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

Meanwhile in the UK: Please sign my petition to have an Oxford Comma added on the Brexit 50p coin https://t.co/mX2NJ2Fc9a

— Marijam Didžgalvytė (@marijamdid) January 28, 2020

can't wait to see the extensive coverage of these protests on the evening news tonight

I'm going to Paris next week, I'll let you know what's happening.

Are there right wing thinktanks in France that would dare say aloud that pension age should raised to 75? I doubt it somehow.

Only for black people and Muslims.

Team Keir’s latest email – really pushing that backstory, complete with photo of young KS 👇 pic.twitter.com/83FptphQA2

— Sienna Rodgers (@siennamarla) January 28, 2020

at least now we've finally got our own young dynamic Macron type figure.

gonna tell my children this was Kraftwerk

lool!

https://i.ibb.co/T1VpxLw/photograph-singer-Andy-Mc-Cluskey-interview-Nick-Mc-Grath-580791.jpg

that's pretty uncanny

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-fYtjbAt_Jl8/VOSacGGjUzI/AAAAAAAAdFY/I_2jel86U-s/w1200-h630-p-k-no-nu/OMD%2B0%2BSmash%2BHits%2B-%2B17th%2BFebruary%2B-%2B2nd%2Bmarch%2B1983.jpg

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/E0cImLnhBPo/hqdefault.jpg

Dawn says any MP who goes on tv to slag the leader gets expelled

— Becky Boi (@GAYLEXITNOW) January 28, 2020

😘😘😘

She's talking to you as well, Lammy!

I'd add taking a selfie with Chris Williamson or publicly being an apologist for this grim crank as other offences where expulsion should be considered eh Burgon and Pidcock?

just read that Led by Donkeys were one of the big contributors towards the Jess Phillips campaign, if they wont literally commit seppuku over brexit as their grand finale then piss all the money away on pure futility (again) eh?

looking at YouGov polls and commenting on them a month after an election and in the midst of a leadership election is as pointless as showing a football table after the first game.

just on about some predictably simpering claptrap from Lucy Powell. But then some fools are saying they polling badly and yet Starmer is the current front-runner to be next leader so it's on him... lol stop it all of youse!

great news everyone, jess phillips has written a piece for grazia magazine about why she stepped down from the leadership race why she's great and also why her friends are dumbasses

I’ve had total kindness from everybody; literally thousands and thousands of people have messaged me. Saying that, my husband didn’t even mention it. We went for dinner at my mother-in-law’s the evening after my announcement and spent the night discussing other things. Hardly any of my family and friends follow politics, which is exactly why we need to make sure we’re cutting through to the public because normal people have a million other things to think about. We talk about what’s going on at school and real things in our lives. When I went on Question Time, my friend asked if I’d won because she thought it was Mastermind!

"normal people"

Specialist subject - Jess Phillips.

tbf to jess, her implication that people who pay attention to politics are abnormal is absolutely borne out by the contributors to ilxor dot com's politics threads

she's finally nailed something!

Excuse me

how dare you, sir

the anti-normalist campaign will be a bloody and epic one, but it is the only the way to destroy both absolute class enemies: the melt assisting tories and the tory assisting melts. Gonna need a lot of JCBs and some very deep pits!

“Normal people don’t give a shit about politics, btw I’m dead normal” - Jess Philips

she went to 2 russell group unis btw, so surely she must be pretending to be so thick.

We talk about what’s going on at school and real things in our lives.

Note JP doesn't actually mention whether or not her friends vote and if so who for

James Butler has written about the election. V good to see him treating this at the LRB:

I've written a piece on the election, the Labour Party, and the defeat for the new issue of the @LRB. Brexit, leadership, party, manifesto, press – & what comes next under 'Johnsonism'. Read it here: https://t.co/yvSbM3c7Nf

— James B (@piercepenniless) January 29, 2020

(Guessing this is quite a nice pair up with the podcast mark s linked and never listened to because I am lame)

nnnngggh 'heartlands' in the opening paragraph but I will persist

Rebecca Long-Bailey has won the endorsement of the Fire Brigades Union, securing her a place on the Labour leadership ballot paper.

— LBC News (@LBCNews) January 29, 2020

Firefighters in France:

Only legends pic.twitter.com/7qk7EIf2G0

— j e n n (@JennThorburn_) January 29, 2020

xp

yay congrats RLB!

Our executive council has resoundingly voted to endorse
@RLong_Bailey
as the leader Labour needs to take on this viciously right-wing, anti-worker Tory government leadership candidate

We don't know which liberals need to hear it but a lack of moral and political clarity is not the same thing as nuance.

— jewdⒶs // ייִדהודה (@jewdas) January 29, 2020

yes times a million!

Letter to cabinet 3/

The Treasury want *TEN* options of things to stop entirely

constituting 5% of their budget

>> significant

— Sam Coates Sky (@SamCoatesSky) January 29, 2020

spleenlands call them by their name

guessing this is quite a nice pair up with the podcast mark s linked

well it doesn't include seymour's disquisitions on freud and how maybe voters are embracing the death drive!

(which were interesting! but also probably quite hard to incorporate into routine political strategy…)

watched M Leigh's Peterloo last night and now just read Maxine Peake has come out for RLB \( ﾟヮﾟ)/ I know it had a lot of maybe slightly wooden expository dialogue, but I thought it was a thousand times better than some reviews have suggested.

Aye, I thought it was fine.

some of these savages saying it should have been edited down are completely wrong and there were some great individual performances in there, imo.

seeing double standards again. When Starmer's team of genetic clones of Luke Akehurst leak stuff to the scummy Murdoch press that slurs RLB.. that's just the game and there isn't any comment. And when Momentum related accounts start slurring other candidates on social media.. ohhh it's a fucking disgrace ... bringing the party into disrepute ... oh even RLB wouldn't appreciate that being done in her name etc....

oh ffs only put my telly on to watch a movie and first thing I see is fawning Starmer hagiography on ITN news

Rebecca Long-Bailey has won the endorsement of the Fire Brigades Union

ha I'll have to ask my dad (retired fireman) about that. tbh I doubt he even knows who she is, he's not exactly politically engaged, which is a good thing really, given some of his, er, opinions. but he was always loyal to the union

I was thinking they might have backed Nandy because there are plenty of Blue Labour gobshites in their ranks! but fair play to them because every other bunch of cunts is backing Starmer to the point of exasperation!

I was talking to a very drunky nurse friend of mine this afty and she was "RLB or GTF" so the system works imo

plenty of Blue Labour gobshites in their ranks

tbh my dad probably makes them look like... RLB I guess!

I reckon in the racist (dead) dad stakes I'm up there. But his racism was the kind of ingrained Kerry racism that is probably way to the right of Blue Labour and Hitler!

https://shop.conservatives.com/

fucking dismal

Buy the OFFICIAL Got Brexit Done tea towel to commemorate our departure from the European Union on the 31st January 2020.

Show your pride in Britain and celebrate Brexit in your kitchen with this limited edition item. Buy one today, for yourself or as a gift.

PROUDLY made in the UK.

i'd be interested to know where the workers who PROUDLY made this chintzy tat were originally from

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/jan/30/boris-johnson-tories-left-economy-labour

This is so lame. Totally underplays the potential impact of Brexit and climate change on public finances. Plus again as per tweet I posted last night there will be cuts.

Not to say that Lab should be complacent but I am not seeing the left in Labour as taking anything for granted.