The Political Thread

[The Legendary Shark]

Modern British politics:

[sheridan]

Modern British politics:

Does the unicat live under the magical money tree?  Can you ask it to look for that £1bn?  Not to mention the £350mn a day...

[The Legendary Shark]

Ask the private banks - they're the ones who magic all the money into existence, and they don't even need a tree!

[IndigoPrime]

So there's Corbyn, firing four front-benchers for having the audacity to back Chuka Umunna's amendment on single market membership. Astonishing. Now the news cycle is shifted from Conservatives having to strike deals to keep the QS amendment-free to Labour being anything but strong and stable, and a govt in waiting. What a massive buffoon.

[Professor Bear]

Umunna accepted that the UK would leave the SM in his pre-election Huffpo article, and it was a part of the Labour manifesto, so the access amendment was never going to get the votes to pass.  Tom Watson - not a Corbynite by any stretch - has publicly stated this was an attempt to engineer "split" headlines.
Mind you, he also did that reds under the bed thing.  YMMV.

[IndigoPrime]

This being when everyone assumed the Tories would win in a landslide. Polling mapping shows people now expect Labour to offer something different or better, but Corbyn just waffles on about a "jobs-first Brexit", which is an impossibility. And if he wants to be the guy he claims, bringing together his party, firing three excellent frontbenchers is hardly the way to do that. What a mess.

Yet again, at a time when the weakest Conservative party in living memory is on a knife edge, Labour punches itself repeatedly in the face.

[Professor Bear]

Corbyn and lefties in the party have been eating the unity shit sandwich since 2015 for all the good it did with Umunna & co.  They've had their chance to help party unity and they've made it clear they're not interested.

Sweet talk only lasts so long - now it's time some hoes tasted the back of the glove.

[JayzusB.Christ]

Another delightful tweet from the good old woman-hating POTUS, just as the clearly irrational and islamophobic travel ban lite comes into effect. Fuck you, Trump, and fuck anyone who still has the moral bankruptcy to support you.

[sheridan]

Another delightful tweet from the good old woman-hating POTUS, just as the clearly irrational and islamophobic travel ban lite comes into effect. Fuck you, Trump, and fuck anyone who still has the moral bankruptcy to support you.

So what was it he said?

[I, Cosh]

Another delightful tweet from the good old woman-hating POTUS, just as the clearly irrational and islamophobic travel ban lite comes into effect. Fuck you, Trump, and fuck anyone who still has the moral bankruptcy to support you.

So what was it he said?

The Dead Man is [spoiler]TRUMP[/spoiler].

[Professor Bear]

Say what you like about Trump, but he's exposed the Republican party for the spineless collection of entitled frat boys it always was, and forced media outlets to nail their colours to the mast one way or the other - no other president could have managed that, not even Sanders.
The damage Trump can do doesn't bear thinking about, but in the end it's like when kids burn their fingers on a hot stove or get stung by a bee after you tell them to stay away from the big buzzy things out by the shed: obviously it's not a good thing that this happened, but an invaluable lesson might have been learned.
I say "might have" because, of course, it remains to be seen if Americans take any notice and vote accordingly next year.

[sheridan]

Another delightful tweet from the good old woman-hating POTUS, just as the clearly irrational and islamophobic travel ban lite comes into effect. Fuck you, Trump, and fuck anyone who still has the moral bankruptcy to support you.

So what was it he said?

The Dead Man is .

I saw a headline at lunchtime about 'Trump travel ban' but unfortunately I don't think it means that Trump has been banned from travelling.

[sheridan]

Say what you like about Trump, but he's exposed the Republican party for the spineless collection of entitled frat boys it always was, and forced media outlets to nail their colours to the mast one way or the other - no other president could have managed that, not even Sanders.
The damage Trump can do doesn't bear thinking about, but in the end it's like when kids burn their fingers on a hot stove or get stung by a bee after you tell them to stay away from the big buzzy things out by the shed: obviously it's not a good thing that this happened, but an invaluable lesson might have been learned.
I say "might have" because, of course, it remains to be seen if Americans take any notice and vote accordingly next year.

they didn't learn from dubya.  What's happening next year?

[Modern Panther]

Ah, the hacylon days of Dubya.  He made or impossible for a rich white guy to get elected.  Following past trends, Trump will need to be followed by a beloved socialist superhero

It's a strange name..."Trump".  As close to "triumph" or "call out" as it is to "ostentacious display" or "fart loudly".

[von Boom]

Say what you like about Trump, but he's exposed the Republican party for the spineless collection of entitled frat boys it always was, and forced media outlets to nail their colours to the mast one way or the other - no other president could have managed that, not even Sanders.
The damage Trump can do doesn't bear thinking about, but in the end it's like when kids burn their fingers on a hot stove or get stung by a bee after you tell them to stay away from the big buzzy things out by the shed: obviously it's not a good thing that this happened, but an invaluable lesson might have been learned.
I say "might have" because, of course, it remains to be seen if Americans take any notice and vote accordingly next year.

they didn't learn from dubya.  What's happening next year?

Trump will mortally offend the Chinese, who will call in their loans and essentially foreclose on the U.S., taking sole possession. Welcome to the socialist paradise America.