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

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.

think LG is overplaying farage’s position a little here

Too much time on ILX

I’m in a bad mood because my boss gave me a total roasting (for nothing I might add. I was calm and posting like a usually do) but this has cheered me up

This is an absolutely massive wake up call. If Farage wins the Euro elections & Labour doesn’t come top, it’s our equivalent of the Notre Dame fire - except it will take longer than 5 years to rebuild the tower. Maybe never https://t.co/nqfmxwEK7e

— Andrew Adonis (@Andrew_Adonis) April 17, 2019

Lmao. He's the man who makes the bhaji go away.

1000% more respect for Alastair Campbell if he ever sent Mandelson a note during a meeting urging Mandelson to shove the note up Adonis’s hairy inbox

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/apr/19/who-owns-england-secretive-companies-hoarding-land

This is a good article and v. revealing of the true source of why Britian is a shitty place to live right now, just wish people could realise this and not blame EU or whoever.

Ground Control by Anna Minton is a really good book on this topic, I hope she has something else in the pipeline now this information is becoming available.

Malik said he knew Javid’s late father because he used his butcher’s shops. “He was a very good uncle of ours but Sajid has never been involved in the community at all. I find what he says quite offensive.”

Afzal Shah, a Labour councillor, said Stapleton Road was one of Bristol’s most vibrant places. “We talk about 91 languages being spoken in Bristol. You can hear most of them here. There is great energy and great potential.”

Shah went to the same school as Javid and also knows members of his family. “When I went [shortly after the home secretary] there were no drug dealers hanging around the school gates.”

Javid's "moving" origin story isn't standing up to much scrutiny from ppl that still live in his old area. quelle surprise.

i think that might be the last "A Bronx Tale" type sTorytelling from leadership candidates or is Jeremy Hunt going to start talking about his dark days of tippex sniffing and how a suburban hedge-hopping gang nearly led him onto the wrong path.

If he can remember where his wife is from he'll be using her to bolster his multicultural credentials.

journalist shot and killed by dissident republicans during rioting in derry last night its a reasonable sized story over here on this side of the uk border

Five Live gave it lengthy coverage this morning tbf, don't know how it is on the rest of the BBC

Front page of the BBC

All over r4 and WS today. Can't speak for the television dept.

It's the first story on the TV, esp. now the PM has made a statement.

Yes, it's the main story.

gyac pls help

So not posting about something equals not giving a fuck is it?

Maybe we should go over and sort it out? Who's with me boys?

lads :/

sorry deems I was sleeping!

I have to say though, it does sting a bit that nobody felt it worth mentioning, when we are pretty thorough in our coverage usually. That’s why I tend to bump the Irish thread now, cos it’s not like anyone who posts here besides me & deems and AF really gives a damn. Not posting here to start a fight, but just to say deems does have a point, nobody has to like it, but I am agreeing with what he says and just adding a bit (lol) more to how it feels.

why not just post about something rather than getting arsey about other people not posting about it?

this is still ilxor dot com iirc

xp do you mean me or deems? Cos I think I explained that already (and also previously when we were posting about Karen Bradley)

well, both of you. Even if you don't get some feedback it doesn't mean nobody is reading it or it is invalidated as a post.

I just explained that though? As I said, it’s not a great feeling when other people itt apparently feel that it’s not even worth mentioning, but I’ve said enough about this before & I’m resigned to it.

Resigned to what exactly?

same.

id say tho that yes, what you/ye focus on itt is telling, tbh

not as a chide, or probably a bit as a chide but not half as much as yknow it probably ought to be, but as a note that the complete focus on party personality wankery while the north falls apart is bad. its bad. it was bad when the secretary for northern ireland said what she said a few weeks ago. we took it to the irish thread eventually but I was surprised both by how little it mattered itt and how much that bothered us, speaking for gyac also at least.

i know a lot of things are falling apart, i know you/ye are all affected in grinding ways every day. but these events are huge events, theyre not political jostling or indicators these are the most important news stories in the uk and ireland and our shared history is reverting to war after a generation of peace and its not me saying "ye dont care" but yeah it is me saying "ye dont seem to notice or care, and thats troubling"

god bless us all, we're all good ppl in mainly the same direction pointed and fuck knows im no fan of callout culture, but yeah its more than a little noteworthy imo how this is happening "somewhere else"

xp should note tom and jim as prob more expert and at least as invested as i am at least, soz

No problems but, guess what, Scottish politics is never, and I mean never, covered in any detail in these threads - beyond why don't they like Corbyn up there - maybe someone should start a song and dance about that too?

I don’t know anything about Scottish politics! And I have at least asked about it when it comes up because I would like to know more.

Obviously it isn't comparable to the possible shitshow that could develop in NI but you have got a constituent part of the UK which voted 62-38 Remain, is dominated by a separatist party and where 45% of the electorate voted to leave the UK not that long ago.

I want every PIP/Universal Credit related suicide to be posted about on this thread, or I'm going to get really arsey and assume you are all a bunch of fucking pro-austerity melts *sheeit I forgot - some of you are and there is at least one LibDem voter lurking about!*

lol look fair enough its not an attempt to melt anyones face off with criticism i promise

only meant as a joke mainly!

peace!

Honest answer I thought this was a thread about Brexit! Not excusing not posting about it and the NI threads should be more active but even then I doubt Id post anything because I don't feel qualified to talk about it ("that's never stopped yer before has it Ned?") but I am genuinely interested in what NI posters have to say for that very reason. It's a disgrace how disconnected the English are about NI but hey ho it's ever been thus. Just ask Kevin Rowlands.

I mean, didn't we used to have more general UK pol threads? Fucking Brexit.