sorry self-shamer here!
― calzino, Thursday, 19 September 2019 14:52 (four years ago) link
god imagine being stuck in a jail cell and the only thing to read was a choice between TY and NH, do you think you could fashion a solid rope out of papier mache?
― a wagging to the furious (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 19 September 2019 14:55 (four years ago) link
the real flex would be growing your hair long and then using it as a noose
― Is it true the star Beetle Juice is going to explode in 2012 (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 19 September 2019 14:56 (four years ago) link
Hairy-kiri
― YouGov to see it (wins), Thursday, 19 September 2019 16:01 (four years ago) link
hallo, where are we up to exactly one week later
― mark s, Thursday, 19 September 2019 16:02 (four years ago) link
i kind of know, yr allowed twitter in hospital these days, it's how they check if the beta blockers are powerful enough
― mark s, Thursday, 19 September 2019 16:03 (four years ago) link
they're not
"The government said it has sent the EU a ‘series of confidential technical non-papers’ outlining its ideas for Brexit."
In the sense that a fart is definitely not a paper.
― Andrew Farrell, Thursday, 19 September 2019 16:05 (four years ago) link
Giving a speech in Madrid, Mr Barclay today said the government needs a year to come up with a replacement to the Irish backstop idea – but it still wants to leave on 31 October.The cabinet minister said the EU has set Britain a test it ‘cannot meet’ with its demands for a backstop replacement.Mr Barclay said: ‘We are told the UK must provide legally operative text by the 31 October, yet the alternative to the backstop is not necessary until the end of the Implementation Period in December 2020.‘And this will be shaped by the future relationship – which is still to be determined.‘In short, why risk crystallising an undesirable result this November, when both sides can work together until December 2020.’He added: ‘The EU risks continuing to insist on a test that the UK cannot meet and that the UK Parliament has rejected three times.’
Stephen Barclay.... partially OTM?
― Andrew Farrell, Thursday, 19 September 2019 16:07 (four years ago) link
omg mark are you ok? I missed you.
― gyac, Thursday, 19 September 2019 16:10 (four years ago) link
yes i am (they let me out)
but there is a good story to tell! i will write it up on the atrial fibbing thread tho (and not right now)
― mark s, Thursday, 19 September 2019 16:14 (four years ago) link
Yay!
― Le Bateau Ivre, Thursday, 19 September 2019 16:14 (four years ago) link
in what way is barclay in any way otm
the backstop is a binding agreement in the event of uk not satisfying the ongoing requirements of the land border with roi and the necessities of the GFA
let them sign it as a show of good faith that they intend to resolve those issues within the implementation period
if they will not do so they demonstrate unequivocally their lack of serious interest in a negotiated consensus and no further discussions are necessary, prepare for ndb and disregard the nonsense coming from the uk delegation that is purely for the benefit of their own press
― provisional ilx (darraghmac), Thursday, 19 September 2019 16:16 (four years ago) link
100% agree (sidetracked by mark coming back). Like there’s been zero good faith on the UK side, he’s literally just like, ah well let’s not be ~silly~ about this, we’re all friends here, who needs a binding written agreement?
― gyac, Thursday, 19 September 2019 16:18 (four years ago) link
Welcome back, mark. Hope you're alright.
― pomenitul, Thursday, 19 September 2019 16:19 (four years ago) link
Remember when some guy "confronted" Jeremy Corbyn by punching him in the head and instead of even slightly digging into or scrutinizing the politics and affiliations of the culprit, every melt journo had a wee giggle about it instead.— ACAB Rees-Mogg (@jelly_pack) September 18, 2019
― heard about you (||||||||), Thursday, 19 September 2019 16:23 (four years ago) link
I wrote music stuff for Modern Review under Kodwo Eshun
Apologies Suzy but I did lol thinking of Mr Eshun sitting on you while you tried to write up your copy.
― Ned Trifle X, Thursday, 19 September 2019 16:26 (four years ago) link
And welcome back Mark. Glad they let you out!
― Ned Trifle X, Thursday, 19 September 2019 16:29 (four years ago) link
At pains* to point out that Kodwo commissioned me, rather than TY/JB.
*the lanky, bony-arsed git was sitting on me the whole time obvs.
― coup de twat (suzy), Thursday, 19 September 2019 16:30 (four years ago) link
He's otm only in that he's admitting that the government isn't within an ass's roar of an actual solution on the backstop.
― Andrew Farrell, Thursday, 19 September 2019 16:45 (four years ago) link
Ministers will table "formal written solutions when we are ready" and not to an "artificial deadline"
https://i.imgur.com/SEdmZpC.png
― a wagging to the furious (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 19 September 2019 17:09 (four years ago) link
all deadlines are artificial
― mark s, Thursday, 19 September 2019 17:11 (four years ago) link
thread of artificial fibbing
― provisional ilx (darraghmac), Thursday, 19 September 2019 17:23 (four years ago) link
Tom otm
― Let them eat Pfifferlinge an Schneckensauce (Tom D.), Thursday, 19 September 2019 17:23 (four years ago) link
― Is it true the star Beetle Juice is going to explode in 2012 (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 19 September 2019 17:28 (four years ago) link
Police? I’d like to report a murder: on the bottom of page 138 of David Cameron’s book. pic.twitter.com/xWvJETX1Ow— Stephen Bush (@stephenkb) September 19, 2019
I've got used to how much Bush buzzes off Cameron as a politician just by the odd comment or fifty about him in the past. He's loving the book by the look of it!
