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

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

mrblobby.shoppe.uk/apparel/ties

Well spotted! (no pun intended)

that lucky 5th form GCSE art pupil who won the Farage portrait competition will be trying to track it down and burn all evidence of its existence in a few years!

Music will be a mixture of Progressive Trance, Hard, House and Old skool. AC-DC and The Who - WE WON'T GET FOOLED AGAIN. ;-) Not forgetting some Land of Hope and Glory

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/brexit-celebration-have-your-cake-and-eat-it-tickets-88811271905

https://cdn.evbuc.com/eventlogos/189003976/harderfastersmall.jpg

(from the evenbrite thing, but worth a post of its own, i think)

aesthetically related (contains scrutonthink):

IT HAS ARRIVED pic.twitter.com/ydtLMKTNw6

— Ben (@cinemashoebox) January 30, 2020

detail from Speer's model of Germania Halifax Piece Hall!

can't be doing with any manifesto for beauty which suggests Poundbury as an example

my granny was in a home not far from there - all those chunky square buildings topped with triangles and livened up by a smattering of semicircular windows and arches, like they were assembled by a toddler with a bag of wooden blocks

there is a big McDonald's right opposite, which seems both architecturally fitting and also pleasingly likely to have caused rage and horror when it sprang up

I will get this off my chest once because hey.

A v good and dear ilxor chum has some of the meltiest Toriest cunts of Facebook friends and the special cunt that defended Scruton on the grounds that he was lovely to east European dissidents and only racist because he was alzheimered up and made a valuable contribution to the philosophy of aesthetics is a fucking cretin and a fascist apologist of the worst fucking melt kind, Scruton was a fucking stain in every aspect of his laughable shit career, come friendly bombs and fall on Poundbury

wow that was good like coughing up a lung

maybe do 90s indie loving music journalists and their entitled middle class Blair fandom next

my proudest moment on Twitter this year was getting blocked by Applebaum for clowning her comments on Scrotum by suggesting his books that were sent into the Eastern Bloc in the 80's were used as shit roll!

*and the music journalist frog pursed his wide mouth as if eating a lemon and replied in a very tiny voice "haha i hate indie" *

my poundbury story is that they failed to design its streets with modern refuse lorries in mind -- they're too wide to negotiate the corners or something -- so all the well heeled inhabitants must crossly wheel their bins all the way to the some nearby dorchetster main street every week. this was told me by someone at the printers of the magazine i then worked for, which was based in dorchester, along with a great deal of amusing locals-hate-locals we-voted-to-fuck-with-wigan type schadenfreude.

I kind of think aesthetics is an utterly bullshit object of philosophical inquiry but maybe I'm open to dissuasion. Actually rather than bombing Poundbury we Shd just make Meades its Gauleiter

A v good and dear ilxor chum has some of the meltiest Toriest cunts of Facebook friends

I've unfollowed this person because I don't need to see that shit tbh

Name names.

Sick Melty

(I'm j/k I don't know who it is)

🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔

The point wasn't about the person it was about the indefensible bullshit of self-proclaimed centrists

Yesterday I scored a copy of Raymond Eilliams' short book on Orwell (part of the Fontana Masters series). The timing is pretty much perfdct

You should get the D L one as well alphie. I heard it made some paper mites think once!

So the big day is upon us and yet I don't feel particularly magical

https://alexsobel.co.uk/policy_responses/statement-population-matters/

Sobel apologises "The charity’s patrons include David Attenborough and Chris Packham who patron a range of environmental organisations I have met with" that is very naive to say the least..but he seems like a good person.

Attenborough has form for "too many people" bullshit already. I hope Sobel learns from this, endorsing organisations you haven't researched seems like a schoolboy error

Lol Radio 3 are broadcasting Beethoven's 9th from Manchester tonight. The programme is even titles "Ode to Joy". We need a futile gesture at this stage/Peter Cook

I had the first half of the concert on earlier. Tbf it's a Beethoven anniversary so he's getting pretty incessant play anyway

Brussels square lit up in Union Jack colours

Shd've festooned it with rotten pork pies and a skinhead Morrissey kicking the shit out of an asylum seeker

Respect:

Battersea CLP nominates:

• Nobody to be leader of the Labour Party due to a draw
• Dawn Butler to be deputy leader of the Labour Party

This CLP nominated Yvette Cooper in 2015 and Owen Smith in 2016.

— CLP Nominations (@CLPNominations) January 30, 2020

RLB has 44 clp noms now, they've been flying in yesterday.

what the fuck, why did no-one warn us about this before now

Donald Trump will put the interests of corporate America first and demand that the NHS pays higher prices for US drugs in a free-trade deal with the UK, the outgoing British ambassador to Washington has told the Guardian.

Kim Darroch, in his first interview since his resignation from his post in July, from where he spearheaded attempts to grow trade with the US, insisted that Trump would reward his backers in drug firms and farming communities by opening up British markets, while questioning where the UK’s gains would be found.

The former British envoy, who left Washington after a leak of his confidential cables to London, said it was doubtful whether the UK had the resources for parallel negotiations with the US and the EU, a strategy championed by Downing Street as a way to give British negotiators leverage in Brussels.

Darroch, who said that warnings on the US’s trade demands had been made to No 10 during his tenure in Washington DC, also said it was “impossible” for a deal to get through Congress by the end of 2020 and that it appeared to be “a narrow and rocky path to get to where they [the UK government] want to be”.

He said: “I know what the US will be pitching for when they negotiate a free-trade deal with us. They will pitch for massively greater access for agricultural products. People talk about chlorinated chicken – it is a lot more than that. Farmers in America vote for Trump, pretty much all of them vote for Trump …

“They also want us to pay the same for American pharmaceuticals as they pay in their own market. Do they want us to pay more for their pharmaceuticals? Do the pharmaceutical companies want to use this leverage? Of course they do.”

Guardian managing to be more unreadable than usual with "We leave the EU tonight – but Europe is still alive in people’s hearts" nonsense.

that gaby whatshername piece is so embarrassing. I almost died for her.

Calz died for Gaby Hinsliff’s sins, but not for mine...

I am so glad to be out of the country right now, doing a travel story in Sri Lanka. I think the relentlessness of the news and the crowing of the world’s worst people would have given me a proper nervo. Will be up before dawn anyway, just as the leaving comes.

It's utterly quiet, no reason to get out of the country for "we're leaving the EU today" reasons.

I’m not watching any telly or listening to any radio - it’s just sad friends on various social media platforms.