"The Madcunian Candidate"
― a wagon to the curious (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 11 September 2019 10:18 (four years ago) link
"Three Days of the Condor Legion Afficionado"
― a wagon to the curious (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 11 September 2019 10:19 (four years ago) link
Has Jolyon un-prorogued Parliament then? What actually happens now?
― stet, Wednesday, 11 September 2019 10:30 (four years ago) link
wait, wait
"The Caramacs View"
― a wagon to the curious (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 11 September 2019 10:30 (four years ago) link
lol
― calzino, Wednesday, 11 September 2019 10:32 (four years ago) link
i could just go for a Caramac now
― a wagon to the curious (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 11 September 2019 10:33 (four years ago) link
NEW: Len McCluskey tells Sky that Boris Johnson to be put under citizens arrest— Sam Coates Sky (@SamCoatesSky) September 11, 2019
― prorogue mahone (||||||||), Wednesday, 11 September 2019 10:42 (four years ago) link
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tricoteuse
― mark s, Wednesday, 11 September 2019 10:56 (four years ago) link
lol i just realised knitting is the olden days popcorn.gif
― mark s, Wednesday, 11 September 2019 10:57 (four years ago) link
tokyo rosemary to thread
pic.twitter.com/BrIAAIyd8Y— . (@JckGrg) September 11, 2019
― Le Bateau Ivre, Wednesday, 11 September 2019 11:00 (four years ago) link
"put yr hands on the car and die!"
― calzino, Wednesday, 11 September 2019 11:05 (four years ago) link
Man, I'd forgotten that total classic!
― The Inner Mounting Phlegm (Tom D.), Wednesday, 11 September 2019 11:07 (four years ago) link
it's become one of the most referenced memes amongst my friendship group, it's so useful
― ogmor, Wednesday, 11 September 2019 11:09 (four years ago) link
"You said you wanted us dead!""I do want you dead."
― Le Bateau Ivre, Wednesday, 11 September 2019 11:10 (four years ago) link
"Citizen's arrest" always makes me think of The Burbs but this looks like a better reference, I shall update my .xlsx accordingly
I was thinking lately about The Burbs wrt our Brexit era, like, the neighbours are odd and have an Eastern European surname, but nobody has any evidence that anything is happening and it's kind of rude really - maybe they should not have actually turned out to be bad guys in the end, what message does this send to our children
our children who watch a lot of not particularly fondly remembered movies of the 80s-90s interzone
― a passing spacecadet, Wednesday, 11 September 2019 11:25 (four years ago) link
telegraph declaring farage the "british icarus" as today's metaphor for everything
― mark s, Wednesday, 11 September 2019 11:53 (four years ago) link
Telegraph finger on the pulse as ever.
― The Inner Mounting Phlegm (Tom D.), Wednesday, 11 September 2019 11:55 (four years ago) link
tbf getting a classical mythology reference 180° wrong is a modernising repudiation of their former bufton-tufton-style stuffiness
― mark s, Wednesday, 11 September 2019 11:58 (four years ago) link
More like dickarus, right?
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 11 September 2019 12:04 (four years ago) link
farage unfazed by melts thus far imo
― the creator has a mazda van (NickB), Wednesday, 11 September 2019 12:06 (four years ago) link
a+
― don’t bore us, get to the aeon of horus (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 11 September 2019 12:09 (four years ago) link
So Parliament reconvenes, but only the Scottish MPs come back? I mean, it's not what I had written here, but I'm not unhappy.
― Andrew Farrell, Wednesday, 11 September 2019 12:31 (four years ago) link
Ian Blackford is..... The Caretaker
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 11 September 2019 12:43 (four years ago) link
j/k
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 11 September 2019 12:44 (four years ago) link
It seems like a lot depends on Bercow. He could un-suspend Monday's sitting (which wasn't adjourned) and expect them all to troop back. You might expect the government to boycott though — and then we'll have a legitimacy crisis over anything passed.
I suspect the actual answer is they won't do anything until the Supreme Court rules on Tuesday.
― stet, Wednesday, 11 September 2019 12:46 (four years ago) link
can this go to the ECJ for the LOL
― nashwan, Wednesday, 11 September 2019 13:03 (four years ago) link
does anyone know which are the two momentum candidates for the Conference Arrangements Committee Representative vote? I've left it late and too busy google shit rn!
― calzino, Wednesday, 11 September 2019 14:13 (four years ago) link
frank field and mike gapes iirc
― mark s, Wednesday, 11 September 2019 14:14 (four years ago) link
seema chandwani and billy hayes
― devvvine, Wednesday, 11 September 2019 14:15 (four years ago) link
Looks like there are three, but not a member & don’t know how it works
For the first time, Conference will elected a disabled representative to the Conference Arrangements Committee (CAC) this year. Momentum is supporting Wayne Blackburn (Pendle, L1219739), who is also supported by Disability Labour.Elections for the two members’ representatives on the Conference Arrangements Committee will take place this Summer, via a One Member One Vote ballot of party members. Momentum will once again be supporting Seema Chandwani (Tottenham CLP, L1187007) and Billy Hayes (Mitcham and Morden CLP, A065571) for the CAC. CLPs have until June 28th to make nominations.
