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

Littlewoods, Vernons or Zetters?

Crowley would drink goat's blood and sacrifice virgins but wasn't having no truck with commoners putting on tuppence each way Yankees on the gee gees!

that's royal leamington spa for you

Consider sport war, the babyish enthusiasms and rages which it excites, whole nations disturbed by disputes between boys. Consider war sport, the atrocities which occur daily and leave us unmoved and hardly worried. We are children."

ftf aleister crowley

Sexcapades. I sigh, and then I cry, and I wonder why,,,

https://twitter.com/chhcalling/status/111345622923238195
Two gone, this was the MP who was contacting universities to ask about what they were teaching about Brexit. I see he was a PPS, in the immortal words of one of his colleagues:

Your a pps Chris. It is not relevant and nobody gives a fuck. Apart from me obviously.

— Simon Hart (@Simonhartmp) July 9, 2018

The vote to seize Monday for indicative votes appears to have been a dead heat.

And Bercow votes against, as is traditional.

Next vote, majority of one.

MPs pass bill to rule out no-deal by majority of 5 at second reading

MPs have voted in favour of the Cooper bill with a majority of five votes.

Ayes: 315, Noes: 310.

Jolyon doesn't think so

"it is the Swiss cheese of legislation: full of holes"

her ancestors will be spinning in their graves!

Irl loled at that.

Balls. Once again betrayed by mobile posting.

The bill has to go through another stage (committee?) tonight and then it’s passed?

Bill Cash going off on one about the subjugation of the House by the EU and playing the two World wars card

"I'm probably not supposed to say this but we saved Europe twice!"

I tweeted earlier criticising @johnmcdonnellMP and @EmilyThornberry for ‘abstaining’ on a tight and crucial vote. I shouldn’t have done so. Emily was with her kid in hospital and John was himself in hospital. I didn’t know. I’m deeply sorry to both. I wish them both my very best.

— Stewart McDonald MP (@StewartMcDonald) April 3, 2019

whoops

Not in the least like an opportunisteic SNP wanker then.

Stewart, You weren’t to know but I was in hospital having an MRI scan on my leg and hip as I have been having a bit of pain. I couldn’t put it off any more and survive pressure from family and friends. I think it’s a hangover from footballl days when I was a dangerous left back!

— John McDonnell MP (@johnmcdonnellMP) April 3, 2019

still a threat on the left wing amirite?

back of the net!

Guardian liveblog just linked this interview with Bercow, dying at the interview opening with some trademark German directness: http://m.spiegel.de/international/europe/british-house-speaker-john-bercow-on-his-brexit-role-a-1260659.html

DER SPIEGEL: Mr. Speaker, some of your predecessors were decapitated. Is it a relief for you that this kind of punishment is out of fashion?

there’s still time tbf

the eyes and the nose had it

Also why can't I think of a single pork product/Satanism pun this is awful.

― Matt DC, Wednesday, April 3, 2019 8:33 AM (seven hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

In with a very helpful + timely post as is my wont:

https://www.dollargeneral.com/media/catalog/product/cache/image/700x700/e9c3970ab036de70892d86c6d221abfe/8/2/828502.jpg

Blimey by ONE VOTE cooper Letwin Bill passes Commons stages - mandating PM to ask for extension. Backbenchers legislating against Government wishes...

Ayes 313
Noes 312 pic.twitter.com/BTzVCFozxC

— Faisal Islam (@faisalislam) April 3, 2019

The votes aren’t up yet, but I see John McDonnell made it out of hospital & back to go through the lobby for the last few votes!

The votes are inevitably up as soon as i post:
https://commonsvotes.digiminster.com/Divisions/Details/678

will May resign yet

she has no shame!

Basically unamended Cooper Letwin Bill has passed its committee stage 4 hours after its second reading....

MPs now voting on its third reading - ie the big final vote.

Peter Bone furious asking Speaker to “make this farce stop” and order “There can be no third reading”. pic.twitter.com/728OX8WN0B

— Faisal Islam (@faisalislam) April 3, 2019

the "farce" presumably being the idea that the sovereign legislative body from whence executive authority supposedly emanates might set its agenda?

its not designed to *work*

"Forgive them Father, they know not what they do," Mark Francois says of the Commons after it passes the Cooper Bill.

— Robert Hutton (@RobDotHutton) April 3, 2019

Caption this. We’ll share the best #Peston pic.twitter.com/BHkr5V4CBe

— Peston (@itvpeston) April 3, 2019

Normally I don't dignify them but hmm best Telegraph front page ever

The crowd going wild for Bercow's Boiler Room debut

LOL!

thanks, willl

vg

*shocked face*

A series of hugely influential Facebook advertising campaigns that appear to be separate grassroots movements for a no-deal Brexit are secretly overseen by employees of Sir Lynton Crosby’s lobbying company and a former adviser to Boris Johnson, documents seen by the Guardian reveal.

The mysterious groups, which have names such as Mainstream Network and Britain’s Future, appear to be run independently by members of the public and give no hint that they are connected. But in reality they share an administrator who works for Crosby’s CTF Partners and have spent as much as £1m promoting sophisticated targeted adverts aimed at heaping pressure on individual MPs to vote for a hard Brexit.

Repeated questions have been raised about who is backing at least a dozen high-spending groups that have flooded MPs’ inboxes with calls to reject Theresa May’s deal. Until now they were thought to be independent entities.

But according to the documents, almost all the major pro-Brexit Facebook “grassroots” advertising campaigns in the UK share the same page admins or advertisers. These individuals include employees of CTF Partners and the political director of Boris Johnson’s campaigns to be mayor of London, who has worked closely with Crosby in the past.

Their collective Facebook expenditure swamps the amount spent in the last six months by all the UK’s major political parties and the UK government combined. They have paid for thousands of different targeted Facebook ads encouraging members of the public to write to their local MPs and call for the toughest possible exit from the EU, creating the impression of organic public opposition to Theresa May’s deal.

The will of the bots

*checks yesterday's posts* brb going to get odds on a coup d'etat by end of year

Re: Corbyn helping May get a deal through Parliament, Tom Kilbasi on Twitter made the point yesterday that at the next election, May and Cable will both be gone. Sturgeon definitely won't support any kind of Brexit deal. Which leaves Corbyn as the only party leader who will be required to defend the deal/new status quo at the next election. That's a disastrous position for a Leader of the Opposition to be in and a massive disincentive for him to offer May any kind of support.

Crosby's cunts have been doing the same shit in Australia to strangle any govt action on climate change.

Yep, easily one of the most evil men in politics. The Tories won a majority in 2015 with dogwhistling, and then the London mayoral campaign a year later was absolutely one of the most disgusting campaigns.

xp I think there are a lot of assumptions about this - that Corbyn has any real intention of making this work. We saw already how infuriated this made the Tory party - think it’s much more likely to drive a wedge between various factions than produce anything usable.

Which leaves Corbyn as the only party leader who will be required to defend the deal/new status quo at the next election.

So, the next Conservative leader will be slagging off his immediate predecessor (as well as Corbz) in a bid to gain popular votes?

I don't think he has any intention of making it work (I don't think May has either) but both need to be seen to be trying. There's a big chance that any deal would lose the support of a huge slice of the Labour benches and an even bigger chunk of the Tories. Just because Labour MPs voted for a Customs Union in the abstract doesn't mean they want to be seen by their constituents and CLP to be propping up the Tories - and that goes for nearly all Labour MPs.

(xpost to Mark - very probably given the likely contenders)

So Matt do you think Corbyn will make it to the next election now? ;-)

watching gammon twitter erupt over fiona onasanya breaking the tie is quite something