PMs change and lol we're all gonna die (but brexit will never end)

yes he has a chest-mounted camera pointed at his face, it's like lenin in the sealed train

did mason ever get to fuck stoya or

settled for fucking his rep instead

shame on remainers for cancelling harry's wank https://t.co/jaNXta8qsS

— eustachy r daewo (@uncoolfellazone) August 31, 2019

harold coleold is only like 20 years old. conservatism kills/ages

That’s not the first wank Harry’s had cancelled because of something the PM did...

Jeremy Corbyn in Glasgow doing an impression of Boris Johnson pic.twitter.com/S3sglQa0So

— Conor Riordan (@conorrPA) August 31, 2019

boris absolutely destroyed

*** Breaking News*** Labour drawing up plans to offer all pensioners state-funded care in their homes - If this is to be a policy announcement, it will be very popular. This will be a vote winner for sure.https://t.co/r2rrtRxiEn

— Labours Black PLP (@LaboursBlackPLP) August 31, 2019

this sounds promising and will be popular, especially when ppl start noticing when boris has run out of one-off election bribe money, the long term project is likely much harder austerity.

the FT are running a series on Corbynomics. The first piece is pretty even handed, does contain some cracking quotes tho:

“I would be worried about Jeremy Corbyn, John McDonnell and Seumas Milne, they don’t give a fuck about the City of London,” says one senior Labour figure. “I think a lot of money would be shifted out on day one. There are a lot of people who are worried about the future financial security of the City.”

:’(

gosh i hope they'll be okay

oh noes, will no-one think of the people who destroyed the economy in 2008 without any direct legal repercussions

re: the centrist brainworms upthread. lately that with the "they're all the same, politicians" clichés having become unsustainable and the collapse of TINA discourses, its weirdly even more depressing to think of the hordes of people actively choosing against rescuing the NHS, providing proper social welfare etc. One thing that 'centrism' did was to mask the viciousness of people everywhere by allowing the most craven motives to be repackaged by used care salesmen into balanced and realistic compromises. Now that you can make a clearcut choice between the "kill everyone now" and "let's work together" parties its really disturbing to see how many people can unashamedly get behind the former. Its the only thing that sortof makes me nostalgic for the old days and it makes me understand why its a warm blanket to so many, especially those who have many other means of cosseting themselves from the world.

one senior Labour figure

what "senior" labour figure do we think this is

Omg that Boris impression owns

In her book on GDP, Diane Coyle has a fascinating section on the impact of potentially overestimating the contribution of financial services to the economy. If you get the chance it’s worth reading the chapter “Value Added, Value Subtracted” in its entirety:

The FISIM statistical mirage affects all countries’ GDP. One study of the United States concludes: “Making conservative assumptions, we show that the current official method overestimates the service output of the commercial banking industry by at least 21% (amounting to $ 116.8 billion in 2007: Q4 for example) and GDP by 0.3% ($ 52.9 billion in 2007: Q4 for example) between 1997 and 2007.” For the Eurozone, adjusting for banks’ risk-taking would reduce the measured output of the financial sector by 25–40 percent. If the same factor were applied in the United Kingdom, the measured contribution of the financial sector would have been 6–7.5 percent of GDP in 2008, rather than 9 percent. These figures are staggering: the size of the financial sector in recent years has been overstated by at least one-fifth, maybe even by as much as one-half. Why does it matter that the contribution of the financial services industry to GDP is overstated? The answer is that political leaders shape economic policy around key sectors. During the financial crisis, the industry’s lobbying has had a substantial impact on political decisions about regulatory reform, not just because investment banks make donations to political parties, but also because politicians genuinely believe the industry to be fundamentally important to jobs and economic growth. “Our economy needs the industry,” wrote Alastair Darling, the U.K. chancellor of the exchequer, in his memoir of the crisis, despite having experienced the height of the crisis when the industry had, on the contrary, nearly torpedoed the economy.

There is a genuine problem of methodology here, rather than the finance sector being a complete leach - how do you relate the process of generating additional money by the management of risk to productivity, and what *is* productivity anyway - but it won’t surprise anyone that methodologies heavily favour the financial sector.

there is a question of incentives here as well - that relation of risk to value, which is foundational to finance and which is baked into GDP figures, means their is an incentive to loosen the regulation surrounding risk management in order to generate “value”.

oh noes, will no-one think of the people who destroyed the economy in 2008 without any direct legal repercussions

oh that last para is also from the book - didn’t mean to paste.

think of all the "talent" the UK will lose to capital flight during a Corbyn/McD government though. When it happened in the 70's we all died.

https://twitter.com/uncoolfellazone/status/1168065127288995840/photo/3

ugh and now i can't find the original, it was very funny though (in a ffs kind of a way)

instead of going to the protests @joswinson was at a retreat for "new age corporate strategy" pic.twitter.com/0dZukvvfrX

— eustachy r daewo (@uncoolfellazone) September 1, 2019

this?

