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

PMs change and guess who's back: it's teh Scrute!

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2019/jul/23/roger-scruton-gets-job-back-after-regrettable-sacking

as much as the dissolution of the United Kingdom and the destruction of the Conservative party as an electoral force for a generation is quite an exciting prospect. The return of Scrote and prospect of Priti fucking Patel as home sec is very depressing. Mind you, perhaps we should be grateful she isn't pro death penalty these days.

not even in office yet and he’s getting stared down by jeremy hunt - refusing to move posts again

Bojo can push him out, right? It's not like he'd care about ~party unity~

Not surprising but still funny to see all the Robinson fanboys going "Well actually I don't mind that money I've given him for political campaigning has been spent to feed Tommy and his friends' drug habits". Fuck me, you lot are being grifted hard but you won't admit it! 🤣🤣🤣

— libcom dot org (@libcomorg) July 23, 2019

ha ha some ex Tommy Robinson photographer said all the donations they were receiving was being spent on coke, then she deleted her account.

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2019/jul/24/nissan-plans-to-shed-10000-jobs-worldwide-reports-claim

how much of the im led by donky money is going up james, will, and oliver’s noses

Still can't make it through that NYRB piece. Despise that discussion of the akratic. It's just the thing a literary critic would be intrigued by, as opposed to the cold fact the Boris' position got the novel to be published in the first place despite its merits. Maybe that and his Churchill biog are clues to what is going on inside this tall, blank blonde person with a posh accent. Fuck off.

HUGE BRAIN

One big appointment coming today - Dominic Cummings expected to be senior advisor to the new PM - Vote Leave chief moving into govt - huge brain and experienced in govt, and will be applauded by Brexiteers - highly controversial too

— Laura Kuenssberg (@bbclaurak) July 24, 2019

how much of the im led by donky money is going up james, will, and oliver’s noses

they're still out there doing their thing so... not enough?

huge brain got me cumming(s)

Married to The Spectator's deputy editor whose Dad has a castle. Sticking it to the elites as ever.

That’s the woman I’m told BJ stalked before she married DC. Ewwwwwwwwww.

lmao, swear these fuckers are on some 'I, Claudius' trip

this is good, normal stuff

Education in England is no better than mediocre, and billions of pounds have been wasted on pointless university courses and Sure Start schemes for young children, Michael Gove’s special adviser has said in an outspoken private thesis written a few weeks before he is due to step down from his post.

Dominic Cummings, the most influential adviser to the education secretary in the past five years, also argues in a revealing 250-page paper that “real talent” is rare among the nation’s teachers – and, eye-catchingly, says educationists need to better understand the impact of genetics on children.

(reported in the graun in 2013)

Time to re-up that or send it to a commentator who might be grateful to be reminded?

sometimes you're right for all the wrong reasons

it was on the graun's liveblog earlier this morning, suzy, which is where i nicked it from

yikes

I have been asked to share this from a previous, deleted account, under one of Arnold's aliases. An appalling tweet from anyone, let alone a supposed staffer to a left-wing MP. The reaction to it is still in evidence through the receipts below.https://t.co/q844lftbKy pic.twitter.com/xR8ifUWz0y

— Red Robbo (@Orwell_Fan_Fan) July 23, 2019

BREAKING: electoral law. The fastest & surest route to power. Cummings masterminded the massive Vote Leave electoral fraud. Johnson headed the campaign & has *never* answered qs about his involvement. Cummings kept his silence. And is now rewarded with top job. Truly, I despair.

— Carole Cadwalladr (@carolecadwalla) July 24, 2019

🙄

Munira Mirza as head of the Number 10 Policy Unit - the Spiked/Institute of Ideas/Living Marxism creep continues...

— Dawn Foster (@DawnHFoster) July 24, 2019

Munira Mirza appointed head of policy unit. lol we are all doomed.

xp

*Watches as some of you agree with this*

.@theresa_may last ever remarks to @jeremycorbyn at #PMQs. "He and I are very different people...What we have in common is our commitment to our constituencies. As a party leader who has accepted when her time is up, perhaps the time has come for him to do the same". Wow

— Robert Peston (@Peston) July 24, 2019

Watch half the media start clapping like seals as Johnson appoints a string of high-profile Asian Tories, thus enabling everyone to feel good about their progressive credentials as we end up with the most right-wing government since the war.

that would be Civil War yes?

May there indicating she'd like to see Labour doing better in the polls.

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/bigZ1fmwD-Q/hqdefault.jpg

that Johnson reshuffle in full

xp if the appointees are rightest-wing Hindu background that will get seal-claps from media centrists and Modi alike (a nationalist problem child the media centrists don’t pay any attention to).

Even James Ball is taken aback by Patel's readmission to the Cabinet so maybe there is hope for the centrists yet.

But May’s final jibe about how it was time for Corbyn to consider standing down too was an effective riposte, principally because it chimed with what many Labour MPs think.

^ from Andrew Sparrow who should resign

From The Guardian:

"May then left the chamber to a standing ovation from Conservative MPs and a few others such as the DUP. "

🤔

Some Labour MPs applauded too. GET 'EM.

Was thinking that Lib Dems would.

The ferociously hard-right appointments don't suggest Johnson is particularly scared about potential defections or VONCs. There's absolutely no concessions to the Stewart / Gauke wing of the party so far.

Think what you like about Priti Patel but she'll be the first Home Secretary in over a century to have advocated threatening Ireland with food shortages. Whatever way you look at it, that's inspiring.

— Séamas It Ever Was (@shockproofbeats) July 24, 2019

Raab rumoured for Foreign Sec. He’s not going to be worse than Johnson.

i'm confident he'll give it his best shot

I had to switch off BBC when their royal correspondent was shiting on about the Latin meaning of “audience”.

Meanwhile, you love to see it:

Woah...pretty sure Labour’s shadow justice secretary Richard Burgon just said “call a by-election you fucker” to @IanAustinMP #pmqs

— Owen Bennett (@owenjbennett) July 24, 2019

labour's shadow justice secretary richard burgon otm

yougov: asking the questions that REALLY matter

https://preview.redd.it/34lbandbq8c31.jpg?width=1024&auto=webp&s=86ac1c45a09baf42c3b665fcbfd69d897bd07f6d

I would contend that none of these are "ice lollies". They are "Ice creams". This is the hill I will die on. https://t.co/dyZehAuTRl

— John Ruddy (@jruddy99) July 24, 2019

fucking bullshit, twisters and fabs are NOT ice-creams you absolute TWAT

lolly we’re all gonna die

toberlone lollies are new big feast, just saying.

those are all lollies ffs nb some of them may be "posh" lollies i'll let somebody else troll that one

ice cream = in a cornet preferably assembled near point of consumption
lolly = on a stick yes shish kebabs are lollies fight me

a head on a pike on London Bridge is a lolly

i would lick it yes