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

xp

would Leadsome have surrounded herself with the couple from Sightseers tho?

Ya I think Leadsom would have had a kind of dotty gin-soaked auntie vibe going on, which while obviously clueless and gaffe-prone, would have come over as less toxic to many than May's... well, whatever the fuck her vibe is.

Siri, create the most Brexit tableau imaginable pic.twitter.com/wBIQuQ253s

— Dawn Foster (@DawnHFoster) June 26, 2017

when people say "a £1 billion deal with the DUP" what does that mean? (srsly) not quite understanding this

Just that they are getting an extra Billion in funding innit? it was initially reported they were after 2 bn, but because of Barnett they will have to leave suitcases of money on benches or maybe launder it through a sandwich shop or something.

NI gets an extra billion pounds from the actual money tree. Maybe time to send Arlene to Brussels in place of Davis.

Say what you like about the DUP I'm pretty sure they know their way around a negotiating table, probably better than anyone in the Tory cabinet.

Rang rings round them I'm betting.

How long before someone suggests Arlene Foster as the next leader of the Conservative Party?

increased NI's budget by 10%, secured extension of the armed forces covenant to NI, and saved the pension triple lock & non-means tested winter fuel allowance. not bad, arlene

Yeah but when you are dealing with grasping desperadoes who are pleading for a coalition on their knees it isn't the toughest negotiating table you will ever see.

Devolving corporation tax and expanding enterprise zones as well.

It's already fairly attractive. The company i work for just put 300 jobs in Belfast and, aiui, the government is picking up half of the cost.

good to hear things are booming in Northern Ireland

lol

Prince William to be officially named King Billy V on accession to the throne.

Actual lol

you gotta think they could've bought every single Lib Dem MP for less than a billion in total

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

(not on the bad cartoon thread bcz, despite the near-demented level of his bigotries, mac's skills as an artist able to make the point he intends to make are hard to argue with)

not sure he has much of a grasp of the make-up of the DUP, however

none whatever

Like 99% of England. That cartoon could have come from any year out of the last 80.

"The Belfast Arms"

"The Rev Taffy Davies - Cartoonist" 9 July 1980
Reporter: Paul Heiney. The Rev Taffy Davies is a curate from Southsea. Since the day he picked up a pen and drew a less-than-flattering caricature of the Archbishop of Canterbury, it has been his ambition to be a Fleet Street cartoonist. He achieves that ambition on the Daily Mail. He meets Sir Osbert Lancaster, Bill Tidy, MAC and many other famous cartoonists, who give Taffy advice on how to get to the top in what he calls his personal 'land of milk and honey' - Fleet Street.

I remember watching this episode of The Big Time (the show that 'made' Sheena Easton) and being v impressed w/ Mac's great skill at applying tint overlays to his drawings, and also by the speed at which he worked to a daily deadline.

But he really is an unforgivable racist.

That cartoon could have come from any year out of the last 80

It's always jarring when a Mac cartoon contains a reference to something vaguely contemporary, e.g.

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2016/10/04/01/39125CBB00000578-0-image-a-31_1475539280488.jpg

stepping back a bit -- and noting that this cartoon accompanies a near-unanimous response to what the times calls "the bung" -- i'm suddenly reminded of that moment in adam curtis's "the attic" (part 3 of the living dead, still my favourite curtis series) , when deborah kerr in the innocents, as a figure for thatch, looks at a locket featuring churchill's face, and unleashes hell across her vision of the polity (a vast unforetold storm wrecking southern england, followed by the market's collapsing)

except may for kerr and thatch for churchill, of course: the strength of the unbiddable bad magic TM is currently calling up just endlessly startles me -- we are way out beyond "oh she's not a very good politican and has little feel for people" here

lol, and NOTE THE FLEX ON THE PHONE as mac draws it!!

this is what my mum always said was his true untold talent, glad to see he has not let the total vanishment of the landline stand in his way

:)

additional weird element: the shapely butt of the jewel thief facing away from us

I actually figured that was a reference to KK

I noticed that! a weird echo of the falsies

Maybe he's wearing some of the stolen goods

(xp) new dn :)

you can tell they're French because berets and stripy jumpers

and red wine ooh la la

beercan on the floor - tres francais

fucking useless

Screeching U-turn as No10 insists public sector pay now not under review. "Our policy has not changed." Sounds like Treasury's gone bananas

— Jack Blanchard (@Jack_Blanchard_) June 28, 2017

Would the ministers calling for a cap-lift be May's internal enemies?

PM announced it "may be reviewed" literally 2 minutes ago

Hokey Cokey Coalition of Chaos amirite?

apparently they have lost the argument for austerity and some (including May) have said it is over. So people currently being fucked over by Universal Credit/PIP/ATOS etc must be feeling Austerity's death announcement is a teeny bit premature.

i love the "public are weary of austerity" bollocks that some Tory dick is trying to spin, it's a sweet variation on the old classic "the public doesn't understand our message"

"we know you're all weary, get your breath back for 5 minutes cos we've got another 10 miles uphill coming"

"public are weary of austerity" = shitting myself I'm going to lose my seat next election

had enough of their expert tease

Letwin actually has a pretty healthy majority these days but he's obviously scarred by having the Lib Dems breathing down his neck for most of his parliamentary career.

Posting this more for the eye-opening campaign manager salary here.

Brace yourselves, another election is coming. pic.twitter.com/2LQFL7cxJv

— Kerri (@_kerriprince) June 28, 2017

that's not bad for 2 months work

They're picking out positions for the inevitable leadership contest, during which virtually anyone could stand and find themselves in with a chance.

Well played:

This moment was just too beautiful for words, @susannareid100... 😂😂😂@piersmorgan @CharlotteHawkns pic.twitter.com/hK2n88nBS4

— Good Morning Britain (@GMB) June 28, 2017

That is basically GMB in a nutshell.