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

Rather they were prosecuted and jailed tbh

grim

Labour candidate punched in the face and told "you're a fucking traitor, you should be hanged". Literally on the street I grew up on. pic.twitter.com/7MFy0Nco6a

— Adam 🌿🌳 (@softerhardleft) April 17, 2019

Ugh, third time trying to post this, it’s like the POST errors are trying to tell me to stop.

If anyone doesn’t get that at least part of Corbyn’s continual stressing that Labour will respect the result of the referendum was to offset the inevitable betrayal narrative, well, they don’t want to get it. Much easier to talk shit about Seumas Milne while Labour MPs are getting death threats and one of them has already been murdered.

much more of this and Labour suddenly pivoting to hard Remain might be an interesting move tbh

as Matt said, name it stop + fuck these cunts. it really can be played i think. a sort of magnificent heel turn

uh make it stop, I mean

A bit of levity: the protestors left Corbyn’s house:

Via @pa: When asked why they left, Tracee Williams, 55, said: “I don’t think this was a misstep but whether we’d do it again, I’m not so sure.

“We just really felt we had to bring it to his front door. I feel absolutely terrible about upsetting his wife.”

— Graeme Demianyk (@GraemeDemianyk) April 17, 2019

that’s quite sweet

windmill jolyon... remain are polling on 25%

In a referendum on Leave/Remain we'll count the votes for Leave and the votes for Remain. The European Parliamentary elections are a proxy Leave/Remain referendum. If you want to Remain make sure you vote for an unambiguously Remain party.

— Jo Maugham QC (@JolyonMaugham) April 17, 2019

this seemed like a more sensible analysis
https://mainlymacro.blogspot.com/2019/04/why-european-elections-will-be-painful.html?m=1

Given Labour's position and the lack of cooperation among the anti-Brexit parties, Remainers should not turn these European elections into a vote about being anti-Brexit, because they will lose badly. The combined vote for UKIP, the new Brexit party and the Conservatives is almost certain to exceed the combined vote for the LibDems, CHUK and the Greens. A smarter tactic would be, through the People’s Vote campaign, to make these elections into a vote about a People’s vote. The key difference of course is that Labour can potentially be counted as being in favour of a People’s Vote, and so making the European elections as a kind of referendum on a People’s Vote might succeed. Using the poll numbers above, the pro-People’s Vote parties have an overall majority.

It does but ofc none of these cunts will do that because waaaah Mr Seumas Milne

The good news is that George Galloway and Labour are still never ever getting back together.

*Looks to camera* pic.twitter.com/U987MLYmUn

— Owen Jones🌹 (@OwenJones84) April 17, 2019

Seamus Milne - just one degree of separation from a nazi cunt .. oh sorry I forgot Farage is a centrist now.

It’s Mr Seumas Milne to you, son.

Comrade, surely?

Seaumus Alasdairevich

Please refer to the Gapes video I linked upthread for the canonical form of address.

xp nm, I was wrong.

You couldnae mark the back of Galloway's neck wi a blowtorch. Total chancer

Too kind imo

Is there any way to stop Brexit without a 2nd referendum? I think not, and on those pragmatic grounds, I'm in favour of a 2nd ref because Brexit is a fucking awful idea.

But referendums are largely shitty and inconsistent with parliamentary democracy and a change of this magnitude shouldn't be dependent on an uneven, borderline majority at a single point in time. Other countries do things differently - in Australia referendums need a double majority to win, ie an overall majority and a majority in each jurisdiction (states + territories). If that had applied in the UK, Brexit wouldn't have won as it didn't get a majority in Scotland or N. Ireland.

UK is a unitary state, aus is federal

The constituent parts of the UK have differing laws, their own legislative assemblies etc so I don't think the situation is that different.

why have extinction rebellion chosen an aesthetic that makes them look like a bunch of fascists pic.twitter.com/7NOAysfDnN

— GT (@granitetide) April 17, 2019

black and white, skulls and runic symbols? perfect for our climate change campaign!

— GT (@granitetide) April 17, 2019

yeah those aren’t runes. you could say the same thing about the anarchy symbol or the CND thing. that ‘x’ is an hourglass.

