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

https://proxy.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fi.imgflip.com%2F140tle.jpg&f=1

should disabled people be allowed to speak in public? should the elderly be allowed to vote? do low-earners even have a soul?

the tories spend years yanking an unprecedented number of low earners out of any tax-bracket (I had had years where I've been close to paying no tax for this reason) in order to weaponise it against those same people as "undeserving." No mention in this clip of the comparable amount of tax evaded by the super-rich who are still allowed to dictate everything about how the country is run.

liquidate the bcc, apart from R3 and the in our Time program. Even the weather forecasts are shit and unreliable since the Met Office lost the contract.

cbeebies is good tbf, my daughter would be distraught if she couldn't watch hey duggee! anymore

and so would i tbf, it's a great show

I'll keep my thoughts about Josie Jump to myself!

I was talking to some random quite posh bloke in the pub about the bbc and we both were R4 listeners in our 20's in the 90's. I was asking him if the abysmal straight from CCHQ standard of impartiality was there in the Blair years because I eschewed much of the political content back then. he reckoned it was probably just as bad, but i'm not convinced it was, but struggle to remember.

Emma Barnett’s parents ran actual brothels, did they pay tax?

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— John McDonnell MP (@johnmcdonnellMP) August 8, 2019

If you badmouth Miss Hoolie calz I will cut you

was referring to the crush i had on both josie jumps, but probably going into fp territory anyway!

Cummings giving an interview on Sky so early in this game is a bad look for a master of the dark arts. Be interesting to see if Grieve and a couple more are pushed out by his antics.

Labour leadership have been good at stamping the silly government of unity idea and making moves towards the SNP.

Hopefully conference season can be scrapped.

check out corbz absolute boy set-pieces with celtic fans, perhaps it is milne who is showing cummings how it is done.

there's no votes in Celtic fans you fule

every little bit helps.

but, yes I have been locked in pubs before on away match sorties with lots of troglodytes singing no surrender to the IRA...

This is good on Lab's positioning:

https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/politics/labours-uk-leadership-realised-winning-18859075.amp?__twitter_impression=true

As one senior Labour source put it: “Scottish Labour is in dire straits and it appears the UK leadership have decided to write-off the party’s chances north of the Border.

“There’s no other explanation for pulling the rug out from under a loyal ally like Richard in the way they have.

“It looks like Corbyn is laying the groundwork for a backroom deal with the SNP which might get him into power but at what cost to the UK?”

if we get a hard brexit a future independent scotland seems pretty much inevitable anyway, so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Emma Barnett’s parents ran actual brothels, did they pay tax?

Wow, I've just read her wiki page.

lol I thought it was just ppl talking metaphorically or something, her whole family is pure scum!

but, yes I have been locked in pubs before on away match sorties with lots of troglodytes singing no surrender to the IRA...

Barnett was born on 5 February 1985 to convicted criminals, Ian and Michele Barnett. Her father, Ian Barnett, 56, a former surveyor, was jailed for three years and eight months after pleading guilty to keeping brothels with a turnover of more than £2.5m in Manchester City centre, Levenshulme and Cheetham Hill, as well as trafficking women for prostitution. Emma Barnett certainly knew of her parents illegal business as the Police found emails between Mr Barnett and his daughter Emma, talking about his `whores'.

she seems nice

The apple doesn't fall far from the tree, it seems. Have previously had no opinions on her either way but I happened to watch Newsnight last night and, Jesus, she was annoying in a post-Paxman pointlessly confrontational way.

who is worse blue ticks or yellow diamonds

I'm sure she's a full-blooded tory monster but that wiki page is kinda disgusting imo

she's paxman's favourite interviewer, allegedly, which seems a mutually damaging revelation

xxp Emma Kennedy, who is one and wants to be the other

if we get a hard brexit a future independent scotland seems pretty much inevitable anyway, so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

― Criss Angel Raw: The Mindfreak Unplugged (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 8 August 2019 bookmarkflaglink

It isn't impossible to see that if Brexit can be made to go away that indyref2 could be won and the union kept. But yes its possibly too late.

Giving up on Scotland would be phenomenally dumb given that most of Labour's most marginal target seats are Scottish. But winning them back might be easier if it doesn't look like it's being directed from Westminster. (I suppose this doesn't allow for Scottish Labour being awful but you have to work with what you have).

you're not wrong but jfc the state of scottish labour

I don't know if I'm being too harsh but Max Leonard comes across like a total dickhead any time I have encountered him on the radio.

Lol Richard even

That's how you get to be leader of Scottish Labour.

scottish labour is a viper’s nest of careerists and dimwits and dim witted careerists and sadly a lot of the left energy that could have been used for its renewal has been channelled (post-2014) into the SNP instead

McDonnell's position is an acceptance of reality that Leonard just hasn't done the business. Labour left is very -- due to McDonnell really -- pragmatic and there is a strategy there. Nothing dumb about it.

There's a strategy there, but I bet you it isn't "ah well, Scotland isn't going to vote for us so let's focus our energies elsewhere, eh?"

They only need to pick up about 2200 votes in the right places to win seven seats in Scotland.

one of those “top performers” davie clegg was eulogising in the comrade zebra piece above

EXCLUSIVE: Scottish Labour ‘kamikaze unionists’ issued indy parliamentary statement against Leonard’s wishes:

Leaked email shows Jackie Baillie MSP knew SLab leader Richard Leonard did not approve the publication of a statement on #indy:https://t.co/dikqx6HcXe pic.twitter.com/48AZzi1znK

— CommonSpace (@TheCommonSpace) August 8, 2019

matt dc otm

comrade alphabet. I’m getting my comrades mixed up. long day

Surely you’re comrade zebra...or had he subsequently been promoted?

what was I saying about nest of vipers

I want to make it clear I did not support this statement going out and neither did many other members of the Labour group - this is an abuse of position by the chair of the group https://t.co/b4n4BUrucI

— Neil Findlay MSP (@NeilFindlay_MSP) August 8, 2019

can anyone recommend anything on the scottish left's plans/thinking post-independence?

nationalising tunnocks and barr’s iirc

Proposing that the St. Andrew's flag be in the shape of a tattie scone.

Jermaine McSporran day.

Sorry not Scottish but sounds good

can anyone recommend anything on the scottish left's plans/thinking post-independence?

― ogmor, Thursday, August 8, 2019 10:36 AM (fifty-one minutes ago)

the 2014 referendum spurred a lot of activity in this area that has continued on afterwards. a lot of that is ephemeral, events, lectures. some of it is dotted about the blogosphere (e.g. on bella caledonia between analysis of political happenings and pieces about the gaelic language). there's some small press books like how to start a new country from the think tank common weal and after independence from luath press. no real central depository that i could point you towards however.

and it should be clarified that basically all pro-indepence voices in scotland are on the left (albeit many in the centre).

They only need to pick up about 2200 votes in the right places to win seven seats in Scotland.

― Matt DC, Thursday, 8 August 2019 bookmarkflaglink

You say it like it's easy but I don't get the sense Scottish Labour could pull it off.

look at the places they won last time - eg glasgow NE is now a labour seat

GE2015 result
Party Candidate Votes % ±
SNP Anne McLaughlin 21,976 58.1 +43.9
Labour Willie Bain 12,754 33.7 -34.7