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

at least they've captured Starmer's hair quite well

looks more like mitt romney tbh

I feel like Gideon didn’t get the Addams family.

Message to Sajid Javid: Stop playing games putting our economy at risk. If you won’t bring a budget forward, move over and I will. Your irresponsible party political messing around will cost people their jobs. Grow up.

— John McDonnell MP (@johnmcdonnellMP) October 25, 2019

lmao RIP shippers

This is great listening, some highlights:-

- Peter Oborne calling out Tim Shipman as "not just the sewer but the sewage"
- "Most of the political lobby allow themselves to be gamed... don't interrogate, question, just pass it on... they help the government set its own agenda" https://t.co/DqcvPpm8qp

— 🎃 The Spooky Leftorium 👻 (@LeftoriumThe) October 25, 2019

I see bestpic.png has done a racism too

fs oborne tearing strips off of bobby pesto and kuennsberg and then fully lays into rajan

yikes

amazing radio

just writing a love letter to Oborne

The saga continues:

“That guy needs to apologise. He wants to seem like the people’s man, mixing with people from diverse backgrounds, but he’s chasing clout and now he’s trying to chat shit about us. I’m not letting this guy tarnish our name, especially given the positive message we try to push in our music.

“I’m not a gangster, I’m not pretending to be and I’m not going to let some corny, goofy-looking man say I am. We’re all about peace and love, and he calls us gangsters. It was definitely racist.”

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/oct/25/irish-musicians-hare-squead-anger-minor-gangsters-rory-stewart

another weirdo white man

pretty harsh to call him this without acknowledging his fluency in Dari

Lol shippers is a total cunt, he’s been properly seen off there (even if Oborne is also a cunt himself).

The bestpic article, omg, loving this promo

Hare Squead have almost 1 million listeners a month on Spotify. They have been signed to a major label and toured with Nas, Joey Bada$$ and Dua Lipa. They play infectiously catchy, feel-good soulful music which fuses rap, pop, R&B, electronics and trap, and have a new single, Meeting with Myself, out on 5 November, which is about being self-aware and staying focused.

i lolled at the promo-speak but then i guess there's a sly little dig at bestpic in there

Some corny looking opportunistic goof called me, Tony and Sev gangsters

— LÍLO (@_FishMilk) October 25, 2019

Omg they’re on channel 4 news?!

I remember Oborne doing a Channel 4 programme on *Cameron where he tore him to shreds, he is quite good at that sort of thing.

(*also a major hate figure of P. Hitchens')

he did that good piece on the tom bower corbyn book too. still a tory fuck but

https://unherd.com/2019/10/how-i-learned-the-tories-werent-evil/

I’d long since been able to observe intellectually that the Conservative Party was not the exclusive force for evil I’d been brought up to believe it. But I think I only emotionally absorbed this when I was working day after day alongside talented, wise, compassionate and thoughtful people who chose to wear a blue rosette at election time.

this is the LibDem policy adviser who was famous for jocundly tweeting about the negotiating triumph of swapping a pile of disabled corpses for the 5p carrier bag bill. This is quite hilarious really, and it opens with a Nolan movie metaphor about her lol broad-minded and unbiased approach to politics!

the key thing to remember about the horrors of British history is that no one was responsible for them

But honestly, I paid almost no attention to politics.

In 2002 I had an interview for a graduate trainee scheme at Reuters where they asked me to name “a news story from the last few months”. I stared blankly until the interviewer generously reminded me of a few: a Foot and Mouth epidemic, a postponed General Election, the Soham murders, the death of the Queen Mother. I didn’t get the job.

... and within a couple of years she was a Policy Adviser for the Lib Dems.

I'm suspicious of (adult) people who suddenly develop an interest in politics having had no interest at all before, I always wonder where they could end up. There's few Corbynista friends of mine I'm keeping an eye on.

is it me and comrade alpha

in order to poke fun at myself as a politician in an awkward encounter. I am really sorry for causing offence. Thank you also to @DavidLammy for raising this too. I am really sorry.

— Rory Stewart (@RoryStewartUK) October 25, 2019

I am very sorry towards the guys and towards everyone else. I was wrong.

— Rory Stewart (@RoryStewartUK) October 25, 2019

now tweet it in dari

من نسبت به بچه ها و نسبت به همه افراد دیگر بسیار متاسفم. من اشتباه میکردم.

