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

the legendary Norman "house-trained polecat" Tebbit

Jerkoff Humphrys remarked to Patten earlier "well you were the last governor of China". Maybe just a misspeak but this is often happening and is frequently offensive and shitty, or he is just embarrassing himself. I wouldn't trust him to go on a B+Q trip unaccompanied, lest he terrorise the checkout with his balls hanging out or something "senior" like that.

It looks like there may finally be some kind of smoking-gun evidence showing how the leave campiagns co-operated:

Emergency debate in parliament today re Vote Leave.
MPs: this Google drive is key evidence.
Set up by VL to co-ordinate BeLeave's content. On right: the deletion log.
March 1, Electoral Commission opened investigation.
March 17, Vote Leave deleted itself from 140 files pic.twitter.com/7QkgrojWPU

— Carole Cadwalladr (@carolecadwalla) March 27, 2018

Dominic Cummings was substantially punching above his weight with Shahmir Sanni. It must have been DC's scintillating personality.

You mean Stephen Parkinson, no?

I listened to most of that 4 hour (!) testimony today. Interesting stuff. I loved when an mp asked Chris Wylie if he wasn’t just a failed Alexander Nix, and Wylie pointed out that he was in the UK on a tier 1 exceptional talent visa so no, he didn’t think he’d failed.

he sounds like a really useful engine.

Let’s see if Amber Rudd or her boss pulls some vindictive visa shit with Chris Wylie - I wouldn’t put it past either of them.

yes, gyac! i'm getting confused.

This is a terrific read: https://www.lrb.co.uk/v40/n07/james-meek/nhs-sos

In some ways it fills in the detail of what we know - mapping out what the crisis at both health and care services look like. The ending is very powerful, and its a culmination of the number of angles this piece covered, because it isn't just a matter of funding it properly.

Pundits: Tough questions for jeremey corbyn, both personal and organisational, over anti-semitism in labour, there's no easy way for him to take the moral high ground

Alan Sugar: Hold my beer

I can't remember Sugar sharing shopped pics of JRM next to Hitler after he was caught attending a dinner hosted by actual real pro-Hitler, Neo-Nazis, but getting into thing is so counter-productive. People tweeting pics of 30's Tories next to Hitler in response to this are complete bloody eejits.

Wooooooaaah, Lord Sugar
How come you meme so good

quit buzzing yr tits off cos Palace are winning:p

A bad year when we don't beat liverpool. Cancel order for mug if imago tears

possibility of millwall getting in the playoffs suddenly much scarier than palace surviving tbh

there needs to be a concerted effort to prevent this at all costs, even Russian help would be appreciated!

Premier league : embarassing to have those tinpot croydon wankers and their twatty fans clinging on for 5 years tbh

Millwall : Hold my beer

ah kids there's no way Fulham haven't got this

That's what I thought last year, they looked unstoppable and then choked bigtime.

You can’t discuss London soccer teams in here, this is the anti-semitism thread.

ffs might to have cancel my membership now Izzard is on the NEC.

Now we know the real reason Corbyn was dragging his heels over this woman.

I'd presume the next nearest beaten candidate from the last NEC election is auto choice when an elected committee member stands down, or something like that. They should have got an Izzard Clause in or something, the fucking humanity!

say what you want about Eddie Izzard

I wish people would slag him off for being a fucking nauseating personality and a Blairite rather than anything else.

Forget Cambridge Analytica, I’m sure his attempts to represent Remain knocked 5% off the vote.

It doesn’t speak well of the health of the right of the party when he was their best choice for NEC representation.

Really honoured to now represent almost 600,000 members on the national executive of @UKLabour - at last the 21st century version of the Socialist party I joined 44 years ago pic.twitter.com/53ot5DMpjO

— Jon Lansman (@jonlansman) January 15, 2018

Which isn’t to say I’m not glad Shawcroft is gone, because I am.

"I’m sure his attempts to represent Remain knocked 5% off the vote."

gross underestimation there imo

he kept pushing me towards Leave right to the death

well maybe between him Darling/Blair/Brown/Gedolf about 10% of the Remain vote was annihilated.

and that was just the Tory campaign

Xp vastly unfair on Brown to lump him in with the rest. I really liked the short film he made which made a rare positive case for Remain.

I can vaguely recall a less impressive bit of campaigning by him, but maybe he didn't have his morning blast of Arctic Monkeys that day!

That was so mocked at the time but I read a thing recently that gives it a bit more context:

here’s Damian McBride explaining the widely ridiculed Gordon Brown/Arctic Monkeys answer pic.twitter.com/RjeAmHKQPF

— Jim Pickard (@PickardJE) March 8, 2018

If he'd've said "fuck that shit I only listen to Toru Takemitsu and power electronics" that could never have happened

tbh Corbyn made a similar tit out of himself at Prenton Park, and even though the crowd lapped it up he looked an absolute arse. But some slack cut there because he isn't Broon for starters!

Forget Cambridge Analytica, I’m sure his attempts to represent Remain knocked 5% off the vote.

Yes. I'm pretty sure Izzard's appearance on QT the week prior to the vote had a huge effect. Wanker.

That self-indulgent speedfreak style no content psychobabble, which seems to make up 99% of his act isn't actually an act. The cunt just talks like that all the time.

I don't know if I misheard, but I think there was just a chorus of "Oh Jeremy Corbyn" at the Joshua/Parker fight!

Lot of anti-Semites in then.

I thought I also saw a spectral Riefenstahl ghost behind one of the cameras looking annoyed and disappointed, so who knows!

there were Jeremy Corbyn chants at the Everton/Liverpool games yesterday as well. Earlier on BBC radio after running a piece on the Times reportage of what the fucked-up wombats on FB post - shockah, there was a soundclip of the Joshua fight with a Corbyn chant going on in the background. And they made no reference to it at all even though it was a constant during the fight.

I was Anthony Joshua not Jeremy Corbyn they were singing, saw a clip of Some Lads singing it before the fight.

ah, they sang at it the last Joshua fight is why I thought it was JC, it did sound like it to me but I'm probably slightly obsessed with all matters: bring down Tory scum.

me in the Onestop this morning.

"that'll be £3.80"

"yeah, I totally agree that Theresa May ought to be skinned alive and fed to feral dogs"

on message. i like it.

No worries, lads...

On Twitter, some prominent Labour supporters welcomed Izzard’s appointment. Musician Billy Bragg tweeted: “Christine Shawcroft is not an antisemite. She made a serious error of judgement, but parties that hope to form governments must expect to be held to higher standards. I campaigned with Eddie Izzard against the BNP in Barking and I welcome him to the NEC.”

Actor Tony Robinson also gave his backing, saying that Izzard was “a free spirit”.

ugh! double dose of Baldrick + Billy Bragg smugness, is anything more sick-making?

well, yes. Eddie Izzard is the answer!

god how much do i hate Tony Robinson

no surprise that Lib Dem enthusiast Billy Bragg is backing Izzard, nor that he wheels out his anti-nazi credentials to justify his pro-neolib credentials.

meanwhile, a multi-millionaire property developer doesn't like the Labour party any more. quel cauchemar.

i mean this is hard because if i see one more "but the Tories are massive racists so nobody on the Left can ever be bad or wrong ever" posts on Facebook i'm gonna start unfriending peeps but on the other hand i think we need to keep shaking the tree until all the rotten nuts have dropped to the ground and we can run a big fucking roller over the lot of them