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

not like i care what happens to these twits but dumping her in favour of his political career seems like nagl

particularly since his political career is likely to last for, at most, eight weeks

never make mind henry, there are plenty of other fash in the sea

"and make up with some hot monoracial sex"

fucking hell, need a "progressive eugenics" intervention here - before some diabolical creature is squeezed out!

make

xp obv

... the best part of breakin' up is when you're makin' up

twp but the p doesn't stand for Pele

god I'm never gonna get to be in charge of ruining universities at this rate

not with that attitude buddy

You'd think the idea of the party heading into existential crisis and electoral defeat might concentrate a few heads with an eye on the future

One or two, eg the otherwise pretty dimwitted Sajid Javid, appear to have had some kind of Damascene conversion over the last few months, but generally it looks like the Conservative Party has taken a long long at the situation and concluded that everyone under 40 in this country voted Labour because they were stupid. The Toby Young thing was just a case in point, a disastrous misreading of a changing mood that only served to further alienate the voters they'll need in the future.

yeah but that one Labour guy said kill Tories so it's 1-1

everyone under 40 in this country voted Labour because they were stupid

that was my reason for voting labour tbf

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DTlHc0YWAAA1Lr0.jpg

more like Eddie Izzn't, innit?

centrist dad of the year, now he's a wanker

not even a dad ffs

39,508 votes, wtf?

Got to admit one of my main motivations for maintaining Labour membership is just voting against that fucker every time he runs.

I'm sure he'll skulk back to the Lib Dems sooner or later

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/benefit-fraud-public-tip-offs-legal-action-police-no-evidence-dwp-work-pensions-department-a8144096.html

no data on how much of the 45m of fraud identified is eaten up investigating the 87% of fraudulent tip offs

tbf I'm sure a lot of people reporting to the Gestapo had their facts wrong too

it's just one of the small prices you pay for a "everybody polices everybody" kinda society

lol at 'fraudulent tip offs', i'm a headless chicken this morning, anyone who doesn't like it is getting reported

Around my area there is very much a prevalent "everybody polices everybody" society at work, grassing bastards get their windows bricked when they get exposed!

wd like to see names and addresses published of these dodgy tip-offs, to be sure.

lol and also the ones that were acted on ideally, in fact maybe especially those

We all have to pull our weight in May's Shared Society.

I'm waiting for the sharing bit tbh

I just spent the last few months informing on anyone who looked remotely like an illegal immigrant or a benefits cheat. I got a brick through my window and a more than average phone-bill. But you can't put a price on "doing your bit".

blockchain for grasses

NEW New Tory vice-chair Ben Bradley suggested unemployed should have vasectomieshttps://t.co/K2ILtnSeZx

— PoliticsHome (@politicshome) January 16, 2018

gold-standard opening para there:

A Conservative MP tasked by Theresa May with reconnecting the party with young people once called for the unemployed to have vasectomies to stop them having children.

Mr Bradley, 28, said: "I apologise for these posts. My time in politics has allowed me to mature and I now realise that this language is not appropriate."

In light of this story, I’m struggling to think of two more unfortunate tweets to have made today:

Genocide ey? Nice chap https://t.co/9VmmFKfedd

— Ben Bradley MP (@bbradleymp) January 16, 2018

Genocide ey? Nice chap https://t.co/9VmmFKfedd

— Ben Bradley MP (@bbradleymp) January 16, 2018

Yet another example of Labour's #hypocrisy and double standards - "rich people are the problem" says Labour MP who is actively covering up his extensive wealth and properties #LabourFail https://t.co/xa2j5KzY4p

— Ben Bradley MP (@bbradleymp) January 16, 2018

Second should have been

Ben's right, I'd string 'em both up

It was funny reading the SW response to the sacking of Mr 2 Homes. They were reporting it as "serious signs of [Corbyn] accommodating to the right and big business".

He said: "From a personal perspective I think it’s a terrible situation that an aspirational, hard-working 30-something looking to raise a family, build a career and do well could ever not be a Conservative.

"In my mind that’s what we as a party are all about; the party of opportunity and of aspiration.

"The fact that so many working people didn’t vote Conservative shows just how bad we are at ‘selling’ not just our policies, but our values."

I wonder if he believes the stuff he wrote in his blog about these families 'that have never worked a day in their life'. It's difficult to tell sometimes. Is it a hissing hatred of others or rather a willingness to slander them for profit?

lol owned

Theresa May's chief of staff doesn't realise what Google ads you see are based on your own browsing history.#Oops pic.twitter.com/5bOUd1REDA

— James Doleman (@jamesdoleman) January 16, 2018

wait wtf that's from five years ago

there's a guido fawkes one that's great too

Yeah, it got covered on HIGNFY xpost

Looks like there is a growing feat Interserve could go the way of Carillon, though their shares have bounced back this morning, following a 17% drop.

The Telegraph, etc, narrative is that he problem with both is not shareholders dividends, it’s that they are not able to charge the government enough to deliver on the projects they commit to - which seems to undermine the whole concept of ‘efficiency savings’ through private outsourcing.

every single criticism made of New Labour (not to mention the Conservatives) in real-time by people like Jeremy Corbyn is coming up as absolutely spot-on despite being characterized at the time as fringe opinions held by out-of-touch adherents to an outmoded ideology. every *clap* single *clap* one

regulatory capture of government by high finance? untenable housing bubble built on disastrous level of debt? reckless PFI contracts that hand profits to private industry even while they fail to deliver? war in iraq? etc etc etc etc - all the people pointing this stuff out were boring old farts who didn't understand modern economies. how many times do these things have to fail disastrously before the people behind them become bywords for the greedy profiteering that they represent? it's taking far too fucking long

in my darker moments i'm convinced that these things will continue to fail disastrously time after time right up until the point where the societal ramifications of climate change collapse society entirely, at which point the robber-barons who have caused it will pull up sticks and emigrate to mars, leaving the rest of us to drown

i'm trying to think what my lighter-moments mindset on this is and i'm at a bit of a loss tbh

i dunno, maybe some of us will get to taste robber-baron flesh before we have our brains dashed out by the local warlord's gang of mutant thugs

No, they’d rather do reds-under-the-bed stories about Momentum people getting elected to NEC positions, scant months after Momentum people delivered huge wins even to MPs on the technocratic side of the PLP. ARGH.

our brains dashed out by the local warlord's gang of mutant thugs

read this was "the local waterboard's gang of mutant thugs", which tells me i am by no means free of the effects of this stupid flu

how many times do these things have to fail disastrously before the people behind them become bywords for the greedy profiteering that they represent?

the great thing about the Friedmanite/neolib narrative is that anybody who challenges it or reports negatively about it publicly is by definition a fringe dinosaur who should stop using played out words like Neolib. suggest "pro-abyss" as a replacement.