PMs change and lol we're all gonna die (but brexit will never end)

This is great too:

We have the first BAME and mixed-race Prime Minister: a mixture of English Christians, Turkish Muslims and Eastern European Jews.

— Alexander Brindle (@Brindle_Alex) July 23, 2019

absolutely nuclear take, incredible

We must make up a prize for some of these tweets

lol IDS getting down to ancestry.com as we type.

And what about Disraeli? Anti-semitism, or what?

tbfttl:

Second! Disraeli was Sephardic Jewish. They are both mixed race too.

— Alexander Brindle (@Brindle_Alex) July 23, 2019

Trump just said Johnson is going to be 'great'. Good job, Tories! Emancipation is nigh.

president xi, fire when ready etc

Nice display name there from the tweet linked - it’s funny how racism is ok when you’re mocking a racist?

Lol@ Brindle tweet, if that were true he wouldn’t have got the vote.

Lol@ Brindle tweet, if that were true he wouldn’t have got the vote.

it reminds me of that young labour twonk who was white but wanted to be a bame representative on the strength that his mother once had a black bf.

i think young brindle was attempting an irony that got out from under him there but WHO KNOWS EH

check his replies to that tweet - if he's doing an irony, he's remarkably committed to the bit

also he rest of his timeline is cancer

the irony at issue isn't any more ambitious or insightful than "isn't it ironic that boris (= a tory) is our first BAME PM -- oh wait actually i mean second (first also a tory)"

I am using irony to make a joke which is intended to get people to think about these concepts in the context of modern Britain, with all its diversity and multiculturalism. Apologies to any offended, I understand I could be misinterpreted.

— Alexander Brindle (@Brindle_Alex) July 23, 2019

the rest of his timeline is still cancer tho

How is BAME pronounced btw? Seems like a UK-specific concept.

i think the options are spelling out the letters or rhyming it with DAME, if other options exist i am happy to adopt them in order to puzzle people

it's pronounced 'hen fap' iirc

Tempted by BAH-MEH (instinctively, because that’s what it would sound like in Romanian).

The BAH-ME PM

Lol he has done a whole thread about it now

But having a person who is a melting pot of backgrounds in a high profile position will probably inspire some young mixed people to be ambitious, and that is a good thing. We should celebrate diversity.

— Alexander Brindle (@Brindle_Alex) July 23, 2019

That's my personal highlight

🗣HEY ALEXANDER, DO THE MIXED PEOPLE HAVE TO LOOK AS WHITE AS BORIS?

His brain has clearly melted in the hellish heat of a Boris bus or he’s high off the fumes of melting plastic everywhere

Oh I see, I haven’t seen the social experiment excuse in ages.

Yeah they are really going for it. I was just trying to use irony to make people laugh and think about the concept of ethnicity, and mixed heritage in today's Britain. People infer what they want to infer.

— Alexander Brindle (@Brindle_Alex) July 23, 2019

in further news abt his brain (acc.his twitter bio): ppe student, fabian, boxing blues captain

godspeed you! bame prime minister

i for one welcome our new prime minister *checks notes* 'don't know'

https://preview.redd.it/ll5a9sz5p1c31.jpg?width=768&auto=webp&s=242bbe3852d10a1e85714f9db4614607e724b794

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I walked into the Sky studio and they asked me if I was a lady by the name of ‘Jo Swinson’. Unbelievable par so early in the morning, I’m going back to bed.

— Eleanor Penny (@eleanorkpenny) July 23, 2019

Should’ve Guy Goma’d it and announced full communism under the Swinson era.

Boris Johnson is the first journalist to become Prime Minister. That, by itself, is inspiring to me.

— Sam Bowman (@s8mb) July 23, 2019

Wow the Lib Dems are back, can’t believe swinston has already achieved the level of household recognition of whatsisname and the Jesus one

There can't be a journalist in the land who isn't looking at Boris today and thinking, "if he can, why can't I?". Whatever else he achieves, that is something special.

— Sam Bowman (@s8mb) July 23, 2019

Follow up tweet is even worse

http://publishing.cdlib.org/ucpressebooks/data/13030/8d/ft709nb48d/figures/ft709nb48d_00003.jpg

(l)progressive politics,(r) Jo Swinson.

This day is getting better by the hour:

I’d like to congratulate @BorisJohnson on becoming Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.

I for one hope that he takes a harder line with Varadkar, the Irish Government have treated us shamefully in recent months. All military options should be explored to deliver #Brexit

— Ian Paisley MP⚪ (@lanPaisleyMP) July 23, 2019

awww yiss

that's a parody account obv

So looking forward to us invading Ireland. All over by Christmas Halloween.

we are certainly now in a world where very obvious parody accounts have the power to start non-parody wars

There can't be a journalist in the land who isn't looking at Boris today and thinking, "if he can, why can't I?".

Are all Brit journalists as lacking in moral compass and as ready to embrace any position to fulfill their ambitions as Mr. Johnson?

Churchill was a journalist for a while, was he not? FFS do these cunts know nothing about the history of the Tory Party?

Most of the journos who’ve recently turned candidate are Greens.

xxp that was rhetorical i take it

churchill as a journalist and an auton:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/bd/Churchill_1904_Q_42037.jpg

So looking forward to us invading Ireland. All over by Christmas Halloween.

godspeed you! bame prime minister

― Br. Des Shadows (NickB), Tuesday, 23 July 2019 bookmarkflaglink

Paying my respects to this post btw

Jeremy Corbyn says Labour will table a motion of no confidence designed to force Boris Johnson from office "at a time of (their) choosing", adding "it will be an interesting surprise for all of you"#NextPrimeMinister updates: https://t.co/RXBOOCDERG pic.twitter.com/S8pzz9Orrn

— BBC Politics (@BBCPolitics) July 23, 2019

Christ, to be in that 8%.

SNAP POLL: Which of the following best reflects your reaction to Boris Johnson becoming leader?
Dismayed: 37%
Pleased: 18%
Disappointed: 10%
Delighted: 10%
Don’t mind either way: 17%https://t.co/HIIFAgL8kP pic.twitter.com/ztQ8odZI1W

— YouGov (@YouGov) July 23, 2019

"we must stop the Brexiteer Corbyn by backing Boris Johnson to the hilt" said Cooper