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

Who even knew he had a strategy before this? xp

Cold.

News of Jo Johnson's resignation came through during the daily Lobby briefing held by the PM's spokesman. Safe to say Downing Street did not have a clue this was coming.

— Kevin Schofield (@PolhomeEditor) September 5, 2019

fuck him up jo

(you tory prick)

Lib Dems May stand Luciana Berger in Golders Green/Finchley - currently a Tory seat.

Good plan.

i really want to know what theresa may makes of current events

It's all very Shakespeareian, innit?

Yeah she deserves a seat where she actually lives; Liverpool Wavertree shouldn’t be for a carpetbagger.

Also it means Labour should hold on to her old seat.

They have a candidate there already? Also, appreciate Berger would pull a bigger share of the vote but they were still a distant third in 2017
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finchley_and_Golders_Green_(UK_Parliament_constituency)

Sadly I was not able to capture the NHK infographic of JC beating BJ with a baseball bat.

Today just gets weirder. Stephen Pound MP has set up a stall giving away his CD collection in Portcullis House (inside Parliament) because he’s standing down at the next election. “I have crap taste in music” he is declaring to passers by.

— Kate McCann (@KateEMcCann) September 5, 2019

good pitch, maybe i shd try that with my book

Kind of lol but mostly sad

new ILM board description

(I was tempted by a Bruce Springsteen album to tell you the truth until I realised I don’t own a CD player)

— Kate McCann (@KateEMcCann) September 5, 2019

Sadly I was not able to capture the NHK infographic of JC beating BJ with a baseball bat.

― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Thursday, 5 September 2019 12:56

OMG keep trying

Sadly I was not able to capture the NHK infographic of JC beating BJ with a baseball bat.

It's a cliche to say you couldn't make it up, because you so could. But it would need a team of scriptwriters

I wonder if my friend’s niece (recently elected Lab councillor in Southall) will try for Pound’s seat?

every time i see a tweet from kate mccann it takes a second to remember it’s not madeline mccann’s mum so the one xyzzz just posted was particularly confusing/exciting

Jo!!

― Le Bateau Ivre, Thursday, 5 September 2019 10:45 (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

Jo! out

A+

Looks increasingly like swathes of Labour MPs will not vote for a GE, at least not before Nov 1. Did Crombin speak too soon saying "first the NDB off the table, then elections"? Seems like this could bite him in the bum.

I don’t know if anyone will notice this day of brotherly love

doesn't the frit thing just go away once an election is called? it's not as if team crobby can somehow source a line that will get strong MSM approval -- they will be harshly attacked whatever they do

yup - the attack line has some short term traction but won't survive a GE being called... which will now only be done when JC is good and ready

JC is PM confirmed

This is horrendous, JRM comparing the doctor to Andrew fucking Wakefield. Could be actionable if he hadn’t said it in parliament.

Astonishing: in the Commons, Jacob Rees-Mogg calls Dr David Nicholl, with whom he clashed over no-deal Brexit, "as irresponsible as Dr (Andrew) Wakefield", the disgraced anti-vaccines campaigner.

Background:https://t.co/SmgM2Leoat

— Peter Walker (@peterwalker99) September 5, 2019

A statement was made by a govt minister this am which I believe 2 be defamatory but is protected by Parliam privilege.
I am currently catching train 2 London 2 speak to @bbcpm Im happy 2 speak to any other legitimate journo on College Green afterwards.Apologies 2 my dentist.

— Dr David Nicholl, Esq (@djnicholl) September 5, 2019

"apologies to my dentist" is the new "hold my coat"

"apologies 2 my dentist" lmao

so.... if BJ would rather resign than seek an extension.... why would labour not simply sit on their hands until 31/10 ?

I think they will do just that.

Well you might want to have an election against someone as unstable as he has proven to be.

Tory PM running as the weak and unstable candidate this time round perhaps.

If Boris Johnson is gonna flail, let it be for awhile so even low information voters know all these new ways in which he’s awful.

bbc news going big on a new expedition to find the loch ness monster, good to see the regularly-scheduled silly season is still on despite the future of the uk teetering on a knife edge

silly season is later in the year now bcz climate change iirc

running out of big beasts elsewhere i should've thought

xp Tbf they are killing time before Boris J and the Security of the 1st World's big fashy electioneering speech

Anyone watching this super cringe?! He's doing that "joke" again (who opened up abt this, about him at some donor night) by deliberately messing up a punch line.

It's infrastructure week in the uk

Hope the thirty cops behind him arrest him.

Lol at these square jawed piglets trying not to fidget while he waffles on endlessly

The Great Orator is stumbling staccato through this drag of a "speech"

"Jo doesn't agree with me abt the EU, but he would agree that we need to get on and sort this thing out"

loool

Johnson asks police what the police caution is.

None of them read it out to him, so he tries to recite it himself. You do not have to say anything, but anything you do say may be taken down as evidence and used in evidence against you.

(Except Johnson does not say it coherently. He stumbles, and gives up half way through. Is he expecting someone to help him out? It is not clear, but it looks as though he has given no thought at all to what he wants to say.)

sounds like a cracking gig

Is this... supposed to be his election campaign launch speech? Oh this is hilarious.

think I perhaps didn't truly appreciate his vast capacity for fucking up absolutely everything before

he's even more 'he's be... he'she's... he's he's a coward'

Haha, third media question that begins with "if even your own brother" lol

Q: Shouldn’t you be next to resign?

Johnson says MPs said they would respect the referendum.

He says there is a stark contrast between his approach and Jeremy Corbyn’s. He says they are making it impossible for the country to leave the EU, and for the country to have an election. He says Corbyn must be the first opposition lead to oppose an election. That goes against his job description, he says.

"I'd rather be dead in a ditch than going back to Brussels asking for a delay."

already kinda looks like he's kinda not into this