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

They need to bring him in on climate change eg. making the Environment remit much bigger.

fun* watching the contortions in scottish labour deploying the house lines - “scots are sick of referenda and don’t want indyref II” and “we need to pivot to backing a second referendum on EU membership with an option to remain”

xp agreed, but I’d happily see him replacing Burgon in Justice, Griffith in defence (lol) or Gardiner in...whatever his portfolio is.

shadow minister for the today programme iirc

yeah gyac that's basically polenta - i have tried it. it has this amazing ability to just suck up all the liquid you add to it which is like, weird and possibly demonic but it doesn't make good cornbread

cornmeal's a minefield, man

no dice on the cornmeal I'm afraid

Yeah I was thinking that was too good to be true - shame.

I only just saw that Trump made reference to Sadiq being tiny, feels like he got off lucky?!

'...except the pig likes it'

ben, james, oliver, will... you’ve done it again

Hey @realDonaldTrump, we read the story about the sailors on a US warship being ordered to hide from you because you’re triggered by the name on their hats. So we turned Madame Tussaud's into a giant USS John McCain baseball cap. Welcome to London! pic.twitter.com/KuynOwupFm

— Led By Donkeys (@ByDonkeys) June 3, 2019

Just announced (?) that Corbyn is attending the protest tomorrow

xp my brain is so diseased I read the first line of yr post and thought “what have the Goldsmiths done now?”

oliver goldsmith the worst goldsmith, another late write-in for the awful shower thread

that is a controversial view bearing in mind Sir James produced a load of failsons

Yes I will be protesting tomorrow Jeremy. AGAINST you AND DRUMPF. Two tyrants for the price of one. In fact, you are worse than him, because at least the Orange Man, for all his many many faults, has legitimate concerns about crime and immigration.

— Simon Hedges (@Orwell_Fan) June 3, 2019

i yield to no one in my hatred of the vicar of wakefield, which i have never read

I would like to march tomorrow but have organised nothing, so if any ILX comrades want to join me, HMU.

bad challop mark. it's good, she stoops to conquer is good and funny, and his poetry is good to.

she stoops to plonker more like (again i have not read it)

You can't even say conquers any more. That's what's wrong with this country.

because I’m bored and on the train, biggest self-owns, Goldsmith edition:

1) Oliver

His premature death in 1774 may have been partly due to his own misdiagnosis of his kidney infection.

At the 1997 Westminster parliamentary general election, Goldsmith stood as a candidate for the Referendum Party in the London constituency of Putney, against the former Conservative Minister David Mellor, MP, in an electoral contest in which Goldsmith polled 3.5% of the vote... The 1,518 votes that his candidacy had garnered had not in itself defeated the incumbent Mellor, who had lost by 2,976 votes; moreover it amounted to less than 5% of the total votes cast, this being insufficient for Goldsmith to retain the candidate's financial deposit of £500, a part of the 20 million pounds that he had reportedly poured into The Referendum Party in its brief existence.

Don't forget Harvey btw.

4) Harvey:

In August 2014, Goldsmith was one of 200 public figures who were signatories to a letter to The Guardian opposing Scottish independence in the run-up to September's referendum on that issue.[9]

The Goldsmiths' 2012 divorce proceedings made headlines in tabloid media as the first "Twitter divorce" for playing out on social media via posts on Twitter.

more on oliver, with a nice dril feel at the end:

He lived for a short time with his mother, tried various professions without success, studied medicine desultorily at the University of Edinburgh from 1752 to 1755, and set out on a walking tour of Flanders, France, Switzerland and Northern Italy, living by his wits (busking with his flute)

james and ben are both wife guys

Hate flutes tbf.

Maybe Oliver should have spent less time on the flute and more time studying medicine.

No wonder the NHS is in trouble.

don't let Universal Credit know when you've been busking your flute, they'll take every last penny back off you.

I thought “go whistle for it” was official DWP policy?

one of the Goldsmith kids is called India ffs

literally the worst forename of all time

millionaire spreadshit Phil trying to gaslight all the UK's poorest by saying poverty doesn't exist and it is merely an illusion of theirs and the UN rappateurs tory-hating imaginations. After all, he doesn't see any where he lives..

TS: the goldsmith failsons Vs led by donky

I think, of all the cabinet, his youth as a disco goth who was good at the shift is still the most surprising and improbable backstory.

i think Richard Madeley said he was just as renowned for his rolled up FT as his moves to bela lugosi's dead..

remembered that one wrong it was The Telegraph.

Maybe the UK’s poor should run their own teenage mobile discos like Phil did to get rich the first time?

https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/7b51f93dff971a2f8b8bb89845f2e54c41f732aa/7_0_242_302/master/242.jpg?width=140&quality=45&auto=format&fit=max&dpr=2&s=18df243cc1dc91d4c494cc2be0d29e3a

he definitely looked the part.

Imagine all the people...living hand to mouth...

I understand the Trump protests to a degree, but I also don't. Is it to protest him being in the country? or his existence? I understand the latter but not really the former. He's not Bush II, the public voted him in legit. Idk how I feel about Corbz protesting him, especially if he's going to be leader at some point (maybe?)

fuck up man

bobby pesto thinks corbyn protesting DT will alienate the labour party’s working class base. absolutely thermonuclear take

Who are the 21 per cent of UK people who approve of him? Even the Tories I know claim they’d never vote for him and the only person I know that does like 45 is a crazy conspiracy theory hippie who thinks he’s secretly fighting the paedos.

golf nazis again probably

Right, I think thats nonsense too - that not the road I'm looking to go down! I've no issue with people protesting Trump. its just unclear to me if people are suggesting he should't have been allowed in? Or they just want to join together to say mate you're a cunt (I can be onboard with the latter)

lol ! the fuckwit pesto might as well be concern trolling about Woodrow Wilson fans.

Who are the 21 per cent of UK people who approve of him?

I think a good proportion of these aren't even ideologically or politically motivated, but just like seeing a larger than life character and its entertaining, especially when its in some other country anyway

and sweaty nerds who have 🌐 in their bios (like tom harwood)

peston: northerners are thicko racists

I do think corbyz is most effective when he's for something though (manifesto, ending of austerity) - and that being pro things is a better overall strategy for the left than anti, in 2019 (also US healthcare vs the resistance crowd)