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

very good news

Ken can FO to Russia Times, there are already enough blueLabour tools trying to smear Corbyn with antisemitism slurs every week without that fool supplying the ammo.

We got there in the end - a remarkable national effort. Thank you. https://t.co/8D23AKbuwH

— George Osborne (@George_Osborne) March 1, 2018

It was the right thing to do https://t.co/d4g2fFma23

— David Cameron (@David_Cameron) March 1, 2018

Pricks.

theresa’s Pub tribute act premiership continues - she’s doing the old 5 tests routine.

remarkable effort of self-deception by Gideon tbf, probably the coke helps.

lol I thought that was a fake Osborne account at first, amazing to see ppl still reppin' for austerity in 2018

i don't think the Georges of this world are suddenly gonna start tweeting "BIG UP THE WELFARE STATE"

No I get that, I'd just imagine that (like much of the European pro-austerity right) they'd be conspicously silent on this matter for a while.

George still hopes to be Prime Minister though so I imagine he wants to highlight his successes

and it's a way of life, a programme without limits until the State is at least Nozickianly minimal, gotta keep the message out there

Theresa May: if Labour wins at the next election “I’d be breaking rocks in John McDonnell’s re-education camp on the Isle of Man" https://t.co/yYeEIBxZ5Q pic.twitter.com/ktgKZz6UHH

— i newspaper (@theipaper) March 1, 2018

she's trying to convince us that McDonnell is soft on gulags

Is that supposed to discourage people from voting labour

i was gonna say

great news everyone. the lesser NS is getting paywalled

The Isle of Man, meh, that would be a fucking holiday camp, way too temperate.

i'm not sure it'd be productive to employ them or feed them or house them tbh

Theresa May > Theresa May's husband > Paradise Papers > Isle of Man

get 2 work momentum thugs

At least if we have an ex Soviet spy in no 10 his pal Putin could lease some Siberia to us, and spare us even having to think about the Isle of Shit!

Getting quite enough Siberia as things stand right now thanks.

all former tory ministers to be tried at the tynwald and then strapped to the laxey wheel so that they can spend their retirement rotating, groaning and taking in idyllic views of a tax haven whilst staying in touch with a proud bit of heritage

The Isle of Man, meh, that would be a fucking holiday camp, way too temperate.

Muckle Flugga, Hirta, North Rona, all preferable.

True fact: Adult film actor TT Boy is so named because he hails from the Isle of Man, home of the famous motorcycle race

http://unst.org/web/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Muckle-Flugga.-Image-Griffon.jpg

guys all i'm proposing is we take away all their assets and repatriate them to Singapore

Just pointing out that public flogging is legal on the Isle of Man.

we're back to talking about No Deal is Better Than a Bad Deal again. This drives me nuts. Of course it is! But no deal is so bad, the bad deal would have to be apocalyptically bad to be worse than it. The EU's not going to do that, it's just going to be worse than the Tories want.

I can't believe her speech was re-heated tripe. Was fully expecting a game-changer at this point!

not meant meant as a sarcastic response to Stet

kinda cool that the stars aligned to bring us the worst imaginable crew of idiots to arrange for the country to exit the eu

but trade wars are good, didn't you hear?

fucking manchildren's endless movies

PM’s speech is a bit like someone who used to say they wanted to move out of their home to a shiny new one, but end up moving into the attic of the house they lived in all along. Except this time they still pay for the bills while following the rules set by others.

— Nick Clegg (@nick_clegg) March 2, 2018

no keep going with that metaphor nick i think it was just about to get really good

like being savaged by a dead Geoffrey Howe

lol my twitter circles overlap with a poster who believes that clegg is the greatest political leader the uk never had and that him losing his seat is the big political tragedy of our age

RIP Cleggbama, at least you managed to moderate the Tories harsher kill-the-disabled impulses.

The FT has an interview with John McDonnell!
https://ft.com/content/d9c2b1be-1c10-11e8-aaca-4574d7dabfb6

Some great quotes in there.

Would be interested in a choice quote, cos these buggers are pay-walled now and I'm all out of coffee!

spent a minute or two idly scrolling down nick clegg’s twitter timeline there and now i have cancer

I was able to read it via this link

https://amp.ft.com/content/d9c2b1be-1c10-11e8-aaca-4574d7dabfb6?__twitter_impression=true

still pay-walled for me, they obv haven't seen my FTSE index!

yeah neither link work for me even in incognito mode.

xxxp

Clegg does threads ffs, he's exhausting enough within the 280 limit.

reading clegg's threads is like watching BBCQT if it was on all day every day, be kinder to yourselves

Sorry - the twitter link Simon posted is the one I trimmed without thinking. 🤦🏻‍♀️

His plaque for the hunger strikers is getting some traction from the usual crowd on Twitter but they’ve been on that line for nearly three years now. The author has some interesting outtakes that didn’t make the piece in this thread:

I called former GMB boss Paul Kenny because he was named in 2007 as a friend of McDonnell: this is what he told me. pic.twitter.com/fROa9QHupv

— Jim Pickard (@PickardJE) March 2, 2018

This link might work, or just search for the headline on twitter

Fancy some bedtime reading? Read this profile of @johnmcdonnellMP in the @FT - a long read, but a good one. https://t.co/wYN6pThjM3

— Luke Pollard MP (@LukePollard) March 2, 2018

In keeping with these turbulent political times, he is currently reading Imperium, the Robert Harris book about Cicero and the Roman Republic. Asked whom he empathises with in it, he replies: “The poor guy Cicero employs to write all this up.”

legend

weirdly the link worked for me, i even instapapered it w no problem

caek's link works, but the others didn't from this end.

Described as “Torvill and Dean” in one paragraph, and then someone describing Corbyn as an idle dosser to McDonnell's Stakhanovite. It's a very colourful piece for sure!