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

lol I haven't been keeping up with the Labour race because there are already enough grounds to lose one's sanity so I have no opinion either way, being more misinformed than ever.

we've taken back are country!!!!!

Should of done it years ago, mate!!!!!!

Fireworks here too. I've had enough to drink that I could just wade out there and start windmilling.

xxp they can’t do this til the end of the transition period tbf

I'm downloading the entire Wolfe Tones back catalogue as we speak.

Btw, how did they get away with having a Celtic shop at Glasgow airport?

By having a Rangers shop too?

Fare well ye ppl

Strictly speaking they should have a St. Mirren shop and leave it at that.

I'm listening to trans-europe express, someone linked it as a joke, but now I've started I'm not about to stop

We should have: the thread where we are all gammon

By having a Rangers shop too?

I dont think there is a Rangers one anymore, but I believe it's to do with legal issues with their merchandising. Think Mike Ashley is involved and there's court cases etc. Try not to get too much into the "'Sevco' finances Detective" territory if I can help it so I'm foggy on the details

The outside the celtic shop bit is where I say goodbye to my mum and dad when I'm home so it's a bit of an emotionally loaded location for me:'-(

ah, there we go, there’s the emotion I was after.

honestly a bit shocked at how few people I know - who are not into politics - really understood what is happening now. They’ll think the transition period is it, and therefore they’re probably not going to realise what’s up. Insane to think of all those tens of millions losing their citizenship too.

I went outside for a fag about half an hour ago, and there were some fireworks going off up the street, but just from one house, and I had completely forgotten this was happening today, so it took me a while to register what it was for. there was absolute silence apart from the fireworks, so at least it wasn't some massive party, probably some sad cunt on his own (he says sinking into his whiskey)

Not a fucking peep to be heard here in Corbynland, which is bizarre because there's usually fireworks going off somewhere most nights.

Yeah it’s absolutely dead quiet outside now, half suspect the person letting off fireworks had some leftover ones knocking around.

Spoke too soon 😑

There's usually a police helicopter hovering over Lammyland most Friday nights, guess it'll be along soon. If there were fireworks (doubtful) I missed them.

Bye bye Europe/world, it's been (ir)real.

I don’t know whether this is melty or not but it must have taken some talent to devise:

https://scontent.fcmb8-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/fr/cp0/e15/q65/83668640_10157847004935242_7418644813643251712_o.jpg?_nc_cat=1&efg=eyJpIjoidCJ9&_nc_ohc=T-PtPnqPds8AX-cLcYH&_nc_ht=scontent.fcmb8-1.fna&oh=710b56eb43939774a1fd4b6712aa61b7&oe=5E95E7C7

Btw I’m sure the Drax gas plant approval is just the first step in taking the Australian path on climate change.

"Mary Beard and guests discuss how our culture is responding to the issue of migration"
idk tonight of all nights?

I haven't watched yet but I doubt a programme where she talks to Michael Rosen and mentions that 80% of the audience and all panelists come from families of immigrants is gonna give much play to Legitimate Concerns.

oh good, in that context it definitely won't be a bigoted shitfest. but it looked bad in the context of it was brexit night and late and fireworks were going off! I love Micheal Rosen.

she very much has a long view of these things, knows that Britain is a very mongrel place.

also, one of the serious sounding Brexity things on bbc2 earlier in the evening was actually matt berry taking the piss.

meh! Batley CLP have gone for brylcreemed centrist knight of the realm as well, hate my local melty fucking Labour moderates right now. Just weak in the mind and completely lacking in moral fibre.

So did Huddersfield lol, king Barry prevails

Yorkshire isn't no real north!

A friend of mine who is from Northumberland is forever dismissing various locations as not being the real North - I thought of him last night when QT was from Buxton and Fiona Bruce described the audience as Northerners. Also, he said he was invited to a Burns Night and there was only one Scottish person there but that he was from further north than Burns anyway - which is not actually true.

I haven’t ever listened to Novara but this is a bit with James B & James Schneider, Corbyn’s former head of comms.

