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

I do appreciate the "generosity" (nudgenudgewinkwink) of the EU. Ideally they'd have offered a take it or leave it extension of ten years. 6 to 9 months will make things more difficult for Bojo, I must admit on second inspection of... *peers at screen* the Grauniad's live blog.

Haven't seen that reported anywhere else tbh.

Meanwhile, fuck the Home Office

The British Home Office has won its appeal against an immigration tribunal ruling which found that people born in Northern Ireland are not automatically British.

The woman at the centre of the case, Emma DeSouza, from Magherafelt, Co Derry, applied for a residence card for her US-born husband Jake. She made the application identifying herself as an Irish citizen.

The UK Home Office rejected the application on the grounds that it considered Ms DeSouza a British citizen. Officials told her she could either reapply identifying herself as British, or renounce her UK citizenship and reapply as an Irish citizen.

A huge extension would cause so much chaos inside the Tories, it's only the impending deadline that's keeping them together rn

If it happened.

I’m proud we have a leader who holds this silver spooned millionaire Tory boy in such contempt pic.twitter.com/fD7K3XOmxA

— Liam Young (@liamyoung) October 14, 2019

fuck business was the only sensible thing bojo ever said

1. The CBI's £196b figure is absurd - it adds a 30% mark up to asset values on "historical precedent" 🧐

2. The CBI report says it only looks at the costs not the benefits🤦‍♂️

3. The CBI uses private letters with Govt but a loudhailer with Labour. Why?🤔https://t.co/bEoCUFOXsy

— Tom Kibasi (@TomKibasi) October 14, 2019

i am not an economist but looking at the costs while ignoring the benefits seems... problematic

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EG1IrDFX4AA1GvE?format=jpg&name=large
Just posting this as a reminder for the next time someone says “but the right wing press doesn’t matter!/Labour should be able to overcome the right wing press/the right wing press doesn’t influence opinions!” & would also urge you to google hate crimes against people with disabilities as recorded by the home office.

seriously advocate inviting Greg Hurst to have a long hard look at himself just in case there's an iota of humanity in there somewhere

iirc funding for students with special needs hasn't been allocated separately to the whole budget since at least the introduction of EHCPs, leading, one might say inevitably, to a cut in the money allocated to support those students as it disappeared into the general pot

presumably some disingenuous cunt at the Times has just found out about this and reversed the logic

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EG1WRA2X4AAeFNQ?format=jpg&name=large
Assume this means regularising the provisions of the CTA in statute & the exceptions are criminals or w/e, but jfc all the same at that wording 😬

here we go, from a SEND Support charity's FAQ:

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“…use their best endeavours to make sure that a child with SEN gets the support they need – this means doing everything they can to meet children and young people’s SEN”. (6.2)

Schools should use some of their budget to buy resources and make provision for children who need additional help. This can take many forms. For example, children with SEN might need:

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All mainstream schools receive money for special educational needs support and resources. Schools can decide how to spend this money. This is called “delegated” funding because it is given (delegated) to schools by local authorities or the Education Funding Agency from money they receive from central government.

The SEN part of the school’s income is sometimes called the “notional” SEN budget because it is not based on the school’s actual numbers of pupils with special needs, but on a formula.

Money for support is allocated to every school, most of them have plundered it for years to pay for non-specialist stuff like leak-free roofs, teachers, etc etc

shit, bad bit of cut and paste there, i've got a thick head. the last two or three sentences are particularly relevant.

this post otm

Here you go @thetimes I’ve corrected headline for you.

“All pupils are missing out on education because schools are underfunded. Government and Councils would rather we blamed children with disabilities for asking for their statutory rights’.

https://t.co/STEZ4ZQxf3

— Anita Kerwin-Nye (@anitakntweets) October 14, 2019

BINGO

extremely otm, the framing of that story is absolutely fucking disgusting

they are always running bullshit stories on "complex" issues that aren't caused by austerity at all, no they are complex - people end up homeless because they have mental health issues etc. But blaming disabled children for how many billion they have cut from Education? I seriously hope the hateful pos that wrote this dies very soon.

he should die of shame.

