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

the opening sentence of the linked piece on the other hand is weirdly reminiscent of the John Lanchester's Capital thread:

At a little after 6.30, nearly every weekday morning, George Osborne — 46 years old, tall, rich, boyish, tieless — takes the bus from Notting Hill in west London, where he lives, to Kensington High Street, where he works, orders his breakfast to take away from Leon, arrives at the marbled and airy headquarters of the London Evening Standard, takes the lift to the second floor, enters his corner office, and sets about destroying his political enemies.

lol

I don't think Osborne has actually turned the LES into a must-read, esquire.co.uk.

yep, couldn't gaf about intraparty Tory vendettas being conducted in some shitty downmarket rag. Might be "must-read" for Gideon's mummy and various other bullingdon club chums.

"My political enemies, let me show you them" squeakles former multiple GQ Politician of the Year and Leon quaffing Grenfell culpable metro leet fake job whore Gidderz.

orders his breakfast to take away from Leon

Leon presumably being the malnourished 5-year-old son of an unemployed single mum?

LOL Leon founded by posh af West London cheffy types including Henry Dimbleby.

not particularly nice either tho i'm a 1 banana for breakfast guy.

don't know if I fancy brown sauce on a breakfast

brown sauce on a banana, ruined my own lame joke thru tired eyes and brain

So May is planning to try and end run around the whole Brexit process by convincing all the other EEA members to sign up to a have-cake-eat-it “New EEA” on Britain’s terms? It’s the most batshit attempt yet.

I’m starting to realise there are elements that *genuinely believe* they need us more than we need them and that we can dictate. This is lunacy.

Oops

1. Our intel is that May is going to announce in her speech that she's to give formal notice to leave the EEA.

— The Leave Alliance (@LeaveHQ) September 12, 2017

4. She's not going to walk away, but it will be a take it or leave it offer. Either take it or we walk.

*smart smiling guy pointing to head meme*

please let us stay in or we will force you to let us leave

okay folks, it's heads-on-pikes time - grab your fucking pitchforks and get ready to storm parliament

Jacob Rees-Mogg has described the increased prevalence of food banks as a “rather uplifting” show of charity, arguing the only reason for the rise in their use is that the former Labour government did not tell people they existed.

“I think there is good within food banks and the real reason for the rise in numbers is that people know that they’re there, and Labour deliberately wouldn’t tell them,” the Conservative backbencher told LBC radio.

[...]

Challenged by a caller about the increased use of food banks – the Trussell Trust, Britain’s biggest food bank network, said it handed out record amounts of supplies last year, in part due to increased benefit delays – Rees-Mogg argued they fulfilled a vital function.

“I don’t think the state can do everything,” he said. “It tries to provide a base of welfare that should allow people to make ends meet during the course of the week, but on some occasions that will not work.

“And to have charitable support given by people voluntarily to support their fellow citizens, I think is rather uplifting and shows what a good, compassionate country we are.”

Rees-Mogg said the reason more people were using food banks was a Conservative reversal of a previous Labour policy to stop people knowing they existed.

“Food banks pre-date the Conservative government and crucially, the change that took place was that the Conservative government allowed Jobcentre Plus to tell people that food banks existed,” he said.

“And the former Labour government would not tell them – and that was a policy decision to stop people knowing that there was help available.”

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2017/sep/14/jacob-rees-mogg-increased-use-food-banks-rather-uplifting

he knows what he's doing, the same way Gove used to enjoy trolling the teachers

Absolutely, he's an evil Tory scumbag, after all.

Maybe if May was a bit posher and a man, she wouldn't need to hide from public debates, and could get away with talking lots of unchallenged fallacious bullshit as well. Nobody interrupts him when he goes into rinse mode, but most (especially the bbc) seem to have a lot of time for his schtick.

Friends in the press, please highlight his City/VC career whenever possible.

I expect it was some good old jolly-hockey-sticks Tory niceness and reversal of Labour conspiracy that also led to my local supermarket putting a food bank donations basket near the checkout, and positioning a food bank on my walk home where I might see it every day

not much more pernicious than the tory tactic of celebrating volunteer work or community spirit at the same time as creating circumstances in which civilian human decency must fill the hole created by the state's utter lack of the same.

