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

Climate strike protest happening everywhere today. Is that what St Andrews protest ties in to?

Yes, it was just a part of that, I was just impressed by them, as someone who had the protest kicked out of him by the Iraqi war. One thing protests are useful for is that they stop you feeling so alone and powerless. I hope that these kids will get something out of it, and carry it on to their adulthood.

The folks with the loudspeakers, and the ostensible leaders, were all school kids.

properly big protest streaming through glasgow city centre rn

Local one had a good turn out too.

THREAD: The Thick of It characters, where are they now?

(credit to @felix_light for some of these)

— David 🏄‍♂️ (@dmk1793) September 20, 2019

I'm not sure I buy Terri as FBPE but otherwise OTM.

Terri seems more like a decided-on-the-day 'it'll be fine, my parents went through far worse' Leaver if not Lexiter imo

I fully buy her as fbpe. Thinks of herself as nice and socially liberal, actually not so much in reality (see: her treatment of Robyn), loves the twee pastel aesthetic (wants to spend her redundancy on a tea shop in some deprived town), thinks of herself as loftily apolitical and doesn’t seem to have any particularly strong views on politics - def the type to be a radicalised remainer.

My main gripe with that thread is WHERE IS JAMIE

Fucking hell, was this real?!

Remember when Nick Hewer stared in a show called “We All Pay Your Benefits” where they made middle class people follow people on welfare around a supermarket putting back food from their trolleys that was “too much of a luxury” for them? lmao https://t.co/wpUglyJGZz

— Payton the Sewer (@ShartiTheClown) September 19, 2019

https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2gd4p6

anybody already on the point of running into the street and starting a class war might wanna skip this

Good work, Agent Corbyn. https://t.co/vxahEEyvtZ

— Jo Swinson (@joswinson) September 20, 2019

Love too add to the discourse by tipping a wink to the tabloid smearing of Corbyn as an enemy of the state, the rationale of which makes him a legitimate target to the fash & sympathisers.

finally some good news

BREAKING: Labour NEC passed a motion tonight put forward by Jon Lansman to abolish the post of Deputy Leader - i.e. Tom Watson’s role.

— Paul Brand (@PaulBrandITV) September 20, 2019

rip big man who used to be a bigger man, heaven needed your nazi gold

Damn, who is going to bust a lid on deep state paedo rings and fight for the rights of nazi s+m dungeons now?

Colossal shirt from Barry G
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EE6gMcpXoAEs1IP?format=jpg&name=large

I'd wear that

very british (scottish) teeth

Real Scotland

izzat Ricky Gervais between dye jobs

Speaking as a completely neutral politics junkie, here's me reacting to the Tom Watson news: pic.twitter.com/rGCRGLEa0M

— I (@trevorbastard) September 20, 2019

oh ffs! naturally the first person the beeb is talking to is fucking Streeting

fuck your "doorstep test" you fucking worthless melt!

is the doorstep test

"has person X on the doorstep heard of tom watson?" no
"does person X on the doorstep care about this inside baseball nonsense?" also no

he made his position untenable with an election coming up. best news in years is this.

I mean, if they really wanted to whack him, they’d mention his part in the ‘Nick’ case.

Michael Dugher strikes again. pic.twitter.com/2q3Di5ATq4

— Anthony (@AntOH1988) September 20, 2019

Tom Watson: “I got a text message in a Chinese restaurant saying they were abolishing me.
It’s a straight sectarian attack on a broad church party. It’s turning us into an institution where pluralism isn’t tolerated.” #today

— Kevin Schofield (@PolhomeEditor) September 21, 2019

have you tried talking about it to someone other than the press, tom?

Some extraordinary passages in Cameron’s book. Imagine the cringe factor of this: he tried to deliver a presentation to Angela Merkel in German, despite the fact that he could "barely speak a word of the language". pic.twitter.com/qzd2rbpqLa

— Property Spotter (@PropertySpot) September 20, 2019

I assume it went something like this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_4XmY0CXxQ

Oh my Gooooooood

Cameron was perplexed that other EU countries saw a distinction between free movement as a function of EU citizenship and immigration. pic.twitter.com/r6kzzKYsUA

— Property Spotter (@PropertySpot) September 20, 2019

More than a few Brits appear to be perplexed by this.

He's a serial underminer of leaders and not to be trusted but also why give him the martyrdom he clearly craves *especially* when it's going to dominate the last conference before an election and blow away any policy announcements that might actually appeal to the electorate?

I think it goes back to what I said about wanting him inside the tent pissing all over himself, you want *him* to look like the dick. I have a feeling he might survive it which makes it all worse.

Particularly aggy baggymp selection from last night as well but he might have just been overexcited after the Mercury Music Prize.

yeah i mean i'd drive him round to Lib Dem HQ* myself but the timing of this and the students thing this week have been tactically odd, there'll surely be time after an election to sort out internal party stuff which does need sorting

*or the nearest landfill, either way

poor poor Tommykins, oh hang on a minute he's the one who intrigued against someone whilst they were having chemo. Have a good death arsehole!

And before anyone says "the media won't cover policy announcements properly anyway" the last conference - and particularly the employee shares policy - delivered a lot of positive headlines and debate. The chances of that happening now feel slim what with Watson making ludicrous gangsta rap analogies in the press.

By all signs this looks like Lansmann going solo and I wouldn't be surprised if either Corbyn or McDonnell or both made a move to distance themselves from it.

He's been listening to so much drill lately I'm surprised he didn't talk about being splashed up.

and Lansmann's got his Godfather all wrong, you're supposed to settle up *during* the christening not before

tbf i can see how Watson could push you beyond reason eventually

most of the gbp beyond sick and obsessed people like us don't even pay that much attention to party conferences really do they? I'd much rather he injected his toxic piss into the sprinkler system here rather than doing maximum damage throughout an election campaign when new labour policies will get a proper airing to the public.

smug pompous Brownite backstairs intriguer manqué who wanks on about Labour patriotism and ordinary people like his client fucking vassals with the temerity to cry foul because the party's shifting towards some kind of democratic control

look i'm with Sid Vicious re: the man on the street but there's reasonable historical evidence that a certain tranche of voters get the vapours over parties that look "divided", the media need no excuse to switch focus on to this stuff and THERE'S NO NEED, his own pig-thick Baggy fucking constituents have already reselected him

and to my lasting shame i've only just twigged the double play in his twitter handle

we play the baggies tomorrow on one of the biggest winless streaks the club has suffered since the 70's. This could be a sign from the football gods.

pic.twitter.com/6LQVwFFS83

— Simon Hedges (@Orwell_Fan) September 21, 2019

this stuart heritage lad is beyond parody

another victory for Simon The Seagull and Friends™ https://t.co/L8sapwJQE4

— Simon Hedges (@Orwell_Fan) September 21, 2019

oh well