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

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

Big Top Politics more like

that voltaire jpeg is a corker

the new militant moderates sometimes have a tendency to focus on - real or imagined - "rules", and demand they be enforced from above

because "middle of the road" are just conservative small c fucks who don't like confrontation so much

good thread tho

Tory MPs now queuing up to criticise their future leader and PM. Basically, you don't mess with Britain's diplomatic service.

I’d like to see Boris wiggle his way out of this jam.

THAT BORIS WIGGLE IN FULL

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100,000 senile racist cunts will still vote for him

lol, otm

Ah well, nevertheless

I like the way he can be grossly incompetent, racist and untrustworthy in every sense of the word, but as soon as you don't back one of your own diplomats.. that's it - you ain't fit for office!

like i said yesterday, getting a rise out of these entitled shitheels is one of Trump's more enjoyable tantrums

god bless the special relationship

Just caught up on this morning - what the fuck is the pink curly bracket in that logo about?

going back to ed's post from last night (re credible theories who leaked the darroch emails):

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.

― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Tuesday, July 9, 2019 11:21 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

as ed has gone with a very stevolende formulation, i'm not sure who is conjecturing what by who (yes the second suggestion is bojo but who's the first)? i also read a tweet (by "anti brexit alien") saying that it was either done by an ENEMY POWER (the cui bono there makes sense, bcz that's who wants to fuck up yr diplomatic effectiveness) or a GOVERNMENT MOLE, which i'm still enjoying unravelling ("oh noes the govt has planted agents in the foreign office")

anyway darroch himself was retiring in like a week so it can't be about him and whoever the PM is they do actually have uncomplicated power to recall and replace ambassadors. this may or may not make things harder for johnson -- WHO THE FUCK KNOWS -- but it seems like a needlessly random flex

the radical right has the PROUD BOYS the radical centre has the CURLY BOIS

100,000 senile racist cunts will still vote have already voted for him

Which is my favourite of the bad scenarios - Boris comes to power already hated by a significant chunk of the party.

Apparently Mark Sedwill was favourite to take over from Darroch, the NYT suspects that it was a shot across his bows - cui bono might be Nigel Farage who'd quite like the job normally, but er he surely has other things to worry about?

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/07/world/europe/uk-ambassador-kim-darroch.html

xxxp think this is deeply unfair, post doesn’t read like he’s just emerged from a month-long coma

Since the leak was hand-delivered to Isobel Oakeshott I’m tempted to believe it was a Boris fan with something to gain or one of any number of public-facing arseholes with Belizean passports. Like, duhhhh.

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can we just talk a little about how the smile slowly disappears off the face of the woman to Johnson's left

tag yourself, i'm the stone-faced guy with crossed arms who pops out from behind boris

I'm the deadly assassin sent by Xi Jingpin, disguised as mrs Cameron on the right.

president xi i'm begging u please send more effective assassins

how the smile slowly disappears off the face of the woman to Johnson's left

his eventually to be ex wife no less

can we just talk a little about how the smile slowly disappears off the face of the woman to Johnson's left

aka his wife, though he's probably forgotten her name by now too.

(xp)

Tbf i can't remember johnson's wife's name either

Do you have four children with her?

Not as far as i know fnarr fnarr

so this panorama doc eh?

so this panorama doc eh?

Spoken like a true Canuck.

pretty incendiary stuff in labour’s rebuttal

BBC press release claims Jennie Formby intervened in Jackie Walker’s case, but it doesn’t say how they intervened... turns out according to Labour Formby actually asked for the process against Walker to be sped up... not mentioned by Panorama...
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Labour says the BBC edited a Milne email to delete a line showing he was referring to Jewish members accused of AS

“But if we're more than very occasionally using disciplinary action against Jewish members for anti-Semitism...” doesn’t appear in BBC press release

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Panorama claims Seumas Milne directly demanded to be involved in the disciplinary process. Full emails released by Labour appear to show the former employee who leaked the emails actually asked Loto for their view first... this was not mentioned by the BBC in its press release
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In other emails released by Labour tonight it emerges that it was former staffer Sam Matthews who actually wrote “I don't think it's a particularly strong case” re alleged anti-Semitism case... Labour says the BBC is reporting the “opposite” of the truth in this case

abolish the BBC

I think we knew most of that stuff anyway - doesn’t sound like there’s anything new in this that hasn’t already come out in gabriel pogrund’s (similarly selective) reporting?

Someone leaked a WhatsApp post purportedly with HQ advice on lines to take and the melts are going apeshit, as if political parties don’t regularly coordinate a pushback on coverage they disagree with. Bet Alistair Campbell’s ones were pretty martial in comparison.

generally horrifies folk to see how the sausage is made tho, unfortunately.

regardless of the substance of allegations - and the partiality and selective nature of reporting - this is going to stick with many people.

the whole "when you become the story" adage and all that wrt spin doctors

that ‘outrider’ leak has very big didn’t happen energy

Milne truthers are fucking obsessed with the outriders, who are like 5/6 people compared with the rest of the fucking media.

it’s only ever people who hate them who refer to them as ‘outriders’ too - big red flag to me that it’s madey uppy