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*so the gun lobby fund movies that fetishise guns

do they? such as?*

This might be a send-up

https://youtu.be/12YzarXHB2Q

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b096gjrb­

Thanks for sharing. It's from about 20 minutes onwards for the benefit of others.

Well worth a listen - Mair's ability to totally deconstruct a shit politician is pretty much unrivalled, he's great. Makes John Humphries look like an amateur.

those drugs look great,

this

Guns are made to kill people, they do kill loadsa people and in 'merica are actively made as unregulated as possible.

and this obvs

I, for one, hope sincerely that all the extraneous stuff didn't distract anyone from the undoubtedly highly substantial policy announcements in her speech.

Amen to that. Seriously. So she had a cough and the set fell down. I don't like her one bit but let's focus on their policies? Corbyn supporters rightly don't appreciate when the Tories ignore his policies and attack his image or bark lines about him not being fit for the job. I wonder what Labours response will be to her performance yesterday. I hope they take the high road and pull her up on her bullshit promises rather than the optics of it.

This might be a send-up

It's not. That is a long running niche video series in the US. I remember seeing them to rent in Blockbuster BITD.

Pretty sure that was sarcasm, when has she ever said anything that wasn’t vague doublespeak?

Sad but true.

nothing wrong with Brexit means Brexit!

Might want more colour on that one.

The Eddie Mair / Amber Rudd interview

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/eddie-mair-boris-johnson-amber-rudd_uk_59d50f59e4b0218923e71c25

Heard that yesterday PM.
Eddie Mair should be on TV everyday in the run-up to the next election skewering a prevaricating MP/lobbyist/pollster.

Amber Rudd also came off 2nd best to Emma Barnett on BBCR5Live earlier in the day.

more importantly, they should shitcan cosy fireside chat having, tory holiday bae john 'i'm a massive tory shitwipe' humphrys.

I know it's a bit 'Canary' to complain about Nick Robinson (and dig up his supposed history as a Tory fan), but wow, he really does give the Tories an easy ride. It does seem likely that Cameron and Osborne leaned hard on the BBC to get James Naughtie farmed out to do occasional in-depth reports and instead drop in Robinson.

I flew back from Barcelona via Monarch airlines last Monday. Feels like I was in the thick of it.

Immigrants! Coming over here, winning Nobel prizes, for writing in their second languages....

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-41513246

it's rather telling when cocknose osborne is earning more gold stars for holding may to account in the standard than any of the news brass at the bbc.

in other "revolving door of incompetence" news:
http://www.cityam.com/272891/rona-fairhead-receives-government-post-ahead-life-peerage

Don't know if this was already posted by TM managed to plagiarise the West Wing in her speech yesterday:

https://streamable.com/e4skb

https://www.shortlist.com/news/guns-america-britain-terrorism-twitter/328592

Some septic dullard claimed the UK suffers a terrorist attack every hour and some twats on twitter were mildly amusing.

he retweets his old tweets and gets no more attention to his already ignored tweets. what a cunt.

Pretty sure that was sarcasm, when has she ever said anything that wasn’t vague doublespeak?

Not sarcasm. Agreed on the bullshit double speak she spouts. That's what she should be pulled up on.

I think Corbyn has an opportunity to look statesman-like now. Interesting to see what happens.

The articles in today’s Torygraph read like an obituary.

They are all in for Johnson though. Which tells you everything you need to know about the Barclay brothers.

Who will have a flutter on May gone by end of day tomorrow?