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

I have some trouble splitting hairs between the far right groups from the margins and the ones in government tbh.

One does the shooting, one loads the gun iirc.

and some of them cheerlead for the BBC

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.

― plax (ico), Wednesday, 29 November 2017 Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

a HOSTILE environment for immigrants

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As long as organised crime is home-grown:

Huge change. To the extent Brexit was an anti-immigration vote it’s already worked https://t.co/giR5AALhn0

— Tom Clark (@prospect_clark) November 30, 2017

why would any rational person choose to emigrate to the uk now tbf

My cousin did just post-Brexit. He got a job after a couple of months then found himself a British girlfriend and is now engaged and getting married to her next year.

god help him tbh

haha I know.

they'll be stopping people from leaving in 10 years, not stopping them coming in.

In her keynote address on Thursday, the former disability minister will announce the UK’s first global disability summit, to be held in 2018. The summit aims to bring together global leaders and technology companies to tackle the barriers that prevent people with disabilities from fulfilling their potential

“In many parts of the world, people with disabilities simply don’t count,” Mordaunt will say. “They are neglected and isolated. They are attacked and abused. They are invisible”..

the fucking state of this, I presume BMJ representatives or any of the disabled people still actually alive in the UK won't be invited to give their vital input.

yeah and I'm interested they avoided using "disabled people" which is preferred in the UK cos it highlights the social model

Jeremy Corbyn covers the latest issue of @BritishGQ https://t.co/9fhGPV39mC @jeremycorbyn #JeremyCorbyn pic.twitter.com/dHGQ7rohGa

— British GQ (@BritishGQ) November 30, 2017

the absolute boy in the (M&S) suit

I think GQ would have styled him in a more expensive suit.

He looks great.

who’s on the second cover, I ask with some trepidation

Oh it is an m&s suit. Apologies xyz

would have been a bit of a pr disaster to have him draped in prada right enough

The airbrushing is unfortunate

it’s given him a bit of a michel roux jr vibe

Yeah, fuck GQ forever though

Politician of the year 2008: Boris Johnson
Politician of the year 2009: George Osborne
Politician of the year 2010: David Cameron
Politician of the year 2011: George Osborne
Politician of the year 2012: Boris Johnson
Politician of the year 2013: Boris Johnson
Politician or Philanthropist or whatever of the year 2014: Tony Blair
Politician of the year 2015: George Osborne

jesus

i’ve long advocated for dylan jones to be among the first against the wall when the revolution comes

Dylan Jones has either been locked in the samples cabinet since last summer, or that’s how long it’s taken for Harley Street doctors to extract his tongue from David Cameron’s arse.

https://www.disabilitynewsservice.com/oliver-comes-out-of-retirement-to-deliver-stinging-rebuke-to-parasite-charities/

"He mentioned Scope, and a series of films it produced in 2015 to mark the 20th anniversary of the Disability Discrimination Act (DDA), which failed to point out that, in its earlier incarnation as The Spastics Society, it had been “bitterly opposed to anti-discrimination legislation in the 1980s and only reluctantly came on board when it became obvious that such legislation was inevitable”.

He also referred to former Tory leader William Hague, who told the BBC that he regarded the DDA as one of his finest achievements, when in reality he had “turned the legislation into a pale shadow of what it should have been”.

Oliver was heavily critical of “the big disability charities”, which he said had “proved predictably useless at defending the living standards and lifestyles of disabled people” from the government’s “vicious attacks, while continuing to do very well for themselves”.

Oliver also spoke in his speech of how the Paralympics and the Invictus Games, the sports event for disabled veterans created by Prince Harry, are used by the government as political cover.

He pointed out that “not all injured ex-service men and women can or want to compete in elite sport and many who don’t live lives of deprivation, poverty and misery”, while the government is able to continue sending young people to “often illegal wars to get blown apart for their country”."

Professor Mike Oliver telling it like it really is, another one the BBC and Penny Mordant won't want to talk to.

Always felt the Paralympics coverage proved that the disabled are only worth bothering about to the media and society in general when they can be marketed as 'superheroes'.

it really is vile, it makes me want to vomit (all over Prince Harry).

Like that BBC programme, Saints and Sinners, that tacitly implied that the only people deserving of receiving benefits where those with heart-rending sob stories to tell.

Saints no less!

Similar to the successfully sold narrative that the most vulnerable of the disabled people are being given the help they need. It is just the malingerers and piss-takers who are ending up homeless or dead in the PIP era.

i wish i could remember exactly what my raf-officer brother-in-law once said to me about how close to entirely able-bodied some invictus games participants he knows are but regardless i suspect the media might be sitting on some pretty damning material about the organisation out of respect / lickspittery to the royals

Only the real cream of the crop for this royal showboat, those that have been completely broken by military service can live on the streets because they aren't true WARRIORS!

Top story on the Guardian:

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2017/dec/01/damian-green-thousands-of-pornographic-images-on-computer-says-detective

There is a lot invested in the detective being right. Green could clear up in any number of libel actions if the press can’t substantiate anything.

some hatchet job interview by GQ editor dylan jones on the today show just there. saying corbyn 'didn't seem in control' of his own mind and that he was 'grandpa-like', with a 'poor handle on the details' and 'cultural hinterland'.

dylan jones co-wrote a book w/david cameron

doesn't understand the cultural hinterland = no idea who Wolf Alice are

flow is weak

has never bought 50 frozen Indian snacks from Iceland

no strong opinion on who should win Get Me Out of Here

Dylan Jones got a gong from David Cameron and is probably THE WORST. He wasn’t present at the interview and it’s poor form to comment, anyway, not that it matters. I feel sorry for his deputy/ME, who used to play with Felt and is actually good at his job because he’s not running around going LOOK AT ME the whole time.

aw yeaaaaah:

Very interesting piece about Trump, Britain First & the response from Brendan O'Neil.https://t.co/RjvTs5Q0ww

— Graham Jones MP (@GrahamJones_MP) November 29, 2017

^ Labour MP, anti-Corbyn obvs.

I wondered what the word "interesting" was doing anywhere near our Brendan

You can say this for Trump, he's never been so crass and tawdry as to retweet spiked.

in that article Brendan O'Neil takes a swipe at people who do nothing but spend all day on the internet spouting shite about politics

he describes Jayda Fransen as brash and weird

What was the point of having Coulter on C4 news? Especially if they have no real way to handle a guest like that. Krishnan is pretty lightweigt and Snow is really poor these days (was he always?). Matt Frei is good though

When the guardian send someone to the hinterland they always end up in Great Yarmouth, the BBC only manage to get as far as Romford and then ask the most inane questions of market traders. Time for tv and canal to meet again

Is that the same Matt Frei who failed to realise that describing Barack Obama’s ‘watermelon smile’ was racist? I remember even Giles Coren called him out for it, because HOW OBVIOUS.

Channel 4's weird adoption of something like a "big society" and "legitimate concerns" agenda over the last several years has made me double sceptical of their news team, tho I'd still consider it one of the better TV news shows, given the dishonesty of the news as a format.

jon snow has always been a terrible interviewer, i don't think that's ideological

as I say, it's a terrible field

have they really adopted a legit concerns approach? they could not be more unimaginatively twitter left imo. which is good i suppose but fuck video news anyway, also imo.