All 16 year olds think about is Snapchat and Rainbow parties.

totes on flick

That's "on fleek". And you were doing so well.

Apart from the fact that the context of its usage was completely wrong

That's "on fleek". And you were doing so well.

I think the problem you described with "young people" is actually just a problem with "people", and is equally if not more present with older people.

Younger people just have no capacity to do anything about it, because so much political power is consolidated with older people.

Edit: I'd say the argument for letting people vote at 16 is extremely compelling. If for nothing else than getting people to engage with politics at a younger age, before cynicism sets in.

The left has trended higher in any youth vote you can mention over the last 15 years.

Obviously I can't speak for portugal there.

Obviously I can't speak for portugal there.

Obviously I can't speak for portugal there.

That's some fast backpedalling.

May looks overawed by her problems. The next phase of Brexit talks can be unlocked by a one-line concession on commitments owing to the EU budget. But for that, the prime minister must have a story to tell the public about what they get for their money. She doesn’t know. And she can’t sell compromise to a party geed up by hardline MPs to believe that the collapse of talks would be no bad thing. They only keep her in office because they believe her weakness makes her pliable to their revolutionary demands.

I don’t want to dwell on the Patel story, because we’ve got a lot to get through here, but the press release in which she admitted all this is such a work of art that I don’t feel I can entirely skip it. Look at this bit:



Isn’t that the most fantastic euphemism you have ever seen? My claim that I did not eat that chocolate you keep in your drawer may have given the impression that I did not eat that chocolate you keep in your drawer. I would like to take this opportunity to clarify...

My prediction - May was intentionally using Patel to work around the FCO, or at least had given her the informal nod, and so can't just sack her.

the motivations of this government

"Survive to the end of the day."

I'm not sure they're even that sophisticated or possessed of that level of foresight these days.

Emily Thornberry in the Commons just now. Ouch.

She can be very good. But, yes, BOOM!

In fairness to her most people who fly massive England flags actually are, more often than not, complete fucking bellends.

And I don't know where Rochester is.

And I don't know where Rochester is.

Medway. Or upper state New York. But most likely the former in this case.

Has a great castle. I did a parade there once and got hilariously drunk.

The attic.

I thought Runcorn was in London.

All this, perhaps, is not so surprising, considering polling continues to show that—in spite of unprecedented unpopularity—nearly all people who voted for Trump would do it again. But as I compared this year’s answers to last year’s responses it seemed clear that the basis of people’s support had morphed. Johnstown voters do not intend to hold the president accountable for the nonnegotiable pledges he made to them. It’s not that the people who made Trump president have generously moved the goalposts for him. It’s that they have eliminated the goalposts altogether.

This reality ought to get the attention of anyone who thinks they will win in 2018 or 2020 by running against Trump’s record. His supporters here, it turns out, are energized by his bombast and his animus more than any actual accomplishments. For them, it’s evidently not what he’s doing so much as it is the people he’s fighting. Trump is simply and unceasingly angry on their behalf, battling the people who vex them the worst—“obstructionist” Democrats, uncooperative establishment Republicans, the media, Black Lives Matter protesters and NFL players (boy oh boy do they hate kneeling NFL players) whom they see as ungrateful, disrespectful millionaires.

...

“Everybody I talk to,” he said, “realizes it’s not Trump who’s dragging his feet. Trump’s probably the most diligent, hardest-working president we’ve ever had in our lifetimes. It’s not like he sleeps in till noon and goes golfing every weekend, like the last president did.”

I stopped him, informing him that, yes, Barack Obama liked to golf, but Trump in fact does golf a lot, too—more, in fact.

Del Signore was surprised to hear this.

“Does he?” he said.

“Yes,” I said.

He did not linger on this topic, smiling and changing the subject with a quip. “If I was married to his wife,” Del Signore said, “I don’t think I’d go anywhere.”

Del Signore said he’s been following politics far more than before because of Trump. Trump, he said, is just “more interesting.” So now he likes watching the news. “Ninety-nine percent of the time I watch Fox,” he said. “Sometimes I’ll be sitting there listening to all this Fox stuff, and I’ll say, ‘Maybe they aren’t right, maybe I’ll flip to CNN’—but every time I’ve found that Fox has been correct, and CNN is definitely fake news.”

In fairness to her most people who fly massive England flags actually are, more often than not, complete fucking bellends.

You've clearly run into a different group of massive England flag flyers than I have! In my experience, a huge England flag permanently flying on your house is a pretty good signifier for someone who says "I just say it how I see it" but is in actual fact rude and obnoxious.

There's a very big difference between flying a flag for remembrance and flying one out of your window all year round because you wish it was 1966 again when you could beat your kids and there weren't so many brown people.

It's a stereotype, for sure, but it's a stereotype of a very real chunk of the population. Particularly in the Medway area.