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

How quickly we forget the PUP.

Sinn Féin's Mary Lou McDonald and Michelle O'Neill are holding up this sign from the stage at Dublin Castle, where the #8thref overall result will be announced shortly: https://t.co/jjV8dfdvDz

Pic: Marga Jiminez pic.twitter.com/HiO6xvpt4U

— TheJournal.ie (@thejournal_ie) May 26, 2018

i mean they literally changed their policy last year and it's still not that great but compared to what's around them! also they were full-throatedly behind marriage equality at least

xp PUP may as well not exist it's so rump. a shame. ervine seemed like a good egg, if you ignore the bombing of civilians bit

I think it’s a joke to pretend SF were the reason these policies don’t exist in NI.

Evan Davies was quoting a dodgy outlier YouGov poll again when he said Labour are trailing behind the LibDems on PM earlier. The just out, latest ComRes poll has Labour 12 pts ahead of them.

I mean fuck all this shit until there is an election but ... y'know what a load of bollox!

evan davies was hi-fiving tom harwood on twitter last week

I used to think he might at least be slightly less a complete cunt than most of the bbc politics crew, just cos sometimes his interviews seemed a slightly bit more probing than say Keunsberg or Robinson.. but that is such a fucking low bar it's meaningless tbh.

He was part of the think tank that dreamt up the Poll Tax.

He was photoed with the Britain First cunts and claimed he didn’t know who they were.

Are there any vaguely credible theories out there as to who might leaked the Darroch memo?

He was part of the think tank that dreamt up the Poll Tax.
― suzy, Tuesday, 9 July 2019 21:01 (thirty-eight minutes ago)
He was photoed with the Britain First cunts and claimed he didn’t know who they were.
― gyac, Tuesday, 9 July 2019 21:03 (thirty-six minutes ago)

Evan Davies???

Thread

Just missed my tube stop reading tweets from people thinking that I'm a secret far right racist (and one who's happy to be used in Britain First campaigning material). It is so ridiculous that I haven't wanted to dignify it by saying any more than my original clarification.
1/5

— Evan Davis (@EvanHD) August 16, 2018

No, Evan Davis is not a Britain First supporter https://t.co/mE2A8sEpiI pic.twitter.com/MHguo4ZJkv

— indy100 (@indy100) April 9, 2016

Actually, that rings a bell now. What about the poll tax?

From Wiki, but properly sourced:

Davis began work as an economist at the Institute for Fiscal Studies, and while there he was briefly seconded to help officials work on early development of the Community Charge system of local government taxation (better known as the Poll Tax.

lot of people itt now regretting their erstwhile working lunch fandom

"Are there any vaguely credible theories out there as to who might leaked the Darroch memo?"

not credible at all but..

jeremy blunt, so he get's the opportunity to tether his opponent to trump and make trump (lol) look bad at the same time and then act the hardman against the orange fool by condemning his predictably idiotic response. This is how trump is often useful to abysmal, vaguely liberal, centre-right to absolute melt UK polls of all parties - they can play at being big game hunters by dissing him.

it would only make sense if it was a bigger sample than deranged Con members and UKIP entryists he needed to appeal to. But sometimes people will try any shit when they clearly know they are already beaten in a contest.

WE DID IT !!!!!

The House of Commons has voted by a massive majority to introduce same-sex marriage in Northern Ireland if the Stormont Executive isn’t restored by 21st October.

I know the DUP will find some way to get out of this without conceding on the Irish Language Act, but, <3

(checks digiminster, notes that only DUP and Tories voted against)
(checks again, yup, Lady Hermon voted for)

"Are there any vaguely credible theories out there as to who might leaked the Darroch memo?"

not credible at all but..

ABC had someone on saying this is some score setting by people who see the foreign service as anti-Brexit and trying to sabotage the glorious leap into neo-feudalism.

Conjecture is that this is either the start of a purge of the foreign service (because surely everyone in the foreign service has something they’ve written in a cable they’d rather not be published); or this is a warning shot to get in line with the DePfeffel doctrine or lose your pension.

The Grieve amendment that was passed:

‘(1A) The Secretary of State shall make a further report under subsection 1 on or before 9 October 2019 at least every fourteen calendar days thereafter until either an Executive is formed or until 18 December 2019, whichever is the sooner.’—(Mr Grieve.)

https://t.co/8LVwS8JJAQ
It appears that on Grieve's amendment which passed by 1 vote Jo Churchill acting as a proxy for Chloe Smith didn't cast her own vote which would have overturned the result.

