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

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

https://www.moreaboutadvertising.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/Unknown-4-200x183.jpg

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.

Environment Secretary Michael Gove physically ripped up a report on Theresa May's preferred option for a new customs partnership with the EU.

He was said to have been "livid" as he felt the government document downplayed his objections to the proposal.

If only the report had been longer than the time it took him to rip it in two.

Obviously he ripped it up in front of someone and then told them to leak this "fact" to the press, maybe even skipped the first part.

I'm enjoying my mental picture of the physical ripping up taking perhaps a little bit longer than the livid Gove was planning on

I wouldn't credit him with the strength/dexterity to do a convincing rip tbh!

I have some good news for you

Update on Michael Gove's outburst - am told he ripped up *one page* of a report on the new customs partnership - "he couldn't manage more", says my unimpressed source.

— Heather Stewart (@GuardianHeather) July 1, 2018

I’m sure it’s supposed to come across as super masculine and a man of action etc but it just reminds me of the seaweed shark from the Simpsons.

xp incredible

lol! made my day has that!

ooh, i could rip a tissue.

Obviously printed on toilet paper.

xp! He'll be crushing a grape next, just you see.

He might need some training before attempting the feat of jumping over a doll's house!

... that was the one I was trying to remember.

https://frinkiac.com/video/S02E10/2J16iFREamwbWWsHbPZGHa0_Gis=.gif

gove should be wedgied every time he shows his face in public

Rather extraordinary:

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2018/jul/02/uk-ministers-to-fund-saatchi-campaign-for-tunisian-government

The British government is paying M&C Saatchi to run a media campaign for the Tunisian government in an attempt to win voters over reforms that have sparked some of the largest protests in the north African state since the Arab spring.

The advertising agency – known for its punchy political advertising for the Conservative party – has been hired to run a campaign “targeted towards the Tunisian public”, according to documents.

Its objectives are to “improve public awareness of the government’s role in planning and delivering economic reforms” that are being undertaken as part of an IMF-backed plan to cut its budget deficit and boost growth.

“improve public awareness of the government’s role in planning and delivering economic reforms”

that sounds so very kind and benevolent of them!

get Blair's demon eyes back imo!

if they are looking for other clients to "improve awareness" on perhaps the Algerian regime could do with some spin on how death marching migrants into the Sahara is good not bad.

the ad should be a 90 second cut of Haneke's Caché.

democracy is market capitalism and vice versa

lol, never change, neoliberal institutions. Oh yeah, you weren't planning to.

‘Gay conversion therapy’ to be banned, so that’s something.

Don’t think there’s a thread about how bad the new statesman is, so here’s an irregular reminder of how awful Helen Lewis is

pic.twitter.com/VVHj4CGyME

— Flying_Rodent (@flying_rodent) July 3, 2018

it's quite impressive the multiple levels of badness that works on

‘Gay conversion therapy’ to be banned, Stephen Crabb "gutted".

Argh seriously what is the point if nominally left-leaning journalists aren't even prepared to engage with something as innocuous as flexible working in good faith? No wonder this country is so shit.

The maddening thing about Helen Lewis is that seemingly everything she writes feels specifically designed to wind up a particular consituency that has annoyed/been rude about her on Twitter and it seems to drive her opinion on literally everything and she can't keep out of inane Twitter beefs herself. It's such a fucking immature approach to journalism

any Helen Lewis comment on Corbyn justifies Corbyn tbf