xp most of them are silly and/or repetitive tbf
― gyac, Wednesday, 23 October 2019 21:42 (four years ago) link
no way to talk about your fellow posters
― be goose, do crimes (||||||||), Wednesday, 23 October 2019 21:43 (four years ago) link
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
― imago, Wednesday, 23 October 2019 21:46 (four years ago) link
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
― gyac, Wednesday, 23 October 2019 21:48 (four years ago) link
1. why have labour put this person up for newsnight2. do newsnight know 39 people died in a lorry
― be goose, do crimes (||||||||), Wednesday, 23 October 2019 21:48 (four years ago) link
xp to this day my favourite Peter Mannion moment is his face when Stewart gets fired.
― gyac, Wednesday, 23 October 2019 21:49 (four years ago) link
wait who was the first peter
― gyac, Wednesday, 23 October 2019 21:51 (four years ago) link
everyone's favourite drug-loathing surviving-brother
― imago, Wednesday, 23 October 2019 21:53 (four years ago) link
Hitchens?
Ugh am also watching Newsnight and Richard Tice wants a slap. Labour woman not great.
― coup de twat (suzy), Wednesday, 23 October 2019 21:54 (four years ago) link
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
― calzino, Wednesday, 23 October 2019 21:55 (four years ago) link
lol I forgot Mandy
the PLP ones sure but Theresa May and ilk can't be ignored either
― imago, Wednesday, 23 October 2019 21:57 (four years ago) link
Michael Heseltine with a 15ft statue of V.I. Lenin that he spent £20,000 to have relocated from Latvia to his garden: pic.twitter.com/9o4dlLdctq— Politics Theory Other podcast (@poltheoryother) October 22, 2019
― nashwan, Wednesday, 23 October 2019 22:03 (four years ago) link
what was that shit the other week someone posted about a prize marrow in a red rosette returning massive majorities for the Labour party (and then using Guido Fawkes to slur anyone on the left) and lets not forget Frank Field returned massive majorities for the Labour party, these people are the fucking worst and have no connection at all with even the idea of a party of opposition and voting for everything bad that has happened in the last 2 decades. so hence, worse than fucking tories.
― calzino, Wednesday, 23 October 2019 22:06 (four years ago) link
sorry bit fresh and on the vino and beer tonight and probably loads of edges and contradictions that will look bad tomorrow, but still i mean it!
― calzino, Wednesday, 23 October 2019 22:11 (four years ago) link
https://img.buzzfeed.com/buzzfeed-static/static/2016-07/8/10/asset/buzzfeed-prod-fastlane02/sub-buzz-25480-1467989153-4.jpg?downsize=700%3A%2A&output-quality=auto&output-format=auto&output-quality=auto&output-format=auto&downsize=360:*
― gyac, Wednesday, 23 October 2019 22:12 (four years ago) link
so that's where that image of a prize marrow came from!
― calzino, Wednesday, 23 October 2019 22:13 (four years ago) link
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 23 October 2019 22:15 (four years ago) link
Really interesting how Brexit twitter isn’t buying this. Read the comments. https://t.co/K2hSsScb72— Keiran Pedley (@keiranpedley) October 23, 2019
right wing brexit twitter coalescing around Boris deal and sympathetic towards his "disposition" rather than turning to bxp, not exactly what you loves to see - even if it is another Farage fail.
― calzino, Wednesday, 23 October 2019 23:27 (four years ago) link
It's only twitter but slightly worrying if you were heartened by the Peterborough result.
― calzino, Wednesday, 23 October 2019 23:41 (four years ago) link
Farage has been in relegation form for months surely. Outflanked by Boris since day one
Because Brexit is existential not tangible, what it actually is becomes nebulous. Since Boris came in, he's gradually become its owner, and Farage has ceded control.
There aren't many 'true believers' in the public, and victory is best measured by "are there visibly some losers", and thats remainers and MPs, not the EU itself. Brexit was never about immigration, or about anything at all, and theoretically at least almost anything could successfully be sold as Brexit.
Leave public did become more hardline, but only as response to May's lack of clarity or purpose. Farage's mistake was reading this as a permanent radicalization (easy to do at time). The leave public aren't generally purist about Brexit, Boris just needed to convince them what he's selling is real enough.
Long way back for Farage from here
― anvil, Thursday, 24 October 2019 05:24 (four years ago) link
Farage dropped the ball when he started fantasizing about an electoral pact with the Tories and so decided to soft pedal on Boris. Disappearing from the media and sending out various lieutenants like Richard Tice and Claire "I'm no Tory but..." Fox to say nice things about Boris was a disastrous move - and, amazingly, they're still talking about a Leave Coalition!
