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

Just imagining Brain Force Max getting on QT in the UKIP chair. Fuck everything.

Neil Hamilton outed as Worst Blobby

Meanwhile, Tony’s back and he’s got legitimate concerns. Again.

Brexit has become a metaphor for the debate around globalisation. The only way out of the cul-de-sac of populism is to understand that the case for globalisation will not succeed unless we deal with the underlying grievances of that part of the population for whom globalisation holds more fear than hope.
Europe and Britain could strike a bargain which would see Europe reforming, which the European people plainly by their votes are demanding, and Britain staying in such a Europe.
For Europe as well as for Britain this means dealing with the issue of immigration decisively.

The full mess is here: https://institute.global/news/globalisation-brexit-and-transatlantic-alliance

Milo responded to a question about why he was joining UKIP by saying he looked forward to seeing journalists gunned down in the street and, the day before, sent $14.88 via PayPal to a Jewish writer so I expect this meeting of two of Britain’s most desperate brands to last about a week before he is kicked out.

Xp, talking of desperate brands, etc.

unexplored synergy?

I don't even know - I do know - why Blair uses his "will of the people" fig leaf, which has fuck all to do with his political or personal philosophy. His contempt for everybody who isn't like him is boundless.

It honestly must kill him that nearly 13m people voted for a Labour Party led by someone he considered deselecting for disloyalty.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Dgr2d3MWAAAg6f5.jpg

this is very bad, but it made me lol!

Noam Chomsky is looking well these days.

Pitbull might need some French lessons!

that is good not bad

torn because i hate Chumsky but i love Pitbull

My problem is I hate Chomsky but I love Saddam Hussein and don't like to see my main man clowned!

In all my life, I have never felt so close to Danny Dyer. https://t.co/LyjACmaZPu

— Aditya Chakrabortty (@chakrabortty) June 28, 2018

Danny Dyer getting ready to "iron out" Cameron, pretty funny tbh.

very enjoyably irrepressible and effusive use of a "Twat!" at the end, albeit from that fucking cretin!

Danny Dyer is one of the few people that David Cameron compares favourably to, in fairness.

No.

Danny Dyer’s Who Do You Think You Are? episode is still one of the top things on British telly of the past few years.

I liked the John Hurt one where his contrived luvvie affections for "back home" in the emerald isle were mercilessly crushed as he was revealed to be about 1000% Yorkshire pud, and he seriously looked like he was going to cry!

DD “I might have to treat meself to a ruff!”

Tonight I will be on the Gadget show on Channel 5 @ 8 o Clock. If you're interested.......enjoy....... If not......well.....get fucked..x

— Danny Dyer (@MrDDyer) June 3, 2013

Danny Dyer is one of the many people that compare favourably to Piers Morgan.

the convicted murderers he regularly exploits compare favourably to Piers Morgan,

Had there ever been someone called Piers who wasn't a total and utter prick?

Is that any way to talk about Jeremy Corbyn's brother?

FPd Farrell for that appalling prejudice

Piers Haggard directed Blood on Satan's Claw, which is not the work of a prick.

The Evening Standard will post a loss of £10m for the year ending in September 2017, a reversal in fortunes for London's paper that poses a big headache for its owner, Evgeny Lebedev.

The Standard's loss - £9.98m - comes after a recorded profit of £2.2m in the previous year, representing a £12m swing into the red.

The causes of the sharp financial deterioration reflect both long-term, structural changes in the newspaper industry - above all the downward pressure on print display advertising - and specific issues arising in that financial year.

I presume some of these "specific issues" start with the Tory coke-head editor, who hasn't got much love in London!

two-beards lebedev might have to downsize to one beard and a pencil moustache at this rate

People still pick the thing up regardless of its quality and that includes a lot of Home Counties commuters as well as Londoners. I'm pretty sure that 'see why Osborne is dunking on May today' is a reasonable circulation driver among a certain type of reader.

Print advertising is tanking fast but that is one hell of a swing.

Lol choppy waters for the bexley news shopper

I could imagine Gideon pissing off all sections of London, including Remain Tories - who might think it's a bit rich of him taking potshots from the sidelines considering he was a big part of the shitshow that got their party *here*. But it's probably just the torpedo marked "death of print advertising" that is really taking this twat down!

I assume they didn't get him on the cheap either.

Reminds me of this very strange quote of his from a few months back:

Osborne said: “Our product is available for free, so we have got to raise money in adverts and sponsors to provide it for free. We are not proud of that and we will work with any advertiser to design a product that works.”

From the same article:

Instead, he said, circulation dips by around 50,000 people when it is “pissing of rain”.

This seems counterintuitive - surely the Standard has often functioned as a decent makeshift umbrella for anyone caught out?!

I use the Metro for putting under the dog's water and food bowls in the kitchen, it's a sin to waste such a useful resource as free paper!

Well exactly. Makes a useful shield for soggy tube/bus seats as well.

"pissing *of* rain"??

I mean obviously they can't afford decent subs

which is weird cuz gideon’s got form as a sub

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Hello everyone over there.

EXCLUSIVE: The @nytimes on previously unreported emails from Brexit-financier Aaron Banks, who appears far more engaged with Russian diplomats than acknowledged, & whose biz partner took up a lucrative deal offered by the Russians @ddknyt @AllMattNYT https://t.co/22mo8aWO7Z

— Matthew Rosenberg (@AllMattNYT) June 29, 2018

This is much more substantial and interesting imo but still fairly marginal:

https://www.bbc.com/news/amp/uk-northern-ireland-44624299?__twitter_impression=true

Does nothing to dissuade me from my longstanding position that if you scratch the surface of most political donors you’ll find something potentially criminal.

i was going to say, i get the feeling he'll have enough plausible deniability that this will never go anywhere, and it certainly won't alter the beliefs of your Brexit ultras.

damn, it's Armed Forces Day and what do you know my fancy dress Mujahideen clothes are at still at the launderette. Am just going grumble under my breath about "tache-faced bulldog fuckers" a few times maybe instead.

What's the current likely outcome of brexit talks, I struggle to keep up with it. Also any chance of it being stopped? Serious question. My hate for the whole thing makes it v difficult to get a good understanding of it, so am relying on you lot.

Also what's corbyn's actual position on it because I can't work that one out either

He did a succinct summary on that Good Evening with Piers and Susan ah show, but obviously the press concentrated on Danny Dyers "wossthatorlabaht" business

The scourge of Boris aka Eddie Mair is leaving the BBC. I won't even bother listening to PM again.

He’s going to LBC now.

it seems the beeb tried to make him take a pay cut.