bojo is king, brexit is on, stuff is fvcked, tomorrow starts here -- new govt new thread new battle

I dread to think - but what's the tory's climate change plan?

it got one mention on page 72 of the manifesto, so I think the real answer is "frack till it hurts then salve the wounds with coal"

What Tory climate change plan?

Priorities priorities but also who's the Commons Daddio now that Clarke and Skinner are gone?

If it’s not Bill Cash, it should be.

I dread to think - but what's the tory's climate change plan?

Tory climate change plan = do whatever sinister shadowy interests want, cover up with meaningless bluster. Same as their plan for everything else.

I did around 120 hours of canvassing in London, Bedford and Milton Keynes. I didn’t expect this result but here’s how I can make sense of it from what I encountered on the doorstep. 1/

— Luke Pagarani (@LukePagarani) December 13, 2019

oh sorry I see some of this was posted earlier

Xps, Peter Bottomley apparently.

climate change will basically be ethnic cleansing on a global scale and i do not expect the tories to give one single fuck about it

Mr. Personality himself. (xp)

I dread to think - but what's the tory's climate change plan?

machine-gun climate refugees at dover iirc

More realistically, take a look at what the US are doing - a network of concentration camps already being set up to detain climate change refugees, for example - and do the same. Remember that scene at Dover near the end of Children Of Men? That kind of thing. While scrapping over the spoils of newly-uncovered fossil fuels in the arctic, uncovered by climate change no less. Plus fracking. And blaming the resultant Armageddon on refugees.

climate change will basically be ethnic cleansing on a global scale and i do not expect the tories to give one single fuck about it

― one nation under a gloom (NickB), Friday, 13 December 2019 bookmarkflaglink

Australia RIP

More realistically, take a look at what the US are doing - a network of concentration camps already being set up to detain climate change refugees, for example - and do the same.

Britain already has this btw

A 32 per cent vote share is 9 points down on Tony Blair’s second landslide, and indeed eight down on Corbyn’s own splendid defeat in 2017. But it is appreciably more than the 28 per cent score the party had in its 1983 Waterloo, and also up on the 29 per cent Gordon Brown scored in 2010, Ed Miliband’s 30 per cent in 2015, and Neil Kinnock’s 31 per cent in 1987. And it is only three points less than the 35 per cent share which produced the third Blair government in 2005.

This is... a parody?

It's facts, or don't your feelings care for it?

Is that a Ben Shapiro riff?

I'm grateful for people posting articles and tweet threads that put this in context, or provide any sort of grounds for optimism, for the record. Also all the canvassers.

It feels like the only option right now is to try to switch off and not give this more power than necessary while there's little to be achieved, but we will of course all be angrily refreshing screens like an inverse Male Online screaming "they're doing what?!" for the best part of ten years

We were young, once

a comprehensive green new deal, like the one labour was offering, would have put the country in a much better position to adapt, though
― Receive Your Simulated Fluids Before The End of The Year! (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 13 December 2019 bookmarkflaglink

I know what you mean but given the reports of what's already happening it will need heavy coordination between many countries at a time. Green new deal is definitely a template for things that still can be done at some point.

Agreed. Shout out to all the canvassers, including comrade alphabet. Mad props.

I remember when "the government has announced ..." wasn't immediately met with dread or suspicion.

Xp

Children of Men was Bexhill, not Dover, not important but interesting to me as my mum lived there at the time.

thanks pom.

So many canvassers on twitter saying how 'they failed' but we were doing the little we could, too late. It turned to be a bit too much to turn around what was in front of us. Stuff that was building for two decades.

i'm so sorry you all, this is very grim. solidarity.

The only comfort I can offer is that without all that incredible mobilization it would certainly have turned out even worse.

Righteous fury from the guy in the neighbouring constituency

Re-elected Labour MP Lloyd Russell-Moyle pledges to fight Conservatives in the street in fiery acceptance speech @lloyd_rm #GeneralElection #GeneralElection19 #generalelections2019 read full report 👉👉 https://t.co/ilKUjhMncU pic.twitter.com/hNBFnUZJ6d

— Jody Doherty-Cove (@JodyyDC) December 13, 2019

Same lad who grabbed the mace in parliament btw

take the lols where you can imo

TV gold here from @adamboultonSKY 😂pic.twitter.com/UblhRsxRfP

— Nick Jones (@resophonick) December 13, 2019

Our leader in waiting.

pic.twitter.com/nfQg9hsv21

— Zack Breslin (@zack_breslin) December 13, 2019

If this morning everything seems too dark to face, just remember that if it comes to the worst, the USA always welcomes immigrants with open, no wait, strike that.

I was thinking earlier there must be some right wing shitholes with better weather than here, but they don't tend to do mutual citizen exchange schemes for people that fancy a change!

Australia is the go-to.

(takes a glance at recent ILX posts about Australian politics, then reads recent news reports coming from Australia)

ffs

Combining anti-PC nationalism with leftist economics ... intriguing idea ... but the phrase is awkward and unwieldy ... I wonder if we can't coin one word to sum up this program. https://t.co/cnhHAuGCOu

— Jeet Heer (@HeerJeet) December 13, 2019

lol I'm in a chat right now with a friend who's angrily dissecting that joke because fascist economics wasn't actually leftist

yeah that occurred to me as well. I strongly suspect Jeet knows that but couldn't resist the obvious joke.

you can forgive him for clowning someone with a good joke, even if it is built on the wrongness of what the other eejit is saying imo!

-First backbencher in history to get a budget amended in campaign to abolish Tampon Tax
-Got WHSmiths to cut exploitative prices in their hospital shops
-Secured U-turn on cuts to Dewsbury Hospital beds
-First person to say the word ‘vagina’ in House of Commons

Paula, we Stan 👏🏻 https://t.co/uSt9fERnk2

— Susie Beever (@SusieMayJourno) December 13, 2019

I feel bad for poor Paula, (I know it is a cliche) but she is a brilliant and tireless constituency MP and the incoming Tory nob who beat her by a mere thousand or so is a complete shitheel who will only represent the wealthier and white side of the constituency.

Calz, Australia will welcome you with open arms. You’ll get lots of immigration points if you’re a qualified concentration camp guard, are white and are prepared to live somewhere that catches on fire. A southern cross tattoo on one shoulder, and a eureka flag on the other should tip you over the line. Don’t forget the Aussie flag budgie smugglers for the visa interview.

lol , many years ago when i was getting my electrical qualifications there was lots of talk of sparkies being needed in Australia and great rates of pay etc and even cheap houses are big with swimming pools. I thought it about it for about 10 seconds and then realised my lack of a driving license and inability to even deal with British summers could be a serious handicap out there for me. But I'd guess being white would help me ace the points system!

xp was devastated when I saw that result, she is so hard working and so brave and she stood up when it counted. If you have a line of communication to her, please say something

Seconded. I can’t believe she lost.

I was pulling out my mail this morning and there was a vote Paula leaflet amongst the mail and was ready to cry foul, but then figured (quite sadly) it was probably just trapped behind the windshield of the letterbox since yesterday :(

i'm playing a drinking game tonight except instead of taking a drink whenever rose says st olaf i'm taking a drink whenever I feel a pang of abject misery

Every major A&E unit in England has failed to hit its four-hour waiting time target for the first time, NHS figures show.

All 118 units fell below the 95% threshold in November as the NHS posted its worst performance since targets were introduced more than a decade ago.

Alongside the growing waits in A&E, the data showed there were record delays finding beds for the sickest patients.

The numbers on waiting lists for routine care also hit an all-time high.

xp same

https://novaramedia.com/2019/12/13/no-false-consolations/