i say swears online posted:

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/nov/30/boris-johnson-deal-betrayal-brexiters-no-deal

lmao rip

quote:

The upcoming deal will spectacularly fail that test: voting for it risks Starmer’s reputation for straight-dealing ... Looking back, it will seem clear that an opposition should have opposed it. Abstention is not pusillanimous, but the only honourable option.
...
Of course, Labour could be obliged to vote for it and save the nation if a humiliated Johnson can’t stop his MPs voting it down. But that’s unlikely; and to vote for this atrocious deal in any other circumstance would be Starmer’s first serious mistake.

peanut- posted:

I legit don't understand this tweet. What is she trying to say?

EvilHawk posted:

Yeah it's 10 + a nob which is really annoying because now I have 70 boyz and 7 nobs.

peanut- posted:

With reference to that Helen Pidd tweet about the eternally racist Northern brain that craves seeing people deported, it turns out the Tory minister responsible for all the deportations is the least popular minister in the red wall seats by some margin.

https://twitter.com/jamesjohnson252/status/1334561026658996226?s=20

Jose posted:

Failed Imagineer posted:

X-posting from the capitalism.png thread because it seems to intersect with a bunch of thread interests beans

quote:

Bath members were due to vote through a donation totalling £3,600 to three charities: Bath Food Bank £1200, Mercy in Action – a charity that helps poor children £1200, Julian House charity for homeless people £1200.

A party official wrote to the CLP officers banning the vote – and threatening action against the CLP if the vote went ahead:

quote:

The aim of Motion One is to donate a significant amount of CLP Funds outside of the CLP and in a way not supportive of CLP Campaigning. This is not an appropriate use of CLP funds nor in accordance with Labour Party rules which state; Chapter 7, Clause 2.A.2 which states the responsibility of CLP’s to “secure the return of Labour representatives to Parliament and local government bodies, by promoting the policies and principles of the Party throughout the Constituency”. Therefore this proposal for inappropriate use of party funds should not be tabled, considered, or discussed at your meeting. If I become aware that the CLP has voted on and in support of this proposal I will instruct the CLP Treasurer that the funds should not be released and then seek guidance from the Governance and Legal Unit on possible further action.

Instead, Bath CLP was told that it must put forward a plan to prove how it will support the party’s campaign to elect its candidate in next year’s election for the south-west region’s mayor – and if the regional office likes the plan, only then might the party approve the spending on homeless people, poor children and the hungry.

Bath CLP is one of the country’s wealthiest, having built up investments over the years worth more than £1.3 million pounds. The £3,600 was budgeted 2020 expenditure for the CLP’s conference delegation – in other words, it was never going to be available for campaigning in the mayoral election.

Darth Walrus posted:

https://twitter.com/paulburston/status/1337313829978509312?s=21

bleak lol

Private Speech posted:

LMBO I mean yeah that would make any trade deal difficult.

a pipe smoking dog posted:

My feeling is he's actively stupid. He seems exactly the sort of boss who decides that as things aren't working he'll go in and fix it himself, but is too lazy to actually read the file and understand what is going on so just fucks it up even more.

I refuse to believe that Johnson is smart enough to understand how tariffs work.

Jaeluni Asjil posted:

Anyone seen Jezza's announcement yet? Looked on his FB and couldn't see anything.

Communist Thoughts posted:

Also: the Corbyn project lol

Sad Panda posted:

The lack of internet savvy from Team Corbyn is slightly shocking in not registering some obvious URLs. https://projectforpeaceandjustice.com/ set up as a troll website already.

quote:

Copyright © 2020 Project for peace and justice - All Rights Reserved.This Project does Not accept the WORKING DEFINITION OF ANTISEMITISM by the IHRA

quote:

Seeing a need for energetic, nonprofit work in this area, we formed our organization after some of us rightly got booted out of Labour! and the commute to Hamas HQ wasn't covered by expenses.

Food justice is an important part of community justice. We take donations form local businesses and use them to fight hunger. One of us has an allotment too .

Nutapii posted:

He's actually always been a fat gently caress, he just wears oversized suit jackets for the optical illusion of being slim and tall, and thus eccentric as opposed to owner baron.
Note the straining button on the left.
Ain't none of that flowing freely from chest to waist, it's all filled, again straining button lower left.

