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

the political scene suddenly being full of centrist ultras fighting over the status quo would be entertaining as hell tho

ok it wasn't between 1995 and 2010 but this is different

luv2radically occupy the blandest space on the political spectrum

seems appropriate that the 'r' in their logo is beige

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tk1dd1D2Kts

before I clicked I thought it was gonna be the election bit from Futurama, so close

Zapp Brannigan OTM: "What makes a man turn neutral? Lust for gold? Power? Or were you just born with a heart full of neutrality?"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JY6RyRkl9uo

radical suk have just retweeted this, fittingly the most equivocal piece of praise imaginable

Bored by the tonnes of scorn poured on @JeremyCliffe and @RadicalsUK. Ofc it's probs doomed to fail, but good on them for having a go anyway

— Raphael Hogarth (@Raphael_Hogarth) October 18, 2017

as they said to the lads at Gallipoli

tell you what, if they get Blair or Clarke on board this could be the steamroller broad front centrist Tory party that fans of lulz like me have been crying out for

Raphael Hogarth, voice of the common man.

he's named after 2 ninja turtles, how common do you want?

I've gotta do a new Think Tank poll, "Working to make government more effective" is the most pulse-pounding mission statement I've ever seen

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Party_of_Moderate_Progress_Within_the_Bounds_of_the_Law

Ideology Recession[citation needed]

he's named after 2 ninja turtles, how common do you want?

lol

What is the actual point of non-binding parliamentary voting? Just a bit of a lark in the funhouse and MP's add to their How They Vote stats.

"MPs vote 299 to 0 and therefore the “pause and fix” to Universal Credit motion passed after the government called a three-line whip for Tories to abstain."

Tory Sarah Woolaston and deputy DUP leader Nigel Dodds both voted with Labour.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DMcOAgSX4AAMUJx.jpg
John Redwood agreed with me, before they lost their majority.

lol i googled yr question and arrived at the exact same page and DID NOT CLICK

Ahh, that first dose of John Redwood in a day is like a blast of holy sunshine!

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DMcj2r6WsAA_0BK.jpg

This is so otm from Frances Ryan.

Odd development. Dodds has said he *didn't vote* for Labour motion. Mistaken for Anneliese Dodds on the ayes list https://t.co/BuQE5gmjUJ

— Ashley Cowburn (@ashcowburn) October 18, 2017

lol! Correction, I thought this sounded a bit so not going to happen.

https://www.theguardian.com/education/2017/oct/19/ministers-plan-fines-for-universities-which-fail-to-uphold-free-speech

Genuinely bizarre. The majority of events in question are held by student unions, rather than the universities themselves, so i have no idea how they're meant to mandate speakers the SU doesn't want to invite are included.

Wouldn't Germaine Greer talking to a tiny audience of Young Conservatives in a empty hall be such an amazing victory for freedom of speech.

Johnson said that free speech was one of the foundations on which the UK’s higher education tradition was built.

this is an out and out ahistorical lie

presumably this is to bring universities in line with the UK's constitutional right to freedom of speech tho

So they've given up on trying to win the youth vote already then?

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standard.co.uk/news/politics/tory-mp-tim-loughton-spends-an-hour-in-the-bath-every-morning-just-thinking-about-things-a3661406.html

“It's like going to the gym for the mind."

lonely guy just thinking baout things in the bath

He made the remarks while speaking at a conference about how meditation and greater self-awareness can improve the way politicians operate.

i think u might have fallen at the first hurdle there pal

Next time you’re making a significant purchase, a house perhaps, start by saying “I will not accept no deal” and see how the negotiations go

— James Cleverly (@JamesCleverly) October 19, 2017

Cleverly, MP for BrainGenious

next time you're making a purchase, a house perhaps, start by throwing in a confusing double-negative and see how quickly the other party starts crying

i like how that implies another Europe in another neighbourhood we could do a deal with

ha, yeah

it's also another pointless, confusing extension of the metaphor of the economy as a household, which is total bullshit

next time you max out your credit card, try going to the IMF for a loan

to locate that other europe, let's all go to GOR!!

do i want to listen to nothing but Manowar for the rest of my life i ask myself?

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DMh7xyhW4AEG8Eo.jpg

everyone's piling on clive lewis for saying 'on your knees bitch!' to a man having to kneel down at some kind of labour show thing

impolitic and overly exuberant but here is a list of who can get fucked:

guido fawkes
jess phillips
the entire internet

thanks

It was pretty obvious that his mouth was going to get him into trouble sooner or later. His pre-Parliament Twitter feed reads like an 19-year old with two appearances for West Ham.

I was on stage for this. It was to a guy who had come on stage to participate in the game show after Ash told him to bend down https://t.co/yi98eypBVK

— Abi Wilkinson 🌷 (@AbiWilks) October 20, 2017

Not as bad as crowing about telling Diane Abbott to fuck off, obvs.

Yeah the pearl-clutching is disingenuous bullshit as well.

Clive Lewis did a weird yet typical interruption to a question put to Caroline Flint a few weeks back on Sunday Politics and then immediately repeatedly apologised as he realised the textbook mansplain/hijack. He's definitely got speak-before-think issues despite good intentions.

Out in the very sensitive world of the construction industry, anybody who has done an apprenticeship will be very familiar with being referred to as a "bitch" or a "boy". For at least a few years, where you were deemed only worthy to sweep up rubble and crawl about confined spaces full of asbestos and itchy black lime dust. What a life!

I think Lewis is a bit of dick tbh. But definitely not a totally bad person in the scheme of things.

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2017/oct/22/backbench-tories-universal-credit-climbdown-theresa-may

The government is edging closer to a major U-turn on the universal credit benefits system, it has been claimed, as Conservative backbench critics of the policy said that they had been assured the government was listening to their concerns.

It sounds like some compromise might be occurring. The whole monstrosity needs major surgery and is punitive + repulsive obv, but even if they cut a couple of weeks off the waiting time, then that is a small victory at least.

One hopes the pressure of that non-binding commons vote is bearing fruit.

The Universal Credit rollout shitfest is the genie that Osborne was pressured to put back in the bottle, but then even after that lame u-turn (i think in 2015) he publically admitted was inevitable anyway, after a countrywide rollout at a later date. Hitting the disabled is fair game - cos there is a popular mandate for killing disableds etc, but not working people and specifically in this case - the lower paid end of the self-employed spectrum. Not that it makes any discernible difference to people in areas where it had already been rolled out. But the extra amounts of people in working poverty will definitely make a mockery of the Tory lowlife who have drank the Kool-Aid, and are still claiming that it "makes work pay". It is the working tax-credit cuts sewn into it by Osborne that completely wreck that equation.

a scandal involving a Labour MP being outed as having made problematic posts to Drowned in Sound in the mid 2000s - this is making me feel old