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

that old chestnut, really?

more like linekermac, innit? :p

Damn son

This Meghan seems nice, it's a pity she has to die come the revolution.

how many centrist proto-parties are there now (not including the actually in existence)?

Prof Brian Cox just told Chris Evans R2 he’s thinking of running for PM with a new Macron-inspired party. Listener texts name: The Rational Front

— Colin Brown (@ColinBrown00) November 28, 2017

That's the third I have heard of.

of course Coxy is a centrist dad, he's the Eddie Izzard of astronomy

he is down on dowsing, i am down on him

it's like charities, these things are so obviously vanity projects that their creators wouldn't dream of just joining something that already exists - "Centrist Dads Against Drugs"

"The Rational Front"

Murder!

actually I mean literally somebody please assassinate this fuck.

he is down on dowsing, i am down on him

enjoyed this one:

If anyone has access to the scientific equipment needed to split the lib dem vote even further, it's Professor Brian Cox

by October Macron's approval rating had the steepest decline of any president since Chirac '95 in the space of 6 months, but this doesn't trouble pseudo-tories like Cox because winning elections at any cost is all that matters of course.

a year today since ukip unleashed the nuttallator

What do you think of it so far, Paul?

https://metrouk2.files.wordpress.com/2017/06/pri_42727065-e1497013735500.jpg?w=748&h=658&crop=1

so the 58 extensive brexit impact reports that david davis handed over to parliament apparently amounted to just two lever arch files worth of stuff?

tbf they did have to fit on a floppy disk already full of DD's favourite Bergerac quotes in Clarisworks

I wonder what the nuttallator is up to these days? I could imagine him eating cold beans out of the tin in a badly kept shithole. Earlier it was funny to read that clown from the FT's year old tweet that Labour should be "quaking" over this big dog.

Was Cox always this much of a public dork or did this stuff start when his wife got no-platformed for wondering whether it would be better for trans people to be identified before birth and aborted?

one wd imagine that's the kind of thing that brings out latent bitterness but he's hardly the only celebrity scientist to have reprehensibly "rational" political opinions

It would be odd if Cox started a new party, his wife's already got one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/More_United

I think rationalism applied in a political context is just a euphemism for fucking off your moral compass.

I assume they just aren't thinking too deeply about anything.

european liberalism has been flapping to find a raison d'etre since the advent of socialism, and failing pitifully

The pathetic thing is none of these wannabe Macron start-up parties will ever get one MP to stand in an election. At least the two I've seen so far were nothing more than late night tweets or one or two spots on the radio. They so want to scare Labour into turning their rage towards Brexit and really resent that Labour are reserving that energy to get the Tories on their austerity policies.

This is an excellent, nuanced thread on HDV. Its been reported as a hard-left take over ofc.

1/ Firstly, obviously silly to go on about “purges” or “coups” or “factionalism” as ppl have in the Times.

These were all democratic selection processes and tbh I’m delighted that housing policy is now such a central question in local political debate.

— Luke Barratt (@lukewbarratt) November 28, 2017

i was deep into an answer on how cox had always been a bit of a twerp when i realised i was thinking of ben goldacre, which i guess proves noodle's point quite effectively

I can't think of Brian Cox without thinking of the Horrible Histories sketch about Wonders of Egyptian Universe, unfortunately not on YouTube

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/SbXTbKLH5_k/sddefault.jpg

https://vimeo.com/51091942

£57bn divorce bill - how's the old magic money tree coming along?

gotta push pineapple first iirc

split that bill between the 52% i reckon.

hoooooly sh*t at this story

http://www.politics.co.uk/news/2017/11/28/woman-reports-rape-to-police-and-is-arrested-on-immigration

like a stick of rock from a bad place, you know that is something that will have Theresa May approval stamped right fucking through it.

aside from the most obviously disturbing effect of this on vulnerable groups (for whom tories care nothing about) can't they see the obvious implications for policing? a home environment for immigrants is a safer environment for organised crime.

a HOSTILE environment for immigrants

sorry, blindingly obvious

It's the UK, 2017, folks and the Queen is making sure she doesn't have to bear the stench of even secondhand Papism:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5126203/Meghan-baptised-Church-England.html

Or is this another deal struck with the DUP?

her first husband, US TV producer Trevor Engelson, was Jewish and the couple tied the knot in a Bohemian ceremony at the Jamaica Inn in Ocho Rios, Jamaica

what is a "bohemian ceremony"? is that when the bride wears flip flops and the groom plays bongos? or does it mean you get defenestrated after the first dance?

If it's about throwing Catholics out of windows then the Queen would approve.

"Is this your real wife? Is this just fantasy?"

"shortly before the wedding, the bride will proceed alone to a prepared alcove of st. george's chapel where she is expected to ingest a bound copy of the nicene creed"

Can hear Nicholas Witchell saying that tbh.

Haha NV

There are notably few photos in the GIS for "Queen Tony Blair" which feature windows, it's true. Though most of them have Michael Sheen instead.

classic:

http://www.lbc.co.uk/radio/presenters/james-obrien/this-ex-pat-hates-the-eu-but-lives-in-france/

JOB has been good value on all this lately

We’re paying tens of billions of pounds to leave the world’s largest free trade area while surrendering all of our ability to define its rights & regulations.
All so that we can hopefully start negotiating an inferior arrangement with the world’s largest free trade area.

— James O'Brien (@mrjamesob) November 29, 2017

@andrew_lilico
It's probably an honest mistake, easily done. I RTed something from someone dodgy once, then un-RTed it quickly (to some well-earned derision) & apologised. Surely Trump can be man enough to do the same?

@DPJHodges
Are you being serious.

Trump needs to man up and be more like andrew lolico

or dan hodges

of all the possible hot takes, he found the worst. He smashed it.