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

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.

tell disabled people on ESA or people in foodbanks or people living tents the economy has shifted to the left stupid fucking establishment lackey Graun cunt

imagine the spiteful lunatics who actually place an order for that brexit shite.

xposts

People in foodbanks who voted Tory might well agree though.

that's why the dictatorship of the (shit-brained) proletariat was such a necessity!

shop conservatives

hardest agree

I'd really, really be careful with this narrative. Especially in the context of this https://t.co/ZzaqCnOfI1 and this https://t.co/d8ckDDdrdU

A rhetorical end to austerity is dangerous precisely because it gets positive headlines whilst an enfeebled state becomes the new normal. https://t.co/JtSI4FjXCd pic.twitter.com/u158Ka3ebz

— Joe Bilsborough (@joebilsborough) January 29, 2020

graun cunt Larry Elliott should be replaced by a journalist.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EPd4BJZX0AEI3Tg?format=jpg&name=small

Alex Sobel doesn't just have shit taste in music it seems, he also seems to be quite cordial with the more respectable end of the malthusian sterilise-the-poor eco-fash lobby! Disappointing tbh because he seemed like one of the good ones.

Britain is leaving the European Union tomorrow.

At least Remain/PV achieved their primary goal .. it'll be reet!

If that goal was to get Andre fucking Rieu at #1 on the charts they've succeeded alreet ffs

no it was to make sure tories are at #10 forever.

Double whammy.

If that goal was to get Andre fucking Rieu at #1 on the charts they've succeeded alreet ffs

tbf Andre Rieu is the most pan-european artist I can think of, little old ladies love him across the continent. it may not be pretty but we must not avert our eyes.

Ha, that's fair I suppose!

sbush:

Boris Johnson will tell the European Union that he is willing to accept border checks on British goods after Brexit next week, the Telegraph’s Gordon Rayner reveals. Which is a lot like saying that I will “tell” my local restaurant that I am willing to pay them money to bring me food: yes, that’s the point of the enterprise.

no it was to make sure tories are at #10 forever.

A lot of people worked very hard for this to be fair, a cross-party effort from both parties.

Brexit is happening tomorrow and we are finally hearing from the government what it means in concrete terms. Here is their updated travel advice for next year. Big changes for travellers and business in 11 months’ time. https://t.co/v3cd0ncSNg

— Lewis Goodall (@lewis_goodall) January 30, 2020

We are very proud that in the most democratic process of any trade union our branches have overwhelmingly voted to nominate @RLong_Bailey for leader of the Labour Party pic.twitter.com/WDb7bganpL

— The CWU (@CWUnews) January 30, 2020

RLB now has more trade unions than Starmer

Nigel Farage has just unveiled a portrait of himself entitled "Mr Brexit". Jim Davidson is now giving a speech to mark the occasion. Happy Brexit everyone pic.twitter.com/dCDnfqywwt

— Michael Deacon (@MichaelPDeacon) January 30, 2020

whenever Jim Davidson is about to say something racist, Brian May appears on one shoulder advising him against it and Farage appears on the other goading him on pic.twitter.com/1R4MZCY2Ru

— BRYN_BORANGA (@BRYN_BORANGA) January 30, 2020