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

The LOLs have arrived

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

LOL.
like I thought that was going to mean it was the Northern irish Daily Mash or something.

The Sun cover today read "she's had her chips" with that picture of her eating some chips with a face like a bulldog licking piss off a nettle.

Seemed like they'd turned on her already

Richard Burgon has said that Labour gained 150000 new members in the last 3 days taking membership up to 800000.

I was thinking when membership goes beyond a million, maybe cries of "entryism" must surely become redundant. Well apart from withing the lunatic centrist fringe of the party :p

the thing about these young people is that there old age is not set to resemble that of our current set of old people

^ ^ ^

I remember when McDonnell promised a million members last year I flatly did not believe it. When was the last time it passed a million? Must be the 50s. Blair peaked at 400k, I think.

Ruth Davidson, the Scottish Tory leader, expressed concern at the weekend over the impact of a DUP deal on gay rights and other issues.

But one DUP source said: “Someone is stirring the pot with Ruth, who we regard as a hero of the union.”

*boak*

The Conservatives' habit of blowing things up and then insisting that only they can restore stability is starting to grate slightly

— John Gapper (@johngapper) June 9, 2017

xxp 52 according to wikipedia, if 800k is right then already the largest since 64. Legit teared up this morning thinking about the real possibility of a labour majority.

Westminster voting intention:

LAB: 45% (+5)
CON: 39% (-3)
LDEM: 7% (-)
UKIP: 3% (+1)

(via @Survation / 10 Jun)
Chgs. w/ GE2017

— Britain Elects (@britainelects) June 10, 2017

Here's a first, linking to the Express
http://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/815141/Election-2017-DUP-Theresa-May-Arlene-Foster-Brexit-coalition

The LOLs have arrived

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― stet, Saturday, 10 June 2017 22:52 (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

LOL.
like I thought that was going to mean it was the Northern irish Daily Mash or something.
― Stevolende, Saturday, 10 June 2017 23:03 (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I too was expecting a cheap unfunny ripoff of Portadown News (RIP) but I guess life itself is a cheap unfunny ripoff of satire now (and maybe always)

John Gapper otm

Turns out the answer ton the wave of right wing populism was just to wait for them to fuck it up themselves through eye-popping stupidity and arrogance

LOL @ the DUP being the moderating influence on May's goverment (xxxp)

BREAK: DUP has NOT yet reached any agreement with the Tories. Sky sources: Downing Street issued the wrong statement in error.

— David Blevins (@skydavidblevins) June 10, 2017

This grinning must stop

This sniggering is in no way constructive

This is reminding me of when Rangers were going through their administration troubles (appropriately enough given the involvement of the DUP) when every single news story was like a little ray of sunshine in your life.

North is very interesting ATM

Paisley and McGuinness dead. No working relationship between their replacements, and everything soured quite badly on foot of a bitter recent election that leaves things very close to split right down the middle, a situation that Unionists will be very uncomfortable with across the full range of that sect, from minister to orangeman to demobbed uvf to PSNI rank and file (assuming of course that you aren't all four of the above)

Brexit held -in buzz terms at least- the prospect of a closer all-ireland relationship as all sides wish to avoid full border, tensions surrounding this as SF and no few wags on our side of things obviously treat it as bringing a 32 county nation inevitably closer. Complex.

We frankly coulda done without Foster getting a blank check, as the balance was already quite fraught and not many who've observed her performance so far would trust her not to injudiciously apply any extra powers she might wring from this.

I can't believe the Shinners are still persisting with that abstentionism garbage in the year 2017 tbh.

What is this, 1972?

For a gang a fellas that torture and execute widows with ten kids they sure are very fucking proud of their oaths tho but

You get banned from boards.ie for saying shit like that fyi

Harshes ppls mellow tbf

Downing Street issued the wrong statement in error

ok I take back the unfunny part, this week has been fucking hilarious tbf

Ha, they don't have a single MP with a positive score:

Some polling from @YouGov pic.twitter.com/C3COUbFVy1

— TSE (@TSEofPB) June 11, 2017

Mail on Sunday tripe - I am backing Theresa may. Let's get on with the job

— Boris Johnson (@BorisJohnson) June 10, 2017

May in the tweets, leaked SMS messages in the broadsheets

— Shafik Mandhai (@ShafikFM) June 11, 2017

lol Gove's figures

Should've included may out of respect

car crash fallon on marr. "with our friends in the DUP..."

earlier on Toby Young got schooled on the impossibility of a hard Brexit now by Gideon. TY is such a loathsome little shit he even makes Gideon seem like a human being.

i was slightly concerned for myself by enjoying GO's commentary on election night :/

A real 'kicker conspiracy' night for Osborne.

