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.
― Matt DC, Monday, 29 July 2019 13:03 (four years ago) link
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
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― another no-holds-barred Tokey Wedge adventure for men (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 29 July 2019 13:04 (four years ago) link
these people are clearly just feckless wreckers, deliberately putting themselves into poverty to undermine Universal Credit.
― calzino, Monday, 29 July 2019 13:09 (four years ago) link
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
― another no-holds-barred Tokey Wedge adventure for men (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 29 July 2019 13:09 (four years ago) link
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
― Andrew Farrell, Monday, 29 July 2019 13:14 (four years ago) link
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'.
― ShariVari, Monday, 29 July 2019 13:16 (four years ago) link
"no deal is better than a bad deal, except for the bad deal we will be left with after no deal"
― Captain ACAB (Neil S), Monday, 29 July 2019 13:21 (four years ago) link
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...)
― koogs, Monday, 29 July 2019 14:01 (four years ago) link
Boris Johnson’s reception at Bute House pic.twitter.com/Rhy0J4kMMF— Chris Green (@cghgreen) July 29, 2019
― gyac, Monday, 29 July 2019 15:37 (four years ago) link
you, quite literally, love to see it
― another no-holds-barred Tokey Wedge adventure for men (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 29 July 2019 15:38 (four years ago) link
ha! not many safe spaces for him outside the Shires!
― calzino, Monday, 29 July 2019 15:41 (four years ago) link
come to glasgow u coward
― im led by donky (||||||||), Monday, 29 July 2019 16:15 (four years ago) link
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
― Andrew Farrell, Monday, 29 July 2019 17:14 (four years ago) link
(Embedding
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.
― Andrew Farrell, Monday, 29 July 2019 17:16 (four years ago) link
Boris Johnson has just left Bute House through the back door— Nick Eardley (@nickeardleybbc) July 29, 2019
― xyzzzz__, Monday, 29 July 2019 18:16 (four years ago) link
the bold, decisive leadership these sceptred isles deserve
― another no-holds-barred Tokey Wedge adventure for men (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 29 July 2019 18:17 (four years ago) link
Churchillian.
― Arthur Lowe & Love (Tom D.), Monday, 29 July 2019 18:19 (four years ago) link
dunkirk spirit
(retreating)
― bookmarkflaglink (jim in vancouver), Monday, 29 July 2019 18:45 (four years ago) link
Churchillian, in that he also slinked out of a Scottish city.
― michaellambert, Monday, 29 July 2019 19:00 (four years ago) link
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.
― calzino, Monday, 29 July 2019 19:11 (four years ago) link
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.
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Monday, 29 July 2019 21:06 (four years ago) link
Giving Matias Cormann a run for his money and getting more airtime as well.
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Monday, 29 July 2019 21:07 (four years ago) link
TBH filling your entire Cabinet with people who are both manifestly incompetent and loathed by the public may backfire.
― Matt DC, Monday, 29 July 2019 21:11 (four years ago) link
And the don’t even seem to have wheeled out Gove yet.
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Monday, 29 July 2019 21:15 (four years ago) link
Gove's like the superstar of the cabinet, that's how shite the rest of them are.
― Arthur Lowe & Love (Tom D.), Monday, 29 July 2019 21:28 (four years ago) link
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.
― calzino, Monday, 29 July 2019 21:37 (four years ago) link
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.
― Mr Jolyon Posts Next Door (Noodle Vague), Monday, 29 July 2019 21:37 (four years ago) link
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!
― calzino, Monday, 29 July 2019 21:44 (four years ago) link
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".
― calzino, Monday, 29 July 2019 22:05 (four years ago) link
What's at stake?
https://www.theargus.co.uk/news/17799836.39-lives-depend-jeremy-corbyn-elected-39---momentum-members/
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 30 July 2019 07:41 (four years ago) link
"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
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 30 July 2019 07:43 (four years ago) link
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
― calzino, Tuesday, 30 July 2019 08:02 (four years ago) link
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.
