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

Brexit: a play in two acts:

Today @Telegraph has a story on its front page saying the UK may ban plastic straws, with Michael Gove saying Brexit will make this easier.

It also has a leader inside complaining that the EU wants to ban plastic straws pic.twitter.com/lQ4cmIbkts

— William Wright (@Williamw1) February 23, 2018

I regret to inform you that Activate are at it again

Since Stormzy is such a big fan of socialism... when will he start leading by example and redistribute his own wealth?

— Activate UK (@ActivateBritain) February 23, 2018

should probably go in the Trenchant thread TBH

They're really, really poor at twitterlife aren't they/

The Scottish parliament committed, two weeks ago, to ban plastic straws by the end of 2019. As far as I know Scotland is still in the EU.

thats_not_how_the_force_works.gif

xpost

Leading Britain's Crusade

Thoroughly enjoyed chatting to @NickFerrariLBC this morning on @LBC

Do you agree that we should be able to privately express offensive views? pic.twitter.com/kiqsIU7dfg

— Jo Marney (@Jo_Marney) February 23, 2018

Lovely stainless-steel straws come with a natty brush to polish their innards

think i can guess how the Telegraph leader writer spends his lunchtime

lovely to see Activate UK rocking the same argument that Tressell ripped to bits 100+ years ago

Define "Privately"

Because it seems to involve posting said opinion on public areas without putting yr name on it.

Ugh, don’t know what’s worse: racist bitch Jo Marney or the sofa telly guest bookers giving her a platform (and appearance fees).

it’s the guest bookers

Yeah that was pretty straightforward tbh, those thousands of racists who'd do it for free

there's

Clear pattern. Seen it with Eddie Izzard, Anne Black and now Iain McNicol. Doesn't matter how long you've been in the Labour movement, or what you've contributed. If you're not a Corbynite, and didn't come in with Corbyn, you're nothing. Year Zero strategy.

— (((Dan Hodges))) (@DPJHodges) February 23, 2018

lol!

he also tweeted some centrists said McNicol was a red line that wouldn't be crossed, oh dear!

Maybe Eddie Izzard wasn't the best example to use there, Dan.

lol Conservative spokesman criticizing the Labour party's internal divisions

tbf on party democracy: a lot of members voted for Izzard, just not enough to get on him on the NEC. And it didn't happen because of sinister cultism or mind control, lots of people just can't stand the fucker and consider his politics way suspect.

that probably sounds like sinister cultism tbh, but I maintain that Izzard is a psychopath - I mean is it anyone's fault that he spent over a decade brown-nosing Blair and Brown and now has only 2 failed NEC elections to show for it.

Fuck the lot of 'em, don't recall any concern-trolling about longstanding Labour members when they tried to kick Corbyn out of the leadership

I was just thinking back to that moment when I heard the extremely condescending Corbyn profile on R4 when M Beckett became his unintentional kingmaker. I'm sure there was some mention of his brother, but it was academic because this was going be a 2 way race between Kendall and Cooper (some obscure law firm now operating above a shop in Wakefield).

http://cards.littleoak.com.au/197374_abc_bluebacks/029%20Howard%20Kendall.jpg http://cards.littleoak.com.au/196970_abc_greenbacks/lee_050_terry_cooper.jpg

fucking quality looking leftback there, at least in them days you got a week's notice if a player was going to turn around.

Iain McNichol also responsible for disenfranchising thousands of Labour members and supporters around both leadership elections, for egregious crimes such as liking Green Party tweets, but also keeping all the money those people paid in. Dick.

oh yeah, what an absolute tool. RIP!

i actually quite like some of matt's cartoons and also the comical little people he draws* HOWEVER this is also funny, as is the pompous response it has stirred up

https://twitter.com/horton_official/status/967159517556375553

*caveat: i will literally laugh at anything

oops sorry:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DWwKcipX4AEhWME.jpg

no sad upper normie me:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DWywdYWX0AAVhp6.jpg:large

I'm not what's going on here?

haha sorry: the telegraph's cartoonist "matt" is celebrating 30 years of being the telegraph's cartoonist "matt", and everyone (all politicians) were invited, most of them sending on a pro forma quote abt the high value of such cartooning etc etc

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/content/dam/news/2017/08/30/3108-MATT-GALLERY-WEB-P1-small_trans_NvBQzQNjv4BqqVzuuqpFlyLIwiB6NTmJwfSVWeZ_vEN7c6bHu2jJnT8.png

but declining an invitation because a cartoonist isn't funny enough is pretty funny.

exactly :)

ok, catching up!

I agree - it's a good way to reject the cartoonist. It's good not to join in with the establishment crowd.

The 'upper normie' person seems a scumbag. I am worried about his new idiom.

I have quite often enjoyed wine.

I've even enjoyed it while listening to Radiohead

"30 years of genius"

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DWzGru4U0AEnXx5.jpg

he is the grandson of v.s.pritchett

the Sam Bowman thing is a "joke" shurely?

Pouring one out for Matt and Ben Bradley.

Ian McNicol too. A good 24 hours for JC.

tbh i can't tell

Well fundamentally an upper normie is someone who ostentatiously doesn't like stuff that normies like (which is often mass popular culture), and Matt is stuff that normies like.

— Sam Bowman (@s8mb) February 23, 2018

Conservative Party Vice Chair Ben Bradley has apologised unreservedly for a libellous tweet about Jeremy Corbyn, pledged to never repeat the claims in any form, agreed to make a substantial donation to charities of the Labour Leader’s choosing and meet his legal costs.
Jeremy will be splitting the funds between a homeless charity and a foodbank in Mr Bradley’s constituency of Mansfield.

Mr Bradley’s apology, which he will also tweet and ask followers to retweet, says:

“On 19 February 2018 I made a seriously defamatory statement on my Twitter account, ‘Ben Bradley MP (@bbradleymp)’, about Jeremy Corbyn, alleging he sold British secrets to communist spies. I have since deleted the defamatory tweet. I have agreed to pay an undisclosed substantial sum of money to a charity of his choice, and I will also pay his legal costs.

“I fully accept that my statement was wholly untrue and false. I accept that I caused distress and upset to Jeremy Corbyn by my untrue and false allegations, suggesting he had betrayed his country by collaborating with foreign spies.

“I am very sorry for publishing this untrue and false statement and I have no hesitation in offering my unreserved and unconditional apology to Jeremy Corbyn for the distress I have caused him.”

The surest sign of a sad upper normie trying to show off - even more than liking Radiohead or claiming to enjoy wine - is someone who pretends not to like him.

> a foodbank in Mr Bradley’s constituency of Mansfield.

Genius

Mr Bradley’s apology, which he will also tweet and ask followers to retweet, says:

“On 19 February 2018 I made a seriously defamatory statement on my Twitter account, ‘Ben Bradley MP (@bbradleymp)’, about Jeremy Corbyn, alleging he sold British secrets to communist spies. I have since deleted the defamatory tweet. I have agreed to pay an undisclosed substantial sum of money to a charity of his choice, and I will also pay his legal costs.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2i3zrzyLOCw

Honestly, why on Earth would Corbyn want to join a Telegraph circle jerk for a mediocre cartoonist in this of all weeks?

to be fair matt is probably the least worst of political cartoonists

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/imageserver/image/methode%2Ftimes%2Fprod%2Fweb%2Fbin%2Ff1780158-2533-11e7-bc20-132b509ff5ce.jpg

(like comedians they are all very bad)

Yes, let's not forget the Telegraph has Blower - who will probably be described as a genius in a few years time.