Frijolero posted:

https://twitter.com/jeremycorbyn/status/915645208141881344

Corbyn's mum punched loving Nazis and you should too.

THE ETERNAL BOY!!!

babypolis posted:

i didnt know she was a communist and shes a national icon here

thought i guess that kinda explains why i didnt know

Zeroisanumber posted:

She literally hosed Leon Trotsky and people don't know that she's a communist?

That's some high-test historical whitewashing.

tarbrush posted:

More important than the Frida bracelet or the coughing was the fact that she basically lifted Ed Miliband's manifesto wholesale and the Tory conference applauded her for it. I have never seen the Overton window shift so far so fast.

tarbrush posted:

More important than the Frida bracelet or the coughing was the fact that she basically lifted Ed Miliband's manifesto wholesale and the Tory conference applauded her for it. I have never seen the Overton window shift so far so fast.

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According to the Financial Times’ Chris Giles (paywall) Philip Hammond, the chancellor, is “facing what officials describe as ‘a bloodbath’ in the public finances in his Budget next month as weak economic forecasts derail the government’s plans. Giles says: 

As much as two-thirds of the £26bn of headroom in the public finances that the chancellor created last year as a buffer for the economy through the Brexit period is likely to be wiped out after the government’s fiscal watchdog concludes its forecasts for growth have been too optimistic.

The Office for Budget Responsibility will publish on Tuesday a new analysis suggesting it has persistently over-estimated Britain’s productivity over the past seven years and will give a broad hint that it will rectify the situation with a more pessimistic Budget forecast.

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Crossposting from UKMT

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In a fast-developing second trade spat, Washington has teamed up with Brazil, Argentina, Canada, New Zealand, Uruguay and Thailand to reject Britain’s proposed import arrangements for crucial agricultural goods such as meat, sugar and grains after Brexit. The fact that the U.K.’s opponents include the U.S., Canada and New Zealand is a significant setback because Britain is trying to style its former colonies as natural strategic and commercial allies after it has quit the EU.

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Britain is trying to style its former colonies as natural strategic and commercial allies

Stabbatical posted:

seen in UKMT
US rounds on Britain over food quotas as post-Brexit trade woes deepen


lol

I met a few Leavers at the time saying that we'd start basically a new EU of Commonwealth countries & the US and it's good to see them be exceedingly owned by real life (even if it means I and everyone else here starves to death)

bump_fn posted:

someone photoshop this im lazy tnx

Frijolero posted:

LOL

Am I correct in understanding that the UK and EU didn't bother consulting with those countries and just wanted to transfer some EU arrangement onto the UK? Then everyone else said, "gently caress off" ?

UrbicaMortis posted:

I'm starting to think that, despite how much they talk about them, most brexiteers don't actually know anything about trade deals.

Pener Kropoopkin posted:

We should send them Trump and they can give us Corbyn. Trump knows how to make deals.

Squizzle posted:

yo guvnas

check in w the discord if you want to ensure you can keep talking together in a cspam milieu eleven if the forums continue falling apart randomly

https://discord.gg/3qVrHJE

you can even set up a brit home 4 limeys w/in the discord, alongside the general chat, book club, nite crew, and day crew things

Gum posted:

Crossposting from UKMT

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Conservative donors call for May to stand down over 'bullying' by Johnson

Founder of Pimlico Plumbers says PM is being undermined by foreign secretary, while others say party should emulate Labour’s wide financial support base

Conservative donors have called for Theresa May to stand down because she is being “bullied” by colleagues including Boris Johnson.

Following an ill-fated conference speech and rumours of a backbench plot against the prime minister, two wealthy supporters said the party must act quickly and install another leader.

In a further development, the party is discussing plans to emulate Labour and widen its financial support away from large donations from a select group of wealthy donors to smaller donations from its ordinary members.


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Charlie Mullins, the founder of London-based Pimlico Plumbers, said May must leave because she was being bullied and undermined by Johnson.

He said: “She has got to go for her own sake. It is getting embarrassing. If this was a boxing match, the fight would have been stopped. She has been put in a position where she is being bullied, she is being intimidated, they are making her life hell. These are Conservative people who are destroying this woman and it needs to stop.”

Mullins, who has donated £50,000 and spent £30,000 on a stall at this year’s conference, said the foreign secretary had been successfully undermining the prime minister.

“She is a broken woman. They are setting her up,” he said. “Boris is not a fool. He knows what he is doing. Boris is knocking her at every opportunity he gets because he wants to be prime minister. Boris has been a big part of destroying this woman.”

May has previously posed for photographs with Mullins. She visited the headquarters of his business in south London and met him at a fundraising ball this summer.

Mullins said the party should act before Jeremy Corbyn capitalised on the Tories’ weakness. “If we don’t do something about it, Labour will take over, and we can’t risk that,” he said.

A second donor said May appeared to be too weak to fight the business community’s corner and should leave by Christmas if the party wants to retain financial support from entrepreneurs.

The businessman, who has given more than £300,000 in total, said: “[The party] is losing support in the City. People worry that the Tories are taking us over a Brexit cliff edge and May looks too weak to control her ministers.

“We need to act now. Whether she is replaced by an old guard member like Michael Fallon or new blood, I am not sure.”

The Conservatives have grown increasingly concerned about the party’s failing support from big donors in the business community.

While the Tories generated £1.5m in membership fees last year, Labour raised £14.4m, according to figures published in August by the Electoral Commission.

One major donor told the Guardian that party officials were now considering plans to emulate Labour’s successful funding model and encourage smaller donations from the wider membership.

John Griffin, the founder of taxi firm Addison Lee who has given more than £4m to the Conservatives, told the Guardian that he has had preliminary talks with party officials about helping to widen financial support from a select few individuals to other less wealthy donors.

“I think the party has performed very poorly in that particular area, so I have a cunning plan and we will be having meetings about that this month. They have underperformed in the area of collecting money,” he said.

“We don’t really want donors to give large sums. We want lots of people to give smaller sums. That is the plan. The Labour party are making a better fist of it. We need to consider that and emulate them.”

Griffin declined to go into further details but said he raised the idea with May at a fundraising dinner at the Dorchester hotel in central London last month. “She supports the idea in principle,” he said.

Griffin, who gave £1m to the party before this year’s election, said he wantedMay to remain as prime minister and called for Johnson to be given a “smacked bum” for undermining her.

“Boris has been a naughty boy and needs a smacked bum. That’s where I stand. He is a nice bloke, but there is a time for everything and he needs a bit more dignity,” he said. “I have encouraged the prime minister to make sure that these people in the cabinet stand in line and she must exercise her power.”

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