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

Cow's milk is not a good source of iron. In fact, milk makes it harder for the body to absorb iron and can contribute to iron-deficiency anemia.

"Chuka kicks things off with boast that Change UK is now third place in London”

boasting about polling behind the brexit party in a remain city.

And who was in first? Guessing he didn’t bother mentioning that.

My entire timeline was taking the piss about Anna Soubry’s hideous Buffalo trainers.

I WAS JUST GOING TO SAY. Thought TFL had found another fatberg in the sewers.

This is my fave:

Anna Soubry says she used to sit on the Conservative benches and “think ‘that Mike Gapes is a real star’.” pic.twitter.com/5XKXmlL7N2

— Adam Bienkov (@AdamBienkov) April 30, 2019

is their logo a fuckign hamburger menu

Actually burst out laughing at the fourth posting of that. Another clean win for gyac's phone

Lol same, the repetition made it even better

more evidence that labour’s disciplinary process is not fit for purpose

My full statement on the Labour Party’s disciplinary process following yesterday’s National Constitutional Committee (NCC) hearing in Glasgow. #AFightForAllOfUs pic.twitter.com/RmpyFNgOiT

— Anas Sarwar (@AnasSarwar) April 30, 2019

kez dugdale standing down as an MSP too. such a shame to lose such a passionate and committed labour MSP

Remainiac FBPEs are *losing their shit* over the NEC stance on PV/Ref2/whateveryacallit in the EU elections manifesto but could someone enlighten me as to how Labour were supposed to pivot fully to confirmation vote stance while they’re still holding the talks with May’s cabinet?

SNP leader of glasgow city council trying to engage in sectarian shit stirring is it. lovely stuff

what's this?

NEC thing is a total non-story and it’s truly mind blowing how it has been blown up in such a confected manner. the NEC is not a policy making body - they’ve just restated the conference policy. this was always going to happen.

xxxp this phone is fucking cursed, I blame it on the number of times I’ve dropped it & even SV doesn’t want it

This is a dishonourable, cynical attempt to damage the reputation of @FMcAveety, who has oft sought to bridge sectarian divides, even though it can be hugely challenging. It raises a serious question about the fitness of the current leader of Glasgow City Council to hold office. https://t.co/V1JWfHzcQS

— Paul Sweeney MP (@PaulJSweeney) April 30, 2019

xxp I saw the Tories up north rebranding as Conservative and Unionist party which at least one friend of mine also thought was fairly dogwhistley?

There’s a lot of WATBs using the term ‘Magic Grandad’ in my timelines.

how are chuk real

they’re too pure and good for this world

adam tomkins has a cheek to crow about stirring sectarian sentiment as well

xp those boring cunts have been using that for ages, they’re reddit-level tedious now. What next, a Ken Livingstone-on-the-phone meme?

Oh dear... Change UK activists are so unhappy with the campaign shitshow so far that 50 of them have written to the party leadership to complain
- lack of materials
- no election agents
- no candidate info/pics
- activists forced to stay at home pic.twitter.com/NVC4MNJ0qX

— Alex Wickham (@alexwickham) April 30, 2019

This is a dishonourable, cynical attempt to damage the reputation of @FMcAveety, who has oft sought to bridge sectarian divides, even though it can be hugely challenging. It raises a serious question about the fitness of the current leader of Glasgow City Council to hold office. https://t.co/V1JWfHzcQS
— Paul Sweeney MP (@PaulJSweeney) April 30, 2019
― ... and the crowd said DESELECT THEM (||||||||), Tuesday, April 30, 2019 10:33 AM (one minute ago) Bookmark

a bit of a stretch to say it's stoking sectarianism. the council gave rangers the KB when they wanted a fanzone. frank mcaveety (whose religious and football supporting background i don't need to clarify) supported calls for transparency over the decision, snp group leader in the council posted a picture of him in the director's box at ibrox to suggest he was pally with the execs at rangers and that this influenced his position.

