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

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

i'll allow it

Zounds! that's the strongest case for a "gammon" ban I've seen yet.

De Britse politicus @DanielJHannan is verrast dat de Europese Unie na het Brexit-referendum niet meer moeite deed om de Britten in de EU te houden. “De deur stond bij ons open, maar de EU heeft de deur dichtgegooid."

▶️ https://t.co/OmBc8e3AD5 pic.twitter.com/aEHWH9plqx

— EenVandaag (@EenVandaag) June 4, 2018

This is hilarious. Hannan is disappointed the EU didn't try to convince GB (more) to stay in the EU because the ref outcome was 'just' 52-48%.

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2018/jun/06/paul-dacre-to-step-down-as-daily-mail-editor-in-november?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Tweet

In a statement Dacre thanked Rothermere for giving him the freedom to edit without interference

I'll bet he did.

https://1645110239.rsc.cdn77.org/image/f330x470/q80/mm/been/movies18406/posters/the-death-of-stalin.20180314115916.jpg

I wish he had died in puddle of his own piss, but he'll be swilling his brandy and cackling at his handiwork for many more years yet, because there is no god.

Barnett is saying this is a crushing blow to May and her Brexit strategy, that sounds a bit hopeful to me, not that I would mind any crushing blows to her rn though.

the amount of "crushing blows" she has taken in the last year shows it doesn't really what happens as long as the dodgy parliamentary majority is maintained.

who's Barnett?

Dacre's announced resignation from the Daily Mail is a crushing blow for Theresa May and her Brexit strategy. Brexit is now doomed

— Anthony Barnett (@AnthonyBarnett) June 6, 2018

this fellow, mark s used to go on about him a bit!

I'm not sure what he means by doomed.

amusing to see DD do anything he possibly can to resign.

I did feel bad reading out the news to my missus because the obvious hope would be that he’d died.

as an ex-SAS reserve DD probably should commit suicide or go on a killing spree or something rather than resigning - Who Dares Totally Shits Out is his new motto!

@NadineDorries

David Davis is ex SAS He’s trained to survive. He’s also trained to take people out. #Brexit

Nadine Dorries is ex SEN

ex IACGMOOH

nadine dorries quietly encouraging david davis to carry out a murder-suicide mission on theresa may is good not bad

meh! I bet he couldn't even put out a cigarette! He was an SAS Reserve ffs! I loved in the 90's when you'd bump into some Andy McNab bore in the pub telling you how nails the SAS is over and over again. Well here's an important counterpoint to that: David Davis!