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

is that the real ('real') toilet paper uk or one of the many parodies? either way, lol

At least dead members can't cut their cards!

But how to cut it? Diagonally? In Four? Through the word "Member", or the other side?

Poor old Tories ;_;

lol @ politically homeless turning points twitter account holders

The madder the member the more diagonal the cut, although this is based on a relatively small sample size.

heart fn bleeds

i'll believe it when i see a crushing electoral defeat and not one second before

I regret to inform you that baggymp was listening to Nuthin' But a "G" Thang this morning.

the CP membership cards are a lot nicer than the flimsy cardboard nonsense you get for the LP

We have our first resignation - Nigel Adams, junior minister for Wales;

I and many others agreed with your previous position that no deal is better than a bad deal.

It now seems that you and your cabinet have decided that a deal - cooked up with a Marxist who has never once in his political life put British interests first - is better than no deal.

I profoundly disagree with this approach and I have therefore decided that I must reluctantly tender my resignation.

rip big man, heaven needed a minister i've never heard of

The average of Tory members is 90, a card would bring back unpleasant memories of rationing and National Service.

comforting memories!

heaven might get a few more of those today.

socialist Marxist

heaven is facing a critical shortage of whey-faced racist granny-starvers

RIP big man heaven needed a Harry Enfield impersonator

https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/0b60da0afca0226c03947310b2060c0a07007d34/0_158_3108_1865/master/3108.jpg?width=620&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=3e78b03f970aff71901907b82b88677a

lol xp

The average of Tory members is 90, a card would bring back unpleasant memories of rationing and National Service.

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comforting memories!

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Was gonna say...

This is inhumane

https://www.theguardian.com/education/2019/apr/03/isolation-of-children-at-academies-prompts-legal-action

And still far too common

Interesting that we haven't seen any of these people resigning today, hmm, I wonder why...?

The front page of tomorrow's Daily Telegraph 'Cabinet backs no-deal Brexit - but May turns to Corbyn instead' #tomorrowspaperstoday pic.twitter.com/7Qy6Ql4SrG

— The Telegraph (@Telegraph) April 2, 2019

graphic design is my passion dot jpeg

pic.twitter.com/icmnFIPxJU

— Jamie Gardiner (@Gonetobedeyes) April 3, 2019

May heavily trolling Corbs by commending the 50th anniversary of Trident and the 70th of NATO to the house in her PMQs opener, LOL (he didn’t bite).

Xps

The existence of such "care plans" for autistic children would shame any era in this country, but 2019 and isolation is the solution, fuck this austerity and all its apologists forever.

Caroline Johnson, a Tory, asks about the risk of a no-deal Brexit compared to the risk to the country from a “Marxist, antisemite-led government”.

LOL @ these utter clowns.

how that boot taste, caroline

Thousands of Official Complaints about Woke Jon Snow, Again, is it.

One of the reasons we aren't currently seeing Cabinet resignations is that they clearly don't believe May and Corbyn will be able to come to any kind of agreement, which seems highly plausible given that May clearly won't shift on anything of substance, and Corbyn has nothing to gain and everything to lose from a pact with the Tories.

Yes. But also can we infer that in their 7-hour meeting yesterday this conclusion was openly discussed and agreed on?

I don't believe May openly discusses anything at all with her Cabinet.

some interesting rubbish from anthony barnett

https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/opendemocracyuk/what-should-corbyn-do-now-response-aaron-bastani/

it confronts us with an unavoidable binary choice. We are either in the EU or not. The key question is which of these two outcomes can then create an inclusive future.

The decisive failure of all the Brexiteers and Lexiteers is that they have shown themselves incapable of reaching out and building support. The kind of country they want us to be has shown itself to be ineradicably divisive in a deeply unproductive way. I would argue that this follows from their ‘Great British’ exceptionalism and its superiority complex. But whatever the reason, they cannot resolve the divisions Nandy identifies.

But we – the remain side – can. We can win the argument to remain in the EU as democrats, not would-be aristocrats. This is why Nandy and you are profoundly mistaken to think you can swerve around a clear resolution by embracing a soft Brexit. This will preserve the very divisions you wish to overcome. We have to build on the democracy that was the kernel of the 2016 referendum; make its moral force our own and apply it to ensuring people can have control by putting any deal back to them in a People Vote.

i don't really disagree with that prognosis -- barnett is not a fool -- but i'm a bit baffled by the when and where of "making its moral force our own". the "we" in question has a few days and not much of a platform, novara notwithstanding

late entrant for the gold medal in the gammon-safari olympics from the grauniad today btw

strolling past the green where the market town of Grantham is soon to erect a statue of its most famous daughter, William Hemstell admitted to having mixed feelings about the news that the local MP Nick Boles was quitting the party which Margaret Thatcher once led.

[...]

“I had faith in him one time but he’s been part of a great betrayal of voters by some MPs at Westminster,” said Anthony Peres, 33, a photographer, satanist (“We’re a diverse bunch”) and Ukip voter in the Lincolnshire constituency that recorded one of the country’s largest votes for Brexit with 60% of voters backing leave.

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bringing the church of satan into disrepute

though suppose lafey has quite a lot in common with ayn rand so maybe this is a natural constituency of pricks

https://66.media.tumblr.com/5ce16a7d85f6a951f102d7993d529dbf/tumblr_nsm1m4mrjG1r1pstjo2_400.gif

lord satan please give me the strength i need to not attempt to friend this guy on facebook

can't believe there's a self-identified Satanist with dodgy views on nationalism

how many lapsed catholic observers of this thread always thought satanists were evil fuckers anyway? :p

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Caroline Johnson, a Tory, asks about the risk of a no-deal Brexit compared to the risk to the country from a “Marxist, antisemite-led government”.

May says she wants a Brexit deal.

xps I'm generally sympathetic to Barnett as one of the few ppl taking constitutional reform seriously but being out there in 2019 pushing the idea that Brexit is a binary issue is absurd and helps obscure the nonsense of a remain victory dissolving the country's divisions, without getting into the biz of democracy

do what thou wilt to minorities, the poor and the vulnerable shall be the whole of the law

(apologies to aleister c, by no means a satanist)

Crowley described himself at various times as a High Tory, a Jacobite, a bigoted legitimist, and a supporter of the Carlists; a British patriot; and an Irish nationalist.

poll

wait waht

It’s one of the most tantalizing rumors on the internet. Aleister Crowley, one of the most famous masters of the occult ever, was secretly the father of Barbara Bush—and thus, also the grandfather of George W. Bush and Jeb Bush. Is it true? Do we care?

The notion that Crowley could be the grandfather of one of the two or three best presidents of the 21st century has gone beyond the internet—a cursory search finds this idea in a number of books, including a recent Chuck Klosterman volume. The evidence boils down to claims that Barbara Bush’s mother, Pauline Pierce, was in Paris in the 1920s and apparently “partied” with Crowley, eight months before Barbara was born. And according to some websites, there were “sexcapades.”

"I'm absolutely appalled" - Conservative Iain Duncan Smith says Theresa May's #Brexit talks with Jeremy Corbyn "legitimises a Marxist whose sole purpose in life is to do real damage to the country" https://t.co/OjlUUixYrJ pic.twitter.com/eZhUig1chw

— BBC Politics (@BBCPolitics) April 3, 2019

one of the two or three best presidents of the 21st century