the day after the deadline: can the union survive brexit and other deep questions

Idk, do we think stephen kinnock et al, the progress, 'politically homeless' lot, are facepalming at blair, or is their hero worship toi strong?

Too strong

it seems to be a convenient blind spot to many of them, including.. [redacted bad taste joke].

missed this compelling evidence for a logan's run approach to population control a couple of days ago:

How the next general election would look if only 18-24s were allowed to vote (Data from @YouGov, 28-29th August). I'm expecting some great GIFs, everyone...

LAB: 66%, 600 Seats
LDM: 13%, 21 Seats
CON: 12%, 0 Seats
GRN: 4%, 1 Seat
SNP: 3%, 9 Seats
PLC: 0.4%, 1 Seat pic.twitter.com/CxaL1oBJ9u

— Election Maps UK (@ElectionMapsUK) September 4, 2018

as soon as people start getting into their 40's they start hankering for things like inadequately funded Local Authorities, more homeless ppl living on the streets, abandoned and dying disabled people, zero hour contracts etc... Their priorities change!

just caught 2 seconds of Vince Cable being given BBC airtime for some inexplicable reason. do these cunts honestly not recognize that since the political climate in this country has shifted hard to the right over the last 40 years the notion of being a "moderate" means approving and colluding with this shift, or do they actually realize this but don't care because they're self-serving Tories in disguise?

You have to respect the Lib Dems for staying on brand even when they're resigning: never knowingly principled or coherent. https://t.co/dkSWmyGxo8

— Frances Ryan (@DrFrancesRyan) September 7, 2018

self-serving Tories in disguise

The STD Party.

missed this compelling evidence for a logan's run approach to population control a couple of days ago:

IRL LOL @ this.

Who in the name of fuck decided Chris Williamson should be Labour's go-to guy on all media fronts? Corbz out.

he's a total liability and a truly ghastly K Livingstone apologist. The last sort of PR Labour need right now ffs!

Well done to the Love EU crowd for being the ones to agitate for deselection for Kate Hoey and Frank Field so now the rest of the membership can get rid of the "moderates".

Joan Ryan's "Trots Stalinists Communists" quip is interesting in the light of her recommending "show trials" for any MPs who opposed Blair on the Iraqi invasion, back in the day. Couldn't have happened to a nicer person...

Somehow I don’t think Labour comms are the ones putting up Williamson for talking head spots.

Same as it ever was </soz>

Damage limitation exercise by Boris and the Sun, I reckon, get it out there before someone else does and hope it goes away...

https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/660/cpsprodpb/10C36/production/_103326686_sun-front-page-for-07_09_20.jpg

BLOATED BLOND BASTARD BID BYE BYE

Williamson probably the Labour MP most likely to lose his seat at the next GE even before the bad antics of the last 12 months.

Somehow I don’t think Labour comms are the ones putting up Williamson for talking head spots.

I wish I could believe that.

He'll be the go-to pro-Corbyn pick across the media from now on and he's so damaging they should just ban him from speaking to anyone at all, including his own constituents.

To be honest if anyone in the country other than his wife had been at all bothered by BJ's serial infidelities then the last decade or so of British politics would have looked very different.

"Luton South MP Gavin Shuker said he was "sorry a handful of people" wanted to overturn his 2017 win."

he lost his vote of no confidence by 33-3!

anyone got any men in black style mind-erasers to tackle the revival of the phrase "BONKING BORIS"?

the next phase of his Murdoch rehabilitation will be him coming out as a sex addict.

did anyone else have the misfortune of watching Julie Burchill talk about her brexit play on Newsnight? yeesh.

I caught bits of it , just minutes ago. Really deep analysis there, if you are a lobotomised Sun reader!

Her and Tony Parsons ..eh? Match made in heaven!

I can remember in the 90's, Burchill proclaiming Patrick Marber a genius. So she's going to set impossibly high targets for her own debut.

I also remember her declaring her younger-self outrageously or ridiculously good looking in her NME days so I have the utmost faith in her judgment of her own talents.

lool!

Is anyone else thinking “f**k it, I might I might give the Lib Dems a go”?

— Eddie Marsan (@eddiemarsan) September 7, 2018

fao Suzy who, just in case she did mute Marsan!

Celebrity centrists, they're the best kind of centrist

around the time Thatcher died, he said his parents buying their council house was good, but now there are 4 families living in it, so her legacy was a "mixed blessing".

oh and Ray Donovan has got be one of the most crass, ugly, boring, misogynistic, macho-shitfest Sopranos knock offs ever made. Fuck knows how they've managed to run this on for multiple seasons, if you were to believe Marsan's twitter, it would be something to do with his tour-de-force performances in it!