― Michael Oliver of Penge Wins £5 (Tom D.), Thursday, 24 October 2019 06:55 (four years ago) link
when he was polling a couple of points behind Labour it did feel a bit like when Sherwood was applying for big club vacancies
― calzino, Thursday, 24 October 2019 08:14 (four years ago) link
those sherwood club vacancies in full
https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fimage-ticketfly.imgix.net%2F00%2F01%2F07%2F47%2F07-og.jpg%3Fw%3D504%26h%3D700&f=1&nofb=1
― genre: post-britpop (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 24 October 2019 08:20 (four years ago) link
Things could swing back again, but I don't know what Farage could have done differently to avoid being outflanked. Probably painted themselves into a corner by being NoDeal Party and not just Brexit Party. Can't even really do the anti-Parliament thing, Boris has taken the wind out of that one too
― anvil, Thursday, 24 October 2019 08:23 (four years ago) link
rip big man, heaven needed a total cunt
― genre: post-britpop (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 24 October 2019 08:25 (four years ago) link
you could say outflanked, you could also say "brought his political project to fruition"
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 24 October 2019 08:25 (four years ago) link
he died so that the dream of crushing the poors in a completely deregulated corporate hellscape could become a reality
― genre: post-britpop (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 24 October 2019 08:32 (four years ago) link
(xp) Not if he ends up as Nigel Who? and not Lord Farage of Thanet or whatever.
― Michael Oliver of Penge Wins £5 (Tom D.), Thursday, 24 October 2019 08:43 (four years ago) link
I'm sure being a more famous Dick Braine is not what he had in mind.
― Michael Oliver of Penge Wins £5 (Tom D.), Thursday, 24 October 2019 08:45 (four years ago) link
there will be no shortage of sinecures for the nige
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 24 October 2019 08:51 (four years ago) link
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand),
Right, but IF there's a November/December election the extent to which he has been outflanked or not makes a big difference?
― anvil, Thursday, 24 October 2019 08:59 (four years ago) link
(xp) Yes, I think we're stuck with the cunt and I've got no doubt he will be made a Lord one day.
― Michael Oliver of Penge Wins £5 (Tom D.), Thursday, 24 October 2019 09:08 (four years ago) link
Corbyn on trains again:
Karie Murphy adds: "Anyone who knows Jeremy knows he loves to go on the train to obscure places like the South West or Orkney"— Gabriel Pogrund (@Gabriel_Pogrund) October 24, 2019
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 24 October 2019 10:54 (four years ago) link
Shots fired
Liar. You call yourself a journalist but spend your time spreading misleading images and fake news, as well as targeting your trolls towards myself and @HackneyAbbott.I was on my phone as you well know. Delete this pathetic garbage and apologize. https://t.co/ZhafUZ5vQu pic.twitter.com/nYPvIR5r24— David Lammy (@DavidLammy) October 24, 2019
― groovypanda, Thursday, 24 October 2019 10:54 (four years ago) link
(xp) A train to Orkney? How does that work?
― Michael Oliver of Penge Wins £5 (Tom D.), Thursday, 24 October 2019 10:56 (four years ago) link
Pearson RT'ing obviously fake/bot accounts. Off with her head Oborne.
― nashwan, Thursday, 24 October 2019 11:02 (four years ago) link
Sometimes I think sitting on trainsEvery stop I get to I'm in PLP painEveryone's a Blairite, plotting my deathBonafide obscure places like the South West
― gyac, Thursday, 24 October 2019 11:02 (four years ago) link
he just likes to get on a train to Orkney sometimes and see which station Branson will have him thrown off the train at.
― calzino, Thursday, 24 October 2019 11:18 (four years ago) link
One return to Muckle Flugga please.
― Michael Oliver of Penge Wins £5 (Tom D.), Thursday, 24 October 2019 11:25 (four years ago) link
Karie Murphy is Scottish as well.
― gyac, Thursday, 24 October 2019 11:28 (four years ago) link
the 'train' is actually an energised international proletariat uniting to implement full communism, pass it on
― genre: post-britpop (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 24 October 2019 11:33 (four years ago) link
(xp) Probably from Glasgow, so the rest of Scotland is a foreign country to her.
― Michael Oliver of Penge Wins £5 (Tom D.), Thursday, 24 October 2019 11:34 (four years ago) link
she's probably been to largs tbf
― genre: post-britpop (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 24 October 2019 11:35 (four years ago) link
Saltcoats at least.
― Michael Oliver of Penge Wins £5 (Tom D.), Thursday, 24 October 2019 11:36 (four years ago) link
― gyac, Thursday, 24 October 2019 11:39 (four years ago) link
xxp to Tom D
Was going to make the same crack but didn’t want to look like I have an East Coast chip on my shoulder
― michaellambert, Thursday, 24 October 2019 11:43 (four years ago) link
Don't go where ye're no' welcome is how Glaswegians view the rest of Scotland tbf.
― Michael Oliver of Penge Wins £5 (Tom D.), Thursday, 24 October 2019 11:45 (four years ago) link
My Glaswegian pals are only allergic to Edinburgh!
― coup de twat (suzy), Thursday, 24 October 2019 11:48 (four years ago) link
an East Coast chip
served with salt and sauce, one assumes
― genre: post-britpop (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 24 October 2019 11:51 (four years ago) link
This reminds memunchie boxes are apparently the only way of getting spice bag style chips this side of the Irish sea, c/d?
― gyac, Thursday, 24 October 2019 12:01 (four years ago) link