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

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.

looking forward to their answer to #grime4corbyn!

making shareable videos is hard, unless you're doing i dunno recipes or fights or boobs

More election analysis, on Kensington: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/jun/12/labour-kensington-general-election-london#

And um, its been a long time since I read Gransci, time to dust it off to see if this is any good: https://www.theguardian.com/politics/commentisfree/2017/jun/12/paul-mason-jeremy-corbyn-defeat-ruling-elite-antonio-gramsci

tory slime videos
tory kinder unboxings
tory paint mixing videos
tory minecraft videos

The Rees-Mogg family doing accapella folk songs

looking forward to their answer to #grime4corbyn!

They're hard at work right now, just start at 1:30 in this clip.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2NEZRPzNF2Q

shame they blew all that cheddar just to be stuck with a party that's completely crackers

Statement on behalf of @Portadownlol1 pic.twitter.com/JFCkWZhxkt

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

That young ones video is blocked for UK people because it's owned by BBC worldwide... (The irony)

And I doubt the DUP will settle for concession on orange marches.

http://www.newstatesman.com/politics/staggers/2017/06/theres-something-everyone-has-missed-about-dup-and-fixed-term-parliaments

tory kinder unboxings

:(

i'm always going gunz on Frankie Boyle for his shitty disablism, but his election show was actually very good and funny as fuck.

yes, it was.

the closing monologue was rub, but hey

Tory MP says May reassured 1922 that DUP "views on LGB...what's the rest of it?" would not affect Govt policy.

"the closing monologue was rub, but hey"

yeah, the way too long Nuttall monologue was totally dogshit.

Apparently austerity is over everyone, time to pack it in, Tories have now heard us.

https://capx.co/all-that-matters-now-is-stopping-corbyn/

Someone linked me this and I thought it was satire, turns out its from a Centre for Policy Studies offshoot.

Lilico and Kamm have been the best of this 'lets get a fucking coup if necessary'. Really wish I could listen in to some old colonels around the table.

so many gems in that

At that stuff about the IRA, Hezbollah, the Falklands, nuclear weapons, a maximum wage, mass nationalisation, appointing Communists, abolishing the monarchy and empowering the unions was all true and ought to have made him utterly inconceivable as a prime minister, but it didn’t. Young voters didn’t care, or didn’t believe it, or actively wanted it.

Abi Wilkinson was on Newsnight discussing Corbyn and mentioned the 'absolute boy' thing. The person (and people that I follow around on my Twitter TL) who came up with it has absolutely slated her/Owen Jones and Mae O'Hagan, most of it with good reason although some of it is just an inevitable letting rip on so much frustration with the media coverage.

"Apparently austerity is over everyone, time to pack it in, Tories have now heard us."

Cool, I'll just inform the missus with MS that the pip appeal is cancelled and DLA restored - Go benevolent Tories!

No no Austerity hitting Tory targets has been postponed. Hitting Labour voting demographics is still tickity boo

"Austerity is over"

laying in the submissive position, letting a gang of trolls piss all over me and saying "Im getting too old for this shit" like a bad ass

— wint (@dril) June 12, 2017

timing is...uncanny.

some amount of energy, humour and (understandable) b*ttern*ss from the twitter left outrider crew
xps

v understandable - he set out his reasons eloquently enough (and I won't say more because its on twitter and he has locked his account for now), its just weird seeing these things crop up from twitter to TV/Newsnight.

Astonished that young voters don't care about Corbyn's attitude to the Falkland's War, it was only 35 years ago after all.

The Times:

"An additional delay may be caused by the fact that the Queen’s Speech is written on goatskin parchment paper, which requires several days for the ink to dry."

We literally have to wait for ink to dry. In the 21st century.

Random Goat 4 PM

@dustshoveller
I was Director of the @UKParlArchives for 6 years and I can tell you that the Queen's Speech is not made of parchment, goat or otherwise.

Make Speeches Goat Again

disappointing lack of tories-tearing-themselves-apart tbh

it's probable that their shookness over the possibility of fighting another election right now is keeping them in order, plus the lack of any credible challenger. give them time to start unravelling in parliament, it's very hard to believe she'll see out 5 years.

i seem to recall a certain "short-lived cleggeron era"

The tabs seem worried by the fact that all SF's MPs are flying to London today. No suggestion that it isn't just for administration business atm but there is a press conference later, I think.

Cleggeron didn't have to deal with Brexit. The Tories are keeping May in place so she can cop the blame for that impending disaster as well as the election. Then they can get a new broom in.

What's the average by-election rate, 2 or 3 a year? That's yr majority right there.

anyone who thinks they came up with "the absolute boy" doesn't understand culture or politics tbh

is yvette cooper a big beast

all the big beasts are gone, we're on our own now

Haha he has disowned whatever five min joke that was.

He understands politics far more than Owen Jones (this might not be hard)

Haha he has disowned whatever five min joke that was

^^^he doesn't understand politics or culture, making his account private is sensible

For now its usually an open account (you have rt-ed this person btw)