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

The court decision is the best news for Johnson. Trying to cancel Brexit via experts is it now?

"the only 24 hour mental health service in manchester, a refuge for you & an alternative to going A&E/calling the samaritans/getting arrested, has been closed.

Really horrible news.

ENEMIES OF THE PEOPLE

xp hadn't noticed that abandoned clause there, o well. suspect most parts of the uk haven't ever had 24 hour mental health facilities, just a small part of how abysmal provision is here

hey non-UK lurker question... so why is Tom Watson there? is he elected by the membership, or the result of some kind of factional truce?

xp

certainly don't have them in Hull, which i realised last year while trying to help somebody who made the mistake of being in crisis after 5pm

Watson was elected by the membership as Deputy Leader so can't be deposed from that position by the Leader aiui - why he was elected amounts to a kind of factional check and balance during Corbyn's leadership election, tho i don't remember if anybody who wasn't a centrist enemy of socialism actually stood as deputy

the five candidates were: Ben Bradshaw, Stella Creasy, Angela Eagle, Caroline Flint, Tom Watson

yeah some bullets were dodged

"One party source was anonymously quoted in the Financial Times as comparing a potential contest between Flint and Watson to the hotly contested 1981 deputy leadership election between Denis Healey and the leftist Tony Benn.[16]"

^^^this brain genious is wasted in anonymity lol

Recall Parliament, jail the PM and the Queen, case closed y'lud.

xp lol which one was Benn?

flint is identified in the previous sentence as a blairite and watson as have "clpse links" with the unions

so i'm not really sure lol, it's too nutty to parse easily

it was a straight up Blairite v Brownite scrap looking back on it, looking at that list any combination of two wd've likely ended up the same way. Watson was to the right of Dennis Healey in 1990 when that still took a lot of work

talking up Flinty vs Watson as a classic labour battle of ideologies is like trying to hype up the mercury prize when the two front runners are Gaz Coombes and Rick Witter

Tom Watson at the time was riding high for challenging the Murdoch press in DCMS committee, which was why Max Mosley gave him sweet Nazi Cash, also for paedo-hunting adventures.

Everyone I know voted for Corbyn/Stella Creasy to gender-balance the ticket even though she put pressure on an Asian candidate to stand aside during nominations. White feminism at its finest, yo.

lol, one day Tom might uncover a real deep establishment conspiracy and no-one will listen to him and even some of his closest friends will tell him to stfu and get back to his nazi funded wanking pit before he embarrasses himself again

ok i think we have a screenplay to write

"The Man Who Knew Too Much (About Weight Loss)"

"The Madcunian Candidate"

"Three Days of the Condor Legion Afficionado"

Has Jolyon un-prorogued Parliament then? What actually happens now?

wait, wait

"The Caramacs View"

lol

i could just go for a Caramac now

NEW: Len McCluskey tells Sky that Boris Johnson to be put under citizens arrest

— Sam Coates Sky (@SamCoatesSky) September 11, 2019

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tricoteuse

lol i just realised knitting is the olden days popcorn.gif

tokyo rosemary to thread

pic.twitter.com/BrIAAIyd8Y

— . (@JckGrg) September 11, 2019

"put yr hands on the car and die!"

Man, I'd forgotten that total classic!

it's become one of the most referenced memes amongst my friendship group, it's so useful

"You said you wanted us dead!"
"I do want you dead."

"Citizen's arrest" always makes me think of The Burbs but this looks like a better reference, I shall update my .xlsx accordingly

I was thinking lately about The Burbs wrt our Brexit era, like, the neighbours are odd and have an Eastern European surname, but nobody has any evidence that anything is happening and it's kind of rude really - maybe they should not have actually turned out to be bad guys in the end, what message does this send to our children

our children who watch a lot of not particularly fondly remembered movies of the 80s-90s interzone

telegraph declaring farage the "british icarus" as today's metaphor for everything

Telegraph finger on the pulse as ever.

tbf getting a classical mythology reference 180° wrong is a modernising repudiation of their former bufton-tufton-style stuffiness

More like dickarus, right?

farage unfazed by melts thus far imo

a+

So Parliament reconvenes, but only the Scottish MPs come back? I mean, it's not what I had written here, but I'm not unhappy.

Ian Blackford is..... The Caretaker

j/k

It seems like a lot depends on Bercow. He could un-suspend Monday's sitting (which wasn't adjourned) and expect them all to troop back. You might expect the government to boycott though — and then we'll have a legitimacy crisis over anything passed.

I suspect the actual answer is they won't do anything until the Supreme Court rules on Tuesday.

can this go to the ECJ for the LOL

does anyone know which are the two momentum candidates for the Conference Arrangements Committee Representative vote? I've left it late and too busy google shit rn!

frank field and mike gapes iirc

seema chandwani and billy hayes

Looks like there are three, but not a member & don’t know how it works

For the first time, Conference will elected a disabled representative to the Conference Arrangements Committee (CAC) this year. Momentum is supporting Wayne Blackburn (Pendle, L1219739), who is also supported by Disability Labour.
Elections for the two members’ representatives on the Conference Arrangements Committee will take place this Summer, via a One Member One Vote ballot of party members. Momentum will once again be supporting Seema Chandwani (Tottenham CLP, L1187007) and Billy Hayes (Mitcham and Morden CLP, A065571) for the CAC. CLPs have until June 28th to make nominations.