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

This guy seems... odd?

Indeed and I wrote to you to urge you to take action on anti-semitism (twice) and you never even replied https://t.co/CVhdxhZuZC

— Joe Goldberg (@joedgoldberg) July 3, 2017

lmao @ twitter avi #48percentnation #Resist

This guy seems... odd?

You are obviously not familiar with this thread: Local councillors

A lot of London Labour councils are just really bad because they've operated for decades with virtually no opposition. They become complacent at best and entirely mendacious at worst, with than veneer of "but we're Labour so we must be the good guys really".

JG using that tired line that Chakrabortty is commenting from a position of "elite privilege" . Yes we know he is a Guardian journalist you corrupt dickhead.

lol, he's attacking him as part of the 'elite' for going to the same state school that i did.

A lot of London Labour councils are just really bad because they've operated for decades with virtually no opposition. They become complacent at best and entirely mendacious at worst, with than veneer of "but we're Labour so we must be the good guys really".

That worked out really well for the Labour Party in Scotland after all.

"brand strategist"

xpost

A lot of London Labour councils are just really bad because they've operated for decades with virtually no opposition

I was just about to make an almost identical post to Tom D abt Scotland.

Sounds like there may be a new scandal brewing just when they (or presumably the country) doesn't need there to be one with the bigger group they're part of. Are the Tories going to start looking justified in light of this or will it be spun that way.
Are there further Tory scandals that need to be outed yet, or immminently?

They become complacent at best and entirely mendacious at worst, with than veneer of "but we're Labour so we must be the good guys really".

― Matt DC, Tuesday, 4 July 2017 10:57 (twenty-three minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Look I love my ilx UK cru but cmere

this is a problem all over the country, council meetings becoming formalities with the real discussion happening elsewhere, they've become very undemocratic

Let's cheer up with a quote from Angela Rayner, describing Arlene Foster: 'the most expensive right-winger since Cristiano Renaldo'.

if Angela Rayner knew football that joke could've landed

Dominic Cummings, the Vote Leave campaign director, described the referendum as a “dumb idea” before other ideas had been tried to win back powers from Brussels. He has also warned that Brexit is shaping up to be a “guaranteed debacle”, without big changes in Whitehall to deliver a successful negotiation.

Tim Farron, the Liberal Democrat leader, seized on the comments, saying: “Dominic Cummings has let the cat out of the bag. This is the man who slapped the £350m NHS lie on the side of the bus who is now saying leaving the EU could be a mistake.

“These Brexiteers have sold us a pup and lied to the public. This is why I believe the public should be given a say on the final Brexit deal.”

Brexit: Vote Leave chief who created £350m NHS lie on bus admits leaving EU could be 'an error'

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2017/jul/04/hard-brexit-means-people-fleeing-uk-jeremy-hunt-note-says

People keep saying the phrase "sold us a pup" as if it's nbd.

Since when did pups take preference over pigs in a poke?

during classic famine conditions I'm sure a pup would contain slightly less protein than a pig in a poke.

Arr, but a pig in a poke is really a cat in the bag!

big bottom birds in the bush

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DD1TmP1XUAAzz6g.jpg

the absolute beardless boy (courtesy the shropshire star)

Looks very like someone there.

ladies love cool jeremy

https://amp.theguardian.com/politics/2017/jul/04/senior-labour-figures-clash-over-concerns-of-working-class-voters

Jones, who is standing as a candidate on Wednesday to become a representative of backbenchers on Labour’s parliamentary committee, said he would use the position to fight for greater attention of white working-class voters. He wants Corbyn to address perceptions that the leadership is not patriotic and does not support the deployment of nuclear weapons, he said.

“How thick does this party have to be? We have not learnt the lessons from the rise of the BNP [in the 90s]. Our core voters cannot be taken for granted. These are people who have been let down by political elites for decades. They see themselves as being at the back of every queue.

“We have to talk about their concerns – counter-terrorism, nationalism, defence and community, the nuclear deterrent and patriotism,” said Jones, who represents Hyndburn in Lancashire.

Asked if he was concerned that the party could sound as if it was appealing to racist sentiments, Jones said: “It is not about that. There are genuine concerns about wages being undercut. We have to arrived at a point where these communities in England can no longer be ignored. And if we fail to address it, we are finished.”

