The best thing about this is Bellerin taking the piss a few days later and the comments
https://mobile.twitter.com/HectorBellerin/status/909856300804268032
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The best thing about this is Bellerin taking the piss a few days later and the comments
https://mobile.twitter.com/HectorBellerin/status/909856300804268032
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badman Jezza C dropping fuego caliente on paigon Piers
QuicheFontaine
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lol clearly something Morgan thought up in the shower two days later
Dirtyshubb
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It's shit like this that makes Corbyn great, just a lad through and through 
Huw_Dawson
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IMO yes - the next leader of the Tory party is almost certainly going to be a Hard Brexiteer. Boris is doing what he needs to to swing around influence, get people writing about him (especially European officials saying he is an idiot, as that only gives him more armour with the headbanger base that the Tories need to keep). The Tories absolutely cannot afford to go backwards away from their Kipper-lite approach to Brexit. To do so is to give Corbyn the keys to number 10 as Tory voters jump ship to the hard right.
Cable summed up the situation at his speech to LD conference yesterday - Brexiteers are masochists who want the pain bourne by somebody else. They are going to react very badly to May's retreat from headbanger principles and Boris is a far more sensible lightning rod to attract support than Rees-Mogg.
Again, this is all speculation - I also know full well I am in the minority on this. I think this is clever manoeuvring rather than the incompetence that most sources are interpreting it as.
JonathanEx
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I don't know. Would I want to be responsible for a 'so much for the tolerant left' rant? And days of him being holier-than-thou about it?
But it would be INCREDIBLY satisfying.
Huw_Dawson
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If by CPAC you mean their autumn conference, I dunno. The civil war that will start if May declares a transition period and a payment to Brussels could blow over quickly or fracture the party in two depending on how the key players act. Depends on if May ends up taking the role of sin-eater for this as lots are speculating - make it all her fault so the next Tory leader can take over fresh.
The conference will probably just be a managed affair with little interesting to talk about other than May's expiration date. What matters are the key players in the cabinet and what they do once the Tories row back from a transitionless and feeless Brexit. If UKIP swung even a small percentage of Tory votes back it would see certain seats swinging back Lib Dem or further seats swinging Labour in England.
The conference will probably just be a managed affair with little interesting to talk about other than May's expiration date. What matters are the key players in the cabinet and what they do once the Tories row back from a transitionless and feeless Brexit. If UKIP swung even a small percentage of Tory votes back it would see certain seats swinging back Lib Dem or further seats swinging Labour in England.
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https://twitter.com/LibDems/status/910507804716359680
Fuck me, they don't ever want to be elected again, do they?
Fuck me, they don't ever want to be elected again, do they?
War Peaceman
You're a big guy.
I'd vote for Benji Download. Can't be worse that Farron.
Coriolanus
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aside from the fact that its too goddamn long, the baseball cap and the closer are decent.
Plus its always nice to see that LibDems are as competent at choosing which PR firm to hire as they are at selling public property for a good price. Hey Ho!
So... sadists?
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to be fair Vince Cable *is* a really cool name
WhateverItTakes
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It was a little on the nose but I didn't mind it.
Strong and Cable does 100% need to be his slogan if a surprise election is called.
eh, I thought it was pretty funny. The LD person in the meeting was a little direct on the sell but the jokes were actually pretty good.
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You all have terrible senses of humour. This is the worst response by the British public since the EU referendum.
Question seems deliberately vague on what they're supposed to be "out of touch" with. Corbyn is out of touch with a lot of people, but May is out of touch with reality.
DodgyGeezerFella
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Couldn't finish it, everything I hate about "comedy" rolled into one.
Huw_Dawson
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I'm not personally a fan of the PPB, as I've never been a fan of this sort of comedy. But if some folks like it I guess it does it job. I'd rather getting an actual comedian on board to write a funny PPB than do something with a less focussed voice.
Fernando Fernandez
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Someone's been watching Nathan Barley.
