"oh you don't get me I'm the end of the union": lol brexit is how we're all gonna die

would have more credibility if she'd tinged up

love it when my 18-second hostage-video style apologies start with a stumbling self-correction, the embarrassment of which could easily have been erased by a second take

wait o shit was actually this the best take of a series?

can somebody be expelled from the Indie Group y/n?

"I'm committed to fighting all racism - apart from my own dyed in the wool bigotry that my inbred constituents are perfectly fine with"

We have multiple people on multiple accounts spreading the awareness of our brand. However we are seeing some parody accounts popping. Be sure to DM us if you see any of these and we'll try our best at discussing the situation with PR. Thanks.

— The Independent Group (@IndGroup_UK) February 18, 2019

these guys are fkn crushing it today, the establishment has been rocked to its core

There has recently been a breach into our Twitter profile from an external source, but luckily our tech support have been very responsive in securing our brand. There were some changes to our Twitter profile that have since been fixed. Thanks to all that let us know.

— The Independent Group (@IndGroup_UK) February 18, 2019

fuck that's a parody account, now i am the one rocked to my core

SECURE THE BRAND

Angela Smith merely reflecting the public's legitimate concerns about tingeing. I will be disappointed if some newspaper doesn't report her regretful apology with the headline, 'Tinge of Sadness.

We must secure the existence of our brand and a future for untinged children

lol

lol Smith has issued an apology.

One question would be why Eagle, Owen Smith, etc. decided to stick around. I guess today's launch does answer it but they would totally gone along with it - you could've easily had another 25 Lab MPs.

clearly they lack the vision and drive of mike gapes

Probably less likely to get VONCed

when is owen “who?” smith leaving

Why aren't John Woodcock and Frank Field - who sit as independent MPs - members of the Independent Group? Are we already seeing a division between the People's Centrist Front and the People's Front of Centrism?

— David Osland (@David__Osland) February 18, 2019

guys they can't all be hard left machine sleeper agents

good screenname nv

Woodcock presumably because he is a sex pest, Field because they have to wait for a lightning storm to get enough juice to resurrect him.

field is ferociously pro-brexit, which osland must surely know

the moral of the SDP is that it was people who stayed who pulled labour SDP-wards in the 90s, so there's that

owen smith may not have noticed this was all going on

I can't believe people still listen to Gong.

Can’t believe how much talk there is here - and on 5LIve right now with Owen Jones - about Blair. Like those Japanese soldiers who don’t know the war’s ended. You might as well get angry about Stafford Cripps

— Stuart Maconie (@StuartMaconie) February 18, 2019

he hasn't even given any kind of interview trying to shape the Labour party to his own twisted ends in 15 years

Stafford Cripps still makes me incredibly angry cos he used to eat raw vegetables, so stfu macaroni!

There's a proper low bar for defecting politicians rushing out a new site and holding press-co's and making racist remarks on day one etc, but these magnificent seven are absolutely burying it.

Rip

I'm proud to have donated and offered my support to these brave MPs. https://t.co/9TbJOlfB6x

— Eddie Marsan (@eddiemarsan) February 18, 2019

we just need rachel riley to weigh in and my bingo card will be full

Who da fuq is Eddie marsan

Actor, apparently. One of those ppl like Frances Barber that are on some BBC movie shit and you get to know their names.

Frank Field is retiring isn't he? (I don't even want to look it up) Woodcock is finished.

But its the likes of Ian Austin, Neil Coyle, Lisa Nandy, Wes Streeting etc. I would even include Tom Watson but he has a career. I guess being pro-Brexit would disqualify you but I don't think that covers all of these ppl.

Yes if I didn't have to go out in a bit I'd be here all night shouting why haven't all of these ppl just pissed off.

To all those calling for the 7 MPs to hold by-elections now they’ve rejected this leadership’s hijacked version of Labour, this ⬇️⬇️⬇️ https://t.co/VpmwfCXlil

— Rachel Riley (@RachelRileyRR) February 18, 2019

https://proxy.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fturtleboysports.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2017%2F03%2Ftumblr_inline_n8m092igSC1qf3yrr.gif&f=1

so apparently lols aside today's events have increased the chances of a snap election being called - according to S Bush. Surely they wouldn't let May lead them into another one!

I just saw Watson's statement and it was good that both he and Corbyn paid more focus on Berger.

The break is too small for a snap election. Chances have increased...by 5%

*glances wearily at 'number of days since I knew what Tony Blair George Galloway thought about something' counter*

(he wants back in)

he can fuck off and so can ken

from https://www.politico.eu/article/theresa-may-sets-course-for-brexit-disaster-no-deal-withdrawal-treaty/

The minister from a major power said they were shocked to hear from a U.K. counterpart that London is apparently intent on dragging things out until March 21. At that point, May would bring a menu of three or four ideas for changing the backstop from which EU leaders would be invited to choose. If they reject all of them, she would blame EU intransigence for the ensuing chaos.

That's leadership!

It's astonishing to me that Brexit is still being played in the UK as domestic politics, a month+ away. My (French) research team had a meeting today with national research administrators showing us how no-deal Brexit will cut off all(-ish?) European research funds to UK universities immediately, and even if a deal is struck, the UK can only participate for another year in ERC funding. Surely the UK will make up for that loss of research funding...surely...sureLOLy...

It's all been a fiendish plot by Corbz to get the election he's been banging on about.

TW is friends with Berger iirc (aren’t they both members of the infamous birthday party WhatsApp group?)

I don’t think GG is getting back in with Jon Lansman on the NEC.

Gary Glitter?

G G Ailing

Couldn't be Gary Glitter, the Lib Dems are the Party For Paedos.

they didn’t want woodcock to join pmsl
https://www.buzzfeed.com/amphtml/alexwickham/30-mps-labour-independent-group?__twitter_impression=true

The fundamental divide between the Labour splitters is over the new party that will emerge, the sources said. Several MPs including Chris Leslie and ringleader Chuka Umunna hope to be at the forefront of a new “centrist” party modelled on Angela Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union and Emmanuel Macron’s En Marche.

ah yes, the centrist CDU

en shart

Excuse me "terf" is a slur. We prefer to be known as Trans Exclusionary Moderate Feminists"

— The Independent Group (@The_Indie_Group) February 18, 2019

just tinged my monitor

tinge benefritz

Oh and by the way Honda's fucking off as well.

Can't for the life of me imagine why no other Labour MPs volunteered to be cannon fodder.

Also they probably know that if you quit a party because of a man approaching his 70s at a particularly febrile and unstable period in history without a very good reason then you're an idiot. Also the right wing Labour MPs who stayed in and didn't join the SNP eventually won.

Also this:

NEW: 30 Labour MPs held talks about quitting the party in what was originally planned as a far more damaging assault on Jeremy Corbyn, but only 7 went ahead with the plan today amid chaotic disagreements over strategy, organisation and personalitieshttps://t.co/6NBClmCTme

— Alex Wickham (@alexwickham) February 18, 2019