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

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

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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

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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.

the thread needed a run of positive posts

#positivethinkenergy

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#futureinhandsmakesuthink

Ash Sarkar seems to be completely ubiquitous recently, which is good as well performing left wing people in the media are pretty thin on the ground. Don't really know anything about Novara, and the piers morgan thing didn't go that well. Hopefully wet dishcloth owen jones can be moved on now, he's a calamity

this seems like probably very good news:

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2019/may/16/part-privatisation-probation-sevices-to-be-reversed-offender-management-nationalised-chris-grayling

fucking disgraceful that it was outsourced to the private sector in the first place, better news will be when Grayling decides to put his fucking stupid bald dome into the jaws of a starving komodo.

I am trying think of a commercial model where probation services are run to make a profit that isn't either unworkable or pure evil, but these demented ideologues didn't even give this a second thought.

i blame all those probation officers leaving for fancy jobs as poet laureate. 8)

I wouldn't expect any better from a Marsdenite! I can still remember hearing him on the radio while he was still working in probation services.

Hearty Friday morning lol

A dishonest & cowardly piece. He tries his best to appear to say one thing but read it carefully & he is saying another i.e. HIS rejection of the Labour party under Blair is morally superior to YOUR rejection of the party under Corbyn. https://t.co/LzPEnZKkoF

— Steven Fielding (@PolProfSteve) May 17, 2019

putting the Friday Butthurt into FBPE...

I wrote to Tony Benn around that time too :D

Re: ppl accusing G Younge of middle class self-indulgence for taking a moral stance. In the recent D Edgerton book he makes the point that notionally leftish people had become so obsessed with getting the tories out, they became completely blind to the tory policies of Blair, even Major was blushing and very wary of PFI'ing the fuck out of the NHS.

Quite enjoying the "neither Corbyn nor Blair" concern trolling from people who are definitely socialists just not that kind of socialist tho