Felt quite sorry for treeza. Not quite sure why but yeah, quite emotional was that speech.

Nah, she can go fuck herself

Next time you feel a twinge of sympathy for Theresa May, think of the Northern Irish LGBT+ people still denied equal marriage rights, or the women who have no access to legal abortion, all because she’s too scared to confront the DUP. Her twisted alliance with Northern Ireland’s unionist party – which now appears to have disintegrated anyway – cost £1bn at a time when food bank usage is at a record high and public services have been starved of cash. If May hadn’t called a general election to boost her own ego, then disastrously lost it, this alliance would not have been necessary.

Think about the gay Brexit whistleblower who was outed by Downing Street, only for May to stand by the adviser who did it. Think of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe – the mother locked in jail in Iran, whose sentence was prolonged by Boris Johnson’s sheer incompetence – only for May to refuse to sack him. Think of the images of May holding hands with Donald Trump and rolling out the red carpet for him, after refusing to condemn his attacks on London’s mayor Sadiq Khan.

Remember that as home secretary, May repeatedly stoked anti-immigrant sentiments which were weaponised during 2016’s EU referendum. She might have let Amber Rudd take the fall for the Windrush scandal, but she was the original architect of the “hostile environment” policy. As prime minister, she has never condemned right-wing press attacks that characterised her critics as “saboteurs” or even “enemies of the people”. She also supported the Conservatives standing alone in voting with Hungary’s anti-immigrant, antisemitic and homophobic far-right in Brussels.

May’s current predicament has been created by her insistence on governing solely for the 52 per cent and those who claim to represent them. As Jacob Rees-Mogg submits his letter of no confidence, followed by a slew of pro-Brexit Tories, May must wish she hadn’t given the Tory right’s poisonous weed such opportunity to grow.

Having promised "strong and stable" leadership, May has instead provided unending chaos. Her time in Downing Street will be remembered as a mixture of supreme incompetence partnered with moral bankruptcy and unrivalled spinelessness. At one of the most crucial points in British history, Mayism has turned out to be nothing but mayhem – so let’s save our sympathy for someone more deserving.

It is quite wrong to feel pity for her. Firstly, her current misery is of her own making. The deal is terrible because her red lines made any other outcome impossible. That is her responsibility. Secondly, she is still now lying with almost every word she utters. Her entire defence of the deal rests on the most grotesquely misleading characterisations of its contents and implications. Her every answer to any question is deliberately and instinctively evasive. She is a deception machine, a next-generation political mechanism which simply cannot be straight with people, whether it's negotiators in Brussels, MPs in parliament, or the public on the doorstep. The fact she is so unconvincing when lying does not remove the moral responsibility for having done so in the first place.

And now all the various inadequacies we've seen through the last couple of years have joined together to undermine any chance of success she might have had. It would be satisfying, on a moral level, if we were not all forced to suffer the consequences alongside her.

I'm such a soft touch *sigh*

Fuck it, ding dong etc.

Possibly the worst British prime minister ever, with a poisonous legacy that will last for generations.

BoJo: “hold my Chateau Lafite 1787.”

It's in no way an unexpected result though. The Brexit Party vote is directly a combination of the total collapse of UKIP and a massive defection from the Tories. There's no indication they've actually organically built any kind of voter base.

You can read what you want into that but I’m pleased to see I helped elect a Green MEP.

The 4 R's of MaliA:

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Remain - wins the referendum and we live happily, prosperously and with more friends.

At least Tommy Yaxley-Hitler lost his deposit. Pleasantly surprised that he didn't do a lot better.

It’s a nice thought, but such a lot of damage has already been done, that even if a new referendum does take place and reverses the result of the first one, it’ll be a long time before a lot of that mess can be undone. Some of it may never be fixed. And let’s not forget the possibility of civil unrest by the knuckle dragging elements of the leave supporters. It could get very nasty.

At least Tommy Yaxley-Hitler lost his deposit. Pleasantly surprised that he didn't do a lot better.

Still 38k idiots in the northwest though. I too thought there were a lot more.

There will be no civil unrest. It's a a cowardly threat from some quarters, backed up by nothing

https://www.reddit.com/r/ScottishPeopleTwitter/comments/btr5t1/scotland_has_turned_into_the_designated_driver/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share

@Bamba start looking for 3-4 bed semis in your area plz

https://www.reddit.com/r/ScottishPeopleTwitter/comments/btr5t1/scotland_has_turned_into_the_designated_driver/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share

The Constitution Unit at UCL have published a handy primer on the European elections and how the voting system works if you like that sort of thing.

As expected, the D’Hondt system with relatively small electoral regions overrepresented the larger parties – particularly the Brexit Party and to a lesser extent the Liberal Democrats – while underrepresenting the small parties that lack a geographically concentrated base. Crucially in the current context, this meant that the combined seat haul of the five hard Remain parties (Liberal Democrats, Greens, Change UK, SNP, and Plaid Cymru) was two below the total for the hard Leave parties (the Brexit Party and UKIP), even though the former won more votes/

BoJo: “hold my beer.”

About the only silver lining to the thought of the ghastly Mr Johnson becoming prime minister would be the sense of glee I'd have on his removal from office (either by the party or at an election). Alas, as with Donald Trump, I don't think he has the requiste self-awareness to take responsibility for his failures.

About the only silver lining to the thought of the ghastly Mr Johnson becoming prime minister would be the sense of glee I'd have on his removal from office (either by the party or at an election).

He might do, after he bobs into court over that £350MM business

Or -- most exquisitely -- by losing a HoC vote of confidence the day after becoming PM. I don't think it's likely. But if it happened, I'd be laughing for days.

Or -- most exquisitely -- by losing a HoC vote of confidence the day after becoming PM. I don't think it's likely. But if it happened, I'd be laughing for days.

Yes, that one will be fun. Not sure how far it's likely to go, or if it's healthy for every rash statement in every campaign to be tested in the courts

Hmm... with current arithmetic I'm not sure the HoC could pass the vote of confidence motion within the two-week deadline manadated by the Fixed-Term Parliament Act if no-confidence is won.

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