داستانها باید شوکه کننده باشند

that's supposed to say tories got to keep torying shocker, but it translates as Stories must be shocking

"There's few Corbynista friends of mine I'm keeping an eye on."

they can't all have what it takes to be lifelong committed socialists like Chris Williamson :p

Nice.

On This Morning @richardm56 asked Jeremy how it’d work to have a Chancellor who doesn't believe in capitalism.

➜ Real living wage
➜ End to austerity
➜ Essential utilities in public ownership
➜ Income tax up only for top 5%
➜ 32 hour week with no loss of pay

That's how.

— John McDonnell MP (@johnmcdonnellMP) October 25, 2019

that awesomeness versus the Priti line that UK workers are a bunch of lazy malingerers that are responsible for the productivity crisis because of their obsession with music polls

:) also lol xp

Mcd being totally otm and amusingly being condescending to the running joke of a chancellor: grow up

Boris trying to sound like a particularly boorish clerk of works with maleness issues on a building site: man up.

yeah you can see why Eton has charity status.

this is a councillor from dewsbury, only two weeks after west yorkshire police got around 500 cops to escort a far-right march in the town, and targeted anti-fascists who’d come to oppose them https://t.co/1pdOUjtjlf

— dsm hate account (@smoglife_) October 25, 2019

Very good on being at the mercy of shitty DWP
https://amp.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/oct/26/benefit-assessor-more-afraid-state-poverty?__twitter_impression=true

"In January 2018 I was told that my DLA was being scrapped. Presumably this was punishment for the notorious role disabled people played in the financial crisis"

huh! I thought it was too many libraries in Wolverhampton that caused that

turning disability benefits in a Kafkaesque nightmare/raffle ticket draw hasn't even saved them any money, apparently the welfare spend has actually gone up in the PIP era. That's tory austerity in a nutshell for you, persecuting and disenfranchising vulnerable citizens at a cost is how they roll.

just seen that clip from Richard and Judy where Corbyn says "Boris is a strange PM" and Judy says "Your not kidding". If Peter Oborne's rep can be slightly rehabilitated there is still hope for Richard's apparently better half.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/oct/26/theresa-may-inflexible-introverted-and-surly-biography-claims?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

Another said: “She was a terrible campaigner. She came across as grumpy, entitled and expecting to win, and then visibly irritated when she came under scrutiny.”

happy memories of GE'17

^^ sure fire xmas stockings hit, that book

I'll be sorely tempted to illegally down load it!

par for the course i know but impressed that jonathon freeland/sam bourne's latest piece on why corbyn should be removed manages to not mention policy once afaict

best description I heard of the Graun recently was "an opinion factory with 26 rectums"

huh! I thought it was too many libraries in Wolverhampton that caused that

If Jeremy Corbyn was spotted actually walking on water, Jonathan Freedland would file 1000w criticising him for not being able to swim.

just seen that clip from Richard and Judy where Corbyn says "Boris is a strange PM" and Judy says "Your not kidding". If Peter Oborne's rep can be slightly rehabilitated there is still hope for Richard's apparently better half.

Judy's always been fine, it's her husband who's the idiot.

it gives me, I think they call it ‘endorphins’

09/06/17 5.15am Theresa May inside CCHQ explaining in tears how she lost her majority to the few staff that remained digger Crosby lurking in the background then along with Hill and Timothy I was kicked out after a very long shameful 52days ! pic.twitter.com/uvJSYPf9nR

— PoliticalPics (@PoliticalPics) October 26, 2019

Hahahaha

oh yesssss

very important distinction re the two peters btw: hitchens p has no deeper more hated foe than british summertime -- WHY FALSIFY THE CLOCKS?

Only a few hours to go and Britain will be restored to natural, organic, truthful time after months of pointless dislocation. Let's stay on GMT . You wouldn't falsify a thermometer or a speedometer. Why falsify the clocks?

— Peter Hitchens (@ClarkeMicah) October 26, 2019

https://media.tenor.com/images/d8223af42c18c33bc217eecb2c20cf07/tenor.gif

"You wouldn't falsify a thermometer"

is that a challenge

I'm pretty sure I've seen several Beano characters falsify a thermometer loads of times

Can't believe Diana Johnson got reselected ffs

you know Any Questions has been bad enough over the years, but it has been mostly much better than QT in this era - which isn't really saying much. But I don't think I'm going to listen to it ever again now that Chris Mason is the presenter.