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

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?

You're all on good form itt. Particularly liked heavy heart kick hunt in the bollocks

that's entertainment..

please can we refer to the foreign secretary by his proper name?

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

all of them

and then it'll be public bailout time and trebles all round in boardrooms across the country

i'm sure Harris has plausible deniability on thinking Marx is Russian

tbf if we outsourced parliament to Capita i doubt they could have fucked it up any worse

My daughter just landed in Leeds to visit my sister. Couldn't bring in boxed mac and cheese! Fuckin' Brexit, man.

we do have mac and cheese here on our embattled island nation, you know, you don't have to bring your own

It's not the same, I hear. My sister requested it!

love it or leave it imo

ironically, craft own a lot of uk foodstuffs now.

(yeah, american friends always asked me to bring back mac and cheese and chocolate jello pudding. you can get the latter in big supermarkets now, expensive though.)

How about peanut butter?

nah, it's chestnut margarine all the way in good ol' blighty mate

uk mac and cheese usually contains rat guts tbf

ts: chlorine vs blood sausage

You're thinking of Kraft rats & cheese (it's in the name!).

Josh, your sister should order from here:

https://www.usafoodstore.co.uk/kraft.html

lol, she's been there 20 years or so, you'd think she would have figured out a way.

She had never seen that site, thanks, but just told me it's good its limited availability keeps down her consumption. (She said she can get mac&cheese from Amazon, no surprise). She did say there's a Taco Bell there now, so she's good to go on the seven-layer burrito front (she's a vegetarian, and I think that's her nostalgic go-to).