wonder if BJ regrets getting himself appointed PM
― president of deluded fruitcakes anonymous (silby), Thursday, 26 September 2019 16:27 (four years ago) link
I'm not sure regret is in his nature
― Fox Pithole Britain (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 26 September 2019 16:28 (four years ago) link
no. but there is a haggard, trapped look about him. he doesn’t know what to do with power apart from this shithouse performing and bombast. i like to think it’s wretchedly devouring him inside like the corruption of a roman emperor.
― Fizzles, Thursday, 26 September 2019 16:31 (four years ago) link
he's hating it and he's in a constant flopsweat
― mark s, Thursday, 26 September 2019 16:33 (four years ago) link
extremely here for nate bethea hardsonning jim testicle in a civility beef
― stoffle (||||||||), Thursday, 26 September 2019 16:57 (four years ago) link
yes son
Telling people to "go back" to "places from which they came" is racist. Naga Munchetty stated a fact. She shared experiences of racism she's suffered. That can’t be at odds with any editorial guidelines.The BBC must explain this astonishing decision.https://t.co/VTtvJRJAgR— Jeremy Corbyn (@jeremycorbyn) September 26, 2019
― stoffle (||||||||), Thursday, 26 September 2019 17:01 (four years ago) link
― gyac, Thursday, 26 September 2019 17:01 (four years ago) link
haha girfuy shagger
― stoffle (||||||||), Thursday, 26 September 2019 17:03 (four years ago) link
xxp saw that, jimmy bollix is the worst kind of snide
British people as a whole are shockingly fucking antisemitic to me, a secular American with a mixed Jewish/Christian background, but I’m not enough of a hack to act as though cranks and idiots who are singularly fixated on Israel are the same as Thomas Mair. Which you seem to be— Nate Bethea (@inthesedeserts) September 26, 2019
― gyac, Thursday, 26 September 2019 17:04 (four years ago) link
dying imagining the reactions to this
Continuing to mill around Portcullis House, Dominic Cummings hollered "Hello comrade!" at @johnmcdonnellMP, who ignored him and walked on by.— Sebastian Payne (@SebastianEPayne) September 26, 2019
― gyac, Thursday, 26 September 2019 17:05 (four years ago) link
You mean like when people used to say Trump regretted becoming President?
― Let them eat Pfifferlinge an Schneckensauce (Tom D.), Thursday, 26 September 2019 17:06 (four years ago) link
good line in this good NS profile of cummings:He knows that Johnson will accept almost any plan, and delegate any power, as long as the outcome works for him.
― Fizzles, Thursday, 26 September 2019 17:10 (four years ago) link
what the fuck
Trad hero and lying Brexiteer Gove is completely drunk in parliament while his country is in a constitutional crisis. https://t.co/khCMkA7owf— Jelmer Evers (@jelmerevers) September 26, 2019
― gyac, Thursday, 26 September 2019 17:10 (four years ago) link
Yeah, but about someone else.
― Andrew Farrell, Thursday, 26 September 2019 17:11 (four years ago) link
(xp to Tom)
fshttps://metro.co.uk/2019/09/26/man-tries-break-jess-phillips-mps-office-shouting-fascist-10814664/
― stoffle (||||||||), Thursday, 26 September 2019 17:14 (four years ago) link
mere humbug
― Le Bateau Ivre, Thursday, 26 September 2019 17:19 (four years ago) link
no idea how to post tweets, but there is an amazing clip doing the rounds of Gove being absolutey bladdered last night during the vote.
xpost : haha ! glad someone else got there.
― mark e, Thursday, 26 September 2019 17:26 (four years ago) link
Skinny, drunk and stupid is *totally* a way to go thru life, son
― Fox Pithole Britain (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 26 September 2019 17:28 (four years ago) link
(xp to mark e: click the arrow-pointing-upwards icon, below right under a tweet, select 'copy link to tweet', paste (ctrl/cmd v) on here, prof$it)
― Le Bateau Ivre, Thursday, 26 September 2019 17:53 (four years ago) link
ah .. cheers LBI !
