it just takes five minutes of this shit to kneel down and thank the lord i don't believe in that we don't have a program like QT on. though i suspect we'll have our own dire version of it. vox-popping the ratings up.
― Le Bateau Ivre, Thursday, 5 September 2019 22:08 (four years ago) link
the new newsnight NN logo is so clearly fascistic that you have to wonder why it wasn't flagged up. Maybe it was intentional.
― Funky Isolations (jed_), Thursday, 5 September 2019 22:08 (four years ago) link
fascistic still better than a hammer and sickle amirite
― Le Bateau Ivre, Thursday, 5 September 2019 22:09 (four years ago) link
We know the production teams on NN and QT are fond of fascists, so why not have a logo to match?
― Boulez, vous couchez avec moi? (Tom D.), Thursday, 5 September 2019 22:10 (four years ago) link
howtf is this in london - QT audience commissioner has performed a worldy here. found every leaver in london
― самокритика me, daddy (||||||||), Thursday, 5 September 2019 22:11 (four years ago) link
Bussed them in from every provincial shithole in England.
― Boulez, vous couchez avec moi? (Tom D.), Thursday, 5 September 2019 22:12 (four years ago) link
alison fuller pedley, that is... https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/ourbeeb/is-question-time-s-audience-producer-really-fascist/
― самокритика me, daddy (||||||||), Thursday, 5 September 2019 22:13 (four years ago) link
fiona bruce just freely interrupting audience members now is it
― самокритика me, daddy (||||||||), Thursday, 5 September 2019 22:15 (four years ago) link
m8 m8 m8 m8
― Le Bateau Ivre, Thursday, 5 September 2019 22:17 (four years ago) link
Insisting she’s confused about Labour policy is just mind-numbingly disingenuous.
― coup de twat (suzy), Thursday, 5 September 2019 22:18 (four years ago) link
trolling?
― theRZA the JZA and the NDB (darraghmac), Thursday, 5 September 2019 22:19 (four years ago) link
wish it was. i'd send her straight to yr trolling thread, but she's just really not on.
― Le Bateau Ivre, Thursday, 5 September 2019 22:20 (four years ago) link
Pointy mansplaining Brexit arse Richard Tice really likes getting in the space of women who contradict him.
Gossip note: he’s shagging the equally mendacious Brexit Party MEP Alexandra Phillips.
― coup de twat (suzy), Thursday, 5 September 2019 22:22 (four years ago) link
"Alexandra Phillips MEP@BrexitAlexAfrophile, Cruciverbalist, Advaitin, Brexiteer and Cat Lover with a passion for Formula 1 and Food. MEP for @brexitparty_uk in the South East"
:-(
― Le Bateau Ivre, Thursday, 5 September 2019 22:28 (four years ago) link
passion for Formula 1
massive red flag
― самокритика me, daddy (||||||||), Thursday, 5 September 2019 22:29 (four years ago) link
xp as well as Isabel Oakeshott?!
― gyac, Thursday, 5 September 2019 22:31 (four years ago) link
I suggest Boris keeps Carrie close by.
― Boulez, vous couchez avec moi? (Tom D.), Thursday, 5 September 2019 22:35 (four years ago) link
Ah, either my source was confused between rancid, patronising blondes or two people going to the European Parliament in the same group have moved things on.
Oakeshott’s been pretty quiet lately, though.
― coup de twat (suzy), Thursday, 5 September 2019 22:38 (four years ago) link
Long may it continue.MEANWHILE
The BBC is reporting that the Conservative government may put forward a vote of no confidence in itself— Matthew Garrahan (@MattGarrahan) September 5, 2019
― gyac, Thursday, 5 September 2019 23:15 (four years ago) link
VONC yourself because you believe the other side can’t get a GNU and that delays royal ascent?
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Thursday, 5 September 2019 23:23 (four years ago) link
I’m no 9d chess player but if the conservatives do this I’d place a small bet that jo Swindon won’t join the GNU but Ken Clarke, Jo Johnson and Nicholas Soames will put Jefferey Cringingnut in Number 10 out of sheer devilment.
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Thursday, 5 September 2019 23:26 (four years ago) link
Daring the others to vote confidence in the government to prevent an early October election. Maybe opposition could abstain or pull that shitty teller trick
― gyac, Thursday, 5 September 2019 23:27 (four years ago) link
Actually that teller trick would work, wouldn’t it? It would pass by default
― stet, Thursday, 5 September 2019 23:35 (four years ago) link
according to tonight's guardian editorial https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/sep/05/the-guardian-view-on-boris-johnson-cunning-plan-winning-by-resigning
Mr Johnson could achieve the same by resigning and telling the Queen to send for Labour’s leader to replace him. The prime minister appears to favour this option because it might give him a poll, without a parliamentary vote, before 31 October.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, 6 September 2019 00:01 (four years ago) link
https://pics.me.me/a-strange-game-the-only-winning-move-is-not-to-6657317.png
― don’t bore us, get to the aeon of horus (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 6 September 2019 04:33 (four years ago) link
Did Boris Johnson go to Wakefield just to mess with the SEO for Jacob Rees Mogg's Andrew Wakefield comparison
my febrile Brexit brain believes this, and that his studiedly awkward bus nonsense was too
― ogmor, Friday, 6 September 2019 07:40 (four years ago) link
He was up in the area though and in Morley and outwood (really marginal) and Wakefield itself is also pretty marginal and they’ve indicated they want to target Northern labour seats.I think the last few days have established they’re as incompetent as they are malicious
― gyac, Friday, 6 September 2019 07:58 (four years ago) link
JRM has apologised I see - obviously not going well with whoever this crowd actually listens to
― gyac, Friday, 6 September 2019 07:59 (four years ago) link
Ed Balls lost Morley by about 200 iirc
― calzino, Friday, 6 September 2019 08:03 (four years ago) link
Shd've danced harder
― Joe Proroguin' (Noodle Vague), Friday, 6 September 2019 08:07 (four years ago) link
BJ's repeatedly referring to the SNP as "separatists" really does just make him look daft and unserious
― самокритика me, daddy (||||||||), Friday, 6 September 2019 08:13 (four years ago) link
― gyac, Friday, 6 September 2019 07:59 (sixteen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
can one climb down from a slouch
― theRZA the JZA and the NDB (darraghmac), Friday, 6 September 2019 08:16 (four years ago) link
Props for Cummings from you? Really?― lefal junglist platton (wtev), Thursday, 5 September 2019 bookmarkflaglink
Yes, he is making Tories suffer. Cummings is like a consultant coming in and telling the CEO his modernisation involves making thousands redundant, and probably getting rid of management who aren't up to scratch. Tory cunts like Soames would be praising it, and instead are crying because it's happening to them. You gotta enjoy it on some level.
