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

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!

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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

Boris is just being a pale self-parody of the risible cunt he used to be and his leadership bid is probably doomed, but that audience of extremists cheering him on is the real actual beating heart of the Tory party that hasn't really showed up at the other dull speeches yet!

On Hunt, who compared the EU with the Soviet Union in his party conference speech on Monday, Verhofstadt added: “But in his case that is not so abnormal – he has once even confused Japan with China so that is not a first time that this is happening. That said, the previous time he was insulting his wife but here it was something far more different. He’s insulting not us but millions of ordinary citizens who have lived under Soviet rule for so long time and that’s, in fact, a point on which he has to apologise, I think, because we cannot take it as such a thing he said.”

'the previous time he was insulting his wife' is such a great phrase to be able to lob at a senior politician, entire without hyperbole

Jesus Christ.

Yes we really have reached the "lock her up" stage of Boris Johnson's campaign to become prime minister. #cpc2018 https://t.co/JXljorODYN

— Adam Bienkov (@AdamBienkov) October 2, 2018

"It occurs to me that the authors of the Chequers proposal risk prosecution under the 14th-century statute of praemunire, which says that no foreign court or government shall have jurisdiction in this country," Johnson said.

"It would mean that UK business and industry - the entire UK economy - would be exposed perpetually to regulations that might have been expressly designed, at the behest of foreign competitors, to do them down."

praemunire was repealed in 1967, as he seems not to have spotted

Is this the best him and Bannon could come up with? I agree with locking May up tho!

really hard to tell when BJ is showboating for his own loser-clique and when he's just being a thick, lazy bastard.

yeah him + pals like Toby are often playing to the gallery, and then pulling serious faces + crying foul when their clowning get's them into the shit.

Toby had a R4 program about Character, where he kept mentioning his doomed stint with a government education role as "the time he got bullied on twitter and it cost him a job".

Diddums.

tbh there would be no better ending to this whole farrago than boris in jail

boris torn limb from limb by a repentant crowd of yes voters as an olive branch to the rest of ye

If he gets on the ballot he'll win. I think it's very unlikely he'll get on the ballot but given how small the Tory Party now is, that audience of loons and the people like them are probably the most disproportionately powerful people in Britain when it comes to determining the future direction of the country.

I *think* Boris as Tory leader would be good electoral news for non-sociopaths but who can tell any more?

surely if that happened a lord ashcroft figure would have to drop the bomb (he must have SUCH dirt on boris) and knowingly destroy tory rule - say to everyone 'have your five years of corbyn, it'll be a nightmare, then we can restore moderate tory normality' - or would there be a nagging fear that it wouldn't be a nightmare at all...

Asked some young Tories what policies they thought would attract voters under 30 to the party, and they replied "bring back public hanging" and "Scramble for Africa 2.0" #CPC18

— Dawn Foster (@DawnHFoster) October 1, 2018

Bongo Bongo Land.

Or Sirte. You only need to clear the dead bodies away.

"the time he got bullied on twitter and it cost him a job".

Getting bullied for attending a secret eugenics conference with a load of paedophiles?

Young Tories will always be psychos, there are v obvious reasons for that.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DoiMHAFW4AE8QHM.jpg

someone ought to keep an eye on these extremists.

A bonny bunch I must say.

I need to get my reading glasses on!

I presume that guy with the "Fuck The NHS" shirt has something much more contentious on there, that his friend is covering with his hand.

No 'Fuck Business' tees?

ws of shame tbf

It used be Nelson Mandela they wanted to hang, who do they want to hang now I wonder?

(xp) You mean the blonde who will be breaking up Boris Johnson's next marriage 10 years from now?

the nice thing about ws's of shame is that they can remain a shallow delight

The dude behind her in the glasses appears to be a fan.

TBF the guy who wants to fuck the NHS doesn’t have a hitler moustache like the guy on the far left and he does seem to ❤️ “Hammer and sickle”.

It’s a travesty there’s no hammer and sickle emoji the best we can do are ⚒🛠🇦🇴

bless him, a Red October tribute as well!