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

lol

Our Armed Forces personnel hold themselves to the very highest standards. Of course there should be a proper investigation where there is evidence that a serious crime has been committed. 1/2

— Nia Griffith MP (@NiaGriffithMP) May 15, 2019

absolutely abysmal and racist policy. I couldn’t vote for a party if this is their policy and I’d like to hear the leadership’s position on this sharpish pls

Might as well invite Ian Austin + Chuka back to the party and ask Mandelson to pull off the Milne disguise - the game is up. But seriously if they think signalling to floating UKIP voters that they can do racism just as ruthlessly as tory cunts is good politics then they have serious issues - because that is the road back to New Labour 2.0.

and it is taking many of their ethnic minority voters for granted in a very Mandelson-esque "they've got nowhere else to go" type of arrogant shitiness.

Brexit Party leader @Nigel_Farage hasn’t written a manifesto so we’ve done it for him, based on statements by him and his candidates. Billboards going up across the country this week. See more at https://t.co/OQ5hfKpVXw (location: Radford Rd, Coventry) pic.twitter.com/iBzXYaXW43

— Led By Donkeys (@ByDonkeys) May 16, 2019

Excellent.

Hoping for Claire Fox poster, along the lines of, "See that 5 year old kid? I'm glad the IRA blew him up, the little bastard had it coming to him", in Warrington and the North West.

As I said in another thread, don't kid yourself that, for most Tories, this amnesty for the armed forces is about anything other than Northern Ireland. Here's our old Territorial Army favourite, Mark Francois,

"After the appalling, tragic events in Londonderry, we all want to see the Northern Ireland executive re-established but that cannot be at the price of some rancid backstairs deal between the Northern Ireland Office and Sinn Fein IRA to sell Corporal Johnny Atkins down the river at the price of establishing the executive."

Corporal Johnny Atkins LOL.

one of his imaginary comrades during his imaginary period of service

Back from having to clean up some mess caused by Tommy Foreigner.

the braindead fucker certainly has a gift for using terrible phrases, lol!

do we have a Group Capt Armitage Shankly in the room?

It was January, nineteen-sixty-three
When Corporal Johnny Atkins came home with a gift for me
He said I bought it for you because I love you
And I bought it for you 'cause it's your birthday, too
He was so very nice, he was so very kind
To think of me at this point in time
I used to think of him, he used think of me
He told me to close my eyes
My gift would be a great surprise
I saw tears were in his eyes
He never meant to hurt me
Oh, God, Corporal Johnny Atkins, don't point that gun at me
There's so many ways our lives have changed
But please, I beg, don't do this to me
Corporal Johnny Atkins, don't point that gun at me
Can I save my life at any price?
For God's sake won't you listen to me?

Change UK MP Joan Ryan: “Can everyone look at their hands please?”

****cue everyone holds out their hands in front them****

“That’s it, it’s there, the future is in your hands.”

— Theo Usherwood (@theousherwood) May 16, 2019

Labour is a party of human rights defenders. We cannot allow British citizens to get away with war crimes if they are guilty. This would undermine the UK's global reputation for upholding the rule of law, threaten peace in NI, and damage the professionalism of our Armed Forces.

— Paul Sweeney MP (@PaulJSweeney) May 15, 2019

Ahead of UQ at 10.30am on proposed amnesty for soldiers who served in The Troubles, we have asked the Labour frontbench to make it clear that we do not support a statute of limitations

Victims & their families are entitled to justice and closure where crimes have been committed https://t.co/hJ7edZhWG5

— Labour Irish Society (@labourirish) May 16, 2019

Is this actual Labour policy or has someone just been dribbling a load of half-formed ideas onto social media again?

if she was going off-piste surely someone would have told her to retract it by now?

She has seemed almost entirely unaccountable since she was appointed. I'd guess that someone was in touch with her last night about softening her message but nothing other than a proper retraction will work. You can't really fudge:

1. Do you think British soldiers should be accountable for war crimes?
2. If not, do you think foreign soldiers should be accountable for war crimes?

It's either yes or no and her current position around 'vexatious' claims is nonsensical.

She was a chicken-coup resigner as well, presumably brought back into the fold as a sop to the melts. That worked well.

Bet that the net result of that brexit party 'manifesto' poster attack will be to increase support for them and for the positions highlighted

idk the NHS is mighty popular.

so may is off it seems

she's had enough

Believe it when I see it.

stake through the heart, that one

xps, I don't think the effect will be a particularly large one. But I don't think these billboards are a good idea. Could be wrong tho, fuck knows i don't have my finger on the pulse of the plain people of england lol

"For the nine hundred and seventh time, the prime minister promised to resign a vaguely, but not exactly, defined future date."

seems a bit more serious for her this time? can't tell if her being there is better or worse than what comes after.

Haven’t you guys left yet?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/News

https://images.fineartamerica.com/images-medium-large-5/no-thursdays-out-how-about-never-robert-mankof.jpg

BREAKING: Sir Graham Brady tells us that PM is expected to resign whether or not the WAB passes in June. A leadership election this summer is now a dead cert.

— Paul Brand (@PaulBrandITV) May 16, 2019

that world-class cunt-off we've been anticipating

Solskjaer should be available by then

https://www.closeup-shop.com/media/oart_0/oart_a/oart_14933/19836_G827860.jpg

survival of the shittest.

isn't that what i said

xps to gyac

paul sweeney’s appearance on novara is worth a watch - I don’t agree w all he says (eg supports a second ref) but he comes across as very thoughtful. another chicken coup signatory of course which always makes me laugh when he’s described as a scottish corbynite

very weird - on a plane w PS rn

astral?

you remember when I said “lol” yesterday?

A number of people have been in touch asking for Labour’s position on the government’s announcement yesterday regarding claims against Armed Forces Personnel - pic.twitter.com/miQsjAz9XA

— Nia Griffith MP (@NiaGriffithMP) May 16, 2019

otm

also, pestong...... are u ok

It is very striking that tonight @jeremycorbyn seems to have moved significantly towards backing a confirmatory Brexit referendum. In the attached excerpt from his new letter to members he now says Labour would support a referendum on any Brexit other than its... pic.twitter.com/BbFrOQoZFO

— Robert Peston (@Peston) May 16, 2019

Uh oh... hear some Change UK MPs have talked about finding a way out after the Euros following the party's calamitous first few months. Conversations have been had with former Labour colleagues. CHUK currently polling ~2% and below the Greens and LibDems

— Alex Wickham (@alexwickham) May 16, 2019

Pupils at £37,000-a-year Malvern St James private school once attended by Princess Alice are stunned to find the book they studied is NOT on their GCSE exam paper following teaching blunder

another thing one just loves to see

Worth noting in passing that it wasn’t a GCSE, it was an IGCSE, the unregulated international version private schools tend to take because they are perceived as easier and they want to game results.

*some* private schools

xp

chef’s kiss intensifies

but yes, pretty hilarious. a few tutors getting some serious employment rn

Imago's General Certificate of Secondatry Education

Mike Gapes MP at his first public meeting in Ilford South with the Change Uk Group 😂😂, how do you rate his chances lol. pic.twitter.com/wjnJGWSGQQ

— Socialist Syed #JC9 (@SiddiqiSyed) May 16, 2019

Heartwarming stuff, good job, guys.