swot, I would quote things at him. He would look confused.

jfc please tell me that was a joke or she was on the gin

I don’t know why she keeps saying stuff like this when she shadowed him for two years and didn’t score any direct hits.

I can remember Boris once sprinting out of parliament to avoid ET over Zaghari-Radcliffe scrutiny I think.

quoting Jo Swindon is not a promising start

*quoting things* at Eton tossers is pretty much grist for the mill for this type of arsehole. What you really need to do is batter them to death with a lump hammer, their legendary debating skills usually have no answer for that tactic.

If you can't convince an enemy with the force of your argument, introduce their head to the force of the pavement

This idea that ANYONE is going to somehow 'beat Boris' when he can just reply " no one likes you, if they even know who you are" and then get their name wrong on purpose (for at least the next 2 years) is pure centrist delusion.

if it was all about the extended primary school playground of PMQ and who can make the most noise then I'd like a viscious, rabid pygmy marmoset to be next labour leader. Could do a good job of throwing a turd at Boris and screeching very loudly and maybe even take one of his eyes out. Would definitely be scarier and hold him more to account (and be less of a tory) than Starmer.

The hero the party needs

how many women will have a Guinness, really?

I bought my Gran a four-pack of cans of Guinness as a Christmas present back in about 1993

So Jess Phillips came to my constituency today and, being true to form, booked one of the biggest venues in town. This is the turnout. You absolutely love to see it. 🚮 pic.twitter.com/t5M7QzRTot

— Sam Swash (@sam_swash) January 18, 2020

I reckon your gran and a four-pack of guinness could have pulled a bigger crowd than this!

Hope she had the decency to buy them all an ice cream

the melt criticism for Corbyn always seemed to be along the lines of "he can campaign and pack out venues with 200m queues - but that doesn't win an election". So jess must going the right way by failing to inspire anyone to give a flying fuck about her obv!

I promise to go and see her if she'll park the ice cream van on my street

i'd love a good double scoop dixons with strawberry syrup rn

Yeah man I could go for some ice cream, I've already been out to the shop tonight what was I thinking?

is it still open?

I didn't drink before I came over here, which lead to a lot of ordering a Pint of Blackcurrant and a Guinness - you can guess where this ends up.

The shits?

Shit I've just remembered we were on the Baby Guinesses at some point last night.

And no the nearest shops will be shut by now :/

dommage :(

I'm good to be fair I got chocolate and there was smoked salmon in the reduced pile, ice cream is just pure greed

When there was a vacancy for the chair of @Keir_Starmer's Labour branch, a lefty stood. The "right" put up the constituency vice chair who didn't need another role. Keir & his wife made a rare appearance at the meeting. They left after the vote. The lefty candidate lost by 2.

— Heather Mendick #RLB4Leader (@helensclegel) January 19, 2020

a microcosm of what will happen to the plp in one paragraph.

JP having a normal one.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EOqo7CpW4AANoJo?format=jpg&name=900x900

groan..she just needed to be more less like herself.. apparently at the hustings she was the most negative and self-referential one.. so maybe she didn't try hard enough

Neville Chamberlain was a Brummie, it never held him back

at least he made a brolly his gimmick rather where he is from.

the way Jess likes to equate having a regional accent with being part of an underclass makes me yearn for the days when most pols spoke in a cleansed "esturine english"

I might not look the most like a prime minister in this race, because apparently looking like a prime minister is a thing. I cannot win that war, so I am going to stop fighting it. I am going to do the thing that made tens of thousands of people ask me to run to be the leader. I am going to say what I think.

JP is the true continuity Corbyn candidate!

saying what you think is always the worst move in politics if you aren't really any type of an ideologue and a very woolly-minded centrist type, her only hope is to follow Starmer's example - but not on her watch babs!

https://t.co/ITIcUO63m0 pic.twitter.com/uhftOhZSkz

— Wariotifo Classic (@wariotifo) January 19, 2020

Corbyn was big factor in Lib Dem election failure, says Davey https://t.co/ZXnYnqR4yw

— Guardian politics (@GdnPolitics) January 19, 2020

you are a funny guy.. I'll kill you last.

LOL @ 'hard left' Kinnock in 92.

It's almost like Clown School... but not quite as perceptive.

JP already lining up her breakaway party "if I don't win for being too real"

Lee Hazlenut https://t.co/xvJiZPbIl5

— barney farmer (@barneyfarmer) January 20, 2020