"we're all in this together"

In abuse debate, Con MP Bob Stewart says his son's teacher told class no-one should talk to him because his dad's a Tory

right on!

from the mouths of babes etc

it's odd that nationalism so often goes hand in hand with an inability to identify with/take pride in welfare run by the state

Would that be 'Bonking' Bob Stewart bellyaching about his brats?

not only a philandering amoral Tory scummer, but also someone who believed torture served a good purpose in NI.

Are you fucking mental? https://t.co/H2qxjJCTAv

— Sir Lynton Crosby (@LyntonSpins) September 15, 2017

I'm going to cancel Netflix and negotiate with each film producer separately, to get the best deal for me and my family #Brexit

— David Osler (@finance_LL) September 14, 2017

https://pbs.twimg.com/card_img/908790120827854848/MFwRVkhX?format=jpg&name=600x314

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c1/Benny_Hill.JPG/640px-Benny_Hill.JPG

Brexit 'chaos' as top official Oliver Robbins quits after one year in the job

Also huge sad lols that the 350m is still a topic, let alone it still being defended by Johnson and Michael fucking Gove.

Yesterday I heard F Boyle describing Gove as "a possessed ventriloquist's dummy, carved out of the Yew Tree they named operation Yew Tree after". Or something similar, well it made me laugh at the time.

the 350m should be a topic now and forever

the national statistics people have accused Boris of pulling figures out of his arse, again.

I can't believe BJ thought bringing up the 350m again would help his cause, tho. But the fucker seems be unravelling, or maybe seeing an insipid idiot like Mogg getting touted as leader emboldens him. Whatever the case, the stop Boris clique is too big, and he ought to know that by now.

I can't believe BJ thought bringing up the 350m again would help his cause, tho.

Just to clarify, this is what I meant, Tracer. Obv it needs to forever stay a topic to shove it in their fat faces.

Yesterday I heard F Boyle describing Gove as "a possessed ventriloquist's dummy, carved out of the Yew Tree they named operation Yew Tree after". Or something similar, well it made me laugh at the time.

I don't generally enjoy F Boyle but that's excellent

I enjoy F Boyle more than I should; *thumbs*

FWIW 350m a week extra for the NHS is about a 13% increase on the planned NHS budget for 2017 if I maths did good. Also known as 18.2 "Arlenes"..

I can't believe BJ thought bringing up the 350m again would help his cause, tho.

Stephen Bush suggesting earlier that it's actually about him feeling a bit cut out of the whole Brexit process, and also hating that the £350m is turning into a laughing-stock easy-jibe line to hang around him. While everyone else who sold it is more or less happy to privately go "yep, bollocks, but what a lie, wow!" he is all "no, no, if you squint just right, it's totally true".

Basically being too craven to own his lie.

I think he's getting his retaliation in early, I can see a battle looming to get rid of May once and for all.

ffs even farage had the savvy to say 'naw that was all bollocks haw haw' the day after the referendum

*sheds tears of joy*

5 Live just moved seamlessly from report on a lack of transparency in the undercover policing inquiry to May calling for websites to block extremist propaganda with no apparent sense of irony

you need to cut that shit outta your life man

only knock it on in the kitchen/for football commentary

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/sep/20/nincompoopolis-the-follies-of-boris-johnson-by-douglas-murphy-review?CMP=twt_books_b-gdnbooks

a review of Nincompoopolis, the BJ demolition book. I'm not sure I could find the time for a Boris book, even if it is one ripping the shit out of his mayoral legacy.

xp + Danny Baker on Saturday morning

Top trolling by IKEA. pic.twitter.com/gLmwbuQkZo

— James Melville (@JamesMelville) September 20, 2017

https://www.centrism.biz/

bit trenchant but largely indistinguishable from the real thing

Linda Burnip, co-founder of Disabled People Against Cuts (DPAC), said Field’s suggestion was “grossly offensive and totally unacceptable”.

She said: “Field is a disgrace as both chair of the work and pensions select committee and a so-called Labour MP, and DPAC believe that he must resign his select committee post with immediate effect.”

In response to Frank Field suggesting employers should be allowed to pay some disabled people less than minimum wage. This "so-called Labour Mp" has to be deselected, it's not like the fucker looks like retiring or dying soon enough.