Why can't we read about whatever has been super injunctioned via non-British media outlets?
Because it is decided to be of no importance when Boris shags around when Carrie is pregnant?
https://quillette.com/2020/09/13/the-failure-of-fusionism/
The contradictions of conservatism camouflaged by cultural wars. It is fascinating how the right can whip up support from people who clearly have not done very well out of the system and getting them disparaging socialist ideas and socialists. Boozo's masterly stroke.
NB Is Suella Braverman's mouth and head a fusion from two different people?
It is fascinating how the right can whip up support from people who clearly have not done very well out of the system and getting them disparaging socialist ideas and socialists. Boozo’s masterly stroke.
Don't give them too much credit. They haven't created some masterly 'all things to all men' policy fusion.
They've worked out how to segment some data to determine which lies to tell to which segment knowing that any chance of cross reference by the targets themselves is minimal.
They haven't done anything of intrinsic merit. They've taken the most cynical possible viewpoint and extrapolated from there.
from the comments....
Those voters still - broadly - support him and his goals. Just goes to show that the qualities we often think of as intrinsic to the British character, of honour and the belief in fair play, are just self congratulatory bullshit. When push comes to shove we’re snivelling, weak willed, dishonourable shits who’ll abandon any principle if we decide the prize is worth the cost.
Jesus wept, I’m ashamed of us. I honestly don’t understand how Tory voters can look themselves in the eye.
Nazarin Zaghari-Radcliffe's life still being made an utter hell by Iran, at least partly thanks to good old Boris.
umm, it’s not just shooting though is it.
I can still get in a 5 man Skiff this weekend for example.
Milliband did a number on him today. Took him apart on bill and even said "For the first time in your life take some responsibility" ! Enjoyable watch
Millband's speech I found very interesting today. There were a number of pointed comments which went far beyond anything I've heard before.
He remarked this was all Cummings' idea and just being implemented by Boris. I hadn't heard anyone say anything so blunt previously.
There was also a barbed comment about knowing Boris had a lot on his plate so hadn't time to read his own bill. I wonder what he was alluding to? He didn't tie it to anything specific. I was expecting him to follow it up with a reference to Covid for example but he just left it hanging in the air.
The personal responsibility point was excellent.
We have probably witnessed one of the of the best Commons "assaults"ever seen. It was unrelenting, accurate, witty and there was no response.
Boris does not take well to this...
Ed slinging a bit of s**t keeps Kier clean, good cop bad cop.
Labour need to keep this up.
Is there a highlights show, like Match of the Day? Sounds like I missed a good one.
Enjoy....
https://twitter.com/sebdance/status/1305574401346240513?s=21
Ed should have done a mike drop once he’d utterly taken him apart
I've missed all if it as I've been in A&E since 4pm.
So far...blood test x 1, bp x 2, pulse x 2, temp x 2, cup of tea, ham sandwich.
From what I've read, Ed M has delivered quite a performance; I loved reading the jibes about cummings and johnson ...having a lot on his plate.
I would 100% keep dropping hints at Bojos private life. Not just the Russian but find ways to talk about his kids etc
From the telegraph.....
From seven-stone weakling to strutting muscleman... it’s the incredible return of Ed Miliband .
During the crucial debate on Brexit, Boris Johnson looked on in bewilderment as the former Labour leader came out fighting
good thread here about what comes after johnson
https://twitter.com/RussInCheshire/status/1305610355574558720
Wahaaay! I’ve actually received a reply from my MP. That’s a first. Well... one of his lackeys sent me link to a statement
He’s a lawyer, so it’s full of waffle, but to summarise: I’m voting for this because Dominic Cummings told me to
https://www.jamesdaly.org.uk/news/internal-market-bill-second-reading
Looks like he’s even reading the statement Dom wrote for him
Ed was absolutely sublime, he took de Pfeffel apart and made him look like the vacuous charlatan that he his.
