Savage Henry

Pretty underwhelming year, but my top ten that I compiled for another site I use is as follows: 1. The Beths - Future Me Hates Me 2. Lonnie Holley - MITH 3. Goat Girl - Goat Girl 4. Traveller - Western Movies 5. Kyle Craft - Full Circle Nightmare 6. Courtney Barnett - Tell Me How You Really Feel (the fact that this one is so high up is indicative of how I really feel about the year) 7. The Blind Suns - Offshore 8. Bat Fangs - Bat Fangs 9. River Whyless - Kindness, A Rebel 10. Cut Worms - Hollow Ground Honestly, everything between 6 and 10 falls could be interchanged. Most of this year's music falls into the like-but-not-love category, and I listen to far more of my 2017 top 10 than I do any of these. The top three are genuinely excellent, though. Mentions in dispatches to: Remember Sports, Hinds, Wussy and Caleb Caudle

There’s a huge difference between ex-pat and immigrant. One implies a compete unwillingness to integrate, and the other implies total emersion. British ex-pats (English has nothing to do with it) are nowhere near as involved in local communities for one thing. I’ve got no problem with the different labels. On a wider point, I’d say a second referendum is far more likely than No Deal Brexit at this point. A general election is perhaps more likely, but they amount to the same thing.

No! That's umpossible. Democracy means you can't change your mind, and are forever stuck by any decision you ever make!

Whatever you think of the guy, this interview with James Comey at the 92nd Street Y is absolutely riveting, if you have any interest in the Trump 'thing'. https://www.pscp.tv/w/1lPKqdWMagnxb

Is this officially an omnishambles or a clusterfuck?

Corbyn is a fraud. No other way of putting it. I’d have more respect if he just came out and said he supports leaving.

I stand corrected. So why is Twitter going crazy over the speaker’s comments?

They can’t just delay the vote. They have to vote on the delay of the vote. And May will lose that too. #Chortle

Perhaps. But still. I think the majority of her electorate will be of the Daily Mail/anti-Johnny Foreigner brigade. And, lest we forget, it didn't take long for Thatcher's constituency to turn fickle.

God only knows. What a mess.

Slightly disingenuous there. She said she'll support a vote of no confidence, not that she'll back him in power.

Theresa May is dead in the water whichever way she goes. Hard Brexit won't get passed. Her deal won't get passed. A second referendum and she loses a vote of confidence. A leadership challenge is likely to result in PM Johnson. A general election and she's in danger of losing her seat. If she had any political nous, she would have called a leadership challenge and then forced through her agreement. At one point she would have won that challenge, a la John Major. At this stage, she'd almost certainly lose. She may go down as the least competent PM of all time, and the least talented Tory leader since IDS.

You assume we'll all still be here in three hours.

Is that not simply a de facto vote of no confidence?

See, the problem is you assume Labour would win. They wouldn't. All it would do is return the Tories with an even smaller number of seats. A second referendum is pretty much the only way out of this mess that doesn't result in endless stalemate. And even then...