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

memories

very much here for the "girls night out" vibe of the defectors pic.twitter.com/0uCln5I3gT

— Hannah Jane Parkinson (@ladyhaja) February 20, 2019

Happy memories..... can only gaze through the window tonight.... ⁦@TheIndGroup⁩ pic.twitter.com/tuDQqkeYgu

— Heidi Allen MP (@heidiallen75) February 26, 2019

Our Brexit spokesperson @Anna_Soubry and Alistair Carmichael, Lib Dem MP for Orkney and Shetland, call on the government for a joint Change UK & LibDem led Opposition Day debate, which we would use to debate a People's Vote. #ChangePolitics pic.twitter.com/eQSTcxntKY

— Change UK - The Independent Group (@ForChange_Now) April 25, 2019

First @TheIndGroup meal out before votes tonight at Nando’s! pic.twitter.com/Qxdrk75Mx6

— Chuka Umunna (@ChukaUmunna) February 25, 2019

it disturbs me how much Chris Leslie looks like he might be a Gary Shandling sibling from a distance, cos I liked gary a lot and he's a complete cunt.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_of_images_in_the_Soviet_Union#/media/File:Lenin%27s_speech.jpg

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/49/Lenin%27s_speech.jpg/800px-Lenin%27s_speech.jpg

mike gapes' skill with an airbrush is going to be sorely tested over the coming days

i keep wanting to write "the gapes rump party" but something stops me

and yet

i miss daily votes on brexit

are ye doing any work at all over there are ye

none whatever

lol gyac

Ed Miliband brought his own Connect 4 into the Commons the other week.

No wind-up Evel Knievel doll no credibility

more good rump talk, this time from history

"David Owen’s rump SDP lasted less than two years before it folded, having finished behind the Monster Raving Loony Party in the Bootle by-election of May 1990"

And five MPs are Continuity Change UK (CCUK):

- Anna Soubry (ex Tory), new leader
- Chris Leslie (ex Lab)
- Joan Ryan (ex Lab)
- Mikes Gapes (ex Lab)
- Ann Coffey (ex Lab)

— Sebastian Payne (@SebastianEPayne) June 4, 2019

Continuity Change... I just can't

GAME OF RUMPS

there is a decentish book called Savage Continent which gives accounts of the lawlessness and genocide occurring in "peace-time" mainland Europe including deadly pograms in Poland, mass genocide of the Ustache in Serbia, British backed genocide in Greece, the partisans all getting liquidated by Uncle Joe. It's no Band of Brothers!

lol meant that for WW2 thread!

Here is Sajid Javid's newly-launched leadership website: https://t.co/90kXoyarwy

And here is its privacy policy, which appears to have been copied straight from Raab's: All processing is carried out either by consent or either under the legitimate interest of Dominic Raab MP" pic.twitter.com/5CjVyOWZYL

— Henry Zeffman (@hzeffman) June 4, 2019

Suck it, Peston

Despite claims in the Westminster bubble that Corbyn boycotting the banquet with Trump would alienate working class people, our data shows only 25% of working class Brits like Trump, only marginally different from the 20% of middle class who say the same https://t.co/ZVBvBw8dRr pic.twitter.com/tO5lIfH8xD

— YouGov (@YouGov) June 4, 2019

"not heard of"

^^^how do i get to be one of these guys

In love with losing, this guy:

It would have ended the same way without the added joy of watching .@Anna_Soubry exposed as the charlatan she is. Good riddance to the lot of them self interested policy free careerists.

— Jack's boots. 😎 (@LostChordof1963) June 4, 2019

I meant Luke that this random is responding to.

don't forget to put that full stop in front of the twitter handle!

(the other 67 characters may not do the trick)

Lol Luke Akehurst though

That's the point I was making about data collection. TIG collected emails of enough people to win a Labour leadership election if even a fraction had signed up as registered supporters.

— Luke Akehurst (@lukeakehurst) June 4, 2019

so this mamaluke actually likes entryists, as long as they are made out of the same political tatty water as him!

loooooooool

We only have till June the 7th to get @ChukaUmunna a nomination for Lib Dem Leader! We all know he would be perfect so lets make sure the party know too #Chuka4Leader #PEFB pic.twitter.com/UNWL9H6r98

— 🔶 Chuka4Leader 🔶 #FBPE (@Team_Chuka) June 4, 2019

I vote Tory for the first time. They fall apart. I vote Change UK for the first time. They fall apart. Maybe I should vote for Corbyn after all.

