General Election 2019

He literally addresses that point in the article though.

Not saying I have the answers like.

But also racist Northerners. I hope they get the hardest of hard Brexits, bunch of thick cunts

What about racist southerns?

Honda, Airbus, agriculture, City of London, quite a lot of Universities. BA, HSBC, European Medicine Agency, etc.

Having studied Documentary Photography in South Wales over 10 years ago it was clear then how much swathes of the area had been forgotten.

I think there is a divide in that individualism is easier sold nationally that socialism.
Not sure of the answers either but maybe Labour needs to work more to represent issues on regional basis than national?

Breakfast in an East Midlands hotel:
Hamas
IRA
Marxist
Broxtowe bitch

He literally addresses that point in the article though.

Ha, admittedly after a while it became TLDR for me!

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Possible delays in shipping across the UK and continental Europe due to dominoes.

That article made me wonder if too much emphasis is put on what the message is rather than how to get the message out.

The door to door canvassing and mass participation of activists seems to be a “thing” for Labour: bussing people around the country to knock on doors etc. The ability to mobilise people is taken as evidence of wide support.

However a 2 minute doorstep conversation isn’t going to materially shift the view of someone that sits in front of Facebook for 4 hours a day every day.

I have no idea why Labour isn’t more active in the communities it’s supposed to represent. Is there some law that stops them holding bake sales or having meetings or running food banks? Because if the media is going to represent Labour so badly they’re going to have to do it themselves

Has anyone else thought to blame Seanus Milne?

If Labour choose either Long-Bailey or Rayner as the next leader then they'll be as unelectable as they are now.

I think the most sensible thing for Johnson to do would be to accept the EU's request for an extension to the transition, preferably (for him) pushing it out to ~2025.

Then he can say that he got Brexit done (we've left) but that none of the consequences that Project Fear spoke of have materialised (ignoring Honda, the EMA etc etc, which the right wing press will let him off). That way he gets to spend his entire period as PM as The Man Who Solved Brexit - whilst simultaneously having kicked the can into the next PM's bucket.

Dunno if his backers will wait that long?

A very non noticeable Brexit where the trashing comes 5-10 years in (hello May's / Corbyns CU and half a single market) is his best bet.

But he'll do what his backers do. The truth had died a long time ago, it's all about what they can say to get away with.

33bn for the NHS won't work with a hard Brexit, but if his backers want that, too bad.

They may simply lay the legal groundwork for a bonfire of regulations Brexit and boil the frog slowly.

Overview of how Brexit might now play out (not very well)
https://chrisgreybrexitblog.blogspot.com/2019/12/the-brexit-dystopia-bequeathed-by-this.html?

This weeks New Yorker

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What about racist southerns?

Also cunts

https://twitter.com/i/status/1206147015006019584

I keep forgetting about the election result and then I remember and become furious again. Bunch of fucking idiots, everyone in opposition. If they weren't all such selfish twats they could have formed a caretaker government months ago and we could (maybe) have avoided this. Instead we're going to have to live in Boris Johnson's dystopian vision of the UK, with the consequences lasting for decades. Fuck me.

I’m making a New Years resolution to learn conversational French, then I may scarper.

Bon voyage!

My dream is to buy a place in the high Alps and ski in the winter and ride my bike all summer

I keep forgetting about the election result and then I remember and become furious again.

Totally this

This is provoking some reactions.

I thought this was particularly good...

As well as media influence, we have to appreciate the extent to which this isolated, relentless working environment and culture of ‘flexibility’ militates against class consciousness, collective action and solidarity. The fact is that this is the experience of work for many people south Wales today. It is the polar opposite of the forms of work which gave rise to the sets of social relations which gave rise to the Labour movement.

But then none of their manifesto could happen - they'd have to tell the electorate that they would preside over a Labour version of austerity. Not a chance that that message (as honest as it would be) would win any votes.

The intellectual battle for the end of austerity has been won. In a hypothetical Labour-leave election (and assuming equal levels of trust) Cons & Lab spending ability are on a level playing field. That's not a problem.