Seizing back control: The ILX lol brexit is how we're all gonna die thread.

I am calm gyac. Just posting as I normally do.

judeinlondon2’s last hour of Tweets on CUK are *chef’s kiss*

They should have called themselves Change Democracy: UK. They could have relaunched with Ant & Dec, Cat Deeley and Holly Willoboobs

— Funny Tinge; Tendence Black (@judeinlondon2) March 29, 2019

two thumbs up

govt rumour mill will be pouring a LOT of effort into the "gap closing, lab lurkers support us in the DMs" type stories

lobby hacks lap this stuff^^^ up bcz it's pseudo-countercyclical "narrative" (= something to write abt before the actual revelatory crunch: PHIL SPACE as High Priest of the Spectacle™️)

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Echoing the divine Jude elsewhere, HOW MUCH did they pay a consultant who couldn’t manage due diligence?

brb photshopping the SocSpec image to include comrade alphabet w/o his xray spex but with seared and gaping holes where his eyes used to be instead

i am in a very quatermass mood today btw

well, we are in a pit

but some of us are looking at the *shrieks in abject terror*

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/5/56/Qatp01.JPG/250px-Qatp01.JPG

xp damnit

THE SUN THE SUN THE SUN THE SUN THE -

the pit and the pendulous, swinging, engorged brexit

*eyes funnel again*

Kate Hoey (!!!) has told Peston shes's voting against the WA today so I'm pretty sure it's fucked.

Kate Hoey wants a no deal Brexit and thinks this compromises the integrity of the union, so no big shock there.

Yes, she is always aligned with the DUP.

Priti Patel voting against.

Re: Kate Hoey aligning with DUP

Prior to her involvement with New Labour, Hoey was an active member of the International Marxist Group whose policies included support for the IRA, removal of British troops from Northern Ireland, and nationalisation of industry. She has long rejected those policies.

---- quite the political journey there

The Tory Brexiter Priti Patel says, if MPs vote for this deal, they will be voting for a deal drawn up by the EU. She says her constituents voted leave. And leave should mean leave, she says. She says people are getting fed up of these endless debates

truly one of the great thinkers and orators of our times

In this essay I will outline why people are fed up of these endless essays

she's calm and just posting as she normally does

Lib Dem MP says Theresa May says the PM could get her deal over the line if she combined it with a referendum.

That needs to be a board description already. Feel sorry for the Americans logging on in a while and backreading older posts.

Which reminds me of the Frankensteiny proposals apparently being considered for Monday - the second Letwin day will apparently be new votes on 'new' ideas, rather than something with preferential votes - theoretical runners include Customs Union + Norway Plus, Customs Union with a Second Referendum, and "No Deal bit with also a Second Referendum", where the idea is that both hard remainers and hard leavers would go for it because they're bound to win the popular vote, right?

*but

the International Marxist Group whose policies included

this is a bit of a category error when describing any formation within the larger UK fourth international heritage: its primary dynamic -- its key political culture -- is SPLITTISM, with the many many MANY warring splinters each brandishing its minutely different menu with regard to policy, permuting like the various ways you can order a fried breakfast in a caff (International Communist League with mushrooms = Alliance for Workers Liberty, International Communist League without mushrooms = Communist Party of Great Britain Provisional Central Committee etc*). Hoey being within this general penumbra doesn't really commit her strongly to *any* given line (with the point at which said line became a problem for her being the point she likely began to withdraw).

*(this is a fanciful example: all these groups exist but i have not actually researched the relevant lines on mushrooms as regards a fried breakfast)

A brief marriage ends. DUP learning today that many in ERG = Brexiteers first Unionists second. DUP = Unionists first and Brexiteers second. So DUP would countenance long extension / customs union over PM’s deal while ERG will support PM’s deal over long extension / customs union

— Nicholas Watt (@nicholaswatt) March 29, 2019

mushrooms are disgusting and have no place in a fried breakfast, you are a traitor to the cause of breakfast and you are henceforth banished xp

It does seem quite a weasley line, it's from her wikipedia entry, but not sure where the person writing it is coming from.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kate_Hoey#Politics

Communism with mushrooms sounds like a good call, however I would go for Trotskyism with mushrooms fried in butter, not Stalinism with mushrooms fried in bacon fat.

It was with a heavy heart that i FPd you there bg

*seizes skillet, advances on bg*

taking the fun out of fungus

Why are people complaining about mushrooms in a fry when beans are the real crime?

guys i heard there's a risk the public could lose trust in British politics today

huge if true

xp what do you call a mushroom with a big penis? A fun guy

why is something happening xp

Either something or nothing is happening, both with their own dangers

schrodinger's brexit

I am prepared to put the skillet down once bg and gyac discuss the compatibilities of their aims - if they strengthen their hands by both hating mushrooms and beans then I'm prepared to sit down with them, because more delicious mushrooms and beans for me. In a spirit of welcoming they can have the grilled tomato, if that's what that is.

You can keep the tomato, I’m only interested in rashers and black pudding.

I think I count about ten ride or die Tory Brexiteers still voting against this thing? It’s toast.

grilled tomatoes are fucking rank an' all tbh

Mushroom hatred yet another thing cementing the transatlantic clone bond between bg and myself, I see.

elitists. any fried breakfast that doesn't include all these things is a bourgeois distraction

breaksit

there it is

Lads, Leon is way ahead of us.

Leon is the latest London restaurant to adopt the Brexit lexicon to sell food. A “breakfast means breakfast” deal promises a breakfast pot and a coffee for £4.45, imploring hungry passers-by with a simple suggestion: “Let’s do a deal.”

Now I'm curious if anyone's selling one with all these AND ALSO filo, olives, halloumi, feta...

our most basic, rough n ready local greasy spoon offers a 'turkish breakfast' fyi

like, in addition to the classix