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

luckily for democracy i had to go to the shops cos otherwise i've got a stinking cold and did not want to leave the settee

this is great

"The working class is the working class, regardless of skin colour".

Labour member and activist Guy Matthews on how the right will never represent the working class. pic.twitter.com/cQNrTrfEF6

— Labour Voices (@VoicesLabour) May 22, 2019

That was a good piece & they should do something like that officially!

As explained in today’s ⁦@EveningStandard⁩, the Theresa May premiership is over. Am reliably told she’ll announce tomorrow she’s stepping down on 10 June, after US state visit. https://t.co/djivjHalHx

— George Osborne (@George_Osborne) May 23, 2019

Imagine hanging round just to meet Donald Trump.

maybe she's got a milkshake for him

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David Mellor says cos of May's lame leadership he's "never felt more embarrassed and humiliated" to be a member of the Conservatives.

good thread on CON electoral difficulties

Everybody seems to have forgotten that the Conservatives *won* a surprise 2015 majority while Nigel Farage had 4 million votes, then lost the majority 2017 with Ukip on 2% & most of those voters for May.

That was the long lost world of 4 years ago but shows not one-dimensional

— Sunder Katwala (@sundersays) May 24, 2019

BREXIT PARTY MILKSHAKE MAN: A SPLATTER ANALYSIS pic.twitter.com/qZKqJDzCzs

— Harvey (@harveyschmacker) May 23, 2019

false flag milkshake attack seems about the level those cunts would stoop to.

Hearty lol at 'CSI: Gammon' in the comments there

Milkshake man is also an ex-Para cleared of shooting an Irishman fleeing in the back, because of fucking course.

Extremely mad that I might miss this alleged resignation today, hang on until the bitter end Theresa!

What probably happened was the auld geezer was struggling to take the top of his McD milkshake and next thing you know...

Tory Minister Tobias Ellwood on Newsnight says May’s vague referendum offer had to be made because - as a minority - they had to talk to Labour. That offer now looks like it will finally sink May. And Labour still rejected the offer: I admit I’m impressed.

— James Mackenzie (@mrjamesmack) May 22, 2019

loads of highly impressed FBPErs are congratulating Corbz on his destructive (on brexit and Tories) ambiguity right now.

they are setting out the podium in front of number 10 on BBC1 at the moment...

greater manchester police have been bravely charging suicidal ppl with traffic offences

May should call an election. For the LOLZ

how many times has now has may announced that she will definitely absolutely resign at some point in the future probably for sure maybe

7th june

rip big man

Congrats to the Tories

Waaaaaaaaahmbulance for Tresemmé

"The country I [inaudible croaking]"

Goodbye, May! pic.twitter.com/6MnExjNJMU

— PEANUTS (@Snoopy) May 31, 2018

lol happy birthday to me, plz gift me the PREVAILING OF THE SENSE

Next time a Tory has a go at Sunny Jim Callaghan and brings up the Winter of Discontent point them in the direction of the pair of absolute clowns they've inflicted on the country over the last decade.

Missed the whole thing, watching it back & switched off as soon as she mentioned Sir Nicholas Winterton’a advice, which she completely ignored.

Is any successor going to have her sheer staying power though?

Happy birthday mark s!

mark :D

I think we should have some sort of mega-celebration!!

xxxp
.. and the many springs, summers and autumns of discontent that followed .. to say the least. And also 75% of WoD was under a Conservative government.

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this is the first time i noticed the two death-bots sitting in the car with them

sitting in the car with those seats that look a bit like robots i mean DO YOU SEE

still can't stop feeling like the two most likely next PMs are Gove or Johnson as if the last 3 years barely happened - the latter still seeming the worst option

(bday not today btw but 7 june) (ditto tracer's)

No chance of Gove, I'd say.

tbf I keep forgetting Hunt exists

i think, just talking gut feeling here, it will be between Hunt, Mordant and Rudd.

whoeverwinswelose.jpg

you can get 66/1 on Rudd, history says this is one race the bookies fav's never win.

banter heuristic demands boris obv but even i'm not convinced that our eternal dec 21 2012 has quite reached that level of dementedness just yet

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tbf I keep forgetting Hunt exists

― nashwan, Friday, May 24, 2019 10:31 AM (three minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this is his secret weapon

Rudd won’t be in the race, see: her scant majority of 350 or so.

it's a remarkable talent considering the damage he has unleashed during his career of continual upward failures xp

it being hunt is also the secret even-bantzier heuristic

I might dump a load of money on Matt Hancock on the basis he's even more anonymous/stealthy than Jeremy Hunt, except without the baggage.

imagine being this absolutely fucking oblivious

For many years the great humanitarian Sir Nicholas Winton – who saved the lives of hundreds of children by arranging their evacuation from Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia through the Kindertransport – was my constituent in Maidenhead. At another time of political controversy, a few years before his death, he took me to one side at a local event and gave me a piece of advice. He said, ‘Never forget that compromise is not a dirty word. Life depends on compromise.’ He was right.

Wait, did Theresa May say that or some other person?

gloomily enjoying the fact that ppl are confusing sir nicholas winton (who saved children and was good not bad) with sir nicholas winterton (who was a mediocre mid-range rightwing tory with no accomplishments in any direction that i can recall or look up):

"Winterton was accused of slapping Labour MP Natascha Engel's bottom. When asked if the accusation was true, Winterton replied: "I'm quite a normal person. Will I slap a colleague on the back, Will I slap a colleague in friendship? The answer is – it is certainly possible."[6]"

yeah, that was may in her resignation speech xp

Such a moving speech I was laughing all the way through it.