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

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.

Voted, seemed brisk enough (counted twenty people coming or going in the two minutes I was there) but they said “not particularly” so I guess that morning/afternoon was the seandaoine & they’ll see a bit more picking up after work. Still though, that seemed busy.

lol

Flashbacks to the jail. Poor guy. https://t.co/tX6ORiytUm

— Limmy (@DaftLimmy) May 2, 2019

Lol prison rape

yeah fair point, lol rescinded

Warrington @brexitparty_uk candidate Sally Bate resigns from party after fellow NW Euro candidate Claire Fox refuses to apologise for comments made in 1993 in support of IRA bombing of the town. The Mothers' Day attack claimed the lives of Jonathan Ball and Tim Parry. pic.twitter.com/3V0KE7OyGX

— BBC North West (@BBCNWT) May 2, 2019

I lolled and rescinded too tbf xp

winning here

Here is CCTV of the @LibDems @LibDemPress stealing our red and white @UKLabour leaflets out of people’s letterboxes in #newtonlewillows this morning for the @sthelenscouncil elections. Not on. Tit for tat is fine. Stealing out of someone’s letter box is disgraceful. #VoteLabour pic.twitter.com/ZcJXda2AZa

— Sev Gomez-Aspron (@superseveriano) May 2, 2019

Heidi Allen showboating about Claire Fox's refusal to condemn the Warrington bombing, i assume she was equally radge about her former party's stance on Bloody Sunday

really weird stance to be looking to become a gammon MEP and to not take back pro RA bombing remarks imo. like the venn diagram of "thinks the RA bombing england was good" and "loves a bit of nige" has got to be fairly slim

I mean Claire Fox straight up supported the Warrington bombing did she not? But no, I’m not aware of HA having anything to say about Bloody Sunday being bad.

Ha. Just remembered Williamson got fired.

xp she is from an Irish family as well ffs

I don’t want to say “maybe the famine wasn’t bad enough” but...

hesitate to be dogmatic abt the spuked! long game" but being gammons really isn't it

i mean i'd say "every position is a tactic for them and they believe in nothing" -- and you can literally catch forehead o'neill writing columns taking opposite lines in consecutive weeks -- so fox NOT just fibbing or flipping here is actually interesting

Think the on-brand way for Claire Fox to deal with this is to wipe all previous comments from the record like they're a photo of her with Yezhov.

The NCCL was right to affiliate with PIE

this O'Neil classic was linked on here the other week and I lolled.

might as well have put the link, they don't even need clicks.

You expect a certain amount of this sort of carry-on, but still.

#LE2019
Doxford (Sunderland) result:

LDem: 42.7% (+42.7)
Lab: 23.3% (-26.8)
UKIP: 16.6% (-3.6)
Con: 12.6% (-11.9)
Grn: 4.8% (-0.4)

Liberal Democrat GAIN from Labour.

— Britain Elects (@britainelects) May 2, 2019

Swindon tho, fucksake

Slow clap for Hartlepool for the first For Britain Movement councillor.

Lib Dems winning Cotswold must be the shocker of the night.

It’s what you’d expect to see, I think? Fairly low turnout, LDs doing well based on their horror show performance last time (nowhere to go but up).

Votes for everyone in my area are down but both Conservative candidates polled less than half of what they did last time and UKIP about a third. Not much joy for the smaller parties either. Turnout pretty dismal though.

Conservatives

Councils held: 29 (down 11)

Seats won: 896 (down 254)

Labour

Councils held: 37 (down 2)

Seats won: 806 (down 45)

Lib Dems

Councils held: 8 (up 6)

Seats won: 384 (up 177)

Greens

Seats won: 40 (up 33)

Ukip

Seats won: 12 (down 4)

not great for Labour so far but not as bad as Today reportage made it sound earlier, much much worse for Conservatives.