Brexit Thread IV - Negotiations begin (and we're all screwed)

She’s done her job, online and on here

Fair point but has Marina Hyde? She started off as a showbiz journalist. Dunno whether either of them have had lobby passes.

Anyway as far as I’m concerned Marina Hyde’s always been a snarky posho writing about politics (and sport and celebs). She’s hardly especially insightful but she can be incredibly funny. That’s about it. Think people bestow more power upon her than she actually has.

Genuine question here: Is MH a lobby journalist? I would always have assumed not.

She started at the Guardian as the Diary column.

Is that a lobby job?

Yes. Or at least, it was, back in the early-mid 00s when it couldn’t be done remotely as easily.

Nah that’s you who’s just done that.

wait… are you Marina Hyde but with shit gags?

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Ooft, Geoff’s lunged in two footed there Clive. All of the ball and a lot of the man

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Ha what and bringing up the whole me being a Tory thing wasn’t?

So obviously I went hunting for lobby journalists (Hyde is not currently one). But Andrew Neil’s one busy old hack!

https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm/cmjournl/journalists.htm

i’m…uh…i’m completely at a loss here. i was like “wait…geoff is a tory?” because i was expressing surprise at a post (i now see i misread) upthread where it seemed to be implying you were a tory. i was surprised because you seem quite left wing from what i’ve seen. um…sorry?

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So The Canary and Novara still haven’t got lobby passes then. Pretty sure I’m right in thinking they both applied for them but got rejected (The Canary certainly did). Pretty ridiculous really. I’m not sure of the process for them being granted is but basically if Guido gets a load and they don’t then that makes the whole thing a total sham.

Despite what he likes to claim, Guido (and his little helpers) is 100% part of the establishment.

Ah sorry - it’s been a pretty common gag on here to take the piss out of me for being a Tory over the last few years (I’m a Labour party member and have been for… 7 years now I think) as a dig. I thought you were doing the same so responded in kind but if you weren’t then that’s cool, I know you’ve not been around as long as others. You’re just incorrect instead!

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Probably involves having to download a shedload of porn and promising to be nice to Teresa.

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fair. i will take this :+1::fist::rose:

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Oh he’s a full on campaigning arm of the Tory party. Sure he deals in gossip on both sides but we all know what his aims are and he’s very cosy with Tory MPs.

Of course The Establishment is a bit of a nebulous concept and open to interpretation. But whatever it is, Harry Cole is absolutely 100% part of it.

Sobering BBC interview with Joachim Lang, head of Federation of German Industries.