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

That was my point, obv

Not sure how many of the ILX kids would have got the reference. Young people these days.

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

Oh the Actually-I'm-Left-Of-Centrist Dad is definitely a thing - a lot of those people were consistently critical of Blair and New Labour for being too right-wing, voted LibDem after the Iraq War and then went back post-2010, but still get a fit of the vapours about Corbyn.

― Matt DC, Friday, May 17, 2019 8:26 AM (two hours ago) Bookmark

this is my actual da

He voted Lib Dem? WTF?

in 2005 mainly because of the iraq war (the release of general pinochet by jack straw in 2000 alone wasn't enough to stop him voting labour in 2001)

but i imagine it was a close run thing

That was my dad but he died before the Corbynocracy and where he still alive he'd probably be still explaining to me why it was the wrong socialism, this nonsense dies hard

EXCLUSIVE: ITV News has been passed the largest dossier of claims about Islamophobia in the Conservative Party to date. 110 people claiming to be members, posting comments about a Muslim "infestation", "cult" and "takeover". Full details: https://t.co/TohdiTC7UU

— Paul Brand (@PaulBrandITV) May 17, 2019

can't wait for the media blitz on this

ben goldsmith was openly calling islamophobia a nonsense and saying sayeeda warsi was at it just yesterday on twitter

Former Conservative co-Chair @SayeedaWarsi is a wolf in sheep’s clothing, working alongside some of the most illiberal, unpleasant people in Britain to silence any attempt by mainstream Muslims (such as @MaajidNawaz) or anyone else to question the Islamist ideology. https://t.co/4g9dKu9Qlt

— Ben Goldsmith (@BenGoldsmith) May 16, 2019

Warsi probably is an arsehole tbf, but she's often very correct on tory Islamophobia and has been sidelined by the party for showing some conviction.

"In a statement, a Conservative Party spokesperson said: "A substantial number of these people are not members."

They haven't got a clue about how many living/dead people they have still paying the membership dues apparently - when it suits them. Nothing to do with embarrassment (cos they are impervious to it) about dwindling membership, otherwise their current bunch of leadership contenders would have already caused them to die of it.

Police Scotland imposing intelligence-led milkshake bans is a new one 😳 https://t.co/jQiYeObfjO

— Liam. (@parcelorogues) May 17, 2019

lol, police don't like seeing milkshakes getting thrown at fellow fash scum.

So much for the lactose tolerant left

*citizen kane clap*

hah!

I bet Yack-yack has spent hours in the editing suite trying to make vid of slightly built, shit scared kid going into fight or flight mode after being rounded by football hooligans, look more like a vicious and completely unreasonable attack on poor little him.

it appears ben elton has written a satire about identity politics... pic.twitter.com/pJ7CQCi3Qk

— MT PAGE™ (@theemptypage_) May 17, 2019

Foxy and O'Neill's summer holiday reading sorted, some cracking excerpts in the thread.

Jeezus Ben, we got that you're a cunt years ago, no need to keep pushing it

"in 2016 rory mcgrath took part in ITV's sugar free farm which saw him go sugar free for two weeks"

as always it's more that even the blurb has the skill, style and subtlety of a man who spent his entire career second fiddle to nothings like sayle or curtis

it is probably safe to say at this point that he lacks a bit of wit and talent and has a bit of heavy touch with satire, and future generations won't be poring over his works .. to say the least.

"Aging common-sense policeman Neb Belton is forced to enter a confusing modern world where girls and coloureds are insufficiently respectful"

I linked this on the Cannes thread for different reasons, here I am going to do it for its last para:

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2019/may/16/sorry-we-missed-you-review-ken-loach

And here is where my qualm arises. Many people will see this film as a portrayal of real issues facing people – not silly old Brexit, which only worries people in the London bubble. Does the director himself feel like this? I don’t know. But I can only say that the European Union is the modern-day nursery of employment rights, and outside it is where working people will find more cynicism, more cruelty, more exploitation, more economic isolation and more poverty. This brilliant film will focus minds.

awesome work from Peter Bradshaw, hope he tacks the same paragraph on the end of his John Wick review

I take P Bradshaw 5 star reviews with a pinch of salt because he some serious form, but will certainly watch this.

I am going to watch this, as well as Tories and Guardian columnists go on about the wonders and flexibility of zero hour contractors -- you know, like how it allows time to do things like, I dunno, teach a yoga class.

