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

But I'll observe once again that pre-referendum most of the electorate didn't give much of a shit and we might be heading back that way.

NV otm. It’s a difficult path to take

kip malthouse backstory:

This guy was a blazing skip fire when he worked for Boris Johnson as mayor of London. your references are here: https://t.co/fLEJojMmzM https://t.co/s8q6gmpjLJ

— Alex Harrowell (@yorksranter) July 11, 2018

(pause also to remember the late tom barry aka @BorisWatch)

Hostile environment policy “paused”, Javid claims.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/jul/11/windrush-uk-government-pauses-hostile-immigration-policies

UCL threatening to fine staff members, lecturers, etc £20k if they fail to implement immigration spot checks on students is an excellent example of why tinkering around the edges to avoid another Windrush scandal is virtually meaningless. It’s baked into public and private institutions, from universities to letting agents, that they’re on the hook for failing to be aggressive enough. “Hostile environment “ doesn’t mean government data sharing, it means devolving immigration enforcement to anyone with a modicum of power over anyone else, and putting the fear of god into them that if they fail to do it correctly, they will be penalised.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/jul/12/ucl-row-email-immigration-check-fine-draconian-discriminatory

I signed on on Monday via the government website and having not claimed dole for maybe 20 years I can only say that the environment for jobseekers is pretty hostile too. These fuckers are savages.

aside from the Brexit circus - fucking over foreigns, unemployed, disabled and working poor has been the main project of this party, what a glorious legacy they are leaving.

Yes, there's more than one hostile environment policy in operation.

the local swimming baths is next to the job centre and I often see people walking out with a completely defeated look on them. I'd imagine if you haven't been to a job centre in 20 years, you might be inclined to think there are more security staff than advisers these days.

looking forward to my first in person visit next week, really hoping some 20-something tries to hardman me cos i am in the mood

the local swimming baths is next to the job centre and I often see people walking out with a completely defeated look on them

learning to swim as an adult can be hard tbf

learning to swim through shit is much more soul destroying, 4 real!

Being forced to swim through shit to survive.

I'd imagine if you haven't been to a job centre in 20 years, you might be inclined to think there are more security staff than advisers these days.

This was the case at the one I used to go to.

what a glorious legacy they are leaving.

the latest Sarkar vs. Piers clip making the rounds is wonderful

I've been away the last week, has much been going on?

just the same, Neil.

Terrible stench in the London air these last few hours.

Plus, Murdoch cleared to buy all of Sky (subject to being gazumped by Comcast somehow).

Bercow lightly intervenes on a conversation Raab is having with someone as Starmer speaks. "I didn't say anything," Starmer says, "because I assumed the sec of state was being briefed on the contents of the white paper."

— Ian Dunt (@IanDunt) July 12, 2018

Love that whole thread

fuck sake

raab c brexit indeed

Curious manner from Raab. He seems mostly nervous, and then occasionally angry and snide, almost hateful.

— Ian Dunt (@IanDunt) July 12, 2018

Curious indeed, nervousness is so out of character for him.

lol

WORLD EXCL: Donald Trump warns Theresa May her soft Brexit blueprint will "kill" any future trade deal with the US. Full @POTUS interview with @TheSun from 11pm.

— Tom Newton Dunn (@tnewtondunn) July 12, 2018

Trump tells me: "If they do a deal like that, we would be dealing with the European Union instead of dealing with the UK, so it will probably kill the deal".

— Tom Newton Dunn (@tnewtondunn) July 12, 2018

Trump also reveals to me PM ignored his advice on Brexit negotiations: “I would have done it much differently. I actually told Theresa May how to do it, but she didn’t listen to me".

— Tom Newton Dunn (@tnewtondunn) July 12, 2018

Did his method involve multiple bankruptcies and Russian funding, by chance?

Great stuff, this is what we want.

When the most successful POTUS ever gives you advice on governing you'd be crazy not to listen

lol everything’s fucked

Don’t worry, help is at hand. https://www.theguardian.com/politics/shortcuts/2018/jul/12/a-no-deal-brexit-survival-guide-what-food-to-stockpile

Jared O'Mara has quit Labour

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2018/jul/12/jared-omara-quits-labour-saying-he-was-made-to-feel-like-a-criminal

So he's sorry but not that sorry

This trip's going to go brilliantly pic.twitter.com/GrXSagxOtZ

— Dawn Foster (@DawnHFoster) July 12, 2018

Looking forward to Theresa coming on the march tomorrow.

sorry for lolling @ ‘trump lets rip’

it feels like that orange twat's helicopters have been circling tottenham for hours

maybe he's looking for the pengest munch.

Trump versus Scottish insults is the most beautiful thing I’ve seen today. pic.twitter.com/60wUjTXz1w

— Pádraig Belton (@PadraigBelton) July 12, 2018

obligatory Trump content ... ning ning ning ... I don't even see him!

Loool

White House just issued this. pic.twitter.com/sXNLLMpR58

— Josh Dawsey (@jdawsey1) July 13, 2018

but her email

Not quite sure what the Sun thinks its doing with that front page - even putting all other concerns aside I can't help but get the feeling that explicitly linking hard Brexit with Trump is likely to be seriously counterproductive for Leave.

Andrew Neil & Guido Fawkes both claiming that the lines Trump is spouting came from Farage, the Sun is denying this.

Speaking to their core constituency I guess. I think they probably realise they don't have much political influence outside of the meathead right nowadays so why not keep spinning the narrative? Trump definitely has his fanbase over here, same as in the US.

Choppers (I saw three) seem to be just rushing backwards and forwards over Seven Sisters now - I'm not sure why they'd be here for Trump?

charles striking

Great to see Steve Bannon being fawned over by Piers Morgan on morning tv.

Searching for Corbz, he must be eliminated. (xxp)

'I was fine with separating children from parents, I was fine with banning muslims from entering the US, I was fine with kicking transgender people out of the armed forces, but in attacking the WTO, Trump has gone too far'
Cleggmania at its besthttps://t.co/95RHNHveob

— Toby Moses (@tobymoses) July 12, 2018

Presented with the choice of continuing to trade with our most important partner or angling for a deal with an actual monster who wants to privatise the NHS and sell us chlorinated chicken, you'd hope that a fair proportion of leave voters would lean towards the former. The important thing is killing the fiction that you can have both - which Trump has effectively done.

Are you sure about that? His actions are meat and drink to the kind of people who’ll love the Muslim mayor and the female PM being put in their place.

Presented with the choice of continuing to trade with our most important partner or angling for a deal with an actual monster who wants to privatise the NHS and sell us chlorinated chicken, you'd hope that a fair proportion of leave voters would lean towards the former.

hope died somewhere between June 24 and November 8 2016, maaaan.

Are you sure about that? His actions are meat and drink to the kind of people who’ll love the Muslim mayor and the female PM being put in their place.

But that's a sub-set of a sub-set of a sub-set. A fair proportion of leave voters don't lean right / Tory in the first place, add softer capital-C Conservative voters and the harder-right elderly who are going to be repelled by Trump's vulgarity, if nothing else, and idk if the Transatlanic alliance is going to look that attractive to many people beyond UKIP and the Raab/Johnson-style accelerationists. They aren't the majority of the Tory party in parliament and i'm not sure they're the majority of the grass roots either.