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

the people's chancellor (and some doofus quote-tweeting him)

This is beyond ridiculous https://t.co/6K12ucurE3

— jeremy warner (@JeremyWarnerUK) September 26, 2019

is the country actually "incredibly divided"? everybody keeps saying this and I can see how you would think it if you keep viewing things through the prism of the bubble (media, twitter etc.) but is it actually true.

might live in a privileged bubble myself (and I don't downplay the rising RW extremism and the class divisions entrenched by austerity) but on the most part people seem kinda chill

There's a lot of anger out there... so we keep being told.

People are revolting in the North of England.

i don't have any love for LK but that tweet seems like pretty standard pub snark from a brexit junkie - this parliament has been pretty hamstrung from the get-go

xp
I personally wouldn't judge someone whose entire furniture inventory is a Knackered speaker amp in the middle of the window and a darts board that they might sometimes play whilst eating cold beans out of the can!

is the country actually "incredibly divided"? everybody keeps saying this and I can see how you would think it if you keep viewing things through the prism of the bubble (media, twitter etc.) but is it actually true.

What is 'true', or rather, what is truth? Are there still people outside of a bubble? I doubt it. Instead of a divided country I'd say it's a fractured country - like every country nowadays.

(xp) Is that any way to talk about the Leader of the Opposition?

I was half thinking of him and a fucking idiot that lives around the corner!

Welsh Gammon out in force on Question Time.

the country is massively and terrifyingly divided, yes

some tory cunt sticking up for big pharma shocker

Yes, that kind of misfired.

Then some Plaid Cymru fool who feels he has to criticize the Labour Party just for the sake of it, even though he no doubt agrees with their policies.

Labour need to run a few buses with the huge amount of money generic cheap drugs will save the NHS splashed on the sides. I could do Milne's job.

EXCUSE ME

yeah i din wanna say but totes awks

it'll reet they can test on tories first

I would actually love to see calz doing Milne’s job, ngl.

john mcdonnells philadelphia here i come alter ego

have you seen how much they charge the NHS for essential cystic fibrosis medicine?

Icknield (Luton) result:

LAB: 36.7% (-5.6)
CON: 35.4% (-8.8)
LDEM: 25.6% (+12.1)
GRN: 2.3% (+2.3)

Labour GAIN from Conservative.

— Britain Elects (@britainelects) September 26, 2019

repeat this result multiple times pls!

"I certainly believe Boris should prorogue again"

Desmond Swayne has realised he can out-mad Francois and Rees-Moggpic.twitter.com/3dLNjtP38q

— dave ❄️ 🥕 (@davemacladd) September 26, 2019

it was probably quite cruel of someone to suggest Sir Desmond Swayne looks a bit like an SS Boss from Wolfenstein

repro rogues

that result is immensely cheering, especially wrt where the lib dem vote seems to have come from

icknield (luton)?

population lower than what you'd see at Kenilworth Rd these days, but it's like having a big poll in a small area

Man this was good. I know the music is kinda naff but whatever.

John McDonnell V. Hans Zimmer #LabourConference2019 pic.twitter.com/s2WXmFjVD9

— lewis bassett (@le_bassett) September 23, 2019

so this just happened... https://t.co/H06WxJZ7yk pic.twitter.com/LPASyEEn0B

— Neal (@nealvinay) September 26, 2019

Tom Watson calmly blocking people who ask him reasonable questions as he normally does

weird behaviour when he’d already put out the correct line on the story

I do think that discussions on the consequences of violent rhetoric are a reasonable point to bring up Jo Cox, but this sort of thing just reads like weird fanfic and makes me a bit uncomfortable... idk pic.twitter.com/C93I7Zh5I5

— Ho Swinson (@misslucyp) September 26, 2019

posting unsettling creepazoid Jo Cox fanfic is his normal mode as well

It’s a bit weird alright but in no way in the league of this masterpiece

@helenlewis I thought of you when I was in the gym at 4am today. Hope you have a energy filled 2019. 😂

— Tom Watson (@tom_watson) December 14, 2018

Because I'm easily bored, if those swings were across the country*, then it's CON -17, LAB +6, LDEM +8 - 11 CON->LAB, 5 CON->LD, 1 LAB->LD (Sheffield Hallam, lol) - other movements are that LD's pick up Ceredigion and North East Fife, Labour lose Glasgow North East, Kircaldy & Cowdenbeath, Midlothian, Rutherglen & Hamilton West, Conservatives lose Stirling.

*based on the 2017 election, so this counts at least 20 more Con MPs than there currently are.

conservatives will lose 12 of their 13 scottish seats nailed on. paul masterton MIGHT hold on in east ren (large jewish population, lots of accountants and doctors, big unionist energy). hard to predict how the various themes in play will intersect in a seat like this

labour’s sensible compromise position on the UK constitutional question might play well here + they’ve been a bit more forceful on the topic of indyref II since 15 - suspect the class war and ongoing AS concerns will scupper them tho

xp I’m interested in why you say Masterton rather than Mundell, who has a bigger majority and who’s held the seat being the only Tory MP up there for more than a decade

Paul masterton I think was one of the rebels who voted for a meaningful vote and is much more Remain than most of his Scottish colleagues iirc

story of 17 election in scotland was 1 SNP vote partially staying at home and 2 unionists getting a lot more canny about tactical voting. if you look at 15 result in his constituency, the SNP ran him very close. would expect their bloc to be reenergised in the next election so their vote share should go up. he will def leak votes to LDs and SNP. mundell has also been very visibly at the side of this government (or may’s) throughout - he’s pretty well disliked up here. I mean you’re right he has a pretty sizeable majority but def think his seat will be in play

also I think people up here do look at what’s going on in WM and just think wtf - boris goes down like a bucket of cold sick too

Thinking of Helen Lewis at 4am?

(Needs ruminative emojo.)

More generally I was thinking that, after like two years of humiliation people started to feel sorry for Gordon Brown. Some deluded people even felt sorry for Theresa May. Cameron was gone too quickly for it to be an issue, but no matter how much the humiliations pile up it's virtually impossible to imagine people feeling sorry for Boris Johnson.

This summer I was in an airport near Biarritz and we were told a plane was landing 'with a politician in it' and that we weren't allowed to take pictures. Once we got outside it turned out to be Airforce 1, but in the terminal everyone was speculating who it could be. Someone mentioned Boris Johnson and I shit you not the woman next to me says "bless his heart."

Also obv. wants a medal for being at the gym at 4am.

https://www.positive-parenting-ally.com/images/xpositive-reinforcement-parenting-medal-good-boy-label.jpg.pagespeed.ic.KWp_Bf44pV.jpg

😘

Our fourth and final audience question is about the Labour party. #bbcqt pic.twitter.com/WDe4PsieG6

— BBC Question Time (@bbcquestiontime) September 26, 2019

That's *real* ?

hnnnnngggggghhhhhhhhhh

this is why making communal toothbrushes a key pillar of the labour manifesto was a mistake

I refuse to believe that's real until I actually see it being "discussed" on telly. Which will totally happen.

I saw it - it’s real. the lady seemed quite upset

paul masterton MIGHT hold on in east ren (large jewish population, lots of accountants and doctors, big unionist energy)