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

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

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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...

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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.

literally first time I’m hearing of this and I am Very Online

3/5 It recently emerged that another MP shared an antisemitic caricature on Facebook some years ago & apologised. He is not from the Corbynite left. There were no calls for him to be suspended from the PLP. Was that because he’s from the Labour right? https://t.co/rIuisVGlHq

— Jon Lansman (@jonlansman) June 7, 2019

4/5 And what about this ad campaign run by Alastair in 2005? I’m sure he doesn’t harbour any hostility towards Jews, but compare him producing this entire campaign to Lisa liking a video without reading the text above it. Why the double standards? https://t.co/OU3gLLkuwd

— Jon Lansman (@jonlansman) June 7, 2019

LOL if Campbell is reinstated only to be expelled again for anti-Semitism.

Maybe go after the dicks that came up with the racist obelisk idk

Under-age people can’t vote. Whatever our criterion for thinking them unqualified (eg insufficiently developed reasoning powers or knowledge) there must be some adults less qualified than some under-age people. Is age the only practical threshold or could others be devised?

— Richard Dawkins (@RichardDawkins) June 8, 2019

dickie D has his calipers out

Honestly a tragedy that CHUK didn’t give him the chance to lose to someone who doesn’t believe evolution is real.

you love to see it

pic.twitter.com/ppQuUEVXAh

— give tom myers a netflix special (@FRANKGRIMES420) June 7, 2019

worth checking the whole thread out for more lolz.

MP Roger Godsiff tells Anderton Park School protestors"You're right. Nothing more, nothing less, you're right". Asks them to consider now ending the protests, but stresses it's up to them (via @CamBeavanKing ) https://t.co/VjLB8XrU3t

— Jonathan Walker (@jonwalker121) June 7, 2019

this old bigoted bastard needs to go.

remove the whip

Scottish Labour’s executive has backed a confirmatory vote on any Brexit deal with the option to remain - and pledged to campaign for remain if it happens

— Nick Eardley (@nickeardleybbc) June 8, 2019

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— TeamSaj (@TeamSaj) June 8, 2019

https://encrypted-tbn1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRR1WxEn0oChzwGClp4AoQUXhGJTXO0SIwRJYbkJXkUEcgs7D-OVEfYwxsB

fan dabi dozy sectarian bigotry!

wait what happened to #avid4javid? are there splitters in the camp?

if he was the PM there always be the fantastic possibility that he'd deport himself in a confused show of self-hating Uncle-Tommery.

Meanwhile, sources amid those who quit argue that Soubry and Leslie – whose spouses are respectively treasurer and chief executive of the party – sought to run Change UK “like a Soviet state”.

well fancy that!

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/jun/08/thornberry-may-face-reshuffle-after-labour-split-on-new-brexit-vote

looks like Thornberry is in the doghouse. I'd missed the significance of Rebecca L-B doing PMQs t'other day.

There is also growing support from some of Corbyn’s allies, including union leaders close to the leader’s office, for a new contest to be held that could see Tom Watson replaced as deputy leader, following his persistent backing for a public vote on the UK’s exit from the EU.

is that... stalinism

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Jeremy Hunt had a "cannabis based drink" while backpacking in India? What even is that? I'm calling b*llshit on this drug taking.

— Sarah Hayward (@Sarah_Hayward) June 8, 2019

is nowhere safe from tankie infiltration?

on marr, gove reheating the 'we don't want corbyn and nicola' in 10 downing street line. retro
https://i.imgur.com/ENJisMC.jpg

a coalition of erm.. disarray.

oh good

Foreign Secretary and Conservative leadership candidate @Jeremy_Hunt says he would like to see the legal time limit on abortions reduced from 24 weeks to 12. #Ridge

For more, head here: https://t.co/9ZpbUMWZ2Y pic.twitter.com/e4DkAXzcdf

— Ridge on Sunday (@RidgeOnSunday) June 9, 2019

Fancy a media class made up of gap yahs not knowing what a bhang lassi is?

Something something something dogs.

lol

Ach well we didnae win, but my god this is not a moment I'll forget in a hurry (watch 'til the end 😂)! So proud of you @ScotlandNT ♥ 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 #OurGirlsOurGame #SWNT #ENGSCO pic.twitter.com/jZIVK7wGit

— Brenna (@brennajessie_) June 9, 2019

"Is anyone filming this and can I get in the shot?"

A pro Brexit, Anti NATO, pro Putin, antisemitic Corbyn government elected by less than 30% of those who vote, would be an extremist threat to our prosperity, national security and international relations. https://t.co/KhoTJIcEzf

— Mike Gapes (@MikeGapes) June 10, 2019

Change UK MP questions the legitimacy of Labour Party support

this review of aaron bastani's fully automated luxury communism makes it sound even more absurd than expected

https://theecologist.org/2019/may/29/climate-communism-and-age-affluence

this is what happens when you ignore the 'gay' and 'space parts' of 'fully automated luxury gay space communism', smdh aaron

In the FALC manifesto, there is little need for a critical analysis of capitalist social relations—Marx’s project—because communism will arrive automatically, through the acceleration of the logic of capitalist production, backed by state power.

this seems... absurd in the extreme