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

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

there goes a ken, ahhh

Kate only writes for Theresa May these days.

I heard a Jewish guy from the JLC who had initially described the meeting with Corbyn as disappointing last month, saying he was impressed that Corbyn had quietly made a few changes recently, as discussed at the the meeting - but he was impressed he had carried them through, despite seeming a bit fuzzy and noncommittal to him at the time. This was on Sunday aft on R4, obv the BBC don't make a big deal when he does something right. But not before time they fucked off that embarrassing imbecile KL, and I wouldn't be surprised if that was one of the "changes" he was referring to.

Chris Williamson sticking up for KL on R4 tonight ε/̵͇̿̿/’̿’̿ ̿(◡︵◡)

Jewdas post celebrating the fact also full of KL fans complaining in the comments.

I heard a Jewish guy from the JLC

god help me i can't stop reflexively reading 'jlc' as 'justin lee collins' every time i see it

Ken is not the leader of the JLC

it's true, justin lee collins is his own boss

Chris Williamson also leading the respectful Twitter tributes to the fallen Ken. Fuck that guy, seriously.

he also appears on RT, he's complete trash.

I'm sure there's a job for Ken at RT if he wants it.

CW is someone Corbyn needs to execute right now, because he is bringing the party into disrepute on a daily basis, and every embarrassment is reported as "CW - one of Corbyn's closest allies".

Ian McKenzie complains that his tweet about ISIS beheading Emily Thornberry has been "taken out of context"

https://www.politicshome.com/news/uk/political-parties/labour-party/jeremy-corbyn/news/95386/excl-suspended-lewisham-east-labour

luv2hurtle towards a totally fucked economy

Bank of England governor Mark Carney says Brexit means real household incomes are about £900 lower than forecast in May 2016, "which is a lot of money"

— Richard Partington (@RJPartington) May 22, 2018

Ian McKenzie: not the sharpest scimitar in the beheading kit

lmao

Someone posted his responses when this came up last year, and his literal first defence wasn’t “rape jokes are bad” but “well Thornberry IS over 30”.

Remember this coming up last summer, and the digging that followed... pic.twitter.com/Ju9gMlzckt

— Red Robbo (@Orwell_Fan_Fan) May 20, 2018

Amazing the hills some will die on. Nothing wrong with making jokes about violence towards female MPs less than a year after one of them was brutally murdered, nope!

double lmao @ (((parentheses)))

Nothing wrong with making jokes about violence towards female MPs less than a year after one of them was brutally murdered, nope!

Kinda striking how few people even within her own party seem to give a fuck about, or even remember that.

all i'm going to say is this guy doesn't seem acquainted with some basic elements of social communication

These Centrist thugs are bringing the Labour Party into disrepute >:(

https://www.economist.com/britain/2018/05/17/corbynomics-would-change-britain-but-not-in-the-way-most-people-think

this is an interesting piece imo. amongst other stuff it flags up the same concerns with post-45 nationalization that my dad used to voice - "they took over the companies but they left the same old bosses in charge"

good stuff ty

Kate Hoey: "Have you ever read any Irish history. I'm amazed at that response" when Nokes tells her that Irish are third country nationals in Northern Ireland

— lisa o'carroll (@lisaocarroll) May 22, 2018

Sylvia Hermon: Have you read the Belfast Agreement?
Caroline Nokes: Not in its entirety no"
Hermon: Have you ever read the Belfast Agreement
Nokes: No

— lisa o'carroll (@lisaocarroll) May 22, 2018

staaaaaaate

gosh it's almost like tories have never given a second thought to anything ireland-related in their lives

Not since the bally rotters blew up Airey Neave, what?

I'd be amazed if Karen Bradley had ever been to NI before her appointment.

Or after.

there's a swelling feeling that Brexit may bring about a united Ireland.

maybe I'm just being incredibly naive.