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

sp@ff lag∞n

This is a good point on the Corbyn coalition.

I have the feeling that the demo to stop deportations tonight is something that Corbyn in 2015 would have attended but I get the feeling no Labour leadership contender will be there this time :( pls proof me wrong

— Sabrina Huck (@Sabrina_Huck) February 10, 2020

Is 2020 Corbyn going?

Trying my best here.

Going going gone.

He'll be there, hes just drying his red waterproofs on the rad!

Assuming they do manage to avoid the literal and figurative unexploded bombs then where on the West Coast of Scotland has the infrastructure and connections to be able to cope with it?

Why the bustling metropolis of Portpatrick of course.

https://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/portpatrick/portpatrick/images/fromnw-450.jpg

boris' history with bridges isn't great

wall-to-wall 60s pop-stars angrily refusing the necessary road use across their vast empty grouseshoot moors

Also are they going to get the bits of oil rig they need to transport under the bridge or somehow over it? Or just travel miles out of their way with these massive bits of equipment?

Kintyre, car-sized Zorbs, catapult - you'd nearly ask why they're not doing it already!

how big is the gap?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_pontoon_bridges

wall-to-wall 60s pop-stars angrily refusing the necessary road use across their vast empty grouseshoot moors

The shortest route would be to the Mull of Kintyre, with the potential added bonus of pissing off Macca.

Why not three bridges: NI -> Isle of Man -> Cumbria -> Dumfries & Galloway.

... and then back to NI. A giant Irish Sea roundabout.

futuruma-style human-size pneumatic tubes across the North Sea or gtfo imo

It's about time we had some new episodes of Abandoned Engineering tbh

Priti Patel leaves the chamber as @DavidLammy asks why people are being deported before the suppressed Windrush Lessons Learned Review is published.

— Nadia Whittome MP (@NadiaWhittomeMP) February 10, 2020

profiles in courage

Profiles in I Can Do What The Fuck I Like, What Are You Going to Do About It?

what did that Graun piece say about this govt last month? Liberal, nuanced, cautious I think it was.

Disability Labour nominates:

• Rebecca Long-Bailey to be leader of the Labour Party
• Dawn Butler to be deputy leader of the Labour Party

— CLP Nominations (@CLPNominations) February 10, 2020

It means actually homeless

Politically homeless don’t care about actual homelessness.

The melts got SO angry when they were called out as insensitive for using ‘politically homeless’ to describe their reluctance to swing left.

100% people who rationalise not giving homeless people any money because “they’re scamming £500 a day!” or “they’ll spend it on drink”. None of these fools ever seem willing to test out their initial theory themselves.

when ed mili said he could be just as ruthless as the tories on spending, he knew most of the most vulnerable of the disabled had nowhere else to go and would vote for him anyway. They could have done with a bit of populism even though it is a dirty word, apparently. You know like a popular of not actually threatening to make them homeless or kill them!

popular policy

I've got an old sort of friend whose very posh adoptive parents volunteer at the foodbank in Hudds. They had a problem with an old mutual friend of ours who is a long term heroin addict trying to con extra food out of them or something and then trying to threaten them when the plan didn't come off. Since then he's got this obsession that everyone is getting free handouts and taking the piss out of the system. He didn't like it when I told him he'd never really understand the despair of true poverty because his posh parents always bail him out the shit and he hasn't spoken to me since!

but some people are actually mean about food banks, never mind the dissolution of the welfare state. it really gives you hope for the future.

The Court of Appeal has halted the planned deportation of at least 50 people to Jamaica due to go ahead tomorrow saying they had not been allowed proper access to legal advice as they did not have working mobile sim cards while in immigration detention

— Sky News Breaking (@SkyNewsBreak) February 10, 2020

whoah.. this might be some rare good news

it sounds like they were either deliberately issued dysfunctional phones or signal jammers were being used. I don't think that is a conspiratorial stretch with this fucking lot.

I thought we left the EU so we could ignore human rights

HS2 green lit. So glad the adults are back in charge.

Little known fact, but there is a small cameo by Kier Starmer in the court room scene in This Life.

— The Trashies (@TheTrashiesUK) February 10, 2020

list under television drama cameos that are vmic

BREAKING: Home office carries out mass-deportation to Jamaica despite court order https://t.co/DxCEMGNfJE

— Metro (@MetroUK) February 11, 2020

The tory who won Pidcock's seat has better analysis of the Labour leadership contest than anyone in the Guardian pic.twitter.com/sylj79T2gu

— Chris (@ChrisKPH) February 10, 2020

xp
‘Populist authoritarianism is easy and lazy. But Britain is better than this.’

it clearly isn't.

fucking hell, a tory that doesn't talk shit, very dangerous!

What this Tory is saying is what actually was put in place at the last election, as in keep the Brexit coalition together and that's our best chance.

I predict low turnouts and tory victories throughout the north if it is a Starmer led Labour. And I wouldn't blame them because I'm never going to vote for him either.

Don't know, five years is a long time. I don't trust the government not to fuck up Brexit, or to preside over an economic meltdown but you are right if they just about manage, kill the vulnerable and deport people then we've seen people don't give a shit.

I'm sure Mr night courts won't be happy with the deportations but after five years of focus grouping popular racist policies the concerns will be legit again.

If there are no planes of deportees heading off to Australia, Canada, or New Zealand, we must assume that people from those countries never commit crimes or offences. Unless there’s another reason...???

— Michael Rosen (@MichaelRosenYes) February 11, 2020

Waiting for the EHRC investigation into the Tories...any day now. Oh yeah, they already did a cursory report on the Windrush crisis that was four fucking pages long.

Today I'm launching #ComeKipWithMe - asking Londoners to invite me into their homes and show me the city through their eyes. I want to know your concerns and your ideas. And I promise to bring a sleeping bag and a box of chocolates!

Sign up: https://t.co/jtrLIw7i2G pic.twitter.com/TC7Vfg5tNk

— Rory Stewart (@RoryStewartUK) February 11, 2020

This is how the Westminster Bubble sees politics - as a game between factions of the rich, rather than as a process which can destroy the lives of ordinary people. (see also, Iraq, austerity, welfare.) https://t.co/wukZx8bdsY

— Chris Dillow (@CJFDillow) February 11, 2020

rory please sit by my bedside and whisper tales of walking across afghanistan in your lilting dari dialect while i fall into a deep and dreamless sleep

I've barely watched peston or qt since the election, but it seems like they are plumbing new depths that even fucking capt nemo wouldn't have conceived of.