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

Re: British Steel. Just sceptical on the reporting in this way, a day before EU elections by a very remain paper.

Obviously Brexit will put pressure on British Steel but it's like the discussions around Huawei being a supplier a couple of weeks ago. It covers how Steel been in trouble for a while so the collapse would point to a lack of industrial strategy too but that isn't explicitly stated.

I used to work on a magazine covering the steel industry and this:

Steel contracts are typically agreed well in advance of the product being delivered. As things stand, the UK is due to leave the EU on 31 October and the terms of that separation are yet to be agreed, meaning British Steel’s overseas customers do not know what tariffs will apply to steel they buy from the company. Sources close to the company say orders from customers in the EU and further afield have dried up as a result.

ties in very closely with how I understood the industry to work, and the dangers of such a situation.

if British Steel really want to be competitive on the big stage, slave labour is the way forwards, that's how we've nearly reached full employment. Check out the DWP UC ads.

Fair enough Stevie. I was referring to this:

When Greybull Capital bought British Steel for £1 in 2016 from Tata Steel, rebranding it with the old British Steel name, it promised great things

Seems to be as much of a story to me.

Ha! You get what you pays for I guess. It's a business full of awful people, as far as I remember.

Ta ta British Steel (companies or brands you thought were dead but weren't but now are)

leaving insignificant little domestic industries to the whims of shitheel hedge-funds sounds like a winning industrial strategy to me.

Now inviting Farage or Yax onto the BBC where an Oxbridge-educated wannabe Jeremy Paxman can sneer at them, that *does* play into their hands.

I don't think I've ever seen any BBC person dare sneer at Farage tbh. Marr meekly reading him out a lot of his past quotes with all the vim and vigour of a 12 year boy reading out a shopping list was an abject failure. Dare I say, it really needed Andrew Neil.

sob! Come back a' is forgiven brillo pad!

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2019/may/22/universal-credit-hardship-linked-to-prostitution

It's enraging that this sort of news, which should be causing serious trouble to the government, is behind both Brexit and some Game of Thrones bullshit about Theresa May: The Final? Years?

(I'm aware I'm part of the problem here)

Yes, let's all vote Lib Dem, they had nothing to do with austerity after all.

give them some credit .. 5p carrier bag charges etc..

mountain of dead disabled ppl would have much smaller without their "moderating influence" on the tories to kill more of them for 5p carrier bag bill.

Wait what, is that to me?

not directing towards you, just the LibDem party.

Amber Rudd is now lodging a complaint over UN's austerity report. This is a full scale PR drive, in which the Tories spend time and money denying widespread suffering instead of doing anything about it. https://t.co/hF0J79mupc

— Frances Ryan (@DrFrancesRyan) May 22, 2019

surely not the cuddly fucking lib One nation tory leadership candidate being exposed as pure evil again.

Ah yes, the UN, that notorious tankie wellspring.

bunch o' fucking lefties!

it's a compliment to Alston's work really, because the US reacted with the same faux incredulity to his extreme poverty and human rights report over there a couple of years back as well.

is ... is may resigning?

Rumours - unconfirmed, but also not denied - that the PM is planning a statement from Downing Street tonight

— Jason Groves (@JasonGroves1) May 22, 2019

(IE fuck knows)

going by previous statements i wouldn't get too excited...

plinth at downing st to announce that she is calmly not resigning imo

Lonely and wants a chat

important announcement about where bears shit

important news on why Hip Hop sucks in '96

has hot takes on the last episode of Game of Thrones

Jurassic 5 get 1/5 shocker!

she's 100% going to announce the uk government's official position that sea salt and balsamic vinegar kettle chips are the best crisps on the market

Setting up a small Tesco barbecue tray

*sends up a quiet prayer that today will be the day that budddwyer.gif is finally played out on downing street*

She’s such a desperate clown I could see her walk up to the podium, dab, and walk away

Feels she has to make an official statement on Charlie Watts' drumming in the light of persistent , indiscriminate attacks by Turrican.

xxxp she is wrong, as per, because the best crisps on sale are the Co-op salt and vinegar ones that strip the skin off your mouth

she's just calmly not resigning like she always does

no tropical paradise honeymoon complete without putting ilx's snack opinions to rights

Emperor_Leto_May.jpg

“Posh” s&v crisps with cider vinegar or whatever are always a disappointment, gyac otm - just chuck some fucking acetic acid on that shit

Look, i bought these Walkers Max wasabi flavoured crisps the other day and they are right up there

xxxp live reaction from the very large but well behaved seagull who wanted us to feed him
https://i.postimg.cc/y6SjJm36/70623-B8-C-D624-4-D75-A5-D7-4-BC2-A2-D87016.jpg

hi there fella

pret's smoked chipotle crisps actually do a decent job of summoning the spirit if not the full glory of kettle chips salsa and mesquite (rip)

Does the ketchup variant have any currency in this here kingdom?

Lack of food standards in post-no deal Britain will result in the only crisps being marmite-encrusted lumps of acrylamide so it’s academic

I guess that EU election poll of 7% for the Tories must correspond to their internal polling

roasted monkey nuts in their shells are just about sophisticated enough for me.

Last-minute lobbying to get their logo on the voting cards changed to Boris's face.

xp we’ll be looking back at my seagull and wishing the super-aggressive British versions were as easy to catch

"she acted weak when strong, and strong when weak" seems like something spoonfed by 1922 to the beeb, it looks like it's happening.

Change UK spent more than £1,300 on ads saying they wanted to ‘remain in the UK’ https://t.co/HEKRkxa7oi

— Jon Stone (@joncstone) May 22, 2019

OK, because of the time change and the constant onslaught of news both foreign and domestic, tell me if I've got the current craziness correct: May has said she'd be open to a second referendum, but only if ... people first vote for her shitty Brexit plan? Is that right?