― gyac, Wednesday, 11 September 2019 14:15 (four years ago) link
they'll do thanx!
― calzino, Wednesday, 11 September 2019 14:16 (four years ago) link
Wayne isn't on the ballot so I'll do the other 2.
― calzino, Wednesday, 11 September 2019 14:18 (four years ago) link
stet otm
Government source says they will abide by whatever the Supreme Court rules. Parliament will remain prorogued until the appeals process is complete but if the Supreme Court goes against the government, they will set a recall date via a Privy Council process.— Shehab Khan (@ShehabKhan) September 11, 2019
― stet, Wednesday, 11 September 2019 14:18 (four years ago) link
Tonight the government is due to hand over secret papers relating to its no-deal preparation project, Operation Yellowhammer, which MPs at the gathering said should have been debated in the Commons.
― gyac, Wednesday, 11 September 2019 14:30 (four years ago) link
Thread of Lord Ashcroft polls in NI, so take with huge amount of salt
And if there were a referendum tomorrow, how would you vote? pic.twitter.com/muhAdZ5LUh— Lord Ashcroft (@LordAshcroft) September 11, 2019
― gyac, Wednesday, 11 September 2019 14:37 (four years ago) link
However, if they had to choose between a Labour government with Corbyn as Prime Minister or a Conservative government led by Johnson, Northern Ireland voters as a whole plump for the former by 53 per cent to 47 per cent – though nine in ten unionists prefer Johnson and the Tories.
― gyac, Wednesday, 11 September 2019 14:45 (four years ago) link
Well a few months ago I did try to explain Brexit to my tricopines which I only know anything about pretty much because of ILX threads and Twitter.
― tokyo rosemary, Wednesday, 11 September 2019 15:07 (four years ago) link
NEW: Understand new @LibDems policy of pledging to revoke Article 50 and cancelling Brexit has put off one potential defector who had been close to joining the party.“For me revoking Article 50 is just the opposite of No Deal - neither brings the country back together.”— Paul Brand (@PaulBrandITV) September 11, 2019
― gyac, Wednesday, 11 September 2019 16:02 (four years ago) link
Bye Tom
NEW: Jeremy Corbyn on @tom_watson’s call for a referendum before a general election “It’s Tom’s view, I don’t accept it and I don’t agree with it, our priority is for a general election”— Paul Brand (@PaulBrandITV) September 11, 2019
― gyac, Wednesday, 11 September 2019 16:04 (four years ago) link
Swinson + Watson ... the real resistance
― calzino, Wednesday, 11 September 2019 16:08 (four years ago) link
JC otm
― prorogue mahone (||||||||), Wednesday, 11 September 2019 16:24 (four years ago) link
Tom Kibasi is consistently good on this stuff:
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/sep/11/tom-watson-wrong-britain-needs-election-before-second-brexit-referendum
Instead of solving this problem, Theresa May exacerbated it by fundamentally misunderstanding her principal political task. She thought her job was to negotiate a deal with the EU when it was in fact to take a general mandate to leave and refine it into a specific mandate as to how. Rather than bringing the country together, her arrogant, aggressive leadership style ripped us further apart. And now, ultra remainers are taking a leaf out of her book. By demanding the divisive, they are driving the country down yet another Brexit dead end.
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 11 September 2019 16:30 (four years ago) link
tbf a lot of remainers were ultras from day 1. I'm sure the referendum, once it happened, could've been handled *better* by government, but a lot of the fundamental divisions it exploded had been there for decades and the touchpaper was lit on the day the referendum was set
― a wagon to the curious (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 11 September 2019 17:18 (four years ago) link
This is what makes me eyeroll at the idea of reuniting the nation, both sides have a lot of believers who see compromise itself as betrayal
― a wagon to the curious (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 11 September 2019 17:20 (four years ago) link
careful now
― theRZA the JZA and the NDB (darraghmac), Wednesday, 11 September 2019 17:33 (four years ago) link
Most Remainers that are now ultra/Remainiacs developed this aspect of their personalities starting on 24.06.16 - perhaps as a corrective to their own complacency during the campaign phase, and quite a few of these used it as a cudgel to beat the Labour leadership.
― coup de twat (suzy), Wednesday, 11 September 2019 17:53 (four years ago) link
there are remainiacs, that's for sure
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Wednesday, 11 September 2019 17:55 (four years ago) link
https://i0.wp.com/www.fortressofsolitude.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Animaniacs.jpg?w=736&ssl=1
― a wagon to the curious (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 11 September 2019 18:01 (four years ago) link
I don’t want to get anyone’s hopes up, but... pic.twitter.com/72iZuUXJdt— Yasmeen Serhan (@YasmeenSerhan) September 11, 2019
― gyac, Wednesday, 11 September 2019 18:21 (four years ago) link