Swinson is priceless... well not to big fracking of course. She'll be gone by xmas.

Lol that’s the Peter Walker hoaxer, looks like he used a fake byline this time

Now that you can make a clearcut choice between the "kill everyone now" and "let's work together" parties its really disturbing to see how many people can unashamedly get behind the former.p

I don't think they see it through that lens. The partner of Cristian Eriksen lookalike said about Bernie/Healthcare "Yes thats all well and good but he voted for himself!!! how can I support someone like that?"

I don't think they are getting behind "kill everyone now", I think its more about character, someone that they could have round for dinner. Which then comes round to branding and packaging, maybe they are sort of reachable

yes that (tho not via him, i think the tweeter i got it from deleted)

anyway "soul rowing" is a terrific find, fictional or otherwise

xxp

all the hoax news stories on pols are the only ones that are true!

think of all the "talent" the UK will lose to capital flight during a Corbyn/McD government though. When it happened in the 70's we all died.

I have a suspicion that a lot of people younger and cleverer than me are leaving because of Brexit but of course nobody cares when it's a Tory policy that does it

(this is purely based on anecdotal evidence, I have no idea whether there is actually a national trend)

he should have used walker's byline again for maximum hilarity

Number of British people living in European cities has skyrocketed but there are so many other factors like remote working that its not straightforward to say how much is due to Brexit

albeit belvin gonn-dolier is peak

These are all real Telegraph columnists pic.twitter.com/Re4eyvsIdl

— Mr Richard Miller (@MrRichardMiller) March 29, 2019

lol @ "chef anthony worral thompson"

jesus i had to check i couldn't believe they were real

sophia money-coutts far too on the nose

apparently people on Twitter were mean about her name

🎮 Switch on PS4
↳💿 Load Game
↳📀 Being A UK Political Party
↳🕹 Select Mode
↳✅ Conservative (Easy)
↳🛑 Labour (Difficult) https://t.co/Vy8K4EcMZe

— Matt Zarb-Cousin (@mattzarb) September 1, 2019

Remainer/moaner MPs would get a lot more interest from the peasantry were they to make snarky comments about new public enemy #1 Meghan M, just saying.

JC should do that Johnson impression at PMQs, should Parliament ever sit again

He’s done that impression a few times; it’s pretty funny.

I don't think they see it through that lens. The partner of Cristian Eriksen lookalike said about Bernie/Healthcare "Yes thats all well and good but he voted for himself!!! how can I support someone like that?"

What does "he voted for himself" mean?

Oh here we go

https://www.gov.uk/get-ready-brexit-check

If they build it, it will happen

What does "he voted for himself" mean?

?? Maybe something like, 'No true gentleman would be so crass as to vote for himself, so he's a bounder' ??

Old and busted: Bogdanor
Old and beatdown: http://ohrh.law.ox.ac.uk/prorogation-constitutional-principle-and-law-fact-and-causation/

I would like to buy a pint for the guy on Twitter who just dubbed Dominic Cummings: QUENTIN TARANCHEMO.

to clarify, how would international law affect beheading the queen? I haven't gone full FBPE red pill but surely the ECJ would intervene (If we weren't leaving). Basically what are the legislative routes to 1649 redux? Out of interest.

also:

for every head chopped off, the Hydra would regrow two heads.[5]

xp lol @ this question, just asked so casually.

Killing the many heads of the hydra, liquidating the rentiers - you love to dream about it!

Confirmed: No10 has decided Philip Hammond, David Gauke, Dominic Grieve and co will have the Conservative whip withdrawn if they do not vote with the government on Tuesday https://t.co/oDlRoBfG0m

— Alex Wickham (@alexwickham) September 1, 2019

And me too I hope

— Rory Stewart (@RoryStewartUK) September 1, 2019

Oh *lengthy list of names* do go

well this seems bad!

https://news.sky.com/story/brexit-crisis-govt-analysis-suggests-chaos-at-dover-in-event-of-no-deal-departure-11800263