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

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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?

Nick Boles, another relatively sane Tory, seems to think the same as Letwin. It's a worry, particularly if/when Johnson gets the nod.

What does going rogue look like? I can't see it

I guess doing a Warsi, i.e. complaining from the sidelines that you were sold a lie and that the party you joined isn't willing to address its racism, while being ignored by a party and media establishment that doesn't give a single fuck

Glad to hear that Jess Phillips apparently passively emits an intense anti-racist forcefield that causes Boris Johnson to cower in fear whenever he sees her. Could be a very useful weapon in the coming months, although sadly it appears to have no effect whatsoever on Jacob Rees-Mogg

there is something profoundly dehumanising abt the increasingly pervasive bureaucratization of society where what matters is no longer what is true but what you can prove. trickling down pressure by removing leeway, judgement and discretion from ppl on the frontline and insisting on paper trails on the basis of accountability and good auditing practice. it's behind low stakes stuff like refusing to serve ppl who are patently in their 20s bc you can't be entirely sure they're not 24 and in deporting ppl you know have lived in britain legally for decades bc they don't have the right document. when ppl's judgement gets undermined like this they end up just casting the net as wide as possible and letting the courts/someone higher up sort it out, as we can see today with the news that over half of home office immigration decisions are overturned on appeal

xxxp I thought Boles resigned the whip?

ah yes you're correct! think he has been threatened with deselection too

How does the vote of no confidence that was previously passed in Kate Hoey by her CLP work? Is she any closer to being deselected in the event of an election than she was before it or was it just a non-binding grunt of disapproval?

non-binding grunt i'm afraid

to remove her as MP, she has to be voted out by the electorate at large, art the next election unless she goes to jail for something lol and there's a by-election

the party can suspend the whip but i think hoey's always been good at staying this side of the rules on that. if/when an election comes, the local party* gets to decide who its standing candidates will be, which is when deselection can come into play (the VONC is a symbolic waystation towards that decision)

*the national party has say also, which is how all the blairites got unhelpfully parachuted into northern seats

He turned up late to the meeting and walked right past the registration desk.
When asked to sign in he instead announced to the room "I'm John McTernan and I'm here to fight trots" 😂 https://t.co/vdrGQU6YTn

— James McAsh (@mcash) June 13, 2019

xp It can serve as forewarning though - Frank Field got one before going independent, and if I remember correctly Suzy was saying that Chukka heard one coming before ChUK happened.

the ‘fat left’, it me

can’t believe JT is gazzara shaming

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2019/jun/14/the-italian-job-review-michael-caine-noel-coward

And there’s that ending, which outraged me as a 12-year-old. When the credits rolled over the image of the coach half off the cliff edge, I thought it had to be a Pythonesque joke and the real ending would emerge after these fake credits had been wound back. I still think it’s a cheat and a failure of imagination and craftsmanship, though one we’ve all got used to. But the cheek of it undoubtedly helped to nail this movie into the public mind. As that gold bullion tantalisingly slides to the back of the teetering coach, it’s impossible not to think about our £350m, just out of reach."

lol yes!!

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/jun/14/jeremy-corbyn-on-joyces-ulysses-dont-beat-yourself-up-if-you-dont-understand-it

Now I've read it through this is good not bad.

Loses points for shoehorning Brexit into his own interview.

“A very great Irish friend of mine told me 15 years or so before the journey that I had to read Ulysses. It was the perfect company on the train journey, which was endless.”

And failing to mention the bits of anti-semitism in Ulysses, OBVIOUSLY.

(xp) Bobby Sands

Joyce isn't cheering on the antisemitism in Ulysses

sorry, that's obvious, just done a nightshift

Obviously Corbz is though.

xxxp

“My dear friend Bobby was starving to death in H Block when he lent me a tattered copy of Ulysses and croaked, Jeremyyyyyy...the answers you need are inside here. The copy was unfortunately marked with a sort of code, so I went out and bought my own from a charity shop on Blackstock Road and have loved it ever since.”

assuming the other chukkers are spacing out their joining LD announcements to maximise air time

There is quite an important theme in Ulysses which is not mentioned in this interview. https://t.co/WzXK3oBmk4

— Declan Gaffney (@djmgaffneyw4) June 14, 2019

there’s only one good d. gaffney and it’s not declan

jesus wept!

