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

lol

I was thinking more post-Corbyn than against Corbyn, no one will run against him now.

May's "slash corporation tax to the lowest in the G20" is a repeat of the "Singapore Model" talk from the period of her pre-election pomp. I thought they might be pressured into reversing somewhat on austerity by events and Labour's luxury Castles in the sky, but it seems they are going to double down on it.

this is the "new thinking" among brexiters iirc i.e. singapore/Britannia unchained/etc. Really it's just an acknowledgement that no deal means the only levers they have left are those that seal the pod bay doors on their own people

there's me thinking these are reasonable people and they might actually be thinking about unpopular domestic policies other than the brexit clusterfuck of their making. I think this is going to be the grimmest Tory conference in history in terms of what they are offering the electorate: We might have to ration insulin, but don't worry, we'll bring the army in to burn the corpse piles and so on.

Should probably ban the use of ‘Singapore model’ - which implies a much heavier hand in state planning and, crucially high-quality, low-cost housing for anyone who wants it - and replace it with the Wild West tbh.

this "Singapore model" of shit food and shit weather, a rental sector with abodes not fit for human habitation, is a massive slur on Singapore.

at least singapore's police state is a competent one ffs

i hear the food's nice

have visited, can confirm

even the food at the zoo is good! police states work, folks

finally making progress on this board

control-f "gulags"

Hard to see how it can work with only lazy British proles as a workforce.

prole offices

for too long, our lazy british proles have been getting caned on legal highs and cheap cider

for now on, under our new sinapore model, they'll be getting the cane if they so much as try to cross the road without waiting for a green light

I think that is the full range of Priti Patel's repertoire.

Singapore and Hong Kong are the two most regularly cited points of comparison and they're both city states, inconcieveable that would translate to the UK and it wouldn't benefit most Leave-voting areas one bit. London and other metropolitan elitist hubs might do alright (or at least some people living there would). It's the most blatant Brexit con trick imaginable and it might be a pertinent line of attack for either Remain or Labour more generally, certainly more so than repeating "bargain basement tax haven" again and again.

The more than ever deregulated City state of London + its crumbling, decaying provinces of no real importance, was probably not what May had in mind when she was talking about the "Singapore model" or if it was, she's even more evil than I thought and would definitely have trouble selling that vision to Hartlepool!

good speech

still no pledge to scrap UC though, at this stage no consulting is necessary to find out if it is wasteful, cruel and a complete fuck up!

Lots of praise for the speech here.

The olive branch @jeremycorbyn has extended to @theresa_may could save or destroy her. Just to be clear, his offer is what some in her cabinet, and many on her benches, in Whitehall, in Brussels and in EU capitals have been mooting as a Brexit compromise that would solve both... pic.twitter.com/PrENJaQZLp

— Robert Peston (@Peston) September 26, 2018

is there a party that can, tho?

unionists

lol i wz gearing up to post "step forward gerry adams in our* nation's hour of need"

*subject to clarification

cometh the hour, cometh the man

The Tory Brexiteers unite the politics of the 1950s with the economics of the 19th century, daydreaming about a Britannia that both rules the waves and waives the rules.

how groansome and clunky... but sort of good as well!

Labour respects the decision of the British people in the referendum. But no one can respect the conduct of the government since that vote took place.

Lol, such a good line. Not sure I agree, but it's a good line.

Really good speech! I wish a Danish Social Democrat would say the same things :(

it seems to be putting the jitters up the very ppl a strong opposition party should be scaring the shit out of, but let's be honest - he's no Gerry Adams!

Not sure I agree

if you can find anything worthy of respect in the government's conduct since the referendum, please feel free to elaborate

there's only one gerry adams tbf

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nice!

Really good speech!

The "solidarity fund" lines were so clean and simple. Good stuff.

if you can find anything worthy of respect in the government's conduct since the referendum, please feel free to elaborate

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Oh, it's not that, it's more the first half of it. I really don't know enough to say what Labours strategy on Brexit should be.

Wait... does Wes Streeting think the Winter of Discontent and the General Strike were one event? https://t.co/mR0lLJ0ADZ

— Jack Saundrs (@jack_saundrs) September 26, 2018

No one good has ever been called Wes - discuss.

Fucking idiot. Why did these people join the Labour Party in the first place?

Wes Montgomery alchemises two distinctly unpromising forenames into a reputable person

Wes Montgomery is God tbf!

Hello, Wes Hall?

Maybe narrow the Wes hunt to white people

Anderson obv

White Wessies could be the anthropological label for gammon!

What, no Hoolahan? :-O

lol I clean forgot Anderson

streeting aka the mcshitter > anderson

Wes Chatham as Amos in The Expanse

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTMfSBRvfiw

counterpoint!