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

ok so Louise Mensch is barred from voting in the Green leadership election

Jeremy Hunt otoh seems to fit that description perfectly.

haha she's gone feral

bartley is the running for leadership of the greens as a job share with caroline lucas btw, hence the animosity i s'pose xps

OK, so just realized Jon Bartley is the Ekklesia guy.

News just confirmed that Hunt thing, what a shame.

xp yup. am always wary of religion and politics mixing. is ekklesia something to be suspicious of?

How the fucking fuck does Hunt not get sacked?

(xp) Nah, completely harmless afaik

Hunt was an early backer of May's leadership and she's returning the favour.

Mensch is loathsome obviously but she also has genuinely awful reading comprehension and only looks at about three words in every tweet.

tbh a few more jesus hippies in politics probably a good thing at this point

Mensch has gone full Ann Coulter since getting hired for this stupid right-wing-Gawker Newscorp project nobody can remember the name of. She has always been a horrible person but a lot of the recent stuff looks performative.

absolutely and her follower count goes up around 4k a month

Well this is a depressing "how others see us" https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-partisan/wp/2016/07/14/new-cabinet-may-signal-britains-retreat-as-a-western-power/?postshare=4351468500713301&tid=ss_tw-bottom

urely May knows that Johnson is a hated figure in Brussels. Surely she guessed that the reaction to his appointment would be laughter in Washington. But she doesn’t care because — like the leaders of all small countries without aspirations to international leadership — her concerns are more parochial. She doesn’t need a foreign secretary who is taken seriously in foreign capitals.

This is put more eloquently but basically what I meant yesterday, too.

I don't particularly want Britain to "aspire to be a leading Western power" tbh.

Dutch (Labour) Foreign Secretary's first response to BoJo as FS on the radio just now: "I look forward to working with him, he's very flamboyant!"

*chucks radio out the window*

Anne Applebaum's disapproval is the first thing i've seen that has made me wonder whether Johnson won't be so bad after all.

applebaum providing the neocon tears to cheer us up

Wikipedia claims that May and her creepy-looking husband were introduced to one another at a Tory Party disco by Benazir Bhutto.

RIP Stephen Crabb, we hardly knew you thankfully

Wikipedia claims that May and her creepy-looking husband were introduced to one another at a Tory Party disco by Benazir Bhutto.

Wow, that's a story to tell the grandki... oh.

tbh a few more jesus hippies in politics probably a good thing at this point

― imago

pretty sure the jesus hippies went all "time of the last persecution" on us some time ago

leadsom is the new environment secretary. gets to clear up all the cancelled farming subsidies, hope that keeps her busy enough to prevent her pushing her pro-hunting agenda

Does hunting come under environment? Or what? Or could it be spun that way?

Sajid Javid is the new Communities Secretary.

department for environment, farming and rural affairs innit xp

Leadsom as Environment Secretary really is the climate-change-agnostic cherry on top of this cake of shit.

That's a huge step down for Javid.

"Labour's Yvette Cooper thinks it looks like a "very right-wing" cabinet so far. She says there's often a "very big gap between the rhetoric and the reality with Theresa May" and says that's what we are seeing."

Lol! at the hypocrisy

they'd better start prioritising the search for a new houses of parliament cuz the current one's gonna be underwater soon

tories in right-wing cabinet shocker

Pritti Patel as International Development secretary

Lolololol

Former accountant and co-chair of the 1922 Karen Bradley in at Culture.

Leadsom will now be able to fuck up the world for her children and their children - May instinctively understands that she instinctively doesn't understand.

guys i don't think anybody should question Yvette Cooper's credibility on identifying a right wing cabinet

When Cabinet positions are dished out as punishment.

For the minister as well as us I mean.

Sounds like Leadsom got exactly what she wanted to rid the world of foxes. Do hope there is some hope of preventing that. But these stewards of the state seem to not be the greatest stewards of nature. Innit.

Just seen this shared on facebook, Bristol has had funding pulled on anti-Corbyn MPs by local Union.
http://www.bristol247.com/channel/news-comment/daily/politics/union-withdraws-funds-to-bristols-labour-mps

thumbs up

meanwhile, in glasgow

http://i1247.photobucket.com/albums/gg622/bizarrogazzara/image_zpsjulog1xk.jpeg

I lol'd
https://twitter.com/junayed_/status/753355203693383680

https://mobile.twitter.com/jeremycorbyn/status/753845837269118976 the responses to corbyns tweet are appalling, though not sure if I'm getting them in an odd order because it's mobile.

I heard that NEC has suspended all 6000 members of Brighton and Hove Labour Party for passing a motion to support Corbyn. Can see headlines on google but phone won't connect to full story.

http://brightonandhoveindependent.co.uk/brighton-hove-district-labour-party-suspended-nec/

This is such nonsense, I don't see how the NEC/the factions behind think this could possibly wash or that they have any chance of succeeding with these tactics

Jesus fuck. This is honestly the most blatant attempt to rig a democratic vote that I can remember in this country.

It shows that they just don't believe they can win an argument or beat Corbyn. And if you can't beat Jeremy Fucking Corbyn now, how on earth do you propose to beat Theresa May?

I mean it's a good job they've done it in an area with no left wing alternative. It would have been a complete disaster if they had.