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

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

> Sunday Times plumbing new depths yesterday...

there was also this:

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/tory-mps-prepare-for-snap-autumn-election-as-theresa-may-hit-by-brexit-deadlock-3ppzg9l3r

"Tory MPs prepare for snap autumn election as Theresa May hit by Brexit deadlock"

is she going to get rid of the traitors again?

leadership is doing the same things over and over again and expecting different results

I think she might get some, in fairness.

love Michael Sheen

"Margaret Thatcher wanted to take them down."

Actor @michaelsheen, who's from Port Talbot, reflects on why the mining closures were a "war on a way of living", in the latest Ways to Change the World podcast. pic.twitter.com/p6lg16bE7l

— Channel 4 News (@Channel4News) May 20, 2018

https://www.theonion.com/im-not-locked-into-this-5-75-30-year-f-r-m-with-you-y-1819584180

I'm not like those other loan applicants that sit at your feet, sniveling and begging for money. I'm loco. I don't give a fuck. Look into my eyes and tell me what you see. Yeah, I'm one crazy, money-borrowing son of a bitch.

sorry, that made more sense in the context of Theresa's election gambit

love Michael Sheen

yeah he seems like a really good dude, i like him a lot

theresa's election gambit appears to be essentially 'suicide by cop'

i hope these stories haunt the absolute fucking ghouls responsible for grenfell every second from now until their dying day

The family of one of the people who died in the Grenfell Tower fire has played harrowing audio of his last recorded words on the first day of the long-awaited public inquiry into the disaster.

Mohamed Neda, a Kabul-born chauffeur who lived on the top floor in flat 205, called his loved ones as the fire took hold and left a message in Dari, an Afghan language, which said: “Goodbye. We are now leaving this world. Goodbye. I hope I haven’t disappointed you. Goodbye to all.”

The father of Logan Gomes, an unborn child who died, gave the first testimony, paying a tearful tribute to the disaster’s youngest victim.

Marcio Gomes sat alongside his wife, Andreia, and told how he had been “broken” by the death of his son, who was stillborn after the fire while Andreia was in a coma. It was the first of dozens of tributes that will be heard.

“I held my son in my arms, wishing, praying for any kind of miracle that he would open his eyes, move, make a sound,” he told those gathered at the central London hotel. “As we know, that never happened.”

Breaking down, he covered his face with a tissue before continuing, saying how the family had planned a trip to Disneyland and a Gruffalo hunt and had decorated Logan’s nursery on Grenfell’s 21st floor ready for his arrival.

He showed slides of an ultrasound scan, happy moments during a baby shower and a picture of a babygrow for him.

“He was going to be my superstar ... You don’t know what you are made of until you are broken,” he said, hugging his wife and adding: “Without her strength and courage I would not be here.”

rip ken livingstone

Joins all the anti trans people in jumping before pushed. Good riddance.

Not literally, though I had to google to make sure. (xp)

can Kate Bush write him another theme song