"But I can only say that the European Union is the modern-day nursery of employment rights"

In his experience as a salaried Graun hack who gets expense free trips everywhere and free tickets to lots of movies ..hmm I don't think this cunt knows what he's talking about .. again!

Loach is a Lexiteer surely?

I suppose that's why he shoehorned Brexit into the review.

yep. why has Bradshaw been (or he seems to be respected as) the UK "top gun" of broadsheet movie reviews for so long? he's so fucking shite.

He's no Baz Bamigboye

*watches the world burn* but I still can go to Cannes and write my shitty reactions for libs to gloss over every year so its not so bad.

Every year the gang troops off to watch low-key humanistic dramas about underpaid schoolteachers in Romania. In *Cannes*. In *Cannes*. An absolute fucking mecca of vulgar inequality.

— Elvis Buñuelo (@Mr_Considerate) May 18, 2019

makes me think of this I read earlier.

Bradshaw should have worked that point into his Detective Pikachu review instead, there's a real similarity between him and a LibDem 'Bollocks to Brexit' poster.

Sadly the classic Viz strip 'Benny Elton', in which Jim Davidson comes round for dinner and he has to hide Lenny Henry in a cupboard rather than be seen to be having tea with a black leftie, isn't on the internet. So I'll have to write something about the tedious bewilderment of the formerly right-on instead.

Bradshaw has given 5 stars to erm.. in my memory without cheating Dunkirk, latest Marvel movie, Gaspar Noe's Enter The Void. With a thorough g/s I could come up with many more damning examples of his lack of integrity and taste - but fuck wasting another second on hating him.

lol, talking about shoehorning Brexit into reviews: "Like a parody of Brexit Britain, never has the 1967 comedy been more horribly pertinent than it is now" - Peter Bradshaw on Mel brooks' The Producers.

Speaking of Cannes, a Bradshaw two-star review is as good an indicator that a film’s worth checking out as when it receives a “le boo” from that festival’s audience

"Aging common-sense policeman Neb Belton is forced to enter a confusing modern world where girls and coloureds are insufficiently respectful"

― specific goats my way (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 18 May 2019 12:08 (one hour ago)

But what David Bowie song would this BBC TV sequel to Life On Mars / Ashes to Ashes be named after?

The Laughing Gnome.

"After being knocked out by a blow on the head from a milkshake thrown during a disturbance, Neb Belton wakes up to find that Boris Johnson is Prime Minister."

Ben Melton send tweet

lol, talking about shoehorning Brexit into reviews: "Like a parody of Brexit Britain, never has the 1967 comedy been more horribly pertinent than it is now" - Peter Bradshaw on Mel brooks' The Producers.

My favourite example of this is still when Pitchfork reviewed the Joe Armon Jones record, quoting a line about "no more blood on the streets" and relating it to "a Britain beset by Brexit". Yes dude, that's definitley what he's singing about.

That being said, as with human rights violations, make no mistake: the fact that the EU is shit on it doesn't mean that the tories won't gleefully race further to the bottom as soon as EU restrictions are lifted. I'd rather be employed in the EU than the US anytime.

it is easy (for smug twats like Bradshaw) to generalise about the benefits of EU membership when because he is never going find himself in a position where he doesn't have any employment rights worth shit in some cursed warehouse in Dewsbury. And also the long history of struggle and hard earned workers rights in western Europe goes way beyond the relatively short existence of the EU, despite some of these blue-faced fools holding banners that seem to say otherwise. Like already discussed on thread, the threat of eternal austerity under tories or labour in a post brexit world is a paper tiger to millions of voters in precarious employment and already fucked over hard by Osborne's tax credit cuts, in this "modern-day nursery of employment rights" lol.

Doesn't the theme of the movie he's just awarded 5 stars to contradict his little brexit postscript anyway ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

No cos all those awful soul-destroying zero hour jobs only exist because of Brexit or something

They certainly didn't exist when we were protected by the EU's employment laws... er, hold on.

Thankfully, future generations of Eastern European immigrants will be spared this ignominy on British soil.

reason to be cheerful .. workers rights are much better here than in Azerbaijan as well ...

"If we tell you that you've got two days to live
Then don't complain, 'cause that's one more than you'd get in Zaire"

for what is worth, Pom. In the early 90's I did that crop-cutting work (£3.83 ph + fullbennies*) that is work only seen fit for some of your compatriots in the UK these days. Which is bullshit because bringing in the crops is very important work and fuck ppl that think it isn't or ppl that think those that do it shouldn't be awarded more dignity and decent pay.

* as many caulis and cabbages as you could fit in a carrier bag.