'I might I might'

I thought they might be looking for someone without the toxic baggage of the ConDem period to succeed Cable. But it seems Jo "Bedroom Tax" Swinson is the odds on fav to take them into this exciting new post-brexit era.

There are rumours of a leadership challenge from Johnson on Monday. If so, he’s picked an interesting time. I can’t really see it happening.

For Boris to say that the PM’s view is like that of a suicide bomber is too much. This marks one of the most disgusting moments in modern British politics. I’m sorry, but this is the political end of Boris Johnson. If it isn’t now, I will make sure it is later. #neverfittogovern https://t.co/rdI0FWQhbi

— Sir Alan Duncan MP (@AlanDuncanMP) September 8, 2018

Still has his fans though.

There are a number of possible motives behind this tweet, but given its author, we can be certain ‘principles’ aren’t one of them. https://t.co/hlGKGattBx

— Zac Goldsmith (@ZacGoldsmith) September 9, 2018

mmm yes, the famously principled zac ‘my opponent for mayor of london is a muslim therefore he is suspect’ goldsmith certainly has the moral high ground here

if you're having Boris problems I feel bad for you, son. got 99 problems but we can be certain ‘principles’ aren’t one of them.

<3 jed

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/sep/10/windrush-people-wrongly-deported-jamaica-criminal-offence

After a lifetime out of the country he had no ties in Jamaica. As a child in the UK he remembers being abused in the streets. “I was called black monkey, asked if I came on the banana boat, and told go back home,” he says. Back in Jamaica he is seen as an alien. “I’ve been called names – deportee, foreign. I’ve been threatened. I often feel frightened.”

another Amelia Gentleman Windrush piece that illustrates Javid lip service hasn't made fuck all difference to the plight of those in the stateless hell the Home Office has dumped them into.

Harry Cole has spent so long trying to be a dark haired Poundland Boris and his wife was just like “why have the high street knock off when I can get the real thing” tragic https://t.co/719G30b1cM

— Congolesa Rice (@judeinlondon2) September 10, 2018

this has made my day.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DmuMIprWwAA6v2m.jpg

insert your own ironic star wars quote here i'm so fucking tired

https://i.redditmedia.com/-q0FDtkJotzhbeWYt91H1Qd06foQI6bgN8UVhstpRUU.jpg?w=431&s=eecf13941c4a40b623f1f04f0f990543

the force .. is weak as piss in this one.

my favourite part of the original trilogy is when luke agrees to share power with the emperor and then lets the emperor cut a swathe of destruction across the galaxy while luke hops anxiously from foot to foot in the background looking upset

can never decide if stuff like this is because of politicians being idiots or politicians believing the electorate are idiots

I couldn't remember that cosy coalition with vader bit of the plot, so they could exercise a non-existent "moderating influence" on him. "Here's the deal, you obliterate as many planets as you like, as long as we get plastic bag bill through parliament".

this just in: quinoa-eating labour are fucked, electorate says in shock new research

Labour has evolved from being the party of casseroles and bingo to the party of quinoa and student protests, according to research with swing voters in marginal constituencies.

Political analysts from the consultancy firm Britain Thinks carried out a pair of focus groups with swing voters from two marginal constituencies, Crewe and Thurrock and, separately, polled 2,000 people nationwide.

Participants in the focus groups, which in Crewe were 18-44 year olds, and in Thurrock, older voters, repeatedly mentioned the fancy grain quinoa when asked what food best represented the Labour party of 2018.

The Britain Thinks director, Deborah Mattinson, said there had been a consistent message from many of the voters they interviewed.

“It was so striking that what people said to us was: Labour used to be working class, it used to be a pie and a pint – it’s now a protesting student. It used to be someone playing the bingo; now it’s someone going on a demo,” she said.

The much larger-scale polling, carried out last week, underlined those perceptions and sounded a warning that taking a definitive position on Brexit could hurt Labour’s standing.

Voters were asked whether Labour represented a series of different groups well or badly. The net balance said the party did a good job of representing the working class, at 25%, and fell below that for “people who weren’t born in the UK”, at 27%. A balance of just 17% felt the party was good at representing “traditional Labour voters”.

A typical comment from one participant in Crewe was “I think they’re trying to appeal to literally anyone now”.

labour supporters historically v much opposed to protest, of course

turns out that this whole article is tendentious nonsense

(1)One single participant in a "Britain Thinks" focus group in Crewe said Labour had gone from "Pie & a Pint" to "Quinoa" (tbh they sound like a very Waitrose LibDem ) this was transformed by the Guardian into "research with swing voters". pic.twitter.com/EQrPYomh6r

— Solomon Hughes (@SolHughesWriter) September 11, 2018