― calzino, Thursday, 19 September 2019 18:08 (four years ago) link
i have no idea what he considers the "murder" there
― mark s, Thursday, 19 September 2019 18:10 (four years ago) link
the blandishments in the middle I presume, but yeah!
― calzino, Thursday, 19 September 2019 18:12 (four years ago) link
theresa was excellent whereas failing grayling just served, presumably
― heard about you (||||||||), Thursday, 19 September 2019 18:13 (four years ago) link
maybe Karen Bradley made her fucking look good!
― calzino, Thursday, 19 September 2019 18:15 (four years ago) link
xp otm, but how many roles did Cameron put him in again?!
― gyac, Thursday, 19 September 2019 18:29 (four years ago) link
didnt put him with the p roles anyway
― provisional ilx (darraghmac), Thursday, 19 September 2019 18:31 (four years ago) link
Grayling has become such a widely clowned figure that it seems pretty weak piss from Cameron.
― calzino, Thursday, 19 September 2019 18:46 (four years ago) link
We've got Priti Patel as Home Secretary now, so the joke's on us.
― Let them eat Pfifferlinge an Schneckensauce (Tom D.), Thursday, 19 September 2019 18:50 (four years ago) link
Who da thought that when we've got three Britannia Unchained lunatic extremists as cabinet ministers that everything would be so chained up
― calzino, Thursday, 19 September 2019 18:59 (four years ago) link
To go back to an earlier argument I missed
At the end of all this - not sure quite what “this” is or whether it will ever end - we need to think about what “hard right”, “hard left” “far right” “far left”and “fascist” mean now, because they are being thrown around with such abandon that we will need new words soon.— Rob Burley (@RobBurl) September 19, 2019
BBC Westminster was one of the last places I worked at the BBC and there is definitely not any shred of a project to lace reporting with an agenda. We were attacked daily - the main goal each day was to be fair, and invalidate those accusations— Julia Macfarlane (@juliamacfarlane) September 18, 2019
― gyac, Thursday, 19 September 2019 19:00 (four years ago) link
first step to avoid having an agenda is to admit that you've got an agenda
― a wagging to the furious (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 19 September 2019 19:08 (four years ago) link
Haha yes^
― plax (ico), Thursday, 19 September 2019 19:12 (four years ago) link
otm
― plax (ico), Thursday, 19 September 2019 19:13 (four years ago) link
Some of the all time greats. But which one has the biggest body count? pic.twitter.com/vlZsoMwUWA— Simon Hedges (@Orwell_Fan) September 19, 2019
hedges is still making me lol
― calzino, Thursday, 19 September 2019 19:17 (four years ago) link
Part of the problem with the BBC and other broadcasters is that middle-class people working there are asked to imagine how someone in Wigan might feel, and head out on gammon safari, because they cannot imagine anything other than stereotypes, which they then perpetuate.
― coup de twat (suzy), Thursday, 19 September 2019 19:20 (four years ago) link
Wait...has Hedges gone Corbynite? That’s well off brand.
― gyac, Thursday, 19 September 2019 19:20 (four years ago) link
is he saying the coalition killed more ppl than Iraq ? !!!
― calzino, Thursday, 19 September 2019 19:24 (four years ago) link
Part of the issue afaict is they have this weird sense that they work for the BBC, so they’re the good guys and everyone who criticises them is delusional and can’t see their obviously reasonable intentions.I mean, look at how wet this is:
Ok, you’ve libelled four people! But don’t worry we have to lie down and take it. But I have reported you to Twitter (for all the good that will do) and will be blocking you. I doubt you’ll miss my tweets.— Rob Burley (@RobBurl) September 19, 2019
― gyac, Thursday, 19 September 2019 19:24 (four years ago) link
Lol yes let's put Francois in I'm a Celeb he could be our Bolsanaro.
https://amp.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/lostinshowbiz/2019/sep/19/could-mark-francois-brexit-bellower-be-tvs-next-explosive-star
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 19 September 2019 19:26 (four years ago) link
xp
without so much as once having the decency to publicly discuss exactly how right wing and how fringe he thinks you have to be before you stop deserving a national media platform. i guess he figures all the Maoist guests on QT even it out
― a wagging to the furious (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 19 September 2019 19:27 (four years ago) link
https://www.vice.com/en_uk/article/53n9v8/the-new-wave-of-satire-for-our-morbid-political-landscape - the hedges explainer is still very good. Interesting point made about the most prominent voices on twitter being journalists.
― gyac, Thursday, 19 September 2019 19:28 (four years ago) link
xp platform 👏🏻comrade👏🏻alphabet👏🏻
― gyac, Thursday, 19 September 2019 19:29 (four years ago) link
― xyzzzz__,
What the hell is this? its almost unreadable
― anvil, Thursday, 19 September 2019 20:05 (four years ago) link
it's The Guardian
― a wagging to the furious (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 19 September 2019 20:08 (four years ago) link