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

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RIP Toby Young, poor one out

The real big story on Today is the proposed banning of antique ivory on the antiques roadshow #frontlinenews

Didn't expect Young to resign so quickly - how nice! Makes Johnson, May and other apologists look thicker than ever.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/58/The_Sun_%28Gotcha%29.png

Following his appointment to the OfS, Mr Young deleted up to 40,000 tweets posted since 2009, including references to the size of women's breasts.

i feel like having forty thousand tweets at all should in itself be enough to prevent you from holding a role in government, let alone having to delete that many objectionable ones ffs

Piers Morgan said Mr Young had been forced out by the "howling Twitter mob".

"I don't defend his more offensive tweets or columns," the Good Morning Britain presenter wrote, "but I do think he would have brought a valuable and distinctive perspective to university education."

cunt recognise cunt

don't think this is the time for easing up, let's drive him out of the country

and into the arms of the grim reaper, ideally

bingo

Obviously, all power to the elbow of those who would viciously hunt down and persecute Toby Young beyond the limits of human endurance. But it might also be useful to examine the credentials of the other people appointed to this regulator, and what their agenda is likely to be.

The future looks bleak tbh

The @toadmeister affair means any non-vanilla contrarian - @gilescoren , @TheRodLiddle - is presumed barred from public work,for life. Grim.

— Libby Purves (@lib_thinks) January 9, 2018

judging by this follow up tweet from 40 minutes later, the argument "Toby Young being forced out might also prevent Giles Coren and Rod Liddle from taking high profile roles with public bodies" wasn't as persuasive as she hoped

God, tweeple today, your're a nasty bunch of moral fascists with no belief in redemption, shades of grey, irony or forgiveness!

— Libby Purves (@lib_thinks) January 9, 2018

if making gross discriminatory public comments about people you might be expected to serve bars you from public service we really are in the end times

may we be shown weirdos + mike love?

I presume that following Toby Young's removal, that anybody who has ever wished Tories to be dead or celebrated the death of Mrs Thatcher will be barred from any public office?

— Mike Love (@therealitygap) January 9, 2018

The fact that Toby Young was manifestly unqualified for this job appears to have gone unremarked-upon by his defenders. Nope, it's all about the baying mob.

Also I hate Giles Coren but bundling him in with Young and Rod Liddle is nigh-on defamatory.

yeah he's a tesco value liddle if anything, it's an insult to rod's decades of dedicated cuntery

On Today this morning they cut off Dawn Butler mid-sentence to report on some celebrity claptrap, when she was making the pertinent point that the selection process that put Young there in the first place was just as wrong as his godawful interactions with social media.

anybody who has ever wished Tories to be dead or celebrated the death of Mrs Thatcher will be barred from any public office?

I like it when we get into this "they send one of yours to the hospital, you send one of theirs to the morgue" steez. bring it.

If Coren isn't stopped now he'll be Liddle-level before the decade's out

Either that or in the cabinet.

The beach boys Mike Love??

> tesco value liddle

Rod Lidl

Given that Coren likes to insult women for being 'barren', he's probably unlikely to get a post under Theresa May.

first through seventh responses to original purves tweet deliver

Reports suggest May disliked Justine Greening for being critical in cabinet meetings and anti-grammar schools. So she was essentially sacked for being too competent for the Tories.

— Frances Ryan (@DrFrancesRyan) January 9, 2018

> tesco value liddle

Rod Lidl

Brilliant ^

https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/2aeed6f2ac18e11087a01ef274e69fb298497706/95_410_3298_1978/master/3298.jpg?w=620&q=20&auto=format&usm=12&fit=max&dpr=2&s=37e6a908f2e5fc67a109a222fe1e8f50

White male ministers risk being unfairly 'hoofed out' in Theresa May's reshuffle, complains Philip Davies MP

wadda bunch xp

Shame that it was left waiting for the tap in tbh

whither the white male minister?

unbelievable

Philip Davies should be hoofed into the sun

otm.

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2017/feb/02/is-philip-davies-fit-to-be-an-mp

not gonna spoil the answer for anybody

Virgin Trains drops Daily Mail as it deems paper 'not compatible with our beliefs' https://t.co/ntkkKlb4HW

— Stop Funding Hate (@StopFundingHate) January 9, 2018

Save the Wh(ite m)ale Ball

You'd have to be pretty addled to suspect that May is shielding a feminist conspiracy, when she compromises for the men that won't budge and sacks the woman.

meanwhile virgin trains are cool with their grinning idiot owner personally attacking jeremy corbyn for the crime of telling the truth about not being able to find a seat

Ha “we don’t even sell many papers anyway so”

Daily Mail responds to Virgin Trains ban on selling the paper on-board its carriages https://t.co/aZyAEiRd58 pic.twitter.com/DL97VLbCRg

— Press Gazette (@pressgazette) January 9, 2018

ah the classic self-own defence, expertly deployed

Gove always looks like he's just received an unexpected prostate exam

re that cabinet pic above

two things re: cabinet photo - a) grudgingly impresses that the government has lasted this long as they all hate each other and have to cram in like that. I couldn’t handle that level of closeness with people I like!

b) who is fake Gove beside/behind May? I thought it was actually him until I saw him on the right side of the photo.

If they only sold seventy, then what's the point of having them on the train, taking up space etc?

being in Cameron's cabinet look like it was a right laugh

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/05/12/11/28957D6700000578-3078130-Mr_Cameron_told_his_ministers_that_the_Tories_are_now_the_real_p-a-18_1431427936191.jpg

who is fake Gove beside/behind May?

is it the same as beside david cameron sir jeremy heywood

feel like schools should maybe start teaching what "free speech" means and why it doesn't really exist in the UK anyway

This is more like it:

http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/corbyn-labour-community-campaign-unit-transform-the-labour-party-again-a8149886.html

Whether the Tories are in Government or not, the question on how to make the UK un-governable should they ever be in power -- and for the left to be stronger still should they not be...this is all developing, but its an excellent move.