Tanith posted:

Comrade Fakename posted:

This coronavirus variant stuff is a bullshit excuse made up by the government for why they’ve let another surge happen, right?

namesake posted:

The more I think about it the more I'm just astounded that the government didn't start by introducing a 10 point scale or something with 0 being 'We've cured COVID 19' and 9 being 'Stay at home even if your house is on fire' and then just use that in all circumstances rather than introducing new rankings and tiers and scales whenever their stupid controls fail.

Even as new things come down the pipe like the impact of schools reopening or a new strain it would only require an upgrade or at worst a sector specific change to the scale system rather than unclear new restrictions getting fired out at random.

Jose posted:

I hate to agree with Rafael behr but this seems right

gh0stpinballa posted:

do you think this will be enough to get the government to admit they're lying about this second strain

bump_fn posted:

amazing just amazing ahahhahahahaha

Jose posted:

when you've definintely not lost so many members you're realising you've poo poo the bed

https://twitter.com/AaronBastani/status/1341025218257702912?s=20

Guavanaut posted:

My cups are all looking a bit chipped so I'll just use it to buy 8x £25 Jess Phillips cups with Jess Phillips on them and the iconic tagline 'Jess Phillips'.

Jaeluni Asjil posted:

Whoever the woman is, she's wearing that face women wear when they're hoping their friends will think the guy with his arm round her is a boyfriend.
(Don't ask me how I know.. my sad and pathetic younger life writ large)

But yuck, how could anyone... bleurgh...

Convex posted:

I've started (posting about PC game giveaways), so I'll finish: Brigador is free on GOG today. I don't know much about the game but the soundtrack is

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vAzIuxldPhE

(you get the soundtrack as an extra with the game)

DesperateDan posted:

It's not just HS2, the entire ecosystem is taking a serious kicking and thanks to extensive greenwashing efforts many people think it's all fine and dandy because the number of trees went up and it really loving isn't.




Okay I'm gonna put my soapbox away and go order some more trees now

Borrovan posted:

Thank you, I must have made a half dozen "actually destroying irreplaceable natural resources is bad" arguments wrt HS2 itt & am getting pretty bored of it, yours is much more memorable (E: & well informed)

Sanford posted:

Thanks to whoever pointed out you could get it for a tenner from Epic Games!

Ghost Leviathan posted:

Play whatever, embrace failure.

Apraxin posted:

https://twitter.com/DanielHewittITV/status/1342119843152146437
Victory for Bullldog Boris, Brexiting Britain is Brilliant Again!

(- special report by Boris Johnson)

Kernel Monsoon posted:

So where is the deal? When do we find out all the terrible concessions the UK made at the last second?

Guavanaut posted:

WhatEvil posted:

Yeah it was like "On your knees, bitch" or something, to a man. The man he said it to said "it was clearly jovial". Obviously it would have been better if he wouldn't have said it, but he did apologise and say that he realised it was inappropriate after, but because Clive is on the left, Jess Phillips made a big thing of it.

There may be other things I don't know about.

quote:

In terms of the allegations that happened at the party conference in 2017, they were dismissed, the case was dropped by the party. When people understand the facts – which is that during a selfie I put my arm around her and my hand slapped her thigh. She claims I squeezed her bum, but I can’t remember that. It’s entirely possible that I did hug her in for the selfie, and it could be seen as a squeeze, that’s something that I have to accept.

I’ve spent 40 plus years as Clive Lewis, and one of the things you have to come to terms with is you are no longer just Clive Lewis – you are Clive Lewis MP. It does come with responsibilities, and so someone asking to be in a picture with you, and you putting your arm around them and hugging them in, [I have to remember that I’m doing it as] Clive Lewis MP, in the public eye. So there is a power dynamic, which means that you just can’t do that. So I have had to change how I engage with people – women especially. It’s a really sad thing to say, but it is a sign of our times. I also have to think about that when I’m alone with female activists. You never want to be in a situation where someone can make a claim when it’s their word against yours. Those are the things you have to think about now: you shouldn’t have to, and I never did before, but I think since the #MeToo movement, there’s a more heightened sense about those power relationships.

goddamnedtwisto posted:

https://twitter.com/BrewDogJames/status/1344584543341326338

I've got a vague recollection of Brewdog being Bad somehow but this is a shitload more than that melted Thundercat in charge of Wetherspoons has ever offered to help the country in his entire loving life.