NEW: @YouGov poll of voters in the Conservatives’ 13 Scottish seats, for @peoplesvote_uk, shows Westminster voting intention: SNP 42%, Tory 30%, Lib 12% , Lab 7%, Brex 5%. All 13 Tory MPs in Scotland would lose seats under uniform swing pic.twitter.com/qJjxrjcfu0— Chris Musson (@ChrisMusson) September 6, 2019
― Funky Isolations (jed_), Friday, 6 September 2019 21:55 (four years ago) link
xp she’s a young JH-B. I read on her tl that she lives in Islington South so her voting Tory is meaningless
― gyac, Friday, 6 September 2019 21:57 (four years ago) link
xpsounds about right now Ruthie has taken up night swimming and with this shrunken cowardly lump in Westminster
― calzino, Friday, 6 September 2019 22:00 (four years ago) link
People made fun of Ed Miliband eating the sandwich for purely aesthetic anti-Semitic reasons
... fixed that one for her.
― Boulez, vous couchez avec moi? (Tom D.), Friday, 6 September 2019 22:01 (four years ago) link
thought the lab 7% was baaaaaad but then realised that's in the 13 tory seats...
― самокритика me, daddy (||||||||), Friday, 6 September 2019 22:06 (four years ago) link
if poor Ed would have rolled his sleeves up and not awkwardly eaten that sandwhich been a jewish politician, the gutter press would have found another dog whistle angle to fuck him over with.
― calzino, Friday, 6 September 2019 22:06 (four years ago) link
AHHH xpost
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Friday, 6 September 2019 22:10 (four years ago) link
job is still fucked for Scottish Labour, but perhaps not quite that much!
― calzino, Friday, 6 September 2019 22:14 (four years ago) link
it's believable
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Friday, 6 September 2019 23:17 (four years ago) link
I think that Tory wipeout in Scotland looks odds on and I dearly hope Swinson loses her seat again.
Westminster voting intention:CON: 29% (-2)LAB: 24% (-)LDEM: 18% (-3)BREX: 17% (+3)GRN: 3% (-)via @Survation, fw TBCChgs. w/ Aug— Britain Elects (@britainelects) September 6, 2019
more bad news for boris
― calzino, Friday, 6 September 2019 23:32 (four years ago) link
idk what's going on with the BP polling: I still don't quite trust this right wing junta, I'll stick with Farage for now.
― calzino, Friday, 6 September 2019 23:43 (four years ago) link
Needs a real man (fag smoking, pint drinking) to come and sort things out. Also BoJo looked like a prat before and has now proven himself to be an incompetent prat.
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Friday, 6 September 2019 23:45 (four years ago) link
I know you all hate Marina Hyde, but this was good:
Having very belatedly taken the stage, Johnson proceeded to die on his arse in front of rows of police officers. Does this technically count as a death in custody? Certainly, it bore all the hallmarks of such an event, of which there have been 1,718 since 1990, with not a single conviction for murder or manslaughter. Which is to say: it was brutal and disturbing, it happened right in front of multiple police pretending not to notice, and the victim was officially concluded to have done it to himself. (Thank you in advance to the Police Federation for their forthcoming letters on this paragraph. I’ll make time to to read them when I retire at 50 after three years on the sick.)
― And according to some websites, there were “sexcapades.” (James Morrison), Saturday, 7 September 2019 04:11 (four years ago) link
That is truly incredible writing. I think MH is vital.
― Funky Isolations (jed_), Saturday, 7 September 2019 04:37 (four years ago) link
could not be further from hating her, fwiw.
― Funky Isolations (jed_), Saturday, 7 September 2019 04:38 (four years ago) link
She is terrible
― plax (ico), Saturday, 7 September 2019 06:43 (four years ago) link
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/sep/06/boris-johnson-short-of-options-as-rebels-vow-to-secure-brexit-delay
Really missed a trick not putting some humiliating punishment clauses in the bill. I’d go for he John Lillburne option but I’m sure we could have had others.
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Saturday, 7 September 2019 07:06 (four years ago) link
MH is not that talked about here, unlike Stephen Bush, to give an example.
― xyzzzz__, Saturday, 7 September 2019 07:08 (four years ago) link
It’s just op-ed as entertainment. she’s not i don’t think she’s exactly terrible. she’s able to turn out striking phrases on the regular, but exists in a cycle where terrible commentators misunderstand the churn of politics during the week and the MH applies her Striking Phrases at the weekend, without actually illuminating anything about the process of, you know, politics, and everyone goes “ahhh, Marina does it again.”no interest in the cycle or how she writes about it.
― Fizzles, Saturday, 7 September 2019 08:20 (four years ago) link
yas clap emoji kween
― anvil, Saturday, 7 September 2019 08:38 (four years ago) link
baroness Hyde is annoyingly smug and as landed gentry she's typically uncomfortable with the idea of a centre-left Labour gov, and all the worst people gush about everything she writes in a such a hyperbolic way "she's done it again" "paroxysms of pant shitting laughter". I probably don't give her a fair hearing but tankie brain worms or something, tbh I think she's a total arsehole.
― calzino, Saturday, 7 September 2019 08:57 (four years ago) link
She's OK when she attacks the political Right.
She's bad because she hates the political Left.
― the pinefox, Saturday, 7 September 2019 09:22 (four years ago) link
bingo
― Joe Proroguin' (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 7 September 2019 09:23 (four years ago) link
there is a hell of a lot to shoot at in the political right at the moment, but going for their lightning rod clown pm doesn't really require much thought - the columns write themselves and is pretty much what the billionaires that have facilitated his rise would expect. Not exactly big game hunting.
