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

"wealth creators don't like business haters"

words to live by (the words of lord digby jones, best of all the nu-labour lords)

also:
"Business is so important that when I heard a former Foreign Secretary say 'F business' it showed him up for the irrelevance and offensive person he is and I take great exception to that."

lol this^^^is a poorly constructed sentence *stands and ovates*

(not to take away from the excellence of them all fighting among themselves)

gerry adams should be on that list

not till he takes his rightful seat in westminster imo

or actually his seat as rightful crown steward and bailiff of the manor of northstead

The Festival of Brexit Britain.
My poster based on the 1951 original. pic.twitter.com/APZwCM5JBc

— Richard Littler (@richard_littler) September 30, 2018

I'm predicting a bumper harvest in '22, especially after the peasants take JRM's ingenious deep ploughing, close cropping advice to heart.

"deadest of dying ducks"

If they are dying they are by definition not dead

BREXIT festival anyone?

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DoXv05vXkAwmVzj.jpg

Phil's "searing" attack on Boris didn't go as far as saying he smells and he's a meanie.

holy shit pic.twitter.com/1wWiS7ud45

— gal gathot (@ryxnf) September 30, 2018

Chuck E Chequers

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DoW5Ae1XoAEvyN_.jpg

The Tory Boy biological determinism is strong in this one.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/oct/01/police-super-database-prompts-liberty-warning-on-privacy

"The government accepts that large amounts of the data will have nothing to do with crime."

what like "asocial and dangerous elements" that didn't celebrate the Brexit Festival or "looks a bit weird, must be a trot" type UKVD profiling, this is obv very bad.

The law enforcement data service (LEDS)

even the acronym is pure evil.

Dirty LEDS

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/jeremy-hunt-eu-membership-ussr-latvia-brexit-foreign-secretary-a8562726.html

Hunt comparing the EU to the USSR feels cringe inducing in a similar way to Michael Portillo's SAS speech, they both *know* that what they're saying is ridiculous and embarrassing, but they say it anyway because it will go down well with party membership

causing grave offence to lots of EU citizens living in former parts of the USSR is a real fucking winner for the upcoming brexit negging!

This exchange between @AndrewMarr9 and @theresa_may needs reading
(via @MarrShow, @MichaelPDeacon) pic.twitter.com/oIa9H2rWRZ

— Jeremy Vine (@theJeremyVine) September 30, 2018

A Hunt for Red October.

Hateful sorry-not-sorry from May on Windrush deaths natch.

i've seen more convincing chatbots.

great when you can open your party conference with "it's been a great year, sorry for killing some people"

Boris Johnson has managed the impossible - a worse quickfire Sunday Times interview than Theresa May’s legendary 2017 effort pic.twitter.com/ViUOOh6aHo

— Henry Mance (@henrymance) September 30, 2018

People's republic of Jam Jar or Bongo Bongo Land?

Esther McVey dismisses their murderous treatment of the disabled as "fake news". Well that is very nuanced and has totally changed my position on the BMJ paper that says otherwise, gr8 speech!

Increase motorway speed limit to 80mph to drive Britain's productivity, says Government minister

wow, Truss has been blazing the ol' crackpipe again.

deregulate the motorways and set them free.

That's the same policy they trailed at the start of the coalition and then couldn't get done

I always preferred getting into work vehicles with speed limiters on myself. They might even be the reason I'm still alive!

No need for a speed limit when the lorries are gridlocked.

smash through the dover border-check bottleneck firing volleys of container lorries at it, at 100mph each

Well, I LOLed:

A perfect metaphor has been installed at Tory Party Conference: A doorway to opportunity that is accessible for the few and inaccessible for the many because of a blue hard border.#CPC18 pic.twitter.com/03edQapMIb

— James Melville (@JamesMelville) October 1, 2018

tbf it is doing them a favour if it's blocking them from hearing Phil's interminable droning greyness!

This is the 'crowd' that the Tory's Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Jeremy White MP got at #Con18 today: that's how important our £95b+ industry is to them, folks. pic.twitter.com/Uo0g6kcwr9

— Howard Goodall (@Howard_Goodall) October 1, 2018

loving the 'more homes' signs, fucking greedy bastards

this is supposed be a party in existential crisis, fighting for their lives, it's JPT Trophy against Bury on a tues night type crowds!

Chancellor also says UK may soon have to tax internet firms such as Amazon and Google

awwwkward

Liz Truss on Newsnight right now claiming that the Tories haven't cut funding to local authorities but have "provided them with more flexibility with regard to raising their own revenue".

great news for disabled children who have had their transport/school places taken off them and have been left sitting at home by this "flexibility". Or working age disabled people who have had to give up work and go into old folks homes etc.. Or one of my old friends with mental health problems who died earlier this year.. could go on forever here.. fuck these people.

are they people?

more insentient than molluscs, sort of like something that grows on decaying excrement, but even worse than that!

Does he narrow down the century this started happening in or is he still following up leads https://t.co/6wkrMfYFuQ

— Marina Hyde (@MarinaHyde) October 1, 2018

Imagine saying something like that and expecting to be taken seriously!

TaxPayers' Alliance

@the_tpa

Britain's independent campaign for lower taxes and ending wasteful spending.

Of course you're independent.

raabs? he nebbs it

a reference to "chlorine washed chicken" in The Graun was under a McChicken burger ad #boycott

Boris Johnson's speech appears to be doubling down on every aspect of Tory housing policy that is driving young people into the arms of Labour. He's basically saying 'we've been right all along'. Coining the phrase 'ConHomers' is uniquely terrible as well.

Con go home.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2018/oct/01/boris-johnson-appears-to-mock-pm-with-field-of-wheat-run

Boris's basic Brexit braggadocio : we are ‘light years ahead – tech, data, bioscience – you name it, we are leaders ….’ actually deranged revivalism which needs challenging.

— David Edgerton (@DEHEdgerton) October 2, 2018

okay, let's for a moment assume that patently ridiculous statement is true - how is that going to benefit the average member of the uk public, who is skilled in none of those disciplines, post-brexit?

other than perhaps those lucky few deranged cannibals who manage to eke out a few more calories by chewing on the brains of those bioscience leaders after society collapses, obv