Ty to the mod who nuked all the multiples & saved us from the horror of Gapes splashed all over the thread

xp. a lot of the backlash to not giving rangers the fanzone was ironically enough very sectarian

was not aware of that context, thanks - should have known better than to take tomkins at face value. my bad

i mean maybe there's more to it?

it's definitely a bad look on two counts: shitty thing to suggest is a good angle of attack, the fact that someone then leaked it shows that things are obviously not very rosy in the snp group in GCC

yeah clearly something going on in that group with a couple of high profile resignations recently amid allegations of bullying, “lack of consensus building” and poor collegiality

Appreciate this video (which I hopefully post only once):

It’s time to act. pic.twitter.com/ebVkAvbcj5

— Jeremy Corbyn (@jeremycorbyn) April 30, 2019

there was a vote in the scottish parliament on declaring a climate emergency last month. all labour MSPs voted against: motion S5M-16555 under decision time here:
http://www.parliament.scot/parliamentarybusiness/report.aspx?r=12025

also: CORBYN IN RACIST PREFACE STORM

XRs prison advice is essentially brainwashing.

Their advice sheet basically boils down to "if jail is terrifying you then it's your fault for being an egotist, so actually you should stop making it about you or you're failing other people" pic.twitter.com/aotibe4UJB

— Death Bezos (@Typhonatemybaby) May 1, 2019

also: CORBYN IN RACIST PREFACE STORM

It's almost beyond parody now but they keep trying.

Both basically and essentially, you truly are spoiling us, internet user typhonatemybaby.

Corbyn's brand will never recover, apparently.

are the same people slamming Corbyn today going to cancel all the other anti-semitic/white supremacist writers from centuries past? usually they are the ones making the biggest noise about the pc mob making ahistorical judgements on the illustrious top dogs of the empire era.

he's fucked if he gets caught reading some Gogol.

the crimes of some dead white men are more amenable to forgiveness than others, it would seem https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/churchill-was-a-racist-but-still-a-great-man-vnhkhfnpm

it's almost as if these arguments are made in bad faith and only as a stick to beat political opponents 🤔

Writing a foreword in 2011 would seem an opportunity for some historical judgement, just saying like.

I'm sure the publishers might have been more interested in highlighting the anti-imperialism of the work rather the writer being a cunt and would have maybe edited out anything like that?

It's almost as if there are some elections this week.

That's a pretty big maybe.

If I was in the business of selling books, I'd think (small) maybe .. say.. highlighting Gogol's glaring antisemitism in the preface to Dead Souls might not be a good move. There is plenty of material out there on the subject.. just saying .. I mean wtf do I know!

If it's like two sentences out of 900 pages would it be mentioned? Maybe. I'd have to read the book though. I read stuff all the time that makes me cringe, there's a horrible glaring bit of racism in Henry Green's "Party Going" that I've never once seen referenced in forewords, introductions, critical studies, reviews etc

Iirc Hobson is known to be anti Semitic but in other works it’s a lot more obvious. Corbyn should have disavowed the views - the work can stand up on its own without being seen to gloss over Hinson’s belief that Jewish people control the banks/are behind wars - but it’s a pretty canonical text and others have mentioned that Tristram Hunt has done a programme on him that doesn’t mention this.

Put it this way; if it was anyone but Corbyn it’s not a story, because people write forewords all the time without bothering to disavow the bad deeds/views of the authors/subjects. I mean, Boris Johnson’s outrage about criticism of Churchill tells me exactly how worthwhile reading his book about him would be.

But Corbyn has a history of associating with dodgy types and stuff like the mural incident, and so people can ask the question “Did he not see it or did he just not care?”

I haven't read anything by J. A. Hobson so I look at the wiki page which went from no mention of antisemitism at 0504 today to his currently being one of the most influential English antisemites of the period with a new antisemitism subsection to the criticism section so jeremy corbyn will likely be given an opportunity to amend the foreword in light of this information

That one brief bit in At Swim-Two-Birds where yer man lapses into whimsical cowboy pastiche, n-words and all, took me aback I have to say xps, different time of course and probably making a fair point about yankee culture or something but still. not cancelling the damn thing mind

his anti-semitism is mentioned in passing in his Oxford Dictionary of National Biography entry, but isn't remarked upon further, presumably because his views reflected or at least weren't completely out of step with the prevailing attitudes of his times. If this is the case for the ODNB it's difficult to see why Corbyn should have picked up on this in a preface which seems to have been about the work and not about the man.

"But Corbyn has a history of associating with dodgy types and stuff like the mural incident, and so people can ask the question “Did he not see it or did he just not care?”"

The political football also means it's hard to judge to give any kind of definitive answer. No doubt we'll be here again.