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

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

Whoopps

https://youtu.be/FiIRfyP22AY

finally - a jobs plan!

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2018/feb/17/brexit-uk-thousands-customs-netherlands

^^absence of announcements in ref stuff this in like july 2016 = a lot of the reason i concluded may et al hadn't a clue what they were up to

Henry Bolton has about three months left as leader of UKIP imo and i can’t see Farage staying away from the job forever.

Out by two months, he has been sacked. Suzanne Evans clearly,wants Farage back, despite loathing him.

acting leader seems good

In 1992 Parliament made HM Queen a ‘citizen of the EU’. To make the Sovereign subject to a foreign power was literally Treason. It still is

— Gerard Batten MEP (@GerardBattenMEP) December 14, 2017

gerard batshit mep

I thought that name sounded familiar, turns out he's the guy who proposed that muslims living in britain be required to sign a "code of conduct"

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/feb/04/ukip-mep-gerard-batten-muslims-sign-charter-rejecting-violence

With Ukip hoping to top the polls in May's European elections, Batten is top of the party's MEP candidate list for London, having passed a round of psychometric testing to make sure his views were acceptable.

putting the psycho in psychometric

i usually feel like Philip Inman's a pretty sussed dude (when it comes to economics) so reading this was slightly deflating

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2018/feb/17/labour-dreaming-uk-wants-socialism-privatisation

note the slightly lamenting tone. not sure he's reading this right tho

talks about a section of the population that tend to the Right then concludes with "the public don't want Corbynism" which is patently cobblers

all this about how over-50s vote, didn't Labour score a major boost in youth turnout? can't see why this wouldn't be even more pronounced next time around.

recently there was a report that the youth vote was slightly overstated and the most significant surge was amongst late 20's to 40's voters or something.

This is John Howsam, a 76-year-old former UKIP parliamentary candidate from Northampton. Asked if he really thinks MI6 have planted Henry Bolton to destroy UKIP he said "definitely. Absolutely" pic.twitter.com/YAQwpUZ2Oy

— Dan Bloom (@danbloom1) February 17, 2018

gammonspiracy

obviously true love is sometimes inexplicable but the story that jo marney (25) can't keep her hands off bolton (54) does have a honeytrappish feel to it, despite shared interest in massive racism

(with regard to MI6 there's also a colossal LOLWHY feel to it too, of course)

Liberal metropolitan Establishment determined to subvert The People's Racism