theresa may: is her project subtly machiavellian or merely cunning, baldrick-style?

I was wondering how come the housing market has got broken under the efficient, watchful gaze of the Free Market

but then a nice man from the Association of House Builders or something told me on the radio it's because of planning regulation, so it turns out the Free Market definitely still works

It's just not Free enough.

never enough freedom, if only governments would stop interfering we'd have fully-automated luxury gay space capitalism by now

Didn't see too much of this Tory conference but enough to confirm that Tories are revolting regardless of age, sex, ethnicity etc.

never enough freedom, if only governments would stop interfering we'd have fully-automated luxury gay space capitalism by now

obligatory mention that humanity's greatest achievement, NASA's space programme, was taxpayer-funded and the failure of the free market to properly build on its promise is part of the reason we're not currently enjoying fully-automated luxury gay space capitalism now

a breathless endless fountain of innovative commodities showering down on hard working people who consume as relentlessly as they work, self-sustaining and fulfilling everybody, ouroborosian jouissance eternally and infinitely acting from the same necessity from which it exists

ELON MUSK WILL SUCCEED WHERE STOLEN TAXPAYER ROCKET MONEY FAILED

PER USURA AD ASTRA

luv2imagine earth's first space colony being a libertarian paradise

I believe Ridley Scott has given us a glimpse of this

extraplanetary gulags if I've got anything to do with it!

partially-automated subsistence-level heterosexual martian libertarianism

the new frontier, wagon load after wagon load of bright-eyed idealists shooting space injuns and panning for unobtainium

believe there's a popular shooting game called Manifest Destiny about this

I believe Ridley Scott has given us a glimpse of this

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tory cabinet as crew of the nostromo, corbyn as the alien stalking them from the shadows. theresa begins coughing at the cabinet table as hideous socialism gestates inside her

theresa and amber rudd as thelma and louise, corbyn is the car driving them off a cliff

lol i have started hearing "PENNYCORBS!" to the rhythm of "PICKLE RICK!"

For who would bear the whips and scorns of time,
Th' oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely
The pangs of despised love, the law's delay,
The insolence of office, and the spurns
That patient merit of th' unworthy takes,
When he himself might his quietus make
With a bare Brodkin?

jesus thank god he wasn't bare tho

xp
My partner has been reading that one with the kid. She refers to it as time for some "Dead Dad's Ghost"!

Small, er, mercies. (xp)

a naked Jeremy Corbyn lurching towards you is probably not what a lot of people think about, right across the spectrum!

I have been replaying the coughing bits - can report it is soothing

Everything Corbyn was accused of last year (incompetence, clumsiness, distinct vulnerability to these kinds of mishaps) has happened to May this year turned up to 11. If only it mattered...

fun that both Calvin Harris and Florence have already come out on twitter to say they didn't authorize use of their music

i'd assumed they were both closet tories tbf

should've gone with a kate bush medley

Might or mightn't, but I think that the reaction is less about their personal politics and more about the realisation that the tory brand is super toxic right now; could imagine them playing some equivalent young people music in the Cameron days and no one commenting.

primal scream complained about cameron using 'rocks', so did keane about one of their songs iirc

"David Cameron, stop saying that you like The Smiths, no you don't. I forbid you to like it."

not right wing enough for Morrissey

never seen johnny marr and andrew marr in the same room together

It wouldn't be the Tory Party conference without a pop star complaining about the use of their song, but I guess it's too much to hope for that the Calvin Harris track was 'Acceptable In The 80s'.

Keane complained about Cameron looking too much like their singer.

the emerging tory narrative around may seems to have come from the ashes of "bloody difficult woman" and now it's as if she's a very old car which you have affection for, even though it takes a long time to start in the morning and you know you're going to get it scrapped soon, perhaps because we don't make the car in britain anymore. either that or like the queen mother, someone who you gamely respect for their role and their civic duty even as you speculate constantly about their health and their impending demise.

Thought about both halves of this today when I saw the Mail front page declaring that "the old girl made it through"

i beat this george freeman fucker to the post too:

Later Freeman compared May’s sense of duty to the Queen’s.

I’m sure if the Conservative party asked her to go, she would, but I don’t hear that happening this morning at all. And I think the prime minister has a very strong sense of commitment to duty, to public service. In the same way that Her Majesty the Queen puts public service at the heart of everything she does, the prime minister is driven by a very deep sense of public service to country.

The Queen's hourly rate is pretty fuckin sweet, I'd be a real fuckin patriot myself for that wedge

I married a catholic so I've blown it

that's exactly it deems - this shit of her doing us all a favour - theresa may too, she's getting fucking paid and she prob would have cut off a hand to become pm - sooner she slinks away into her deserved ignominy the better.

Oh fuck, so did I xp

Married an atheist, this is looking more and more like a runner

It would ideal if you were related to your non-Papist spouse too, however distantly.

I went all the way to the middle of the county for her, which is a hell of a low more than other islanders do tbph

And I think the prime minister has a very strong sense of commitment to duty, to public service.

At what point will it occur to this strong sense of civic duty that she's leading the country into a catastrophe?

think they meant commitment to dutty

Some of London's most esteemed new money Tory donors have turned on her now. Pimilco Botox & Griffin's Sherbet Dabs. When the donors turn on her surely it can only be weeks now.

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YouGov Londoners // Westminster voting intention - pre conference.

I think it's over for her, Tory MPs are naturally disposed to turn things over and risk tipping into the abyss rather than endure a slow and predictable trudge in that direction.

she's lost the faith of the players and the fans, it's only a matter of time now

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