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

Agreed.

You could argue, and this is the height of irony, that the SNP have played the Unionist card more adroitly, with their commitment to keep the Queen as head of state.

not scottish labour shooting it down - but rw kamikaze unionists, in defiance of the leadership

those clowns never pass by an opportunity to shoot themselves in the foot. not satisfied with running disastrous campaigns in GE15 UK and GE16 SCO... they’re still trying to wreck the party’s prospects and they’re not even in charge. entitlement complex

Months after the SNP’s first Scottish parliament election win in 2007, George Foulkes, then a Labour MSP for the Lothians region, appeared on the BBC’s Scotland at Ten television programme. Discussing the SNP’s early performance in government, Foulkes argued that the party were “on a very dangerous tack. What they are doing is trying to build up a situation in Scotland where the services are manifestly better than south of the border in a number of areas.” Colin Mackay, the show’s presenter, was confused. “Is that a bad thing?” “No,” admitted Foulkes, “but they are doing it deliberately...”
https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/scotland/2019/08/scottish-labour-must-stop-treating-nationalism-virus-be-cured

those sneaky nationalist bastards

clear out every last single one of these better together shagging fucks

You fucking disgrace.

— Duncan Hothersall (@dhothersall) August 9, 2019

rory scothorne is a great writer

worth reading this article from earlier in the year. Quite clear that this pact with the Lib Dems is more than just a temporary tactical gambit for the Greens, and instead reflects a more fundamental political shift https://t.co/c0BK3L3k0X

— tom (@malaiseforever) August 9, 2019

More generally the party is concentrating on “green thinking” people, those who are really concerned quite narrowly with environmental questions. Taken together with the “People’s Vote” axis, this denotes a distinct middle class orientation which inevitably moves the party in a rightward direction. No longer a social democratic anti-austerity party, but “eco-libdem” with councillors morphing into a band of Lib Dem lookalikes with a green streak.

also worth noting that it didn't go well for Euro-greens that got into pacts with austerity parties in recent history.

fight the real enemy huh

Eat the rich.
https://ft.com/content/b2d275aa-ba73-11e9-96bd-8e884d3ea203

any party getting into pacts with pro-austerity ones that would actually prop up another tory government are the people's enemy!

Clickthrough link here

Canary Wharf is assumed to be a hotbed of Remainers. But some senior bankers are changing their tune post-Boris. One even told me he thought No Deal would be good for business. https://t.co/xgoTjfOUo1

— David Crow (@bydavidcrow) August 9, 2019

xps. the greens in scotland remain the most left-wing party with parliamentary representation on every issue

“Theoretically, if you have a disruption like a hard Brexit, you should see higher levels of volatility in interest rates, foreign exchange rates, and credit spreads,” he said. “An intermediary in that world should do better.”

there it is

lol .. top bankers alright.

xxp

the eco-lib dems are not the most left-wing party in england.

sure glad we bailed out those bankers in 2008 instead of turning every single one of them into soylent green

"Another spoke admiringly of Mr Johnson, comparing him to Winston Churchill"

seriously, go take a flying leap from top of the gherkin you absolute cunt!

greens who are lib dems will just vote lib dem tbh

meanwhile britain is literally about to be thrown into a shitfire by far-right disaster capitalists who've somehow also taken power. focused minds please

as this link demonstrates

did you actually read the piece? it's a calmly posting as they normally do type piece and written by a former green party co-ordinator.

read the first half skimmed the rest. yeah i mean whatever. i don't blame the greens for pivoting to firm anti-brexit

I've got plenty to worry about, but *focused mind* we already have a far right eing government which is already fucking millions of people's lives up. If I choose to comment on the abysmal tactics of the Green Party having a pact with other human garbage (other than Boris) like Swinson - it's neither here nor there and has no bearing on the situation.

But all shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of thing shall be well.

thanks jim. I'm mostly curious abt the electoral landscape of a post-independence scotland: what will happen to the broad coalition the SNP has and where else the left's efforts might be channelled.

good to be mindful of regressive elements in all parties, there's no benefit to not thinking about it

re: bankers positions on brexit. City am which is my number one hate read is quite tubthumpingly Leave

fwiw

lots of swivel-eyed op-eds about "opportunities"

the FT really are traditionally a pro-Tory Remain newspaper normally, but at this stage the money behind the whole shebang speaks the loudest.

Never forget! pic.twitter.com/GJOhF7AsMN

— Scott Rogers (@scottr0gers) August 9, 2019

thanks jim. I'm mostly curious abt the electoral landscape of a post-independence scotland: what will happen to the broad coalition the SNP has and where else the left's efforts might be channelled.

good to be mindful of regressive elements in all parties, there's no benefit to not thinking about it

― ogmor, Friday, August 9, 2019 1:13 PM (one hour ago

i don't think anyone has a very good idea of what would happen in that respect because there would be huge recalibrations. snp is a big tent party which as "the best vehicle to achieving independence" (roughly this wording gets brought up a lot on twitter etc.) is easily able to contain such a broad church, but would surely fracture once independence is achieved. labour, without its unionist baggage would become simply a rival on the left/centre-left, and god only knows what the unionist right would be up to in an independent scotland, though gracefully coming to terms with the new state of affairs seems unlikely

Creepy, creepy weirdo. pic.twitter.com/BIX4EosDVa

— Paul Leinster (@Paauul) August 10, 2019

lol, obv a serial killer.

and to think he was once my favourite amiga power writer

it makes me wonder what became of my childhood heroes from Zzap 64.

I just realized that it was the 30th anniversary of the release of Populous last week. The game was a quite astonishing achievement for its time - a totally original release that presented a whole new type of gameplay challenge. I have many fond memories playing it on Amiga. pic.twitter.com/DrMLrrocmJ

— Jaz Rignall (@JazRignall) June 10, 2019

julian rignall is still going!

i have many fond memories of starting up Populous, playing it for 10 minutes and then getting confused and bored and giving up

or The Molyneux Effect as it came to be known

xps to calz
https://i2.wp.com/badbooksgoodtimes.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/get-out-milk.gif

and to think he was once my favourite amiga power writer

oh no, I didn't realise it was the same Stuart Campbell

I <3 Populous and have returned to it (too) many times as an adult and can never get past the same set of levels (iirc the levels come in batches of ~4 with similar constraints and you might end up on a different one of the 4 each time) even though I play it until I see mountains going up and being levelled and swamps appearing in my sleep and also until I realise it's not actually that fun (but then I go away for a while and forget that and I love it anyway)

def had The Molyneux Effect with many later Bullfrog games tho, including Populous II, even though it's basically the same game just with some different attacks and slightly browner graphics

i just get very triggered by games where the little people run around doing stuff without my say so. this may say something about my psychology.

Even Dungeon Keeper?

even Dungeon Keeper, 10 minutes and i'm too anxious to continue

What about the later age of empires where the villagers automatically move on to stuff? (As opposed to the first one where you have to get them to do EVERYTHING)

i really wanted to like them too, kept coming back

also Age of Empires and stuff like that, give me turn-based or give me meds

i just literally can't

mind you i left the house for the first time in 3 or 4 days this morning and a walk round the block was a gruelling excursion into terror so my perspective may be askew

Loved Populous and later Black & White, which had so many bugs it was basically unplayable.

Dick Braine elected new leader of UK Independence Party

not for the first time amirite