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

Hedges is funny

It’s straightforward parody, very well done, of a quite specific type of poster

it's what happens when someone who doesn't know about online wants to now navigate and use it cynically for his own ends

Wait hold on, it's not Rory Stewart that's being cynical in this exchange!

What planet do you live on

Rory Stewart doesn't know the meaning of the word.

Come on he knows his way around Latin!

Cynicism is an infinitely more accurate description of careerist bellends like Stewart than an open-hearted liberal like Hedges who merely wants to add to the gaiety of the internet

britain in like 4 months pic.twitter.com/oUVpEY9fAC

— ▀▀▀▀▀▀ (@immolations) May 24, 2019

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/may/25/tom-watson-labour-must-back-second-brexit-referendum

how many times have i read this exact same article? it's unreal!!

One member I met in Bristol broke down in tears as he told me that after 44 years of voting Labour he was going to vote Lib Dem for the first time.

You voted for Blair and Brown, voting Lib Dem must've been a doddle

Observer editors just mad they couldn't do it as a main headline because the government is on the brink. xp lol

When do the EU election results come out tomorrow?

I've been wondering that. On Friday morning I checked various news sites and you'd think there hasn't been an election there was literally nothing about it. I know turn out was low, I voted at about 9pm and I was the only name crossed out on my street

Tomorrow night.

that is why there was no exit poll on friday, we have to wait for Farage siegesparade after they've finished voting and counting in the EU.

uk press has explicitly stated in places that legally ye can't have coverage until sunday night when polls close in idk latvia or whatever.

which is incorrect-theres only aiui a ban on reporting results not eg exit polls- but if thats what they have agreed with ur govt then thats what theyve agreed i guess

UK govt in uncontested agreement with EU shocker.

wouldn't there be a risk that reports that UK main parties having their arse handed to them by Farage in the exit polls could be useful hoopla for EU fash-bloc, in countries where they are still voting?

if thats the angle then thats the angle, all i know is ive seen it written in uk press that they cant legally publish info or reportage until day x which isnt true

do we reckon there’s another labour leadership challenge incoming this summer ?

Nah, not while the Chukwallas are building so much momentum

Corbz has become a septuagenarian today, so obv he is too old. Even though he will probably end up outliving Wes Streeting.

lol?

Has Tom Watson got ANY ideas of his own? Or does Alastair Campbell write all his articles? pic.twitter.com/9exV1nqAo7

— EL4C💥 (@EL4JC) May 26, 2019

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/may/26/heidi-allen-says-change-uk-could-merge-with-liberal-democrats

good stuff

lol! after all the hubris of "new way of doing politics" the whole shebang turns out to be a discarded week old sandwich next to a moldering white dog shit.

This says it'll be after 11 before the first results

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/live/2019/may/26/european-elections-2019-results-eu-election-parliament-brexit-party-farage-tories-may-live?page=with:block-5ceae5cd8f08ad67f1a81869#block-5ceae5cd8f08ad67f1a81869

(That URL!)

so there weren't any exit polls or am I missing something?

Gosh Tory source saying looks like party about to lose all MEPs apart from maybe one in south east tonight in #EuropeanElection2019 . Almost total wipe out. 😮

— Anushka Asthana (@AnushkaAsthana) May 26, 2019

Le Pen projected winner is a real fucking downer

She gets what her party always gets: about a quarter, no more. No worries.

saw a breakdown as

hard brexit 25
soft brexit 23/5
remain 23/5

FFS etc

The Blairites can be relied on to take a point in time where the Tories are about to inflict great self harm and then inflict it on the Labour Party instead. Almost as if they'd rather the Tories stay in power https://t.co/Me40pnRm43

— Naadir (conditional citizen) Jeewa (@naadirjeewa) May 26, 2019

They’re getting lots of help from the BBC tbf.

Results coming in now:

North East, result:

Brex: 2 MEPs (+2)
Lab: 1 (-1)

— Britain Elects (@britainelects) May 26, 2019

Extremely amused at the eat the book cunt getting owned

Salvini polled 6% in 2014 - just six per cent.
He is about to poll above 25%.

