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

It's five months since May threatened the EU that she would make the UK a Singapore style low tax, low regulation haven if she didn't get the Brexit she wanted, but we already are and that's why these people died or have otherwise had their lives destroyed.

& that fool from the women's conservative alliance, or w/e, on QT last night going on about how people in the uk weren't suited to living in hi rises (she even said "they may be okay elsewhere" and looked at Rob Delaney) and no one challenged her at all or said that rich people live in hi rises too, ones that are twice as tall as Grenfell tower perfectly safely and happily.

Or, at least buy them for investment and don't live in them.

My mum in perfectly happy in her 11th floor flat with light and fantastic views.

Add to Scottish Tories and Yorkshire Tories, Union Jack-waving British patriots from the Republic of Ireland.

Those Unionists in NI who are Scots with Stockholm Syndrome when you get right down to it.

wait, are there unionists in the republic?

i mean, i imagine there are, but aren't their numbers p vanishingly tiny?

They wouldn't last long in a place like Tralee.

https://www.lrb.co.uk/v04/n06/tom-paulin/paisleys-progress

^^^this now open to re-read btw: better guide i think to what the DUP actually are/were (= chthonic anti-papist separatists, deep down: british patriots not a very good description)

We have had the occasional infestation of English over the years, everything has some people who will be nostalgic for it.

There are definitely those (though increasingly vanishing) who are massive anglophiles but prefer to stay in Ireland and pine for the better country.

I assume it's a sex thing.

apropos of nothing

https://res.cloudinary.com/dods/image/upload/c_fill,g_center,h_500,w_1120/v1/UK%20public%20affairs/barwell_irfuzz.jpg

gavin barwell looks like karl pilkington fucked a chipmunk

Her thoughts exactly.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/video/2017/jun/16/gavin-barwell-ex-housing-minister-refuses-to-answer-questions-about-grenfell-tower-video

wait, are there unionists in the republic?

No, they're over here, like the Conservative Women, er, woman. Wogan, Lynam, that investigative journalist dick whose name escapes me.

Donal MacIntyre.

*adds a further angry chapter to breakout polemic more like the floral DEBACLE: how terry wogan ruined everything*

the absolute boy heads to glasto

Jeremy Corbyn will appear at this year’s Glastonbury, speaking to crowds from the main Pyramid stage on the Saturday afternoon of the festival.

After being scheduled to appear at last year’s event before cancelling amid the vote for Brexit, the Labour leader is likely to receive a rapturous reception this time, in the wake of a general election campaign in which he energised young voters and defied political pundits to erode the Conservatives’ Commons majority.

He will be led on stage by 81-year-old festival founder Michael Eavis. “We’re Corbyn fans, that’s the thing,” Eavis told the Guardian at the Glastonbury site this week. “He’s got something new and precious, and people are excited about it. He really is the hero of the hour.”

Corbyn will introduce US rap duo Run the Jewels, known for their evangelistic leftwing politics and lyrics that touch on social issues. The group’s MC Killer Mike is a friend and supporter of Bernie Sanders, and campaigned for him throughout his Democratic leadership campaign. At a recent concert at London’s Field Day festival, the MC threw his support behind Corbyn and encouraged the crowd to vote Labour.

i've momentarily drifted into an alternate universe where theresa may is onstage at glasto getting pelted with mud, bottles of piss, and assorted inflatable

lol! shades of Meatloaf at Reading '89.

He shouted "do you want to rock or throw bottles of piss" and the crowd decided the latter option was more fun.

crowd otm

DAPHNE & CELESTE! NEVER FORGET! EXCEPT WHAT HAPPENED TO THEM WAS BAD! THIS DIALECTICS THING IS HARD! STICK YOU!

we regret to inform you that piss-bottle ethics is situational

the daphne and celeste debacle remains our nation's greatest shame

it was the terry wogan of collective action

poptimism's 9/11

the fact that I had to google it is making me feel a bit Woganesque!

don't feel bad - those in the highest echelons of power have spent a lot of time, effort and money to airbrush the details from history

if you gaze long into a bottle of piss, the piss also gazes into you

new board description

I was at the Leeds festival that year (where they didn't get bottled despite the crowd being arguably worse), and they were sandwiched between A and Blink 182 and before Slipknot and RATM. It's fair to say that whoever booked them was expecting that exact eventuality.

daphne and celeste was an inside job

I just looked at who was in the pissbottle club and I'd assumed it would be 99% women and black people + Meat Loaf but it's happened to some really weird bands (My Chemical Romance/Panic At The Disco/Good Charlotte). Is there a particularly rabid anti-emo mob there or something?

there was back then of course!

emo is gaaaay

etc

Have witnessed Beck bottled at a festival before around 20 years ago - not that many but enough for him to complain about it.

he's a bit of a freak let's be honest

let's face it - bottlers, piss or otherwise, are simply cultural conservative activists

Was that Glastonbury 97? I believe he was being pelted with mud rather than bottles (as most people were that year).

This was V97 in Chelmsford. Maybe it was exuberant young Blairites grappling with the k-hole.

weren't we all

now wishing i'd gone with ethical pissbottle conspiracy instead of garbage fire

I'm sure the mods would happily change the thread title if asked.

this version doesn't really make sense but the words are better

(literally my motto as a writer)

It's my CLP's AGM tomorrow, as I found out from our GE candidate when buying a paper. So that might be fun, given that most of them seem to be to the right (we voted to support smith). It will probably be horribly boring and I'll wish I had a drink. Hip flask, maybe...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_hnxies4Wtk

"It was good, I had a smile on my face the whole time"

i wasn't anticipating this thread's latest turn but i'm into it tbh

EU and I alone

Theresa May is increasingly coming to resemble D&C, with the bottles of piss raining down while she tries to put a brave face on things

apologies to Daphne & Celeste for cruelly traducing their reputation

was gonna say, they are moral giants compared to the piss-throwers, never mind TMay