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

it's the BBC that is the Ponzi scheme #cancelling license fee direct debit next month - deal with it!

Brave? FFS.

i can't really make sense of her tweet.

Jacob Rees-Mogg: "I loathe this idea that we have to give baubles to young people."

I think he means fidget-spinners.

calzino are you srs

jed i think she meant DISagree

Even May's absolutely risible concessions to "Corbyn's Marxism" - a shiny threpenny bit for students, and more assistance for people who can actually afford affordable homes, is just too much for Mogg.

ah yes, Tracer.

And yeah I will be cancelling my BBC db next month, but not because of fake Keunssberg outrage!

I'm cancelling all the fuckers because there won't be enough coming in to cover them:(

ayiyiyi

well radio's better anyway, you don't need a license fee for that

just say you've got a black and white telly.

i don't think the b&w discount exists any more :/

i'm wrong, it lives!

i don't understand how you can watch digital tv on a b&w set/

I'm gonna try the wholly untested "I illegally download most of my viewing stuff from torrent sites" defence. Might as well give as good as you get :p

haha

FYI there’s not much chance of getting busted for unlicensed TV after 6pm.

is it a happy coincidence that the Halifax has put up overdraft charges, the same month as the UC rollout?

This is where i have to do priv check, cos perhaps I'm lucky to even have an overdraft.

top tip, suzy

there's no reason to let them into your house. they will try bully boy tactics but if you tell them to bolt they've no recourse

(i actually didn't have my tv plugged into an aerial or sky or anything and had repeated letters and a guy buzzing up giving me aggro wanting to come in and check i didn't have a tv. told him to bolt and not ring the buzzer again).

I'd imagine these days most of the tv detector crews of the 90's, with the Thunderbirds style twirling but never actually twirl "tv sensors" on top of the van, are now mostly security guards or working in Foxes Biscuits.

the last time i opened the door to them i legit did not have a tv either. i said to the woman "i don't have a tv please come in" and she said that she didn't need to!

Theresa May will use her keynote speech at the Tory party conference to demand an end to infighting over Brexit and for the party to shift its focus from the job security of senior Tories to that of ordinary people. “Let us do our duty by Britain. Let us shape up and give the country the government it needs,” she will say.

Fuck me I can't believe someone signed off on this. It's the sort of thing football managers do when they're trying to restore order after a 4-0 defeat to Burnley.

"Let us shape up and deliver a Brexit like we do in training"

Don't even ~own~ a tv licence

xp Roy Hodgson 4 tory leader

Well, at least they aren't infighting over Europe any more.

May is going to pay lip service to "ordinary working people" again. Just a few weeks before making over 3 million of them £200 + a month poorer. They sure have some game do these Tories!

why not "working people"? why the insistence on "ordinariness"? does anyone identify as "ordinary"?

ordinary in the Tory/May context probs means "white"

i genuinely hadn't thought of that :(

also straight, Tory, no time for anybody who isn't

Rees-Mogg hates the 'ordinary people' line claiming there's no such thing. Johnson would probably say the same at this point. Neither of these people are actually real however.

lol "ordinary working-class people" was who SWP-founder tony cliff routinely invoked (as the social group the SWP should always put first in their thinking): given JC's association w/same, this is clearly more real prime minister pennycorbs at work in their brains

if there's one thing the current cabinet of inbred mutants, dead-eyed race realists and corporate ken dolls understand it's britons' everyday lives

Well, "ordinary working people", no class mentioned, they've obviously realized that "working families" excludes an awful lot of people who didn't vote Tory at the last election. Or maybe not, they are thick as pigshit after all.

sorry, hard working families.

What fresh hell was that intro music for Tresemmé?

Am reading it was 'you've got the love'? *barfs*

FATM version naturally

incidentally the kuenssberg tweet makes most sense if you assume that she's left unspoken the usual fact (and journalistic cliche), that the NHS is extremely popular

thus: so-and-so "compares the NHS to a Ponzi scheme -- even though many might agree with him, given its general popularity this is certainly a brave suggestion to make"

as the poor crafting of this tweet demonstrates, the reason kuenssberg shouldn't have the job is that she's bad at it, not that she's secretly a tory

unsurprisingly (given the general status quo timidity of the profession) brave is basically cliche journalese for "foolhardy" -- a word she will be congratulating herself for not saying, bcz she codedly got in some (very mild, somewhat ambiguous) editorialising against an outlier tory etc etc

re crafting: this^^^post reads better if you move the third sentence to the end :D

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May says she wants to make a difference for people whose voices are not heard.

Like the families of the 96 people killed at Hillsborough.

Or the victims and survivors of sexual abuse.

Or Alexander Paul, a young black man who spoke at conference three years ago about continually being stopped by police.

She says she took action. The number of black people being stopped and searched has fallen by two thirds.

She says Paul was diagnosed with brain cancer and died in June. Let us remember his courage in speaking out, she says.

great anecdote

feel-good story

"unfortunately paul is dead now - it's too late for him, but at least he will never be stopped and searched again - much like many other black men who have not died."

HOLY SHIT some heckler just gave her a P45 ‘from Boris’

It’s all kicking off!

"Ordinary working people" as a right-wing meme predates the rise of Corbs though; Charlie Brooker did an edit of Cameron (and Milliband) using the phrase to death during that election campaign (with "working" bleeped out so it seemed like they were saying "fucking" - what can I say, I loled).

The Hillsborough families got their chance to have their voices heard, at the very point that those responsible were long retired or dead. There will be a similar wait for the Grenfell families, doubtless. Voices will be heard, but there will be a similar wait until the people responsible etc.