...to such an alarming degree he's forced into forming a coalition government with Labour.
― Zeuhl Idol (Matt #2), Saturday, 25 May 2019 01:00 (four years ago) link
What, those Marxists?!
― xyzzzz__, Saturday, 25 May 2019 07:05 (four years ago) link
Matt Hancock, who is apparently the Health Secretary, has thrown his hat into the ring.
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Saturday, 25 May 2019 08:15 (four years ago) link
his perpetual beaming grin countenance will make him a hit with Cliff Richard fans.
― calzino, Saturday, 25 May 2019 08:20 (four years ago) link
Sad state of affairs when that insignificant little squirt thinks he can be come Prime Minister.
― Ned Caligari (Tom D.), Saturday, 25 May 2019 08:37 (four years ago) link
what's lower than 'the dregs'? May has long since passed the barrel scraping stage of Conservative talent.
― calzino, Saturday, 25 May 2019 08:50 (four years ago) link
I fear not!
― Ned Caligari (Tom D.), Saturday, 25 May 2019 08:51 (four years ago) link
Boris wins, don't think he'll call a GE though (also got to factor
Wouldn't be surprised to see a post-victory pivot of some sort though, maybe second referendum
― anvil, Saturday, 25 May 2019 08:54 (four years ago) link
xxp Mark Francois
― gyac, Saturday, 25 May 2019 08:58 (four years ago) link
Dancing on May's grave on Newsnight last night. Oddly enough it would've been an antidote to the 'she's human after all' dreck if it wasn't coming from such a disgusting place
― xyzzzz__, Saturday, 25 May 2019 09:04 (four years ago) link
I saw Owen Jones’s clip of him saying why May deserved no sympathy was doing numbers on US twitter last night, which was nice.
― gyac, Saturday, 25 May 2019 09:17 (four years ago) link
Banter heuristic: Johnson or perhaps Rees-Mogg sneaks onto the final membership ballot (with inevitable victory to come) by a margin of one or two votes, thanks to the three CUK defectors
― Bash Street Kids: Endgame (Bananaman Begins), Saturday, 25 May 2019 09:20 (four years ago) link
I've worked out what Matt Hancock reminds me of - a vicar in an 80s sitcom whose daughter has brought a punk boyfriend to dinner.
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Saturday, 25 May 2019 09:42 (four years ago) link
Bananaman's prediction would be hilarious if it wasn't so terrifyingly likely to happen.
― Matt DC, Saturday, 25 May 2019 09:52 (four years ago) link
rory stewart has the only endorsement that matters
Thank you https://t.co/UaiseKqnWQ— Rory Stewart (@RoryStewartUK) May 25, 2019
― ||||||||, Saturday, 25 May 2019 09:53 (four years ago) link
lol
― shhh / let peaceful like things (wins), Saturday, 25 May 2019 09:57 (four years ago) link
― shhh / let peaceful like things (wins), Saturday, 25 May 2019 09:59 (four years ago) link
Exceptionally good!Cackling at the Hedges endorsement, that’s incredible.
― gyac, Saturday, 25 May 2019 10:01 (four years ago) link
God knows there’s enough of the other shite about. It’s bad enough the pious finger-wagging when these fucks die and you decline to pretend they were good people, we certainly don’t have to take it for a fucking career change
― shhh / let peaceful like things (wins), Saturday, 25 May 2019 10:05 (four years ago) link
I also enjoyed Nicholas Winton’s daughter coming out to slap down May (figuratively) and Lord Dubs too.
― gyac, Saturday, 25 May 2019 10:09 (four years ago) link
any people talking about her premiership and legacy without even mentioning little things like Hostile Environment, two child tax credit rape clause, continuity Gideon austerity - the very things that make her widely reviled everywhere outside the tory heartlands, can totally get fucked. Sometimes OJ is a bit of a prat, but he was spot on yesterday I thought.
― calzino, Saturday, 25 May 2019 10:22 (four years ago) link
loving hancock's pitch. "vote for me, I'll lose to jeremy corbyn in a GE by christmas"
― ||||||||, Saturday, 25 May 2019 10:30 (four years ago) link
admin note, this^^^ is the thread for discussing these various bozos and why hunt will win
this other thread is for exploring why boris will lose: the boris project: slouching blond beast who can or shrunken cowardly lump who was never going to
― mark s, Saturday, 25 May 2019 10:33 (four years ago) link
I think this leadership contest might be more unpredictable than people seem to be assuming . They couldn’t get rid of May earlier because there were too many candidates and factions.— Wrath of Kahn (@allthatisol) May 25, 2019
― mark s, Saturday, 25 May 2019 15:07 (four years ago) link
I open up my ballotAnd it's full of cunts
― Elitist cheese photos (aldo), Saturday, 25 May 2019 15:36 (four years ago) link
Any time someone professes to thinking Rory Stewart is ‘quite good, for a Tory’, I point them towards this magnificent New Yorker profile revealing him as a vainglorious berk who can barely boil an egg. https://t.co/JDOd2Z8M8u— Elvis Buñuelo (@Mr_Considerate) May 25, 2019
― gyac, Saturday, 25 May 2019 17:03 (four years ago) link
He had discussed with friends an idea that might help prepare him: he would live in a housing project for two or three years, to better understand British poverty
lool, the children would eat him alive where I live!
