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

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

Is the occasional reference to 'the absolute boy' in proximity to JC one of my rare, probably inadvertent, ILX achievements?

(I first heard it re: Clive Lewis but it seems to have solidly migrated towards JC.)

But the Express readership is still 10 pensioners in Kent, right?

The entirety of Teignmouth whenever I've visited.

that explains Muse

The Express is sticking it to Nick Paget Brown atm for suggesting that residents didn't want sprinklers. EU hobby horse aside, it doesn't sound like anyone is particularly keen on running interference for the Tories.

express and mail both extremely well attuned to the "politics of bins collections" dimension of their readership's worldview, which definitely covers a lot of the delinquency under discussion -- austerity was the rhetorical linchpin that allowed them to blame such things on migrants, the unemployed and EU… if it's lost its power as a spell then the ragescope swings back to may-cameron-osborne (with brown-blair in the middle distance)

good piece by matthew parris on mummy
https://pastebin.com/jktV2R1U

Sun tomorrow going with "It Was Murder". Was half-expecting them to round on the protestors.

the sun... otm?

that felt weird to type

Don't worry Telegraph is picking up the torch

Saturday's Daily TELEGRAPH: "Militants hijack inferno protest" #bbcpapers #tomorrowspaperstoday pic.twitter.com/FVDa8Dpj2X

— Allie Hodgkins-Brown (@AllieHBNews) June 16, 2017

A lot of Sun readers live in tower blocks, they can't afford to fuck the tone of this up.

Meanwhile it's becoming very apparent that the authority of the PM and several of her ministers has completely collapsed, before she has even had the opportunity to form a government. This feels completely unprecedented. Difficult to see how she gets through the weekend without a couple of senior Tories taking her into a room and suggesting she jumps before they push her.

i posted the OJ/shipman exchange on the baldrick thread earlier: the gist of it was that in tim shipman's judgment (based on talking to 35 MPs on the phone iirc), it's not her clinging onto power so much as the grey suits clinging to her, for the time being

of course that was yesterday, a tweet is a long time in government

meanwhile murdoch has i think decided that he'd prefer shortly to be on the attack against a corbyn govt than prop up may or her successors

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DChQbqJXYAATR7h.jpg:large

(tim shipman's argument is that the tories are now so frightened by the prospect of the damage they believe corbyn will inflict that they're doing god's work staying on: murdoch of course cares only about his own power, but if he firms that up via a badly damaged britain, this is if anything a bonus) (i think he's actively hated this country for years, and is happy to see it come to harm)

The damage Corbyn will inflict on the country or on them? Don't answer

their terror of Corbyn is yet another testament to the fundamental uselessness of the party before his leadership

Time to dust off those Wilson-era plans for a military coup, not sure Prince Philip is up to the task of taking over now though.

their terror of Corbyn is yet another testament to the fundamental uselessness of the party before his leadership

truthbomb

Worth pointing out here that the Times supported Remain against Murdoch's wishes and gets to pursue its own editorial line. I'm guessing the editorship knows that the version of Brexit currently being pursued would be a disaster for business and for the economically liberal right. It wants to take May down to install a different type of Tory government before it's too late.

the absolute boy with the absolute burn on marr when asked whether yvette cooper should have been brought into cabinet: "some of the junior ministerial posts are still vacant"

Corbz walking on water atm.