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UK hurtling towards two-party status at an ever faster rate. If the crosstabs are to be believed (probably not), the Liberal Democrats would kick out the SNP to be the party with the 3rd most seats - a whole 14!
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that was the norm before the SDP broke off from Labour, wasn't it?
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Yes, pretty much. If it hadn't been for the Con-Lib pact in the 1950s, the Liberals would have been down to 1 seat in 1959. They were more or less dead anyway, but revived thanks to a hung parliament increasing their prominence and making them a meaningful vote, then the SDP split and fusion gave them a proper presence. Now that's been lost, it'll be incredibly hard to recover in the face of FPTP. My personal suspiscion is that the current LD position is the new normal for them.
Huw_Dawson
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I understand your logic, but I'm (somewhat obviously) on the other side of the fence.
It's a two stage process for the LDs to really return to strength IMO.
Stage 1 is now - rebuild at a council level, campaign on the big issues, slowly increase the number of MPs the party has. This also means losing far less deposits.
Stage 2 is when there's been a return of quite a lot of councillors, the party is on something like 20 MPs and far less deposits are lost. The party can make a play as the third party and really start putting pressure on the two big parties again.
The LDs are two years into the post-coalition rebuild, but increasing the number of MPs this year was ultimately a good result. So if you peg the next election as a couple of years away, and in that one you get the LDs up to 20 MPs (which is far from impossible - St Ives, Ceredigion, Fife North West and Richmond Park makes 16, so you're already half-way there with negligible Tory->LD swings and Labour voters being more willing to vote tactically) and after that you can start thinking about pulling a 1997.
So I think the current situation as a political observer at Westminster is the new normal until the next election, and maybe until the one afterward. But I can't see the Lib Dems being stuck at some 7% rut forever.
2 parties is the natural ground state for a FPTP electoral system. The Lib Dems owe their existence to a quirk of internal party politics, not some untapped desire for a third choice. The identities of those top two only change due to the large-scale swings of history. Mass industrialisation birthed the Labour Party. It will take a similarly large change in the world to break the current duopoly. Mass automation maybe?
Huw_Dawson
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Well we won two new councillors last night so evidently we're currently somewhat needed somewhere.
The route for the LDs to power is not the same as the route for the big two. It's longer for one thing, but it's also closely bound in local activism.
Compare that to Labour winning random seats this time because of a youth surge. Lib Dems win very specific seats because of a combination of the right people and the right issues in the right place. It's that growing collective of MPs who then slowly pull more and more of the public in to voting for us, and you then get a breakthrough election like 1997.
All things considered if we managed to recover from the merger, we can, and will, recover from 2015. I think we'd recover a lot faster if Corbyn ran the country and we were not in the middle of Brexit, but I think recovery to where we were in 1997 is achievable.
The only area I think is in dire straights is Wales right now, and I see the road back for us there as very challenging. Reclaiming Brecon or Monty from the Tories (and getting Ceredigion back) would be an important first step, though.
But considering we were completely removed from the mainland in Scotland and have managed to reclaim three seats there with a look in on a few others, for example, I think it's very hard to see a situation where the LDs are down and out forever.
The route for the LDs to power is not the same as the route for the big two. It's longer for one thing, but it's also closely bound in local activism.
Compare that to Labour winning random seats this time because of a youth surge. Lib Dems win very specific seats because of a combination of the right people and the right issues in the right place. It's that growing collective of MPs who then slowly pull more and more of the public in to voting for us, and you then get a breakthrough election like 1997.
All things considered if we managed to recover from the merger, we can, and will, recover from 2015. I think we'd recover a lot faster if Corbyn ran the country and we were not in the middle of Brexit, but I think recovery to where we were in 1997 is achievable.
The only area I think is in dire straights is Wales right now, and I see the road back for us there as very challenging. Reclaiming Brecon or Monty from the Tories (and getting Ceredigion back) would be an important first step, though.
But considering we were completely removed from the mainland in Scotland and have managed to reclaim three seats there with a look in on a few others, for example, I think it's very hard to see a situation where the LDs are down and out forever.
