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

whether that’s not possible because the EU sticks very stubbornly to its line,

really hate this charmless shitbag

I think the prospects of reverting and getting a good deal for the UK will be easier after we leave, if that’s the case, and the reason being is we will do so as an independent third country and we will be less subject to, effectively, the demands and unilateral dictates of the EU as we are now.

i think you’re being v negative and not turbocharged enough gyac. why just look at the effect the prospect of our independence is having already:

Since summer of 2016 investment in the UK has lagged that of the major economies of the eurozone.https://t.co/wcBLrpq4zx pic.twitter.com/VPGETjPBiD

— Adam Tooze (@adam_tooze) July 28, 2019

They're all just waiting until we are a free people again and then they'll come running.

... I'm sure I heard this exact argument made at the weekend.

So are charges being bought against Mark Field or not?

Cabinet Office inquiry into Mark Field's conduct has been closed after he was sacked in the reshuffle. No 10 source: 'The current PM considers this issue was a matter for the previous PM.' https://t.co/e4tEA4iYp9

— Jason Groves (@JasonGroves1) July 29, 2019

should be noted on that investment chart that it’s in the context of a bargain basement pound. can’t even pay people to invest.

investment in the uk can't lag behind that of the major economies of the eurozone if we're not in the eurozone anymore

tapping_temple_wisely.gif except it's mark's gold top hat i'm tapping

I had a big lol the other day when reading some reviews on Slant and was getting spammed with adverts for top-hats.

He thinks current employment law offers "excessive protections" to workers. "People who are coasting – it should be easier to let them go, to give the unemployed a chance. It is a delicate balancing act, but it should be decided in favour of the latter."

quote from when Britannia Unchained came out which opens with "The talented and hard-working have nothing to fear," says Dominic Raab.

MORE 👏 PRECARIOUS 👏 JOBS 👏

No deal is not an end point and will preoccupy government for years.

Our new @instituteforgov paper looks at what needs to happen before October 31 and what will follow if the UK leaves without a deal. pic.twitter.com/naD6ihirCI

— Joe Owen (@jl_owen) July 29, 2019

This is good.

in unrelated news

More than 4 million people in the UK are trapped in deep poverty, meaning their income is at least 50% below the official breadline, locking them into a weekly struggle to afford the most basic living essentials, an independent study has shown

thisisfine.jpg

these people are clearly just feckless wreckers, deliberately putting themselves into poverty to undermine Universal Credit.

my favourite part of the thread matt posted

And this new £100m ad campaign will be vital. Because as it stands there's a very real risk that the UK will be LESS ready in October than it was in March. pic.twitter.com/0DRgLERciy

— Joe Owen (@jl_owen) July 29, 2019

lwagd

No-deal Brexit: Government planning for direct rule in Northern Ireland, foreign secretary admits.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/brexit-no-deal-northern-ireland-direct-rule-dominic-raab-boris-johnson-a9024801.html

I think sensible businesses will be doing what they can to prepare but there is still so much uncertainty about what a no-deal scenario means, even if it looks odds on, there's only so much they can do. There are likely to be a lot of contingency plans being drawn up for moving corporate registrations to Ireland or the Netherlands, though.

idk where the goalposts shift to next. We have had 'we will get a better deal before leaving with enough brinksmanship', we're now on 'we will get a better deal after we have crashed out without one'.

"no deal is better than a bad deal, except for the bad deal we will be left with after no deal"

did we miss this over the weekend:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-49135045

US President Donald Trump has said talks about a "very substantial" trade deal with the UK are under way.

He said a bilateral post-Brexit deal could lead to a "three to four, five times" increase in current trade.

(that's the nhs buggered then...)

Boris Johnson’s reception at Bute House pic.twitter.com/Rhy0J4kMMF

— Chris Green (@cghgreen) July 29, 2019

you, quite literally, love to see it

ha! not many safe spaces for him outside the Shires!

come to glasgow u coward

My favourite thing is watching Dominic Raab interviews with the sound off and seeing the way his brain is inwardly screaming "DON'T PANIC DON'T PANIC OH MY GOD I'M PANICKING BUT IT'S FINE THEY ABSOLUTELY CAN'T TELL" https://t.co/f5dXpVMNU5

— Anita Singh (@anitathetweeter) July 29, 2019

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WATCH: The new Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab has told me the the "balance has shifted" towards no deal, but says "there's a deal to be done if the EU shows the flexibility we've shown."

