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

electorate negging when yr manifesto is trashed

electorate negging when yr manifesto is trashed

Great new Fall single iirc

Can someone finally tell me why it's "is is trashed" ?

ed

Theresa's mandate was trashed when she pissed away her parliamentary majority through hubris + complacency? Sorry if I'm misunderstanding your question jed, cos I'm quite wined up.

that's cool, Cal! I just want to know why it's "is is trashed" two "is"s

ah! I took that as an artistic-license type stutter to empathise Trash, rather than a typo! It's hard out here in ILX-land when your GCSE in metalwork is is Trash!

no dis meant towards Mark or Jed here. probably best going to bed at this point.

isis trash

theresa may aka eye am trash

Okey cokey pig in a pokey

I've been reading that thread title for months and I only noticed the second Is when Jed pointed it out.

*wriggles fingers in mysterious fashion*

Britain's negotiators seem so unprepared "some EU countries think it must be a trap", says @POLITICOEurope https://t.co/ERWxUmhUww pic.twitter.com/On6uk58ARq

— Alex Spence (@alexGspence) August 3, 2017

another stonker from aditya chakrabortty

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/aug/03/britain-world-beater-ripping-off-citizens-rail-fares-water-energy-bills

you couldn't make it up

*Endless screaming* pic.twitter.com/ZMMQuDTQoW

— Dawn Foster (@DawnHFoster) August 4, 2017

hnnnnnngggggggg

^ What bg groaned

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2008/12/23/article-1099639-02E0BD0B000005DC-827_224x460.jpg

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1099639/Michael-Winner-embarks-T-shirt-battle-Sir-Philip-Green-recession-busting-holiday-Barbados.html

^ that's from 2008, so before Cam did his calm-down-dear bit to Angela Eagle in the commons

Re the Cams, fuck those fucking fuckers.

Good piece abt rip-off Britain.

(grumbling about some rip-off circumstances of my own redacted, but fuck those fucking fuckers too, right.)

Kate Andrews on AQ tonight making me think it isn't just ILX where people should spare the world of their pitiful fucking opinions on other countries domestic politics.

I don't like her or her opinions one bit but she has every right to appear on panels like AQ. She has lived in London for some time.

Sorry Suzy, I didn't mean any offence to you or any other UK based Americans. I was a bit pissed last night, and should have stayed away from the keyboard. But she was doing that thing that really annoys me r/n, as in people who are slightly more right wing than your average moderate Tory, hypocritically milking cheap applause by "taking down" Trump. Even though their own politics suck absolute shit.

shocking revelations from the Beeb this morning that there are sad bastards out there who spend their spare time hunting for paedos on Youtube

That Cockney bouncer looking paedo-hunter turned up at a local boozer earlier this year. There was a gruelling 4 way altercation that I don't ever want to see again.

These paedo-hunters sort of seem like the next phase for Fathers for Justice types, whose own kids have grown up now and don't have anything to do with them anymore.

It's a man's life in the paedo patrol

Timothy did not explicitly blame anyone else for the presentation of May at the front and centre of the campaign but hinted this was the influence of outside adviser Sir Lynton Crosby, rather than the internal Downing Street team.

“Our early instinct when we were thinking about the election was to have a more traditional campaign: daily press conferences, more policy content – certainly not make it a semi-presidential campaign,” he said.

N Timothy thinking if he uses a cunning no-beard disguise and blames everything on L Crosby, people might forget he was almost wholly responsible for that hilarious shitshow.

She's off on another walk. Last time she did this she came back with the idea to call another election...

do they actually sell sensible hiking shoes at Russell & Bromley?

xp I know a LOT of Tory voters who think Donald Trump is abhorrent and quite a few GOP people who refused to vote for him (or voted for Clinton).
The only truly unnerving thing about think tank woman is that she sounds like a 14yo Mean Girl.

As to May going walkabout in Switzerland, someone on AQ mentioned there were a lot of great hospitals there and it seemed to hang in the air a bit...

Let's not forget what happened to Robin Cook when he went for a wee walk in the mountains.

Imo pundits/politicians who are pro-policies that are disenfranchising and effectively killing many disabled people, increasing child poverty, increasing food poverty amongst the working poor, dismantling the NHS etc.. are not permitted to get on any shaky moral high ground over Trump. Yes it is glaringly obvious he is evil incarnate, but lets not let that be a distraction to their own moral bankruptcy.

Well yeah, the only thing a GOP/Tory think tank woman would be doing over here is Atlantic Bridge/ALEC nonsense so obviously, she can do one.

I wish they'd all try going for a walk on that Atlantic Bridge!

I've been warning people that's what Disgraced Former Minister Liam Fox is up to, and that these groups pay US interns to take positions in Tory MPs offices, where they try to modify boilerplate AB/ALEC legislation into Tory-friendly bills. Cocks.

The Atlantic Bridge gained charitable status in 2003 as an "education and research scheme". In September 2009, the Charity Commission started a regulatory compliance case after receiving a complaint about the charity. A 2010 report by the Charity Commission ruled that it was "not evident that [it] had advanced education" and "may lead members of the public to call into question its independence from party politics"

lol! shurely not!

Truly bizarre.

WHY THIS MATTERS:
Corbyn & the Venez Pres are FRIENDS- Corbyn could CALL Maduro and ask him to STOP the beatings & killings. But he's silent https://t.co/JY1WKORAs9

— Tobias Ellwood (@Tobias_Ellwood) August 4, 2017

well he is the prime minister

Since 2010, the Tories have sold weapons to 22 of the 30 countries on their own human rights watch list. https://t.co/b8bA7JEB2c

— Dan Carden MP (@DanCardenMP) August 8, 2017

^ A Labour MP.

Two communist regimes China and Russia sell arms to Venezuela. In fact the former Soviet states are the worst. Serious about arms sales? https://t.co/EqsbLOGHN0

— Graham Jones MP (@GrahamJones_MP) August 8, 2017

^ Also a Labour MP.

Rampant deselection can't come quickly enough.

lol "Communist regimes"!

luv2engage in witless whataboutism over arms sales

it's like there's a tranche of old Labour nudniks who only joined in the first place to make sure socialism didn't get a grip

To be fair to Graham Jones MP I'm not sure anyone's told him about the end of the Cold War so you can forgive him for being nervous.

the BBC was going very strong on how acceptable Corbyn's condemnation of Maduro was the other day, it seems some genocidal + totalitarian regimes are worthy trading partners and immune from scrutiny though.

Graham Jones MP's twitter bio:

Labour MP for Haslingden & Hyndburn. Had enough of political stupidity.

It's very difficult to know which articles to trust re: Venezuela, much of what you read from the left feels like apologism, but let's not pretend most of the British right are even the slightest bit interested in the people suffering under Maduro except as a stick to beat Corbyn with.