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

aren't they hybrids as well?

> However, the buses have suffered from problems with their battery systems with some operating solely as diesel vehicles

ah...

xp I mean what was the point of going on about these magic buses if they’re only going to stop using 2/3 of the doors to get on? They’re just mobile ovens now.

Or he wants to build his stupid airport island in the Thames instead.

As long as it doesn't get in the way of the no doubt imminent construction of LONDON RESORT, i'll be happy.

blargh @ Adonis. Same idiocy as the thing I've heard from multiple otherwise-sensible people that it doesn't matter if people fly less because the planes will fly anyway.

oh jesus i was unaware of London Resort

The Blobienda must be built.

andrew adonis is infallibly wrong on everything.

xp I mean what was the point of going on about these magic buses if they’re only going to stop using 2/3 of the doors to get on? They’re just mobile ovens now.

― median punt (gyac), Thursday, 27 February 2020 bookmarkflaglink

They always were horrible in summer. They should really scrap them now that the only reason for using them (that they were pretty much free) is gone.

NEW: Sadiq Khan shows interest in backing Mike Bloomberg and Pete Buttigieg in the ongoing US Democratic primary: https://t.co/zTftqyLzE5

— LabourList (@LabourList) February 27, 2020

another Labour wasteman along with Adonis who joined the wrong party.

does...does he get a vote? is this news? this is not news

no he doesn't but it highlights how terrible his politics are.

he's also recently against social housing, the week before that against taxing Google. he's a waste of space.

That's it, Charlie Mullins will be getting my vote.

no need to plumb those depths, unless he's offering to kip around your gaff and fix yr boiler for free!

I've already read someone saying they aren't pushing leaflets for that cunt Khan after this, it is "news" amongst some party activists, some of whom on my TL have volunteered for the Bernie Campaign. This is allegedly the Labour Party he's a member of and he has more solidarity with a fucking billionaire than potentially the first left-wing Pres of the US since FDR. The guy is a fucking embarrassment.

oh jesus i was unaware of London Resort

It's wonderful. The only problem is that "retro corporate theme park that will never be built, overseen by Steven Norris and the owner of Ebbsfleet United, endlessly waiting for a spectacular deal from the US that won't ever arrive" is too obvious to function as a metaphor for the state of the nation.

Any single decker bus that lets you get on in the middle has the same issue as the Routemasters. This is so fucking dumb.

Feels like there are going to be massive delays for a while as people just fail to observe this and board in the middle or rear anyway, headphones on and oblivious to any messages from the driver.

That said I had an unpleasant experience a few weeks ago where a young guy gave me actual antisemitic(!) abuse repeatedly for having the gall to step onto the bus at the back before he did (having been at the stop long before he showed up and standing no further from the door then he was when it alighted...I mean that's all beside the point anyway) and maybe if we were boarding in front of the driver only he might have resisted the baffling racist outburst if only through being more accepting of the 'let people who were here first on first' concept.

A concept which barely exists in London.

It's usually impossible as buses just turn up when they do and will let people on and off pretty far from the stop all the time but either way it might be best just avoiding New Routemasters more in general even before we hit the warmer months.

It's how I get to and from work though.

Time to splash out on that electric scooter.

Wetherspoons has sent out a briefing on Coronavirus and has made clear that even if employees are in quarantine by orders of the Government, that they will still not receive sick pay from day one.

The company is forcing workers to choose between public health and making rent. pic.twitter.com/KPBBqatu5F

— Living Wage for Brockley Barge Staff (@LivingWageBarge) February 27, 2020

I still love Johnny Mc ❤️

”People need to realise for us was a struggle to survive in opposition. A struggle to survive in the party. It wasn’t just one coup or two coups. There were attempted coups virtually every month.”

He added: “Some of the worst vilification was coming from behind us on our own opposition benches. Some of those we hear have been offered seats in the House of Lords. Ex-Labour MPs. Good riddance.”

really going to miss him.

thought he was going to say some of them have been offered positions in the next shadow cabinet, because some of them no doubt will be.

All gonna be friends again now and pretend like half the PLP aren't crooked buffoons.

RLB does karaoke
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This Sky debate is coming from Dewsbury. Calz, are you watching?

no, who is on the panel?

oh right I've got it!

Starmer has just used that old lie "we are an anti-racist party" no merely the least racist party.. let's not chat shit here!

Nandy defending wealth creators/drip down economics in one of the poorest towns in England, but still get's a round of applause!

The kind of dickheads asking questions is partly why I never attend CLPs or get involved at grassroots level.

Ah John Mills has donated to Nandy's campaign, John is a big brexiteer and Blue Labour guy https://t.co/BZznrG7uoD

— Loki (@Lokinash06) February 27, 2020

the ball is in Starmer's court now, although by the time he reveals his most embarrassing major donors another 100000 ballots will have been posted off.

https://chrisgreybrexitblog.blogspot.com/2020/02/brexit-is-going-feral.html

Dominic Cummings may seem like a novelty in the political realm, but he’s a version of just about every big-league MBA School graduate who has mistaken reading airport lounge books about Silicon Valley and quantum physics for wisdom.

good read here on brexit/johnson administration and its war on the civil service and contains that sick burn on Cummings.

Candidate @Keir_Starmer still hasnt signed our pledge to build large-scale council house building.

Keir, will you formally respond? https://t.co/1pr0j6VMaa

— Labour Campaign For Council Housing (@labour_council) February 26, 2020

an explanation could be that like Jess Phillips he is in the pocket of property developers, but we will find out by the time he has already won.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-51687287

The top civil servant in the Home Office has resigned and said he intends to sue the government for constructive dismissal.

Sir Philip Rutnam said there had been an orchestrated campaign against him.

war against civil service takes down the first big dog!

Hope he takes them to the cleaners.

is there a precedent for such a big dog taking them to the cleaners?

he's a complete tory, but j c, working under Patel must be a nightmare. No doubt there will be flimsy accusations of misogyny and racism in her defence, but she seems cruel and vindictive and the most virulently horrible home sec since erm.. May. I'll throw Jack Straw in there as well so I'm not a misogynist!

so he's refused to sign an NDA is going as loudly as possible..*pulls up a deckchair*

he's a complete tory, but j c, working under Patel must be a nightmare

You know it's bad when calz says it.

Tbf the Home Office and its equivalents have always been about state-sanctioned psychopathy.

truedat, but she brings it to the office as well!

All straight out of the Trump copybook.

It's not much, but at least Johnson hasn't suggested that the coronavirus is a hoax perpetrated by [insert name of party you wish to demonize].

Muslims obv.

Labour, Iran, China, the EU, take your pick. We'll see if he goes there in the coming weeks.

Absolutely not China, I can assure you of that.

5G?