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

How can Brexit be getting worse? Fuck's sake, Tories.

Gove out.

Not to play Captain Save A Leadsom but the culture May has fostered where women who have long hair or wear makeup are at risk of being deemed insufficienty lesbian enough to avoid deportation to countries where their physical safety at risk doesn't really mark her out as much of an ally either.

http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/03583/gove_3583746b.jpg

man was such a zealot that shortly after this photo was taken, he ended up binning himself

May is *awful* but Leadsom, from my extensive three-day experience appears not only awful but also really terrifyingly dim.

Not that intelligence in the service of evil is a virtue

Missed the 'fuck marry kill' portion of this contest.

There's really no good outcome here unless we get a snap election that some non-Tory thing wins.

I'm more concerned by the dimness, though. Leadsom appears to think that we just need to buck up, dig deep, put our backs into it, roll our sleeves up, buy British and be optimistic for all the Brexit problems to go away. May has horrible answers, but does appear to understand the questions.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CmxayBjWIAEV9i_.jpg

Leadsom appears to have the support of both Nadine Dorries *and* Louise Mensch so we're probably doomed.

this is really scraping the barrel in terms of finding something to be optimistic about but may has displayed more of a willingness to pivot to wherever is politically expedient; she may have encapsulated the nastiest of the nasty party in recent years but she coined the phrase in the first place. it's not much of a silver lining given where might be politically expedient.

BYE GOVE THO

I can't think of many things May has pivoted on. She is deeply committed to restricting human rights and immigration. She just never votes against the party line.

Idk, a friend's fiancee was put in handcuffs, detained for two days and deported yesterday because she hadn't booked the return part of her trip and a couple of her friends couldn't agree on when she had said she was going back. It is hard to warm to her.

Leadsom is continuity 90s Tory but that doesn't sound like the worst possible outcome right now.

I've been reading the FT every day since the Brexit vote (American who'd prefer to understand what's happening without trying to slog through the mire of US media), and I missed a day because I was out of town...was Leadsom's name even floated before this week? What on earth is happening over there, you guys?

A Leadsom win would lead to the almost certainly unprecedented situation where both party leaders have the support of the majority of their members and a minority of their MPs, which surely isn't sustainable for very long? General Election before the year's out is my guess.

she was floated but wasn't expected to make it to the postal election of the final 2 with boris in the race. the guardian put together "reading lists" about her earlier this week when it became clear she was in the running.

Leadsom was one of the few prominent Leave Tories considered presentable enough to take part in debates. Two of the others stabbed each other in the back and the third has already had a go at being leader.

my hunch is that leadsom will be a huge disaster and make the tories eminently beatable. but will that just open the door for the return of boris?

Praying for inertia: the joy of UK politics

admittedly i don't live in the UK any more, but i discovered this morning that i'd been pronouncing her name wrong all week simply because i'd never heard anyone else say it out loud. that's how famous she is.

led or leed?

I don't remember. I'd been transposing the s and the d, so a more basic error.

that makes jim's question all the more pressing imo

There's no way of knowing

Or caring.

Readers of Private Eye, I know there's not many of them these days, will have been aware of her and her husband long before the rest of us.

'Andrea Leadsom' is an anagram of 'some anal dread'.

BRB there's people on FB that need telling about that anagram.

Thank you.

if someone had told me 12 months ago that May was going to be the sensible choice i would have laffed my socks off.

and yeah, i would love to share that anagram with my FB crew, but my blood relatives are raging right wing twats, and would never talk to me again ...

(hmm ... )

Also available in 'some dread anal'.

anyone have any examples of this from the dreda say mitchell article: "The barrage of hatred and intolerance unleashed by sections of the remain vote against the working class has been horrifying." ?

not sure in what sense the working class is less europeanised than the middle class

Whatever europeanised means.

harsh: http://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2016/07/more-on-chilcot

It's the new thing! 1) Do/say/support something objectionable, 2) wait for opponents to object, 3) construct a strawman of your opponents objecting in a fashion similar to objectionable thing you did/said/supported and feign aghast disbelief and hope no one calls you out for your overt fabrication.

I think 'Andrea Jacqueline Leadsom (Min. Energy)' is an anagram of 'Real England joy (mad EEA racism queen in)', which would be trenchant social commentary applied to either of them, but i haven't counted the letters particularly diligently.

^my hero

Twitter person sitting next to obvious Westminster Tory has snapped this intriguing photo:

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CmyBrpQXEAE7Cst.jpg

fuck.
even more of t0by y0ung re schools ..

Talk to Toby Young. That's just going too far.

Wonder if this was a Goveite?

'for her'

poll, obviously

I'm suspicious. Boris supports Leadsom, Young seems to think she's crazy. Idk why you would put references to someone who has described you as a lunatic in your platform.

Glad to see they're addressing the important issues like poverty, housing, unemployment,
the nhs, climate change, racism, chilcot, public transport, impending economic oblivian et cet

don't see why leadsom wouldn't want to 'win around' someone from the tory right who's been critical

they're addressing racism, nick!

I've been reading the FT every day since the Brexit vote (American who'd prefer to understand what's happening without trying to slog through the mire of US media), and I missed a day because I was out of town...was Leadsom's name even floated before this week? What on earth is happening over there, you guys?

― There must be some magic clue inside these gentle walls (Old Lunch)

i feel like some of it is that nobody actually wants to run the country after this vote? because whoever is next is going to have invoke 50, and nobody wants to be responsible for that particular disaster?

i'm mostly staying out of it because america has our own disasters to deal with, but i must say i am amused by the little cadaver synod corbyn has going on right now. (incidentally whenever i forget corbyn's name, which is often, and have to google him, google immediately comes back to tell me ed miliband is the leader of the labour party. i'm not sure if that says more about google, or about corbyn.)

But come on, we must slay the evil of political correctness to truly make our island proud

It's just incredible to me that article 50 ranks third there. The monumental upheaval it will unleash ranks behind some shit about Sharia law.

This has to be Leadsome, yeah?