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

also the last member of the Lords to be PM apparently

He's in a Monty Python sketch too. Gisela Stuart isn't an MP anymore, she stepped down at the last election, her evil work done.

and he either spelt or pronounced his name funny depending on yr perspective

also he feels like the last leader of the Tories who you could've plausibly described as a grandee before all the arrivistes took over

reposting form the real england thread, where i (correctly but unhelpfully) first parked it:
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2017/jun/12/no-10-refuses-to-confirm-queens-speech-will-go-ahead-next-monday

"Any delay in the Queen’s speech would be difficult to accommodate, given the monarch is scheduled to attend Royal Ascot from next Tuesday until the end of next week."

in fact I gotta say the mummified husk of Alec Douglas-Home wd make an excellent unity candidate for the post-May leadership contest

I remember a Spitting Image puppet of Home in an ex-PMs nursing home sketch.

Or, failing that, Jacob Rees-Mogg. (xp)

I'm thinking of putting money on David Davis to be the next leader of the Conservative, he is kind of their Corbyn, in a lot of ways.

i for one would love a prime minister who still has a nanny xp

Jacob Rees-Mogg, the I Can't Believe It's Not Butter of long-deceased Tory bigwigs

Don't they all blame Davis for persuading May to call the election in the first place?

I CAN'T BELIEVE IT'S NOT BUTLER

jacob rees-mogg, the real-life tommen baratheon

had to google him

I could see DD being next leader. He probably could carry off "strong and stable" as well - as he looks like he might have even committed cold-blooded murder with his own bare hands before.

pop quiz, hotshot: was the below picture taken in the 1930s, 1940s, or 1950s

http://www.chewvalleygazette.co.uk/images/news/2016/jacob-rees-mogg-new-baby.jpg

MP for North East Somerset Jacob Rees Mogg, has announced the birth of his fifth child, Alfred Wulfric Leyson Pius.

Alfred was born on Monday 22nd February, just before 9am.

A brother to Peter, Mary, Thomas and Anselm and a fourth son to Jacob and his wife Helena.

Mr Rees-Mogg’s other children have been equally blessed with meaningful names. Eldest son Thomas is Thomas Wentworth Somerset Dunstan, whilst Peter is Peter Theodore Alphege, and the couple’s youngest son is Anselm Charles Fitzwilliam. Many of the children’s names including baby Alfred’s come from saints.

Thomas’ Dunstan derives from Dunstan, the Abbot of Glastonbury Abbey who became Archibishop of Canterbury and is accredited with restoring monastic life in England in the 10th Century.

Peter’s Alphege is homage to the 10th Century St.Alphege who become the elected abbot of Bath,

Whilst Anselm is Anselm of Bec a Benedictine monk one of the most prominent figures of the monastic era, and a founding father of Scholasticism.

According to Mr Rees Mogg the inspiration of newest addition to the Rees-Mogg dynasty are:

Alfred the Great

Wulfric of Haselbury, a saint.

Leyson, after Louis Leyson Rees Mogg who died at Gallipoli.

Pius, Pope Pius IX.

Even older Tories joke about Mogg being the "minister for the 1800's".

he's looked exactly the same his entire life, so i'm not willing to rule out entirely that he may be immortal and was actually a minister in the 1880s

pop quiz, hotshot: was the below picture taken in the 1930s, 1940s, or 1950s

God, I saw that thing the other day and was honestly baffled at the idea it was an actual recent shot.

have the DUP seen this picture (and that list of names)? more reasons the queen's speech got delayed IMO

Was convinced Wulfric was a girl's name.

Too many left footers in yer party, so there is (xp)

I suppose that retrospective pardon for Rangers FC might be a sticking point too.

amazed it's taken this long for a rangers joke to pop up itt tbh

True, it's such a life or death issue for so many DUP voters.

don't know why they'd get worked up about a club that doesn't exist anymore

I'm hoping someone on the Tory negotiating team lets slip something similar. (xxp) You won't have seen my 'No Pope of Rome' post upthread then?

not sure i understand this lame duck PM business. ducks mostly fly or swim so waddling ability not quite so crucial in their survival; may is more like a boiled coot imo

Zombie duck.

she's plucked turkey imo

quacked actor

10m ago 17:42
Jessica Elgot

The prime minister told MPs “I’ve got us into the mess and I will get us out of it,” according to another MP leaving the committee room. The MP said:

"She was very concerned about people who have lost their seats, the party is going to help them, some of them are in dire financial situations. She did say sorry, several times. She apologised for colleagues losing their seat, for making the call about the early election."

xp lol

and not xp lol

^ i feel fucking livid reading that. the dire financial situations of people formerly on a MPs wage? oh just fuck off xp

Struggling to shake the image of Theresa May in the grip of cocaine psychosis being interviewed by Alan Yentob in the back of a limo traveling through the desert "There’s … there’s a fly, floating around in my milk..."

Remember those awful Corbyn meetings with backbench MPs. Leaks to journos before the end, MPs trying to "break him".

How the wheel turns...no doubt this will be reported more favourably but expecting some good lols in time.

She was very concerned about people who have lost their seats, the party is going to help them, some of them are in dire financial situations.

Maybe Tory HQ can provide the addresses to foodbanks in their area. Come to think of it, I was sure I saw Gavin Barwell sleeping outside King's Cross station today.

ben gummer gofundme

"some of them are in dire financial situations."

I want some photographic evidence of this, so I print my own line of humourous lol-tory-poverty x-mas cards. Every election the bbc runs sympathetic pieces on how hard it is for MP's that get unceremoniously ejected back into Plebsville. http://patriotden.com/fotki/smileys/Fiddle_Player_Smiley_Face.GIF

wait i thought conservatives were fiscally responsible

Saw the PM convoy hustle out of Westminster there so she has survived the 1922

they've fitted her with an explosive collar set to detonate unless she stands down some time in the next 72 hours

I don't much about how these type of 1922 committee struggle sessions are conducted when they are going to dispose of a leader, but I hope there is a suitably menacing Urquhart type executioner chairing the meeting.

This is really hilarious:

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/conservative-social-media-strategy-attack-jeremy-corbyn-labouir-twitter-facebook-video-stormzy-akala-a7784406.html

Sharing between users also meant Momentum only needed to spend £2,000 advertising its content on Facebook.

lol! this is beautiful to hear in comparison with the Tories allegedly spuzzing away £3m of "dark money" from donors on their FB campaign.

Strikes me that the Tory campaign only had a very limited understanding of the sort of content that flies on social media and thought that just outspending the opposition was enough. I'd been talking to a few professional social media types for work in the weeks running up to the election and they were all saying the same thing - that Labour was easily winning the social media election. Having not seen any of the Tory videos, even accidentally, I was pretty surprised to hear the kind of sums they were reportedly spending.

It was exactly that "I've not seen any of these Tory videos" thing that was giving me the fear. I worried that they were being incredibly well targeted to a bubble of old, Northern, nuke-heads so far from my own bubbles that I wouldn't even be aware of the damage they were doing.

Yelland was saying the other day on R4 that the Tory videos were averaging 100000 hits at best and many of the Momentum ones were hitting the millions with ease. I suppose the downside is they might have learned a lesson there and make their arms race spending on social media count for something the next time.