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

frankfield-best.jpg xp

fuck sake

Some of the underlying factors have been addressed by the grim reaper, mind

Didn't remain have a majority of over 80s?

Yes, the people who actually remember WW2 from childhood voted Remain, while those who remember the 1966 World Cup from childhood voted Leave. *chin scratch*

yet another reason to ban sport

Only English sport.

My parents, 82 and 92 respectively, both voted Remain - and they're Daily Mail readers! They love their European holidays, which I genuinely think informed their vote - contact with and respect for other cultures and contemplation of the travel chaos that Brexit will bring etc. Would be interesting to know the number of Brexiteers who have never or very rarely travelled abroad.

Depends how we define abroad

and whether the govt armed them to do so

Thread of Adam Boulton with anecdotal nuggets at a Brexit in the Media event

Sky News’ @adamboultonSKY now speaking at the Brexit in the Media event. #MediaBrexit pic.twitter.com/SceKT9rQs3

— Press Gazette (@pressgazette) October 10, 2019

Sky News had been in naughty corner with Govt. 2015 election got interview with David Cameron. Asked about his football team mix-up. Told it was outrageous and that they would never get ministerial access on a Sunday again.

So now politicians tend to appear with people they have some kind of relationship. Says Robert Peston’s show is half journalism and half showbiz. I no longer think there is fair trading for this kind of access, he says. #MediaBrexit

Departmental press officers are now too scared and too intimidated to give out any information

And yet they somehow can't get together a protest that's more than a few gammons outside Westminster or a handful of miserable looking Countryside Alliance twats trudging across Lincolnshire.

― Matt DC,

The supposed civil unrest that is going to follow an extension is difficult to believe in when there was already just an extension and the only civil unrest was 12 people driving slowly on the M18.

Can you imagine the weird atmosphere in any street parties that actually do take place if they do ever get to leave?

tomorrow_belongs_to_me.mpg

a lot of presumptions itt that any brexit disorder has to be brexiter driven. There might be lots of glistening blue face-paint amongst the claret + broken glass if NDB happens

Lots of excitable talk from the Irish press about concessions being made by Boris. FTQ and the DUP etc.

I went to Thornton Hough as a kid as part of our middle school quiz team. Our captain pronounced it "Hoe" rather than "Huff" when he did the introductions. The shame. The kids were posh but thick and we thrashed them.

More memories of a peninsular tomorrow, same time.

The MP Chris Williamson has lost his high court bid to be reinstated to the Labour party after he was suspended over allegations of anti-Semitism, the Press Association reports.

:-D

heh!

girfuy

all those labour party members pissing your money away into the CW crowdfunder - give it to a homeless person instead you fucking idiots.

how long till BJ/LV position unravels? don’t like when they get +ve news cycle

I give it til newsnight

yeah tomorrow morning break would prob be as far as id give it

Is it possible there is no real breakthrough and Varadkar is just smart enough to know not to feed the Boris Johnson Victimhood Complex?

maybe Johnson showed him a drawing of his bridge

I was thinking the same thing MDC. This feels like it's already effectively blunted the "waaaah EU trying to fuck us" line at any rate.

Also feeds raging Brexiteer paranoia. Leo clever, Boris stupid.

I loved Leo Varadkar pwning BJ with a classics ref the other day, totally expecting he’s figured out how to play him for the benefit of the sane people in the UK.

Leo also looks smarter taller and more physically imposing than BJ. Which is completely irrelevant, but in some silly irrational way it pleases me. Probably something to do with the BJ rep as a loudmouthed bully.

tonight, @ExtinctionR have been invited onto @bbcquestiontime, and have put forward @GreenRupertRead to represent them. this is what rupert has to say on immigration. XR really, truly need to sort themselves out on this. this is unacceptable. https://t.co/2KOHzGQ6kO

— Ben Smoke (@bencsmoke) October 10, 2019

Bien-pensant green types - that is, people like me - often think that, because UKIP types (and the BNP, and the Tory Right) hate large-scale immigration into this country, we should love it.

But that's like saying: because Hitler was a vegetarian, we should be voracious meat-eaters.

By the way: next time someone trots out this canard, do please also point out that Hitler wasn't a vegetarian - or if he was, he was one with a particular relish for sausage, and turtle soup.

when chris williamson says he’ll still fight for Labour at the next GE pic.twitter.com/bZGIAJgRqV

— 🎃 Jake O’Lantern 🎃 (@JAACable) October 10, 2019

I'm at a city hall meeting and thought I had my ipad on mute but, I didn't, so that just blasted through the meeting, w/ everyone looking at me. Couldn't have been a more fitting soundbite :D

rupert read, lord lamont, d grieve and julia hartley-brewer splattered across 1 and 2 right now, representing the many diverse viewpoints of britain

That’ll be why I’m watching the FDR doc on BBC4 right now.

with turkey's incursion into northern syria risking the loss of security over thousands of detained IS fighters, sajid javid's decision not to repatriate shamima begum and others looking like the horrible piece of political short-termism it obviously always was

am livid at trump here

Same. I'm sick to the stomach about this. I can't sleep. I've friends/family in the region. Skyped tonight, they were ok now, but are ready to move at any time. (imagine being ready to move and ditch your hometown for all your life; they are...)

I lost all "hey this dumb fucked up insane quote of trump could be a brilliant title for next months thread!" fun. I wish someone would execute that shit for brains moron Trump, who's hands are drenched in blood now. He did this. He's responsible. He's made people I love pack their suitcases the day before yesterday.

holy shit, LBI. I hope for the best for your friends.

Sounds awful, hope they find safety.

Likewise, good luck LBI.

Is it possible there is no real breakthrough and Varadkar is just smart enough to know not to feed the Boris Johnson Victimhood Complex?

From what little I can tell, it seems like Varadkar has them heading to a NI-only backstop, and making returning to the EU's original position appear like a concession. When of course the backstop was the one genuine UK win during the negotiations.

Thanks guys <3 Very much the wrong thread for this, am duly aware. It's just... maddening.

It's a good thread for it, mate.

Talk about anything you want to here.

Who knew 'pathway' was the secret code word needed to have optimism surging, flowers blooming and world peace.

Not just any old pathway though, the pathway to the tunnel.

<3 LBI, I hope your friends are safe.

^this

thanks guys <3

Vent all you want, sending you good karma

That is fucking appalling and I can't even imagine

damn, LBI, what a terrible situation. sending you and your friends all the best