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

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!

coordinated front pages from a bunch of northern newspapers today on the ongoing arriva rail north shitshow, lots of anger

Even Tory MPs are dunking on Grayling right now. Obviously they represent directly affected constituencies but it's not looking good for him.

cry me arriva

sorry, just wanted to say that

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/newpix/2018/06/05/10/4CED20DA00000578-5807189-image-a-4_1528191609061.jpg

it's pity they didn't make him wait a bit longer at the door.

fuck the north, let's expand heathrow again.

One of the reasons Tory MPs are rebelling is that a lot of them represent marginal constituencies in commuter towns, and there aren't many better ways to piss your more affluent constituents off than ensuring them several hours of grinding transport misery a day. Especially when those constituencies are filling up with lifelong Labour voters priced out of London.

xp
https://www.disabilitynewsservice.com/rail-company-to-run-services-with-no-wheelchair-spaces-on-governments-orders/

and also fuck the disabled, as operators like TransPennine Express and Govia Thameslink Railway are running full services without wheelchair access with the full blessing of this government.

xxp otm. I thought about this last year and I would be very surprised if the long-running Southern Rail debacle wasn’t a factor in Amber Rudd almost being ousted.

It’s also robbing the government of one of their arguments against renationalisation (service being worse under BR) which obviously plays well for Labour.

xp very true and Southeastern were running trains without working toilet facilities for weeks and weeks which also made the services near-unusable for people with certain disabilities and long term conditions. There were reports of people wetting themselves on trains.

sorry, just wanted to say that

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You've been on ILX long enough to know not to apologize for puns - it was a good one too.

I just saw a mortgage advice TV advert that revolved around an argument over not being able to afford avocados. Clearscore I think the company was called.

i mean where do you even start with this one

Muhammad Ali would have seen Brexit for the revolting racist selfish nasty policy that it is and he’d have fought it https://t.co/Fak1EUJt2X

— Tim Walker (@ThatTimWalker) June 4, 2018

brexit, or as i prefer to call it, the tussle in the brussels

there it is

This and the ‘I soon showed my cleaner/handyman the error of their Brexit ways’ amongst the FBPE is just AAAARGH

Lol! Everything the Corbyn twitter acct commemorates (including international disasters and sporting personalities/cultural icons etc) is subject to masses of idiotic FBPE type commentary on a daily basis.

Imagine putting a photo of you meeting a grimacing Cherie Blair up as your Twitter profile background.

it's easy to mock people like Tim Walker but it's also funny

Ridicule Walker

Would Brian Clough tolerate a third runway funded privately regardless of long-eschewed green targets? No chance lad. You want shooting.

at the very least i think we can all agree that thich quang duc would have been disgusted by glasgow city council's lackadaisical attitude to pothole repair and would undoubtedly have self-immolated at the front doors of city chambers in protest

I'd also like the Brexit opinions of Nelson Mandela, Anne Boelyn and Jesus, please.

anti, pro, concerned about antisemitism under Jeremy Corbyn

"You can pack that Brexit away and put it in the bin, you only won it through cheating!"

(You pick the historical figure who would have said that)

Chairman Mao

Here's the part where I say I absolutely support putting pressure on Corbyn to take a different line on Brexit. But not from moronic might-as-well-be Twitter bots and salaried employees of Alastair Campbell.

itt: matt dc channels the spirit of jesse owens

When Jesse Owens, Princess Di and Genghis Khan can all get round the table and agree to fight for something in the spirit of cross-party bipartisanship, you know it's worth fighting for.

brb just setting up a petition to get roy keane on question time

EXCLUSIVE: Labour about to announce major shift towards soft Brexit. Corbyn will table "internal market" amendment to the withdrawal bill, customs bill and trade bill pic.twitter.com/2gPJUUh4QY

— Henry Zeffman (@hzeffman) June 5, 2018

Darren McGarvey/Loki was quite a force on QT last week, wasn't he? I wish he'd written his book, Poverty Safari, a little more in his own voice. I put it down because it was written in slightly frustrating journalese but I intend to go back to it now.

This story is gathering some, er, momentum...

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/conservatives-islamophobia-inquiry-racism-sajid-javid-mohammed-amin-a8384876.html

damn the BBC are like a dog with a bone with Tory Islamophobia, just incessant coverage ...etc...

I wish they'd have got Barry Gardiner on Today to talk up the "new" Labour Brexit position, he might have had another car crash interview and described it as "basically a load of bollocks" or something, but Starmer bores me to death!

the right man for the job

the good thing is that all of this is being used as the springboard for a mature, rational discussion about race and identity in modern britain and not just as an opportunity for cheap political point-scoring

Speaking of Gardiner, I only really saw this classic clip from last year.

Labour's Barry Gardiner strikes again. How many Cornflakes does 6.8 pence buy you? May, the lunch snatcher. pic.twitter.com/f7OvB4cwb1

— Tory Fibs (@ToryFibs) May 31, 2017

https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/styles/story_medium/public/indy100/eJ0axHCqmx/18477-6rv6cn.jpg

I got this off the Toozemeister, when May talks about the "Singapore model" as something to emulate, it seems we're already half way there.

if the weather and food matched up I could deal

Singapore with Morrissey's fave food from a foodbank is as good as it will get I'm afraid.

..and shit weather, and doing a collective peasant's workout to Morrissey's music every day before your Soylent Green Tofu is served up!

A Tory activist told me that at a dinner hosted by his local Conservative association, 5 BME attendees were placed on one table at the far end of the room.

When a complaint was raised the deputy leader of the group replied “he could not be racist because his girlfriend is black”

— Shehab Khan (@ShehabKhan) June 6, 2018

that sounds so Lolico!

I know we justifiably dunk on washed-up ex-Britpop frontmen but:

The irony of Morrissey being a gammon : /

— Tim Burgess (@Tim_Burgess) June 6, 2018