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

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.

Matt's innocuous really.

Matt doesn't really draw famous people right? Just these homogeneous glum every(white)men/would-be gammonistas with big long nose and overbite. That's kind of a relief.

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/7d/70/9d/7d709dc7a72c4b88e3248eb1a6c91325.jpg

have political cartoons ever been any good? I actually lolled at this tbh!

too few explanatory labels imo

badly constructed but it has farting arseholes!

this is what a political cartoon should look like!

http://i39.tinypic.com/x20ym8.jpg

look at that young square jawed, serpentine Tatchell, he is quite square jawed but not Desperate Dan!

my favourite unsavoury element is the furthest one away, with a hammer and sickle for a nose

the nose is transmitting state secrets to Soviet agents obv

political cartoonists since forever seem to be very wary of subtlety!

twitter really is the best social network. feels like every day these days some right wing idiot gets absolutely bantered off. there's so many people with names like leninfucker420 and hangmarineA who have more sophisticated analyses than many people whose job it is to cover this stuff.

(twitter is still bad tho)

it is the worst

(apart from leninfucker420, they're ok)

that Cummings cartoon is very proto-Ben Garrison

is the unsavoury element labelled 'extremists' supposed to be Militant's Ted Grant?

https://marxismos.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/pictures_ted_grant_1_0.gif

cool that you can libel the leader of the opposition and still keep your job in theresa may’s cabinet, just a v chill place to work

feels like i could spend days basking in this sweet schadenfreude ben bradley has gifted me

On the 19th of February I made a defamatory statement about @jeremycorbyn. I have apologised to Mr Corbyn and here is the complete text of my apology. Please retweet. pic.twitter.com/6JZc8O9E82

— Ben Bradley MP (@bbradleymp) February 24, 2018

"Please retweet."

dying, must have been fucking great to be on the labour legal team that got to write this

bradley's trying to bury it on his feed under a whole bunch of retweets

Getting publicly owned by Corbz and he not even PM yet.