Public appetite for the Tories' desired no deal Brexit has waned now we know that it entails lots of lorries waiting, lots more (not less) "red tape" and potentially food shortages from January. Gove is unelectable, Raab a nonentity, Patel seems to be playing up her sadistic tendencies as a means of distraction from her incompetence, Truss is a national joke. The only thing that seems to be keeping them going is the constant lurching from manufactured crisis to manufactured crisis.
Already emailed my MP, he's already in the doghouse as far as this small town is concerned - we're less than five miles away from a Brexit lorry park.
And once more, a Tory backbench rebellion fails to materialise
I’m shocked!
Probably the wrong thread… but today Johnson spoke about the prospect of the EU stopping all food and agriculture imports from the UK… even the “Project Fear” merchants didn’t go that far when describing how bad Brexit could be for our exports. Sunlit uplands…?
Never underestimate Tory cowardice....however, I think the amendment bill could be interesting.
This is more about exposing Tory infighting/incompetence over Europe AGAIN for all to see.👍
kelvin
Sunlit uplands…?
Sh*tpit downlands? 😆
Only just watched the excerpt of Milliband's speech. Absolutely wonderful stuff. It actually shows you what happens when bull sh*t gets absolutely spanked by simple intrinsic truths.
Anywhere I can watch the full debate/ arse kicking??
kimbers, your post about what comes next reminded me about this one from a few days ago; the entire article is interesting but Oborne's analysis of the johnson-gove-cummings triumverate is highly plausible.
BillMC
Free Member‘sober’
https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/uk-brexit-crisis-boris-johnson-
Posted 3 days ago
Don't forget that gove owed his continued political career to cummings who helped him out of a couple of major problems - potential resigning/sacking issues - as education secretary.
This clearly shows that cummings has found his useful idiots in gove and johnson.
Anywhere I can watch the full debate/ arse kicking??
With the Russian he has a super in junction.
I’m still sufficiently naive to believe that MPs will vote with their conscience.
Let’s see.
How’s that naïveté workin’ out for ya?
Someone pointed out on twitter that in 2019 Tory MPs were threatened with the whip if they didn't vote for WA and now in 2020 they're being threatens with the whip if they don't vote against the WA. But obviously Boris and Cummings have a long term plan and aren't just bodging along.
But obviously Boris and Cummings have a long term plan and aren’t just bodging along.
The long term plan is the scorched earth of a no deal Brexit. Thats been the final destination since 2016. It's all they ever wanted. Its what their Disaster Capitalist paymasters demand
As that lying charlatan signed that deal, as he hailed it as a triumph, as he went into a general election championing it as 'Getting Brexit Done, does anyone believe for one minute that he ever meant to honour it? Or that him and Cummings planned right from the off to do exactly what they're doing now? Throw a hand grenade into negotiations to truly scupper any chance of a negotiated deal
^^^
The one outcome that can be guaranteed in all this is No Deal 'achieved' by being ****s. Scuppering every attempt at compromise by being dishonest.
That is government policy when push comes to shove.
Looks like the wise gift of choice this Xmas is a large bag of pasta shapes and a twelve pack of Andrex.
There will be a big part of Cummings in particular who will be viewing covid wave 2 as a phenomenon that has some merits. Trying to hide the impact of No Deal as being covid driven panic buying is likely to be a major focus for him. Not so easy to hide 7000 lorries stuck on the M20, though.
Not so easy to hide 7000 lorries stuck on the M20, though.
The arse of a scapegoat is infinitely cavernous, whether said goat is European/and/or brown/‘left‘/and/or/‘right’
‘Dunkirk spirit will carry us through‘. Us vs them narrative will allow every self-inflicted privation to be celebrated and weathered as a patriotic duty. Once those made wretched by all of this take to the streets - they too shall be marked the ‘enemy of the British People’. The poor (working and non-working). The sick and/or disabled. The immigrant. The protestor. The non-white.