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 6 September 2019 08:32 (four years ago) link
I'm enjoying it on many, many levels
― Joe Proroguin' (Noodle Vague), Friday, 6 September 2019 08:35 (four years ago) link
That's the spirit
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 6 September 2019 08:40 (four years ago) link
In Labour there are different views on exactly when an early election should take place, and there is as yet no settled view.
journalists really are over-labouring this - it is a fast-moving and complex situation and so no wonder there has been some slight slips on the precise timing of when an election should be. the important point is that no deal has to be off the table first
― самокритика me, daddy (||||||||), Friday, 6 September 2019 08:43 (four years ago) link
Putting the guy saying "please leave my town" on a loop.
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 6 September 2019 08:47 (four years ago) link
"Sir Michael Fallon, the former defence secretary, has joined the longish list of Tories who have decided to stand down at the next election. Fallon, 67, told the Today programme this morning that he was planning to stand down at the end of this parliament anyway, but he did express concerns about Boris Johnson’s decision to purge the 21 Conservatives who rebelled against the government on Tuesday. He said he hoped they might have the whip restored."
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 6 September 2019 08:59 (four years ago) link
I’ve had it with journalists making the screw-face and saying ‘we don’t understand what the position is’ (looking at you, Fiona Bruce, since it’s actually really difficult to convey the screw-face from behind a wall of Botox injections) because the position is:
*Call an election after the Benn thingummy has Royal assent and the UK has an extension to A50 in place.
*When Labour wins that election, they go to the EU and draw up a new WA based on their parameters, showing that they respect the 2016 vote.
*Ratification of new WA in public vote v. Remain, with MPs free to campaign for whichever option (as in 1975) so that it doesn’t become a confidence issue around Corbyn if his deal is beaten by Remain.
― coup de twat (suzy), Friday, 6 September 2019 09:03 (four years ago) link
xxp
Yorkshire is good again
― calzino, Friday, 6 September 2019 09:03 (four years ago) link
the govt's proposed a "new towns fund" to address some of the deprivation they've been nurturing over the past decade. obviously they could never empower or properly fund an elected body like a council, so instead they've drawn up this list of 100 towns (bc round numbers are the truth) to pour some money in a patchwork fashion they can control. all 100 towns in england, don't know what a lot of them are like and here are some worthy ones here but also posh stockport suburb cheadle (tory seat with a 4k majority), so a whiff of corruption on top of everything else
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/100-places-to-benefit-from-new-towns-fund
https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/5d716db6ed915d08f9a72a7c/list-of-100-places.pdf
― ogmor, Friday, 6 September 2019 09:21 (four years ago) link
quick skim of that list looks v random to me, also whole councils are apparently towns, East Riding of Yorkshire ffs Tory thru and thru
quangos are a great way of ignoring democracy tho
― Joe Proroguin' (Noodle Vague), Friday, 6 September 2019 09:26 (four years ago) link
you couldn't get a more starker contrast than posh af Todmorden and Dewsbury, and then a Labour safe seat like Huddersfield doesn't qualify - yet has taken a real battering from austerity and I can see some con/lab marginals on there, that type of crude electoral bribery/fraud surely doesn't happen in the country with the mother of all parliaments.
― calzino, Friday, 6 September 2019 09:35 (four years ago) link
xp think you misread it, East Riding of Yorkshire isn't in the town column
― Colonel Poo, Friday, 6 September 2019 09:37 (four years ago) link
if anyone wants to play a game you could see if you can find a town that voted remain on that list
― ogmor, Friday, 6 September 2019 09:38 (four years ago) link
news to me that Wakefield is a district of Leeds City Council.
― calzino, Friday, 6 September 2019 09:39 (four years ago) link
Wakefield Council didn't fight to keep white on black street signs only to become a rump district of that damned city!
― calzino, Friday, 6 September 2019 09:42 (four years ago) link
Lol
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/sep/06/boris-johnson-prorogation-of-parliament-is-lawful-high-court-rules
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 6 September 2019 09:43 (four years ago) link
These people must have money to burn
― Joe Proroguin' (Noodle Vague), Friday, 6 September 2019 09:45 (four years ago) link
A load of old bullocks and one very ornery bull
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/live/2019/sep/06/brexit-boris-johnson-news-latest-eu-labour-confirms-it-will-not-vote-on-monday-night-for-early-election-live-newsbior#img-1
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Friday, 6 September 2019 09:49 (four years ago) link