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

oof

the eyes really follow you round the room

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5c/Official_portrait_of_Mr_Jeremy_Hunt_crop_2.jpg/220px-Official_portrait_of_Mr_Jeremy_Hunt_crop_2.jpg

it's the kind of face you would pull on the front cover of your album if you were a member of a 3rd tier punk act in 1981

'jeremy cunt' would be a great name for a postcard-punk-band bass player tbf

or Robin Scott of "M" (xpost)

when Trump puts nose in to UK matters, even some of the most gruesomly indefensible Tories can pretend to be heroes .. just for one day.

whoever's inserted the current picture in Jeremy Hunt's wiki page deserves special commendation

that's just his official member of parliament photo

maybe should've took it after the coke had worn off

and generally encouraging everyone in germany-at-large to have a stake in its unification

ya not being quite able to annihilate the nascent SPD, turning them into 'social patriots' proved the next bext thing. Speaking of which how are the Noskes getting on with those coalition negotiations lol

Gammon thinkpiece ahoy!

http://www.huckmagazine.com/perspectives/opinion-perspectives/defence-calling-people-gammon/

"When you gaze into the gammon, the gammon also gazes into you."

"BBC Question Time producers are rumoured to be in possession of a “gammon radar”"

w - w - wHAT! I don't believe it!

rly tempted to start a 77 thraed where we can post pictures of the gammoniest members of our facebook feeds tbh

Baldness is optional?

last week's QT was shocking, even for QT. Gammon man shouts loudly over panel members during first few questions, Dimblebly not only doesn't tell him to pipe down or eject him, as he should, instead asks him to expand on his point and gets back to him for further elaboration after the panel have made their point. Same guy subsequently shouts over a Spanish audience member while she's explaining that she couldn't vote in the referendum without being told to pipe down by DD (that job being left to another audience member)

Turns out the shouting guy had the third question. Dimblebly refers to him by name - George Stoppard - knowing who he was and where he was sitting (in other words, not doing his search for the audience for someone called "George Stoppard"...) and refers to the fact that they had heard from him before but he has the next question.

The guy's question, word, for word...

"Given recent revelations of a series of innocent men being accused of rape and almost losing their liberty, is it time to name and shame false-accusers"

That guy really liked interrupting women, whether on the panel or in the audience. But he was too thin and ginge to be proper gammon - I detected check shirt post-mod so a possible WELLEND.

I’m fully expecting a Centrist Dad-style reaction to this, where I’m told to stop alienating the gammon as Labour needs the votes of gammon to win a majority.

Too thin, young and posh tbh. (xp)

The Telegraph is looking more like a conspiracy theorist Polish right wing tabloid this morning https://t.co/0jKuHSRMKE

— Ola Cichowlas (@olacicho) February 8, 2018

So glad the two major conservative broadsheets of record are either pushing Orban conspiracy theories or going full trans-panic / anti-academic culture war these days.

I hope they are carrying that Freemasons anti-discrimination ad as well.

Kinder gentler FBPE twitter going hard on Labour’s polling dropping. It’s not that polls are sacrosanct but I don’t understand how Tory support is still so high?

Granted, nothing but talking has actually happened yet, but still.

Gammonization. What is FPBE?

The Centrist Borg.

Check out the response to any Corbyn tweet and you’ll see them. Doesn’t matter what he’s talking about.

It’s not that polls are sacrosanct but I don’t understand how Tory support is still so high?

Not just still so high, but actually seems to have risen (albeit slightly) in almost all the recent polls. Even if the 'still so high' bit is due to people obstinately refusing to change their minds, what on earth has happened in the last couple of weeks or so to make their support actually go up?

Labour have revealed their true colours bullying that poor woman out of a job

The last aggregator I saw was from two days ago and had Labour about a point ahead in the polls on average. The only really significant event in the last few days has been the next stage in the UKIP implosion which I guess would benefit the Tories more than Labour at this stage, even if the numbers we're talking about are too small to make that much of a difference.

There are probably enough committed Brexiters, anti-Corbynites and die-hard Tory voters to keep their support around 40% whatever happens, at least until Britain actually leaves the EU.

it does Labour no harm to be away from centre stage at the moment while the Tories murder each other, I wouldn't worry until we get into another "election in the offing" situation

gammon, a knuckle-dragging Faragiste xenophobe, is definitely the slang of the year so far. Comes from the flesh-tone of pressured blood, but there's surely a link to the early 19C criminal sense, at least as the target of the transitive verb: pic.twitter.com/M7p2gVXzfU

— Jonathon Green (@MisterSlang) February 8, 2018

(JG is the great lexicographer of british slang ancient and modern: also a very sweet guy)

wow!

(Did ILXors coin ‘gammon’ or...)

i am currently staying in a mid-level hotel in fuerteventura with a bunch of other brits and the gammon levels are dangerously high

overheard a couple of cockney-sounding retired oil-business types talking at dinner last night about how well-travelled they were but they both agreed they’d never travel to ‘muslim countries’ nowadays

oh and one of them had never been to scotland

can't remember if deep fried everything is halal or not

there’s plenty of halal deep-friers round our way - scots and asians united in pursuit of heart disease, makes me feel all braveheart

all the more reason for gammonistas to stay away then

gammon is haram iirc

Another 'hilarious' definitely real person on Twitter: https://twitter.com/FleetwoodTerryO

"(Did ILXors coin ‘gammon’ or...)"

The search function reveals you referred to Cameron as "old shiny gammon face" in 2014!

Some classic gammon on QT tonight, also some insight into the question of how Tory support is still so high - the answer is Brexit.

I am also watching QT - the gammon with shoe polish in his hair and the one before with the characteristic war cry about cutting the foreign aid budget, smdh

Terry Christian is still breathing, it seems.

gammon is quality patter, even if it's currently being rinsed to fuck

Hard to avoid it when watching QT from Darlington.

Actually there wasn't too much of it until the foreign aid guy popped, there was one fellow who flirted with it, during the question on equal pay for women, but didn't quite pass mustard, sorry, muster.

popped up - tho popped will do as he was a bit like a boil.

it does Labour no harm to be away from centre stage at the moment while the Tories murder each other, I wouldn't worry until we get into another "election in the offing" situation

the YouGov numbers have been bobbing a few points either way since the election, it's pretty desperate that some people (and centrists) are seizing on it swinging towards towards them this time as a significant event. If the Spring local election wipe-out in London is going to be as bad for them as some are suggesting, that is what they should really be concerned about in the short term.

can't believe centrists are opportunist

The precise wording of the EU documentation on Northern Ireland is going to cause havoc in the Tory Party and probably the DUP as well. It's going to be difficult to imagine the Moggites standing for it.

Ulster will fight and Ulster will be right wing

"the Moggites" sounds like a name for some subterranean civilisation imagined by H. G. Wells, which is about right.