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

"never mind the backstop.. the buck stops here"

^^^
I've always said posh schools are well overrated!

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.

Someone explain the election cabinet thing pls? Cos this looks like the dregs.

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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..

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)

Rees-Mogg offered numerous Cabinet roles but didn't fancy the demotion.

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.

Lol:

"High office has spared us Johnson’s long-threatened book on Shakespeare" xp

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.

xxp a lot of the headbangers out there are ENRAGED by Rudd/Morgan etc in the cabinet.

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

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.

yup. someone is saving that recording for election week.

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.

Sounds about right.

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.

How can there be Islamophobia in the Tory party with a cabinet like this?!

You mean that guy they forgot to invite to meet Trump?

lol! Priti is such a poisonous piece of garbage, can't Macron have her please

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.

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.

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.

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

https://ipnotglobal.files.wordpress.com/2017/06/robert-jenrick-e1383324980122.jpg?w=871
he seems like a fair lad!

the cold, dead eyes of a killer right there

He's got three houses, so he must be a perfect match on housing amirite?

captain three houses has treble the knowledge!

Had to add a children’s table

https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/3c757fc32d4f55eb1ca852fdaad1fccaeadc9742/0_38_2615_1569/master/2615.jpg

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

uhhhhh

the eggplant emoji is... troubling

Yeah that looks different on Twitter but I lolled either way

lmao

Six inch son?

no no Aubergine is the name of her son's attack dog

Poor kid

#sadnessinhiseyes

This explains a lot. #hottestdayoftheyear pic.twitter.com/dN9YBpvw0k

— 2000 AD Comics (@2000AD) July 25, 2019

Jesus, Prime Minister Johnson in the Commons, with his shitty jokey blustering and playing to the revolting scum on his backbenches, kill me now.

you'll want judge death for that

Labour’s Anneliese Dodds asks why Johnson said so little about the climate emergency if he really cares about it.

Johnson says the Conservatives are the only party that believes private sector-driven new technology can provide a solution to the problem.

lol we're all gonna die

Good thread on how things might play out in the next few months:

So what just happened with @BorisJohnson #Brexit statement?

My take as follows....

tldr; we are heading for a general election. Here's why...

1/Thread

— Peter Foster (@pmdfoster) July 25, 2019

Yes I think that is quite intuitive and is probably what will happen.

what's the answer to private sector-driven new technology which has condemned the entire planet to, at best, a quick death by drowning? yes, it's definitely more private sector-driven new technology

ffs judge death just take us all now

Cool that climate change and the backstop both have exactly the same solution.

Look, this solution the private sector has whipped up will drown everyone 2.5 times quicker than they might otherwise have.

luv2make science fiction the cornerstone of my politics

old lunch this seems as good a time as any to remind you to please read judge dredd before the methane which will be released from under the ice sheets in the coming months kills us all

Thank u, yes, nothing like the impending extinction of the species to spur a reassessment of one's priorities.

Lol wait until they shit a load of money up the wall getting Elon Musk in as the private sector brane genius

musk and tom watson should team up to hunt paedos

high tech paedo hunters and luxury communist asteroid mining ..I want to die ..lol

tbf a nice tube-shaped coffin jammed far down a water-filled mine will be a nice way to escape from the heat as the world burns