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

Here's a much better plan, scrapping Brexit for 7 and 11 year olds. And all other ages.

— Simon Hedges (@Orwell_Fan) April 17, 2019

long shot of Jonathan Pie lugging a camera and tripod out to the middle of a park, setting up, checking angles angle, hitting play then running back around to the front of the camera, then slipping and falling in some dogshit.

erg took a bit of a kicking after accusing us senator delegation of being complicit in a concocted border conspiracy

Critical support for Nancy Pelosi (!)

Ms Pelosi said she and her fellow delegates made it clear in all their meetings in London that there would be “no chance whatsoever” of a US-UK trade deal if Brexit weakened the 1998 Belfast Agreement.

hedges killing it

The irony is Andrew, if the ungrateful people of the northern provinces had not done brexit, we would currently be building them High Speeds 3 to 11 paid for by the £billions of taxes raised by hard working London remainers.

— Simon Hedges (@Orwell_Fan) February 13, 2019

You what?

— Andrew Adonis (@Andrew_Adonis) April 17, 2019

I’m fascinated about the order of these meetings. There’s Gapes/Leslie/Austin, Corbyn, ERG? Like imagine if the ERG was the last group you met.

xp why is Adonis responding to a two month old tweet? Even if it is from the saviour of centrist politics in this country?

lmao I didn’t even clock the date. adonis’ heads gone

Everything about Adonis makes sense now someone has pointed out he was the inspiration for Julius Nicholson. I imagine him rolling the R every single time he says "Brexit".

He’s actually worse than Julius Nicholson. Julius would never have referred to HS2 as his son!

Meanwhile, lol at this (and the article saying what several of us have been saying for ages):

One one occasion, Lavery responded angrily to a warning from Abbott that Labour should not give ground to arguments against migration, accusing her of calling him “gammon” – the derisive phrase used by lefty activists to describe middle-aged white men with reactionary views.

from: https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/apr/17/why-labours-leader-has-to-perform-a-brexit-balancing-act

Labour’s cadre of bright young advisers immediately grasped the significance of the moment and at one conference party they launched into a refrain of “All options on the ta-ble”, to the tune of the White Stripes’ Seven Nation Army, to which a year earlier at Glastonbury the crowd had roared “Oh Jeremy Corbyn”.

What the hell is wrong with these people?

some great scaremongering about agent milne in that

Stephen Kinnock, who has worked with Powell’s common market group, said: “We could potentially be tipping over into a culture war.”

finger on the pulse, potentially

We should only ever refer to the eminence gris as “Mr Seumas Milne” in proper Gapes red-bashing style.

Mike Gapes today on Seumas Milne and Russia. pic.twitter.com/D9E1DKHojr

— Mr Kellie Strøm (@kelliestrom) September 6, 2018

What the hell is wrong with these people?

shd be the permanent thread title tbh

xxp one which he’s on the wrong side

.@SKinnock We must move away from multiculturalism and towards assimilation. We must stand for one group: the British people. #progpolitics

— Progress (@ProgressOnline) November 29, 2016

i feel like the clown has even gone quiet on that front in the last 12 months, like even his xenophobia was subject to whatever personal political gain he thought he could make with it that week

i'm sure he's still xenophobic on the quiet except possibly re: Danes

smart branding how his Twitter handle always makes me think of Superintendent Chalmers shouting "SKINNOCK!!" tho

i'm sure he's still xenophobic on the quiet except possibly re: Danes

― The Gapes of Wrath (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 17 April 2019 09:04 (two minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

does every man grow to hate his wife

xp maybe his star turn in Labour: The Summer that Changed Everything shamed him into silence? Oh no, wait, didn’t he do that hunger strike for electoral reform?

oh you were applying the 'except' to the 'xenophobic', not the 'on the quiet' xp

does every man grow to hate his wife

Or Fred?

yeah i got no opinion on the state of Skinnock's marriage and wouldn't wish even his to be unhappy

Embryonic leadership pitch by Stephen Kinnock: "The British people care about 4 things. They care about work, family, community and country.

— Jane Merrick (@janemerrick23) May 5, 2017

why are you doing this... at any time

it has almost been worth having almost 10 years of tories just to see worthless, greasy, Blue Labour teflon slime like Cooper + Kinnock + friends being marginalised in the party, and things just not going how they arrogantly expected them to back in '15

well if they'd been in power it would've been barely distinguishable from the coalition or the Tories so yes, very much so

Kinnock's wife is the one who was presenting like a baboon at Mandela's funeral, yes?

maybe her focus groups said a selfie next to a festering stiff would give her an extra 2.7% approval rating!

xp bit misodge that post, if I'm honest. Desire to clown on Kinnock overrode better judgement

can't fully remember the story, but could her imagine her taking a selfie with a cadaver for some reason!

https://i.guim.co.uk/img/static/sys-images/Guardian/About/General/2013/12/13/1386975470772/Helle-Thorning-Schmidt-po-009.jpg?width=300&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=8ea9cb17f60a71a4af527431189d560c

spot the person in the photograph with a shred of dignity.

just cos it's a funeral doesn't mean you're not there to schmooze

That's nice

European Parliament voting intention:

BREX: 27%
LAB: 22%
CON: 15%
GRN: 10%
LDEM: 9%
UKIP: 7%
CHUK: 6%

via @YouGov, 15 - 16 Apr

— Britain Elects (@britainelects) April 17, 2019

lovely stuff. it will go higher and augurs well for any potential second referendum

ukip clearly in desperate need of that sargon of akkad bump in the polls

I was talking to an otherwise intelligent person recently who didn't know there were European elections or how MEPs got to be MEPs, I think she thought they were appointed or something.

wrote:
... where is the Remain equivalent of this?

For months it has been obvious that these EU elections would come - it is why Farage registered his new party months ago - yet there seems to have been little action from the other side.

Where are the rallies? Where is the cross party agreement on a joint remain ticket?

Where are the posters? The agreed messaging?

The corralling of the newly empowered pro-European demos in this country?

The targeting of EU citizens with a vote?

think LG is overplaying farage’s position a little here (UKIP still polling at 7/8%) but these are all good questions for continuity remain
https://news.sky.com/story/labour-and-the-tiggers-need-to-get-real-116

Just casually waiting for anyone who was saying a second referendum was a good idea previously itt to comment

I don't agree with or particularly like Yvette Cooper and she's been a hugely damaging influence in the past (to say the least) but it's clear she's actually doing important and substantial things right now and working pretty well with the Labour front bench in the process. There's a vast gulf between her and attention-seeking bobbleheads like Chuka and Kinnock Jr.

(It might not be an ideological gulf but it is the difference between preening and actually getting things done)

I wouldn't accept an apology or anything less than ritual suicide for some of these damaging things she's said and done though. I've seen ruthless ex-convicts with a stronger moral compass than her, seriously.

Hi, a second referendum is a good idea.

Hi, it isn't if you lose it because the people co-ordinating the Remain campaign don't know their arse from their elbow.

lol we're all gonna die

Ratification similar to Good Friday Agreement style is a good idea, simply because most Leavers are afflicted with No True Brexit and it would serve them right for 40 years of wanting out but being too arrogant to have any concrete plan.

That I would agree with but only in the absence of a ticking clock.

Hi, a second referendum is a good idea.

when*

i disagree - close remain win imo

not that that would solve much