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

Bussed them in from every provincial shithole in England.

alison fuller pedley, that is...
https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/ourbeeb/is-question-time-s-audience-producer-really-fascist/

fiona bruce just freely interrupting audience members now is it

m8 m8 m8 m8

Insisting she’s confused about Labour policy is just mind-numbingly disingenuous.

trolling?

wish it was. i'd send her straight to yr trolling thread, but she's just really not on.

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.

"Alexandra Phillips MEP
@BrexitAlex
Afrophile, Cruciverbalist, Advaitin, Brexiteer and Cat Lover with a passion for Formula 1 and Food. MEP for @brexitparty_uk
in the South East"

:-(

passion for Formula 1

massive red flag

xp as well as Isabel Oakeshott?!

I suggest Boris keeps Carrie close by.

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.

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

VONC yourself because you believe the other side can’t get a GNU and that delays royal ascent?

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.

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

Actually that teller trick would work, wouldn’t it? It would pass by default

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.

https://pics.me.me/a-strange-game-the-only-winning-move-is-not-to-6657317.png

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

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

JRM has apologised I see - obviously not going well with whoever this crowd actually listens to

Ed Balls lost Morley by about 200 iirc

Shd've danced harder

BJ's repeatedly referring to the SNP as "separatists" really does just make him look daft and unserious

JRM has apologised I see - obviously not going well with whoever this crowd actually listens to

― gyac, Friday, 6 September 2019 07:59 (sixteen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

can one climb down from a slouch

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.

I'm enjoying it on many, many levels

That's the spirit

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

Putting the guy saying "please leave my town" on a loop.

"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."

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.

xxp

Yorkshire is good again

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

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

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.

xp think you misread it, East Riding of Yorkshire isn't in the town column

if anyone wants to play a game you could see if you can find a town that voted remain on that list

news to me that Wakefield is a district of Leeds City Council.

Wakefield Council didn't fight to keep white on black street signs only to become a rump district of that damned city!

Lol

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/sep/06/boris-johnson-prorogation-of-parliament-is-lawful-high-court-rules

These people must have money to burn

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9PG6sITiNEs&list=RD9PG6sITiNEs&start_radio=1

youtube fail = Jake Thackray - The Bull

Proroguation issue cleared to go to Supreme Court on the 17th. It’s not over yet.

https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/a174bbb15dcf2663419007e12287c7b644384967/92_336_3205_1923/master/3205.jpg?width=620&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=94857fb14363455025f067999cfccd66

soz, Ed's pic didn't load for me