The 'this is Sparta!' school of economic policy.

Because the picture of the immigration bill is a little on the large side, I missed the trailing 'not' at first glance - anyway, anyone need some pitchforks, I may have lost the head a little and ordered 100.

(not to say this is more important that that disgusting framing of the shortfall in education)

Boris Johnson: “One by one [Corbyn’s lieutenants are being purged as Lenin purged the associates of poor old Trotsky.” ?!?! Johnson confirmed, and historically illiterate, Trotskyite.

— Dawn Foster (@DawnHFoster) October 14, 2019

when someone with a rep for showy verbosity doesn't know shit about history!

Also, isn't he forgetting the 21 MPs Dominic Cummings had purged from the Tory Party?

"poor old Trotsky"

Rasputin murdered him

pic.twitter.com/rc00qkFnUx

— Laura Silver (@laurafleur) October 14, 2019

the 2nd most memerific pic of the day!

god grant shapps is such a fucking abject tool

I know some love the pomp, but when there are 14m people in poverty; when there are 1.6m foodbank parcels being handed out a year; when there are rough sleepers in every corner of our cities, I can’t help finding the opulence on display in Parliament today deeply uncomfortable. pic.twitter.com/3396YamFEm

— Laura Pidcock MP (@LauraPidcockMP) October 14, 2019

the new Contrapoints is called 'Opulence', will enjoy watching that later...

am i supposed to know what the picture on the right by Theresa May is?

keep up granddad, it's an internet classic

(laura pidcock otm as usual btw)

ok i did my meme research

Laura P is otm except the correct follow up to "I know some love the pomp" should be "and they can GET TAE FUCK"

well, that was heavily implied tbf

it felt like an unnecessary nod to civility

she's hiding her true power levels until she takes command of the corbyn brigade's guillotines iirc

I'm worried that she's already showing menshevik tendencies :(

keep up granddad, it's an internet classic

Applebaum explaining to E Davies on PM about how the Justice Party have taken over state media in Poland: It would be like if the BBC was taken over by one UK party and became a propaganda organ for them :p

Niche content I'm aware, but I treasure the memory of Ian Dempsey playing the Stranglers' No More Heroes and following it by wondering "what did happen to Leon Trotsky?"

Anyone else see this very normal warning on their travel apps?
https://i.postimg.cc/G36ZRFX6/368-E8-D86-897-E-43-E1-8-D7-F-BAB73-A06-A84-D.jpg

And before anyone says XR, they’re finishing on Friday.

But that's dated the 7th

Last updated today?

always rated the lads down at panelbase tbf

Latest @Panelbase poll, 9-11 October (changes since GE17)

Con 33% (-11)
Lab 30% (-11)
LD 17% (+9)
BXP 12% (+12)
SNP 4% (+1)
Grn 3% (+1)

[My seat estimate]
Con 301 (-16)
Lab 247 (-15)
SNP 50 (+15)
LD 29 (+17)
BXP 1 (+1)
Oth 24 (-2)

Tories & DUP 311 (-16)
All other MPs 332 (+17)

— Stats for Lefties 🌹 🌹 (@LeftieStats) October 14, 2019

ComRes are a great set of lads as well!

I think that 10 for the DUP is a big ask. Don’t think they’ll retain Belfast South & there’s an outside chance they could lose Belfast north as well.

please someone convince me that boris isn’t going to pass his deal, implement voter id laws and win the election because i’m feeling pretty low about things right now

he has a long, reliable history of fucking up absolutely everything

both labour and libdems would vote down the voter ID bill. i had a similar feeling of hopeless despondency about it the other day, but how does he get it through parliament just before a snap election? i can't see it happening.