AntandDecitism

Dean joins forces with TV's Ant and Dec in a light-hearted gameshow that seeks to answer the question: who is Britain's most antisemitic celebrity?

Should the United Kingdom remain a member of the European Union or leave the European Union?

Corbyn: 'Yes'.

(Couldn't help it, sorry. It's a good interview.)

Back then he didn’t tackle it from start to finish, and that is not the way he has read it since, instead regularly just dipping into passages.

As for its being banned for sexual content, he points out: “I’m sure the upper classes wrote in private to each other about these matters. You almost feel sorry for the censors who had to read and try and understand it, until they found something they deemed offensive.”

He remembers meeting older Irish men who had come over to London as builders. They talked in minute detail about the villages they were from and where they intended to return. “And they never went back. They kept saying, ‘When I go home’,” he recalls, “both of us knowing full well they’re never going to go home.”

He draws a line from the Irish uprisings in the 17th century to the defeat of Gladstone’s second home rule bill in 1893, which set the scene for the uneasy stasis Joyce threaded into Ulysses.

some bloodless Cato institute cunt is complaining about being confronted with the effect of policies he favours

One time they asked me to go on to debate austerity on the day of a march for spending cuts. Said it would be the general case for it. Arrived and they had set me up to debate Francesca Martinez on the specific topic of disability benefits. She has cerebral palsy.

— Ryan Bourne (@MrRBourne) June 14, 2019

AntandDecitism

Lol!

It is a good interview, which will undoubtedly be used to slander him.

She was great on QT last night, and nobody dared interrupt her.

brexiter david elstein writes an open letter to boris johnson (or whomever), explaining how he had rejig the backstop to everyone's satisfcation by requiring all large-scale north-south import-export from ireland to ireland to go via a (not yet built) "sea bridge" (which is apparently code for a ferry service lol).

:D :D :D

In conclusion:
"Winston Churchill loved gadgets and ingenuity as part of his wartime armoury. As an admirer and biographer of Churchill, you, Boris, should display wit and generosity in trying to persuade Ireland’s ministers of the UK’s determination to uphold the spirit of the GFA, whilst avoiding the mistake of fetishising it."

make this a SPACE BRIDGE and you're talking, my man, displaying wit and generosity by including all ireland in the new empire solar system colonising mission (i mean as a partner not a colony)

holograph churchy was indeed a science geek and a fan of EXPERTS, which his national wartime government was absolutely fucking rammed with!

The DUP are always on about building an actual bridge from NI to Scotland, I assume so their supporters can more easily get to Ibrox Park on matchdays and to Orange Walks in Ayrshire and Lanarkshire in July.

it'd probably be cheaper to build one to Holland.

https://scontent-lga3-1.cdninstagram.com/vp/d10f1b7f77e4beef6a3cbe1731a0beef/5D62B3B8/t51.2885-15/sh0.08/e35/c22.0.1035.1035a/s640x640/29090440_202860740477195_6658501903661400064_n.jpg?_nc_ht=scontent-lga3-1.cdninstagram.com

There should be one between Wales and Ireland as well, the Irish Sea is capacious enough as is.

I know saying working across some 1000ft sea trench with tons of unexploded ordinance that would need dredging/making safe from deep down is a very laborious and expensive task - would be just defeatist piffle to boris.

besides these other bridges lack vision and also british grit and swagger, they merely join two *different* landmasses -- elstein is arguing for a bridge out from and back to the *same* landmass!

It is only meet that the big island should gobble up the little one, which was needlessly torn from its progenitor post-Pangea.

why does the larger island not simply consume the smaller one?

but then the bigger continent could do the same!