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

did you see the george clark thing on channel 4 last week about council housing?

yeah, this was really good actually

I watched it assuming to be irritated and expecting him to start gushing about "ammmmazzzzing spaces" but damn him he did a good job.

The fact that it was on at all suggests a changing of public attitudes, you'd never have had something like that on Channel 4 even five or six years ago.

back then Cameron in his pre-pigfucking reveal and brexit defeat pomp, could say out loud that council houses are just petri dishes for labour voters.

FYI George Clarke lives very near the Grenfell Tower site. Nice to see him taking action; guessing the idea started the production process just after the fire.

It's almost as if intersectionality isn't a thing

― uptown too tanking (Noodle Vague), Monday, 12 August 2019 18:42 (three hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

its been so lonely

The trip to Austria and their attitude to social housing was o_O. A little view of how things could be.

had a comprehensively depressing dream last night that Tories won an increased majority in a General Election, due to “liberal disarray and the boris bounce”. i’m hoping my mental tea leaves are themselves disordered - the front page splash the next day, in which i was asked my opinion, was a picture of the Tory’s Signourney Weaver lookalike leader and the headline “Working Girl?”. Obv neither boris bounce nor the conspicous lack of melanie griffith quite fit with that so am hoping something’s got jammed in the works somewhere.

some of it also seemed to take place in rome idk

yeah but what was your opinion?

that headline would 100% happen

Adonis defines remainism as a revolt of the middle class – and that is why he believes that, in the end, Brexit won’t happen. “The English middle class, deeply alarmed, will be heard and will win,” he told me. “That’s my whole experience of politics.”
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/aug/13/brexit-remain-radicalisation-fbpe-peoples-vote

That emoji though

Can UKIP's new leader @richardbraine explain why he's apparently wearing an Augusto Pinochet t shirt in this photo with @missalicegrant pic.twitter.com/GORJ2Axogw

— Otto English (@Otto_English) August 11, 2019

They wouldn't have chosen him if he wasn't a fascist. Every single Ukip leader has been a very serious racist.

The same is true of the Brexit Party.

— Mibble Mobble Ming (@MibbleMing) August 12, 2019

I promise you I'm not a fascist! 🤣

— Richard Braine (@richardbraine) August 12, 2019

Steve Deacon, a protester I met on a People’s Vote march earlier this year, was at Glastonbury festival when he heard the referendum result. Before then, he had felt that “the world had been marching forward, and things were getting better incrementally”. But since that day, it no longer seems that way to him.

what a shame for the bairn

yeah but what /was/ your opinion?

that headline would 100% happen

the Tory’s Signourney Weaver lookalike leader

by all means demonstrate pls

im poachable

The trip to Austria and their attitude to social housing was o_O. A little view of how things could be.

― koogs, Tuesday

I haven't seen the program, but I was skim reading something about social housing in Vienna and Rotterdam a couple months ago. Just a short piece and I don't recall where, so may have this wrong but I think Vienna (and Rotterdam) are(were?) held up as paragons of social housing? And even in the soviet times, there was a lot more social housing there than in Bucharest, Sofia, Budapest and Zagreb

I don't like posting things I can't readily back up, will see if I can find the piece later today in case I'm misremembering

I also had some vague election content in the middle of a slew of fucked up dreams, SV said he was going out canvassing so fashtopia must have been bearing down upon us.

shswhdbsnejskejerb pic.twitter.com/t9MMnWCwY7

— No One (@judeinlondon2) August 13, 2019

xxp

there was a piece in the graun last month about Berlin buying up 700 apartments (on Karl Marx Boulevard of course) and using them as social housing to combat rising rents/gentrification. you just know there would be talk of a Maoist anti-rightist terror campaign and the need for a military coup if that happened in London

im poachable

I don't like posting things I can't readily back up

I've seen a handful of glowing descriptions of Austrian social housing, but that was from an American perspective where there's wonder that it exists at all.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/vienna-affordable-housing-paradise_n_5b4e0b12e4b0b15aba88c7b0

> had a comprehensively depressing dream last night that Tories won an increased majority in a General Election

the suggestions of him planning a GE for 1st november terrify me.

Just after the clocks change

And even in the soviet times, there was a lot more social housing there than in Bucharest, Sofia, Budapest and Zagreb

I was going to say something about how maybe UK politicians might remember that looking after your own citizens dampens support for extremist parties, but that doesn't seem borne out by Austria's recent history.

A lot to laugh at in that FBPE long read but it never quite mentions how deep the belief is in those circles that Corbyn is a leaver, and that he even voted leave (so much for the talk of rationality) - and how that has led us to how they won't work with Labour, which is of course making No Deal more likely.

I have seen a couple of FBPE/Lib Dem cranks say to let Corbyn have his government so that he can fail. Of course that means a lot of shouting among those ppl but a few would probably be worn down to that stage but it might be too late.

Back to no deal prep:

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/sweeping-powers-to-impose-curfews-and-alter-the-law-under-no-deal-brexit-llx3t3v7v

how deep the belief is in those circles that Corbyn is a leaver, and that he even voted leave (so much for the talk of rationality)

This still just fascinates me like nothing else.

Dick 'not a fascist' Brane there

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retweets are not endorsements, just stimulating debate &c &c

Hoey just posting fake quotes - remove the whip.

Remember this clear aim of the founders of what is now the European Union pic.twitter.com/69OW134l51

— Kate Hoey (@KateHoeyMP) August 10, 2019

What was that about the meaning of trolling having changed?

So which one of you is Daniel Cohen?

Lol!

Good catch! Even the imagery is santorum.jpg inspired:

https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/7020e7ebce0a943ddd01376adb62c14c9720dfb8/0_933_5906_3543/master/5906.jpg?width=1900&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=40bb3d2c6f781dd6abf421fc6e78559b

QED.

Cold War Steve has really lost it

Or markedly improved, not sure which.

what's Norman Blake doing on there? (no seriously, I don't know who that is)

Seeing a ramp up of a 'we're going to be ready for No deal' by Conservatives but also business.

Meanwhile Hong Kong airport has been shut for a second day in a row.

can anyone remind me what the actual positives of this whole situation are supposed to be?

The EU has been stifling an able left-wing alternative in this country for decades. With it gone, the halcyon days are dialectically imminent, a beacon for all nations.

if fred B is not allowed to post...

DTI seems to be getting much more active on pressing companies on their no-deal planning.

Most businesses with complex supply chains are making contingency plans for No Deal but I suspect they are still nowhere near ready and most of them are still saying it will be a disaster. I suspect if you looked at the profiles of the people running the ones who are claiming they are ready, you'd end up with a very specific type.

that EU supergirl is doing a single with Norman Blake and it's a paean to killing fules who diss President Xi The EU.

If only Chairman Xi Donald Tusk could exeunt her out of existence…

I stand corrected it is General Secretary/Chairman Xi not Pres!