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

I think some of the latest desperate Corbyn smear headlines are a reaction to their own secret internal polls not looking very fucking good for them. A quietly confident conservative party wouldn't shit their pants in that fashion.

what the fuck is ‘flavible politics’

Hi @IslingtonLibDem

Although we love the publicity. We have to chime in for the sake of clarity. The constituency projections are ours

We have no affiliation with @YouGov and simply use the results of their polling once released with our projection methodology and show via map

— Flavible Politics (@flaviblePolitic) June 29, 2019

could do with some more seasoning.

Lol, the Conservatives (who are explicitly pro Brexit) couldn’t poll 20% in Islington North but the Brexit party will? Do they even Islington North?

Haven't read the Bastani book but it's nice to see a serious critique of it from the left.

they've steamrollered it, took a shit on it and then forced him to eat it more like!

tbf I shouldn't knock a hipster left shit pancake until I've tried one!

xps to gyac

yep, that poll makes no sense and is a complete fantasy.

lol, the idea of a Farage surge on the doorsteps of Islington North and Brexit Party polling at 21.3% is so ridic it isn't worth ....

normal

Socialist siesta pic.twitter.com/zUf95Cxg6U

— MoS_Politics (@MoS_Politics) June 29, 2019

everything good is bad

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D-OZbMnX4AcX8pI.jpg

the sinister 4 M's(not including McDonell!) and the "pliant" heir apparent to the dangerous cat-napping marxist.

god i wish i was driven home for a nap every afternoon

Quietly comforting that the ruling class are clearly shitting themselves.

xp same, sick of taking the bus

I just want to thank you all for subsidising my daily afternoon naps by paying for my ill gotten benefits :p

TACTICS: The Mail reports on a bloke at #Glastonbury wearing a ‘I ❤️ Brexit’ t-shirt not getting the abuse he expected. The bloke “wished to stay anonymous” according to the article.

Except. It’s the Mail journo himself. The same journo who wrote the article. pic.twitter.com/RJuTXXOfin

— The DM Reporter (@DMReporter) June 30, 2019

lol, mail reporter caught out trying to make a bs story about himself as the "anonymous" "I love brexit" shirt wearer at Glastonbury.

Should’ve gone with Maoist and then they could have made that Gang of Four reference actually work.

"Except. It’s the Mail journo himself. The same journo who wrote the article."

can't help reading this line in a Donald Trump voice tbh!

truly the spirit of gonzo journalism lives on at the daily mail

Bloke at Glastonbury wearing a "Did You Spill My Pint?" T-shirt fails to get into fight

More like, "Did you spill my Pimms?" amiritecomrades?

https://newsocialist.org.uk/editorial-chris-williamson/

The overall picture is not of a great hero of socialism, but rather somebody who has found an audience and is milking it. We should not mistake his hammed-up invective for actual conviction or genuine commitment to the movement which he seems determined to undermine through repeated antisemitic behaviour.

this is good and correct unlike the editorial in that shitrag the Morning Star t'other day.

That is a good article - I have to say my knee jerked a bit at that quoted part, as it, like Comrade Alphabet yesterday, seemed to suggest that if he was a better leftist, this would be fine. But the rest of the article is very clear that's not the case.

Also I didn't know (until I heard from the MoS) that Stalinist Control means "actually it's other people really in charge!"

"like Comrade Alphabet yesterday, seemed to suggest that if he was a better leftist, this would be fine."

When did I suggest anything about CW?

You're absolutely right, that was lazy and stupid of me and I should have checked my memory before shooting my mouth off, my apologies - I was referring to the libcomorg tweet you reposted yesterday, but you were only reporting to engage with the part of it unrelated to what I was talking about.

On a quiet day..

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/jun/27/brexit-civil-servant-in-charge-of-no-deal-planning-quits

Lol more than two days ago but I saw it on the main page, hanging there

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/jun/27/hunts-pledge-to-reduce-corporation-tax-will-cost-13bn-a-year

It's a good indicator of how little corporation tax actually gets paid that cutting it from 19% to 12.5% would only cost £13bn.

they'll be offering free milk for millionaires next.

the Mail thing from yesterday is stupid, in the text of the article it refers to the shirt-wearer as "our reporter" and the "Londoner who wished to remain anonymous" was someone who talked to him and is quoted in the article. I love a good "gotcha" but that just isn't one.

Are you sure this wasn't an edited version you read after the fool had the shit ripped out of him?

lmao at this incredibly tepid endorsement of jeremy cunt

Dan Dalton, who was a Conservative MEP until he lost his seat in the Euro elections this spring, has said that he is now backing Jeremy Hunt having originally started as a Boris Johnson supporter. He said:

All Conservatives agree that we have to deliver Brexit before the next general election, but to actually do it will need considerable skill, compromise and flexibility.

Of the two candidates in front of us, I have gradually come to the conclusion that Jeremy Hunt is the one more likely to do that. I do not say that lightly. I started this campaign as a Boris Johnson supporter, and he has many qualities, but having worked in Brussels throughout the Brexit negotiations, I just do not see how his strategy can work, whereas Jeremy Hunt’s might.

And he wonders why he lost his seat.

more free money (£6bn) pledged for our fishing + farming industries when business experts are saying manufacturing will be fucked much harder by a no-deal brexit.

Yes, but those were the stupid cunts who voted Brexit so must keep them sweet.

Hunt's campaign is really pitching hard for tepid, unenthusiastic support, cf the official campaign slogan "has to be Hunt"

"he has many qualities"

to be fair we can all agree on this

Many more than most!

quantity of quality over quality

is that quantity over quality squared or does it just end up as quantity

help

an abundance of cuntity

plenty of grit - after dodging a couple of bullets from point blank range, well more like the pathetic softballs out of May's toy blowgun. scratch that.

I'd be curious to hear any takes on this quietly radical paper from Keir Milburn & Bertie Russell which starts off being abt the false economy and disastrous structure of Public-Private Partnerships (i.e. Public Finance Initiatives) and outlining a model of Public-Common Partnerships as an alternative to nationalisation, which is really abt the much wider 'socialisation of the economy', self-governance and 'definancialisation of essential services'.

Featuring: Seven Sisters market! Preston Council! & the dream of a Greater Manchester energy company!

https://common-wealth.co.uk/Public-common-partnerships.html

mr seumas milne, necromancer

John Mann tells the Parliamentary Labour Party that he believes dead people are being kept on the books to inflate membership numbers.

— Kevin Schofield (@PolhomeEditor) July 1, 2019

And here I thought he was a friend of Frank Field's too.

(A friend of Frank Field - there's a euphemism if ever I've seen one)

Take away all the dead on the Tory books and, well...

xxp lol I was just coming here to link that one myself...

I like how organisational incompetence just never crosses the minds of Labour conspiracists? Like, there’s no possibility that they need to clean up the lists and that they’re no better at this than any other organisation? No, instead it’s THE DEAD HAVE RISEN AND ARE JOINING LABOUR

Better dead AND red.

Grieve's attempt to block No-Deal via government defunding has been stopped by Bercow just not selecting it as an amendment.