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

is there some context with the "Sherlock Holmes" bit i'm not getting or is it just a non sequitur?

just a bumbling witless non sequitur I think

Foreboding #CPC19 pic.twitter.com/CD8GSoGJbj

— Dawn Foster (@DawnHFoster) September 30, 2019

such an edifying experience in store today for those unlucky ppl that missed the Truss speech.

the locks on all Tory-built homes will not be "sure" because new trade deal struck with the US allows free entry day or night to Mark Zuckerberg or his designated advertising affiliates

SEO to cover the fact that Boris once ran over a dog called Sherlock xps

lol

Eamonn Holmes? Dame Kelly Holmes?

can't use Eamonn as he is solidly built, weatherproof and probably Tory

xxxp

"ran over" is that what he calls it these days?

I came to Manchester for #CPC19. I had every intention of proudly representing millions of students across our country. However, as President of @nusuk and a Muslim woman I cannot in good conscience participate in a Conference that openly denies the existence of Islamophobia.

— Zamzam Ibrahim (@ZamzamMCR) September 30, 2019

this should amongst the bbc reportage on the conference, but I bet it won't be

BBC News has just broadcast a clip of Boris Johnson responding to a question about whether he squeezed Charlotte Edwardes’ thigh at a Spectator lunch 20 years ago with a long and rambling reply about his plans to improve bus services.

Buses again, I swear there's something Freudian going on there.

Buses pulling in and out of the depot

Mark Francois introduced as a “hero” at Bruges Group event.

Then tells crowd: “If any of you read the Guardian I advise you on health grounds to leave the room”.

I wonder if he realises that Dawn Foster is sitting yards from him?

"I have acquired a reputation for quoting poetry - much to the dislike of certain Guardian journalists".

http://www.oocities.org/hitch_hikers_guide_to_the_galaxy/episode1d.jpg

ooo, scandal

Mary Wakefield, the Spectator journalist who is married to Dominic Cummings, Boris Johnson’s chief of staff, has denied being the second woman at the lunch attended by Charlotte Edwardes 20 years ago who was groped by Johnson. There was a rumour that she was the second woman referred to in Edwardes’ Sunday Times column but not named.

Nah, she’s not the other woman but I have it on very good authority that she had good cause to stay out of his reach.

adds yet another mention of wakefield to mess with boris' seo results tho, will these machiavellian machinations never end

Then we switch to Yorkshire/Morley and hope he doesn’t start chatting about tea or chicken shops in south London.

I'm meeting an old scouse-git-relocated-to-Berlin friend in Morley in mid October. Hope Boris is there that day for some drunken heckling action.

as the bloke on radio 4 this morning pointed out, the tories recently mocked corbs for talking about improving bus services.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/jul/06/jeremy-corbyn-buses-labour

RW press seem unnervingly relaxed recently - not much mud slinging nor smearing going on

not just the tories - but a significant proportion of our _centrist_ commentariat

xp

Not sure I’d say that when the MoS was running with a blatantly antisemitic story yesterday & the Telegraph has been like
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EFqPa5JX0AUh0WE?format=jpg&name=large

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EFVsst7XUAAM60l?format=jpg&name=medium

Telegraph's gone completely feral in the last few months - like it's the 70s again with a readership of dyspeptic ex-army officers plotting coups against Harold Wilson and cheerleading Ian Smith.

"Harry: call me a hippy, but we must co-exist with nature"

Um it's not a choice

Some confusion. At Bruges group meeting with John Redwood, Mark Francois and Arlene Foster calling Withdrawal Agreement surrender document. Boris thinks the Benn Act is surrender document. The enemy is everywhere

— John Crace (@JohnJCrace) September 30, 2019

https://i.imgur.com/INXNg33.jpg
xp

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

Esther McVey is talking about these revolutionary new "3d-Architects" who have realised the days of 2d design are finished.

about time, I'm sick of living in this Pac-Man maze

whatever you could throw at Tories in the past I don't think they were ever this stoopid.

The government has been pretty clever in tabling the Domestic Abuse Bill on Wednesday. The opposition aren't going to want to vote that down, so it doesn't matter if half of all Tory MPs are in Manchester for Boris Johnson's speech.

— Hannah Al-Othman (@HannahAlOthman) September 30, 2019

there won't a vonc this week then

Eventually, Gove knifes everyone. https://t.co/k1cFEeCC1b

— David Timoney (@fromarsetoelbow) September 30, 2019

Gove scheming to take out Cummings and Boris?

While Cummings deeply unpopular with Tory MPs, there’s also a growing recognition - not just from more soft/remain ToryMPs - that Boris Johnson may not be the electoral asset they thought in the summer.

Internal Tory polling shows Johnson now toxic with young/London/Liberals (this was known) but that his image now going into decline in “Brexit friendly” northern/midland seats, too.

they should have listened to me and not tom d

You love to RT it.

> Boris Johnson may not be the electoral asset they thought in the summer.

and gove is?

Whither Hunt?

meanwhile here's today's weather:

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EFsv8oDXoAEp8_P?format=png

(xxp) Not sure I believe any of that tbh.

it does read a bit like wishful thinking rather than In The Know, it would sound rather more credible if it mentioned Gove was plotting this coup between gulps of single malt and permanently pukingly drunk.

love this talk of "levelling up" the country, straight out of the Cummings playbook

don't think you need a focus group to work out that Johnson is probably going to be losing favour with all but the rawest of gammons

“going into decline”

p sure everyone outside the M25 (and a fair few inside) have BJ’s number - not convinced he is a winner

the republicans had years (and a much more pliant media) to tea party large parts of their electoral base - looks like the tories’ activist base have been successfully radicalised but not sure that trend has been mirrored in the wider country

It's also a big If as to whether or not they've had managed it with anyone who wasn't Trump.

The big flaw in the whole cunning Boris plan is that this is the approach that blew a hole in May's election, it isn't going to work dialed up to 10 and with a few spending announcements that no one believes anyway.

Also the US isn't divided on age in the same way as UK is.

Last time out the Tories pulled similar %s among BAME voters to Trump. So who’s got the lowest % of female votes in history?

Andrea Jenkyns says she’s supporting @eleanor4epping for Speaker - “she’s into a lot of these women’s rights, which I’m not, I believe in meritocracy” and because she can “pull a lot of the left vote”

— Aubrey Allegretti (@breeallegretti) September 30, 2019

If you look at 2015 & 2017 voting, female and BAME votes were critical when it came to winning Cameron’s majority, but 2015 Tories went from winning the majority to female voters to being behind in almost all working age groups. Interesting too that AB men voted 50-34 Con to Lab, but the gap for women in the same group was only 43-40.

lol

Cleverly says he was wincing during the Labour conference and thought: "Please make it stop."

Blanchard: "You did make it stop by losing in the Supreme Court."

— Emilio Casalicchio (@e_casalicchio) September 30, 2019

At last one brave Tory has dug up the corpse of Alan Clark to defend Johnson's wanderin' hands.

"How do I know my advances have been unwanted until I've made them?"

Congratulations Alex Deane (@ajcdeane) for making me and @ayeshahazarika absolutely sick.
I've heard a lot of "excuses" for sexual harassment in my day but this... pic.twitter.com/WojP31s9tp

— Femi (@Femi_Sorry) September 30, 2019

Why the fuck do they get these non-entities to talk about anything? This guy's big moment was being Cameron's "chief of staff" (hollow lol) at education for 8 months in 2005.