Lolz Truss to International Trade, banter game strong
― gyac, Wednesday, 24 July 2019 18:58 (four years ago) link
all the "sorry to see x go" talk made me think some Tories had actually crossed the floor, but hell no, that would be too much to expect after all the talk abt Never Boris
(might some go now the cabinet's been announced? or after a weekend to think about it and discuss it with family? or should I stop deluding myself that such a thing might ever happen?)
Truss and Raab for exploratory cheese and pork markets reconnaissance trip to Calais obv
― a passing spacecadet, Wednesday, 24 July 2019 19:09 (four years ago) link
or should I stop deluding myself that such a thing might ever happen?
This strikes me as the UK equivalent of American liberals pining for 'good' conservative Republicans, so yeah.
― Greta Van Show Feets BB (milo z), Wednesday, 24 July 2019 19:11 (four years ago) link
i looked at those jon worth flow diagrams for the first time in ages and it seems delusional
https://jonworth.eu/brexit-what-next/
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, 24 July 2019 19:15 (four years ago) link
Makes me nostalgic for those long-ago times of certainty. Like every time round the actual result is something batshit-unexpected and thus nowhere to be seen on the pointless flow.
― stet, Wednesday, 24 July 2019 19:24 (four years ago) link
the biggest challenge of all... đź‘€
2/4 I've been a cabinet minister for every hour my 3 gorgeous children have been alive. So whilst it may seem strange for someone who just tried to become PM (& is a terrible cliche) I have decided now is the time for the biggest challenge of all - to be a GOOD DAD!— Jeremy Hunt (@Jeremy_Hunt) July 24, 2019
― im led by donky (||||||||), Wednesday, 24 July 2019 19:32 (four years ago) link
lol oh great
Theresa Villiers returns to cabinet as environment secretaryTheresa Villiers, the former Northern Ireland secretary and another alumnus of the Vote Leave campaign, has returned to the cabinet as environment secretary.
― gyac, Wednesday, 24 July 2019 19:35 (four years ago) link
"I have decided now is the time for the biggest challenge of all - to be a GOOD DAD!"
Surely even on here we can't be churlish about a repentant child-abuser making a pledge to change his evil ways.
― calzino, Wednesday, 24 July 2019 19:45 (four years ago) link
Hasn’t Villiers got a very slight majority or something?
― suzy, Wednesday, 24 July 2019 19:48 (four years ago) link
think it may be a dig at boris “5 or 6 children” johnson
xp
― im led by donky (||||||||), Wednesday, 24 July 2019 19:52 (four years ago) link
they are the lucky ones!
― calzino, Wednesday, 24 July 2019 19:54 (four years ago) link
Ooooh definitely a dig at BJ.
― suzy, Wednesday, 24 July 2019 20:09 (four years ago) link
Good lord, Gavin Williamson, sacked a few weeks ago for leaking national security secrets to the press, now in charge of Education.
― ShariVari, Wednesday, 24 July 2019 20:24 (four years ago) link
i always mix him up with Nazi otter-lover Henry Williamson
― Mr Jolyon Posts Next Door (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 24 July 2019 20:27 (four years ago) link
Nicky Morgan to culture secretary - this is from SEPTEMBER 2018. welcome to the resistance, Nicky https://t.co/9W2vmRDPT8 pic.twitter.com/HA3calWEKa— Jon Stone (@joncstone) July 24, 2019
The Rt Hon Grant Shapps @grantshapps has been appointed Secretary of State for Transport @transportgovuk pic.twitter.com/lZNqFWXZ3B— UK Prime Minister (@10DowningStreet) July 24, 2019
― gyac, Wednesday, 24 July 2019 20:33 (four years ago) link
lest we forget
https://images-i.jpimedia.uk/imagefetch/c_fill,f_auto,q_auto:eco,w_1192/https://inews.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/GrantSchnapps.jpg
― Captain ACAB (Neil S), Wednesday, 24 July 2019 20:42 (four years ago) link
lol One-Nation tories in the area!
― calzino, Wednesday, 24 July 2019 20:48 (four years ago) link
In this era it has become clearer than ever that actual One nation Toryism hasn't really been seen since the 70's or Blair's half arsed version in the 90's
― calzino, Wednesday, 24 July 2019 20:55 (four years ago) link
"never mind the backstop.. the buck stops here"
^^^I've always said posh schools are well overrated!
― calzino, Wednesday, 24 July 2019 21:03 (four years ago) link
DID HE JUST SAY THAT
I am over on BBC4 watching Mary Beard, who actually knows her shit re: classics, as a form of protest.
― suzy, Wednesday, 24 July 2019 21:05 (four years ago) link
Someone explain the election cabinet thing pls? Cos this looks like the dregs.
― gyac, Wednesday, 24 July 2019 bookmarkflaglink
The thinking (and this is just as much in regards to Dominic Cummings hire) is to do with uniting the right-wing under leave, getting the Brexit party faithful back, and if successful pushing that Unchained vision through. In a situation with few options..
― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 24 July 2019 21:06 (four years ago) link
james butler explains the cabinet: https://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2019/july/bring-your-own-sunshine
(it reads a bit hurried to me in places -- he was also at teh demo -- but JB is always good on process and procedure and where this can create blocks and problems)
― mark s, Wednesday, 24 July 2019 21:18 (four years ago) link
Rees-Mogg offered numerous Cabinet roles but didn't fancy the demotion.
