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

You're right of course, xyzzzz__, optimism was the word I was looking for - optimism that anything short of the last trump will cause the UK to come up to scratch.

calz, that's Labour up 10 points on yesterday!

(but after the last GE everyone including myself is free to read everything into the tea leaves of every different poll)

That would be Ireland, where EU popularity is higher than it's been in the last 25 years?

I live in Lambeth and it's been mostly fine. xps

I’m in Camden and our Labour-led council is a lot better than Lambeth’s, chiefly because it’s actually building more social housing, as opposed to tearing down estates where residents are trying to save their social homes. I live on an estate where they want to build a few more ‘affordable’ homes without removing social homes and the consultation process doesn’t seem to be pure bullshit.

the bins run like a dream here. I've even got a brown garden waste bin for this summer for £30. But still do see some fucking harsh social engineering effects of austerity on my area. As in lots of vulnerable people being displaced by working families in small cramped flats. Some of the vulnerable people seen living homeless, others reported to be sofa surfing - some just disappeared off the map. That's just on layer of the despair wrought by these cunts in recent years. I've never seen some of single parents and kids looking as desperate and ill-fed since I was kid a kid in the 70's growing up in Deighton. It might not be Beyond Shitterdrome or whatevs, but it is fucking desperate times for a lot of ppl now. I'm saying this only a couple of years since my partner tried to top herself over PIP fuckery.

i'd like to think Ned was saying "however bad it is now it can get much worse"

yeah sure, but anybody's perspective on "how much worse" is strongly influenced by how bad things already are and there are *a lot* of people for who things are very very bad right now, and a lot more people who are constantly living with the stress of seeing very very bad things as an immediate possibility. and in those situations, scary words about a new darker shade of post-apocalypse just don't scare you that much.

not seen any Mad Max's including the remake (which I found unbearable after 5 mins) so apologies if I misunderstood your post Ned. But anyone trying to diminish the evil effects of austerity with any kind of "it's much worse in Azerbaijan" type equivalating can totally get fucked!

https://t.co/H9tjLncLqf

Richer Sounds, which has 53 stores, refuses to use zero-hours contracts and is one of the 14% of companies with a pay gap that favours women. Employee perks include access to company holiday homes around the world, It donates 15% of profits, to charity.

— m00 c0w (@Mrm00c0w) May 14, 2019

breaking news ..non-arsehole model of capitalism doing quite well.

must be a coincidence

also this: https://www.theguardian.com/business/2019/apr/06/the-support-never-stops-says-prisoner-who-works-at-timpsons

Always found the staff in Richer Sounds to be snooty and intimidating tbh.

this guy should give this money to the sterling posters of ILM imo

fair play to richard sounds

he's a sound guy, unless you don't know how to condescend to customers - then you'll be on minimum wage and relegated to sweeping up duties.

lol I was thinking of that Don Cheadle scene in boogie nights where he is demonstrating an 8-track to a customer with loads of bollox jargon.

"You're right of course, xyzzzz__, optimism was the word I was looking for - optimism that anything short of the last trump will cause the UK to come up to scratch"

I looked at this when it was posted and just now and I still don't know what you're on about but I'm glad you have an imagination Andrew.

Lads, why spend this time fighting when we can be laughing at fools on twitter being calm and posting as they always do?

I no longer just want Corbyn to resign. I want him to write a personal letter of apology to everyone in the country, and then I want him, Milne, Murray, Clark, McCluskey, Murphy, Bastani and the rest to fuck off and never come back. Their destruction of our party is unforgivable,

— Duncan Hothersall 🌹 (@dhothersall) May 14, 2019

Also extremely amused by this crying over spilt milk:

I joined the Fabian Society in 1972. Last week @thefabians told me that because @ForChange_Now are putting up candidates against Corbyn Labour in the European elections I can no longer be a full member. Today I cancelled my Standing Order. How many more members will they lose ?

— Mike Gapes (@MikeGapes) May 14, 2019

Will soon be joining you. Got to email them. Am too right wing for fabians anyway

— roders (@oneandonlymr0) May 14, 2019

I love it when zoomers from indyref 1 make it into the consciousness of the wider UKpol community and then get roundly clowned for having an extremely normal one. he is pals with ian “moody teenager” murray too - it has been a banner day for edinburgh south CLP alumni:

Labour source: "This will be a good thing [in the long run]", says Ian Murray is a "moody teenager" who must be told to stop "damaging briefings against party members, including staff". https://t.co/GCHfgTXj3i

— Alasdair Clark (@alasdair_clark) May 14, 2019

xp

"our party" :D :D :D :D :D

he is a mcternan-adjacent better together clownshoe

Stripes continues to confuse me.

Did anything actually happen today? Like I know parliament is sitting but is it just the usual?

did you miss "four ovens"-gate

Tory housing minister roasted for having FOUR OVENS in extravagant kitchenhttps://t.co/hzImh3QIfg pic.twitter.com/2ysDRcL2JM

— Mirror Politics (@MirrorPolitics) May 14, 2019

What the FUCK, 23% of people have more than one oven, and 1% have FIVE OR MORE pic.twitter.com/v7EsUjTm40

— Dawn Foster (@DawnHFoster) May 14, 2019

I did not, why is he denying the evidence of our eyes, the absolute madman

I mean I grew up with three siblings and even on Christmas Day when we have people over & vegetarian fusspots in our midst etc I’m not getting a use for four separate ovens ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

that denial again: "we don't own four ovens, we own two double-ovens"

what do you think double means, mr brokenshire?

I have a double oven. It's basically an oven and a microwave. I'd fp myself now and stick my head in my double oven, but I've only one double-oven, not double double-ovens!

Don't know - 1%

Amazing what you can rustle up! Maybe some more hot potatoes next! #twoovens pic.twitter.com/gU0vrbuaV2

— James Brokenshire (@JBrokenshire) May 14, 2019

Look let's not post pictures of cake at this time of the evening when there's no way i want to put outside clothes on and schlepp over to the shop

clearly two double ovens

nothing posh about a double oven ffs

it's a double double oven, it's right there in the almanach saxe-gotha

"Let them eat cake" is the message I'm getting there

i like to chew up one oven and spread the resulting paste between another intact double oven

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xps to NV the best cakes are fridge cakes like chocolate biscuit cake and cheesecake anyway

The best cake is the cake you've got in the house when you suddenly want cake tbh

make a mug cake

the best cake is bread pudding, followed by tiffin

The only tiffin I recognise has biscuit and raisins in it and comes in a wrapper

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shat it

ChUKing it in: Change UK's lead candidate in Scotland, David Macdonald, is binning his Euro elections campaign and endorsing the Lib Dems

— Philip Sim (@BBCPhilipSim) May 15, 2019

Truly this is the shit ground no fans of UK politics.

Sweet.

is change UK banksy

Should have stood as a ChangeSco candidate.

My word. Change UK’s number one Euro candidate in Scotland, David MacDonald, has quit to back the Lib Dems. Chuka Umunna: “It is obviously disappointing that this candidate has chosen to pledge allegiance to another party - he has let down his fellow candidates and activists.”

— Kevin Schofield (@PolhomeEditor) May 15, 2019

🙄

What activists?

is chuka for real