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

Willsman suspended now.

Nice they had a printer with them. xpost

I’m fine with it being hillary vs trump. people will NOT vote for the obviously awful option

I don't think anyone reliant on things like painkillers and epilepsy meds would consider putting that option on a ref.

https://www.ituc-csi.org/general-strike-in-argentina-29May

Great news from Argentina. Need general strikes everywhere.

Rory Stewart has outlined plans to play for Liverpool as a late first half substitution tomorrow night, and again for Spurs in the second half, as part of a new grassroots campaign. There are plans to livestream both substitutions, and if things go well, a free kick. In the spirit of spontaneity, Stewart has not yet revealed which corner he will be scoring in, or for which team.

"if anyone is around and wants to talk i'll be at the Wanda Metropolitano Stadium" he said.

Liverpool in Madrid with a "Maggie's still dead" banner 👌 pic.twitter.com/KlXLWARuFX

— 🇦🇷 viva bielsa 🇦🇷 (@benleeds94) May 31, 2019

God they know how to work the neutrals

OTM I'm not prepared to switch allegiance just yet though.

lol, Hartley-Brewer no-platformed at Royal College of GPs after 729 medical practitioners signed a petition to fuck her off. Tories/right wing commentariat not popular with many professions these days they used to consider natural supporters it seems.

Need to read this interview somehow

mcdonnell is extremely me when i have any complaint about anything pic.twitter.com/ThKEaujwWn

— W////ΛM (𝕭𝖔𝖚𝖖𝖚𝖊𝖙𝖘) ✊ | 🌹 (@willuminare) May 31, 2019

🤢 pic.twitter.com/FcIc9Uvj0p

— Rhea Wolfson (@rheawolfson) June 1, 2019

felt a strong urge to park this here.

This is exactly how it should be framed:

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/jun/01/perfect-storm-austerity-behind-130000-deaths-uk-ippr-report

And don't forget BMG paper, yes those lefties, quoting similar figures and accusing Conservative gov and PIP reforms of "corporate murder" and the bbc refused to acknowledge that one.

Bmj paper i meant!

This is one happy group of McDonnells in Madrid after Liverpool’s victory. Atmosphere incredible. Thousands of ecstatic scousers. Fair play to Tottenham though, they played some great football. pic.twitter.com/EWdcftZ7r6

— John McDonnell MP (@johnmcdonnellMP) June 1, 2019

Ms Widdecombe argued that if "gay conversion" therapy is banned, it will "deny people the chance" to change if they are "discontented" with being LGBT.

people recently voting for this mouldering husk should be erased off the electoral register. That's why (I say hopefully) as soon as this Brexit Party has to get it's UKIP-lite manifesto together for a GE it will end up polling like a right wing pressure group, because too many brexiters won't like what they see.

People who say the sort of things Widdecombe does are inevitably shown up as closet cases.

xp useful to prove the point that most anti-trans discourse is just left over s28 shit

how long is alastair campbell’s tantrum going to go on

it’s been at least 25 years at this point

jfc xps

The instinct to remain spontaneously arises from the experience of being a socialised worker where nothing is permanent, nothing is getting better, and what you do have is threatened.
https://averypublicsociologist.blogspot.com/2019/06/corbynism-and-second-referendum.html

Just wanted to share this old beauty with you all on a quiet pleasant Sunday afternoon

Delicious @tildarice rice pudding, finished to the last morsel. A great argument for the Customs Union and Single Market! pic.twitter.com/5UK75Vsaqc

— David Miliband (@DMiliband) May 14, 2018

this fucking soulless shill is doing good work for Farage.

If he’s in NYC, I’m sure he goes to Myers of Keswick like all the other expats and buys it for like $5 a can.

I have my criticisms of Ed's pusillanimous austerity lite and pandering to bigots agenda in election '15. But he seems like quite a swell guy and a class act next to his awful awful obscenely crass brother.

