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

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

jo marney (25) can't keep her hands off bolton (54)

Jesus man

more from gerard batshit mep, who seems v good value

Ukip’s interim leader, Gerard Batten, has reiterated his belief that Islam is a “death cult” and called for Muslims to be asked to sign a document renouncing parts of the Qur’an, in remarks that risk pushing the beleaguered party even further from the mainstream.

Asked about calling Islam a death cult on his personal blog, he said: “What I wrote there about Islam is factually and historically true, and anybody that cares to look at the history of Islam over the last 1,400 years will see that that is true.

“It was propagated by invasion, by violence and intimidation. And if you look at every continent in the world where you have this belief, then you have violence. It glorifies death. They believe in propagating their religion by killing other people and martyring themselves and going and getting their 72 virgins.”

The idea of a ban on building new mosques was his personal opinion, Batten said, and he would not necessarily seek to make it Ukip policy.

invasion, violence and intimidation very much not on the cards when the sun never set on the british empire, of course

some folk still moaning about the Ottoman Empire's 17th century territorial gains!

the conquistadors, a great bunch of lads

Christians not at all fixated on death then

no u see islam believes that your deeds here on earth will be rewarded after death by the one true god, whose word existed before all things, and who created humans in his image, and who revealed his gospel through jesus, who was born of the virgin mary

and christianity believes uh o shit

abraham has a lot to answer for tbh

The Catholic Church has a lot to answer for as well. Some of those fuckers from the Artane Industrial School in recent history make Savile seem a benign p/t nonce.

this thread currently always opens at bolton's o-face, bo-face if you will

re-e-wind, when the bolt says jizz ejecta

bo_okmark

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DWV3bx_X4AYnLd-.jpg

for the first time in my life i understand Liberalism

If someone had explained earlier that Liberalism was a smug brylcreem tosser in a C+A suit I would have voted for the scruffy cunt who looks like he's on m-cat much sooner.

Is his arm all right?

Five Liberals And IT

Meanwhile IDIOT MAY idiotically distinguishing between "students and taxpayers" again.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2018/feb/19/david-davis-brexit-britain-mad-max

"It'll be more like Children of Men"

(was sleepy when i saw the liberal poster on twitter and brought it here: not too tired to think it wd be better framed via an "IT ME!" joke but too tired to frame it)

also what is the thing rushing part him? did he just miss his train? was is lenin on that train, TO THE FINLAND STATION PERHAPS?

that's the winds of change iirc

"is Lenin on the train" no doubt fifties teen slang for some unspeakable filth

Also a Stump lyric iirc.

Omg, May making Phillip Schofield/Holly Willoughby combo look like 2 Brian Waldens in a bad moods. They were just handing her out bunches of kittens and asking her what her favourite colour is and she was falling to pieces.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2018/feb/19/theresa-may-phillip-schofield-this-morning-sofa-student-loans?CMP=share_btn_tw

“Has he betrayed his country?” asks @afneil after claim from defence secretary about the Labour leader

"Jeremy Corbyn, I think, is a grave danger to this country because of the ideas in which he believes and what that would mean..." @SteveBakerHW

#bbcdp pic.twitter.com/Foay2XphNZ

— BBC Daily Politics and Sunday Politics (@daily_politics) February 21, 2018

Neil is terrible usually but this should be the tenor of all responsible coverage of this nonsense..

"I've got the govt on the ropes here and you've just interrupted.."

was quite amusing as well.

once in a blue moon neil decides to get his teeth into something and he's really not bad at it when he does

sometimes that scruffy old brillo-pad that was quite useless at cleaning the dishes, might be worth one more use before you chuck it in the bin.

steve baker looks and sounds like fucking beaker the muppet

Omg Neil was absolutely spot on

fucking beaker the muppet

*meeeeep*

neil's interviews of party leaders in the last election campaign were quite good as well, in my memory of them

That "back in your box" to the Labour muppet was straight out of Scum

idly wondering here whether neil -- who of course is and was a malignant actor in many ways, back to his sunday times days -- nevertheless feels a fair amount of professional contempt for what newspapers have become, compared to even a quarter century ago, in re professionalism and, well, what journalism used to be (obviously this is much over-romanticised, but the slope of degradation really is a distinct downwards slope). the newspaper group he was head of after he left rthe sunday times -- admittedly a barclay bros holding -- did not thrive in the changing era…

also he massively fell out with murdoch in the mid-90s and i don't believe that rift was ever papered over

(i know this was a politician not a press baron he was roasting, but the sheer feebleness of the story is plainly apparent to him: it offends his professional pride if not his basic politics?)

What on earth was Gwynne, the wet lettuce, thinking of by interrupting him ffs? That moment when A N is shutting down this nonsense in a such an authoritative fashion - and you interrupt him?

because politicians are stupid and he was stupidly trying to parrot his standard stupid messages

Yes, also I think Neil is occasionally riled by the stupidity of politicians he has to deal with, no matter what party they represent, who wouldn't be?

yeah who is that labour twonk, somehow managing to come out worst out of that haha

Andrew Gwynne, who's probably not an evil person or anything but he often seems like a bullied child + out of his depth on tv. During the last election campaign Boris dismissed him as a "big girl's blouse" on live tv and he didn't have any comeback. Sometimes you need more than weak soundbites read off a bloody card.