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

not sure you could attribute the TV appearance to a downturn in Nick Griffin's fortunes but rather being outflanked by a new wave of fascists with better PR

I'd fully respect LBD if they put up a "I've seen molluscs with more sentience and intelligence than you thick as fuck sub-human plebeians - stop voting and kill yourselves" poster at a prominent spot in Hartlepool.

https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/5d21220b158e7682b73d8d80a9cd518e8f7c9979/0_0_5760_3840/master/5760.jpg?width=860&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=8a026a91a7e0552efdab59bdfafc6260

'he didn't tweet it, he actually said it!' which is er why we presented it as a tweet for some reason i dunno willthisdo

https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/5d21220b158e7682b73d8d80a9cd518e8f7c9979/0_0_5760_3840/master/5760.jpg?width=860&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=8a026a91a7e0552efdab59bdfafc6260

the thing that's really fucking awful about the uss john s mccain stuff is that mccain was an genuine monster who did more actual damage to america (including incinerating a bunch of his crewmates on an aircraft carrier in vietnam!) than trump has managed so far, so using him as a way to troll trump is... problematic imo

That's a bit far - as far as I'm aware John McCain has nominated 0 judges to the Supreme Court, for a start.

jfc that was embarrassing and it sort of highlights for me how lots of shitty professional politicians who are terrible right wing creatures themselves, can become heroes for a day by saying rude things to the wiggy KKK man.

arguably trump wouldn't be in office if it wasn't for mccain legitimising the idiot wing of the gop by running sarah palin for vp

They set up a crowdfunding appeal with a target of £10,000. It was reached within three hours. “We increased it to £50,000, and we’d hit that by the next morning,” said Stewart. By the middle of last week, they had raised £438,704...

A 40x20 metre banner, weighing 160kg, was made in just five days at a cost of £12,000. Hiring a helicopter for an hour to photograph it cost another £5,000...

brexit is the ultimate grift

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Buy yourselves a one way ticket to Barbados and forget this rainy fascist island you are rich now.

I don't care how many £millions this will cost, it needs to be done.

Nothing will make Trump cringe more than seeing George W Bush projected on to the surface of the Moon. pic.twitter.com/1Oy3EYXHLk

— Simon Hedges (@Orwell_Fan) June 4, 2019

Hedges nails it again, satirical cartoonist Matt are you listening

Strange that Nick Griffin was part of the 1%.

Santa: What would you like for Christmas, lad?
Boris: A Great Deal...
Santa: Forget it (opens lap, Boris drops to floor)

Going to be haunted by the image of Santa “opening his lap” now

lol! I was having problems thinking Santa might be a catholic priest.

c'mon kids, let's take a trip to lapland

Hard to imagine (and indeed prove) Griffin on QT made a real difference to the BNP vote share in either direction (complaints of bias against him vs the sheer incompetence of his performance) unlike Farage subsequently (who today did the inevitable whataboutery re Widdecombe and Muslims who are homophobic).

to go back to a 2-hour-old conversation, I am all for reminding people that various Brexity types a) would quite like to see the NHS sold off and b) said lots of things pre-ref which contradict the current "we survived WWII" No Deal = One True Brexit orthodoxy

it's just that Led By Donkeys don't seem (to me) to be very good at it

they pick equivocal/ambiguous quotes and lay them out in that ugly and confusing fake-tweet fashion with not much attribution, and their zingers with "what changed" in tiny text underneath just have an old quote about sunlit uplands and best ever deals without spelling out the contradictions so I dunno if it achieves any more than passers-by going "yeah sunlit uplands, renegotiate best ever deal while still planning for No Deal, I'm up for that" - or just ignoring it because boring white-background politics text, zzz

xp That said I did meet an elderly inlaw (at the time) who admitted to 'protest-voting' for them before 2015. He was curiously keen to let me in on this.

People who think or argue that Nick Griffin going on Question Time killed the BNP 🚮

Nick Griffin went on Question Time in Autumn 2009

Here are the votes the BNP got in the two general elections either side of that

2005 GE: 192,745 votes
2010 GE: 564,331 votes

Hope this helps

— Matt Zarb-Cousin (@mattzarb) August 2, 2018

Also, the tweet format is doubly strange considering most people in the UK aren’t on twitter (and idk why “they actually said it” is such a point they felt worth making? White guys from N16, I guess ¯\_(ツ)_/¯) and the John McCain thing was respectability politics at its finest.

Dunno if it's respectability politics so much, I don't get the "now there was a man you could respect!" thing you get from US libs so much in this, it's more that they neither know nor care who John McCain was, it's just a puerile "tiny hands!" thing to them.

it's like an idea that got rejected as even too lame for the infinitely lame John Oliver show.

This was definitely a thing that happened when he died though!

https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/trump-uk-state-visit-protest-blimp-robot-toilet-queen-theresa-may-a8943141.html

This is quite good as a rationale for the march

robot toilet queen

im a monarchist now

5 resignations from change uk expected later

that's not resignations that's a whole breakaway party

nothing like schismatics for schisms

truly the mold has been broken

Banter heuristic demands Chuka throws his hat in the ring for the Tory leadership

Reckon it's the Change Tories who are walking tbh.

It’s like UKIP, there’s no need for them to exist now that they have achieved their aim (fixing politics which was broken)

pm gapes pls

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VnTpl93q3Bc

never change, change uk

Andrew Rawnsley, after multiple Observer columns urging them to be brave break away and a couple of puff pieces after they did, has gone surprisingly quiet on CHUK lately.

Also lol at the idea of representing three political parties within the space of a year. Has any MP ever done that before?

Quick fact check on Oswald Mosley

This is rather hilarious. How many weeks have they (barely) held on? Eight? Change we can believe in.

look, the only constant is change

that's why here at change uk, we believe in never having the same membership from week to week

it's the new politics, and if you don't like it, just give us a week

Watching the Trump-May conference at work and May’s death glare when they were asked about Corbyn and Khan was hilarious. Trump said he “doesn’t know” Corbyn but turned down Corbyn’s request to meet him, which will do Corbs no harm.

Lol May had to remind Trump of the question about the NHS being on the table in a future trade deal. This is the worst thing I ever watched.

The Mirror understands six MPs will return to being Independents but five plan to stay as part of Change UK.

Trump just said of the leadership candidates that he knows and likes “Boris” and “Jeremy” but he doesn’t know “Michael”. Lol ffs

Michael Gove is having a meeting with Donald Trump because Gove is Murdoch's puppet. So not only are we being sold off to Donald Trump but to the likes of Rupert Murdoch too. Taking back control Brexiteers? Oh no no no. https://t.co/HLtwEIRlMa

— Lightacandle (@lightacandleOTM) June 4, 2019

Corbyn has been critical of him, he says. He says he does not like people who are critical.

Trump just said of the leadership candidates that he knows and likes “Boris” and “Jeremy” but he doesn’t know “Michael”. Lol ffs

Ooft.

Also it takes a lot for me to feel sorry for Sajid Javid but apparently he wasn’t invited to the dinner last night.

Black tie/ white guy event.