Friend of mine was matey with his wife when both lived in Kentish Town and she says they’re both good people. Ed appears to be genuinely contrite about not going further left - and the same people undermining Corbyn used to whisper against him. Whereas Corbyn stood up and defended his dad from dog-whistle antisemitism while Labour’s current critics on the subject said fuck-all in solidarity with their leader.

Here's an example of Brexit in action:

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/jun/02/us-wants-access-to-nhs-in-post-brexit-deal-ambassador-to-uk-says

And, unlike Cameron, Boris hasn't got a disabled son up his sleeve he can pull out to shore up his NHS credentials. He could always mention the excellent access to abortion available on the NHS which has come in useful for at least one of his mistresses.

The instinct to remain spontaneously arises from the experience of being a socialised worker where nothing is permanent, nothing is getting better, and what you do have is threatened.

This is just an example of the standard political ploy of inventing your opponent out of your imagination.

lol no it doesn't

(he's not describing his political opponents)

how long is alastair campbell’s tantrum going to go on

centrist louise mensch at it again

Why is it so hard for left-wing politicians to make left-wing case against Farage, Johnson, Trump? It’s baffling. If Labour want to back the criminals who subverted our laws for their own enrichment at the cost of our welfare state, well g’luck to them. Other parties get it

— Carole Cadwalladr (@carolecadwalla) June 2, 2019

God she’s so awful.

Forgot the stupid visit was today, looking forward to several days of shit discourse about protests and ofc the road closures.

wake me up if someone manages to plant a milkshake in the orange wiggy bastards face .... otherwise zzzzzz....

so this is the week somebody gets shot eh?

all the heroic big game hunters will be coming out with their elephant guns this week, don't know how Trump will withstand the onslaught from Khan and Cooper et al ... he's in for a rough ride.

Ooh how exciting, a convoy of helicopters just flew over. Don't think a milkshake was going to reach that far so I held my fire.

jeremy cunt: "it is with a heavy heart i must condemn this great nation to a protracted, embarrassing and entirely avoidable death"

Speaking later on Today, Hunt was asked whether he could back a no-deal departure. As a former remainer, the foreign secretary faces pressure to appeal to more Eurosceptic Tory MPs. The list of candidates will be whittled down by MPs to a final pair, to be decided on by party members.

Hunt said: “My position on this hasn’t changed at all. I’ve always said that in the end, if the only way to leave the European Union, to deliver on the result of the referendum, was to leave without a deal, then I would do that.

“But I would do so very much as a last resort, with a heavy heart, because of the risks to businesses and the risks to the union.”

it would be with a heavy heart I'd love to to take a good run up and kick him so hard in his nuts he could sing like a castrato, but the heavy heart would be pretty meaningless in the final analysis tbf.

It is with a heavy heart that he will accede to the US negotiator's demand that the NHS be privatized.

heads on pikes on london bridge if that happens

tfw you love democracy so much you're willing to strangle your own country to death over the slimmest of referendum majorities

'Country' is a polysemous word.

john harris has some... i guess you'd call them 'thoughts' if you were feeling generous, in today's grauniad: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/jun/03/britain-remainers-no-deal-brexit-tribal-war

my favourite para:

There are now Labour activists and polemicists who treat politics as if it were a board game, hanging on to the theories of dead Russians, and dealing in abstractions. Their rationale for maligning much of the party’s supposed base, I am told by some horrified Labour insiders, is to excise a whole chunk of the post-industrial working class from left politics, leave it to Farage and his friends, and install “networked youth” as the new vanguard of the revolution. Where any such manoeuvre would leave Labour’s supposed mission to double down on inequality and the UK’s regional imbalances is anyone’s guess. It would also threaten to pump the left full of one of the worst prejudices of all: snobbery.

So, Trump is suggesting that the UK leave the EU without a trade deal, close off trading with China as well, and deal with the US only with the sorts of pricing that dealing with a sole supplier can demand?

hmm, he's not as daft as he likes to pretend...

On other business:

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2019/jun/03/kier-constrution-firm-shares-tumble-after-profit-warning?CMP=twt_gu&utm_medium=&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1559552891

how many of these PFI behemoths can go down the shitter before it is declared a crisis?