May's Cabinet

[killer b]

Isn't the 'ultimate price' actually dying for your cause? If only.

 

[DotCommunist]

all hailing ceaser like dogs then? like fuck am I watching that. Re: it getting worse in terms of journalism. I don't think so. Remember the edited footage of orgreaves. I was one years old when they did that. So they've clearly been at it since before I was born. I think it just wasn't so obvious when we were younger cos you retain a naivete for a while.

 

[nuffsaid]

Your"re not imagining it. Its barely watchable.

I thought the same watching it last night. She wasn't even voted in by the electorate and the BBC were treating it as if we've suddenly ousted a tyrant through a popular uprising. (unless they were thinking of the EU - of course).

 

[J Ed]

I heard an incredible report about Osborne this morning on R4 - in a news bulletin, not opinion: the newsreader said that despite having rescued the economy, Osborne paid the 'ultimate price' for his dire warnings on the effects of brexit.

Jesus. Even Spanish state media isn't this bad and when a new government in Spain gets in they sack everyone who they think favours the opposition.

 

[Lurdan]

No she fucking doesn't. She just carries on drumming up twittterdrama. The only way to get rid of her would be to pour cilit bang down the interwebs.

BANG! AND THE MENSCH IS GONE!

But sadly there has already been a preemptive strike on Barry Scott

New link:
Bang! And Barry Scott is gone - Cillit Bang replaces Baz with newer model

 

[8den]

I heard an incredible report about Osborne this morning on R4 - in a news bulletin, not opinion: the newsreader said that despite having rescued the economy, Osborne paid the 'ultimate price' for his dire warnings on the effects of brexit.

He rescued the economy in the same way someone throwing a bag of kittens into a river is rescuing them from a life of squaller.

 

[Lurdan]

Sajid Javid - Communities

which means that cunt Greg Clark is presumably moving somewhere else

 

[billy_bob]

all hailing ceaser like dogs then? like fuck am I watching that. Re: it getting worse in terms of journalism. I don't think so. Remember the edited footage of orgreaves. I was one years old when they did that. So they've clearly been at it since before I was born. I think it just wasn't so obvious when we were younger cos you retain a naivete for a while.

There's an element of that. But compare Kuennsburg to John Cole, for example, and tell me standards haven't got (even) worse.

 

[kabbes]

But sadly there has already been a preemptive strike on Barry Scott

There Has Been Some Devastating News About Cillit Bang Legend Barry Scott

No links to the odious and misogynistic UniLad please. Ta.

 

[J Ed]

all hailing ceaser like dogs then? like fuck am I watching that. Re: it getting worse in terms of journalism. I don't think so. Remember the edited footage of orgreaves. I was one years old when they did that. So they've clearly been at it since before I was born. I think it just wasn't so obvious when we were younger cos you retain a naivete for a while.

I agree with you, I don't think it has gotten worse in its coverage of the working-class and if Hillsborough happened again they'd do the same if they could get away with it but I think this total deference to, or boosting of, the Tories is something new. It's a more blatant bias specifically in the area of party politics. Actually I take back what I said about the coverage feeling like a royal event, it feels like a royal death or a death of a 'well respected' right-wing politician in which analysis is replaced by hagiography in order to defend their legacy at all costs and maintain a narrative. Except that this is just the beginning.

 

[Lurdan]

No links to the odious and misogynistic UniLad please. Ta.

Fair enough - your turn

 

[DotCommunist]

I agree with you, I don't think it has gotten worse in its coverage of the working-class and if Hillsborough happened again they'd do the same if they could get away with it but I think this total deference to, or boosting of, the Tories is something new. It's a more blatant bias specifically in the area of party politics. Actually I take back what I said about the coverage feeling like a royal event, it feels like a royal death or a death of a 'well respected' right-wing politician in which analysis is replaced by hagiography in order to defend their legacy at all costs and maintain a narrative. Except that this is just the beginning.

heh, weird parralel just came to mind- why the fuck are we supposed to celebrate the START of WW1 now? Who the fuck hought that was a winner, lets all sing long way to tipperary as we remember fresh faced lads marching off to hell.

 

[not-bono-ever]

leadsom in.

By the look of this cobbled together band of unlikeable thieving cunts, May is not planning an early election

 

[Lurdan]

James Brokenshire - Northern Ireland

 

[billy_bob]

leadsom in.

By the look of this cobbled together band of unlikeable thieving cunts, May is not planning an early election

What, she's saving some good Tories for later?

 

[krtek a houby]

leadsom in.

By the look of this cobbled together band of unlikeable thieving cunts, May is not planning an early election

Bah. A tory mate told me yesterday that "people don't want any more elections until 2020". I was " but how do you know that?"

"I'm going by the mood of the country".

 

[Lurdan]

Greg Clark - 'Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy'

 

[Lurdan]

Priti Patel - International Development

 

[DotCommunist]

James Brokenshire - Northern Ireland

nominative determinism strikes again

 

[billy_bob]

Priti Patel - International Development

So, two Asian cabinet members: one gets the Helping Foreigners brief and another one for Pretending To Be Able To Spot Homegrown Terrorists. Hmmm.

 

[Lurdan]

Karen Bradley - Culture

 

[Artaxerxes]

Sajid Javid - Communities

Christ, imagine that face coming towards you to encourage you to embrace each other in brotherly love.

 

[nuffsaid]

Christ, imagine that face coming towards you to encourage you to embrace each other in brotherly love.

 

[Pickman's model]

uncle fester looks nice and, well, avuncular. the other man looks like a monster.

 

[billy_bob]

uncle fester looks nice and, well, avuncular. the other man looks like a monster.

Nosferatu might be closer.

Edited to add:

 

[Pickman's model]

Nosferatu might be closer.

hadn't realised jackie coogan, who played uncle fester, is supposed to have held the rope at a lynching of child murderers.

 

[nuffsaid]

Nosferatu might be closer.

Ah, yeah I should've found a Klaus Kinski pic, more of a blood-sucker as well.

 

[Pickman's model]

Nosferatu might be closer.

nosferatu quite a gentleman, in his fashion

 

[billy_bob]

hadn't realised jackie coogan, who played uncle fester, is supposed to have held the rope at a lynching of child murderers.

Just a VERY protective kind of avuncularness then.

 

[billy_bob]

nosferatu quite a gentleman, in his fashion

Before he rips your throat out with his teeth.

Comparison stands.