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

a LOT of seumas milne conspiracism on the TL this week

this was perhaps the most egregious, considering LOTO was recently hit on the head, a labour candidate was punched in the face on the doorstep and a labour councillor’s house was shot up

If you take out the leader the others fall with him... which one’s Seamus Milne?! pic.twitter.com/sj54SIEm08

— Rachel Riley (@RachelRileyRR) April 16, 2019

not to mention a labour MP was literally murdered in the recent past

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/apr/25/may-faces-calls-for-inquiry-over-huawei-leak

Getting MI5 in to interrogate half the leadership contenders with threats of prosecution under the OSA would be hilarious.

Javid, Williamson and Hunt have explicitly denied it themselves. It sounds like Mordaunt and Fox have relied on others to deny it for them. I find it hard to believe it is going to have been anyone other than The Disgraced Former.

It would be a glittering end finale-to-act-three-of-fourteen of his career.

If a cab minister is found out and prosecuted then can't be an MP anymore?

that's a big bunch of if, who is doing the finding and the prosecuting here?

they're all good lightning rods brent

It’s possible to be an MP from prison iirc.

case in point: fiona onasanya is still an MP

parliamentary rules = less than a year's sentence and it's all cool

Fiona Onasanya is under recall petition right now.

You still get an automatic recall petition.

(xp)

The leak is clearly Williamson, right?

Only Cronos can tell

He's at the centre of a web of deceit.

The other big ‘if’ with the OSA is whether the jury would convict a fine upstanding Minister like Fox for leaking something he perceived to be a threat to national security.

I am not sure Williamson would have denied it so strongly if it was him.

On another note, the TOEIC scandal is not going away:

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/apr/26/home-office-faces-legal-action-over-english-test-cheating-claims

The combination of slapdash policy and penny-pinching on legal aid is going to keep costing the government money in costs for successful appeals, on this and other things, for many years to come.

I would not trust Williamson at all and am mystified, once again, at why May promoted him. The old "keep your enemies closer" cliche?

he promoted himself iirc

political soap opera fans might like to note that vince cable was possibly/probably alluding the good boy alex sobel when he was ranting about the dangerous extremists taking over labour in leeds but he's so incoherent and full of bullshit it's unclear if even he knows

Vince was in the coalition so he knows a dangerous extremist when he sees one

Btw...are you all voting in the euro elections? I haven't got my poll card yet lol. But that aside...idk still feel we are leaving...somehow.

I'll vote assuming i can get to the polling station, spent too long boycotting Labour in the last two decades not to back them now

Will be on honeymoon, alas.

Congrats! And i think you've got the better deal

Congrats! However surely you can do Postal voting. No excuses my fellow European.

Is it too late to apply for a postal vote now? Only thought about it the other day when i realised i'm just as likely to be on some insane work shift that stops me getting to the poll

you'll have euro voting rights owing to marriage by then?

unless you already do in which case lj.xls needs a tweak

congrats anyhow! where's the honeymoon to

congrats SV. you love to see it

Congrats SV and G!

Can have someone vote for you in England? O'er here you sign a form and give your ballot to someone you (think you can) trust.

yes - the adonis bloc must be protected

Shit i forgot he told me not to vote for them

no mr seumas milne has made him pro brexit now

There really ought to be a Dubliners song called "Mr Seumas Milne Regrets"

I will be voting, though I am getting married the weekend before. And I've just realised I've never seen a photo of ShariVari...

Congrats to you, too AF! Brexit brings all the boys to the altar.

oh wow yes congrats AF, ilx is having a "my summer of 2009" moment in terms of wedding pile-ups apparently

letting the word out a bit early imo the lot of ye

wtf with this marriage/Euro elections shenanigans?

Put a ring on it means put a ring on it

broke: marrying for love
woke: marrying for a passport
bespoke: marrying for a passport even though you still think yours is worth more

you can’t really do a proxy vote if your proxy will be away at the same time, alas.

also extremely pleased to see the due respect afforded to MR Seumas Milne

"Lennonism not Leninism"- Britpop was a mistake. pic.twitter.com/ENGLkiH7VE

— Muzakir Ahmed (@MuzakirAhmed) April 25, 2019

"Lennonism not leninism" we need a poll

Sorry everyone congrats on the marriages I shouldn't have bought this filth on the politics thread

Crispin/Crispian - you are near enough guaranteed to be a cunt with a name like that.

How do you get an independent MEP sacked, pitchforked off a cliff

Driving past a primary school next to London City Airport has many young Muslim girls with headscarves.

Unacceptable in the UK.

— Janice Atkinson (@Janice4Brexit) April 24, 2019

McCartneyism not McCarthyism