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

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Hate flutes tbf.

John Harris is a Guardian columnist (Tom D.), Monday, 3 June 2019 18:24 (seven years ago)

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

gyac, Monday, 3 June 2019 18:33 (seven years ago)

No wonder the NHS is in trouble.

John Harris is a Guardian columnist (Tom D.), Monday, 3 June 2019 18:37 (seven years ago)

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

calzino, Monday, 3 June 2019 19:06 (seven years ago)

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

gyac, Monday, 3 June 2019 19:10 (seven years ago)

one of the Goldsmith kids is called India ffs

imago, Monday, 3 June 2019 19:18 (seven years ago)

literally the worst forename of all time

imago, Monday, 3 June 2019 19:18 (seven years ago)

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..

calzino, Monday, 3 June 2019 19:24 (seven years ago)

TS: the goldsmith failsons Vs led by donky

||||||||, Monday, 3 June 2019 19:36 (seven years ago)

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.

gyac, Monday, 3 June 2019 19:36 (seven years ago)

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

calzino, Monday, 3 June 2019 19:42 (seven years ago)

remembered that one wrong it was The Telegraph.

calzino, Monday, 3 June 2019 19:46 (seven years ago)

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

gyac, Monday, 3 June 2019 19:49 (seven years ago)

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

gyac, Monday, 3 June 2019 19:52 (seven years ago)

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?)

anvil, Monday, 3 June 2019 20:27 (seven years ago)

fuck up man

findom haddie (jim in vancouver), Monday, 3 June 2019 20:29 (seven years ago)

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

||||||||, Monday, 3 June 2019 20:33 (seven years ago)

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.

suzy, Monday, 3 June 2019 20:36 (seven years ago)

golf nazis again probably

||||||||, Monday, 3 June 2019 20:37 (seven years ago)

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)

anvil, Monday, 3 June 2019 20:38 (seven years ago)

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

calzino, Monday, 3 June 2019 20:39 (seven years ago)

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

anvil, Monday, 3 June 2019 20:40 (seven years ago)

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

||||||||, Monday, 3 June 2019 20:41 (seven years ago)

peston: northerners are thicko racists

findom haddie (jim in vancouver), Monday, 3 June 2019 20:41 (seven years ago)

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)

anvil, Monday, 3 June 2019 20:45 (seven years ago)

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.

calzino, Monday, 3 June 2019 20:49 (seven years ago)

matt nails it again:

pic.twitter.com/ixz4znTUbM

— Matt Cartoons (@MattCartoonist) June 3, 2019

mark s, Monday, 3 June 2019 20:54 (seven years ago)

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

calzino, Monday, 3 June 2019 21:03 (seven years ago)

TS: the goldsmith failsons Vs led by donky

― ||||||||, Monday, 3 June 2019 19:36 (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

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

imago, Monday, 3 June 2019 21:04 (seven years ago)

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.

calzino, Monday, 3 June 2019 21:07 (seven years ago)

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

xyzzzz__, Monday, 3 June 2019 21:35 (seven years ago)

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.

Daniel_Rf, Monday, 3 June 2019 21:45 (seven years ago)

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

xyzzzz__, Monday, 3 June 2019 21:50 (seven years ago)

does anyone not already have this impression?

mark s, Monday, 3 June 2019 21:51 (seven years ago)

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

Uptown VONC (Le Bateau Ivre), Monday, 3 June 2019 21:57 (seven years ago)

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

xyzzzz__, Monday, 3 June 2019 21:57 (seven years ago)

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

mark s, Monday, 3 June 2019 22:00 (seven years ago)

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 ;)

xyzzzz__, Monday, 3 June 2019 22:05 (seven years ago)

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.

gyac, Monday, 3 June 2019 22:09 (seven years ago)

Alex Sobel djing

Great Djing @alexsobel #LabourRoots

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

— Marshajane (@Marshajane) June 2, 2019

gyac, Monday, 3 June 2019 22:24 (seven years ago)

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

gyac, Monday, 3 June 2019 22:26 (seven years ago)

(๏д๏)

Lil' Brexit (Tracer Hand), Monday, 3 June 2019 23:05 (seven years ago)

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

imago, Monday, 3 June 2019 23:14 (seven years ago)

not bad at all tbh

Uptown VONC (Le Bateau Ivre), Monday, 3 June 2019 23:14 (seven years ago)

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.

― gyac, Monday, 3 June 2019 22:09 (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

you say it like the lumpen masses simply cannot see any kind of reason at all. sure there's a minority of entrenched fuckwits but imo it's equally dangerous to assume that people can't be won around when presented with evidence of obvious hypocrisy. sure, they may base many of their decisions on emotion but very few adult humans are completely incapable of reason - they're usually just a bit reluctant to admit they're wrong, or admit that big daddy england isn't the biggest daddy in the playground. at least LBD are doing something. i can't see how it's counterproductive - at worst, it's ineffectual - they're surely not convincing more people to vote brexit party. and they took down the widdecombe one sharpish when someone pointed out that britain might still be full of homophobes (they ought to have known, mind)

imago, Monday, 3 June 2019 23:51 (seven years ago)

No...? I’m basing this on this being a failed tactic in the Remain campaign and the fact they put up the Widdecombe one in the first place without even thinking that?

If your argument is “at least they’re doing something”, then ok sure, but, hey, arguably I am doing something too by not paying to post the lies of people who don’t care about them being exposed, or not pasting up homophobic rhetoric in public to own the right ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

tl;dr shorter:

owning the terrible right wing politician by creating bespoke propaganda for a terrible right wing politician that was more polite to journalists

— Martin Waplington Alive in Serbia (@wariotifo) June 3, 2019

gyac, Tuesday, 4 June 2019 05:00 (seven years ago)

I also cannot even explain to you how much I cringed at this, especially on the cliffs of Dover ffs!

🇬🇧 ✊ 🇪🇺 pic.twitter.com/xz7bmPumE8

— Led By Donkeys (@ByDonkeys) April 5, 2019

gyac, Tuesday, 4 June 2019 05:13 (seven years ago)

At least it's ineffectual.

The other thing about this stunt is that it rests on people basically being politics nerdy enough to know about the grudge between McCain and Trump

xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 4 June 2019 05:27 (seven years ago)

Or who Andrea Leadsom is. A lot of these names are not going to be familiar to people who aren’t paying lots of attention.

gyac, Tuesday, 4 June 2019 05:52 (seven years ago)


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