― calzino, Saturday, 7 September 2019 09:46 (four years ago) link
I think she just does that thing where people-hyphenate-words-in-a-sentence and use unlikely adjectives to imply witty irreverence. anyone who claims they laugh should be shot at dawn.
― plax (ico), Saturday, 7 September 2019 09:49 (four years ago) link
I will never forgive Boris Johnson for inflicting on my dear friend @NSoames such a brutal end to his parliamentary career. If anyone had any doubt about our Prime Minister’s character or morals, look no further.— Nick Boles MP (@NickBoles) September 4, 2019
Man looking at this and just jealous at how the Tories can dispatch their own people like this.
― xyzzzz__, Saturday, 7 September 2019 10:56 (four years ago) link
democracy is bad again
― mark s, Saturday, 7 September 2019 11:58 (four years ago) link
It's always been an empty sham tbf
― Joe Proroguin' (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 7 September 2019 11:59 (four years ago) link
Getting rid of Soames may be the only good thing he's done
― Zelda Zonk, Saturday, 7 September 2019 12:01 (four years ago) link
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― mark s, Saturday, 7 September 2019 12:02 (four years ago) link
The former Conservative leader Iain Duncan Smith encouraged Johnson to break the law, saying he would be seen as a Brexit “martyr” if judges opted to put him jail for breaching parliament’s terms.
Democracy is good again.
― Boulez, vous couchez avec moi? (Tom D.), Saturday, 7 September 2019 12:12 (four years ago) link
Re Hyde, it was more the unexpected ACAB line that I enjoyed.
― And according to some websites, there were “sexcapades.” (James Morrison), Saturday, 7 September 2019 12:24 (four years ago) link
No argument with that but even the "three years off sick and retire at 50" line was a v Toryish dig
― Joe Proroguin' (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 7 September 2019 12:26 (four years ago) link
hate cops, love the right to generous sick pay won by their unions
― don’t bore us, get to the aeon of horus (bizarro gazzara), Saturday, 7 September 2019 12:31 (four years ago) link
yah exactly
― plax (ico), Saturday, 7 September 2019 12:34 (four years ago) link
Good Lord. This is majestic. @MarinaHyde delivering, day in and day out, some of the most staggering wordsmithery of our age. Sensational. https://t.co/2mjbVsecXb— Will Buxton (@wbuxtonofficial) September 6, 2019
tunesmithery!
― calzino, Saturday, 7 September 2019 12:46 (four years ago) link
https://www.redpepper.org.uk/the-crisis-of-conservatism/
I enjoyed this bit about the demise of toryism and James butler is one of the more readable pundits despite the overly present i-went-to-oxford-isms (I don't know if he really went to Oxford, but it's a style of writing)
― plax (ico), Friday, September 6, 2019 7:00 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink
Thanks for this, it was very good - I didn't notice much of that style when contrasted to a writer who gets 'adumbration' in early.
― Andrew Farrell, Saturday, 7 September 2019 12:48 (four years ago) link
gnna have to bzzzt "adumbration" as a p easy-level perryism tbh, come back when we reach: alembicated, prodrome, dégringolade
― mark s, Saturday, 7 September 2019 12:58 (four years ago) link
As usual, every single line in @MarinaHyde’s wrap of the last few days is gold but I can’t stop laughing at Boris Johnson “gave a speech so hallucinatorily bad it whiteyed a policewoman”
why that's the most hilarious gag of season, scuse me I need some oxygen etc...
― calzino, Saturday, 7 September 2019 12:58 (four years ago) link
honestly i loathe this entire mode, from jay rayner on bad food to mr abusing on anything
― mark s, Saturday, 7 September 2019 13:00 (four years ago) link
that red pepper piece is good. butler’s opening a useful corrective to this matthew parris view
“The blame [for the Brexit farce] should rest on the shoulders of the Conservative Party, the whole the Conservative Party and only the Conservative Party.” Writes Matthew Parris, former Conservative Party MP. pic.twitter.com/U9sB3NKULM— alan rusbridger (@arusbridger) September 7, 2019
― Fizzles, Saturday, 7 September 2019 13:07 (four years ago) link
on that mode, is it a blackadder thing? where did it come from? which writers? douglas adams?
― Fizzles, Saturday, 7 September 2019 13:08 (four years ago) link
Matthew Parris is the original exponent of being The Adult In The Room, which makes him the worst of them, fuck him and his schtick forever
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Saturday, 7 September 2019 13:22 (four years ago) link
I think Stephen Fry, but specifically his ascent to National Treasure is probably key - I am obviously not bothered by it, better that than a fusillade of 'melts!'
― Andrew Farrell, Saturday, 7 September 2019 13:49 (four years ago) link
i think there was a song about the melt-whine fusilladers once
― calzino, Saturday, 7 September 2019 13:58 (four years ago) link
shit pun fails that wouldn't cut the mustard with fans of that mode
― calzino, Saturday, 7 September 2019 14:02 (four years ago) link
Prodrome
― the pinefox, Saturday, 7 September 2019 14:04 (four years ago) link
There's no way James Butler didn't go to Oxford, be it only in spirit. But that piece was indeed quite good and its style struck me as relevant to the overall propos.
― pomenitul, Saturday, 7 September 2019 14:42 (four years ago) link
novara is a v UCL/soas thing though?
― plax (ico), Saturday, 7 September 2019 14:47 (four years ago) link
anyway its that lrb-ish style where the author inevitably alludes to their modest middle-class background that led to their going to oxbridge under the auspices of some widening-social-access moment in education when such things were less remarkable than now
― plax (ico), Saturday, 7 September 2019 14:49 (four years ago) link