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

battery acid, shoes, milkshakes .. all perfectly good projectiles of protest!

xp gonna need to know who “daddy” is - Corbyn or Parliament itself?

Bercow, surely.

what time is the vote today?

If it's not happened in 15 minutes, Sajid will have to push his launch back another hour (it was originally supposed to be 2:30)

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Anna Soubry raises a point of order. She says this debate was only meant to be lasting an hour, but there are only 20 minutes left. Will other MPs get to speak?

John Bercow, the Speaker, says although the debate was listed for an hour, it could run until 8.33pm. He does not expect to run for that long, he says. But he expects several other MPs to speak, he says.

lol fuck Sajid

Anna Soubry in classic "have arranged to meet a friend after work for a pint" mode

she always seems so completely charmless, maybe she's a bit more easygoing + a bit of a laugh after a few pints?

after some cheeky pints of course a Nandos often follows, like winter following the fall.

She seems as if in terms of time or location, she’s never that far from a G&T.

Lab's bill has lost. Sajid please carry on now.

Sajid Javid is speaking now.

He says he is used to being told he was different. As a young child he remembers being advised by friends they had to walk home a different route because they were being threatened.

His friends went abroad on holidays. He went to Rochdale, but his friends did not realise, because it looked like he had a tan.

Scooters are second only to runners in the category of worst urban pedestrians.

― stress tweeting (gyac), Wednesday, June 12, 2019 8:56 AM (three hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

you think scooters are bad, wait until you hear about cars!!

Cars aren’t usually on the pavement!

Aaah it’s been a fucking hour, WHERE IS THIS DIVISION

f i n a l l y
https://commonsvotes.digiminster.com/Divisions/Details/689?byMember=false#notrecorded

It was the abstentions that killed this. 10 Tories voted for the motion. Note Angela Smith abstaining there.

What do these fuckos think is going to happen when they end up with No Deal? Do they think everyone is going to somehow thank the Conservative Party and gift them a majority if they can somehow haul their malnourished arses to the polling station?

The ensuing pandemonium would be but a necessary prelude to the new [insert political persuasion] dawn.

Here is one of the Lab abstentions:

Gareth Snell: "We [Labour] will have been responsible for a no deal Brexit by default because of our inability to make a decision."

— Sienna Rodgers (@siennamarla) June 12, 2019

Cars aren’t usually on the pavement!

in my experience cars are on the pavement v often

FYI - Clive Efford, Julie Elliott, Paul Farrelly, Ian C Lucas and Jo Stevens are on a DCMS committee trip.

— Sienna Rodgers (@siennamarla) June 12, 2019

imagine having having fucking Tristam Hunt as your local mp for years and then getting fucking Tony Pulis Gareth Snell. This is why people develop an apathy for pols and voting.

give it boris to end of season. let’s watch him get ground up into mince like theresa

liz truss chancellor. fuck me

Whoever much her parents spent on her education, they've got a watertight case fot a refund.

.@jeremycorbyn and @oletwinofficial lose by 298 to 309. That is amazing news for @BorisJohnson and #Peston show guest tonight @andrealeadsom because a no-deal Brexit still very much on cards. Senior Tory Letwin told MPs this was last chance to block no deal

— Robert Peston (@Peston) June 12, 2019

xp she is so much worse than that

Wow!! Liz Truss says anyone criticising Boris Johnson’s blunders over Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe’s imprisonment in Iran is....”an apologist for the regime”

— Rob Merrick (@Rob_Merrick) June 12, 2019

She couldn't even remember her fucking name as well.

I think this was literally seconds after it had been spoken as well.

Corbyn otm: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-48613921

The result of the vote was greeted with cheers from the Tory benches.

But Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn responded by shouting "you won't be cheering in September".

otfm

Everyone making fantasy cross-party cabinets and stuff needs to wake the fuck up. Tories are Tories. These people have repeatedly demonstrated where there loyalties and priorities ultimately lie. How many times are you going to be fooled

— Abi Wilkinson (@AbiWilks) June 12, 2019

people who make fantasy cross-party cabinets are basically Tories too tbf

it's hard enough trying to find a labour cabinet worth shit!

