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

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.

Honestly it just feels normal, like after all the rage and bitterness and recriminations we're just drifting out quietly.

It would be quite easy to miss the fact that we're leaving today. Maybe there'll be some jubilant gammons in Trafalgar Square this evening but the real damage will become evident over the longer term. Its already being felt by the targets of emboldened racists, just ask any black footballer.

zoom in for a surprise:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EPm9tbmXkAAgNSu?format=jpg

anybody alive on there who could sue? Coogan maybe

sorry "who could sEU?"

is that actually real?? is that Curtis next to Blobby???

normally i'm all for images of tony blair depicted as a demonic, flesh-rotted ghoul but i can't defend this vile slander of the eden project

"real or not"

no greater category error in these decade-defining days imo

goodbye.com

the image of ian curtis nestling against mr blobby has inflicted a psychic wound which may never heal

Lol @ shakey saying "It's not to be".

We'll be fine!!

otfm

related: I think one v bad trend in politics is how groups of engaged voters are increasingly berated for just advocating and voting for the things they want. non-politicians are increasingly expected to behave like millions of little political strategists trying to win elections

— Jon Stone (@joncstone) January 31, 2020

and told not to openly believe certain things because they’re politically unpopular with other voters who are somehow more legitimate than them. it’s not something that’s going to be healthy for political discourse in the long term, at all

— Jon Stone (@joncstone) January 31, 2020

yeah, well-put

yep

you could apply this to tons of things but i thought about this seeing Lisa Nandy fans increasingly enraged at people dating to vote for RLB. None of them are remotely enthusiastic about LN except as a projection that exists in their heads. Same goes for any leader candidate this time; there’s none of the excitement like there was around Corbyn.

and when you fail to get what you voted for in parliamentary democracy the only solution is to have two tory parties obv

The Sun including every gay and black person they could think of in that souvenir.

Corbyn was defeated and I think lack of enthusiasm for RLB ought to be seen in that light.

Yes, obviously. Lots of demoralised people not making the case well enough or with enough belief.

Confidence is v low. It's a shame I can't attend my next branch meeting (as it's the same evening as ILB fap) as I need to keep talking her up to people. Got to get the vote out for her.

t/s: rlb vs ilb fap

She's not making the case for herself especially well either, but I don't think anyone is really. She's saying lots of the right things, but saying the right things isn't really enough.

Also we aren't talking about the Tories anywhere near enough on this thread, they seem to have gone quiet and are probably taking advantage of a general sense of politics fatigue in the country at the moment. That's dangerous.

I think it’s interesting they’re telling consulates not to celebrate and keeping it low key. Almost as though there’s going to be an inescapable tranche of bad news soon!

there are regular tfl tannoy announcements urging passengers to not only not give change to homeless people, but also to shop them to staff. so i would have to say, shut up https://t.co/FGdbpGTfc3

— hayls (@isamyelyah) January 31, 2020

Sadness in his eyes#twee brexit bullshit time. I already hated those nauseating TFL wankers enough with their other Bowie nonsense etc...

these mad, wonderful bastards have done it again #fbpe #bollockstobrexit #killme

A message to Europe, this morning on the White Cliffs of Dover. Sound on. pic.twitter.com/E3VY8BaGjK

— Led By Donkeys (@ByDonkeys) January 31, 2020

Before I click it, do they jump off?