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

Labour's shadow policing minister sent these tweets after linking to a story about the two police officers who were stabbed in Greenock yesterday:

Louise Haigh MP@LouHaigh

Best wishes for a speedy recovery to these remarkable, brave officers.

Just only one example of the many hard working men and women who risk their lives every day to protect ours.

They do their jobs not in spite of danger, but because of it.

That's why they're heroes.

Louise Haigh MP@LouHaigh

And that's why the #LushUK portrayal of the important #spycops campaign is so offensive to the tens of thousands of police officers and staff who put their lives on the line to protect ours.

I know there's always been pushback against any perceived criticism of the police, but it feels like it's got worse over the last few years - this idea that all police officers are all 'heroes' and that no-one has the moral authority to criticise them. idk if it's by-product of all the military help-for-heroes ideology? maybe public opinion has always been like this way and it's just more visible now due to social media (and cops themselves using social media to kick off at their critics), but it certainly doesn't feel like it's getting better.

There's been lots more criticism of the police by the right wing press in the last couple of years too though - the Mail aghast at lower crime meaning less visible a police presence for one example but a lot of it is presumably pushback on senior police temerity to protest Tory policies.

That's actually more measured than I expected - doesn't claim that all police are heroes, and calls the campaign important.

the tories have abrogated the UK's responsibility to act as an honest broker (ok, ok) for NI's power sharing exec

should note that its p much 100% the unionists that have forced this afaict. due to their inflexibility on the various inevitable conflicting outcomes there is no ground upon which they can exist post brexit and they have realised it, so theyve refused to govern since the knowledge has dropped

One of our officers went and had a polite and constructive discussion with the manager of @LushLtd Peterborough who then removed the display. Seems some of their staff are sensible and care about our feelings after all #Lushpolice #FlushLush pic.twitter.com/SatZFDW4mD

— Liz Groom (@cambsfederation) June 1, 2018

Hey, police: you’re not here to have feelings.

I'm just glad undercover heroes have been protecting my life from vegan hippies all this time

some extremely good james ball and helen lewis content on this too

Can't help but read that tweet in a Hale and Pace 'the Management' voice.

Maybe the police could do something about the toxic smell that comes from those places

Oh God, imagine the double-date situ with the following Insufferable Twitter Couples: James Ball/Caroline Criado Perez and Jonathan Haynes/Helen Lewis.

Have also clocked that HL resembles a meld of Princesses Beatrice and Eugenie and now cannot un-see it.

wait JB and CCP are an item ?!

I believe so!

I should probably say that I admire CCP in fits and starts but the way she centred herself during the Parliament Square statue launch (or allowed it) was beyond ridiculous, in that yeah babe, maybe this was your big idea but come on, it’s Gillian Wearing’s moment, maybe?

Replace Theresa May with Michael Gove to sort out Brexit, Tory donor urges

Sajid so smat.

"Look at who the home secretary is" - Sajid Javid insists that Islamophobia is not a problem in the Conservative Party #Marr https://t.co/hlCXnA3DYF pic.twitter.com/UzGRSOAVWu

— BBC News (UK) (@BBCNews) June 3, 2018

wicked smat this guy

Corbyn should have just dragged Ruth Smeeth into his shadow cabinet and said: eh? what fookin anti-Semitism? More like "Look at who the FS is FFS!"

Javid let the push for the Commons to debate antisemitism just a few weeks ago. Now dismisses the Muslim Council of Britain as not representative of Muslims.

Labour's Stephen Kinnock says we should approach Fifa to move the World Cup to 2019 and take it out of Russia #r4today pic.twitter.com/mhpuUJncMK

— BBC Radio 4 Today (@BBCr4today) March 16, 2018

lol, doesn't this risible clown realise most people are laughing at him, again.

oops didn't realise it was an old one.

never hurts to restate the risible clownness of SK. that election documentary last year produced such warm feelings and benevolent pleasure.

https://cdn.images.express.co.uk/img/dynamic/20/590x/Theresa-May-s-post-Brexit-battle-with-Boris-Johnson-to-be-Prime-Minister-to-air-on-BBC-817187.jpg
also by the time this ran the BBC was clearly caught off balance by a state of affairs it completely didn't expect, but alas these fuckers are still in government and although it doesn't feel like many saboteurs have been crushed, it still sucks shit! and Kinnock still exists!

hot Kinnock content

This reads like someone who has never eaten an orange for some reason deciding to lie about eating an orange every day pic.twitter.com/75ybSw52L9

— Dan Howdon (@danielhowdon) June 3, 2018

lol! what kind of a prick can't even talk about eating an orange without a modicum of conviction?

im getting body shock just reading that

"they know me now" sounds v ominous

national min wage doesn't cover the agony of some jaunty bantz with a Kinnock on a daily basis.

I could imagine him practising his benevolent uncle Stevie act, by winking at himself in the mirror and so on.

i read that as 'wanking' at first and it still rang true tbh

it seems to be a strong family trait tbh.

vanity and wankerdom!

and shouting "Well, ALL-RIGHT>>>!!!!" to the mirror.

Whichever scenario...

i can't stop thinking about the phrase 'i chop up the orange and chomp on it', it's real william burroughs language-virus stuff

"I stomp up the orange and Stomp on it"

I can imagine him googling "how does earthling eat orange" prior to the interview

not the first mp called stephen who's had a hard time eating an orange tbf

it's like he got his earth primates mixed up, ended up with this google image search result, and just ran with it

https://proxy.duckduckgo.com/iur/?f=1&image_host=http%3A%2F%2Fcdn.barstoolsports.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2016%2F08%2F08%2F12045430_1200034406689897_975811334483862367_o-822x512.jpg&u=https://cms.barstoolsports.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/08/12045430_1200034406689897_975811334483862367_o-822x512.jpg

oof xp

damn

at least the RIP Stephen could chomp an orange with conviction, damnit!

curious as to how SK assimilates the porridge tbh, possibly snorting lines of Quaker oats off the kitchen counter, idk

i assume he just dribbles stomach acid straight from his mouth into the bowl like jeff goldblum in the fly, then slurps up the resultant half-digested paste before heading off to horrify the traumatised staff at costa

If Team Corbyn really wanted to kill his career stone dead they could just ask him how he eats Pringles.

does look like a resultant paste cunt

is that someone chews up a digestive biscuit and then rolls the "resultant paste" into a ball in their hand, then eats it again? Someone should tell him that is how most of the legit concerns electorate actually eat biscuits!

so Humphrys says people in "hum-drum" low paid jobs have less stress than titans of intellect like him who rightly get paid a fortune for doing the live radio broadcasting equivalent of pissing yourself on the bus on a daily basis.

that's why there's so much competition for low paid jobs

tbf if Humphrys had a conscience then his life would be pretty stressful

nothing less stressful than the precarity of a minimum-wage existence, those jammy fucking poors have got it made in the shade

humphrys seems to be getting worse, but the silver lining I take from that I think he is not far from making a career ending type faux pas the way he is degenerating recently, and if even if he avoids that outcome then death can't be that far off!

it is very sad news that some London criminals failed to do any physical harm to Michael McIntyre during a robbery. Have these people got no professional pride or decency? They could have at least smashed his fucking teeth in with a clawhammer ffs!