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

More brand building:

https://amp.theguardian.com/politics/2019/aug/15/corbyn-westminster-should-not-block-second-scottish-independence-vote?__twitter_impression=true

Don't mind me I'm just enjoying my day:

Conservative MPs who Jeremy Corbyn has written to over plans to avoid a 'no-deal' Brexit have said they are "happy to meet" the Labour leader and opposition parties to discuss proposals

— Sky News Breaking (@SkyNewsBreak) August 15, 2019

Into my veins:

Lenin: I’m just going to be a caretaker, honest. Then the state will wither away.
Mensheviks: so just for a couple of months then?
Lenin: Sure, why not.

— Paul Richards (@Labourpaul) August 15, 2019

Ah yes, the incomparably comparable.

LOL, I can see the Lib Dems ending up like UKIP and having 8 leaders in two years or whatever.

“Labour Paul”

He used to be called Labour Saul then he was struck blind and fell off his horse on the road to Damascus. The 'Labour' stuck though.

I’m too sick to laugh like this

Hope this morning’s nonsense has clarified some things for Euler if he’s still looking in?

I would like JC to cause Johnson to lose his shit by asking him about preventative HPV funding at PMQs.

cant spell ira without jearóm o'coirabín lads

rabín

Confirmed not an antisemite. Possibly a descendant of Leopold Bloom, to boot.

indian for bloom is 'varadkar' iirc

Lol FBPE about to cancel Dominic Grieve and I am here for it

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/aug/15/lib-dems-and-anna-soubry-reject-corbyn-caretaker-government

Grievey showing himself to be worthy of the "adults in the room" epithet, while Swinson has a paddy in the reception playground.. lol!

texts flooding in from my Lib Dem mates and they’re not good pic.twitter.com/6rU30VfKyQ

— ian mighty (@iammightor) August 15, 2019

the thought of ‘lib dem group chats’ just killed a little part of my soul

and all the contact names prefaced with LibDem to minimise any confusion

Doesn't make sense saying "Bollocks to Brexit" and now doing this.

swinson’s political instincts are actual dogshit

weak leadership from Swinson, she's totally fucked herself here unless she makes a rapid u-turn.

Corbyn's plan will die but allow me to laugh at the possibility of Chuka quitting the Lib Dems over this.

Doesn't make sense saying "Bollocks to Brexit" and now doing this.

Cobblers to Corbyn

no rules against joining 4 different political parties in one calendar year is there Chuka?

the awful fate of the politically homeless, being shunted from one makeshift shelter to the next by the vagaries of circumstance

Birkenhead Social Justice Party are looking to double their membership in the next year to two - well, increase it to one if the undead don't count.

I welcome Corbyn’s Vote of No Confidence & will support his temporary Govt to avoid No Deal (tho would prefer #PeoplesVote before General Election)
But if he can’t gain confidence of House, will he commit to support an MP from his party or another who can? https://t.co/LMKIEUP0I3

— Caroline Lucas (@CarolineLucas) August 14, 2019

The key question for @UKLabour👇 https://t.co/PetrzNNYJq

— Chuka Umunna (@ChukaUmunna) August 15, 2019

Swinson has totally punctured her own anti-Brexit bubble here and it's hilarious.

Ultimately with things as they are you can either prevent Corbyn from becoming PM *or* you can stop No Deal. Pretending you can do both at once is as delusional as it is destructive.

stopping corbyn becoming pm temporarily, to do one specific thing - like, this cannot be stressed enough to this loons

Maybe they will offer Corbyn the role of....Chairman...of Britain.

If they can pull this deal off and get the general election he would still most likely end up PM of some kind of coalition so

Like all the people whingeing about this knows this temporary government can be ended by withdrawing their support, right?

They should strip the leader of the Labour Party of all powers then give the role to Yvette Cooper, meanwhile invent a new role for Corbyn with the same powers as the leader of the Labour Party used to have and give it some title like Politburo Commissar of All the Soviets.

either they do and they’re deliberately misrepresenting their position for political gain

or

they’re total idiots

🤔

not hard to see why the brexiters keep banging on abt remainers having no respect for democracy, it goes deeper than the referendum result

Well this could destroy Jo Swinson's ability to get those Tory/Lib Dem marginal seats, which would put any coalition in jeopardy.

I put it as a maybe because Johnson would be running on a No Deal ticket anyway. xps to NV

Yeah I wouldn't want to really call the outcome of a GE but again anybody seriously pro ref 2 and/or no ND must know that working across party boundaries will be a medium term necessity

Imagine looking at that Aaron Banks tweet linked up thread and performatively acting out over the Corbyn letter.

lib dems have gone from the party of democratising reforms to the party of avoid an election at all costs

the demos are invoked when they're unchangeable bigots who must be appeased and ignored when they want egalitarian reform

fuck me i can talk. where the hell did that telephone exchange stuff come from.

I was wondering what the fuck that was about.

imagine this will play particularly bad in swinson’s LD/SNP marginal which is full of anti-NDB accountants and lawyers

to gyac: yes, the politics of the politicians have cleared up for me today---Corbyn seems to have played this well. articles posted here on what no dealers want have clarified their stance too. much else remains unclear but I'm just a student.

Here’s an idea @jeremycorbyn, if you want unity, why don’t you stand aside and let someone other opposition leaders feel comfortable getting behind take over because at the moment, the only thing stopping your plan working is you.

— Emma Kennedy (@EmmaKennedy) August 15, 2019

It's thick-headed on so many levels but to return to perhaps the most fundamental: how big is the Twitter melt mandate, or Swinson's, or Lucas's, compared to Corbyn's?

The problem is that we currently have three or four different and regularly conflicting modes of democracy all overlapping and competing with one another right now and no one seems to know which one takes prescience, partly because MPs have ignored the problem and picked whichever one happens to be useful to them at any given time.

It isn't very sexy or the sort of thing that swings elections but a proper written constitution should be a manifesto pledge for several of the parties.

(xpost - given that the Greens, SNP and Tory rebels are apparently happy to talk to Corbyn it seems obvious where the problem lies).

Lucas, as I thought, has seen sense.

My appeal to @JoSwinson to reconsider her response to Corbyn's approach on stopping a disastrous No Deal #Brexit pic.twitter.com/47xVDpUoMf

— Caroline Lucas (@CarolineLucas) August 15, 2019

Also can’t even get through 240 characters without making some kind of basic communication error. Autocorrect is no longer an excuse if you’re a melt who is paid to express yourself in public.

He's the twice-elected leader of the second biggest party in Parliament, you appeared in some sketches on TMWRNJ, he should be listening eh Emma?

Extremely otm thread from Joe Kennedy.

The Lib Dem chickens appearing over the hill with a manifest desire to roost seems like very, very, very good karmic blowback for all the usual suspects.

— Joe Kennedy (@joekennedy81) August 15, 2019

It has unfortunately been eclipsed by events but Stephen Kinnock and up to 29 of his friends planning to get May's deal through Parliament is majestic.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/aug/14/labour-bloc-plans-radical-move-to-push-through-brexit-deal

xp needs two thirds of HoC to vote for dissolving parliament, which it will.