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

lol GNU just makes me think of this for some reason:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rE7uMsDD050

rainbow coalition of lib dems and anna soubry

you know, the centre

pace recent aditya article

"Boris Johnson wants you to think he's a buffoon. But he's one of the most ruthless politicians I've ever come across", says McDonnell. "His relationship with Donald Trump is one of the biggest threats for this country."

— Assa Samaké-Roman (@Terfele) August 7, 2019

Well again, only a cretin would think otherwise

Ruthless buffoons do exist, Johnny Boy.

Linking PM Johnson with Trump at every available opportunity is good tactics, of course.

full credit to the uk government for continuing to push the frontiers of dystopia

The UN’s investigator into global poverty has warned that innocent people in Britain are being caught up in the mass surveillance system used by the welfare state to combat benefit fraud.

His warning comes as disabled rights activists in the north-west claim that demonstrators with disabilities protesting against austerity cuts are having their personal information passed by police to the Department for Work and Pensions.

Both warnings are to be made at a conference in Belfast on Wednesday on the use of surveillance powers and its impact on social security recipients as well as asylum seekers.

Philip Alston, the UN’s special rapporteur on extreme poverty, described it as a “tragedy” that people imagined that “the ever-more intrusive surveillance system by the UK welfare state” was used only against alleged welfare cheats.

“It’s not – it will soon affect everyone and leave the society much worse off. Everyone needs to pay attention and insist on decent limits,” Alston said.

He accused the UK welfare state surveillance system of standing the presumption of innocence “on its head”. He said this was because everyone applying for a benefit was “screened for potential wrongdoing in a system of total surveillance”.

Among those complaining that they have been caught up unfairly in the state’s use of CCTV cameras – including footage owned by supermarket chains, access to personal bank statements and conversations on social media – are disabled rights campaigners in Manchester.

Rick Burgess, an activist with Manchester Disabled People Against Cuts, said fears that footage of his members and supporters demonstrating was being passed from police to the DWP had had a “chilling effect” on people’s willingness to protest.

“There are people who are not protesting today because they are terrified by what the DWP might know about them. The idea that information the police gather at protests about some of those taking part could be passed to the DWP for welfare fraud investigations is Stasi-like.”

(from https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/aug/07/innocent-people-caught-up-in-uk-welfare-state-surveillance-system)

"innocent people", good work

shithole country.

yeah 'innocent people' kinda gives the game away there

What a dump

the police have also been upping their nasty game against disabled people at anti-austerity marches. I read something about the rotten five o strategically targeting wheel chair users and knocking them over at protest marches. At the hardest hit demo in 2010 -11 there was none of that shit, things have definitely deteriorated in the last decade.

https://www.disabilitynewsservice.com/kicked-punched-knocked-unconscious-tipped-out-of-wheelchairs-campaigners-describe-repeated-police-targeting-of-disabled-anti-fracking-protesters/

fucking filth attacking disabled anti-fracking protesters as well. What a great time we live in and our current mental health minister thinks "window-lickers" is an acceptable term of abuse to use on twitter.

I think the surveillance legislation is the snooper’s charter or RIPA? Both fuck all awful pieces of legislation, I was incredibly disappointed when Corbyn’s Labour voted for the former three years ago.

xxp the home office records show that hate crimes against people with disabilities have increased since the Tories took power.

Page 12: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/748598/hate-crime-1718-hosb2018.pdf

love our big beautiful hostile environment

What do people think of the reports of Labour & the SNP working together to prevent no deal in autumn?

What do people think of the reports of Labour & the SNP working together to prevent no deal in autumn?

Not sure what I think of the reports of Labour & the SNP working together to prevent no deal in autumn.

i've been enjoying Owen Smith going into a pathetic hissy fit over McD's hints about labour backing a 2nd indy ref

Here's the Owen Smith rally in Liverpool, he's giving out free ice cream. pic.twitter.com/PbeeMnTESi

— Andrew Ellis (@Ellis_Samizdat) July 30, 2016

real talk tho, when has jemry cobryyn ever given out free ice cream

makes u think

would it be right to presume they have written off Scot Labour as beyond salvageable for the foreseeable future at this point?

exactly

Jeremy Corbyn: 'there's no free ice cream available.' WHAT!? pic.twitter.com/7prWredsos

— Ned Simons (@nedsimons) August 15, 2016

that bbq was a classic as well!

the idea of stopping no deal seems increasingly remote but if could happen by parties working together, a labour and snp partnership would be the least objectionable by some margin is basically how i break it down to an extent

so much for socialism = free stuff, smdh

I assume the potential for a detente between Labour and the SNP is following a logic we've talked about on here often and I'm fairly comfortable with it

Writing off Scottish Labour is largely a no-brainer as far as I can tell at the moment

“After that first vote of no confidence there is a period when I think common sense could break out across the House,” Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell told LBC’s Iain Dale at the Edinburgh festival yesterday. “It would be a Labour government because we wouldn’t enter into coalitions or pacts. But it would be a Labour government which had a particular purpose — that is to stop a no deal.”

(No further commentary because there isn't anything they can say that won't sound daft)

interesting revelation about mr alasdair milne, just casually tweeted out

The day after Alasdair Milne was sacked by Margaret Thatcher, my boss came into the office and told me "That's it, no more investigative journalism."
"What do you mean?"
"None, across the whole BBC, until this dies down. We've had it from the top."
It has never recovered.

— GeorgeMonbiot (@GeorgeMonbiot) August 7, 2019

MR Alasdair Milne :|

they switched their focus to doing penetrating exposés on scumbag poor ppl cheating benefits instead.

And platforming every two bit fascist going while their execs denied it like the cunts they are

this is so hot pic.twitter.com/l0Z8GCLxoo

— hayls (@isamyelyah) August 7, 2019

😍

https://media2.giphy.com/media/8dl1ITvPmV99S/giphy.gif

Corbyn and Sturgeon will do a back room deal to ignore two referendums.

Politicians don’t get to choose which public votes they respect.

Like if you agree 👇 pic.twitter.com/mINvcndLri

— Conservatives (@Conservatives) August 7, 2019

lol shook

Disappointed at lack of Corbyn breast pocket with tiny Milne, Hamas and Stormzy in it.

the dreadful prospect of that coalition of ... erm tumult is back again and much harder to vilify after more than 2 years of actual chaos.

xp probably on this tshirt tbf

I have that t-shirt. pic.twitter.com/3J5CGfuWVn

— Joe Glenton Esq. (@joejglenton) December 31, 2017

inappropriate attire for a funeral ffs jeremy, take a fuckin look at yourself

An act of flagrant disrespect.

Give him some credit at least he isn't wearing a donkey jacket

if he was then the ira too would be led by donkeys (jacket)

calz since we were talking about it upthread a bit, are you aware of this book?

At the launch of Frances Ryan’s brilliant book “Crippled” which graphically exposes the brutality of austerity on disabled people. ⁦@Dis_PPL_Protest⁩ pic.twitter.com/wll4TjpZne

— John McDonnell MP (@johnmcdonnellMP) August 3, 2019

oh yes of course. Not read it yet but I daily read Dr Frances Ryan on twitter and she get's some ridiculous abuse. Like when she was nervously live blogging about applying for PIP after her DLA expired and people telling her she doesn't need it because obv she's loaded. It's one of them books which I wouldn't download from disreputable sites like where I get the rest of my stuff, because she's a good person doing important work and i wouldn't want to deprive her of any income.

She was also very nice to me when I was going through a very low period a couple of years back (missus tried topping herself after PIP nightmare etc and i was on the verge of doing myself in tbh).