Graham Jones suggesting that genuine concerns are the new legitimate concerns.

Depressed wages in working class communities? Wheel out the nuclear deterrent and get talking about nationalism.

cunts like that should actually be in the BNP

Working classes talk about little else but deploying nuclear weapons tbf.

"some idiot in Iran" is often a hot topic amongst the masses (erm.. well amongst about 7 old corpulent half dead tory twats) of the West Riding branch of the Masonic Lodge.

never forget

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DBWsdfhWAAU0J5U.jpg:small

I had till you reposted it. Nightmares now.

http://howiescorner.blogspot.co.uk/2013/10/anne-marie-waters-resigns-from-labour.html?m=1

To be fair to Graham Jones, he's seen Anne Waters resign from the Labour Party on the grounds of them not doing enough for women's rights and move to standing for the leadership of UKIP (where she's considered too close to T0mmy R0bins0n to be a serious candidate).

Graham Jones is vile. Mike Ashley exploiting workers is somehow immigrants' fault, apparently

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DD5JKDGXsAELXjJ.jpg

he's v into the arms trade as a way of revitalising his lancashire constituency

Theory: May called general election early and at short notice so that labour would not have time to deselect slugs like this.

love this from the saudi embassy re: the henry jackson report which declares saudi arabia to be the chief promoter of islamist extremism in the uk:

"We do not and will not condone the actions or ideology of violent extremism and we will not rest until these deviants and their organisations are destroyed."

'we will end violent extremism by destroying the deviants' is amazing

If it's a Henry Jackson society report, presumably their proposed response to Saudi Arabia promoting islamist extremism is to sell them more weapons

the absolute beardless boy (courtesy the shropshire star)

― mark s, Tuesday, July 4, 2017 8:57 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Looks rather charmingly like a still from a long lost Wednesday Play. I could easily see Jez as the angry young man in a gritty new work about the class struggle.

Just another play for today

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-40506109

Conservative MP Jacob Rees-Mogg has named his sixth child Sixtus Dominic Boniface Christopher.

The backbencher announced the new arrival on Instagram, where attention focused on the eye-catching name.

The name Sixtus is shared with five popes, most recently in 1590.

"Helena and I announce with great joy that we have a baby Sixtus Dominic Boniface Christopher, a brother for Peter, Mary, Thomas, Anselm and Alfred." Mr Rees-Mogg said.

The other children's full names are Alfred Wulfric Leyson Pius, Thomas Wentworth Somerset Dunstan, Peter Theodore Alphege, Anselm Charles Fitzwilliam and Mary Anne Charlotte Emma Rees-Mogg.

The Tory MP for North East Somerset, who recently joined Instagram, has become something of a cult figure on social media, with dozens of Facebook pages devoted to him.

poll?

moggo needs his own thread

(polls are bad tho) except twitter polls abt the best marple, they are good)

today I learned that 'Sixtus' does not actually mean 'six' (presumably Mogg already knows this and decided to call the child Sixtus anyway)

Sixtus was a Roman name, a corruption of the Greek name "Ξυστος," meaning "polished," and originally Latinized "Xystus." In its Spanish form Sixto it is still used as a personal name. It is not to be confused with the common Roman praenomen "Sextus," meaning "sixth," though not necessarily denoting a sixth child.

also, there have only been five Popes Sixtus

roman name for sixth kid is sextus (or sexta)

popes take a name as pope anyway, like djs: it would be a bit odd (=grebt) to call yrself pope sixth kid the second

so these ones were pope smooth 1-6

there's no ridiculousness or stakes in Rees-Mogg's choice of names. he's a toff cosplaying a toff, his children are never gonna be in social circles where anybody would raise an eyebrow at their names, let's not memeify the pitiful fascist cunt

i can imagine an element of DUP side-eye to be fair

lol well yes i'm sure there are plenty of anglo-catholic public schools available tho

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DD9_NDZXsAApbye.jpg

hilarious guy, now lets build a nice 19th century style gallows for the cunt!

Lol

cosplay is exactly right, he is totally unserious

Spare a thought for my best friend's youngest posh cousin, whose siblings are John and Mary, while he is Tertius.

idgaf how serious or unserious he is tbh, he's a smug shitbag who's actively working to make worse the lives of people who aren't just like him

and he has a fucking nanny