Ok, one more before I pass out in a rage coma on the worst train in the world

Sorry but I’m not buying the argument that tells the man who’s closest to becoming the UK’s first ethnic minority PM that his speech isn’t legitimate because he’s a TORY in a “racist government” - why not see what he does when he’s PM? Would you prefer another white Tory instead?

— Jane Merrick (@janemerrick23) June 12, 2019

here this is better - jemery crobon should steal “I welcome their hatred”

Sanders concludes: "Never before in all our history have these forces been so united against one candidate as they stand today. They are unanimous in their hate for me—and I welcome their hatred.”

— Luke Savage (@LukewSavage) June 12, 2019

I feel like juromy crypto is too gentlemanly for that but def the equivalent is him and MR Seumas Milne busting their holes laughing at the Sun’s polling day cover.

Rees-Mogg dodging the question on whether Boris Johnson has a moral compass.

Apparently JRM doesn't judge others, especially not on their private lives. That would not be the Christian thing to do.

Sorry but I'm absolutely totaled by Change UK finally getting one over someone - in fact bodying them into the dust - and that person is.................... Chuka Umunna pic.twitter.com/Bit8D43vZm

— Dan Howdon (@danielhowdon) June 12, 2019

if i was one of the anonymous oligarchs bankrolling this cunt i'd be asking for my money back

Jokes aside, I can’t see the LDs taking Gapes, Leslie and Ryan over Allen, Berger and Wollaston. Soubry definitely, cos she was a LD originally.

https://img.discogs.com/89qNBu4PF5WytousCKeMamvSXS8=/fit-in/600x602/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-1755487-1495273604-5539.jpeg.jpg

hello everyone in today's update on regional inequality we will be looking at the UK 2070 Commission, a p establishment group of academics chaired by lord bob kerslake who have recently released a report on rebalancing the economy - http://uk2070.org.uk/2019/05/30/first-report-of-the-uk2070-commission-to-be-published-on-thursday-30th-may-2019/ - and are currently having a symposium in leeds at which a feeling of conviviality and national purpose has allegedly been created by focusing on the unifying topic of 'london is bad'.

although light on asteroid mining plans the report has some interesting stuff on the historic failings of regional development, the perils of bidding processes, some examples of how unequal investment can snowball, the importance of 'spatial strategy' and the odd lack of a national plan for investment or any auditing proces. there are proposals for a national infrastructure bank, possible 'provincial' administration (i.e. breaking england into south east/south west/midlands/north) and some interesting comparisons with other countries esp german planning after reunification.

with all these ideas floating abt it also makes you think something might happen soon

no hipster left rinse about mining asteroids, no cred:p

interesting comparisons with other countries esp german planning

haven't read v far yet but the report looks interesting, thank you

def need more regional development and decentralisation but afraid that the press will run with "we shouldn't do it because Germany do it and 2WW&1WC yah boo" or "this is 'federalism' which you already know is bad because the word is associated with the EU so you must therefore hate it"

also please listen to my sixteen-hour lecture about how Oxfordshire is not actually in the southeast even though everyone except me thinks it is

It's certainly not very east.

does the 16hr lecture consider the notion that oxford is a south-eastern enclave within oxfordshire?

bit of a tricky one, it borders Warwickshire (West Midlands), Berkshire and Buckinghamshire (South East), Gloucestershire (and depending on which map you look at, Wiltshire) (South West) and Northamptonshire (East Midlands)

which one would you put it in?

xp I can't work out if that's true or if it's the other way round, so there may be a few flaws in my analysis here

anyway the southeast can have Henley, I don't want that bit in my personal neo-Wessex

(returns to drawing board to consider how many dimensions to extrude the map into)

QC twitter showing its arse again

This is also my concern. https://t.co/2hvcZBTni2

— Adam Wagner (@AdamWagner1) June 13, 2019