― mark e, Thursday, 26 September 2019 18:16 (four years ago) link
Johnson is running a Trump campaign. The worst possible response is to gripe about how unfair and uncivilised he is, and do nothing but that. When they go low, we go somewhere else: drag him onto class politics, 99% vs 1%, and back it up with real policy. Otherwise we lose.— James Meadway (@meadwaj) September 26, 2019
meadway otm. cummings' strategy is the timothy strategy on steroids:
Tory MPs are no longer talking about how best to win back those voters who supported David Cameron in 2010 and 2015, but defected to Labour in 2017. Instead, they wonder how to “maximise the white vote”, as one Conservative MP puts it. In constituency terms, that means eking out narrow wins in Labour-held marginals in the Midlands, Wales and the north of England, such as Bishop Auckland, Darlington, Newcastle-under-Lyme, Wrexham and Ashfield. (All have fewer graduates, Remain voters or ethnic minorities than the average Labour seat.)
suspect the labour leadership are too canny to fall for this
this is key too: ... it’s a strategy for clinging to power rather than winning a majority or revitalising the country.
― stoffle (||||||||), Thursday, 26 September 2019 18:55 (four years ago) link
"If you google 'ERG fascists' you get 237,000 results and ERG extremists' you get 176,000" says ERG member Owen Paterson in the Commons. I think he's trying to make a point about incendiary language."I'm not sure this is helping us" mutters a colleague off camera near a mic. 😂 pic.twitter.com/uLVQMaXuuc— John Bull (@garius) September 26, 2019
― calzino, Thursday, 26 September 2019 19:03 (four years ago) link
In this afternoon's debate on the principles of democracy, I reminded the @HouseofCommons that the best way to address widespread public anger at the idea of democracy being thwarted is to deliver on the vote of the referendum and ensure that we leave the EU on the 31st October. pic.twitter.com/ATXeiprh4z— Owen Paterson MP (@OwenPaterson) September 26, 2019
I have written to @LouHaigh after she nominated me for the @_DHOTYA Awards. The man who approached me unsolicited on the Tube encouraging me to continue urging the Government to deliver Brexit gave me his card and she is most welcome to come to my office to see it for herself! pic.twitter.com/yOMoTnbMIN— Owen Paterson MP (@OwenPaterson) March 20, 2019
― gyac, Thursday, 26 September 2019 19:11 (four years ago) link
Dominic Cummings,
"I don’t think anyone is going to listen to reason because a lot of people (MPs) become really badly disconnected from what people in the real world and England outside central London thinks."
― Let them eat Pfifferlinge an Schneckensauce (Tom D.), Thursday, 26 September 2019 19:26 (four years ago) link
I mean yeah
― stoffle (||||||||), Thursday, 26 September 2019 19:29 (four years ago) link
hi folks, i just wanted to ask what people's opinions are about the desirability of reverting to the danelaw
― Poody Mae Bubblebutt, Miss Kumquat of 1947 (rushomancy), Thursday, 26 September 2019 19:31 (four years ago) link
am just raging that action krankie won't still be in situ at the next time of the GE - would be delicious watching her squirm as they lose all 13 MPs
― stoffle (||||||||), Thursday, 26 September 2019 19:31 (four years ago) link
another elite establishment arsehole who continually blithers on about the political establishment and his tireless campaign to take it on..
― calzino, Thursday, 26 September 2019 19:36 (four years ago) link
I meant Paterson but that could be Cummings as well xps
― calzino, Thursday, 26 September 2019 19:38 (four years ago) link
who'd have predicted in '17 that the Con & Unionist party would be responsible for resurrecting indy ref 2 and killing Ruthie
― calzino, Thursday, 26 September 2019 19:41 (four years ago) link
"I've had death threats overnight... it's a disgrace"Labour MP Karl Turner's staff film an encounter with Boris Johnson's senior adviser, Dominic Cummingshttps://t.co/2JL9D2WW2f pic.twitter.com/agGnyOiUMR— BBC Politics (@BBCPolitics) September 26, 2019
― gyac, Thursday, 26 September 2019 19:43 (four years ago) link
I'd drag Bojo and Cummings to The Hague the bottom of the ocean if I could
― Le Bateau Ivre, Thursday, 26 September 2019 19:45 (four years ago) link
John Major warning that Johnson might attempt to use the Privy Council as a reacharound to set aside Benn Act, any thoughts from ILX’s constitutional experts here?
