AceClown posted:

Also what toppings do you lot like on your crumpets? :canofworms:

Darth Walrus posted:

Any idea what the Mail's angle here is? This has clearly gone way beyond a spot of monstering to keep their guy in line, and I'm not completely sure it's motivated by straight-up moral outrage like what they did with Stephen Lawrence.

ThomasPaine posted:

e: He probably should go, because you could argue that an MP has that obligation of wellbeing to all of his constituents. However it won't be easy. Being an MP you're strictly self employed right?

Guavanaut posted:

Is it really an 'an explosion with intent to endanger life' when they only intended to steal cash and didn't care either way about any lives?

They should be charged for what they did, but it should be no more and no less. 'Theft', 'causing an explosion with intent to wreck poo poo' and 'reckless negligence towards life' yes, but I don't see any proof that they intended to endanger life. Unless now we're in a full Tory government money equals life.

Bedshaped posted:

You can teach them the value of voting, Pissflaps.

OwlFancier posted:

lectured me at age ten on the benefits of communism and the dangers of stalinism,

Milotic posted:

I also don't think any of the senior cabinet will break for the No campaign.

Milotic posted:

Osborne will side with Cameron, Hammond will. May is the wildcard. She's the one who gets it in the next over immigration. But she won't want to be seen to be the one who sticks the knife in Cameron's back. Ah bugger, are we counting IDS as a senior member? Yeah, he'll break for No.

Gonzo McFee posted:

Lol get hosed.

dispatch_async posted:

Are you prepared to vote and campaign for a Labour party that promises tough immigration controls and an EU exit (the only way of achieving reduced immigration)? Only 15% of voters agree with Labour on immigration. Fifteen percent! Labour won't win another general election until they give up on an immigration policy that only the hardcore far left in the UK support.

serious gaylord posted:

Say what you will about Liz Kendall, but I doubt she'd have had a member of her shadow cabinet resign on live tv. The utter contempt these MP's have for Corbyn is staggering.

Gonzo McFee posted:

Why not?

serious gaylord posted:

Um

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-35243133?ocid=socialflow_twitter&ns_mchannel=social&ns_campaign=bbcnews&ns_source=twitter

Gonzo McFee posted:

Oberleutnant posted:

Falafel gives me the shits. Apple juice does too actually. I still enjoy both, however.

Jeza posted:

If we're here to hate on pioneering ethnic MPs, I loving hate Keith Vaz and his stupid face.

Fans posted:

Channel 4's a different matter. It's still poo poo, but Channel 4 isn't state funded and doesn't have to remain impartial.

Pistol_Pete posted:

An articulate and devastating takedown of the recent behaviour of the Blairites from small c conservative Tim Stanley:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/Jeremy_Corbyn/12088221/Jeremy-Corbyns-Labour-critics-have-got-more-cheek-than-a-baboons-bottom.html

baka kaba posted:

Yeah pretty much, but at least with the public sector you tend to have inquiries and consequences. If Jimmy Saville had been a private company he'd have been given a new contract, or at least had to bow out for while (replaced by Simmy Javille)

serious gaylord posted:

Kuenssberg has apparently instructed to keep her head down for a few days so this all gets forgotten about.

serious gaylord posted:

If all this achieves is getting her gurning mug off screen for a few days i'll count it as a victory.

Not a Twat posted:

In context it doesn't sound nearly so bad. To me it sounds like she was avoiding agreeing to the suggestion that Jeremy only appointed her because she opposed Trident.

jabby posted:

Do you mean 'these people' the press or 'these people' Labour MPs?

Because all she did was reply "I don't know" in response to the question "Were you picked so Jeremy can get rid of Trident?", followed by explaining her background and relevant experience. It's a bit of a dumb answer because obviously her first sentence can be jumped on by the press as some kind of admission of incompetence rather than an admission she doesn't know the mind of our glorious JC, but there you go.

thespaceinvader posted:

Seriously. Someone should loving hang for this,

Gonzo McFee posted:

I'm drunk, horny and alone all the time and I've never propositioned a 17 year old.

ShaneMacGowansTeeth posted:

Another member of the Shadow Cabinet resigns, this time the Shadow Attorney General Catherine McKinnel

serious gaylord posted:

To be fair to the BBC, they did publish afterwards they were trying to clarify with the government if that figure included the emergency care people.

big scary monsters posted:

(apart from the fact they exist at all - I think they're illegal in Scotland now, aren't they?)

serious gaylord posted:

Exactly the same response everyone else got.

TinTower posted:

The report of the transgender equality inquiry is now out.

The Good
[list]
[*]"X" markers on passports for non-binary people must be introduced.

Darth Walrus posted:

I'm surprised those posts weren't filled up in the initial formation of the Shadow Cabinet. They seem pretty standard.

I'll try to do some research on this little lot like I did with the last crop of additions.

OwlFancier posted:

Make it legal to advertise jobs for non-tories only.

TinTower posted:

Here's a map of signatures on the petition "Allow trans people to self-define their own gender" in England.



Ten hottest constituencies: Cambridge (291), Brighton Pavillion (252), York Central (229), Bristol West (215), Oxford East (203), Lewisham Deptford (176), Edinburgh East (153), Sheffield Central (146), Leeds Central (135), Hove (133).

I wonder what links those ten places.


Although that isn't LGBTory research, it's research by the (LGBTory committee member) Zoe Kirk-Robinson. She's not bad for a Tory, mind you.