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

Apparently Geoff Jewdas now has more followers on everyone's favourite mainstream news filter Twitter than the Board of Deputies. And they can't ALL be Dacrebots. XP!

hah good work!

It's very heartening that this May government are so incompetent that even when it looks like they have won, you just have to wait a couple of news cycles for the inevitable own goals and self-defeat to take it's course. After the USA + EU zone started evicting the Russian diplomats it looked like she would look strong and perhaps be in a winning situation...

Re: jewdas, I was reminded of mark s writing this a few months back:

we're going to be seeing a lot more young people, highly political, who've been chatting shit abt TOWIE and whatever all their lives, who will honestly just dance rings round the gerontocracy facing them.

(which isn’t to say they’re not serious and can argue robustly or whatever, but their trolling and engagement is strong. The outlets challenging them haven’t got a clue how to handle them.)

Obvious parallel: the Parkland students.

that toryboypierce headline is seriously one of the highlights of this year so far

are Jewdas youngsters?

anyone under 35 seems like a youngster to me these days!

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— jewdⒶs // יידהודה (@geoffreyjewdas) April 4, 2018

Boris, "I am the United Kingdom."

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-43639801

Thing is, when Boris said that they had definitely confirmed evidence that it came from Russia, I guessed he was lying. It sounded like all his other confirmed lies.

But then again, we need to have an example of Boris telling us something we don't know that turns out to be true.

Does anybody have one?

In his response, Mr Johnson told the interviewer that "people from Porton Down" were "absolutely categorical", adding: "I asked the guy myself. I said 'are you sure?', and he said 'there's no doubt'."

This, from the German TV interview last month, felt particularly Trump-like.

james ball............. don't tweet

This was linked to on the 'is this antisemitism' thread but worth putting here too: http://www.brin.ac.uk/2017/religious-affiliation-and-party-choice-at-the-2017-general-election/

Why no data on Hindus or Sikhs, I wonder.

been reduced to other/miscellaneous? I think I remember a joke about that in The Simpsons.

"But then again, we need to have an example of Boris telling us something we don't know that turns out to be true."

Imagine a world where BJ would say something prescient, revelatory and also honest. So not happening, his level of education was far too shit to make him that good!

The Dream Of Rome (2006) is a book by Boris Johnson, in which he discusses how the Roman Empire achieved political and cultural unity in Europe, and compares it to the failure of the European Union to do the same.[1] It was aired as a BBC television documentary prior to its release as a book.

I remember this being on at the time but only saw a bit of it, didn't realise the agenda shoehorning even at that point.

been reduced to other/miscellaneous?

Yet both bigger than the Jewish community.

... and the Baptists, and more Hindus than Methodists.

I don't feel so bad now about some very shoddy work I did on an Anglican monastic church back in '10. One that Theresa May's dad had some history at.

the catholic labour vote in scotland could surely be helped if corbyn would only sing some rebs down the brazen head on glasgow derby day, we know you know the words, jez

http://www.brin.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Catholics-in-E-and-S.png

I would v much like some/any of Corbyn's critics to name other pols/figureheads who have been consistently critical of Israel and are, according to them, inarguably *not* anti-semitic.

I agree that it's incongruous that Judaism gets its own column in the survey and British Sikhs and Hindus don't.

I have often thought that Sikhs have become curiously 'the forgotten minority' in Britain. When I was young they seemed more culturally prominent.

It is curious that Methodism is so pro-Con, as historically Methodism was supposed to be a foundation of Labour.

those bloody Anglicans are a rum bunch as well, and they probably upset loads of Tory homeowners with the ancient chancel repair liability laws de-valuing their precious houses!

I'm wondering if the Church of Scotland figures are of members as opposed to adherents or churchgoers - I don't think the Church of England has membership, does it?

No.

I’d guess it is just self-identification with all of them.

Tory vote for the Church of Scotland seems too high tbh.

Maybe not, they got 28.6% of the vote, I suppose.

http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandpolicy/files/2017/05/1.png

the massive pre-Thatcher/Hillsborough Tory support in Liverpool that was obv a sectarian thing, and the only relatively recent collapse of the LibDem vote there, was quite an interesting piece of voting history.

Ruth Davidson was criticised for visiting orange lodges during various campaigns, no? This is the top result for that, but I make no claims for the source.
https://www.commonspace.scot/articles/10971/tories-silent-growing-evidence-anti-irish-and-anti-catholic-bigotry-inside-party

http://images4.static-bluray.com/reviews/4245_5.jpg
"Tory councillor for Dunblane and Bridge of Allan Alastair Majury has pledged to undergo anti-sectarianism training"

Being made to watch the last Old Firm game I see.

wtf does anti-sectarianism training involve, i wonder

Bowler hats strictly prohibited.

I hope there is a reality show about this, sponsored by Kit Kat Orange.

a voigt-kampff test but all the questions are about the pope

as a team building exercise they have to go and brick the windows of Catholic + C+E churches together.

oops Church of Scotland I should have said.

maybe they just redirect the bigotry so you go in anti-catholic, come out as a raging islamophobe

Major news on the 2017 Manchester bomber and UK govt support for groups connected to him. Would perhaps be lead news in the media but only on another planet. See next 4 tweets pic.twitter.com/dOPqPT73lv

— Mark Curtis (@markcurtis30) April 4, 2018

"anti sectarianism training" - because bigotry is just a blip in yr ratiocination

Maybe somebody shd have a word with Prevent about T May while we're on

clearly a national security threat: mixing with terrorists and with a FS who is the biggest casual warmonger in Europe since Ribbentrop!

she definitely has radicalized friends at least

An ode to @jeremycorbyn . Will some of the labour MP's and Lords grow a pair and get him OUT pic.twitter.com/ETU8ojle3R

— Lord Sugar (@Lord_Sugar) April 5, 2018

who is worse. lord sugar or lady mone

it scans at least

Barely

who is worse. lord sugar or lady mone

this is like asking whether you prefer bowel or liver cancer