brexit negging when yr mandate is is trash: or further chronicles of a garbage-fire

True, it's such a life or death issue for so many DUP voters.

don't know why they'd get worked up about a club that doesn't exist anymore

I'm hoping someone on the Tory negotiating team lets slip something similar. (xxp) You won't have seen my 'No Pope of Rome' post upthread then?

not sure i understand this lame duck PM business. ducks mostly fly or swim so waddling ability not quite so crucial in their survival; may is more like a boiled coot imo

Zombie duck.

she's plucked turkey imo

quacked actor

10m ago 17:42
Jessica Elgot

The prime minister told MPs “I’ve got us into the mess and I will get us out of it,” according to another MP leaving the committee room. The MP said:

"She was very concerned about people who have lost their seats, the party is going to help them, some of them are in dire financial situations. She did say sorry, several times. She apologised for colleagues losing their seat, for making the call about the early election."

xp lol

and not xp lol

^ i feel fucking livid reading that. the dire financial situations of people formerly on a MPs wage? oh just fuck off xp

Struggling to shake the image of Theresa May in the grip of cocaine psychosis being interviewed by Alan Yentob in the back of a limo traveling through the desert "There’s … there’s a fly, floating around in my milk..."

Remember those awful Corbyn meetings with backbench MPs. Leaks to journos before the end, MPs trying to "break him".

How the wheel turns...no doubt this will be reported more favourably but expecting some good lols in time.

She was very concerned about people who have lost their seats, the party is going to help them, some of them are in dire financial situations.

Maybe Tory HQ can provide the addresses to foodbanks in their area. Come to think of it, I was sure I saw Gavin Barwell sleeping outside King's Cross station today.

ben gummer gofundme

"some of them are in dire financial situations."

I want some photographic evidence of this, so I print my own line of humourous lol-tory-poverty x-mas cards. Every election the bbc runs sympathetic pieces on how hard it is for MP's that get unceremoniously ejected back into Plebsville. http://patriotden.com/fotki/smileys/Fiddle_Player_Smiley_Face.GIF

wait i thought conservatives were fiscally responsible

Saw the PM convoy hustle out of Westminster there so she has survived the 1922

they've fitted her with an explosive collar set to detonate unless she stands down some time in the next 72 hours

I don't much about how these type of 1922 committee struggle sessions are conducted when they are going to dispose of a leader, but I hope there is a suitably menacing Urquhart type executioner chairing the meeting.

This is really hilarious:

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/conservative-social-media-strategy-attack-jeremy-corbyn-labouir-twitter-facebook-video-stormzy-akala-a7784406.html

Sharing between users also meant Momentum only needed to spend £2,000 advertising its content on Facebook.

lol! this is beautiful to hear in comparison with the Tories allegedly spuzzing away £3m of "dark money" from donors on their FB campaign.

Strikes me that the Tory campaign only had a very limited understanding of the sort of content that flies on social media and thought that just outspending the opposition was enough. I'd been talking to a few professional social media types for work in the weeks running up to the election and they were all saying the same thing - that Labour was easily winning the social media election. Having not seen any of the Tory videos, even accidentally, I was pretty surprised to hear the kind of sums they were reportedly spending.

It was exactly that "I've not seen any of these Tory videos" thing that was giving me the fear. I worried that they were being incredibly well targeted to a bubble of old, Northern, nuke-heads so far from my own bubbles that I wouldn't even be aware of the damage they were doing.

Yelland was saying the other day on R4 that the Tory videos were averaging 100000 hits at best and many of the Momentum ones were hitting the millions with ease. I suppose the downside is they might have learned a lesson there and make their arms race spending on social media count for something the next time.

looking forward to their answer to #grime4corbyn!

making shareable videos is hard, unless you're doing i dunno recipes or fights or boobs

More election analysis, on Kensington: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/jun/12/labour-kensington-general-election-london#

And um, its been a long time since I read Gransci, time to dust it off to see if this is any good: https://www.theguardian.com/politics/commentisfree/2017/jun/12/paul-mason-jeremy-corbyn-defeat-ruling-elite-antonio-gramsci

tory slime videos
tory kinder unboxings
tory paint mixing videos
tory minecraft videos

The Rees-Mogg family doing accapella folk songs

looking forward to their answer to #grime4corbyn!

They're hard at work right now, just start at 1:30 in this clip.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2NEZRPzNF2Q

shame they blew all that cheddar just to be stuck with a party that's completely crackers

Statement on behalf of @Portadownlol1 pic.twitter.com/JFCkWZhxkt

— Portadown LOL 1 (@Portadownlol1) June 10, 2017

That young ones video is blocked for UK people because it's owned by BBC worldwide... (The irony)

And I doubt the DUP will settle for concession on orange marches.

http://www.newstatesman.com/politics/staggers/2017/06/theres-something-everyone-has-missed-about-dup-and-fixed-term-parliaments

tory kinder unboxings

:(

i'm always going gunz on Frankie Boyle for his shitty disablism, but his election show was actually very good and funny as fuck.

yes, it was.

the closing monologue was rub, but hey

Tory MP says May reassured 1922 that DUP "views on LGB...what's the rest of it?" would not affect Govt policy.

"the closing monologue was rub, but hey"

yeah, the way too long Nuttall monologue was totally dogshit.

Apparently austerity is over everyone, time to pack it in, Tories have now heard us.

https://capx.co/all-that-matters-now-is-stopping-corbyn/

Someone linked me this and I thought it was satire, turns out its from a Centre for Policy Studies offshoot.

Lilico and Kamm have been the best of this 'lets get a fucking coup if necessary'. Really wish I could listen in to some old colonels around the table.

so many gems in that

At that stuff about the IRA, Hezbollah, the Falklands, nuclear weapons, a maximum wage, mass nationalisation, appointing Communists, abolishing the monarchy and empowering the unions was all true and ought to have made him utterly inconceivable as a prime minister, but it didn’t. Young voters didn’t care, or didn’t believe it, or actively wanted it.

Abi Wilkinson was on Newsnight discussing Corbyn and mentioned the 'absolute boy' thing. The person (and people that I follow around on my Twitter TL) who came up with it has absolutely slated her/Owen Jones and Mae O'Hagan, most of it with good reason although some of it is just an inevitable letting rip on so much frustration with the media coverage.

"Apparently austerity is over everyone, time to pack it in, Tories have now heard us."

Cool, I'll just inform the missus with MS that the pip appeal is cancelled and DLA restored - Go benevolent Tories!

No no Austerity hitting Tory targets has been postponed. Hitting Labour voting demographics is still tickity boo

"Austerity is over"

laying in the submissive position, letting a gang of trolls piss all over me and saying "Im getting too old for this shit" like a bad ass

— wint (@dril) June 12, 2017

timing is...uncanny.

some amount of energy, humour and (understandable) b*ttern*ss from the twitter left outrider crew
xps

v understandable - he set out his reasons eloquently enough (and I won't say more because its on twitter and he has locked his account for now), its just weird seeing these things crop up from twitter to TV/Newsnight.