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

Guiding your bougie flock to the gulags.

if we can confirm that john tilbury will be at the organ then I promise I'll attend

Guilting the shire Tories out of their bare-rubbed coins and using the proceeds to fashion a guillotine in the chancel.

scootering down the nave on a tumbril.

Sharpening the guilltotine blade on the font.

I was thinking more that it affords you loads of time to read and argue

― median punt (gyac), Friday, 6 March 2020 bookmarkflaglink

Always need more time for that, true.

at least you could get fred expelled from the choir.

:D

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ESbqjwnXkAAAKdb?format=png&name=small

an earlier example of barely coherent Nandyism which has a spin on the polite discourse thing that suggests minorities deserve to become victims for not being polite enough to Tory arseholes.

The finest minds...

We strongly disapprove of the decision by the UNWomen Oxford UK Society to disinvite Amber Rudd after she had been asked to speak.

Oxford is committed to freedom of speech & opposes no-platforming. We will be taking steps to ensure that this situation doesn't happen in future.

— Oxford University (@UniofOxford) March 6, 2020

fucking shithole university

steps, eh?

Legit so grateful for this thread today (and every other day!)

ok but is comrade alphabet a prod or one of the good guys?

Not many Protestants in Goa or Portugal afaik.

I don’t think he’s anyone’s version of a good guy? Except maybe Robespierre.

xp maybe so but we don’t all maintain xlses!

Isn't Catholicism the only branch of Christianity where militant atheists brought up in it still frequently go to churches?

lol don't mean to be too presumptuous about irl xyzz

xp nope ;)

ogmor’s winking face upsets me more than the idea calz posted

hehehehe;)

(Are we talking orthodox cos I just remembered my Serb mate)

orthodox church is arguably even more of a big socio-political actor than the catholic church it's true, but protestantism is ofc really the first step towards atheism and there are lots of ppl from 'christian atheists' to weirdo radicals in non-conformist churches, esp unitarians and quakers

We went to a church (Anglican but distinctly High) recently as I wanted to experience a Taize service, so 'musical reasons' definitely apply as well

I don’t think he’s anyone’s version of a good guy? Except maybe Robespierre.

Now Robespierre, there was a good guy.

ty ogmor, I of course forgot about the smaller denominations

I just looked it up and apparently more ppl who describe themselves as Christian in the UK identify as non-denominational than C of E or anything else

Makes sense, C of E ie shit. Toriest and Brexitiest dénomination.

digression from subject of thread but felt the obit of Ernesto Cardenal was appropriate - FT so paywalled i’m afraid.

Ernesto Cardenal, Marxist poet and priest, 1925-2020

When a government-backed mob burst into Managua’s cathedral this week yelling “traitor”, the target of their anger, Ernesto Cardenal, was lying dead in a flag-draped coffin at the front.

Cardenal counted a trip to Cuba in 1970 as a turning point. “My first conversion was religious; in Cuba, I converted to revolution,”

There’s no digression itt, if we aren’t trying to get xyzzzzz to take holy orders, idk what the point is. Thanks for the link, what an incredible life. Pope John Paul II suspended him from the Church but Francis ended it.

odd, i thought i’d posted an updated version with the guardian obit link as well


https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/mar/06/ernesto-cardenal-obituary?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

sorry if this is major rehash, but what am I supposed to know about Rosena Allin-Khan other than her insistence on referring to herself as DR Rosena Allin-Khan in all her communications.

I just applied the rule of thumb that if melts are stanning for her she's a melt and she used "ideological purity" in a pejorative sense and I generally don't like the cut of her jib.

it's easy to scoff at "ideological purity" when are a fucking doctor!

Anybody who uses that phrase is a dick

yeah, i looked at who nominated her in the booklet and there were a couple that made me v suspicious (wes streeting, stephen kinnock, vicky foxcroft)

torn abt whether or not to give rayner a second choice vote. felt really let down by her since this campaign began.

RA-K has some good stuff in the portfolio, like treating children in Palestine and doing aid work out there.

don't know if i can get past the DOCTOR rosena thing

There is no "good doctor" in politics!

Doctor King?

Apart from Dr Martin Luther Mengele of course

Doctors all tend to be covert eugenics true believers despite whatever charidee work they do or however much they keep it quiet. And Tories imo.

I once saw one of my son's doctors sit on his own glasses and completely crush them, I didn't say anything but was internally chuckling and then when the arrogant cunt noticed he'd knackered them he tried to blame my son. I've never met a decent doctor in my whole fucking life .. I swear

Whats this Rudd thing? She was disinvited from Oxford? What was the reason?

yep and at the last minute I think, which is very rude!

Yes but what was the reason behind it?

Might have something to do with her deporting all those people?

I presume it was because of her role in Hostile Environment, although she is of course the real victim here.

some people argue that it is the office or the job that is bad, not the person holding the office. I think that idea is utter bullshit.