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

a Jewish Bible scholar that loves the fash?

homeless man dies in trash compactor, news at 11...

I'm sure The Virtue of Nationalism by Yoram Hazony is probably a very enlightening read but I'll pass on it thank you very much!

https://i2-prod.mirror.co.uk/incoming/article21434133.ece/ALTERNATES/s615b/0_PAY-Wheelie_bins_homeless_people_TRIANGLENEWS_12JPG.jpg

it me tbf

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2020/feb/06/derek-mackay-scottish-finance-secretary-quits-over-messages-to-boy-16

The favourite to be Sturgeon's inevitable replacement, gone, on the day he was due to deliver his Budget.

Budget? He hardly knew it

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-51394044

more Daddykins diplomacy from Boris, tinpot failed state.

Trump does it with his daughter. Why shouldnt Johnson with his father ?

— Dara Saol (@SaolDara) February 6, 2020

lool, indeed.

MORE UNELECTED RANDOS IN POLITICS

Do not want to read the Long Read on Dominic Cummings lol still can't take him seriously.

also critical support for the barely-concealed subtext of that tweet re: boris johnson committing incest with his dad

xp which one

xp why must you make me fp you yet again

i must be myself and myself only

Gyac - Long Read in The Guardian today

Feel like Cummings gives me insight into how Tories viewed Mandelson at the bizarre height of his “dark powers” era.

Can’t wait to get to the post-resign-in-scandal wilderness years with the toxic arse.

I still find his brand of crazy very enjoyable

So do I, just want to enjoy things and not think about them (in this instance)

Oh god yeah you can't engage with crazy

Campbell's fraught, edge-of-hysteria performance of masculinity was way less interesting

Amazing take: win back the heartlands by giving more powers to the useless corrupt Labour councils who are the main internal reason for Labour losing the heartlands https://t.co/pLGHZFd8cH

— John B (@johnb78) February 6, 2020

Nandy going from racist and bad to clueless.. wtf is she on?

Cummings Long Read article conclusion - he's another Randian dork who lets his ego overpower his intellect almost all the time. Looking forward to his eventual political assassination though, will be entertaining.

Feel like Cummings gives me insight into how Tories viewed Mandelson at the bizarre height of his “dark powers” era.

shorn of the vital spicy streak of GAY MAFIA panic that made mandelson such a treat for them at the time tho

UGH

I see John Woodcock is the latest person with serious allegations made against them nominated for a Peerage.

Parliament needs to get our house in order on bullying and sexual harassment & that starts with parties not nominating people with unresolved complaints against them.

— Charlotte Nichols (@charlotte2153) February 6, 2020

Horrendous

According to the BBC report, Downing Street is also nominating the two former Labour MPs Ian Austen and John Woodcock for peerages. Austen and Woodcock both quit Labour in the last parliament strongly criticising Jeremy Corbyn (although Woodcock was also subject to disciplinary proceedings at the time). At the election both men urged voters to back the Tories on the grounds that they thought Corbyn unfit to be prime minister.

LK doesn’t mention the Woodcock allegations.

well, yeah

NEW: The Conservative Party has finally reprimanded Daniel Kawczynski for speaking alongside far-right politicians...

— he has been given a formal warning
— CCHQ say his actions are "not acceptable"
— he has apologised
— but keeps the Tory whiphttps://t.co/gtBoB3u33m

— Alex Wickham (@alexwickham) February 6, 2020

the penalty for sharing space with neo-fascists is nothing more than a verbal telling off, that'll teach the 7"2 ogre.

As we all feared:

Grenfell Inquiry judge has decided to ask the Attorney General to grant immunity of prosecution to corporations responsible for supply and fitting of Grenfell materials. https://t.co/lx7QuX05KV

— Emma Dent Coad (@emmadentcoad) February 6, 2020

FFS!

as incentives go for encouraging corporations to continue recklessly putting lives over profit, it’s a strong one

one terrorist sympathiser stabs random pedestrians: LIFE IN PRISON

a corporation cuts corners, ignores repeated warnings, roasts dozens of people alive: TREBLES ALL ROUND, EH WHAT

I'm no expert, but that doesn't seem to be what that document is at all?

Taking the document on its face, the inquiry is something that people can claim the right not to incriminate themselves in front of, and the vast majority of total cunts will happily do so, unless they're given a reassurance that nothing they say can be used as evidence against them.

"Contrary to reports in the press, it does not grant anyone immunity from prosecution. It does not apply to any statements or documents already in the possession of the Inquiry and it does not prevent the prosecuting authorities from making use of answers given by one witness in furtherance of proceedings against another."

I will take yr point once a single responsible exec is behind bars

I'd like to see Ol' Executy Corporation wriggle his way out of this one!

when I was a spark if I did rough work that merely caused one person to die I could be facing unlimited fines and up to a 20 year prison sentence if it was proved in a court of law that my work had diverged from the (at the time) the 17th edition electrical regs. These cunts are like: regs ? are they something you have on toast? fuck knows m'lud nothing to do with me.

have to say at a CLP nomination meeting tonight and it's grim grim grim

Has yours had their results posted yet? Feels like every CLP is doing theirs tonight.

I’m at a comedy show tonight, can’t face it :(

not long voted - imagine it'll be a while before results

did you smuggle any tinnies or a flask of wine in?

two swift pints beforehand took a bit of an edge off

keir starmer and angela rayner

Can you say why it was bad?

a fair few people spoke for RLB but a steady stream of nandys and lots of starmers including one person who explained that he has a knighthood and has written seven books. one person for emily thornberry (and dawn butler). some awful people in the row in front of me guffawing and rolling their eyes at one another and loudly clapping the defences of new labour. overheard one saying they'd been phone banking for keir but they'd seen some videos of lisa nandy and actually she's really good actually. oddly a lot of people for burgon especially as rayner wasn't mentioned much. I know what a lot of these people are like so it shouldn't be a surprise but having to sit through two hours of it only to pointlessly cancel some cunt's votes quite demoralising.

I've not given up hope to save Labour from the right yet, but when I do (thinking about my age and how long these cycles run for) I quite possibly won't vote for them again in my life.

It's early yet, but the best take of this nominations AMM has to be: "He's not just Keir Starmer..... He's *SIR* Keir Starmer."

👢👢👢👢👢

— Greggs Truther (@invisibleste) February 6, 2020

maybe shouldn't get too depressed about these CLP events being rammed with flaky meltist roaders who seemingly must have voted Corbyn as a fashion trend that has now gone out of style. Their lameness hopefully doesn't extrapolate to the full membership and there might still be a glimmer of hope here.

What a bloody country. >> Disabled people 'pulled into poverty' as benefits fall short. Nearly half the 14 million people living in poverty in the UK are disabled or live with someone who is, @jrf_uk finds. https://t.co/WClEcIPzld

— Frances Ryan (@DrFrancesRyan) February 7, 2020

yep, no surprise that half of those 14m living below the poverty line are disabled or living in a household with disabled people.

Tory MP Andrea Jenkyns has provided a character statement for a young Conservative who has pleaded guilty to sending malicious messages threatening to beat up Yvette Cooper MP.

— Helen Pidd (@helenpidd) February 7, 2020

sounds perfectly reasonable.

i don't understand why a Tory would turn on one of their own