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

lol

in the spirit of loathsome camaraderie (very much at arms length), i have it on fairly good authority that this guy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Baron_(politician) is actually a very good local mp and a decent man, aside from the whole arch-brexiteer thing (his war voting record certainly stands out)

we get a fabulously low budget local TV station called Estuary and altho i mainly watch it for NGW Wrestling i keep seeing a trailer of Johnson on some show voicing his very legitimate concerns about migration.

the racist Tory twat.

xp - yeah, ok, but of course there's this - https://www.theyworkforyou.com/mp/10715/john_baron/basildon_and_billericay/votes#welfare

(Sometimes I wish I had spent a little longer choosing a user name and hadn't just used the name of the track I was listening to at the time)

we could call you Caal if that helps

well he is a Tory xp

calling bullshit on shami chakraborty even being in that piece: she's (since not very long ago) a labour peer; she is not now and has never been an elected politician

she was director of Liberty -- aka the National Council for Civil Liberties -- until last year: in its own words a "cross party, non-party membership organisation at the heart of the movement for fundamental rights and freedoms in the UK"

House of Lords is parliament I suppose, but yeah, looks like padding

Quite a few months' worth of pile-on to Laura Pidcock's comment now..

There will be many extra people in the foodbank queues over the next couple of months who share Laura's partisan approach to life. The other day I couldn't even read that Deborah Orr piece on austerity hitting children. From the same tin-eared arse who thought zero hours contracts/the gig economy were great because they worked for people that teach yoga p/t.

I suspect the main reason for cross-party friendships is good old careerist paranoia and mistrust, you're not going to be stabbed in the back by someone on the opposite benches but everyone who sits near you is a potential rival.

Also Tories mostly just don't take this shit that seriously so they're always going to be prepared to extend the hand if there are a few drinks in it.

massively o/t, but back in WW2 days the coalition govt sent uber-lefty Stafford Cripps as the Uk ambassador to the Soviet Union, thinking that would please the Bolsheviks. Maisky revealed in his diary that they were totally displeased with Cripps and had a preference for dealing with outright Tories. "at least you know where you stand with a good old fashioned fascist". I made that quote up.

Number of zeroes on a screen somewhere mysteriously relocate.

Extraordinary - tmr's business pages of the Brexit supporting Telegraph: "the apparent resilience of FDI flows after Brexit was an illusion" pic.twitter.com/lL5pSj00Jp

— Chuka Umunna (@ChukaUmunna) October 15, 2017

waht

does minus £490 bn reduce GDP per capita enough to knock the UK down the wealth table a bit? I find it hard enough to believe the UK is the 5th wealthiest country as it is.

I recently found out how few qualified accountants there are within the Treasury and today's announcement makes perfect sense in that context.

meh! who needs experts?

... or money.

Imagine if this had broke before the referendum.

Leave would only have spun it that we definitely couln't afford the £350m a week the EU were costing us.

This seems like quite a big story, that got conveniently blown away today. I mean if half a trillion is no biggie then let it go then.

Absolutely, LOLz at the Telegraph hiding it away in their Business section.

wheeeee

Due to the pressure from @UKLabour the Tories have just caved in and dropped the call charges on the Universal Credit helpline.

— Rachael Maskell MP (@RachaelMaskell) October 18, 2017

hopefully the first of a sequence of victories today.

That would explain Amber Rudd's lack of response to an interview question about that. She must have been thinking "That's Ridiculous!"

this is my favourite ever party logo:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DMYNqjgWsAAxlEz.jpg

(possibly a fake or a parody: there are so MANY would-be anti-brexit parties attempting to form currently)

i like the way it highlights the percentage of the vote they will attract

Splitting the (tw)atom.

lol

Squeezing a pimple!

You are not here.

https://ctl.s6img.com/society6/img/j26CSBFtd1td9oxJz0Eb3o8xJ7Y/h_550,w_550/prints/~artwork/s6-0015/a/5358302_12706541/~~/e-pluribus-anus-ml7-prints.jpg

Jolyon the mark

Putting the o in "Oh Overton Window".

here's another:

Delighted to have established a network of people interested in supporting (& in many cases helping to set up) a possible @RadicalsUK party.

— Jeremy Cliffe (@JeremyCliffe) October 18, 2017

hurrah for the Radical Suk party!

A pro-tech, pro-Europe, social liberal movement

ohmygod you crazy radicals will you draw a line nowhere?

maybe they mean 'radical' more in the bill & ted sense, duder

I mean I can understand why if you're the middlest of the middle class you might wanna dress it up a bit but you're not really fooling anybody

the political scene suddenly being full of centrist ultras fighting over the status quo would be entertaining as hell tho

ok it wasn't between 1995 and 2010 but this is different

luv2radically occupy the blandest space on the political spectrum

seems appropriate that the 'r' in their logo is beige

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tk1dd1D2Kts

before I clicked I thought it was gonna be the election bit from Futurama, so close

Zapp Brannigan OTM: "What makes a man turn neutral? Lust for gold? Power? Or were you just born with a heart full of neutrality?"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JY6RyRkl9uo

radical suk have just retweeted this, fittingly the most equivocal piece of praise imaginable

Bored by the tonnes of scorn poured on @JeremyCliffe and @RadicalsUK. Ofc it's probs doomed to fail, but good on them for having a go anyway

— Raphael Hogarth (@Raphael_Hogarth) October 18, 2017

as they said to the lads at Gallipoli

tell you what, if they get Blair or Clarke on board this could be the steamroller broad front centrist Tory party that fans of lulz like me have been crying out for