Peter Hyman (you'd be forgiven for thinking 'who?')

“If you think the Tory majority was only small and May fought a terrible campaign, this should have been an election that Labour won. It is like a football match where you are 5-0 down, you claw it back to 5-4 and claim you won the cup. Well we haven’t won the cup. We have done better than expected, but we are not in power. None of the policies that people want from that manifesto are going to be implemented.”

corbyn amazing on marr (mostly because not being asked stupid questions about nuclear immolation)

http://mailchi.mp/survation/post-election-poll-for-the-mail-on-sunday-1118541

One week is a long time:

65% of all EU Referendum voters stating a view believe Theresa May not be PM when EU negotiations are complete - 45% of Leave voters and 67% of remain voters.
Boris Johnson most popular choice for next leader of Conservative party
Public opinion little changed on EU Referendum voting intention
Public believe Brexit negotiations should not be delayed by 65% to 25%
Only 36% of public agree PM is “strong and stable leader”
Only 33% of public approve of Theresa May’s DUP deal

Please can we have Boris Johnson as leader of the Conservative Party.

"I've got youth on my side!"

OMFG XD XD XD

LOL:

Paul Mason‏Verified account @paulmasonnews 36m36 minutes ago

Lord Heseltine - ditch Brexit or Corbyn becomes PM.

Never Forget Gideon's hateful propaganda about benefits scroungers while dressed in a high viz and all the other crimes. But it is hard not to feel his gleeful enthusiasm for May's painful death.

The thing about young people is they become old people.

That doesn't seem to be bearing out though - a lot of the voters in or approaching middle age appear to still be stubbornly voting Labour. Their biggest share of the vote came from people aged 35-45 which is the time where all received wisdom would be expecting Toryism to be kicking in. Obviously a lot of those people came of age during the New Labour era but they haven't switched to the Tories even now - although it's worth remembering how politically and socially toxic the idea of voting Tory was back then.

More to the point the Baby Boomers are a unique generation with unique advantages that subsequent generations haven't experienced. It makes a big difference.

I didn't see huge improvements in Corbyn's performance - I think the extra polish just came with time in the job. Then again he has never quite been in those General election settings before so not sure there are points of comparison.

Maybe, although Corbyn was really quite bad on TV in the early days of his leadership - the energy didn't really come through, he'd get visibly tetchy with interviewers etc. This time round he was able to laugh those dumb questions off, bat others away, answer comprehensively and generally come across as a human being. That sort of stuff comes with proper preparation and training, with the exception of the human being bit which you can't fake, but you maybe need to work to bring out in a hostile interview situation. Then again I didn't anticipate quite how uniquely dreadful May would turn out to be on TV, and even at her most media trained she was worse than Corbyn ever was.

None of the policies that people want from that manifesto are going to be implemented.

still incandescent when i see these lying bastards write shit like this, NONE OF THOSE POLICIES WOULD HAVE BEEN ON THE MANIFESTO IF YOU HAD YOUR WAY DIE DIE DIE

^^^p much jonathan pie's shtick ;)

i mean it :/

I love that Corbyn has a "made" aura about him now and is talking about how only Labour can offer the stability the country needs.

JC back to being favourite to be next PM at 10/3 as well!

https://www.oddschecker.com/politics/british-politics

Lol remember tho leftards that labour actually lost and u shd all be sad

As well as boosting the Labour vote, the manifesto prevented the expected collapse in their vote in core constituencies. We don't really know what would have happened under another leader but they would be more likely to have taken a Tim Farron-esque approach to Brexit, or at least a Milibandish one which would have played right into May's hands.

The Corbyn approach to Brexit was still a bit of a fudge but the genius of the campaign was about making the election about everything *except* Brexit, neutralising May's biggest electoral advantage.

though it seems to be missing Boris Johnson altogether from that, despite having him being fav to be next Tory leader, bah

wow, no, this is william hill today!

11/10 Jeremy Corbyn
5/2 Boris Johnson
9/2 David Davis
10/1 Amber Rudd
10/1 Phillip Hammond
10/1 Yvette Cooper