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

Seumus Milne's Big Brother.

I got a letter from the co-op recently informing me about some vote I can make. I was like Brenda - got local elections tomorrow, Euro ones coming up - fuck off with this ilm poll shit.

are Labour co-op MPs selected through different means than just Labour MPs? I’ve never really understood how that works.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Co-operative_Party

Just back on Hobson. This thread is pretty good, looking at how Corbyn might've engaged with it in the first place. He is more of a liberal than his enemies think, and in turn less of a radical than his friends think.

It occurs to me that one of the reasons people are so horrified by the Hobson thing is that they don't actually read anything from the canon, so it may help to clarify that most of it is as evil as fuck, and it's standard scholarly practice to just blithely pretend not to notice.

— the beat of civilised political discourse (@Lafargue) May 1, 2019

it's only fair to expect some dilettante who was a minor figure at the time rather than LOTO, to completely overturn what the academic establishment was saying about canon works at the time when asked to provide a preface.

Dug out my polling card which idk I always feel obliged to bring (probably a hangover from voting at home) so here’s to voting in my first local election ever - and yes I am rightly ashamed of that.

my first ever vote in a LE was only a couple of years ago. Not remotely ashamed, fuck every last one of these corrupt pieces of shit from every party tbh!

Absolutely no signs of election activity where I am so I assume we're not having any.

Did you have some last year?

Christ, local elections, who remembers them?

I can never forget the delirium of LE 2017. This bloke said to me it's not that entrance, it's this one here by that sign that says Polling Station.

got five o helicopters flying right over my bastard house and setting my dog off. John Singleton directing a local production of Boyz n' The Hood in the heavy woolen district tonight.

No local elections in London. Doing Postal for the European (forget I am forever signed to vote this way).

Just on my way to the polling station with my dog who I'll have to tie up outside. If he does a shit I'll leave it it as a write in vote for the libdem candidate.

first time I voted was in a local election, I was the youngest person on the electoral roll, and I voted for my mum who got elected as a Labour district councillor. There was an article in the Oxford Mail to commemorate this milestone in the history of democracy.

Funny that you mention voting for your mum, cos my local Labour candidate is called Dad.

spooky!

Hope your dog was ok and you got him settled, calz? That’d freak mine out as well.

Too late to go this morning but will drop in after work.

yeah he's fine now, combination of loud house party next door and rumbling copper chopper hovering above made him think all hell was breaking loose for about half an hour.

i agree with Tom Watson for once, if Williamson is as innocent as he says then he has nothing to hide from a full criminal inquiry into the leak.

incidentally, how is MR seumas milne 61 ?! must be drinking his six pints of water a day

SV care to comment on your skincare regime ?

Genes and fucking off the right, iirc.

warning from history! Stafford Cripps was a lapsed tankie and a vegetarian who used to preach the benefits of eating raw vegetables, and he croaked it at 62.

I got a letter from the co-op recently informing me about some vote I can make. I was like Brenda - got local elections tomorrow, Euro ones coming up - fuck off with this ilm poll shit.

― calzino, Wednesday, 1 May 2019 23:13 (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I wasn't with it but just that very minute it occurred to me
The suckers had authority

Passing the statue of Captain Cook on the Mall this morning, I was delighted to see some enterprising person had scrawled CUNT on the base of the statue. Good work!

captain cancelled

goosed

first time voting in local or general elections for me today. lol at only being 2 candidates on the ballot, green or tory.

if only that were the case everywhere eh

fp the post

Run Tommeh! Stephen Yaxley Lennon running away from Local anti-fascists in Bury.. 😂😂😂 pic.twitter.com/ocgnTd2VwL

— Anti-Fascist Intel (@AntifaIntel) May 1, 2019

yack yack is having a mare in the NW, the other day a white middle aged lady in Salford told him he was "spouting a load of shite" as well.

Brave men run in the Yaxley-Lennon-Robinson family.

someone wanged a strawberry milkshake at him as well!

"People have made me aware of who this guy is. I definitely not support this guy or his ideas. He just stopped me for a picture. I had no idea who he was" (do not be a liar) https://t.co/IkjTOUmcfE

— Ederson Moraes (@edersonmoraes93) April 30, 2019

also this.

Love for them to meet again so the big man can punch that little weasel's lights out.

he looked nailz intimidating that slightly built journalist on his doorstep.

https://ibb.co/3v3pYch that Captain Cunt photo

Oh shit, poor Ederson being bounced into that situation. (Would legit not mess with Ederson under any circumstances fwiw).

really enjoying this series of videos of yakety yax getting seen off

the greatest crossover event in history:

"I'm only interested in one thing, fella - catching bent Ministers" pic.twitter.com/jLklQVKwd4

— Dan Davies (@dsquareddigest) May 2, 2019

Relevant!

H? Please No pic.twitter.com/zty4D21J8C

— Ed Miliband (@Ed_Miliband) April 30, 2019

i have been crafting an "H IS BLOBBY" joke for some days now

Rumour about the blobby investigation is that they have a man on the inside

vg+

lol

Look I haven't a clue what Gavin Williamson, or of course Another Mystery Person, said to Steven Swinford but generally: there seems to be some confusion about how leaking happens, so a brief boring thread

— Gaby Hinsliff (@gabyhinsliff) May 2, 2019

i man this is good stuff to say out loud bcz maybe ppl don;t really know it? (in my experience films are quite good on this even if they simplify it but obviously i only watch good films)

but why the fuck qualify it as BORING? (a) it's exactly what's EXCITING abt journalism, (b) journalists shd be forthright abt what they enjoy abt their jobs, and (c) explaining the set-up is part of that job

viz if they were all doing it properly the reader wd not be in any doubt abt this kind of stuff bcz they wd already know it so well it actually WOULD be boring to restate it

it's a damn site more interesting than the vast majority of the work that makes up news journalism, which is as we all know copying & pasting press releases and then adding your byline to it

</trenchant media criticism>

Boring because it means the answer to today's question is "we probably don't know, we'll probably never know" - there's no-one wearing a shirt saying "LEAKER"