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

can i in all good conscience recommend the facebook page 'matthew broderick's car accident'?

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yes

Otacon vmic

i'm sure john mann will be outraged at the bbc's political editor tweeting her support for an antisemite

💪❤️ https://t.co/dMf7vuSKyk

— Laura Kuenssberg (@bbclaurak) February 24, 2020

Lol quote tweeting Rachel Reeves as well

masry astor: GIRLBOSS (and nazi)

💪❤️ pic.twitter.com/BOa2alvKJH

— Sam ✌️ (@samisam147) February 24, 2020

Inspirational stuff alright

In her speech, she reflected that “I know that it is very difficult for some to receive the first lady MP into the House”. She once said that male MPs would rather have had a rattlesnake in Parliament than a woman. (2/7) pic.twitter.com/QdwXLHowwI

— Rachel Reeves (@RachelReevesMP) February 24, 2020

Stafford Cripps used to refer to her as our honourable member to Berlin

Pretty sure Paul Mason just delivered a few thousand extra votes to RLB there.

I heard spice is coming back into fashion

trying to rehabilitate/whitewash the rep of a nazi who was even too toxic for the tories in the 40's[vomit]. And the ubiquitous rise of Rachel Reeves (well 2 mentions recently!) is obv connected to Meltmentum. When she's back in the shadow cabinet those concerns will be getting more legitimate by the day.

good to see that the controls continue to be set for the heart of no-deal

The EU will demand the UK maintains a ban on chlorinated chicken as the price for a trade agreement with Brussels, in a move that protects European meat exports and creates an obstacle to a deal with Donald Trump.

On the recommendation of France, a clause has been inserted into the EU’s negotiating mandate to insist that both sides maintain “health and product sanitary quality in the food and agriculture sector”, according to a copy leaked to the Guardian.

The paragraph, in a newly entitled section of the document for the EU’s chief negotiator, Michel Barnier, called “Environment and health” provides a catch-all insurance for the EU that certain methods of food production – particular pesticides, endocrine disrupters or chlorine washes for poultry – will not be used in the UK.

At the weekend, George Eustice, the new UK environment secretary, refused to guarantee that the government would not allow the importation of chlorine-washed chicken as part of a trade deal with the US.

Eustice’s stance has caused concern in the UK where the National Farmers’ Union called for other countries to trade with Britain “on our terms”. The EU also fears that current suppliers of meat to the UK could be undercut by US imports.

Profiles in self-awareness

🚨 📻 Radio 4, Sat, 8pm

I've spent the past few weeks working on this project that's taken me and @bbclaurak from Gordon Brown's home in Fife, to George Osborne's office at the Evening Standard... thanks @SimonOHagan for the preview!

Editor @rosenb8
Studio @WilliamAllott pic.twitter.com/cVuKtWczjY

— Joey D'Urso (@josephmdurso) February 25, 2020

okay laura that was great - this time could you look just a bit more smug and supercilious? good, little bit more? ah that's it, hold that, perfect *shutter click*

She's pinning all the problems of the country on Harold Shipman?

Because he didn’t do enough?

her thesis does seem a bit... unfocused if that summary is anything to go by

My bad, this is clearly a v self-aware exercise in blaming everything on Labour.

It's a pretty smart move to blame things on universal hate figures. Financal crisis of 2008 - Fred West did it. Ian Huntley was responsible for Brexit.

fucking architect of New Labour, Dennis Nilsen can fuck off as well!

Neil Warnock to blame for Coronavirus.

Anyway, check out this twat

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2020/feb/25/tory-mp-james-grundy-apologises-after-exposing-himself-in-pub

Can't imagine his genitals can look much worse than his face

Clearly says he was asked to show them, I don't see what the issue is

With his consumption of his victims’ flesh, Dennis Nilsen was voicing the pain of working at the DWP| me for the Observer

When Michael Ryan shot up Hungerford it was the first step towards todays militant woke trans youth being mean to their betters on Twitter

Ian Watkins did 9/11

Nah they was younger than that

the guiltiest lol

It’s kind of interesting that Black Wednesday rarely gets talked about wrt the ongoing crisis of confidence in expertise.

Which iirc was caused by EMF's follow-up to Schubert Dip flopping, but the details are hazy.

I find that unbelievable

Anyway we should obviously look for the reasons for the crisis of trust in our political masters anywhere but in the actions of our political masters

Even the shortened version in the tweet points the finger at Tony Blair....

Paywalled but the Sunday Times has claimed that MI5 is withholding intelligence from Priti Patel as they don’t trust her. May be true, might be an attempt to further the narrative of the establishment undermining the government.

MI5 took to their house organ to flatly deny this is true:

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2020/feb/23/mi5-rejects-claims-withhold-intelligence-priti-patel

Patel has subsequently said she’s ‘furious’ about false reports suggesting they’re withholding intel. The involvement of Tim Shipman in the original story (alas, another Shipman to blame for the lack of public trust in institutions) suggests it was never meant to damage Patel.

I read that as 'funky house organ' but I've been listening to AWeatherall mixes...

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When you post your Zarah Sultana tweets to the right thread

Peter Mandelson: "We're all Thatcherites now." (2002)
Tony Blair: "My job was to build on some of the things [Thatcher] did." (2013)
Lisa Nandy: "The consensus that Thatcher built lasted all the way through the New Labour years." (2020)

But @edballs targets me with insults? 🤔 https://t.co/ff9FyDeSVg

— Zarah Sultana MP (@zarahsultana) February 25, 2020

And ofc Ed Miliband’s leadership spent fuck all time arguing that Labour wasn’t responsible for the crash; instead they were like “we’ll do the same but slower!” as though that’s not starting off on a losing foot. “We’re shit, but...” God, I hate Ed Balls so much.

that fucking clown and his pro-hostile environment/ATOS assessment wife have no place in an opposition party, and his reading of Labour postwar history is imbecilic nonsense.

He's saying curating a propagandist bullshit version of party history for public consumption is good because the that's what the Tories do, yes what a wonderful war we had and what great legacy it has left in the Middle East.

And of course never accept the blame for economic mismanagement. If Labour had simply done this they would be 22 years in power.

If I were left-wing Labour;;;;; I would simply win an election

Also didn't they call themselves New Labour precisely to signal a radical break from the party's immediate past, rather than stoutly defending every element of the party's legacy?

His take is as ahistorical as that delusional "Labour Family" babble that some melts use, like as if they owned the brand.

Corbyn has said “Labour family” on numerous occasions lol

the melts used it much more than him in a "what is happening to my labour family" manner.. but what a fucking turnip!

One for the Corbyn's flaws thread (yes I'm saying wrong thread FFS) xp

fucking hell at this from today's pmqs

The SNP’s David Linden asks about religious intolerance in India. Will the PM meet him to discuss this?

Johnson says this is a crucial issue. He is particularly keen to defend religious freedom, and to protect those of a Christian faith.

What do you expect? The Tories have been openly targeting racist Hindu voters with this kind of shit for years.

Which I'm sure is one of the reasons the question was asked.