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

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"now Luxembourg is wanting out, too?"

oh surely not after Liam Fox had only just made a free trade deal with a village there!

it's only a matter of time before we are all speaking Luxembourgish.

Newport West by-election
Labour Ruth Jones 9,308 39.6 -12.7
Conservative Matthew Evans 7,357 31.3 -8.0
UKIP Neil Hamilton 2,023 8.6 +6.1
Plaid Cymru Jonathan Clarke 1,185 5.0 +2.6
Liberal Democrat Ryan Jones 1,088 4.6 +2.4
Green Amelia Womack 924 3.9 +2.8

Labour and Tories losing a fifth of their vote.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/apr/05/donald-tusk-will-tell-eu-to-back-brexit-flextension-for-uk

Tusk proposes a year long extension (the 27 have to agree on it).

2,000-odd people voting for Neil Hamilton are beneath contempt really

Have a modicum of respect for they have all since died.

Brb, massive brain haemorrhage after hearing that May has asked for an extension to June 30 without a plan.

that wasnt a haemorrhage that was uri bursting pipes in yr head

but she has a plan: MV4, MV5, MV6, MV7

This the new netflix Terminator series?

"I'll be back"? Don't leave then :-)

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'Listen, and understand. That terminator is out there. It can't be bargained with. It can't be reasoned with. It doesn't feel pity, or remorse, or fear. And it absolutely will not stop, ever, until you are dead.'

Lol, 'MV' was what Nirvana's 'Moist Vagina' was abbreviated to when it was a b-side on all apologies send post

Sub-40% turnout in Newport but you just know that every UKIP voter turned out. Would expect it to be a lot higher at a GE.

Was biblical weather yesterday too which probably had an impact

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Also the candidate was Neil Hamilton so could be Tory splitters voting for them, too.

Also "let's run a candidate that's been on Have I Got News For You" isn't a nationwide strategy for UKIP (though HIGNFY will probably be willing to rush through a few given a bit of notice)

People are going to feel betrayed. I think as long as both Tories and Labour lose votes it could be ok, but it's definitely a reminder of what those MPs in marginal Labour seats face and no amount "oh ppl vote for TV stars...like Neil Hamilton, 2nd vote is still on" is going to make this go away

could joke about looking forward to Tommy Robinson's HIGNFY debut, but it isn't even a fucking joke anymore.

xp Yes, those are definitely two correlated views.

Sub-40% turnout in Newport but you just know that every UKIP voter turned out. Would expect it to be a lot higher at a GE.

Stoked for the European elections madness.

Dismissing Ukip as having a strategy of putting someone who appears on a show nobody cares about tells me people doing it are trying to wish it away.

That being anti-EU gets you enough votes after the last two years says a lot. more than 'lol Neil Hamilton'.

What show did Neil Hamilton appear on btw?

somebody must care abt it, it's been running for 29 years despite always being bad not good as well as evil

If a long extension leaves us stuck in the EU we should be as difficult as possible. We could veto any increase in the budget, obstruct the putative EU army and block Mr Macron’s integrationist schemes.

— Jacob Rees-Mogg (@Jacob_Rees_Mogg) April 5, 2019

someone's a cheerful chipper this morning

How strange - isn’t this the same guy who said the UK had no power to do any of these things in the EU and that’s why we had to leave. https://t.co/FTLD670HBH

— Nicola Sturgeon (@NicolaSturgeon) April 5, 2019

damn, ethered

Ruth Jones is pro-Remain btw.

I don't think that no-one cares about it though (unless that's editorialising from yourself?) - I think that's the result of the UKIP increase, that they have a celebrity - but he is basically their only celebrity (apart from Tommy Robinson).

That being anti-EU gets you enough votes after the last two years says a lot. more than 'lol Neil Hamilton'.

The three unambiguously pro-Europe parties got a boost in excess of UKIP, though?

NIgel Farage was on Channel 4 retro shows like whatever that 'gosh wasn't the 70s a weird time' show was called.
Found it an odd choice of people to try to normalise. Probably shouldn't have been surprised.

The point about Hamilton isn't his celebrity, it's the fact that he's got a history of corruption and that was still ok with the cabbages that voted for him.

tbf cash for questions or as Barry Sheerman would have it Professional Lobbyist is just standard practice now.

The three unambiguously pro-Europe parties got a boost in excess of UKIP, though?

Also everyone is salivating for a GE, but I’m not sure how much you can usefully deduce from a result where turnout was about half the previous rate - it wasn’t expected to change hands, complacency does play a part too.

if ppl are anti anything its bad

probably more anti-Dangerous at this point

xp No, I agree - I'm using it to muddy xyzzzz__'s tea-leaves, so to speak.

Comrade alphabet is otm here though.

an election won't *just* be fought on brexit (tho i think it will be much more salient than in 2017); obviously a 2nd ref/PV *will* just be fought on brexit

ref1 was histrocially the electoral highest turn-out ever, no? hardest thing to read from one by-election is the "staying home and grumpily sitting on their hands" vote in a GE especially

also do major parties break up before or after the make-or-break election? my guess (based as ever on hunch) is after

technically i guess the "staying home and grumpily sitting on their hands" vote is a non-vote

xxp His position (if I read him right) is that the UKIP boost is significant, but your position is that the other protest parties aren't?

Tory Peer, Lord Ridley, gives the most suitably out of touch, self entitled, made in the House of Lords speech ever.pic.twitter.com/4fEdRcKbR7

— James Melville (@JamesMelville) April 5, 2019

The UKIP vote isn't going away and will probably rise the worse things look for Brexiters, but there is minimal value either electorally or morally for Labour in trying to pander to these people, especially in a seat like Newport with a 44% Remain vote. UKIP vote is likely to be primarily at the expense of the Tories at this stage anyway - this is terrible for the country if the Tories stay in, but anyone who thinks that Brexit is a bigger driver than either austerity or general economic decline is kidding themselves.

xxp His position (if I read him right) is that the UKIP boost is significant, but your position is that the other protest parties aren't?

It's less about him being on a TV show and probably more about the fact that Hamilton was at least once a professional politician and a much better campaigner than the sort of fuckheads that UKIP usually put up.

I'm sure I can remember him being a regular yoof tv guest after the 90's scandal, or might just be basing that memory on one appearance on The Word or something.

possibly a false memory, too many bad real and metaphorical drugs doing the rounds back then.

His wife is on the telly far more than he is tbf.

he def was a regular:

On 9 May 1997 Hamilton and his wife, Christine, appeared on the current affairs satire quiz Have I Got News for You. The episode was recorded one week after Hamilton lost his seat. Angus Deayton, the presenter of the panel game, wore a white suit instead of his usual brown one. This was a humorous reference to Martin Bell, who wore just such a suit throughout the 1997 general election campaign. As a further taunt, at the end of the show, the Hamiltons were handed their "fee" in brown envelopes.[101] At one point Hamilton quipped, "I've found it's much better making political jokes than being one."[102]

Since then, the Hamiltons have appeared on chat shows. They have also appeared on programmes such as The Weakest Link and Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?, as well as in pantomime. In an appearance on a celebrity edition of Mastermind on Boxing Day 2004, Hamilton described himself as being "an object of professional curiosity". He appeared in Da Ali G Show in 2000.[citation needed]

In 2005, Hamilton appeared on the Johnny Vegas show, 18 Stone of Idiot, where he danced in a perspex box whilst Vegas and a member of the public poured buckets of fish over his head.[103]