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

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

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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.

xxp

kind of like getting Alan Clarke mixed up with Alan Clark.

now badly wanting it to be discovered that after winton said "life depends on compromise" he threw a milkshake at her and everyone at the local event cheered

RIP. It is always sad when a politician dies while in office. It's best now for Britain if all memory of May is eradicated.

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):

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.

hnnnnnnghhhhhh yessssss

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curb your maythusiasm pic.twitter.com/H2Ch9wRFpo

— w0ke_space_jesuit.exe (@piagnone) May 24, 2019

I suspect this is bg's point, but the astonishing thing in that Nicholas Winton mention is not the lines on compromise, but that Theresa Fucking Hostile Environment Fucking May has the gall to bringing up a hero of the Kindertransport.

otm, it's fucking nauseating on every level

This morning on Today they were discussing hostile environment in relation to foreign students wrongly accused of cheating and deported. Presenter mentions wasn't May home Secretary when this happened? Like it is the first time it has occurred to him.

rly makes u think

I wonder what her "Farewell" speech in the commons will be like?

I remember Camro even adding a trib to Corbyn's staying power in his.

Somehow, I imagine hers will be somewhat short.

farewell then, theresa may

we'll remember you like this always

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lmao

Oh @theresa_may , why didn’t we see that emotion more? Things could have been so different....

— Heidi Allen MP (@heidiallen75) May 24, 2019

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJWksPWDKOc

(A belated homage to bg's superlative Witcher meme.)

She leaves UK more divided and unequal but when a dedicated public servant leaves, look at achievements not just failings. Esp when they are a woman in what’s still a man’s world. So I acknowledge PM brought in imp new laws on equ pay, human trafficking & dv.

— Harriet Harman (@HarrietHarman) May 24, 2019

The imps and equs will be forever thankful.

Harriet Who?

TM the feminist, lol two child tax credit rape clause was a true game changer for the sisterhood.

look she might well have doomed the country to a bojo premiership and a hard brexit but she took the bold stance that human trafficking was bad

may's tenure ending so much more quickly than thatcher's really shows how far britain has regressed

It all started to go wrong for Theresa May when she unveilled the most left-wing Conservative manifesto since the 60s.

The next Conservative leader needs to be someone who accepts individualism and markets, not someone who calls it "selfish" and moves us even further left. pic.twitter.com/5MMOKtK2xM

— Alastair Thompson (@AlastairJT) May 24, 2019

Dear the UK, congratulations, please tell us your secrets so that we can use them. Love, the US.

Isn't it the other way around? Just another step on the path to going full BoJo.

*heuristically banters happy birthday to mark s*

No Surprises. It's over. So long Theresa May... pic.twitter.com/Knd0FuHvZ1

— PoliticsJOE (@PoliticsJOE_UK) May 24, 2019

sn't it the other way around? Just another step on the path to going full BoJo.

yeah, feels like the only thing that’ll keep Boris from the top will be the unseemly haste with which he’s presumably trotting toward No 10 even now, should it cause him to - unaccustomed to moving at speed on his own feet - trip or topple such that he impales his eyeball and, subsequently, brain on a fence spike as he approaches the residence

at which point Gove leaps over his prone, rotund arse and into the doorway, a pinkie-sized erection straining at his trousers as he scribbles down legislation to sell off all libraries, councils and schools to three rather clever chaps with whom he went to school

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The very act of running to be Tory leader now is proof that you do not have the strategic intelligence to do the job.

— Ian Dunt (@IanDunt) May 24, 2019

I hate myself for saying this but... Big Dunty OTM?

Boris Johnson will win the membership ballot if he makes it to the final two. Lot of tory mps who don't like the idea of him being their boss on the day to day though, so its quite possible he won't.

Back of a fag packet extremely short term plan for tories: Johnson or other headbanger becomes PM, makes Nigel Farage a lord, gives him important or important sounding job, Farage winds up or cold stores Brexit party and endorses new tory regime, general election before October on platform of 'hard brexit if eu won't agree to everything we say'.

(It's a pretty rickety construction- needs Johnson as PM and Farage to play ball or it won't work at all)

"Lot of tory mps who don't like the idea of him being their boss on the day to day though, so its quite possible he won't."

I think the boris hype machine (or the bbc lol) has done some good work, but it doesn't change this, unless 1922 or whatever powers that be change the rules to give him a cakewalk to victory. fuck knows though, I'm confused as usual.

Viewers left furious as PM's tearful resignation speech delays broadcast of Homes Under the Hammer https://t.co/pKmacAHDyl

— Daily Mail U.K. (@DailyMailUK) May 24, 2019

viewers otm

Who would win in a fistfight: Ramsay MacDonald or May?

Westminster voting intention:

LAB: 26% (-3)
BREX: 25% (+1)
CON: 22% (-)
LDEM: 12% (+1)
GRN: 4% (+1)
UKIP: 2% (-)
CHUK: 2% (-1)

via @OpiniumResearch, 17 - 20 May
Chgs. w/ 16 May

— Britain Elects (@britainelects) May 24, 2019