― coup de twat (suzy), Thursday, 26 September 2019 19:50 (four years ago) link
who's action krankie?
― What a ridiculous clusterfuck of totally uncool jokers (jed_), Thursday, 26 September 2019 19:53 (four years ago) link
keep going back to that polling from earlier this year that said
(1) 54% of voters want "a strong leader willing to break the rules";(2) faith in the UK political system has dropped to a 15-year low;(3) 66% think politicians should be able to say what is on their mind regardless of what anyone else thinks about their views; and,(4) 42% think many of the country's problems could be dealt with more effectively if the government didn't have to worry so much about votes in parliament
― stoffle (||||||||), Thursday, 26 September 2019 19:53 (four years ago) link
Cummings has the insouciant twattishness of the school bully lounging against the bike sheds in that clip
― Stockhausen Serves Empirical Jism (Matt #2), Thursday, 26 September 2019 19:53 (four years ago) link
ruth davidson
As I keep saying, the methodology of polls in this country would be illegal even in the US, where ‘push’ polling is not permitted. Those responses are clearly harvested from push-style questioning.
― coup de twat (suzy), Thursday, 26 September 2019 19:55 (four years ago) link
probably right - can probably draw a straight line from that poll to these recent tactics though. meshes too well
― stoffle (||||||||), Thursday, 26 September 2019 19:57 (four years ago) link
LOL @ Maria Miller MP claiming to have been scared by Mad Barry Sheerman's geriatric outburst.
― Let them eat Pfifferlinge an Schneckensauce (Tom D.), Thursday, 26 September 2019 19:59 (four years ago) link
Maybe scared that the auld fella might keel over and die.
― Let them eat Pfifferlinge an Schneckensauce (Tom D.), Thursday, 26 September 2019 20:00 (four years ago) link
I wish, that cunt will outlive Frank Field
― calzino, Thursday, 26 September 2019 20:10 (four years ago) link
folks
what the fuck is going on
today has been much more insane than usual, and usual is insane already
― imago, Thursday, 26 September 2019 20:16 (four years ago) link
it's turning into a horror movie
the fuck? baroness kuenssberg just straight pushing the government's lines now?
I have just had a very kind invitation to a seminar on 'Effective Parliaments' that's being held in Westminster for people from all over the world... not quite sure what to say— Laura Kuenssberg (@bbclaurak) September 26, 2019
― stoffle (||||||||), Thursday, 26 September 2019 20:18 (four years ago) link
"not quite sure how to say" = "i'm completely encapsulated by the gov, otherwise what I would/should've said was "fuck off"... losing power... weak... halpmeee!"
― Le Bateau Ivre, Thursday, 26 September 2019 20:27 (four years ago) link
fuck LK
― Le Bateau Ivre, Thursday, 26 September 2019 20:28 (four years ago) link
Doesn't it seem like really bad timing that Johnson is trying to "do a trump" just as this impeachment thing is starting to look like it might be going well? I mean bad timing for Johnson.
Also I hate him.
― plax (ico), Thursday, 26 September 2019 20:37 (four years ago) link
Sadly I'm not sure stuff like that matters anymore. Trump "doing a trump" doesn't seem to have any consequence nor causes major outrage among his base. Johnson "doing a Trump" (he's not: he just feels emboldend by other assholes like Trump, so he's doing a "Johnson") doesn't seem to translate to "bad timing". Media translate it as "Bojo doubles down!" which is just a hair away from "wow he's under pressure but he's sure sticking to his ground! Strong capital L Leader!"
I hate him also.And I hate these times.
― Le Bateau Ivre, Thursday, 26 September 2019 21:02 (four years ago) link