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

50 posts about Steve Vai

He's no Allan Holdsworth.

business will be booming in the vast soylent green factories of theresa may's britain

Where's our Kendrick? JME, you ready to step up?

yes, we need a homegrown cover of 'cups' now more than anything

Actually we already have the Kendrick we deserve: Kate Tempest

We have the Kendrick Mark Lamar we deserve!

i'm trying to think of positives

1) corbyn and milne gone in six weeks (soz but let's be a bit real here)

2) following on from this, labour back in power in 2022, rather than 2025

3) PROFIT

Dawson injected the king with 750mg of morphine and a gram of cocaine – enough to kill him twice over – in order to ease the monarch’s suffering

the government should offer a similar speedball of mercy to anyone who can't be arsed hanging around to watch the uk implode, i'd be tempted

A lot of people who think 'Get rid of Corbyn' is the obvious solution are going to get a very rude awakening fairly shortly.

corbyn and milne gone in six weeks (soz but let's be a bit real here)

finally, the advent of the owen smith-led labour party we've all been clamouring for

there is no obvious solution

A lot of people who think 'Get rid of Corbyn' is the obvious solution are going to get a very rude awakening fairly shortly.

there's going to need to be a queue for rude awakenings all over the place tbf.

it's not the solution but surely it's a necessary precondition? that said i thought ol' wooly-jumper had finally been doing a good job over the past few weeks :(

has corbyn actually said he will step down if labour loses?

seriously, who does the labour party have in its ranks who is a) popular and/or b) not a craven corporate low-cal tory

and could lead the party and win votes

c) hasn't said the LC words

i am rudely awoken by the discovery that diligence has turned out to be insufficient

d) isn't hamstrung by their position on Brexit.

Corbyn has made a bad situation worse but he wouldn't be there in the first place were it not for the litany of fuck-ups that led to him. I have a feeling he actually won't do quite as badly as is being predicted (ie the complete and utter annihilation of the party) but there's no clear route back to power for anyone that might succeed him unless there's a profound change in the way the country thinks and behaves.

If he loses and refuses to step down then any challenge is bound to include another left-winger. I wouldn't bet on him winning again in any scenario.

also i just read* that -- in the case of a snap early election like this -- the next fixed-term election will happen in 2021 not 2022

*courtesy david allen green bcz i haven't yet got round to the mass muting that the next six weeks urgently demands

Corbyn does not wear woolly jumpers very much in public.

c) hasn't said the LC words

'la cucaracha'?

Unless you were referring to me, Tracer?

haha you're always doing a good job, pinefox :)

The other thing here is that virtually no one has developed detailed policies on anything at all, which would favour the incumbent almost regardless of the situation.

"the next fixed-term election will happen in 2021 not 2022"

That is quite reassuring if true, maybe when many of the Local Authority's (going into the financial "jaws of death" over the next 2 years) don't even have the budget to empty the bins anymore - the backlash will start here!

What's the fucking point of the fixed-term parliaments act and the two-thirds majority rule if the opposition won't say no to an election for fear of being told they look scared of the electorate? I mean, there could scarcely be a more blatant "election being called for political expediency" than this one.

I wonder if they have even pondered opposing it?

may was saying a couple of weeks ago that it's not fair to ask scotland to vote on a brexit vote that doesn't exist yet.

I strongly endorse Alba's great post.

It is another aspect of the cynical vileness of TM's intervention.

It is nice to see Alba taking a strong stance despite his professional need for calm and neutrality.

What's the fucking point of the fixed-term parliaments act and the two-thirds majority rule if the opposition won't say no to an election for fear of being told they look scared of the electorate?

The point is really to keep coalitions together. The opposition would be expected to oppose it if the junior coalition partner did as well

in the indie piece i just linked from last month, labour was quoted as saying it would be "very hard" for them to block an election if called (but the reasoning isn't given)

the fixed-term act was always a bit of a stunt and was never going to stop this kind of stuff: it's just too powerful a weapon for the PM to wield

If they tried to block it and failed it they would get absolutely rinsed for it.

pinefox where did you get that jeremy gilbert bit from? can't see it on his twitter

tbh i quite like that corbz is all "yeah, let's go for it"

Why would he not be?

Why would he not be singing that line from "In the air tonight" right now?

i imagine he is, i know i am

i know this is lunacy but there is a timeline in which jean-luc mélanchon and jeremy corbyn are leading their countries by the second week of june

best birthday ever dude

🙌

anything is possible, well apart from that!

"What's the fucking point of the fixed-term parliaments act and the two-thirds majority rule"

The fixed term parliament act was itself an piece of political expediency, designed for a specific set of circumstances that lasted until the last general election. Its was always going to be circumvented or binned by the first majority government that found it inconvenient.

The Manchester Gorton by-election is going ahead on May 4th.

Before Easter I spent a few days walking in Wales with my husband, thought about this long and hard and came to the decision that to provide for that stability and certainty, this was the way to do it.

Blame Wales, whydontcha!

it could be construed as a burgeoning messiah complex in the works, or maybe just absolute twaddle!

" I stared up at the sky, and a glowing effigy of Mick Hucknell looked down and said ... "