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

The APPG report on the TOEIC / immigration scandal is quite flawed imo but gives an insight into how the twin effects of hostile policy / policy interpretation and rank incompetence can combine to land the government in trouble. I can only see that intensifying under a Johnson inner circle as ideological and sloppy as the one he has put together. If Patel can't be bothered to go through the legal niceties about registering her own potential conflicts of interest, idk how long it's going to be before her decisions are up for judicial review. Should Johnson manage to solidify his position with an election, i could imagine an ongoing battle with the courts being one of the main themes of his tenure, ultimately leading to attempts to weaken oversight. A lot of groundwork has been done by the press already in painting the judiciary as out of touch elites standing in the way of democratic decisions.

https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5aa7ae58266c07fe6b48eb76/t/5d2f89915464d80001bff02c/1563396499651/Report+of+the+APPG+on+TOEIC-18+July+2019.pdf

gyac i know people who have voted for the tories and Ukip and I know they are only subhuman scum.. jokes obv ... it's complex and it would be a waste of energy to be judgemental. I'd much rather be judgemental against politicians voting records, not citizens. And your own tactical voting record is none of my fucking business!

extremely here for this inter-GB-FRA board bouef

comment dit-on « flag post » en français ?

La Beouf plz, if we're going to misspell it properly.

« Alerter les modérateurs » comes closest. Pun gets lost in translation, alas.

mdr

Every single time I hear news out of France I think "wow, they're almost as big a mess as the UK is at this point".

Not quite there yet but.

lol no

The UK wishes it had half the social(ist) model France has been enjoying for decades.

Well that goes without saying, but said model's getting enthusiastically chipped away at right now. The shit that's getting authorized in re: police brutality is pretty scary, too.

Said model is getting reshuffled rather than dismantled, in part because like all things it costs money and there's only so much an extra tax hike on the top 1% can achieve (see Hollande's tragically counterproductive attempt). Until an international solution is achieved (likely never), a balance needs to be struck and deals with the devil must be made. Tout le reste est littérature.

To be clear, no such balance has been even remotely attained in the UK, where le capitalisme sauvage is a default doctrine and has been for ages.

alright bouef daddy

Said model is getting reshuffled rather than dismantle

Hmmm, feel like I've heard this line somewhere before...

As a side note, a bœuf can also mean a (band) jam.

Not a convincing counter-argument given the current situation in France. Unless you believe the status quo ought to be maintained?

xp

Andrea Jenkyns was left with whiplash and concussion after she fell from the chair she was swinging on during a meeting.

The Tory MP fell off her chair and knocked her head on the corner of a radiator during a full staff meeting on Tuesday.

"I'm so accident prone," she said.

"I was swinging on my chair like I normally do and fell backwards.

wait so tipping yr chair dangerously far back is called "swinging on your chair" by some tory fools ppl?

oh great let's make yet another fucking thread about tipping

besides the disastrous secularism, the well-ensconced far right and the racial politics p much every aspect of the French political situation is preferable (as is the situation in most other rich European countries because its such a low bar)

but I can see being more optimistic abt the UK than France in terms of the left

First post: otm.

Second post: I highly doubt it, but here's to hoping.

Every single time I hear news out of France I think "wow, they're almost as big a mess as the UK is at this point".

Foreign writing on France, especially English-language writing, is a good way to get a non-hostile view of what's happening in France.

Seriously French people, come back when you're teetering on the precipice with the rest of the world laughing at you.

Don't really consume much of that squire, this is all from my French fiancee's friends/side of the family.

xpost

The French will generally have you believe they're living in a dictatorial hellscape, regardless of who's in power. That tends to clear up once they've spent a few years abroad.

French people always say everything is a horrid mess: on déteste tout ! before taking a long holiday in the French countryside.
xp lol yes

Every country wants to be a special little dystopia ime, you should hear Portuguese ppl talk about Portugal.

That being said, the French ppl I know here in London seem to be, amongst my foreign lot, the ones least likely to have anything good to say about the situation there (suppose if they did they'd move back).