— (((Dan Hodges))) (@DPJHodges) June 4, 2019

poor old desperate dan, must have been adopted as well.

nothing has changed

Johnson
- Ruled out calling GE (might not be in his gift)
- Ruled out coalition w Farage
- Said one plan that did have support of HoC was Brady amendment & it basis of a future arrangement but must be ready for no deal
- 2nd ref divisive. “Against with every fibre of my body”

— Beth Rigby (@BethRigby) June 4, 2019

Have we talked about Farage getting banned from the European Parliament if he can't account for his latest tranche of Banks money? I know he would only feed off the sense of grievance, but it would be pretty funny.

Also I'm not sure the Tories have quite prepared for or even thought about the crisis of legitimacy that will rapidly engulf the new leader. It's one thing to have the new PM picked by rank and file party members for the first time ever, another for that to be within a minority party, and even worse when you consider they're going to have to enact the biggest, most complex and divisive piece of legislation in most people's lifetime. Even with the full-throated support of the right-wing press, it's going to be difficult to justify avoiding an election for very long.

Yeah but how does that actually manifest? and justify to who?

It manifests as a lack of authority and an inability to get things done. Gordon Brown had that from the moment he bottled an election in 2007, but at least he had a majority to work with. It became obvious that May's authority had completely collapsed after the last GE. The new PM will have to contend with a divided and rebellious party, an even more divided and rebellious Parliament that they can't get their key legislation through, and a country that for different reasons is transparently sick of the Tories.

VONC. None of these leaders in waiting has even 1% of May’s stubbornness.

I was hoping we would be at this stage a few months after Election '17. Talk about slow torture.

naively I should have added.

DEM not gonna CON dis NATION: Rolling UK politics in the short-lived Cleggeron era

It'll all be over by Christmas

It’s hard to see what the new PM can do. They can’t Hard Brexit (very probably) because they don’t have the numbers. GE is suicidal. 2nd ref might buy time but in-fighting over question would wreck them *and* either result probably schisms their party.

Short of some stunning long-grass constitutional-convention- type manoeuvre (which the post-May polarisation makes harder than ever to sell) I’m not sure what they *could* do to prepare for this.

I suspect this is why the likes of Penny Mordaunt and Amber Rudd haven't joined this leadership contest - that and I can't see the Tories picking another female leader for the foreseeable.

Worth noting: Amber Rudd’s brother is one of the People’s Vote chairs.

OH MY GOD

Since the Change UK split Mike Gapes has cropped Chuka Umunna and Sarah Wollaston from his header picture and it's just the saddest thing ever!! 😭🤣😂😭 pic.twitter.com/MuMqYZ406W

— 🤝 Aman 🌹 (@Aman_Sez) June 4, 2019

chuk out

You can take the Gapes out of Stalin but

rip Chukhov

Chutsky

Let’s remember the member for Ilford South in happier times

Joseph Stalin died on this day in 1953. But unfortunately his malign influence lives on among a small group of acolytes and admirers, including some working for the Leader of the Labour Party.

— Mike Gapes (@MikeGapes) March 5, 2019

Remember. “Better Fewer. But Better”. Stalin. That is now the culture of Corbyn Labour. https://t.co/xrWXjnIB7j

— Mike Gapes (@MikeGapes) March 18, 2019

I'm not an expert on Stalin. You better ask Seumas about that https://t.co/MZB8TEzBqE

— Mike Gapes (@MikeGapes) September 1, 2016

The new kinder gentler politics. Not just a purge but also using the Orwellian Memory Hole. Stalin and Big Brother would be truly proud of these disciples of their Cult. https://t.co/6G09Q68xOW

— Mike Gapes (@MikeGapes) July 14, 2018

"not an expert on Stalin" but Gapes has clearly studied the master

Chuka would have been a good shout for an awful shower as well

He’s always calling people Stalinists or Trots or accusing them of being Russian trolls, this quote tweet made me laugh (for what’s quoted as much as his reply)

A fan writes. 👋🏽Now Trot off. https://t.co/549SPPIZLb

— Mike Gapes (@MikeGapes) June 25, 2018

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