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

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"

ok fair but i'm still generally cheesed off w/journalists routinely downvoting the actual factual reveal -- however wonky -- in favour of the imagined excitement of some silly nonsense. it's like the "readability" version of "electability" -- outsourcing judgment to an imagined community and then wondering why the space for choice has vanished

"cheesed off" lol

why late in the morning in the u.s. does mark s get all cheesed off

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

It's one thing railing against the metropolitan elite, another being filmed running away because a load of big burly Northern blokes are shouting "nonce" at you in the street.

The good stuff:

Please vote Conservative in Bath and North East Somerset today. Local government is better run by the Tories. pic.twitter.com/94ASgooiO7

— Jacob Rees-Mogg (@Jacob_Rees_Mogg) May 2, 2019

Lots of proper cheesed off in the replies

perfectly cheesed off and voting as I normally do

Could not work out whether I could vote today or not, turns out my street is not only a ward boundary but a constituency boundary and the family we know across the road have a Tory MP.

Northamptonshire County Council is too skint to hold elections.

https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/this-local-council-isnt-voting-today-because-they-dont-have-enough-money-to-run-elections_uk_5ccac7b7e4b0913d078d3631

The decision to scrap the local elections was announced by communities secretary James Brokenshire in November.

At the time, he said they should be suspended until May 2020, so as to not “confuse” voters, adding that the cost of the vote would be “hard to justify”.

All councils in the county had requested to postpone the vote, after Brokenshire announced a restructuring from seven councils into two new unitary authorities – West Northampton and North Northampton.

But the lead up to the announcement was even more tumultuous, with the county council twice declaring effective bankruptcy after it overspent by millions.

Government-appointed inspectors even concluded last year that the council should be scrapped altogether, because it was so badly run and tantamount to a “national scandal”, Northampton North MP Michael Ellis declared in response.

brokenshire by name...

He was the NI minister during the breakdown of the assembly too, wasn't he? His efforts in the cause of nominative determinism continue to exceed all expectations.

milkshakes for tommy

Inject Tommy Robinson’s trip to Warrington into my veins pic.twitter.com/D33Iv8gRcf

— megan thee stallion fan account (@SianyJx) May 2, 2019

post in my thraed u cowards
thraed of MEGAN THEE STALLION

tommy got shook

Astounding. Am told by a Conservative source that two Tory Euro election candidates on one of the party’s regional lists are in fact voting for the Brexit party in those elections. Even the Tory candidates are voting for someone else. That’s where we are at.

— Lewis Goodall (@lewis_goodall) May 2, 2019

This from a separate angry Tory candidate. They won’t be voting for themselves either. pic.twitter.com/ooWgVgZVhU

— Lewis Goodall (@lewis_goodall) May 2, 2019

LOL two milshake attacks in 24 hours.

Feel bad for the milkshakes

https://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/resources/images/9798997.jpg

At this rate most of his election expenses will be going on dry cleaning.