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

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

fucking YouGov with their bullshit LibDem Magnum surge.

☀️The BIG summer question🍦✊🍦:

What's your perfect ice lolly / Verso author combo?

The winning choice will be illustrated tomorrow 🌞

— Verso Books (@VersoBooks) July 24, 2019

tbf the guy who called them ice creams appears to be a total melt so he knows whereof he speaks

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

Gavin Williamson is the real unexploded bomb here.

Is this real?

They haven't even spelled Prof Rowbotham's name right.

tbf it is very hot today

undecided which i'd prefer: an awkward ten mins at a table with f.jameson as we both eat fabs, me using mine largely to suppress my trenchant opinions of his bad writing and thinking down the decades, or some crappy photo of a lolly i can't eat next to a book i probably won't read

posting john ruddy is a bigger yellow card than MLC imo

lot of sackings here

Does it count if you’re posting him for mocking?

The Disgraced Liam Fox and Penny Mordaunt are a bit of a surprise all things considered.

A bit surprised by Mordaunt jumping ship (lol) but makes sense if you consider she thinks this government will be a disaster and doesn’t want the taint when she inevitably runs as leader next time.

lol @ Grayling out of cabinet “at his own request”