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Nigel Farage has “effectively handed” seats such as Hartlepool to Labour with his pledge to contest every seat and potentially split the leave vote in December’s election, the chairman of the town’s Conservative party has said.

Ray Martin-Wells said the two pro-Brexit parties would “take each other out” and relinquish a once in a generation chance to remove Labour MPs in their north-east heartland. The former councillor said he was “surprised and disappointed that [Farage] will effectively hand seats to Labour who clearly don’t want to support Brexit”.

He added: “I think if we had a clear run at it we’d have a strong chance – Boris is a straight-talker which goes down very well in Hartlepool – but if the Brexit party stand we will just take each other out.”

jabby posted:

Glad they've gone with someone other than the BBC, the chances of Labour getting a fair hearing there were nonexistent.

Guavanaut posted:

And now, 50 questions about nuking the Arabs from a sentient ball of ham.

Rarity posted:

Just spotted that Jezza's poppy is askew. How can this traitor show so much hate to our glorious Britane!!!

gh0stpinballa posted:

intense "camp counsellor embezzling the milk money" vibes from swinson tbh

Braggart posted:

Oh my. Is anyone currently in Photoshop working on Jo Swinson's _Stop Brexit Bus?

Sanitary Naptime posted:

Consider the above a teaser, but the pod crew will have a full and proper announcement to make this tomorrow evening.

Sanitary Naptime posted:

The world is not ready for the UKMT Party

Tijuana Bibliophile posted:

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/nov/03/not-our-mission-private-fire-crews-protect-the-insured-not-the-public

cool

Jose posted:

they're secretly jealous of his secret aging techniques since he's 61

bessantj posted:

The fuckers run Wales like their own personal fiefdom. Don't know if its because they seem so safe here or what.

Guavanaut posted:

He's used scientific socialism to create a machine where as they steal hours and years off of us in the form of work, he does it from them literally.

Sanitary Naptime posted:

Half seven onwards

I know I said in the discord I was going to bed, don’t @ me

WhatEvil posted:

https://twitter.com/MattCartoonist/status/1189594345671974912?s=20

As if you could buy this kind of content for a measly £29k/month.

goddamnedtwisto posted:

Most of his cartoons also work with the various New Yorker cartoon formulas - replace the text with "Get a load of this rear end in a top hat" or "Ok boomer" and they're at least as funny, and normally considerably funnier, than the originals.

Azza Bamboo posted:

To produce a picture like that could take up to two hours. There's little technical flexes he does, mainly having multiple subjects in a frame in consistent perspective, and managing to have his unusual face drawing technique be legible at numerous angles. That two hours is assuming he's only producing one picture, and not doing the photographer's strategy of making a shitload of images to only submit the best one. It's not worth £29k a month but it's definitely not poo poo. The man's tidiness, watercolouring and linework are things I am envious of.

Jose posted:

eddie marsan having a nice meltdown last night

https://twitter.com/eddiemarsan/status/1191141039639273472?s=20
https://twitter.com/eddiemarsan/status/1191145849755197440?s=20

Mr Phillby posted:

Feeling encouraged to post more and lurk less. You all brought this upon yourself.

I've been following UKMT for years now, altough I did bounce off the thread during the Milliband years because it seemed just pages of arguing about Zizek from my limited exposure at the time. Over time thread has has helped me crystalize my political leanings from 'uncritcally votes labour (blair was good), gently caress the tories' to 'Full socialism now, purge the hated blarites and wreckers but especially gently caress the tories'. It also opened my eyes reading other peoples experiences with gender and identity itt and I got to say 'I am a homosexual' to my parents for the first time last night and I've never been happier.

Feeling positive and optomistic despite everything rn.

Tesseraction posted:

"This is your brain. This is your brain, on fubpee" [picture of hundreds of baby spiders on their mother's back]

Government pushes ahead with plans for 'festival of Brexit' posted:

Boris Johnson’s government is pressing ahead with a controversial post-Brexit festival of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, inherited from Theresa May, but which the new prime minister had been urged to shelve.

Dean Creamer, a delivery director for the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham, has been put in charge of planning for the £120m project – dubbed the “festival of Brexit” by critics – which is due to take place in 2022, the Guardian has learned.

However, figures from arts institutions have privately expressed concern about the project, which some say is likely to alienate remain-supporting visitors at museums and galleries that are expected to take part.

