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

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)

I can't see anything good coming from not publicly opposing a klan enabling US prez. Jesus if corbz didn't turn up at that demo tomorrow I can already imagine all Khan is the real opposition type bollox from Blue Labour.

matt nails it again:

pic.twitter.com/ixz4znTUbM

— Matt Cartoons (@MattCartoonist) June 3, 2019

I love the way being neither funny nor astute and with negligible drawing talent has led me into the fucking gutter :p

TS: the goldsmith failsons Vs led by donky

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led by donkeys are absolutely fine and they are holding to account some of the biggest cunts in britain. yeah their whole we started this in a pub thing is a bit annoying but whatever, they're winning over normal non-messageboard-politics-nerd people

I didn't mind the one that attaches Faragian politics to Farage. But that fucking USS John McCain shit was so risible they should die of embarrassment imo.

Led by donkeys are garbage. What are they winning people over to? Please make sense

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)

I don't think anyone believes it would be possible not to let him in, but I think it's worthwhile to show opposition to a) him and b) pols willing to hang around with him at every moment. It's an Overton Window thing.

Corbyn appearing tomorrow is a great look, gives the impression that he will be a different PM.

does anyone not already have this impression?

Corbyn appearing tomorrow is a great look, gives the impression that he will be a different PM.

― xyzzzz__, Monday, June 3, 2019 11:50 PM (six minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

sad lol

Yeah, mostly, but I think it's good to keep reminding people that he won't do things differently, were he to get there.

Needs to avoid looking like PM material.

xp

will do things differently or won't do things differently? please make sense

Won't do things differently as PM to what he does now in a leader of opposition capacity (or as backbencher before that).

Just because I rightly asked LJ to make sense there is no need to wrongly ask me for the same ;)

The led by donkeys campaign is counterproductive because it’s not convincing anyone who’s going to vote for the Brexit party/no deal headbangers. They’re making arguments based on fact to voters deciding based on emotion and irrational reasons. At worst, they’re publicising the views of extremely dodgy people without those people having to pay to do so. I’m not sure who was supposed to be won over by the Widdecombe one where she’s denouncing gay people - some of that voter coalition might see her views as a feature, not a bug.

Alex Sobel djing

Great Djing @alexsobel #LabourRoots

And look at those moves pic.twitter.com/6GrF898g9J

— Marshajane (@Marshajane) June 2, 2019

Oh no

Here’s my playlist from #LabourRoots last night. 32 tracks to cold rock any party https://t.co/DUQ95KayxQ pic.twitter.com/803L66of7Y

— (((Alex Sobel MP))) (@alexsobel) June 2, 2019

(๏д๏)

as terrible playlists go that's a pretty fun one tbf

not bad at all tbh