Rayvin

This is what US TV producers think Geordies sound like:

Has any significant business been done yet by anyone?

Surely if this is an incompetence issue it won't just be heads rolling, it'll be criminal negligence. Horrific news, I can't think of a much worse scenario.

The thing I find slightly odd about all the swapping of 'r' and 'L' is that it's the Japanese who do that. The Chinese have loads of words with 'L' in it. If you're going to stereotype a country, at least get it right ffs

Superb

Ah, ok then. I did think it would be remarkable that it wasn't front page news everywhere else

No idea how reliable the Express is generally, but this is pretty huge if true - Sinn Fein flying to London to go through Westminster induction... possibly to take seats? You can sort of see why they would what with May 'taking a side'. http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/816361/theresa-may-queen-jeremy-corbyn-sinn-fein-gerry-adams-arlene-foster-dup-westminster

Tbf to the mackems, if Sissoko is worth 30m...

Good man Might want to wait until it actually goes through though

Yeah, saw that. If nothing else, it doesn't help make them look any more trustworthy.

If the Tories bin austerity I'm taking that as a fucking win, because it's the great evil of our time. They won't though because the entire ideological basis of their party is the cutting back of the state. If they stop doing that, they may as fucking well be Labour.

Oh ffs. Just ffs. Has any Chinese consortium ever worked? Are they gonna change the club badge, strip colours, who the fuck knows what else? Let's see I suppose but it's concerning.

Have now thought about this some. If there's a cross party deal on it, it takes Brexit out of the political one upmanship equation. Now, the Tories have been relying on Brexit completely in order to win votes in an anti-austerity time. Taking that out and making it a cross party project means they have to be judged on their non-brexit merits. No reason for Brexiters to vote for them, in theory. So Labour could still come out of this with a win even if they do pitch in on the project.

Yvette Cooper has claimed the same thing as ewerk. That in the national interest all parties should come together. Don't think it's a good idea for Labour though. Plus if they did do it, surely we could claim often and repeatedly that they're weak as piss now. Assuming there is no happy outcome to Brexit, which there isnt, we may as well let the Tories die on that sword themselves. No point in anyone else being tainted by it.

Sounds like they're being bought by a German consortium, according to all their ITKs.

I wonder if the Tories now realise they're beat. It's possible, however unlikely, that they're putting the wheels in motion for soft Brexit knowing full well that they're on the way out anyway, and that they may as well minimise the damage. This would put Labour in an awkward position in terms of which way to bend. We would think they'd follow suit, but it's possible that they might stick to their guns. In which case the Remainer vote behind Labour becomes sorely tested.

Damian Green appointed Secretary of State. Very pro- EU. Good news for Remainers.

Seems clear from what McDonnell was saying that Labour will see the course on Brexit. The thing is, I don't think they'll lose the lefties over that because their platform is so much better than the Tory one anyway. Brexit will happen if Labour win. Not sure it will with the Tories now though...

Aye, will aim to get some time in.

I suppose it was too much to hope that the party would rally quickly. Jess Phillips and others already have their knives out for Corbyn again. Labour were buoyed by a protest vote apparently (half true but not in the way they think) and that the party need to promise more policies than just spending. I'm prepared to say that parts of what they're saying are true and make sense, but they need to realise that they are the ones who need to change, not the leadership.

Trump has cancelled his state visit to the UK because he doesn't want to be protested against

He knew it as all spin though What a fucking pillock.

True, she'd stand no chance where she is next time