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

looking him up on Google I see he died in 2005

this has genuinely shaken me to my core, i would have put money on having seen a new austin cartoon within the last six months at the very least

https://independentaustralia.net/_lib/slir/w500/https://independentaustralia.net/sc/DavidAustin.jpg

can't work out which one's meant to be dave mustaine

maybe they're recycling them

once as tragedy twice as tragedy

My father-figure void has never been more acute pic.twitter.com/mBUYaAMe8Z

— COUNTERPLAN (@deep_beige) March 9, 2018

omg

spokesperson for PM imo

hee

A Momentum spokesperson said: "The only 'great fraud' are the suggestions that Momentum members don't believe in parliamentary democracy or tell the Leader of the Labour party what to do. The Gang of Four our members prefer is the post-punk pride of Leeds."

"the gang of four our members (correctly) prefer are jiang qing, zhang chunqiao, yao wenyuan and wang hongwen"

how is corbz team so good at this

i guess they have the confidence of knowing that corbyn can get away with a level of informality in official communications that more hidebound politicians can't - feels like they've been testing the waters for a while now and they now feel able to go full dgaf when the criticism they're responding to warrants it

mcdonnell good this morning on today imo

kept prefacing things with "as we move into government" - not subtle but it's necessary

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-43364336

Lansman drops his bid for the general secretary post.

https://www.theguardian.com/money/2018/mar/12/london-property-prices-plunge-as-brexit-effect-deepens

#lexit

see, it's all up-sides

jesus bring some of that over here pls

Lets get Brexit signed and sealed y'all.

strong and stable property collapse be grand

and I'm here for it.

I'm too busy trying to figure out whereabouts in Islington the photo accompanying the article was taken.

Though it probably isn't Islington.

Myddleton Square, maybe?

No, good guess though.

Second guess would be Highbury Place though the band of white across the top might not be right.

My initial thought was it was around the corner from Mark S - but no. There are a fair few little squares though.

Bit of detective work tells me it's Milner Square.

They've painted that door then - probably to throw off tourists.

The report coming out at the same time as data showing that high-end rentals are increasing possibly suggests that a lot of the financial sector ppl who had been driving the property boom are hedging their bets for now.

This is Stalybridge Labour Club today flying the hammer and sickle. Its been up for 24 hours. Disgraceful!! Care to comment @jeremycorbyn , @OwenJones84 , @jreynoldsMP, @UKLabour ?? pic.twitter.com/ENSAfJhena

— Mike Chapman (@mikechapmanUK) March 9, 2018

They are trying to wind up Mordy in Stalybridge today!

full communism and sky sports at the stalybridge labour club, nice work lads

"a tankard of ale, please"

"what did you just call me?"

ahahahaha

my guess wd have been gibson square -- famous for being the start or end point of the first route you learn in THE KNOWLEDGE, the map that london cabbies had to internalise -- which is one south from milner

(the upper layer of windows is wrong for gibson tho)

lol calzino

Meanwhile:

Suspect package is understood to have been sent to Mohammad Yasin, Labour MP for Bedford. Police thought to be concerned it is linked to a series of recent threatening letters to Muslims. Two taken to hospital as a precaution

— Henry Zeffman (@hzeffman) March 12, 2018

The Russian on the today programme this morning was extraordinary:

http://m.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/vitaly-milonov-britain-hitler_uk_5aa79253e4b009b705d5c112

no Shakespeare cockroach no credibility

bunch of my leftist friends running non-stop "Sergei Skripal is a Tory false flag operation" bits on Facebook, i think i might stop caring about politics

couldn't be the tories, i don't think they have any skripals

giving the tories way too much credit tbh

Piss up / brewery etc

i know it's funny but i find it pretty depressing. these are intelligent people and they're totally in the shouty hysterical meme bubble. i can't even understand people on the left with this weird defensiveness about Putin and RT and the rest, "my enemy's enemy" taken to this insane paranoid bullshit mirror-image of the alt right level. i like my friends but i think i'm gonna have to block about 6 people's posts from ever being visible again.

I was thinking this might allow May to look strong for a couple of news cycles, and then with all sorts of potentially damaging risk and uncertainty as it unfolds. Especially with May's track record of being such a dynamic leader and the possibility of more intra-party squabbling over the response. A total zed minus of a false flag conspiracy then.

don't mind me i'm just building myself up to leaving the internet forever, gotta stoke the flames.

i can't even understand people on the left with this weird defensiveness about Putin and RT and the rest, "my enemy's enemy" taken to this insane paranoid bullshit mirror-image of the alt right level

Yeah, it's a real cause for concern. I mentioned previously on this thread that a lot of ppl my age who're naive w/ good leftist tendencies have fallen for RT's Brave Critics of the West shtick and are now p much indoctrinated (Sharivari I believe made the point that RT hasn't been overtly pro-Putin for a while and I certainly don't check it enough to deny that - but ppl who read a lot of it do seem to invariably come out of it with a "yay putin" mindset).

Re the recent Putin doc, if this does not put those segments of the hard left off him, I’m not sure what will:

Having watched the whole thing, can report that it is worth watching if only for Jack Straw saying that Blair and Putin got on well because they’re so similar. https://t.co/K1q2YzpEZT

— Will Davies (@davies_will) March 14, 2018

Delighted to say I don't know any pro-Putin idiots.

a - professor - friend of mine posted some stuff about Agent Orange during the Vietnam War like this was a serious counter-argument to mystery nerve gas attacks

ask them if george galloway has hacked their account.

I get the impulse to highlight atrocities committed by Our Guys because they're less in the public conciousness but when your reaction to any nasty shit not done by the USA/UK is to whataboutery you're no longer helping anything.

You'd think the fact that they're cheering for the same guy the alt-right cheers for would be some cause for reflection but nah.