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

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!

Shhhh…

So good:

At the launch, Umunna is being introduced by LD London mayoral candidate Siobhan Benita, who starts by joking that he can perhaps design a new logo for her campaign. Cue a slightly strained smile from Umunna.

— Peter Walker (@peterwalker99) June 14, 2019

he's not smiling anymore!

xp he needs to put a braver face on it, he could be listening to Leslie and Gapes’s shite bants rn

not-matt nails it

Via private eye. pic.twitter.com/QxtU71Sh4Z

— Andrew Brooks (@taxbod) June 14, 2019

lol what a normal opinion

Perhaps Jeremy Corbyn can ask his friends in Hamas and Hezbollah to provide the “independent” evidence he requires ? Or maybe his ex employers Iranian State owned Press TV could help him ? What do you think Seumas ?

— Mike Gapes (@MikeGapes) June 15, 2019

this may be my favourite take yet

Correct of @jeremycorbyn to challenge US and now UK assumption that #Iran must be behind #PersianGulf sabotage but he is worst person to do it. Logic if not evidence suggests Iran but possible agent provocateur.

— Vince Cable (@vincecable) June 15, 2019

I think you mean

Labour frontbench knee-jerk instinct is to dispute our security services professionals. Given @jeremycorbyn’s long-standing relations with the Iranian regime & Press TV, perhaps he will now publish the evidence he has contradicting the official assessment?https://t.co/E1xRBZrc25

— Change UK - The Independent Group (@ForChange_Now) June 15, 2019

so Corbyn is right, but because he is Corbyn he is wrong, Vince? Seriously hope he dies soon.

Isn't the only evidence so far some grainy footage and much hawkish gibbering from the demented US regime ?

I hope Vince dies that is.. preferably while he's laying some cable!

Corbyn is Trump, except when Corbyn disagrees with Trump, and then you get “I regret that I agree with...” shite from the usuals.

Corbyn - the eternally wrong extremist lefty is only taking the same line as France and Germany.

My dumb paranoid take is that May resigned only because she wasn’t willing to join the USA against Iran and so was told to step aside for a Real Warmonger to take over.

In the interview he says that, at first, he found Ulysses ‘incomprehensible’ and thereafter has only ever dipped in and out to read passages. This, folks, is what a dilettante looks and sounds like. Please, never ever hand him real power. https://t.co/tMnU59YUrG

— Tony McDonough (@tonymc39) June 16, 2019

Jesus Christ Ulysses truthers are SO FUCKING BORING

Gravity's Rainbow or gtfo

Finnegans Wake or gtfo.

i'm not sure Tony McDoughnut understands what "dilettante" means

politics was much more cultured + brainy back in the days when a stuffy old pol would confess a liking for the raucous rocking of the Arctic Monkeys...

everyone is a dilettante, apart from Sir Roger Scruton.

For the record, not that it matters: I've read "Ulysses" three times, once in a graduate Joyce seminar -- but, you know, Corbyn doesn't seem to have noticed that Bloom is a Jew facing antisemitism.

— Bohumil Hairball Vortex of Eternal Shame (@closely_watched) June 16, 2019

The more I think about it, the madder I get. Thread coming later today.

— Bohumil Hairball Vortex of Eternal Shame (@closely_watched) June 16, 2019

sorry, having my arse-hairs permed later.

The interviewer says they did discuss AS in Ulysses but it didn’t make the final edit. STFU, melts:

We did discuss James Joyce's sly, adroit attacks on anti-semitism in Ulysses during the interview, in fact, Matt. But it didn't get into the final feature. Jeremy Corbyn is right behind James Joyce on this one.

— Peter Carty (@TravelCourse) June 14, 2019

every single politician should try to be one upping corbyn/ulysses imo. i want to see mcdonnell talking about finnegan’s wake, chuka umunna on gravity’s rainbow, tim farron on story of the eye

— a a dril (@demarionunn) June 16, 2019

Rory Stewart on Bravo Two Zero

as I said before, Stewart comes off like a crapper version of Ludo's disappointing dads from The Last Samurai. he should be made to read it

Nobody responded to that the first time because it was bollocks. No need to repeat it.

dunno how a subjective redolence can be bollocks but i guess i don't make the rules round here

if only we could eliminate repetition of all bollocks itt through ignoring it

there's been such a deluge of cynical, contradictory and opportunistic bullshit from Watson and co over the last four years, so much of it inevitably gets completely memory holed https://t.co/MGq3Ly4yq0

— tom (@malaiseforever) June 17, 2019

talking of repetition and bollocks...

mind you that was before Tom's Mr Muscles period, where dubious blandishments about how great the EU is between Polo G tracks is his current thang. Or just anything that undermines his party leadership will do.

https://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-east-news/treasury-admits-doesnt-know-north-16430145

a tasty admission from the chancellor: not only does he not look at data on regional economies, he doesn't think it exists

"I do not think we have regional recession data ... it would be a problem to try to collect it. There would be a huge statistical and data challenge in trying to disaggregate the economy into regions in that way, to look at macroeconomic performance."

they had been playing that bullshit gambit about their party membership for years as well. Anyway collecting data separately from smaller regions is not a "huge" task, it is actually a smaller task you fucking numpt!

https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/defence-jeremy-corbyns-brave-and-lonely-stand-calls-war-against-iran

makes u think

Super thrilled to announce that "Did #Austerity cause #brexit?" has just been accepted for publication at the @AEAjournals in the American Economic Review. Short thread on whole paper available here https://t.co/FxYwKmz3Ik... pic.twitter.com/bG79ERnCTH

— Thiemo Fetzer (@fetzert) June 17, 2019