― calzino, Saturday, 25 May 2019 17:08 (four years ago) link
I also enjoyed the bit where he describes himself as lower middle class and then there’s a quick segue to him tutoring Prince William and Harry on the basis of being friends with Prince Charles.
― gyac, Saturday, 25 May 2019 17:24 (four years ago) link
Royal Family notoriously middle class iirc
― specific goats my way (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 25 May 2019 17:27 (four years ago) link
They didn't go to Eton after all.
― Ned Caligari (Tom D.), Saturday, 25 May 2019 17:31 (four years ago) link
His dad is officer/spy class but I suppose he’s not actually in The Peerage index so in his world, that’s non-U.
― suzy, Saturday, 25 May 2019 17:38 (four years ago) link
Something I've been wondering - it seems to be taken as read that whoever wins will be acceptable enough to the DUP to allow the government to continue. Is that actually the case?
― Matt DC, Sunday, 26 May 2019 10:17 (four years ago) link
they will play hardball with every option as ever: it's not abt acceptable so much as gameable
― mark s, Sunday, 26 May 2019 10:34 (four years ago) link
I presume the threat of Corbyn marxist govt is even more unpalatable to them, but they can't be happy with some of Mcvey's braindead pronouncements on the border question - not that she's a serious contender - but I think Raab and others are chatting similar shit.
― calzino, Sunday, 26 May 2019 10:35 (four years ago) link
Anyone going on about the backstop and how it needs to be time limited or abolished and how the evil EU are trying to “annex” NI is acceptable to them; the moderates (if they exist) trying to pass a similar deal will very much not be. Anyone inconvenienced by reality will have the support withdrawn.
― gyac, Sunday, 26 May 2019 10:41 (four years ago) link
Also there is as far as I can see no way around the big problem - that the pronouncements any candidate needs to make in order to win are the exact same things that will lead them to fail at the job, even on their own terms.
― Matt DC, Sunday, 26 May 2019 10:53 (four years ago) link
Yep. They can promise and even get no deal - but they will still need to sit down with the EU for a deal in the end.
― gyac, Sunday, 26 May 2019 10:56 (four years ago) link
Re: DUP. As long as the winner pays up I don't see the problem. All good bar the backstop.
― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 26 May 2019 10:59 (four years ago) link
the GFA binds the EU also :)
― mark s, Sunday, 26 May 2019 11:13 (four years ago) link
LOLz if the Maybot is replaced by the Raabot. Could barely manage about 30 seconds of Marr inteviewing a vacuum this morning.
― Ned Caligari (Tom D.), Sunday, 26 May 2019 11:20 (four years ago) link
He genuinely thinks being a lawyer is a selling point.
― Ned Caligari (Tom D.), Sunday, 26 May 2019 11:21 (four years ago) link
the winner will be the biggest wife guy = it will be hunt vs gove
= it will be hunt
― mark s, Sunday, 26 May 2019 11:33 (four years ago) link
Hmmmmm
https://i.prcdn.co/img?regionKey=iWqH6b7%2BNqrQaR9yb6gwrw%3D%3D&scale=100
― Ned Caligari (Tom D.), Sunday, 26 May 2019 11:35 (four years ago) link
Heard some joker (been watching too much marvel shit probs) referring to Gove vs Boris as a "tantalising battle" on 5live earlier.
― calzino, Sunday, 26 May 2019 11:42 (four years ago) link
if it involved heavy blunt instruments and was to the death, sure
― specific goats my way (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 26 May 2019 12:10 (four years ago) link
I mean, it'll involve at least one.
― Andrew Farrell, Sunday, 26 May 2019 12:53 (four years ago) link
If Miliband can't run the country because he eats bacon like a horse I demand Michael Gove be held to the same standard for these atrocities pic.twitter.com/5rUeMatc8U— James Felton (@JimMFelton) May 26, 2019
― calzino, Sunday, 26 May 2019 13:04 (four years ago) link
There was a decent joke about Gove in here - https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/ng-interactive/2019/may/25/stephen-collins-on-boris-johnson-cartoon
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Sunday, 26 May 2019 13:07 (four years ago) link
i just passed Rory Stewart in the street, giving an interview to camera, and he was shockingly thin and twig-like, which i probably wouldn't have noticed except his suit was so large in comparison, it looked like it was going to swallow him head-first
― Lil' Brexit (Tracer Hand), Sunday, 26 May 2019 13:20 (four years ago) link
Do not underestimate the determination of the skeletal man.
― Ned Caligari (Tom D.), Sunday, 26 May 2019 13:21 (four years ago) link
No, I meant he probably asked what language to speak and was told English (maybe with relief). Unless the entire audience is francophone an academic talk in Paris will be given in English. At least that is the norm ime
― L'assie (Euler), Sunday, 7 July 2019 15:20 (four years ago) link
he probably asked what language to speak
What I'm saying is this certainly didn't happen.
― pomenitul, Sunday, 7 July 2019 15:28 (four years ago) link
It’s probably the least of his problems today...
but what about Steven Pinker pic.twitter.com/YNwqNZ0SRM— Matt Hammington (@MattHammington) July 7, 2019
― gyac, Sunday, 7 July 2019 15:56 (four years ago) link