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

This is partly my fault cos I keep forgetting Danczuk isn’t an MP anymore

I assumed Sajid Sontaran.

tbh it's probably quicker and easier to name the mps who aren't potato-featured in some way

Notes from the meeting: Nick Brown said a new programme motion could be agreed by the end of today. Cummings said the French were going to veto delay. Brown said Macron was playing them for fools. Cummings “threw his arms in the air”.

— Francis Elliott (@elliotttimes) October 23, 2019

Macron an astute judge of character and intelligence it seems.

Macron knows a prick when he sees one

Saw this on Twitter, loled but also don’t fit in with any of these (probably why I’m not a member)

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EHjKoY3W4AA_Jrr?format=jpg

That is great.

Don't you ever put your fist in the air and shout Cuba! In random outbursts Whilst drinking in wetherspoons?

comprehensive!

i particuarly enjoy the multiple owen smiths

Matt Hancock just got up to speak at the dispatch box

- wearing an NHS badge
- “let me be clear”
- “the NHS is not and never will be for sale”
- Labour have “nothing to say” because “they don’t want to talk about Brexit”
- “the conservatives are the party of the NHS”

Channeling Ben Swain here

40 new hospitals!!!!

Maybe just stop downgrading current hospitals and shutting A+E's down, just an idea.

The new hospitals are both really small and far away.

re: what brought the ERG around, this feels right. but i would have like it to run about 5 times longer.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/oct/23/erg-brexit-deal-boris-johnson-financial-interests

This story!

New: The Labour Party has suspended former M&S boss Lord Stone over claims of sexual harassment and sexist/transphobic comments

While he was defending himself to the Standards Commissioner, he also used the N-wordhttps://t.co/y2bvVDIWdE

— Esther Webber (@estwebber) October 23, 2019

wtf

another moderate voice cruelly purged from the Labour Party

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EHkKF2VXUAEdxPK?format=jpg&name=large this is silly but I love it


https://twitter.com/readyforspoons

I see the PLP are back on their bullshit

What are they up to now?

And the Labour whips have reportedly advised Jeremy Corbyn that if he supports an early general election he will not have enough Labour MPs on his side. Around 140 Labour MPs have reportedly told whips they would vote no to early election

— Nicholas Watt (@nicholaswatt) October 23, 2019

Why PLP reluctance?

-some think they can continue to tie Johnson up in knots
-some that Corbyn is bigger problem than Brexit and don't want to go into another election with him in any circs
-some think Johnson victory in deal/election an inevitability. So why go for elex now?

— Lewis Goodall (@lewis_goodall) October 23, 2019

so much trash still in the Labour party.

Ah I see. I think they could still get an election under FTPA, 2/3 of 640 = 429, you’d need all the Tories plus SNP plus about 100 Labour MPs plus DUP maybe?

288+100+35+19+10 - that’d do it, but you’d want to get really high turnout cos absolutely none of the independents will be voting for that.

Meanwhile

I was 14 yrs old - the summer after Thatcher's notorious 1981 budget. 'Ghost Town' spoke to me and every other teenage kid. The message of social neglect and division are as relevant now as they were then. Thanks @UK_Music and @SuperSizeArt for this gift.https://t.co/WAE2DO3Ft6 pic.twitter.com/y4hP48Nnt6

— Tom Watson (@tom_watson) October 22, 2019

I can't wait for Tom's coming of age picaresque novel, where he has some tedious bollox about the first time he heard every fucking album in existence!

I've managed to end up with tickets for the Corbyn rally in Bristol tomorrow, the last time I was in the venue was to see Flying Lotus' 3D show on a bucketload of research chemicals. Hoping JC is aware of the competition and pulls out live holograms of Trotsky or something tbh.

brace yourself for drain covers, the triumphs of the steam age and his prize marrow, maybe pack some mogadons this time :p

"THANK YOU, PEOPLE'S POET!!" pic.twitter.com/FjcCTxamGX

— Mark Grout (@MarkSGrout) October 23, 2019

is ...that a Young Ones reference

Aye.

Ruth Davidson finds life as a politician so stressful she's decided to compliment her Holyrood salary with a second job working for a PR firm in the City, advising "some of the biggest players in corporate Britain." Just an unbelievable grifter. https://t.co/Ogw7NnoDZ7

— Jamie Maxwell (@jamiedmaxwell) October 23, 2019

Imagine getting it right less than Dan fucking Hodges

This seems totally at odds with what Prime Minister’s Official Spokesman briefed this afternoon. What is going on? https://t.co/eAmgiBPOyo

— Robert Peston (@Peston) October 23, 2019

peter oborne calling out peston and laura k

https://www.channel4.com/news/peter-oborne-downing-street-putting-out-fake-news

Good! I hope he does write the follow up he mentioned.

https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/opendemocracyuk/british-journalists-have-become-part-of-johnsons-fake-news-machine/

Here's the full article. Essentially the problem is that Twitter isn't journalism in any meaningful sense, both Peston and Kuenssberg are incredibly slapdash in their use of it and the guidelines governing its use as a news-breaking tool aren't worth the paper they're written on.

finally I got a joek/reference on this thread

xp

it's a good piece and fuck Pesto and Laura k, but the rot started long before Boris got into no 10

xp most of them are silly and/or repetitive tbf

no way to talk about your fellow posters

i'm enjoying calzino's inexorable devotion to the two peters. tbf they pretty much fill the job description of 'decent for a tory', peter mannion was probably based on them

I include myself in that remark!

Let’s see that fearless investigatory coverage from the country’s two fiercest political commentators!

RT JoshuaFunnell2: I want someone to look at me the way Laura Kuenssberg looks at Boris when he gives a speech. pic.twitter.com/xjWCVGZHfM

— jfb-letta (@_baeirenej) September 20, 2019

1. why have labour put this person up for newsnight
2. do newsnight know 39 people died in a lorry

xp to this day my favourite Peter Mannion moment is his face when Stewart gets fired.

wait who was the first peter

everyone's favourite drug-loathing surviving-brother

Hitchens?

Ugh am also watching Newsnight and Richard Tice wants a slap. Labour woman not great.

no he doesn't mean Mandy he means Hitch, which is grossly mischaracterising me, but imo the tories that have done the most damage in the last couple of decades are the PLP ones

lol I forgot Mandy

the PLP ones sure but Theresa May and ilk can't be ignored either