― nashwan, Wednesday, 24 July 2019 21:28 (four years ago) link
xps yeah the assumption I guess is that this neuters the Brexit Party so that they sweep up all single-issue leavers, along with keeping standard Tory scum plus a tiny Boris = ledge contingent; they can rely on media to help most single-issue remainer dopes go lib dem and weaken Labour; non-single-issue votes break messily but don't give enough to ultimately ahem 'let Corbyn in'.
I am cautiously optimistic that this will not work.
― woof, Wednesday, 24 July 2019 21:29 (four years ago) link
Lol:
"High office has spared us Johnson’s long-threatened book on Shakespeare" xp
― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 24 July 2019 21:30 (four years ago) link
I don't see how this government can govern, so I think it's a pantomime for a while: blame Europe, blame parliament, blame blame blame, then provoke a vote of no confidence and get to the election with disingenuous reluctance.
― woof, Wednesday, 24 July 2019 21:34 (four years ago) link
xxp a lot of the headbangers out there are ENRAGED by Rudd/Morgan etc in the cabinet.
― gyac, Wednesday, 24 July 2019 21:35 (four years ago) link
clearly going to keep on saying "we won't have an election" because he reckons people still fatigued by that prospect - it's nearly inevitable though, and he'll position it as having been foisted on GBP by a recalcitrant EU/WM
― im led by donky (||||||||), Wednesday, 24 July 2019 21:36 (four years ago) link
I think a lot of those Tory-Lib dem marginals are really done for the Tories. Labour can also demonise the Unchained vision, which is incredibly negative and dark at its core.
And I still think Boris' past -- his role in the Leave campaign as well as his personal life -- will have a role to play.
― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 24 July 2019 21:37 (four years ago) link
yup. someone is saving that recording for election week.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, 24 July 2019 21:40 (four years ago) link
Sounds about right.
― Arthur Lowe & Love (Tom D.), Wednesday, 24 July 2019 21:56 (four years ago) link
Time to check in on what Matthew Goodwin, author of the forthcoming National Populism: The Assault Against Liberal Democracy, is tweeting:
https://i.postimg.cc/fbbhsGF6/ECE2-AC6-C-DE0-C-4-BCC-9-F89-2-A93545-C2-C53.jpg
There is absolutely no way that centre-right liberals are not going to line up behind Johnson, however Atlas Shrugged he goes.
― ShariVari, Wednesday, 24 July 2019 21:56 (four years ago) link
How can there be Islamophobia in the Tory party with a cabinet like this?!
― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 24 July 2019 21:58 (four years ago) link
You mean that guy they forgot to invite to meet Trump?
― Arthur Lowe & Love (Tom D.), Wednesday, 24 July 2019 21:59 (four years ago) link
lol! Priti is such a poisonous piece of garbage, can't Macron have her please
― calzino, Wednesday, 24 July 2019 22:16 (four years ago) link
On one hand, another big step in the rise of fascism. On the other, this reshuffle means that Bravo Two Zero will be on the GSCE curriculum.
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 24 July 2019 22:50 (four years ago) link
Once you've met some deranged pub bore whose eyes travel in multiple directions and they have a well thumbed copy of Bravo Two Zero with the pages stuck together - that's when you call Prevent. Not make them a fucking minister.
― calzino, Wednesday, 24 July 2019 23:06 (four years ago) link
Feel like we should run a sweepstakes on the first one to be sacked.
If I was Corbyn I'd be calling him out on his dare-or-die bullshit and ask him to call an election. The line should be 'what are you afraid of?' from now on.
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 24 July 2019 23:14 (four years ago) link
thanks boris, very cool!
Well, the new Housing Minister is a guy named Robert Jenrick. The multi-millionaire owns 3 houses, and just to show his common touch, he once said he doesn’t “need to have a disabled daughter” to know what it’s like to be hard up. Absolute tosser.— Rachael Swindon (@Rachael_Swindon) July 25, 2019
― another no-holds-barred Tokey Wedge adventure for men (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 25 July 2019 08:41 (four years ago) link
https://ipnotglobal.files.wordpress.com/2017/06/robert-jenrick-e1383324980122.jpg?w=871he seems like a fair lad!
― calzino, Thursday, 25 July 2019 08:49 (four years ago) link
the cold, dead eyes of a killer right there
― another no-holds-barred Tokey Wedge adventure for men (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 25 July 2019 08:49 (four years ago) link
He's got three houses, so he must be a perfect match on housing amirite?
― Le Bateau Ivre, Thursday, 25 July 2019 08:52 (four years ago) link
captain three houses has treble the knowledge!
― calzino, Thursday, 25 July 2019 08:55 (four years ago) link
Had to add a children’s table
https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/3c757fc32d4f55eb1ca852fdaad1fccaeadc9742/0_38_2615_1569/master/2615.jpg
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Thursday, 25 July 2019 09:18 (four years ago) link
Wonder how brave keyboard warriors would be if they were face to face with my 6’ son and his mates 🍆 https://t.co/kJLw47VBiu— Kay Burley (@KayBurley) July 25, 2019
― Matt DC, Thursday, 25 July 2019 11:08 (four years ago) link
uhhhhh
― another no-holds-barred Tokey Wedge adventure for men (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 25 July 2019 11:09 (four years ago) link
the eggplant emoji is... troubling
― another no-holds-barred Tokey Wedge adventure for men (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 25 July 2019 11:10 (four years ago) link
Yeah that looks different on Twitter but I lolled either way
― Mr Jolyon Posts Next Door (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 25 July 2019 11:10 (four years ago) link
lmao
― Le Bateau Ivre, Thursday, 25 July 2019 11:12 (four years ago) link
Six inch son?
― Arthur Lowe & Love (Tom D.), Thursday, 25 July 2019 11:14 (four years ago) link