Psychoactive Substances: Rolling UK Politics in The Neo-Con Era

is he saying 'yes! fuck daddy!' there

i'm sure that relentless poverty and anxiety is ruinous of people's health, but those bald statistics are near meaningless imo without comparative figures for claimants prior to the current system and without information about causes of death and a range of other factors

obv when confronted with IDS people will grab for the nearest stick but unless this info has been better reported/analyzed than i've seen then people shd keep shtum until they can pin this more tellingly to government policy

Ben Goldacre, on that point:

https://storify.com/bengoldacre/how-dwp-has-confused-everyone-by-releasing-the-rig

i don't always agree with Goldacre but there it is

this was publishes a few weeks prior to the new lords being announced:

Some facts need to be rehearsed: Ultimo was not a particularly successful business. It also outsourced its production to Asia. Ms Mone and her former husband utilised employee benefit trusts to avoid tax. Their company created few jobs in Scotland, and she was involved in bugging one of her employees.

When Douglas Anderson of Gap Group – a company employing 1,300 people with annual revenues of £150m – writes to the Prime Minister to protest about the appointment of Ms Mone to the start-ups role, amid rumours of her also being appointed to the Lords, were we meant to ignore it?

Perhaps we were meant to ignore him when he said: “Her businesses have been no more than excessively over-promoted PR minnows gaining unjustified acclaim due to the glamorous sector they happen to be in. There is no way, by any measure, that she is qualified to advise anybody on setting up a profitable business, because, quite simply, she hasn’t.”

http://www.heraldscotland.com/opinion/13597457.Herald_View__Michelle_Mone_and_the_public_interest/

published*

is he saying 'yes! fuck daddy!' there

The more I look at it, the more convinced of this I become.

It's not quite "that bigoted woman", but Cameron just caught on open mic bitching about Yorkshire.
"We just thought people in Yorkshire hated everyone else, we didn't realise they hated each other so much"

Labour have chosen Sadiq Khan to lose to Zac Goldsmith in the London mayoral election.

Brilliant. To both previous posts.

Khan was the strongest candidate by a mile but i think the election press coverage is going to get very, very ugly.

If Ken is sensible he'll keep his mouth shut for the duration of the campaign.

If Goldsmith gets the nod then the Evening Standard is going to be even more unreadable than usual.

It will either way. They flung vast amounts of mud at Livingstone for standing on a stage with 'extremist preachers' - Khan has represented terrorists in court and actively campaigned for their legal and human rights outside of it. He has also got a long track record of rinsing the Met on racial bias cases which won't win him many favours either.

The new guy on Newsnight, James O'Brien, has a extremely strange manner. So laconic It's almost like he can't even be bothered talking.

DAVID CAMERON FUCKED A DEAD PIG

i'm so glad i checked twitter before going to bed

more worryingly, he's mates with James Del1ngpole

that's unnecessary googleproofing sure

anyway, well done charlie brooker. you called it, and all your fans will be eulogising you on social media for the next three months

A knighthood for the originator of the "Has the PM been casting pearls before swine?" line.

of all the times to be too busy to just constantly refresh my twitter feed :'(

I assume Iain Duncan Smith is the owner of the photo and that's how he's managed to cling on to his role for so long.

"Twitter fails on many levels but it is definitely the social media platform of choice when news breaks that the PM once fucked a dead pig"

c'mon it's a little pigfucking let's be cool about this guys.

this is the funniest shit ever. THE PRIME MINSTER FUCKED A PIG.

This is properly hilarious.

it feels politically significant

just in the sense of "yeah but you fucked a pig" for the next 5 years

jealous of people who still get to hear this news

What a publicity hog.

while this is going on the beeb leads with some positive Osbourne froth, fucking wankers.

anyway, well done charlie brooker. you called it, and all your fans will be eulogising you on social media for the next three months

― jordan amavero (imago), Sunday, September 20, 2015 10:33 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

or brooker had heard of this beforehand

^He says not.

Jeremy Corbyn turned vegetarian after a stint working on a pig farm. Is PMQs happening this week?

Hammy Gammy

Mr. Cameron, what did you say your girlfriend was called?
"Hamantha."

Brooker apparently (understandably) weirded out by the idea of Cameron watching that episode thinking "He knows. He must know. He knows. He fucking knows."

James Del1ngpole seems to be vaguely confirming on Twitter.

Taking the high ground and not mentioning this at PMQs would be some new-politics bullllshit

unless the photo surfaces, this seems like the kind of thing that results in not much more than "lol what a legend"

reminder: david cameron fucked a pig

Is this a bad time to ask if anyone has any OINK invites?

Joeks aside, if the most politically damaging revelation is that he misled people about when he found out Ashcroft wasn't paying taxes, this doesn't sound that explosive.

Other than defining the first response to every tweet he'll ever make for the rest of his life, i don't know if the pig thing adds much to the existing suspicion of the weird rituals of the ruling class.

Yeah if you consider him a member of the ruling class then your opinion probably doesn't have that much further to fall, but I think it does considerable damage to the idea of him as a regular bloke.

Someone on Twitter was claiming that the act itself is neither necrophilia (has to be a person) or bestiality (vagina or anus), but possessing photos / videos of it would be a crime.

I can't stop reading twitter hashtags and google trends.

i think caek depressingly otm

#Hameron my current favourite.

What a time to be alive

Imagine being Lord Ashcroft and just sitting on this one, biding your time, waiting to pull the trigger on the revelation that the PM put his cock in a dead pig's mouth.

I just want this thread to be variations on that sentence for the rest of this Parliament.

Joeks aside, if the most politically damaging revelation is that he misled people about when he found out Ashcroft wasn't paying taxes, this doesn't sound that explosive.

Perhaps not, although it might give labour the chance to keep the issue alive without compromising its 'new politics' stance: "leaving aside the more lurid and sensationalist allegations, there remains a serious issue with regard to the Prime Minister's tacit connivance with tax avoidance on the part of a major conservative party donor (oh and btw he got a blowie off a dead pig lol)"

Sober but no less depressing analysis of it all...

http://www.robfahey.co.uk/blog/the-pm-the-pig-and-musings-on-power/

lulz

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CPaghmbWIAAxnna.png

PEOPLE ARE ENTITLED TO FACE-FUCK PIGS' HEADS FFS WHAT IS THE WORLD COMING TO