Earlier today I was interviewed by @piercepenniless for @novaramedia on @ResonanceFM. Have a listen here https://t.co/OjB47Tp5UQ

— James Schneider (@schneiderhome) January 31, 2020

He's from slightly further north than Thomas Carlyle fwiw.

I love to see David Edgerton correcting tory fools on daft national myths - like plucky little Britain standing alone against the Nazis. In his latest book he made the point that when Thatcher died people burned effigies of her and when Churchill died the London dockworkers dipped their cranes in solemn tribute as the funeral boat chugged past. I presume he is saying even though he was a Tory he was a stout defender of national industries unlike Thatcher or something. But I read somewhere else the other day that the London dockworkers in the 60's absolutely despised Churchill and had to be bribed by union bosses to dip their cranes in tribute!

novara is quite patchy but i do have time for james butler

Well Churchill sent in the army against the police in Tonypandy and a gunboat up the Mersey to intimidate striking workers (incl dockers) so not sure that observation is borne out by reality. I know about Glasgow too, before Tom says anything, but wasn’t his direct input disputed?

He was generally hated as a warmongering strikebreaking egomaniac.

yeah I think anyone in unionised labour back then despised the guy. Now everyone, even from the precariat to the even poorer working poor can't be counted on to hate a tory:(

Easily my favourite twitter thread remains the fella who used his week on the official Ireland account to do this thread detailing why Churchill was a cunt

Ok.

Im going to explain in detail why Churchill is a villain. For the 31% of you who voted as a positive just read this and tell me afterwards. https://t.co/EMeIzDK3JN

— Ireland / Francis (@ireland) January 20, 2018

shocked tweet itt: "by this standard, vast majority of US/UK great leaders are all villains!"

twitter user WYATT TWERP very nearly gets it

Good name though.

Might just ignore the advice of the twitter user with very Irish name imploring ppl to listen to the Malcolm Gladwell podcast on the Bengal famine for some perspective!

this is in the replies I mean, not the threadstarter

didn't realise Schneider was Grace Blakeley's other half.

Macolm Gladwell is the ne plus ultra of trying to relativize total savagery, a shill for all sorts of horrible things which he coats in just enough quirky trivia knowledge to make them acceptable for Stephen Fry and the New Yorker. I'm not the biggest kill all melts guy on this thread but the way he keeps being indulged by lib institutions is really damning.

he was wheeled out as an American healthcare apologist during the election campaign arguing that insulin will be actually be technically cheaper in the UK when you pay a grand for it!

Novara seems well enough to me but their reluctance to settle arguments with fists is disappointing

To lay cards on the table this is my gripe with Momentum Thugs as well

My grandparents, who both served in the war (one as a stoker on a minesweeper, which gave him the lung cancer he died of, one as a nurse) both hated Churchill - but they were from Dundee, where Churchill had been MP.

Egerton is really solid with the nuts, bolts, rivets, engineering and economics of history. But useless with people. Hence before I realised this I couldn't tell whether it was a zing or his own cluelessness when he described Livingstone as one of the more interesting and intelligent people of the 70s/80s left!

I wish I hadn't clicked on this:

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/ex5633/serious_the_uk_has_left_the_european_union_if_you/

The sheer amount of people who cite Romania in particular is… sobering.

Ctrl-f'd Romania and the first couple of hits were of people not wanting the UK to be "dragged down by Greece and Romania's economy". And Romanians and Poles committing most of the crimes. Nothing to do with racism, at all, no sir.

This one had quite the punchline:

In my hometown a lot of people voted leave because of Polish, Russian and Romanian immigrants not because they were 'stealing jobs' but because (and this is statistically correct for my town) most of the crimes where commited by them. The most dangerous part of the whole city was the areas dominated by eastern Europeans.

I didn't vote as I was unsure as both sides presented valid arguments and I couldn't decide.

I'm a British citizen born and bred but I live in Romania so in all honesty I'm unsure as to how Brexit will affect me here as of yet but I'm sure it won't be fun