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

free nursery education for all 2-4 year olds should be a massive policy

Yup. I'm going to spend the next two years of my life paying to work full time pic.twitter.com/MLoB1rsa9C

— boodleoops (@boodleoops) September 21, 2019

Murdoch press and Daily Mail all pushing the Boris Johnson / Jennifer Arcuri story this morning.

https://www.businessinsider.com/boris-johnson-jennifer-arcuri-overruled-officials-send-trade-missions-2019-9

Strong Disgraced Former Defence Minister Liam Fox vibes on this one.

what's the uk equiv of "Drain The Swamp"?

dredging the thames?

Disinfect the bog.

lid the ditch and skirt the sinkholes

Drano the sink

Empty the skip

Exterminate all the brutes

clear the lobby

Fill in the potholes.

sir you go too far

Gut the kippers.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C9ugPXbXgAAXN2E.jpg

De-grease the AGA.

Activate the queen

the red queen

Confirmed, Ian Austin is lurking outside Labour Conference like a bitter stalking ex who can’t let go.

Obviously planning a media stunt.#LabourConference2019 pic.twitter.com/LR8UWK2jt6

— Joshua Funnell 🌹 (@JoshuaFunnell2) September 22, 2019

Absolutely tragic. This shower makes Change UK look like a formidable operation. pic.twitter.com/vqFbOwJl4g

— Joshua Funnell 🌹 (@JoshuaFunnell2) September 22, 2019

pretty sure the Campaign Against Extremism will turn up at the Tory party conference just to even it out

"Mainstream" lool the lettering makes it look like a pharmacy delivery service

Inject it directly into my veins.

Austin’s big launch splash is a YouGov poll suggesting that Labour’s extremist hard left membership would like to abolish the monarchy.

never have they been more at one with the FBPE Internationale

https://i.postimg.cc/hjLY4J5S/4-A98-B938-3847-4-A04-845-F-0-F4-A7-C2-A9-AE8.jpg
That Ian Austin feels these views are sufficiently ~extreme~ enough to publish makes me extremely glad he’s fucked off out of Labour.

Good from Diane Abbott

We will welcome refugees, including child refugees.

We will proudly uphold the torture ban and treat the victims of torture with humanity, not detentions and deportations.

We will end indefinite immigration detention, and limit it to the 28 days MPs were originally promised.

And we will close Yarl’s Wood and Brook House detention centres and review the entire detention estate.

We will fund our police forces properly, and work to give our communities genuine security.

We will hold public inquiries into historic injustices – into Orgreave, into blacklisting.

We will release all papers relating to the Shrewsbury 24 trials and the 37 Cammell Laird shipyard workers.

I owe everything in life to the Labour movement. There was a postwar generation of socialists who campaigned against colonialism. There was the NHS orange juice and cod-liver oil. There was my free university education. And above all the chance to serve as Britain’s first black woman MP.

Agree with all of that apart from the cod-liver oil.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EFFAeLbXYAAZ5QF.jpg

Thornberry wins the prize for most subtle apparel of the day!

Mr Corbyn is also wary of comparing himself with Marvel comic characters as Boris Johnson did and was then ridiculed as the Incredible Hulk.

The Labour leader said: “I’m no superhero but I hope my superpower is listening to people. You can learn a lot from listening.”

Mr Johnson described Mr Corbyn as a “superannuated Marxist” in an email to Conservative party members on Friday.

Mr Corbyn sniffed: “That’s ridiculously ageist. I haven’t got anything against him because of his age.”

Is this...another weird conspiracy theory?

Tom Watson: “It must be very lonely being the Lee Harvey Oswald of the Labour Party for Jon Lansman.”

— Michael Crick (@MichaelLCrick) September 22, 2019

Slimfast is a helluva drug

he needs to remember Corbyn is teetotal/vegetarian/probably never done coke and in much better shape than him. And making ageist comments when you are knocking on 60 is not good!

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EFFR7xRX4AASXV4?format=jpg&name=large

Mr Corbyn sniffed:

I'd say the choice of verbs here is rather loaded against Mr. Corbyn's favor. I assume it was deliberate.

TBF he does sound sniffy during standard intakes of breath.

(xxp) All for voluntary starvation in this case tbh.

just imagine the underground schools of the future where children are taught the forbidden knowledge

xxxp ia with how it sounds but feel in context of wider piece it might not be what they were going for
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/jeremy-corbyn-announces-plans-second-20139636

you love to see it

Asked if his plan for government was a socialist revolution, but a very British one, Mr Corbyn replied: “That’s a good way of putting it. We’ll build on past achievements.”

On a plan to introduce a four day, 32-hour week on the same pay he said: “Socialism is about advancing everyone’s freedom.

“Part of that freedom is having more time to spend with your friends and loved ones.”

On taxing private schools by abolishing their charitable status, making them pay fair business rates and charging VAT on fees he said: “Nurses, teachers, small business and everybody else have to pay their taxes.

“Why should elitist institutions be different?”

Anyone have any idea how the "ensure universities admit the same proportion of private school students as in the wider population" bit could possibly work?

diktat iirc

Westminster voting intention:

CON: 29% (+1)
LAB: 27% (-)
LDEM: 21% (+1)
BREX: 13% (-)
GRN: 5% (-)

via @ComRes, 18 - 19 Sep

— Britain Elects (@britainelects) September 22, 2019

just calmly only posting polls that are flattering to Labour as i normally do. Sorry but that Opinium one last night really shit me up - while I was quite pissed tbf.

i can't be bothered looking it up to link it so you'll just have to trust me, but i remember the line graph of polling averages from the 2017 election being a fairly unremarkable holding pattern with CON on what looked like a comfortable cushion, until essentially the beginning of the election period, at which point all the lines starting swinging wildly around, like a giant magnet had just appeared under the piece of paper, and some parties' lines were attracted to it and others repulsed

EXCL: Labour set to give all foreign nationals living in UK right to vote in general elections for first timehttps://t.co/RxxOy9kKFq

— Benjamin Kentish (@BenKentish) September 22, 2019

https://media.tenor.com/images/d3109fa96e6d888dc047e3787fa5b282/tenor.gif

aren't these voting rights for foreign nationals standard throughout other parts of central/northern Europe? just asking because I don't have a clue.

Depends...article mentions only Irish nationals being able to vote here out of all EU nationals but pretty sure Cyprus &Maltese nationals can too. Voting rights tend to be reciprocal, I don’t think they’re that widely spread in Europe for parliamentary level elections.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_of_foreigners_to_vote

Oh ok

Cyprus and Malta are already Members of the Commonwealth, so full voting rights have always been extended to their citizens living in the UK.

"Labour call to 'redistribute' private schools' assets"

Do you need scare quotes around 'redistribute' here?

(From the BBC headline)

the speed at which British private school discourse goes zero-to-eugenics is a sight to behold pic.twitter.com/wX0vb1H2Fs

— Dr Charlotte Lydia Riley (@lottelydia) September 22, 2019