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

I'd argue it's politically impossible to deliver that right now though, but then all courses of action feel politically impossible right now.

I'd missed the controversy around the Labour candidate and how stupid can these people be to just keep clicking Like on things without reading properly? She's either an antisemite or an idiot and neither is particularly edifying.

Couple things..

Union activist Lisa Forbes retained the constituency for Labour, taking 31% of the vote and beating the Brexit Party's Mike Greene (29%) by 683 votes.

◾Turnout was 48.4%, down from 67.5% in the 2017 general election, when Labour beat the Tories by 607 votes

So, turnout was lower, and the Labour candidate won with a slightly increased majority?

Also, how many voters thought they were voting for Mike Brexite of the Green party?

I don't want to do a Deems here but funny how sub-50% turnout is less of an issue when it delivers the result you want.

She's either an antisemite or an idiot and neither is particularly edifying.

Also xps to Suzy but that is a good thread about Streeting

This is good:

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/jun/07/seven-reasons-labour-won-the-peterborough-byelection?CMP=share_btn_tw

Funny how brexit party spokesperson sounds ever so slightly bitter that the tory campaign was strong and their votes held up well.

The latter I would say, unedifying social media likes are I think one of those things where it’s easy to share and like something clearly dodge without thinking too much about it.

Yeah, I mean, I've been guilty of smashing that like button on a giant text post because the first few paragraphs seem right-on or whatever. Not doing that is certainly something that should go into pol-on-social-media 101 by now tho.

That ap photo with a blurry Forbes in the foreground as the photographer focuses on the thumbs down reaction of the fash cunt who lost could be one for the most 2019 image thread

Tories benefited from not having a leader - they were able to present a variety of positions to different groups.

https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/660/cpsprodpb/123AC/production/_107286647_9c1384df-66d2-4cd9-9428-db20e7d0b67b.jpg

Absolutely spot on and bl**dy brilliant!! Cold War Steve wins the internet for today!

"I've not worked to such a specific brief before," explains Spencer, "my work is usually pretty free-flowing - but for this one I had to bear in mind the primary audience is not British and they're not going to know who Sam Allardyce is or some minor actors on Coronation Street.

"I think in one of the early drafts I put a sleeping Alan Brazil on the back of the bus and they circled it and said 'who is this?'.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-48547558

not a fan of time magazine but that is class 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

Is that Geldof with the mic?

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DvhIsP6VAAAqxP6.jpg

(apols, that's an old'un)

Is that Geldof with the mic?

Roger Daltrey

Need thread nailing the aesthetic of these fucking (mostly) new wasteman or spectator photoshop jobs/illustrations with british politicians of all sides in some kind comedy 'shit creek' scenario

I thought there was one but couldn't find it

Pure “can I get a loan of a tab?” energy from JC there

New European (agitprop pro-europe weekly paper whose 1st issue came out on, er, two weeks after the eu referendum) also a prolific source of these

they're all poor imitations of santorum.jpg

Santorum.jpg is the alpha and omega of the genre imo

xp damn

Haha there IS a thread for this, and it was started by me!

BRITISH SANTORUM.JPG

short-lived mind you

lol

kind of sad to find out the Time cover is a genuine Coldwarsteve and not just someone biting his style, I like(ed) his twitter account, it's been declining for a while but this is a new low -he must realize that omitting the minor coronation st actors etc negates what made his pictures good in t he first place - some of the earlier ones were kind of eerie in a Guy Peellaert Rock Dreams kind of way, it's degenerated into something akin to this guy whose work was always in the economist:

https://www.economist.com/sites/default/files/imagecache/full-width/images/print-edition/20170114_BRD000_0.jpg

https://www.economist.com/sites/default/files/images/print-edition/20131207_BRD000_1.jpg

can't really blame coldwar steve though, god knows that if I had a novelty twitter account that became unexpectedly popular I was sell out as quickly as possible.

was there a specific ilx thread about that particular aesthtic of stuff like coldwar steve, sleaford mods, the guys who do the drunken bakers strip in Viz?

(not the real england thread)

yes there was, can't remember the title for the life of me though.

I wouldn't include Viz in the genre of Bloody Omnishambles satirical wank (but I wld include HIGNFY, cassetteboy & banksy), which I think mostly has a theme of southerners* waxing on about britishness as if speaking for & abt the whole country with the characteristic special mix of self-awareness and obliviousness. sleaford mods are a cross between this and something actually good/the fall

*& sometimes posh scots who are ofc basically the same the next worst thing

The meme which will have been kept alive was that thread, not in its inception but that’s what it became

If I become Prime Minister I will introduce National Citizen Service - universal - for every young person. Purpose. Character. Coming together across the United Kingdom. pic.twitter.com/rSxxSxnCgr

— Rory Stewart (@RoryStewartUK) June 7, 2019

this incredibly characteristic idea reminds me again of the the uncharitable but totally accurate description in that new yorker piece of stewartism as "the vigorous and manly pursuit of the not too much". abolishing private school is a bit of an ask but how about a month practicing rubbing shoulders with the hoi polloi to help ppl feel a little less self-consciously posh?

Extraordinary. New YouGov poll puts ⁦@RoryStewartUK⁩ ahead of ⁦@BorisJohnson⁩ as public’s choice for PM out of all the Tory leadership contenders. pic.twitter.com/voGrgRbiNb

— Catherine Philp (@scribblercat) June 7, 2019

Chuka will be fuming that when he proposed bringing back national service everyone took the piss out of him + it didn't have fuck all effect on CuK's polling.

the big society’s back babey and it’s shitter than ever

xps

I raised it in the Real England thread but it didn't go anywhere that I noticed

There's a Real England adjacent thing (that is def not real England itself)… the middle-aged sad/angry left/liberal white male aesthetic of now - Cold War Steve/Sleaford Mods/Drunken Bakers maybe three coordinates (must be more?). I'm pretty sympathetic to all of it but fuck the fandoms are annoying.

― woof, Tuesday, 18 September 2018 21:32 (eight months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i could get with bringing back national service, as long as it only applies to all the posh bastards who have conspired to make this country more unequal and a more hateful place through their own fucking inherent evil and greedy self interest.

Missed this atrocious take earlier

If Farage had ever been elected to parliament he would have been neutered because he would have had to do some actual work, or he would have never been working in the constituency or parliament and been shown up as a shit MP.

— Jess Phillips (@jessphillips) June 6, 2019

Down with national service as long as we call it the Red Army and its all about purges

boris was literally foreign sec and is favourite to become next PM but OK jess...

xp

comrade alphabet to thread!

Sorry for the eons old links but I’ve been in a thing all day

One reason Labour are quiet on anti-Semitism is because it plays strongly in the Asian Muslim vote, just like they wouldn't be critical of the grooming perpetrators. It's all about votes. These are facts.

— Simon Danczuk (@SimonDanczuk) June 7, 2019

Sexting a 17-year-old = grooming.

Oh, I’m sure he’d argue it’s alright as she was over the age of consent and he’s white.

i could get with bringing back national service, as long as it only applies to all the posh bastards who have conspired to make this country more unequal and a more hateful place through their own fucking inherent evil and greedy self interest.

― calzino, Friday, 7 June 2019 16:59 (twenty-five minutes ago)

Don't think Danczuk would deign to self-reflect

they're not going to know who Sam Allardyce is or some minor actors on Coronation Street

gutted how quickly cold war steve sold out his art and his principles tbh

When i say national service it was a euphemism for gulags tbh.