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lincolnimp in uk_lolitics

A new..dusk

Jun 27, 2016 08:44

...it just goes on and on and on...

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dcam takes names and breaks hearts, the house of commons: reality tv, labour: a shadow, boris johnson: what ho peasants, laura kuenssberg is a fangirl, economics hurts my brain, george 'gideon' osborne, tom watson = awesome

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kitty_616 June 27 2016, 06:52:41 UTC

How does one calm the markets anyway? I'm imagining giant overexcitable lizards.

kitty_616 June 27 2016, 06:53:21 UTC

"Sleep my pretties. Soon I shall feed you the head of Boris Johnson."

lincolnimp June 27 2016, 06:58:00 UTC

That's exactly how it works!

lincolnimp June 27 2016, 06:57:03 UTC

A sort of round-up:

Robert Peston ‏@Peston:
.@George_Osborne is bequeathing his post Brexit emergency budget to the new prime minister.
.@George_Osborne is not resigning as chancellor, because he intends to "stand by his country"

Laura Kuenssberg ‏@bbclaurak: Osborne tries to reassure - grim times ahead but that emergency budget is off (was never going to happen)

From the guardian live blog:

George insists of still using that metaphor Thank goodness we fixed the roof, while we could, Osborne said.

The general message from Osborne’s statement was that he warned there would be problems, but by playing for time we can cope.

And:
Anna Turley MP ‏@annaturley: It is with great sadness that I just sent my resignation as Shadow Minister for Civil Society to Jeremy Corbyn.

lincolnimp June 27 2016, 06:57:36 UTC

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softfruit June 27 2016, 08:37:39 UTC

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purple_tea_cup June 27 2016, 07:35:49 UTC

These resignations are happening so fast I can't keep up.

But look at the new ShadCab line up...

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lincolnimp June 27 2016, 10:32:45 UTC

These resignations are happening so fast I can't keep up.
Same. So many PPS resigned

new ShadCab in list form:

Shadow foreign secretary - Emily Thornberry
Shadow health secretary - Diane Abbott
Shadow education secretary - Pat Glass
Shadow transport secretary - Andy McDonald
Shadow defence secretary - Clive Lewis
Shadow chief secretary to the Treasury - Rebecca Long-Bailey
Shadow international development secretary - Kate Osamor
Shadow environment food and rural affairs secretary - Rachel Maskell
Shadow voter engagement and youth affairs - Cat Smith
Shadow Northern Ireland secretary - Dave Anderson

.....okay

purple_tea_cup June 27 2016, 10:35:03 UTC

Clive Lewis is/was at Glastonbury and it's defence q's at 2.30pm and no one knows if he's going to be back in time and basically everyone else in the team has walked out. This is ridiculous.

lincolnimp June 27 2016, 10:41:17 UTC

XD I just read that. How is this all happening

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softfruit June 27 2016, 08:36:48 UTC

I wish Spitting Image was still here.

I picture a sketch of the shadow cabinet having a meeting; Jeremy and a roomful of the rubber version of faceless shop mannequins (because outside spaces like this the tweet I saw earlier that "people you've never heard of are quitting jobs you didn't know they had" covers the shadow cabinet crisis too well). Frequent camera angle changes show the table is becoming smaller as the number of people left round it decreases...

purple_tea_cup June 27 2016, 10:45:35 UTC

We really are in need of some good satire again