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

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.

A good case in point from The Sun's chief politics writer:

Here are Corbyn's words on Valenzuela. He is saying the protesters are as bad as Maduro. Extraordinary. pic.twitter.com/xkMeR3SweI

— Harry Cole (@MrHarryCole) August 7, 2017

BJ's response to the UK's amoral arms dealer status was roughly "if we don't sell to these genocidal regimes, somebody else will". But he can get away with casually terrible statements like that because their lack of nuance aren't pounced on by nearly every part of the media.

*pops monocle*

Nick Timothy, the man largely blamed for losing the Conservatives their majority, has a column in the Telegraph called 'ideas to win' pic.twitter.com/1TI6pazEdQ

— Felicity Morse (@FelicityMorse) August 10, 2017

It was all Lynton Crosby's fault really. This guy's a fucking winner. Now he's shaved his beard off he should change his name to Max Power!

he looks 10 years older without that beard

which is probably a winning move in the Tory party

The Telegraph probably made him shave it off, in case it offended Simon Heffer or something.

How many buttons open is that chambray shirt, do we wager?

Tell him to open a chambrey shirt...parsley etc

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.

The general line amongst lefties I know (I'm not personally that well-versed in recent Venezuelan history) is that Maduro has been fucking up for a while but the anti-gvmnt forces are Not Good.

I suspect Corbyn chose his words carefully to avoid more "pro-terrorist" smear jobs but it's not like that's going to stop anyone.

was just honestly clapping Chris Williamson on AQ tonight.

Melanie Philips in the Times bravely taking on the task of fascist apologism, because of course she did.

phew, glad her moral compass is back to being snafu'd again after her worryingly otm piece on the charlie gard case

I can't believe the government actually had the brass neck to pitch those Brexit proposals today.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/sun-muslim-problem-investigation-jewish-islamic-ipso-trevor-kavanagh-nazi-propaganda-tabloid-news-uk-a7894231.html?amp

I hope Sarah Champion enjoyed the positive shout out in the article under discussion .

“Thanks to former equalities chief Trevor Phillips, and Labour MPs such as Rotherham’s Sarah Champion, it is acceptable to say Muslims are a specific rather than a cultural problem.

Were the UK to crash again, its government no longer has the political capital nor the fiscal headroom to save the financial system. And with interest rates scraping along the bottom, the Bank of England has barely any firepower left. Ten years of political fudge and failed austerity has left Britain’s state machinery tapped out.

Another good Chakrabortty piece today, but I bitterly concluded that another crash wouldn't be such a bad thing at all.

You're alright, we'd have to take you

Anthony Barnett‏ just tweeted this "Nothing like this has happened in 323 years" graph from the FT that shows we a bright future!

https://www.ft.com/__origami/service/image/v2/images/raw/http%3A%2F%2Fcom.ft.imagepublish.prod.s3.amazonaws.com%2F3714a79e-81fe-11e7-a4ce-15b2513cb3ff?source=next&quality=highest&width=1180

Chakrabortty also makes the good point about the banking sector gob-shiteing about how much they tip up into the Exchequer, with a collective amnesia about the 1.3 tr freebie they got after the last crash.

If I did a graph on how close I am to the absolute limit of my overdraft in the last ten years, it wouldn't be much different from the one above. But I get the feeling I wouldn't be alone there.

sorry for the chain-posting, five shit posts for the price of one on offer today!

No, that's some good stuff, thanks.

My friend is off to Scotland and just texted me to say Jeremy Corbyn is on his train (Lake District/Cumbria events obv).

First class or on the deck?

sorry for the chain-posting, five shit posts for the price of one on offer today!

this is the kind of blitz spirit which will see britain thrive after brexit imo