The Political Thread

[IndigoPrime]

Election!
Davis: *offers words suggesting possibly softening of Brexit*
McDonnell on telly: No to single market! Will of the people!
Davis, today: Labour wants the same! Hard Brexit back on! WILL OF THE PEOPLE!

FFS, Labour. Seriously. FFS.

[Mikey]

Good for you Jim. I'd follow the same course of action, though as my MP is one of the Terrible Ten, I feel it would be an exercise akin to pissing directly into a strong headwind. That and he's so fuckin thick I doubt he can read.

[Rately]

If there is even an ounce of truth in the reports this morning that the DUP are leveraging for marching to be allowed in flashpoint areas like the Garvaghy Road, and if the Conservatives even consider it, they should hang their heads in shame.

[Steve Green]

Election!
Davis: *offers words suggesting possibly softening of Brexit*
McDonnell on telly: No to single market! Will of the people!
Davis, today: Labour wants the same! Hard Brexit back on! WILL OF THE PEOPLE!

FFS, Labour. Seriously. FFS.

May as well be divining the will of the people via a fucking seance.

[Goaty]

So the Queen's speech is delaying, that means no deal with DUP been sealed. Was Theresa May lied to the Queen when she formed the government?

[TordelBack]

Sounds likely to me, Goaty, May can't open her mouth without lying or u-turning, that's why they gave her a three-word slogan to parrot instead.

I still don't understand this business of defining Brexit by reference to the referendum, which (bizarrely to one used to voting in constitutional referenda) contained no specifics at all.  Assuming that the 52% voted according to the dishonest crock of shit the official Vote Leave camp were selling, most of whose MP membership retained their seats, and given that the extreme outliers of the gang of Brexiteer clowns in UKIP couldn't even dredge up a single seat less than a year later, surely the formal manifesto of Vote Leave is the mandate for divining the type of deal the 'people' want(ed)?

Among other things in that document I note with interest, for example, the formal commitment to £100 million extra per week for the NHS (even ignoring the disowned £350 million).  How's that going?

[Proudhuff]

It has ben announce speculative fiction is now redundant.

[Definitely Not Mister Pops]

I saw there's a petition doing the rounds to get Sinn Fein to take their seats in parliament. People that voted for Sinn Fein actually want the Shinners to turn their back on one of their cornerstone policies that they have ran in every westminster election.

The Northern Irish Electorate Ladies and Gentlemen.

[Old Tankie]

Perhaps the Torys can do a deal with Them.

[Eric Plumrose]

Perhaps the Torys can do a deal with Them.

But would Sir Van the Man be up for it?

[TordelBack]

Perhaps the Torys can do a deal with Them.

It's not even funny how right now this sounds vaguely plausible, for a second or two at least.

Not that it would get through an ard fheis in a month of Bloody Sundays, but if SF supporters wanted the balancing influence of MPs in Westminster they could have voted for the SDLP, or keriste, even the Alliance or the Greens.  Anyone but SF, basically: you know you're getting abstentionism when you tick that box, and that's fair enough. The better question is why the feck, at this point in history, you would waste your vote like that: vote SF in assembly/local/European, by all means, but the Westminster chips were well and truly down this time.

[Tjm86]

The Northern Irish Electorate Ladies and Gentlemen.

Aye, because the rest of the UK electorate are a paragon of sanity.  Witness for the prosecution: BoJo, Gove, May, Cameron, Blair, Mandelson, Brexit, Farage, ....

Churchill had it bang to rights.

[Jim_Campbell]

Churchill had it bang to rights.

When he said "Pass me another gin!" ...?

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[Professor Bear]

Though there were lulz to be had pretending otherwise to wind people up, I wasn't entirely convinced Tim Farron was a homophobe so much as he was just being an opportunist - but then he goes and resigns because he's "torn between being a faithful Christian and a political leader."  Erm.

Well anyway, I've no idea why this should be an issue in modern UK politics now, as if anyone is going to make a regular run of the mill evangelical Christian look liberal, it's arguably the fruitbats of the DUP that are setting up shop in No. 10.  Dunno what to make of this, as all criticisms aside, he was only in the job 2 years and probably did as well as could be expected in the middle of a commie resurgence that snagged all the protest and youth votes.