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

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I occasionally worked with someone who was in his late 30's but destined to be classic Gammon. He had a Range Rover, did dry stone walling, all types of groundworks and owned 2 Aberdeen Angus cows. He used to earn extra "going out killing things at night" and keep a photographic record of everything he shot on his phone, because he earned a bit from the National Trust for this. He was tea-total but had a very ruddy complexion from the amount of red meat he ate. He showed me his Xmas FB pic once of him posing with a severed deer's head with a "one of santa's reindeers is missing" caption. He was very funny tbh, but loved the Tories and racism.

― calzino, Friday, February 2, 2018 10:13 AM (two hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this post makes me extremely homesick

God, it was from Grantham last night, it was as bad as Yorkshire. There seem to be a hella lot of shouty Tory wankers around these days.

There are 11 constituencies in Lincolnshire and 8 of those are Tory. wiki notes that “The rural part of the seat and the historical town of Stamford outweigh any Labour votes in Grantham and it is normally a safely Conservative seat.”

Before the boundaries were redrawn, they had never elected a single Labour MP. Looking at the electoral history, the seat got more BNP votes than UKIP in 2010, ugh.

He used to earn extra "going out killing things at night" and keep a photographic record of everything he shot on his phone, because he earned a bit from the National Trust for this

???

I think he shot lots of foxes mainly, and said the NT paid him on a price work basis. He might have been making that bit up tho, and just loved shooting beasts. I didn't think of questioning his integrity, when you are out on the Marsden Moors and he's got a stonemason's hammer in his hand, you keep it polite!

Some men just enjoy hunting and killing things, I knew a guy whose Dad was like that - this was in Paisley mind you, not Idaho.

Well, this fellow used to hunt deers in Scotland for his holidays, that was like his equivalent of Ibiza or Newquay.

was the equivalent of Nookie

several harrowell blogposts leading to a danger (with luck) averted:

https://t.co/IWdTxCqmL7 > might be time to declare victory on this after @SadiqKhan's announcement the other day. Back in 2013 I blogged about the frankly dodgy team behind estate regeneration

— Alex Harrowell (@yorksranter) February 3, 2018

https://t.co/L6Mubyn2oV > in January 2014 I fleshed out how it was going to work and why tenants should be terrified

— Alex Harrowell (@yorksranter) February 3, 2018

https://t.co/1hQKB8hWRS > their spokesman, an ex-Conservative Central Office staffer, said I was an "obsessive" for saying they were a bunch of Tories

— Alex Harrowell (@yorksranter) February 3, 2018

https://t.co/pP8iUTQFtZ > in the 2015 election campaign, I was after them again

— Alex Harrowell (@yorksranter) February 3, 2018

Now there are decent safeguards in place against this scheme I can stop caring what Nicholas Boys-Smith thinks about anything.

— Alex Harrowell (@yorksranter) February 3, 2018

Claire Kober will be on Marr tomorrow, explaining why she isn't a Tory and the tragic lack of "sensible politics" that brought her down.

it's sort of amazing how she genuinely doesn't appear to get it

I think she will say that the hard left is full of sexists and misogynists and this sends a worrying message to women thinking of going into politics.

I think she will be right that there are loads of "leftist" misogynists but I can't help but wonder if she's maybe diverting attention

i don't actually feel she's going to be in it for the long haul (ie i think the outlets currently embracing her to make a point will cast her aside really quite quickly)

She’s been in the Times today on those same points. Strange how all of the people rushing to amplify her opinion don’t seen keen to hear from Aditya Chakrabortty, David Lammy or any of the would-be affected tenants though. Just something about it...

50/50 on Kober being cast aside or being given her own LBC show.

We saw her Decca Aitkenhead interview today, right? DA is far from my favourite journalist but she made shot shrift of the idea that Kober had been the victim of sexist bullying.

While a controversial ex-council leader can expect to be the subject of coverage and interviews, this is extremely orchestrated and it would be very interesting to see who’s helping out with publicity and access here.

Might be a clue:

The corporate lobbyists are terrified of a Labour Party that can’t be bought pic.twitter.com/PIMI9lwDx4

— Matt Zarb-Cousin (@mattzarb) February 3, 2018

https://www.vice.com/en_uk/article/43avj3/the-london-lobbyist-with-ties-to-billions-of-pounds-of-gentrification

quelle surprise

terrapins are usually good.

