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

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.

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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

I saw this, twitter QCs are the fucking worst!

xxp again, I was mostly kidding but aged 1-9 I lived in a boring market town of 6000 people approx 3 miles west of the southwest/southeast border and then moved to a boring market town of 6000 people 3 miles east of it, and you will be very surprised to hear that those two towns are not very different

(yes, that's not really how regions work, I know)

also Winchester hogs most of the credit for Wessex, and Dorset gets some via Thomas Hardy, but southwest Oxfordshire* is quite proud of its Wessex/King Alfred connections too

* which used to be Berkshire, which possibly confuses things even further

ɪmˈpəʊzɪŋ (darraghmac) wrote this on thread "oh you don't get me I'm the end of the union": lol brexit is how we're all gonna die on board I Love Everything on 11-Feb-2019

boris johnson is big joe joyce and brexit is his youtube channel ouvre

russia is james quinn mcdonagh

i think europe may be the extended joyce clan but it could also serve as the garda allocation for the kilbeggan area in the buildup to a fight

america is, in this metaphor, america

^^^^ still think this is the only relevant lens thru which we can view events

The funniest possible event now would be Chuka Umunna not only losing his seat in a byelection but also getting fewer votes than the CD:UK candidate.

— Joe Kennedy (@joekennedy81) June 13, 2019

Then Mike Gapes doing a 'u want picking in the morning' tweet at him.

— Joe Kennedy (@joekennedy81) June 13, 2019

Considering the Labour candidate got 62% more of the vote than the Liberal candidate in the last election, I think it's unlikely.

Look, by-elections are the old politics.

The Streatham MP told the Times he had been "wrong" to think "millions of politically homeless people... wanted a new option on the ballot paper".

Hilarious.

I used to care about the homeless but now... fuck 'em.

All Chuka’s old tweets are resurfacing, you love to see it

Farron wants his pty to be the Opposition but they voted to treble tuition fees,for the Bedroom tax,Tory NHS plans & extreme austerity #Marr

— Chuka Umunna (@ChukaUmunna) April 30, 2017

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chuka and cable offer more definitive evidence that grass doesn't grow on busy roads (nor on fucking concrete either!)

uh idk if you're being funny calz but thats obama and john mccain

it’s Sajid Javid and IDS actually

No no no no no. Please come back Chuka. We've changed. Literally. We're called something else now. Don't ask what because I've already forgotten. Just please come back. Don't leave me here with Mike Gapes. Please.

— Simon Hedges (@Orwell_Fan) June 13, 2019

Chuka's erstwhile Labour colleagues are currently deep in mourning pic.twitter.com/voVKD6vkO8

— Reel Politik podcast (@reel_politcast) June 13, 2019

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Lol McCain looks more healthy and at ease with himself than Mr evil as fuck Shell villain these days - something weighing heavy on his [arse]soul perhaps?

Re: Saj not getting invited to that state banquet

There is something very sad & moving about this exchange 😢
She knows why, he knows why & we know why.
Worrying if foreign countries start telling us who is and isn’t acceptable based on origins and background - @10DowningStreet must clarify why @sajidjavid wasn’t invited https://t.co/kh0oA7UcZE

— Sayeeda Warsi (@SayeedaWarsi) June 13, 2019

sad & moving

cry for The Saj.

Idly wondering if the Saj is likely to go rogue once his status as useful idiot is confirmed and he realises it himself.

He doesn't seem the type somehow but if Johnson wins his political career is probably over unless Javid wants to keep up the illusion and shred his dignity with a minor Cabinet post.

What do we think of Oliver Letwin's declaration that we've passed the last opportunity for Parliament to prevent No Deal?