The problem with the Progressive Alliance putting all of their h'eggs in the single market basket is that Theresa May whomping them is - according to their logic - a Hard Mandate for a Hard Brexit. Then what can they possibly complain about?
Theresa May's Conservatives
Jeremy Corbyn's Labour
Tim Farron's Liberal Democrats
Paul Nuttall's UKIP
2 people's Greens
Nicholas Durgeon's Scottish Nationalists
Satan's Sinn Fein
Dr Ian Paisley's DUP
Some other bunch of nonces
I'm foreign, but I wish I were an Englishman
The problem with the Progressive Alliance putting all of their h'eggs in the single market basket is that Theresa May whomping them is - according to their logic - a Hard Mandate for a Hard Brexit. Then what can they possibly complain about?
They'll always be able to argue that the public didn't vote for a Hard Brexit, a) because nobody knows what a Hard Brexit is and b) because that there isn't a ballot paper that says 'Hard Brexit' on it.
This Liberal Democrat advert is a bit odd. The idea seems to be that the shit news keeps coming, but the people in it don't seem to be having any problems (other than Tim Farron being in their street suspiciously early, as if he has been out bumming all night).
Labour are promising to ban zero hour contracts and arms sales to Saudi Arabia. This is good.
They've also gained on Tory scum in the polls.
I wish you'd stop referring to them as scum. You've never been governed by them.
What? Yes I have.
As much as zero hour contracts are a load of wank, banning them won't solve anything and will probably make it worse. If you want to ban capitalism, fair enough.
What is the "it" they would be made worse?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/election-2017-39775693
Fuck it, let's run with it. Jez4PM.
At least under the Tories we can guarantee a strong and stable NHS, police force, teaching sector, economy, welfare system, after care provisions, mental health provisions, prisons...
.....
Twitter is full of 'OMG Theresa May is terrible' and OK maybe she is, but to think the alternative is better is completely deluded.
Guy Verhofstadt was trolling STRONG & STABLE yesterday, and fair play to him; but the reaction to the other European business was a bit lol. What do you know, it's actually them that want the hardest of landings. It's almost as if they are a bunch of fanatics.
Watching them gradually cave in will be one of the funnier things in my lifetime.
I was lolling at 'Commission sources' briefing things and Ian Dunt wanking himself into a coma.
They have no real reason to cave in though so I'm not sure I share your optimism.
They need to sell their stuff to Britain. Early in negotiations (or before they've even started) there's obviously going to be daft sabre rattling on both sides. Typically each side chooses its favoured sabre rattling and says 'I told you so!', while ignoring the other side's.
This Corbyn response to Diane Abbott's cock up is why he is so great. No rapid PR sweating and Malcolm Tucker bullshit, he just stands outside a Co-op somewhere and calmly chats away like the High Sparrow himself.
Other than something formalising the status of citizens here and there, we're not getting anything out of Europe. They're like the waxworks running the Soviet Union during the eighties, and all they will do is prove exactly why we had to leave.
If that Conservative Party broadcast is anything to go off, Theresa May is significantly more popular than the party as a whole, and they want to flatten everybody.
You still have to adhere to their standards to sell to them anyway and their standards will have to apply to anything you buy. You now just don't get a voice to influence the direction of the giant boat.
In which case the European Union should merge with China.
Originally Posted by Jimmy Floyd
that is bang on
I rather enjoyed that even without understanding the actual reference.
This Tory strategy of saying absolutely nothing that isn't claiming anyone who isn't them would plunge the country into chaos is alright when your strongest foe is the policy obelisk blokes Twitter feed but what happens when someone even vaguely competetent comes along and/or Brexit doesn't cure all the worlds ills? They're fucked, no?
Camerons platform was shite for my personal politics but at least I knew where he stood on 90% of things. All the people left seem to be giant morons (Davis, Boris, Fox) or charlatans (May, Gove).
They'll get done in about 15-20 years' time when people are ready for another Blair.
As I was saying.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-39790805
If he comes round and washes my car I'll definitely think about considering voting for him.
The Labour campaign so far has shat on the Tory one from a great height. Luckily campaigns make no difference.
His Twitter feed is excellent it must be said. Was he trying too hard to be taken seriously back in the day or did he always have that sense of humor?
It seems he got told how to be 'likeable' and became unlikeable.
Political consultants trying to make people likeable is always hilarious considering I don't think there's a more distasteful job in the world.
Funny you should mention political consultants, it's been a quiet afternoon in Seoul so I've been re-reading this and trying to think about its lessons for the current campaign.
The main one, being as I am a rabid consumer of 'SW1 media', is that the Tories will piss it with a Blair-sized majority.
I don't think they tried to make him likeable. They tried to make him 'tough', and less of a gimp, which was always doomed to failure due to him being a gimp.
ITV is having a laugh with this 'debate' of theirs. Theresa will dodge it and Corbyn will, correctly, also dodge it so we should get a good 2 hours of Tim Farron and Paul Nuttall re-running the shitter end of the EU referendum arguments.
The Prime Minister giving an official speech telling Europe to fuck off is the peak of so many things.
I'd love to produce some sort of quantitative table mapping various commentators' reactions to the PM's speech earlier and the line of their comment pieces during the 6 month run up to the referendum.
UKIP.
If this is anything to go by, the Tory majority next month (sorry, Theresa May's strong and stable majority in the national interest) will be pushing 300.
So the Lib Dems just won a seat because the Conservative member literally drew the short straw.
Why is Fred West your avatar?
15% turnout in Dundee in some places.
I didn't even turn out for mine (which is a first). These were the candidates:
Conservative: vile, caked up old bitch who runs for the county council on what she falsely believes to be a personal vote.
Lib Dem: mad, evil cow who has just defected from the Tories over Brexit and now spends her days spamming Twitter with Tim Farron pictures and videos.
Labour: mate, you're running for Labour in Surrey.
UKIP: idiot.
Conservative will win with a Kim Jong-Un style majority.
I guess Chinny is probably out of a job soon then.
Worth it for BREXIT.
Lefties everywhere pushing this line it seems. When will they learn?Former Scottish first minister Alex Salmond says the Conservatives have "eliminated UKIP by becoming UKIP".
He told BBC News: "One very interesting trend when you see the disappearance of UKIP from English politics, and Welsh politics for that matter, is the extent to which the Conservative party have become UKIP.
"They have eliminated UKIP by becoming UKIP. And the sort of extreme language that Theresa May used in Downing Street the other day - I mean that could have come from Nigel Farage."
SNP losing to Tories all over the place in Scotland. So much irony that they are responsible for the Tory resurgence.
Ferguslie Park, recently named most deprived part of the UK, electing a Tory council.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk...-a7718161.html
This stuff I just find hilarious. Focus groups must be having Theresa May themed orgies or something.
Interesting that they're saying vote for TM rather than the Tories. The election is going to be an absolute massacre nationwide.
Staunch unionists (see: orange scum).Ferguslie Park, recently named most deprived part of the UK, electing a Tory council.
I heard Caroline Lucas on the radio saying that the silver lining to their own failures was UKIP tanking. Where exactly does she think those votes are going?
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