I will die of shock if Marr asks her about Terrapin.

no doubt she'll be bricking it.

"We have been warning government from about 2013/14 that, with our financial position, we couldn't cope with the levels of cuts we were facing." So says the leader of a Tory council.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-northamptonshire-42925660.

Thankfully, Helen Lewis has thought long and hard about this whole thing, and graced the debate with the take it truly deserves:

Finally worked out why the Haringey Development Vehicle Row has become so totemic. It’s because it encapsulates the Corbynsceptics’ fear of what a Corbyn government would mean: virtuous paralysis.

— Helen Lewis (@helenlewis) February 3, 2018

To win the PR battle, the opponents of HDV should push hard what *their* solution to Haringey’s huge housing waiting list is. Make clear they want to do something, just not this.

— Helen Lewis (@helenlewis) February 3, 2018

Worth also considering Zoe Williams’ reaction to those HL tweets - HL thought she was onto a winner describing Zoe’s position as ‘piety’ and Zoe publicly fed her into a wood chipper.

One of the questions I occasionally ask myself is why the ever-loving fuck would the New Statesman ever hire never mind promote someone happy to begin their career as a Daily Mail trainee?

that seems to be the NS's whole steez nowadays

"We did a podcast"

god don't even

i don't know what the right thread for this would be so fuck it, i'm here

my uber-boss insists on communicating via a vlog every week and the vanity of it...i can read anything you need to say in 30 secs, how dare you insist that i sit thru 4 minutes of you empathising in front of a camera, i can literally feel the life being sucked out of me while i do it

lol

i mean i do actually sympathise but

i know, life goes on

Does helen lewis think the PR battle over the HDV is still in the balance lol

Momentum aren't even working class and at a meeting somebody sung menacing Sting lyrics at poor embattled Claire. Thousands of people on council house waiting lists, they need 600 grand flats not ideological dogma blah blah.

Someone with a 4-bed house in Muswell Hill isn’t working-class either, so what was her point?

getting into the class-ist jibe game is a useful distraction from specious pro-gentrification arguments, I suppose. Fuck these people!

Of course the entire council should have been sacked after they came up with this (enormous image warning):

http://www.thetottenhamindependent.co.uk/resources/images/4251780/

real working class people are never working class, they're all racist Blairites, we love that shit

i meant we're never leftist but y'know, hangover

The Sunday Times are on a real tear re: Momentum and the ‘hard left’ atm.

Three cheers and all the alcohol to the advertising agency who made Haringey’s new corporate identity out of RED TAPE. If Claire Kober had final sign-off on that, she’s far more stupid than previously imagined.

Lmao, like that scene in yes minister where they're considering an ad campaign to promote the civil service- "how about, red tape... binds the nation together"

I wonder if it's the same jerk-off agency that did the Olympics logo.

i like its solid functional/institutional colour and bow-legged self-satisfaction:
https://media.glassdoor.com/sqll/802409/london-borough-of-hackney-squarelogo-1437118040087.png

the 2015 PR week piece mocking the haringey -- including its price, £86,000 -- is oddly coy abt the agency that came up with it: https://www.prweek.com/article/1365407/haringey-council-rebrand-ridiculed-childish

One resident told a newspaper: "The logo looks like it was made by a child with a marker pen." Another said: "It looks like a sign for Nandos"

^^0/2 for resident critical skills there IMO

"Haringey is more than just a place - it is an attitude"

well hackney is more than an attitude, it is a revolutionary morality and a fully effective praxis *sticks tongue out*

https://londonist.com/london/opinion/every-single-london-borough-logo-critiqued - all of them here in one place.

Meanwhile, this bill is being introduced next week:
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/theresa-proposes-new-law-would-11964577

Protesters who disrupted a speech by Tory Jacob Rees-Mogg would face up to 12 months in jail under a new law proposed by Theresa May.

On Tuesday the PM will unveil plans to create a new offence of intimidation in public life in a speech to mark 100 years of votes for women.

She will say: “British democracy has always been robust and oppositional but a line is crossed when disagreement mutates into intimidation.”

The new law, due to come in early next year, will also cover threats made on social media.

JR-M should have brought his nanny to the meeting.

On Tuesday the PM will unveil plans to create a new offence of intimidation in public life in a speech to mark 100 years of votes for women.

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