— Darren Atkinson (@LordSlate) July 9, 2019

I enjoyed the posts about Amy Lamé !

I like this news about NI. I feel that they will now restart the NI executive for a day just to stop it, or something.

I can see Amy Lame and Tom Watson getting on like a house on fire

i like when a chuktig micro-asteroid break-up splinter announces a new stable phrase it always screams the words "together" and "shared" and "bound", like we don't know what's gnna happen in 3 weeks time lol

(the word "bound" is probably a bit of a tell, like "tied up but in a good way")

don't kink-shame the chuktig, mark

Mark

national govt to form under gina gershon as corky

i'm gonna need a diagram to keep myself right on this

Parliament has a new group, the Independents. These are not to be be confused the independent MPs, the ones sit without party affiliation (normally because they have resigned from or been suspended by the party they were representing when elected). There are currently five Independents.

Just to make things complicated, four of them - Heidi Allen, Luciana Berger, Gavin Shuker and Angela Smith - used to be members of what started life as the Independent Group before it turned into Change UK. Change UK then split when six of its 11 MPs became independents.

Now four of those six are Independents. The other two were Chuka Umunna, who has joined the Lib Dems, and Sarah Wollaston, who is still an independent.

The fifth Independent is John Woodcock, who used to be Labour MP before resigning in protest against Jeremy Corbyn’s handling of antisemitism (although he was also suspended at the time over a harassment allegation that he strongly denied).

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D_E1GFbXUAQrvi_.png

We’re sorry. We know that politicians can be infuriating. That sometimes it looks like all we care about is our own careers, and protecting the interests of our parties.

For some of us, that journey led us to leave our parties, and establish The Independent Group. We rushed ahead with establishing a political party, on our own. We weren’t ready - and the truth is, we messed it up.

We apologise, especially to everyone who supported us, stood for us, campaigned for us, and who told us that we had given them hope.

always good to come out of the gate strong with abject apologies for how badly you fucked up the last time

"it won't happen again"

things the independents website has: a 'values' section
things the indepdendents website does not have: a 'policies' section

follow the bouncing dead cat

https://thumbs.gfycat.com/OddballAcidicBangeltiger-max-1mb.gif

i love the "strongly" modifier on "strongly denied", totally adds credibility

lady kim darroch has resigned as British ambassador to the US.

Millions of tonnes of munitions & chemical weapons were dumped by the MoD in the sea off the UK coast up until the 1990s...

The MoD now admits it's not even routinely monitoring these "sea dump" sites.

🚨 N.B. Belgian sea dump sites started leaking WWI mustard gas in May... 😬 pic.twitter.com/fK8S0VTiWk

— Lucy Fisher (@LOS_Fisher) July 10, 2019

i thought that haddock tasted a bit dodgy last week.

it explains why the smoked stuff is that luminous yellow, anyway

Not to mention the curry covered seagull.

Nm that, it explains why seagulls are so huge and aggressive.

let them take it, it's their turn they deserve it better than we do

the uk government had better start pouring money into a jaeger programme so we have a proper line of defence when a mutant mackerel, grown to terrifying kaiju scale by these waste dumps, tries to destroy the forth rail bridge

fuck i should have said cod so i could have posited the existence of codzilla FUCK

;_;

Weapons of Bass Destruction

PMQs is an absolute shouty bearpit today but ¡Jez en fuego!

good clear simple thread IMO by solomon hughes on calling-yr-manager syndrome as a general political manifestation (i agree with his reservation abt it downthread, that he somewhat underplays the voltaire-quote of it -- but i also agree with his argument that the two modes are connected)

(1) Towards a new dictionary of Political Phrases : "Call the Manager" (tbh I think this could have been stronger) https://t.co/2xloz5PmEy pic.twitter.com/4F5Ibt11j3

— Solomon Hughes (@SolHughesWriter) July 10, 2019

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D-1cjs1UwAMFa2H.jpg

(in a way this is my response to FH's request some time back to expand on my "boris is a symptom not the next worst phase" argument -- or at least, since the connection is probably still opaque to all readers, it will form the basis of my response if and when i ever get round to it)

(which won't be today as i am still working on that job application lol)

ps the morning star is often bad but SH is usual vg

That thread is hilarious and well observed.

yeah that's good stuff

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