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

They're guilty of, er, having abandoned their home country.

xp

Talking to ppl in general I do find the sympathy levels go down drastically as soon as the person involved has been in any kind of criminal activity - not just in the UK.

Yeah, this seems like a more or less universal thing.

Noodle Vague, I actually find the term kinda creepily euphemistic. What those places really are is prisons, and that's how the people inside them see them - with the caveat that in prison you know when you're getting out.

There are possibly quite a few policies (Capital punishment is one yeah) that some ppl want back but politicians don't do it. There was never huge amounts of conversation about it.

What there was conversation about: open borders to EU citizens. Even so Europe before the ref was lower down as an issue.

So that leads to who was asking for deportations of the windrush generation and whether the numbers were ever that high? If this was stopped would it really impact on the Tory vote? It's only on the Home office doing this --> poll finds ppl ok with it after the fact. xps

the idea of neutrally measuring public opinion is absurd

The short answer is probably that the government committed to reducing all net migration to a completely arbitrary and unachievable figure without actually being able to influence it that much and then had to scrabble around deporting anyone they could get rid of so they only missed the target by 96% rather than 100% and looked like they were trying.

Yeah it's those ridiculous targets. The thing is I'm sure that many economic targets are missed and yet politicians often are able to talk around those. Targets in other areas are set and quietly dropped with minor political fall out.

I know those targets and Theresa May have a particular story attached to them..

Front cover of the Daily Mail today: big photo headline about Danny Baker, then across the top a story called "Is Meghan Turning Harry 50 Shades of Grey?" From the pictures it obviously *purports* to be about him wearing grey suits on the reg, but no fucking way is that not an intentional dog siren

Every woman adores a Fascist.

xp not a dog siren I can hear lol, what are they getting at?

ben shapiro called andrew neil leftie pinko scum and andrew neil said “lol I’m a big tory m8”

xp hypersexualisation of black women?

aye, I don't think they'd suggest t'other (posher+whiter) one is fucking brains out of his brother. but only assuming this cos I zone out to royal content unless I'm lolling at one of them dying.

Had to read that twice

I'm a shit typer, and I butcher apostrophes, and miss words out sometimes. What is your handicap? :p

No I just thought you were saying that the posher whiter brother was fucking the other one

personally i'm not willing to rule it out at this stage

there is only so much poshsplaining/fucksplaining you can do in a single line post!

Posher + whiter is going unfucked atm, according to every gossip sheet going, in favour of someone even posher.

multiple xps to that magnificent calz post - so that’s how he got that bald spot

Grey = Black + White, seems like a miscegenation jibe to me

That's how I initially read it as well.

that seems a bit too subtle for bovine middle england imo

Jastrow's royal 50 Shades joke: is it racist sexism or just racism? It all hinges on your perspective!

Artfully placed above the Baker story, i'm confident that the resonance had been considered.

tinges, shurely xp

There are possibly quite a few policies (Capital punishment is one yeah) that some ppl want back but politicians don't do it.

It's a minority now in the general population but...

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/brexit-poll-leave-voters-death-penalty-yougov-results-light-bulbs-a7656791.html

ha that graph is hilarious

https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2017/03/29/17/20170329-brexit-bring-backs.png

Why are the EU stars superimposed on Donald Trump's face in the bottom left hand graphic?

It's Friday afternoon, stop looking at the internet:

Our ⁦@Adamstoon1⁩ ⁦@EveningStandard⁩ on political Pokémon pic.twitter.com/mHEwQLP6kV

— George Osborne (@George_Osborne) May 10, 2019

... right hand!!!! (xp)

... it's been a long week.

xps

traditional incandescent lamps (sorry I'm an ex-sparkie and "light bulbs" is savagery). but most basic light fittings these days have hardened pvc type lamp-holders that would basically melt or burn with the now old style tungsten filament incandescent lamps.

xxxp anyone who doesn’t like Psyduck the best is a Tory

that graph is just... i can’t stop looking at it

it goes on though: black and white television, rotary telephones, fax machines, food stamps

No option for kicking a ball in the street?

Kids these days need a poll to tell them to kick a ball in the street.

Look, kicking a ball in the street is the old politics. We need a new ball, a ball that reflects a modern plural democracy where every hard working family gets a kick and we're not held to ransom by Stalinist catenaccio

https://www.theguardian.com/education/2019/may/11/head-likens-criticism-of-private-schools-to-antisemitic-abuse

Oblivious Middle Class Cunt of the Day

He's managed to offend Margaret Hodge, Stephen Pollard and Andrew Adonis, despite not being Jeremy Corbyn.

if he'd have added ... "and it is all Corbyn's fault and here is why..." to this dodgy bs take, then that might have might have won him M Hodge's backing.

Westminster voting intention:

LAB: 27% (-6)
BREX: 20% (+6)
CON: 19% (-4)
LDEM: 14% (+7)
CHUK: 7% (-2)
GRN: 5% (+2)
UKIP: 3% (-2)

via @ComRes, 09 May
Chgs. w/ 16 Apr

— Britain Elects (@britainelects) May 11, 2019

poll showing Cons getting hurt harder by hardcore brexiters than Labour, and LibDems bearing up on them ..lol.

https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/opendemocracyuk/john-smith-and-path-britain-did-not-take/?utm_source=Daily+Newsletter&utm_campaign=bd753071b1-DAILY_NEWSLETTER_MAILCHIMP&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_717bc5d86d-bd753071b1-407356773

Today, we are in the depth of a Brexit crisis brought about by the collapse of trust in the way Britain is governed. But there was an alternative, another road that could have been taken. And would have been taken, by a potential Prime Minister who trusted himself and wanted to reform the UK while resisting the corruptions of neoliberalism. He would not have won the 1997 election with a landslide 180 majority as Blair did, for he would not have been backed by Murdoch and the Sun. But he would have beaten Major handsomely enough to set the UK on a far better course across the millennium.

I'm not sure of all of that, there might have been more compromises to Murdoch/US/neoliberalism than he thinks in Smith - but there is no denying this country might be in much better shape right now had Blair remained a thwarted ambitious prick on the sidelines and Smith lived longer.

An emergency food bank has been set up in the Whitehall offices of a government department after cleaners and other support staff became the victims of a payroll blunder - no wages since March - by one of Britain’s biggest outsourcing companies.https://t.co/gmr1qeZRWz

— Labour Whips (@labourwhips) May 12, 2019

and these cunts think brexit is their only problem.

🤔

https://66.media.tumblr.com/c3c1d5c6f6a3fb89c14d5bd3d38c0c87/tumblr_prdndzrSWt1tti4cw_1280.jpg

The forensic ethnography of The North continues. pic.twitter.com/jJqFNinUto

— Elvis Buñuelo (@Mr_Considerate) May 13, 2019

Fuck me it's 12 already better get on it

In the south but as its warm day and all I will be going for a quick one at lunch in solidarity with our Brexit friends in the north.