― calzino, Tuesday, 30 July 2019 08:05 (four years ago) link
don't worry dude their future coalition partners will never let that happen
― Mr Jolyon Posts Next Door (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 30 July 2019 08:11 (four years ago) link
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.
― calzino, Tuesday, 30 July 2019 08:18 (four years ago) link
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
― Mr Jolyon Posts Next Door (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 30 July 2019 08:20 (four years ago) link
xp Campbell's whine has been published in full in the Grauniad ffs
― Captain ACAB (Neil S), Tuesday, 30 July 2019 08:20 (four years ago) link
Campbell taking his ball home is the day's feel-good story tbf
― Mr Jolyon Posts Next Door (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 30 July 2019 08:21 (four years ago) link
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!
― calzino, Tuesday, 30 July 2019 08:48 (four years ago) link
Alastair Campbell, welcome to the growing army of the politically homeless. Frightened, cold, hungry for leadership.Sitting down here in the campfire light, with the ghost of old 2012 Olympics. At least until we can all meet up at the BAFTAs.— Simon Hedges Esq. (@Orwell_Fan) July 30, 2019
― calzino, Tuesday, 30 July 2019 09:44 (four years ago) link
https://www.theguardian.com/education/2019/jul/30/jo-grady-miners-daughter-preparing-for-university-picket-lines
Excellent interview. Good unions and strikes will have to play a part in the future.
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 30 July 2019 10:08 (four years ago) link
raab is the reanimated corpse of rik mayall and i claim my five pounds
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 30 July 2019 10:08 (four years ago) link
Well, maybe Alan B’stard...
...with NDAs concerning female employees.
― suzy, Tuesday, 30 July 2019 10:12 (four years ago) link
some numbers on this for an hour old tweet - we welcome their hatred is good not bad imo
Perhaps our NHS could have the money back from when you sued it? https://t.co/MzIQKs2cqZ— Jeremy Corbyn (@jeremycorbyn) July 30, 2019
― im led by donky (||||||||), Tuesday, 30 July 2019 10:24 (four years ago) link
that's the corbz i like.
― calzino, Tuesday, 30 July 2019 10:25 (four years ago) link
get him, king
― another no-holds-barred Tokey Wedge adventure for men (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 30 July 2019 10:28 (four years ago) link
An alternative is available over here― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 30 July 2019 5:43 PM (four hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 30 July 2019 5:43 PM (four hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
We did send our demonically possessed potato of a Home affairs minister over this week, presumably to swap tips on how best to lock up immigrants and do islamoophobia the right way.
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Tuesday, 30 July 2019 12:20 (four years ago) link
https://www.theguardian.com/education/2019/jul/30/jo-grady-miners-daughter-preparing-for-university-picket-linesExcellent interview. Good unions and strikes will have to play a part in the future.― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, July 30, 2019 10:08 AM (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, July 30, 2019 10:08 AM (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
agreed, I had the pleasure of voting for Jo Grady for UCU General Secretary, I think she will be excellent
― Captain ACAB (Neil S), Tuesday, 30 July 2019 12:31 (four years ago) link
MIRROR: Boris hires Mirror chicken as adviser #tomorrowspaperstoday pic.twitter.com/CUfYIfgwbM— Neil Henderson (@hendopolis) July 29, 2019
― another no-holds-barred Tokey Wedge adventure for men (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 30 July 2019 14:52 (four years ago) link
.@JohnMcDonnellMP to @CampbellClaret: “You’re the person, above all else, who actually created a political environment where no-one believed a word a politician said...you took us to the edge...we’re trying to restore honesty & confidence in politics again, that you destroyed.” pic.twitter.com/AvLFt85kuY— James Foster (@JamesEFoster) July 30, 2019
― gyac, Tuesday, 30 July 2019 14:56 (four years ago) link