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/un-is-failing-the-world-may-tells-global-leaders-0l38tgwjl
Well being anti-EU has worked so well, I guess the next logical step is to be anti-UN.
Well being anti-EU has worked so well, I guess the next logical step is to be anti-UN.
CyclopsRock
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I mean, it *is*. It's hard to see how it could be any other way whilst large, powerful countries disagree though. Pointing out somethings' flaws doesn't make you anti- whatever it is.
There's flaws with the UN sure but I don't think May really cares about what they are. This is just the same vague "bloated, corrupt" criticisms thrown at the EU. Criticisms that will be true for any organisation above a certain size.
There's a world of difference between May doing this (now, as British PM) and, say, the Guardian's article from last year that discusses specific failings of the UN and why these failings occur.
CyclopsRock
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I think you're just seeing what you want to see, or rather seeing it in the light you want/expect to. There's nothing in what she said - assuming The Times' depiction of it's accurate - that's hard to swallow. Her criticisms aren't vague, they're pretty specific.
I'm loving the Hammond / Johnson tsundere thing.
PJV3
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It's good to see Davis being his usual cooperative self.
I can't see boring old Hammond ever going for something like that. Plus he's pretty much diametrically opposed to Davis' well established position (I think) and Johnson's stated position. Hmm. Still, maybe it's recognition of how shit May is.
yeah I'd believe it more if it didn't come from The Times and didn't include Rudd and Hammond. I mean Rudd took the bullet for May in those TV debates and Hammond isn't going to scheme with Boris and Davis. Sounds like a load of shit to be honest on the back of Boris's failed attempts to undermine May last week.
on the other hand though it is the Tories. They'd stab you in the front for a better office.
PJV3
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He did get treated like yesterday's man during the election campaign, I wouldn't put it past him. Now the Boris fan club is claiming he single handedly prevented May going for the Norway option so it could just be shit stirring against May just for the sake of it.
Not only have a lot of the MP's and the Labour Mayor's been denied speaking slots at the conference, but they're now being banned from the conference floor entirely and only being allowed on the conference halls balconies.
Andy Burnham and Steve Rotherham were both denied speaking slots and Sadiq Khan was only pencilled in at the last minute after a lot of backchanneling. Burham and Rotherham will instead make speeches at fringe events during the conference.
There's also a rumour that Burnham and Rotherham have been invited to speak at the Conservative conference in Manchester next week, where the Birmingham Mayor Andy Street has a key note speech.
Andy Burnham and Steve Rotherham were both denied speaking slots and Sadiq Khan was only pencilled in at the last minute after a lot of backchanneling. Burham and Rotherham will instead make speeches at fringe events during the conference.
There's also a rumour that Burnham and Rotherham have been invited to speak at the Conservative conference in Manchester next week, where the Birmingham Mayor Andy Street has a key note speech.
https://www.theguardian.com/politic...r-members-didnt-want-to-split-party-on-brexit
Biggest issue of the generation, and they don't want to talk about it.
Biggest issue of the generation, and they don't want to talk about it.
PJV3
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It makes sense even if it is fucked up, it's nearly impossible to reconcile what the people want with what is possible.
Closing your eyes and putting your fingers in your ears won't make the problem go away though. It's still going to be there when you open them up again.
As I said in the Brexit thread, I understand why Labour nullified the issue at the general election, but their playing a dangerous game backing the Tories approach at this stage. The time will soon come where they need to get off the fence and attack this farce. The damage to the country is already demonstrably underway, so they should use the ammunition.
The country is bitterly divided and nothing anyone can do will remedy that in a hurry. Therefore, caught between a rock and a hard place, cooler and more pragmatic heads should prevail and choose the side that favours economic strength over naive jingoism.
Was going to say this but realised I wouldn't be so generous if it were the Tories refusing to discuss something.
But the division runs at an angle (not perpendicular, but pretty steep) to party lines. An oppositional political system is unable to cope with it.
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