Sticking a flag to cover over your self-evident shitshow only works if you also sew a label on an ‘enemy of the people’. Authoritarianism is here again yet it’s being sold as ‘the will of the people’. It took merely decades to repackage it in a more palatable wrapper. A prescient interview from only last October:
‘There is a reason why law (should) come ‘before a King’.
Twitter has done a good job on the Miliband speech:
https://www.thepoke.co.uk/2020/09/15/hilarious-boris-johnsons-face-as-ed-miliband-took-him-down/
BJ looks quite defeated and hungover and for someone with his colossal arrogance and bluster that is a significant look. January is a long time in a crisis to let Boozo carry on making a hash of things. Heads are being kept down and distant so soon it will be this little piggy's turn for the knacker's yard. Problem is if Gove steps in then we've still got Cummings. I can almost imagine the Tories electing an alternative just to get rid of the terminal onanist.
BJ looks quite defeated and hungover and for someone with his colossal arrogance and bluster that is a significant look. January is a long time in a crisis to let Boozo carry on making a hash of things. Heads are being kept down and distant so soon it will be this little piggy’s turn for the knacker’s yard. Problem is if Gove steps in then we’ve still got Cummings. I can almost imagine the Tories electing an alternative just to get rid of the terminal onanist.
Gove, Hunt, Patel, Raab, Sunak.
Jesus wept.
Gove is just a less flamboyant rubbery opportunist version of Johnson, with a bit more genuine zealoutry thrown in. He has a lot of baggage and I think fancies himself the kingmaker.
Hunt is too Remainy. Much as Cummings et al would love to have him trying to clear up the mess, it would strike an odd chord to have him. I can't see the blue-rinser flag-wavers going for that.
Patel? We might as well get to work building the 're-education' camps now. Although utilising defunct refugee holding centres (all the migrants will have been machine gunned in the channel) would probably suffice for a bit.
Raab. Utter moron who has one party trick, namely getting all 'Young Hannibal Lecter' and staring menacingly with a throbbing vein on his forehead and a sheen of rage-induced sweat. Thick as mince.
Sunak. He's going to have to have the job of telling some poor sod they've got to pay for 2020. If he mentions anything about wealthy individuals, companies or pensioners he is a goner.
What a rotten bunch to pick from.
He’s going to have to have the job of telling some poor sod they’ve got to pay for 2020.
Who’s paying for the upheaval of 2021 ?
Starmer must be gutted he wrote such a brutal takedown then had to hand it over to Ed (who did a fine job of delivering it)
Johnson just looks like he aged about 20 years in 20 minutes.
Johnson just looks like he aged about 20 years in 20 minutes.
Only because of how it looks. Not any genuine contrition or even annoyance about the specifics.
This is precisely why the fly-tipped sofa jumped into a fridge to avoid scrutiny.
What a rotten bunch to pick from.
Whichever. It’s all the same shit sandwich. The common characteristic is any or either will guaranteed a rotten three years ahead. The likes of which 99% of the population have never known. So just more wounding, salt, and stiff British uppers before they wheel in Farage for the next phase - ‘Just in time’ to save ‘us’ from ‘them’ (the left/immigrants/Muslims/disabled/homosexuals/The French/The Germans/etc)
I understand that it was Ed's speech, not Starmer's; gov statement was going to be led by alok sharma and Ed is his direct opposite number.
johnson then jumped in to lead for the tories so sharma was relegated; Starmer was self-isolating so Ed was able to humiliate johnson directly and personally.
Saw a newsflash that a Tory MP has resigned over the bill but can't find it now, or anything to corroborate it?
MCTD, I think this is the only resignation to date...
Rehman Chishti
@Rehman_Chishti
I’ve written to the PM resigning as PM’s Special Envoy on FoRB. I can’t support Internal Market Bill in its current form, which unilaterally break UK’s legal commitments. As an MP for 10yrs & former Barrister, values of respecting rule of law & honouring one’s word are dear to me
I wonder if Ed is doing PMQs tomorrow? Here's hoping he gets to surprise fat boy at the despatch box
