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

And the link is to a fucking Express story too. Fucking maniacs.

what

the

fuck

claiming to be based abroad is one of the most common types of personal and corporate tax avoidance but iirc hmrc’s twitter is oddly devoid of cutesy threats despite benefit ‘fraud’ being a vanishingly small amount of money compared to the vast sums being stolen from the uk’s coffers by offshore tax havens

i sincerely hope somebody bombs those cunts

I have beautiful visions of accompanying a large mob into the offices of a select few institutions and smashing up literally every computer we find

Love is dead and all that remains is a huge punitive faceless bureaucracy.

HALentine's day as it were

https://d3gqasl9vmjfd8.cloudfront.net/b51b00ae-5f6e-476a-bd25-16017b9433d1.jpg

maybe they should just reform the power-sharing executive without the DUP

The Great Orator.

"We will continue to go to, mm, go on cheapo flights to, mm, stag parties in ancient cities where we will, mm, i'm sure we will continue to receive a warm welcome [trips over words, ruffles hair)" I particularly like the part slightly later on where he almost says "learn European Lavatories".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3-FBniMhMU

not included in this clip - a "joke" about dogging, a "joke" about sex tourism in Thailand and this exchange at the Q&A

Journalist - Foreign Secretary - what do you say to those people who say 'yet another speech from a Cabinet minister on Brexit but where is the clarity?'

Boris - The carrot?

Journalist - The clarity.

Boris - Clarity! OK. God. Carrot. Carrot. Well, as I say, I think you have an abundance of clarity in the Prime Minister's Lancaster House speech... And it can be good for carrots too, by the way, since you - well, you didn't actually mention carrots, but... we can take back control of our agricultural policies, and it may be that we can do wonderful things to, with, you know, our own regulations to, you know... promote organic carrots.

does he know he made a cunt of this or is he so shameless that he has no idea/knows but doesn't care?

He can't be using Farage-ist as a pejorative, when him and the all the far-right Cons owe so much to him.

he doesn't believe that words mean anything so why not

sorry corbyn-fans yr bearded idol is a COMMIE SPY

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DWB4aHQW4AELxi-.jpg:large

believe it or not, 32 years ago jeremy corbyn didn't think much of margaret thatcher and wasn't too keen on reagan either *clutches pearls*

meh! we all got penetrated by the Soviet Union back then, sometimes twice! Anyway, what about the shock story of the genocidal dictator and Thatcher.

Not quite gammon at the bottom there but close enough.

1986 was the height of the Cold War?

Love how he meets all these subversives out in the open in Portcullis House, clearly hiding in plain sight.

Corbs needs to sit down with Rupe and cut a deal, you never saw The Sun accuse Blair of being left wing.

then run off with his current wife :D

omg i was previoulsy unaware of that beautiful story

the "hamilton" of our times will be an opera based on the life of wendi deng iirc

HAL will also feature:

http://chineseposters.net/images/e13-713.jpg

Jezza & Jerry!

that robert colville thread is amazing

omg i was previoulsy unaware of that beautiful story

count yrself lucky, the thought of blair's grinning mug bearing down on mrs murdoch in the throes of passion has periodically haunted me ever since the story came out

some serious self owns in his own replies

Maybe, but the point is that it's the thing his mind leaps to - part of the general view that Everything Bad Comes From America

— Robert Colvile (@rcolvile) February 15, 2018

(To the people replying re Jihadi John and Bin Laden that this is a mainstream position. It may be, but it's not the first thing you think of...)

— Robert Colvile (@rcolvile) February 15, 2018

rowing back on ur support for extra judicial killing is it robert?

4) Claimed that the main problem with the Soviet Union was its 'inadequate industrial base' and decision to get in an arms race with the US

— Robert Colvile (@rcolvile) February 15, 2018

i mean show me the lie

(awaiting mordy to burst into the thread and label me a tankie now)

reading through these 39 (thirty-nine!) posts is a welcome reminder that corbyn is right and good a lot of the time tbh

Isn’t this just an abbreviated version of the infamous 100 times list that ran on Guido a few weeks ago, except with more “yeah but” in the responses?

So anyway there’s Home Rule gone again.

basically everything in that thread that's *actually* stuff corbyn said or believes is honestly good as hell

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddlbsgSh5ls&t=6s

I thought everyone agreed that this Red Jezza, the terrorist's friend, stuff had absolutely no bearing on the last election and just doesn't work as an anti-Corbyn tactic?

well the logical inference from that would be that the right have run out of anti-corbyn ammunition and are desperately rehashing material in the absence of anything new to say but that can't be correct shirley

bah why hasn't my hilarious 39 steps youtube gag worked

google's hilarity filter must have intervened for public safety reasons

my favourite genre of tweet: stephen bush owning clowns

It is ahistorical in the extreme to describe the ANC as the non-extremist side. You are perhaps thinking of the Progressive Party, or talking of a country of which you know little.

— Stephen Bush (@stephenkb) February 15, 2018

ya dudes keep going down the rabbit hole of 'actually corbyn was committed to the anti-apartheid cause... in a bad way' lol

Is that like that 'premature antifascism' that they charged Chaplin with re "The Great Dictator"

That they've been trying to dig dirt on Corbz for 3 years now, and this is the best they can do, says he is actually cleaner than m'fucking neutrogena.

I’ve always thought if the rw press found anything truly ruining - dodgy associations, being some kind of cheat or perv, that kind of thing - they’d have released it the weekend before the last GE.

Paradox of labour left being so marginalized for so long is when they do get power they've hardly racked up any real skeletons due to previous distance from power

Great sentence bananaman, keep it up champ

Was just about to defend u there but it was u attacking

That they've been trying to dig dirt on Corbz for 3 years now, and this is the best they can do, says he is actually cleaner than m'fucking neutrogena.

And yet 30% of Sun readers voted Labour in 2017. You have to love that.

In the run-up to the election, Andrew Gilligan was ploughing though the British Library newspaper archive, reading dozens of left wing publications from the 70s, 80s and 90s, and he obviously couldn't find much. Lovely guy though... joek, he's an utter prick.

I figure the percentage of Sun-reading Labour voters has always been similar, it's not like people read it for the news

Leftits

Early advert in there somewhere - The Sun is for hep cats