If you only look at recent snapshot polls and not the longer-term trends that are rumbling through Europe then you miss the real story. https://t.co/RBsjiauppe

— Matthew Goodwin (@GoodwinMJ) May 26, 2019

are you trying to explain my country to me?

— Alberto Nardelli (@AlbertoNardelli) May 26, 2019

The BBC has forecast that the Brexit Party will top the polls, with the pro-EU Liberal Democrats set to come second and the ruling Conservative party set to receive between 10 and 12% of the vote, down from 24% in 2014.

Chuka having a fucking mare on Sky rn

sure fine whatever

NEW: Following Tom Watson / People's Vote collusion earlier, Remain supporting Labour source says there will now be a fresh move by MPs against Corbyn

Says the focus will be on changing Labour policy to support a second ref, challenging Corbyn's leadership if he refuses

— Alex Wickham (@alexwickham) May 26, 2019

Manchester results - Tommy Robinson gets 2,171. Labour 40,191, Lib Dems 21,041, Brexit Party 15,069. Rest to follow... @MENnewsdesk

— Samantha Yarwood (@samyarwood89) May 26, 2019

xp Wes Streeting has been very restless recently

tbh a lot of Labour decrease will be remain voters making a point by voting LD/Green? And with a Tory headbanger incoming they’d probably want to move on it, but idk I’m not an electoral genius or w/e.

FBPErs gonna be extra insufferable tomorrow.

Don’t know why they should be, the vote splitting cost them at least two seats that I saw so far.

Re that North East result:

North East result: 2 Brexit 1 Lab. Fiona short by 15,000 - Change UK got 25,000. A pity that they have prevented a Remain MEP being elected. Lib Dem share rose from 6% to 17% - would have been enough to win a seat in other regions

— North East Lib Dems 🔶 (@NELibDems) May 26, 2019

I know that Goodwin tweet is funny but actually apart from Salvini he seems wrong on trends -- Le Pen and Wildeers are down. AfD about the same. Like this is not quite pointing at populists or what have you.

Brexit party are a bit of an outlier -- the elections here have a totally different feel.

CONFIRMED London result: Lib Dems win 3 MEPs, Labour 2 MEPs, Brexit Party 2 MEPs, Green Party 1 MEP

— Tom Rayner (@RaynerSkyNews) May 26, 2019

Tories out!

Godwin’s got one answer to every political issue and it’s that there needs to be more immigrant-bashing in politics. I live for this cunt being shown up.

FPBEs are always insufferable, but particularly when crowing about Islington results.

As pointed out elsewhere on twitter, Islington south was a Lib Dem marginal when Thornberry first won it.

Absolutely tragic that this Conservative MEP trooper won’t be returning to Brussels:

Members of European Parliament in Strasbourg reacted with rage after Syed Kamall, the leader of the European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR), said Nazis subscribed to a “left-wing ideology” and “want the same things” as Socialists do.

Kamall, the voice of the U.K. Conservative Party in the Parliament, was responding to an earlier speech by German MEP Udo Bullmann, the leader of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats, during which he said that “right-wing nationalism and extremists” are “undermining the European Union.”

In reply, Kamall told Bullmann: “When you talk about right-wing extremists, we have to remember that Nazis were national socialists. It’s a strain of socialism.”

He then added: “It’s a left-wing ideology, they want the same things as you, let’s be quite clear.” When the chamber erupted in outrage, with some MEPs shouting out “rubbish,” Kamall said: “You don’t like the truth, do you?”

Totally confident it will be fine for Labour:

We’re witnessing a nightmare future for the Labour Party. Its metropolitan Hampstead voters have fled to the Liberal Democrats; the provincial Humberside heartlands to the Brexit party. The fence Jeremy Corbyn has been sitting on has been taken away. #EuropeanElectionResults

— Sebastian Payne (@SebastianEPayne) May 26, 2019