Anyway, the upshot of this is I should disregard all sources both foreign and French? I guess I can get with that.

How tf did I leave this thread for a while and then return to find the French have colonised it?! Usually all I miss is Blobbyposting or comrade alphabet trolling.

Also next iteration of this thread should surely have “____ calmly as I normally do” as the title.

https://img.wikinut.com/img/3c9dw0md2az2hwzy/jpeg/0/English-king-Harold-s-death-on-Bayeux-Tapestry.jpeg

xxp it was a cunning plan

idk a lot about french healthcare but I cld perhaps be persuaded that it & the concomitant pharmacy culture are inferior

http://www.perc.org.uk/project_posts/englands-rentier-alliance/

This is a very good way of framing the people driving Brexit and the sheer nihilism of the project.

yeah this feels powerfully otm

This suggests that Johnson/Farage is a symptom of prolonged financialisation, in which capital pulls increasingly towards unproductive investments, relying on balance sheet manipulation, negative interest rates and liquidity for its returns (aided substantially by quantitative easing over the past decade). To put that more starkly, these are seriously morbid symptoms, in which all productive opportunities have already been seized, no new ideas or technologies are likely, and no new spheres of social or environmental life are left to exploit and commodify. These are socially nihilistic interests whose only concern with the future involves their children and grandchildren, but otherwise believe that everything good is in the past. The term ‘late capitalism’ was over-used in the past, but this certainly feels like very late capitalism.

je suis calme comme d’hab
xp

Anyone caught the UK HAS TO LEAVE BY 2020 OR LISBON TREATY TAKES EFFECT spam yet? Proper Infowars stuff.

adonis gonna adonis. state of this

‘Mum, you know when I told you in March I was going to slash my wrists if you didn’t do what I said. THIS TIME I REALLY MEAN IT. Just you watch’

‘Darling ...’ https://t.co/ZMDiSb4oxS

— Andrew Adonis (@Andrew_Adonis) August 1, 2019

Lol those cunts can never make up their mind if the Lisbon Treaty is bad or not. There’s a separate conspiracy theory about how the UK has already left due to “legal reasons”.

Musical differences. I blame Michael Dugher.

Julius hasn’t been himself for a while now. Never forget:

‘I have 3 children. A son, a daughter & HS2. And I’m doing my best to stop the country giving birth to a 4th, Brexit.’

Start of my speech to rail industry leaders in Leeds

— Andrew Adonis (@Andrew_Adonis) June 12, 2018

Lol Dugher is the kind of guy who’s so petty and dull that he tweets a line like this and sits back and dusts his palms off, satisfied with a job well done.

I think we should nationalise Jeremy Corbyn... https://t.co/NQnFkeJiLG

— Michael Dugher (@MichaelDugher) March 25, 2017

He said: "In every one of us there is a poet, a writer, a singer of songs, an artist.

But too few of us fulfil our artistic ambition.

And under the Conservatives it's getting worse."

We need more terrible songwriters!

"A Tory MP from Yorkshire called William Wilberforce"

🗣 Party Chairman @JamesCleverly speaking on the anniversary of the Abolition of Slavery Act (1833). pic.twitter.com/LMgYi8Xi5u

— Conservatives (@Conservatives) August 1, 2019

State of this...

apart from the elision of the many black anti-slavery campaigners and all the other people who pressed for abolition throughout the 18th century a mean-spirited pedant might point out that the modern Conservative party was really birthed by Peel in 1835 two years after the Slavery Abolition Act and the death of Tory cunt William Wilberforce

wilberforce was an independent !

also lots of ppl lived in horrendous circumstances with very little meaningful freedom for decades after abolition

We've actually reached the Lincoln was a Republican stage, what a fucking shower.

So it seems it isn't just the PLP that is stuffed with fuckwits who know nothing or have a selectively wrong reading of their party history

He says this on a day there was a protest for Windrush reparations outside Parliament.

sorry ogmor you're right, you'd think i'd've spent enough time sat in his back garden to remember his political affiliations

(most of my animosity is reserved for the reform of manners shit tbh)