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

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.

they should have included a "pinned tweet" demand

lol at tweeting his apology at 10:30 on a saturday night, what a shitweasel

this has been a sweet little victory, but I'm hoping the anticipated London rout in the May local elections is going to deliver a seriously hard body blow against them. It doesn't seem to matter how wrong or useless these teflon cunts are so far, until the electorate turns against them.

this is beautiful

i've tweeted circa four times in my life and this retweet is about the fifth.

Frank Field on TV just now looking like he needs a pineapple garnish.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9b/L4dKl7Aq.jpg/220px-L4dKl7Aq.jpg https://www.ripleys.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Fake-mummy.jpg

He's no Ched Man

apparently today's Mail claims that Labour's support for the customs union will "plunge the Brexit process into chaos".

cough.

the odds of a 2018 election have drifted out to 4/1 recently. I'm hoping that market might dramatically change this week.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DW89yqLX0AEoy1u.jpg
(Quote from "The Witchfinder General: A Political Odyssey" by Joyce Gould)

Be a happy day when he finally disappears from public life.

It's so heartening that Frank Field has given such long service to the PLP and the people of Birkenhead. Now please fuck off and die.

people who vote for Frank Field are mentally ill, not only at the time when they vote for him

from the mail:

Jeremy Corbyn was accused of 'selling snake oil' today as he prepares to set out plans that would keep Britain shackled to the EU.

In his biggest speech on Brexit since the referendum, the Labour leader will say he is ready to sacrifice the UK's ability to strike new trade deals in return for staying in a customs union with the EU.

He is also expected to make clear that free movement rules should continue almost unchanged - despite pressure to curb immigration having been one of the main issues in the 2016 vote.

The shift by Labour has already caused fury among the party's Brexiteers, and was branded nakedly political by Tories, as it paves the way for a titanic Commons showdown that could throw the government into turmoil.

oh noes!

Keep politics out of politics.

Blue Labour are disingenuously trying to talk Corbyn into the 2nd Ref trap, which they would prefer to the possibility of Labour ousting the Tories. Such commitment to their true cause is impressive - but they need to learn all referenda are bad imo, and W Germany ditched them for a good reason. I never want to see another one again, ever!

<crying eagle wrapped in Saltire>

lol, soz about the soapbox, just had a caffeine rush after doing my first vigorous exercise for weeks.

I realise it's not incisive, but it's worth noting that "keep politics out of politics" is definitely a Tory plan - not just shifting the Overton window so that things like "immigrants r bad" / "the 1970s were a wasteland" are agreed by all, but instilling a sense of "we're all in this together", a sepia glow of Darkest Hour (er, so to speak) where this is all What We're Going Through and the only question is "Who do you trust to Keep Going?".

Ah no, you're fine - I think one of the minor threads here is that this grinding mess will be used to hammer any further Independence attempts on the part of the UK countries.

Even independence referendums are wrong imo. But I don't think there is a simple solution to ridding Scotland and The North of the sectarian bigotry. But getting shut of them Saxe-Coburg parasites might be a good start.

Norn irn needs a braveheart is all

S'why I keep repping for a decent cuchulainn netflix

"he carries the trait of ‘ríastrad’, in which he undergoes a sort of distortion, becoming an unrecognizable monster who knows neither friend nor foe."

the inspiration for the Hulk maybe.

Read into it, it's powerful