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

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casually wafting away a fart

ooh i just had a safeguarding warning this week about Generation Identity

Generation Cunts amirite?

it's the undone zipper that's more worrying tbh xp

Dan Hodges is defending Nick Timothy(!), who he says has been “hounded off Twitter” by the hard left (rather than his own incompetence).

I know we're saying "peak lib dem" a lot these days but peak lib dem pic.twitter.com/axFWQLN38U

— Crowsa Luxemburg (@quendergeer) April 20, 2018

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wait did he not run away because somebody amply demonstrated he's a fucking liar?

Yeah he was hounded off by the hard left mainstream media doing their job for once.

i want to live in a world where i can pelt nick timothy with rotten eggs with no fear of comeback

he can't moan about being no-platformed and become a martyr, if he took the ball home of his own accord! the fucking dickhead!

He's probably deleted it out of embarrassment and being so uniquely terrible at his chosen career path.

I mean you’d think that but he went from one of the biggest political misjudgements ever to a career as a political commentator within a few weeks, so...

No no he was HOUNDED OFF TWITTER you monsters have you no SYMPATHY?

WHAT ABOUT HIS HUMAN RIGHTS?

Dunno how you can say all journalists are posh when Nick Timothy got comprehensively schooled

— Here's what I reckon: (@angryaboutbikes) April 20, 2018

I like the elegant simplicity of this one:

Could be worse, could be hounded out of the country you've lived in all your life https://t.co/5C6J8ETJbM

— Dawn Foster (@DawnHFoster) April 20, 2018

I miss the old politics, where you would be civil to the people denying cancer treatment to citizens in order to mollify racists.

fkn fire our journalist class into the sun already.

according to the front page of bbc news, none of this is happening.

I know this government latterly has been kind of resilient but it feels like there’s a resignation in the offing soon. when do we think rudd might go? is may at risk even? in a more benign context she would have gone already surely

I forgot she stood in for May in the party leader Brexit debates - and then ended up with a majority of two men and a dog in Nick Timothy's General Election.

probably need to roll with the punches until locals out the way. must be painful at CPHQ rn

Matt made me grimlol

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"That is what is going on at the moment. I didn't expect when I took on this voluntary cross-party role for my wife to be sent by a Labour Marxist anti-Semite a dead bird through the post."

It seems John Mann was lying in Parliament the other day. The dead bird incident was a whole 3 years pre-Corbyn and was "the action of disgruntled Labour member Roger Dyas-Elliott, who felt he had been unfairly barred from standing for a council seat later won by Mr Mann's wife."

can we just post the best of all the absolute witlesssness that’s been going around on twitter this week in response to owen jones claim that journalism is a middle class cabal

excuse me while I suffocate from irony

One of the reasons I love journalism is that it really is meritocratic. If you can write or edit (and you'd be surprised how relatively rare those abilities are) you generally tend to make it. Have known many posh kids who rocked up due to connections, were useless, and vanished

— Robert Colvile (@rcolvile) April 21, 2018

oh it turns out loads of them are real sons and daughters of toil, never seen so much grit and determination, lols!

OJ's comment completely backed up by All-Party Parliamentary Group on Social Mobility paper, yep thought it would be.

david allen green’s thread was amazing

More like Robert LOLvile.

Fixed: Have known many posh kids who rocked up due to connections, were useless, and vanished either got the job anyway or walked into another one.

TBF this is more likely if you’re a man....

Private school + multimillionaire parents + country house = posh kids
Private school + millionaire parents + four bed house in Islington = ‘normal’

Any of these people have anything to say when Aditya Chakrabortty was attacked as posh because he went to school in Edmonton? Or even about Owen Jones having Churchill’s grandson call him a “shitweasel” on Twitter only yesterday? Thought not. Brutal tone deafness from the media here.

Did Aditya go to Latimer? If so, good on him. Half of North London tries to get their kids in there - I know of a few people whose parents sent them to Habs when they weren’t offered places there.

This is a bit like actual aristos calling Corbyn a posh kid.

i thought Edmonton was in Canada London is confusing

I dunno anything about schools but 2 of my friends lived in Edmonton for years and the idea of someone being called posh for going to school there is extremely bizarre.

I think anyone claiming that their particular profession or trade is a complete meritocracy are rather delusional, unless they are out there in the expanding "brutal meritocracy" wild west of employment, where there isn't much nepotism at work for shit jobs that no sane person would ever want. Even in the building trades there is loads of nepotism going on, but people do like to believe in their own story of hard bloody graft that got them to where they are etc!

to be fair a lot of print journalism seems like a race to the bottom so in that sense it's a kind of meritocracy

Edmonton is a poor area and it’s where Chakrabortty grew up and has written about extensively. The “AH-HA! You are a posh fraud!” stuff is because he went to the local grammar school - Latymer. It’s not posh, per se, but is selective and is pretty much like many other grammar schools in that it gives poor kids an opportunity to have a solid education outside of the comp system but they’re outnumbered by the children of sharp-elbowed middle-class ppl - and it also hives off a lot of good teachers who would otherwise potentially be spread across other local schools. He has never disputed that it has given him an advantage iirc.

I better remind my niece from a one-parent family on the Bradley Mills Estate that she's now posh cos she's at the same Grammar school Jo Cox went to!

Going to school at all is posh imo

iirc you're only posh if you're smart. that also makes you gay.

^ gets it

when i were a lad you left school, went straight down daily telegraph news desk and that was that – and you were lucky to have that!

— joe (@cillanoir) April 21, 2018

This is exceptionally bad and really bleakly is more reactionary than the manifesto at a time when there's an opening. https://t.co/693BF4pnrl

— Tom Gann (@Tom_Gann) April 22, 2018

I didn't watch this painful shit, but it seems like Emily Thornberry thinks Hostile Environment was ok in principle. FFS I thought she was supposed to be one of the good ones.

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Ironic that now she needs sacking for shameless pandering to racist white van men

Looked at the transcript and its not as awful. She abstained from the vote on the Immigration act. I think she is useful and can listen so I wouldn't sack just yet, not least because Labour have very little to work with.

Labour and the Tories have gone hand-in-hand with these policies and it will take a long time to de-toxify the politics -- it may not even be possible.

Was she still in the shadow cabinet when this bill went chugging through? There were only 6 Labour MPs who voted against it (but quite a few abstentions).

She abstained from the vote on the Immigration act.