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

that's racist now NickB, soz https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2018/05/is-gammon-racist/560507/

it's true that sending pork products to afghanistan seems a little... culturally insensitive, at the very least

The website, created with the high-end estate agent consultancy Knight Frank and the architects Ryder Architecture, tells potential builders they do not need to worry about affordable housing lowering the tone of the development as the legally required affordable units can be housed in a separate development on the main hospital site.

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2018/may/18/royal-free-secretly-planning-to-develop-100-year-old-hospital-into-luxury-flats

we are surely only months away from the first 'affordable housing' development being housed underground so the eloi don't have to sully themselves by looking upon the morlocks

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/may/18/royal-wedding-windsor-police-seize-rough-sleepers-bus

He claimed police had lured them out of a private car park “saying they wanted to have a word, and can you bring the bus down the road. They were all smiley-faced. But, when we got out of the view of the public that is when they seized it”.

Thames Valley Police's senior management duly added to the list.

this week's fun-packed AQ just starting including JRM, Lammy + the Johnson sister. No prize for guessing who gets the most uninterrupted talk time tonight.

christ

you’re a braver man than i

I was advised by a professional to seek out some appropriate support groups earlier today, I didn't tell them I follow UK politics by listening to shit like this as well as self-medicating!

The Johnson sister once made herself known to the ushers in charge of reserved seats at my friend’s literary event by telling them “I’m a VIP!”

The Johnson Sister, Thackeray's second best novel

open for a surprise

How should one dress for a formal occasion on a warm day? #FashionTipsWithMaugham pic.twitter.com/JKKs1jGQDu

— Jo Maugham QC (@JolyonMaugham) May 19, 2018

I saw on twitter that they've hoisted the carcass of her majesty the lizard in an appropriate poison green outfit.

(unfollowing all ppl throwing this vile spectacle in my face today)

my total lack of interest in the royals has left me unprepared for the despair I feel today

Given the sunshine and the FA Cup final as well the levels of public drunkeness in London are going to be through the fucking roof today.

good luck London

I've headed to the shires of Beckenham for cricket, safer that way

just flicked the radio on by accident, did i really hear somebody quoting Martin Luther King at a wedding for a scion of the family of some of the biggest colonial fuckpigs in history?

they tried to depoliticise the wedding by not inviting any politos, but then started rounding up homeless people like stray dogs. But yeah pugly fascist brat marrying a mixed race celeb really does remind one of the MLK spirit, not that I'd complain if he ended the same way tbf.

might as well leave twitter entirely because even the people i thought had kept some sanity are all monarchists now, it seems.

only good thing i heard is that the bishop had the guts to bring up slavery before this church full of evil doers.

In St Andrews riday it was the American tourists insisting on it being on TV. I didn't meet any other locals who cared. Which woulkd be fine, but U was sitting in the sun reading a book and they kept trying to talk to me about it.

https://media.newyorker.com/photos/5b0014cb0ed5166c3807606b/master/w_774,c_limit/unnamed-6.jpg

I can't get enough of the new royal couple!!!

https://dl.dropbox.com/s/7pvv383lmlffkiy/Adobe_20180519_080444.png?dl=0

Given the sunshine and the FA Cup final as well the levels of public drunkeness in London are going to be through the fucking roof today.

― Matt DC, Saturday, May 19, 2018 7:17 AM (four hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i love this post

Sunday Times plumbing new depths yesterday: fashionable hip fascists in New Balance trainers and skinny jeans "breathing new life into the far right". What next? a Jim Dowson column? The legitimate concerns of Thomas Mair, interviewed from prison?

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Ddp_ErMV0AEQTO5.jpg

some rock band w/ multiple ILM threads, pictured yesterday....

it's weird it's almost like he's used this as an excuse to give a public space to the views of fascists

I thought even our "scrupulously neutral" monarchy had decided fascism was finished!

Andrew Gilligan. Vile man.

tbf to gilligan, he's got form when it comes to his sources later committing suicide, let's hope these fascist fucks take some inspiration from david kelly

someone (obv not putting in enough effort) tried to run him over in a road rage incident last month, maybe not the best way of criticising the recent Britain First style of editorial content at The Times - but it'll do for me!

https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/tories-membership-nandos-discount-card_uk_5affdaf7e4b0463cdba2039b

the free market at work!

“These are early discussions – we don’t know how many businesses would want to take part, but we’re keen to give members more in return for their membership,” the insider added.

we should start a pool, poster closest to the correct answer wins a nando's discount card

Given the sunshine and the FA Cup final as well the levels of public drunkeness in London are going to be through the fucking roof today.

― Matt DC, Saturday, May 19, 2018 7:17 AM (four hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i love this post

Matt DC OTM. My Saturday evening, as mentioned on FB:

Walking down the street, I noticed sudden clapping and cries of "YES!" and "my guy!" from ppl on the sidewalk. I turn to find the reason - a dude had just vomited out of his car, with major chunks dripping down the vehicle.

I think I saw a little girl with her family waving a Union Jack, tourists, but, other than that, nothing. Oh yes, a Chelsea fan or two. And some Man Utd fans making the long journey home, by tube.

"Figures published this month showed that there were 124,000 Conservative members"

I don't believe their membership is even close to half of that, If this figure was put to some scrutiny I reckon it would be exposed as a massive overestimation, they are too embarrassed to quote real membership numbers.

Not to mention the fact that half of them will be dead in the next 5 years.

double doses of discounted fried chicken washed down with Portuguese lager might help finish some of the old fuckers off! Well that is if they will deign to eat that "foreign muck".

and it'll be another 18 months before anyone notices xp

tory party members have been getting discounts at certain places for years. hotel chocolat and blackwells are sposed to do them iirc

tory party members have been getting discounts at certain places for years

it's called 'tax dodging' iirc

Jesus Christ, the tweet about Thornberry.

Lewisham East's Blairite CLP chair @iMcKenzied tells the left not to campaign in the by-election or it'll put off voters.

Under Corbyn's leadership in 2017, Labour win 67.9% in Lewisham East, 10 points higher than in Blair's landslide victory in 1997 and the highest in history.

— Owen Jones🌹 (@OwenJones84) May 20, 2018

(This is a thread, sorry if unclear)

and also the pricks defending it

still so much liquidating to do, it never stops

god i have to keep away from politics

can't tell dishonesty from abject stupidity any more

As a resident of that constituency I've never heard of this guy before but wow at that Thornberry tweet.

The underlying point is moronic as well, an ultra-safe Labour seat where the Tories tried to close the A&E department not so long ago, Labour could not campaign at all and still win.

He’s the chair of Lewisham East CLP.

Nando's tell Theresa May: piri piri off. https://t.co/2n8Cw08n6q

— Aditya Chakrabortty (@chakrabortty) May 21, 2018

lol! gtf in Nando's.

nandos, welcome to the #resistance