Rolling Brexit Links/UK politics in the neo-Weimar era

Wanker.

:(

Next level chutzpah

@Gove2016
We need to renegotiate a new relationship with the EU, based on free trade and friendly cooperation. #Gove2016

hahah .. we piss them all off, enforce years and years of paperwork chaos, and then ask if we can be friendly.

We're helping create work in the EU.

I like this david graeber piece on the distaste for corbyn:

What all this suggests is the possibility that the remarkable hostility to Corbyn displayed by even the left-of-centre media is not due to the fact they don’t understand what the movement that placed him in charge of the Labour party is ultimately about, but because, on some level, they actually do.

After all, insofar as politics is a game of personalities, of scandals, foibles and acts of “leadership”, political journalists are not just the referees – in a real sense they are the field on which the game is played.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/jul/05/political-establishment-momentum-jeremy-corbyn

Starting to think that the solution to this whole problem is to ban anyone over the age of 30 from joining Momentum.

It's a solution in that it'll create a stable state, I suppose...

what?

idgi

science joke

Logan's Run?

Er, no I just mean that it'll be permanent Torygeddon - it's a solution if you want to call it that.

Is stable state one without any reaction going on? Came across something like that in reading James Lovelock talking about looking for signs of life on Mars which lead to him coming up with the Gaia theory.
Which had him saying that any planet that had no continual reaction going on would be inherently dead & a living planet would have most chemicals in an imperfect balance and continual reaction.
Which would presumably mean that a stable state in a political situation would be nearly totalitarian. Or have everybody represented needing to be dead.

Or am I reading too much into that?

http://news.sky.com/story/1721982/watch-ken-clarke-ridicules-tory-candidates

Does anyone in the Conservative Party rate Gove even remotely highly or was his advancement almost entirely down to being mates with Cameron and having handy Murdoch links?

he seems beloved by a particular type of nutcase right-wing pundit (eg. this encomium from the National Review's Jay Nordlinger), don't know about actual boring Tory party politicians and members, though

The line I keep seeing bandied about regarding Gove is that the party loves him and the media loves him. Not entirely sure either bit of that is true.

pound falls to 31-year low, new twist added to end-of-season finale

M&G and Aviva have also suspended their property funds fwiw.

Gove seems to have a reputation as an intellectual within the Tory party. People really rate his education reforms for some reason.

People really rate his education reforms... all apart from teachers, pupils and parents ime

for all of michael gove's "we've had enough of experts" he could easily be mistaken either for someone who thinks he's an expert or, by an idiot, an expert

his idea to reform the history syllabus to get rid of all that social history guff and instead to teach an unabashed apologia of empire through the study of battles and great men mustve endeared him to the faithful

met and spent some time a couple of years ago the ceo of ofqual who seemingly was a fan of michael gove - looked her up just now and she has recently been "made a dame" for "services to education" and is now...chief inspector of probation which presumably means they still get to hang out together

lol so cool that we'll be taking back control from unaccountable bureaucrats in brussels

I didn't realise Gl3nys had left, which shows how much attention i pay.

Crabb and Fox have both backed May now.

it's a little sad that Crabb and Fox leaving the race this early has deprived us on animal name based jokes and headlines. There is a species of fox called the "Crab-eating fox", I would have enjoyed seeing pictures of this fellow on the yahoo homepage etc:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/46/Crab-eating_Fox.JPG/460px-Crab-eating_Fox.JPG

http://www.mainlesson.com/books/raju/fables/zpage028.gif

Anyone else reckon Crabb was at risk of tabloid embarrassment due to a very specific type of hypocrisy?

i did wonder

Leadsom's shady behaviour about her tax return probably hasn't done her any favours. What's the big deal? She is a Tory after all.

Listening to Gove not seem to realise he is finished was nice. I am starting to think that the fucking idiot actually thought he could pull this off, rather than just stopping Boris.

(xp) Said it the first time I clapped eyes on him.

Couple of verrrry interesting threads on my FB timeline cough*closet*cough

http://f.tqn.com/y/webtrends/1/L/A/Y/-/-/nail.jpg

advocate for homosexuality cure in 'might be homosexual' shocker

instagram affirmation culture comes to brexit

https://twitter.com/SteveHiltonx/status/750472858480943104

yes and ho

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v472/birdnestsoup/sad.jpg

lonely car just thinking baout things

sadness in its eyes

Disappointed, was looking forward to a few more days of Crab jokes to lighten the general gloom

the claws are out

He's getting a bit of stick

he's going to need a hard shell if he... oh what's the point?

https://mobile.twitter.com/PickardJE/status/750608854036152320/photo/1

A suggestion that advertised job vacancies halved following the referendum.

guys

chilcot's going in quite hard

Yep. Has come as close as he is able within his remit to saying the war was illegal, badly planned and justified with spun evidence.

Which we all knew already but it'll be interesting to see how the likes of Mike Gapes and John McTernan who were on the news earlier saying they'd do it all over again respond.

some of these fuckers will have spent months preparing their spin but still here it is out in the open at last

The party line seems to be laying all the blame on MI6.

^^That's so ridiculous

yeah i noticed a bit where Chilcot suggests that the intelligence services hadn't made the dubiousness of the WMD evidence clear to the gov. don't buy it.