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

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.

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

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— 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

weird/not weird how she should imply that the leader of the Labour Party wanting to win an election is somehow a bad thing

Someone in the mentions zapped her with stag along the lines of ‘nobody who’s worked for the Mail gets to opine about football-related jingoism’ LOL

Meanwhile yet another Tory MP (McVey) misleading Parliament nbd

yeah I'm surprised some people are saying she should resign, misleading Parliament is part of the job description and she only got the job because she's one of the ones whose rep can't be damaged any worse by fronting/lying/misrepresenting what UC is actually doing to people. Although I would favour public self-immolation over resignation for this twat tbh.

self-immolation, immolation, either way

That fucking picture of her, Johnson and Javid in today's guardian

magid magid going v strong

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DhQzvQcW4AECYvg.jpg

idk what to say abt this really other than it seems v much of the times