I asked him what flexibility the UK government has shown: pic.twitter.com/HZy3IYKH9s

— Daniel Hewitt (@DanielHewittITV) July 29, 2019

Apologies for any inadvertent humanising of Raab, who the clip makes fairly clear is both dangerous and a complete cunt.

Boris Johnson has just left Bute House through the back door

— Nick Eardley (@nickeardleybbc) July 29, 2019

the bold, decisive leadership these sceptred isles deserve

Churchillian.

dunkirk spirit

(retreating)

Churchillian, in that he also slinked out of a Scottish city.

it's so heartening to see the *baying hate mobs* that restricted May to very lame and pointless campaigning to small audiences of Tory activists outside the Shires are still very much there to cause Boris the same problems when there is an election.

Australia’s government, having passed its tax cuts, is bereft of new ideas other than dehumanising foreigners and the poor, which is business as usual, and barely disguised acts of corruption, also par for the course. Parliament has sat for a grand total of 4 weeks this year. This means the news has a lot of time for Brexit.

Dominic Raab is a disingenuous fuckstick.

Giving Matias Cormann a run for his money and getting more airtime as well.

TBH filling your entire Cabinet with people who are both manifestly incompetent and loathed by the public may backfire.

And the don’t even seem to have wheeled out Gove yet.

Gove's like the superstar of the cabinet, that's how shite the rest of them are.

apparently Raab's a boxing fan, would love to see him getting beaten to a bloody pulp. i'm sure i won't be completely alone there as well.

disingenuous is almost giving him too much credit, they've clearly been briefed to repeat key soundbites over and over - "undemocratic backstop", it doesn't even make sense, we smell you Cummings.

hope everybody's in the crash position cos the plane's going down and there will be no GE until they've done it.

b-b-but sat in a room with random words on a whiteboard - operational genius etc... lol he's just the next fucking dead-eyed turkeyneck to succeed Crosby!

Gove is like Mr fucking personality next to the Britannia Unchained/far right lunatic mob. On R4's Farming Today he earned the affectionate nickname Govey with some farmers. can't imagine these fucking noble yeomen of the land using "Raaby" or "Trussy".

What's at stake?

https://www.theargus.co.uk/news/17799836.39-lives-depend-jeremy-corbyn-elected-39---momentum-members/

"Australia’s government, having passed its tax cuts, is bereft of new ideas other than dehumanising foreigners and the poor, which is business as usual, and barely disguised acts of corruption, also par for the course."

An alternative is available over here

yep, reversing austerity, to some people is literally life or death, although Stella + co will roll their eyes at that it is the fucking truth

All this bunce Boris is chucking about with abandon + tax cuts for the rich will no doubt lead to new improved extra deadly austerity 2.0 - can't see it any other way.

don't worry dude their future coalition partners will never let that happen

all I can see in Jo Swinson's eyes is oblivion. She might be the one who needs moderating by the tories!

why did I put the R4 on this morning. more pathetic Campbell malingering, some pro-fracking bs, some twat from an energy company saying May's temp price cap is "anti-free market". No wonder my mental health improves when I stick to R3.

i just caught the last five minutes of Today and they seemed to be giving the government's "the WA is just a German plot to punish us" shtick some serious thought

xp Campbell's whine has been published in full in the Grauniad ffs

Campbell taking his ball home is the day's feel-good story tbf

he was losing it a bit earlier, spitting out something about people who used to be communists taking over the PLP and saying this isn't the party of attlee .. blah blah. Well as much as Attlee despised communists and "faddish radicals" he still gave prominent positions to Stafford Cripps in his cabinet, so maybe they were actually a broad church back then. But under Blair + him they were just a piss stinking big tent!