There had been previous warnings that the idea – announced by May in 2018 as an initiative that would “strengthen our precious union” – could inflame tensions in Northern Ireland, coming a year after the centenary of Irish partition and on the 100th anniversary of the start of the Irish civil war.

The festival was billed as a showcase for “the UK’s unique strengths in creativity and innovation” with echoes of the 1851 Great Exhibition and the 1951 festival of Britain.

A pledge was made to deliver “an exciting programme” of events on arts, culture, design and technology in the same year as the Queen’s platinum jubilee and to “amplify” key anniversary celebrations including the BBC’s 100th birthday and the 75th anniversary of the Edinburgh international and fringe festivals.

But one person in the museum sector – one of the stakeholders identified by government planners – said: “A lot of museums are quite wary of the whole thing. There’s also a sense that if it is a festival of Brexit then it turns into an ethical issue. Half of the audiences would be completely hostile to Brexit.”

In response to a freedom of information request by the Guardian, the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) said it had established a festival of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 2022 programme board, which met regularly. Members included representatives from the Treasury and Cabinet Office. A delivery body with a budget of £120m is being appointed.

Another senior figure in the culture sector said there had been talks with officials at the DCMS, but added: “Nothing has really flowed to the institutions who might be interested in it. There is infrastructure in place but everyone is waiting until the general election to see what happens next.”

They added that the person in charge of planning was Creamer, who has a track record of infrastructure projects.

The same source predicted: “The real challenge will be to get an artistic director. It really depends on how they seek to brand it. We expect that there would be a major effort to make it a consciously national and non-metropolitan endeavour.”

It is thought the idea of the festival will appeal to Johnson’s love of set-piece events such as the Olympic Games, which he was able to capitalise on during his time as mayor of London.

But the Lib Dem MP Layla Moran, the party’s spokesperson on DCMS matters, said: “I’m astounded that the government is going ahead with what is basically a Brexit festival despite everything that is going on. It is a complete waste of money at a time when funding cuts to our schools, hospitals and local services continue despite government announcements to the contrary.

“The Conservatives are trying to distract us with bread and circuses, but it won’t work.”

Lord Ashton of Hyde, who at the time was parliamentary under-secretary of state at the DCMS, told the House of Lords in March that the festival was an exciting opportunity to celebrate creativity and innovation across the UK, and the museum sector was expected to play an important role.

Unkempt posted:

Maybe it's just my goonish face-blindness but you can't tell me that isn't Theresa May.

VideoGames posted:

I just noticed it says "Jo Swinson's Liberal Democracts" like she owns the party or something. She really is making everything about her. Even Jonhson is not doing that with the tories.

Tiger Millionaire posted:

Yeah but surely if your leader isn't charismatic, well known or liked you'd have your optics go the route of "The Party, not the person" or focusing on the local MP hopefuls rather than slapping JO PRESENTS... THE LIBDEMS on the side of a bus and driving it round the country.

I don't understand.

Tesseraction posted:

web design is my passion http://www.brexitparty2019.co.uk/index.php

Jippa posted:

The UKMT is going nuts. I can barely keep up.

Ms Adequate posted:

One of these episodes really is just going to be every UKMT goon laughing for 97 minutes

HJB posted:

The butterfly meme, but "Is this purdah?"

Angepain posted:

fake edit: partially beaten by HJB but going to post anyway. never stop posting

OwlFancier posted:

The glasgow clockwork orange sounds like secretarianism.

Guavanaut posted:

gh0stpinballa posted:

you are very eloquent, i would have been way too nervous

Miftan posted:

Also every episode will now be exactly 69 minutes.

goddamnedtwisto posted:

Speak for yourself, for me it's sheer spite. If we ever reach socialist utopia I'll just crumble to dust (now there's an incentive for everyone to vote Labour)

goddamnedtwisto posted:

I'll think about it, but I can't help but feel I'll lose the air of mystery I've so carefully weaved in this thread if you all hear what I sound like.

namesake posted:

Hmm, still a little worried about the head to head, unless they have a very good moderator Johnson is going to just bluster his way through and give Corbyn a lot of poo poo.

Failed Imagineer posted:

When I was maybe 15 I went to a house party in some flat and one of the guys living there stripped off to demonstrate to the whole room that (a) he only had one bollock (b) the extra room made his sack extra stretchy and (c) he had enough stretch to jam some of that skin up his bumhole.

Jedit posted:

Hey guys, I think I've figured out how to bring the Independent Group for Change back on board with Labour. Just give them marijuana. Because if you add a J, they become TIGFJC!