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

big hitter vs mcshitter pic.twitter.com/pgIodRkQIO

— joe (@cillanoir) June 25, 2019

yes the old tory institutions ran on scary rural tory ladies but the supply has been dwindling for many years (their granddaughters are now all pop stars)

her father, Sir Charles William Somerset Marling, the 5th Marling Baronet, ran a recording studio, introduced her to folk music and shaped her musical taste, an experience that Marling later described as, "a bit of a blessing and a bit of a curse. ...

it can be a curse having everything handed to you in some senses ... but extremely low sympathy rating for that curse!

tear her for her bad verses

I refuse to listen her after Marcello dismissed her as a "tory twat"!

but hypocritically I listen to many fascists from history still .. but I'm probably probably bad.

at typing for a start!

but my hatred for tories was so glowing white at the time she emerged .. I refuse to listen to her.

boy's clubs, you simply love to see them!

Asked by one member what he would do with the NHS, Johnson told the crowd it was a “crowning glory” of the UK but was “not getting the kind of support and indeed the kind of changes and management that it needs”, suggesting he as prime minister would aim to undertake an overhaul of the health service.
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He said Simon Stevens, the NHS chief executive, had once helped him get elected president of the Oxford Union as a student, and together they would “sort things out”.

In remarks that may alarm those opposed to another reorganisation of the NHS, Johnson said: “It needs more money but where you are absolutely right is that it needs reform.”

woke matt* welcome to the #resistance

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— Matt Cartoons (@MattCartoonist) June 25, 2019

*(every-face-a-willy matt is already in the #resistance)

where you are absolutely right is that it needs reform

People seem to be absolutely blind to the fact that every huge organization that employs tens of thousands of people, but most particularly those huge organizations which purely deliver services, will be riddled with human inefficiencies and wasted effort. It is inescapable.

When those organizations are for-profit, the fact they generate big profits absolves them of criticism. They create jobs! They make money for everyone involved! How can you hate that? But when those organizations are funded from tax revenue every mistake and inefficiency is viewed with horror, even if the service is delivered more efficiently and cheaply than if it were delivered by a private corporation.

In the future feel free to refer to this as Aimless' Law.

boris dngaf about ‘reform’, he wants to privatise

i get the sense he absolutely dngaf about anything really, other than power and being liked in the moment.

he simply doesn’t care what happens to the NHS and says the easiest words at any given time in front of any given audience.

Also public service creates better jobs (by median not mean) than private!

If inefficiency is "you got this medicine two days later and you died", then it's obviously bad, but if it's "we could get an overstressed graduate to do both these jobs at once", I'm happy to wave the flag of inefficiency.

You damn betcha he wants to privatize NHS. Hand it over to the job creators who will bring efficiency to the organization! Mainly by cutting salaries and withholding services, so as to divert more funds to pay shareholders and the executive officers.

This is exctremely late pls forgive but I’m dying @ Hedges & White interacting:

In the past week I have never been more ashamed to be a journalist. We are so much better than this.

It's the general public we should be attacking, not each other. https://t.co/xmAvpa1yFQ

— Simon Hedges (@Orwell_Fan) June 23, 2019

Sorry, but that’s a bit deep for me

— MichaelWhite (@michaelwhite) June 23, 2019

lmao

lol, that was a good one!

Hope they sue the Mail

am told that the neighbours who reported the Symonds-Johnson row to the police have since moved out of their flat - and are seeking security advice - after a series of grim threats

— Jim Pickard (@PickardJE) June 26, 2019

Meanwhile

Ed Davey rules out letting Jeremy Corbyn become PM to force another referendum.

“I don’t want to see Jeremy Corbyn as prime minister under any circumstances”

— Nick Eardley (@nickeardleybbc) June 26, 2019

there was a stat floating about on twitter that Davey & Swinson have voted along with the Tory whips more times than Gove and Hunt

'if the country must be destroyed, let it be us what does it'

More fuel to my "libs will have done no deal" story, love to see it

the "nicer" tory arseholes are certainly letting a few ropy youGov polls go to their heads a bit, and it's long been established some of these wags do like to use their polls to tell a story or two. Libdems are trailing the main parties by 8-10 pts with other pollsters. And let's not forget the art of polling is often basically talking to sample sizes of 1200-1600 people ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

love to see them annihilated again. I'm getting sick of seeing all this lol Cable Surge stuff, fucking loathsome bunch of politicians and voters.

Swinson is a horror, poor auld Cherlie must be birlin' in his grave, ayyyyyyyyye.

I hope the poor old lad has got a bottle in there for when he's finished birlin'! I wasn't always a fan tbh but fucking hell, compared to the smug, evil, tory-wanker LibDem players of the last decade, he was someone with principles at least.

https://britainelects.com/polling/westminster/

this tracking poll shows that YouGov are the outliers in telling their story about the LibDem surge. One of their co-founders is slippery Tory mp who is a renowned regular bullshit merchant on QT.

it's always quite heartwarming to see chUK often polling at 0%.

https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/000/884/521/353.gif

breaking news: it has been confirmed that at least 1600 people are not interested in a new way of doing politics according to one leading pollster.

that "The Politics Of A Cheeky Nando's" article in Esquire might as well have been a decade ago!

labour staff otm

During a post pmqs grilling of labour spokesperson by the lobby, one Labour staff member turns to another and says “this is so boring” as we try to nail down Corbyn’s Brexit position.

— Owen Bennett (@owenjbennett) June 26, 2019

gapes of rump: the night king no longer fucks

xp Might be a good line for labour to counterattack with, certainly hella relatable

it's always quite heartwarming to see chUK often polling at 0%.

I wouldn't be a superstitious person but yeah they totally pissed off some pagan gods or something. pic.twitter.com/MX6frlqHeo

— Áine McDee (@AineMcD) June 26, 2019

Fucking garbage:

https://www.politicshome.com/news/uk/political-parties/labour-party/news/104867/excl-chris-williamson-allowed-back-labour-party

Oh ffs!

PoliticsHome understands that Keith Vaz led the moves to reject a recommendation from Labour staff that Mr Williamson be referred to the party's National Constitution Committee, which deals with serious disciplinary cases.

He argued that because Mr Williamson represents a marginal seat and that Labour MPs have less than two weeks to tell party bosses whether they wish to stand at the next election, he should be let off with a warning.

I’m not sure that’s as much of a surprise as people are making it own to be. Williamson is an idiot and liability but I’m not sure there has ever been one thing major enough to kick him out of the party over. It had always been an accumulation of small stuff and idk how easily disciplinary processes are ever geared up to deal with that.

Though obviously Vaz’ rationale is pathetic.

The pattern though?

There was a very good thread on twitter detailing how bad disciplinary processes are in Labour. It's not a massive surprise, merely an expression of frustration.

It ought to be remembered (it won't be remembered) that those disciplinary procedures have always been rubbish and have afforded protection to melts and creeps from all wings of the party no matter who was leader.

The optics problem here is that "our hands are tied" for this and David Prescott and Peter Willsman contrasts with chucking out Alistair Campbell the next day.

It is a problem but you can’t run a disciplinary system based on optics.

Don't give one fuck about Campbell's optics, the procedures should definitely be strengthened but that should include quicker eviction of Tories that wandered in by mistake.

Reckon Campbell will be admitted back. Shit, the guy walks free among us. That's bad enough.

I would imagine Campbell will get back, yes. My broad point was about parties as bureacratic resisters of change, the problem isn't that the nasty Trots are trying to change things, the problem is it isn't getting changed far or fast enough.

It is a problem but you can’t run a disciplinary system based on optics.

ya fuck that decision