If you think skulls are cool, this is the campaign for you.

If you think skulls are terrifying, this is also the campaign for you.

The dissonance is what will power our vision of the future

Yeah, not runes but the skull plus stark geometric symbol = easy first impression

Runic Nick (xp)

I agree with ru, Nick.

The memento mori is making a comeback.

the fascists have all the good symbols, the runes, the norse stuff. we're left with the shitty rainbow unicorns.

i was just down at Oxford Circus. kind of sleepy, post-rave vibe. 90% crusty. someone reading poetry from the boat. some reporters milling about. great weather. the police standing back quite placidly, seemingly content to just let this go on. personally can't quite shake the children of men feeling - i.e. comin through, gotta get to work

> someone reading poetry from the boat

that'll teach em

dog-whistle paranoia has led us to a golden age of optics concern w/ ppl tutting 'nagl tbh' at things they don't have a problem w/ per se but that vaguely remind them of something associated w/ someone they actually object to

https://twitter.com/corbynfisher/status/1118798962855747584

https://twitter.com/corbynfisher/status/1118798962855747584

https://twitter.com/corbynfisher/status/1118798962855747584

Oh FFS I've broken ILX

An officer requested "Insomnia" by @faithless. The peaceful #ExtinctionRebellion protestors obliged and the #OxfordCircus party kicked off! | @LdnRebellion @ExtinctionR pic.twitter.com/tuBUbZmDrG

— (((woofboy))) (@woofboy) April 17, 2019

i was just down at Oxford Circus. kind of sleepy, post-rave vibe. 90% crusty. someone reading poetry from the boat

If a boat is needed at Oxford Circus, Tracer, those sea level rises they're warning about are happening faster than I thought.

Oh FFS I've broken ILX

We can just c+p into new tabs, Alba, it won't kill us.

It just didn't register as having posted at all!

"The party are committed to improving our diversity in public office to closer mirror image society," the email read. "To help achieve this representation in our MEPs the Party agreed to take positive action in this ballot. The information was published with the application forms so all the applicants were aware of the diversity adjustments before they applied."

However, sources told BuzzFeed News that the Lib Dems scrapped diversity criteria across the country, following complaints and threats of legal action from white male members.

https://www.buzzfeed.com/hannahalothman/lib-dems-diversity-targets-scrapped-white-men

apropos alba’s link

For some reason I assumed this piece had been written back in Blunkett's pomp, and not, you know, today. pic.twitter.com/VKFMnUM3dy

— Elvis Buñuelo (@Mr_Considerate) April 18, 2019

absolutely thought he was dead

loool at adam boulton getting all pissy about the climate change protesters. streets around it are pleasant and free for walking, the atmosphere is pleasant with people either mildly curious or actively supportive. police milling around.

it is appropriate specifically since westminster pulled the rug out from under the pedestrianisation of oxford street at the last minute. as well as drawing attention to the need for global action this exemplifies the desirability of local environmental action and improvements.

lol, annoying that my bus into town has been cancelled all week as a result of this. had to get a cab on monday as a result and was sort of depressing to see all the buses abandoning their routes at aldwych.

Well this ComRes poll is somewhat different to the YouGov ones …

European Parliament voting intention:

LAB: 33% (+8)
CON: 18% (-6)
BREX: 17% (+17)
CHUK: 9% (+9)
LDEM: 9% (+2)
UKIP: 5% (-22)
GRN: 5% (-2)

via @ComRes, 16 Apr
Chgs. w/ 2014 result

— Britain Elects (@britainelects) April 18, 2019

Wonder if this one has also been weighted according to likelihood of turning up, as the one I posted yesterday was, I think? That feels like a big unknown factor to be throwing in to the mix

lol, annoying that my bus into town has been cancelled all week as a result of this. had to get a cab on monday as a result and was sort of depressing to see all the buses abandoning their routes at aldwych.

― plax (ico), Thursday, 18 April 2019 13:03 (twenty-six minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

fuck, that's not ideal is it. still, think of all the new energy that would be generated by Adam Boulton going thermonuclear with pissy fragile rage. it would be worth it.