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

I once suggested a no-deal brexit is going to bad whilst talking to Paul the chippy owner and a huge hush came over the whole shop and you could hear a pin drop. And Karen his rugby league loving assistant told me I'd reading too many scare stories. Never brought up the subject since, but feel like my standing in the local chippy has been greatly diminished!

they just need to be reasoned with and to listen to dunty and dl's remaniacs podcast!

This might well be the context to Leo, in fairness:

Er, the England Cricket team is captained by an Irishman. Not to mention:

- Batting led by an immigrant
- Fastest bowler an immigrant
- Leading all-rounder an immigrant
- Main spinner son of an immigrant

Awesome, every one of them 👏🏏 https://t.co/8XZph6ldZS

— Rachel Clarke (@doctor_oxford) July 14, 2019

If we had something don't we think he could fairly safely arrange this to be leaked with little chance of being found out? ILX consensus of "not the brightest" would imply he would try it.

After the . Mosley reveal from Matt DC i am beginning to move away from "not the brightest" and towards" "has been bought off"

xp this is a daft point and that’s sick-making 2012 opening ceremony shite

If that's to me then I might need a bit of expansion there?

I regret to announce a new party (The Radical Party) has sent their manifesto to all MPs, which include proposals to let people become Councillors for life, and to lower the age of consent to 15. pic.twitter.com/d4gt4KvBbh

— Ben Gartside (@BenGartside) July 15, 2019

We know immigrants contribute to all areas of English life. Theresa May is very comfortable with celebrating the cricket WC victory and carrying on bashing migrants with her policies.

Hiiiiii, no dig on MDC/ignoring female contributions is it? I think you’ll find I’m the one who started bringing up the Mosley/Watson reminders.

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Comrade alphabet otm. It also makes me uncomfortable because everyone knows immigrants can be exceptional or contribute or whatever - but it’s up there with saying “EU citizens contribute more to the exchequer than natives.” It’s the transactional nature of it.

And also, the other side of that stick is certain minority groups being targeted for “contributing” whatever isn’t enough to be accepted in this country.

Immigrants come in two sizes: good and bad. As long as they continually toil to prove their worth, they're welcome to stick around. Natives – especially those of the paler variety – are all good, though. Simple stuff, really.

as they are talented or hardworking they've got nothing to worry about.. apart from getting deported or battered to death in the street.

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Also if you think that's racist then you are the true racist. Obviously.

Wait wait hold on is this the point where the common enemy is stet? I've just checked on my phone and ILX is only showing the Rachel Clarke tweet, without the context that she's slapping down Jacob Rees-Mogg's "we clearly don't need Europe to win"

I completely agree about praising the 'exceptional' immigrants sans context.

And anyway anyway the JRM/RC 1-2 is what I was suggesting as the context for Leo's tweet.

I will stop saying context now (I will never)

Hiiiiii, no dig on MDC/ignoring female contributions is it? I think you’ll find I’m the one who started bringing up the Mosley/Watson reminders.

― suzy,

Sorry Suzy! I had read that post too but didn't clock at the time who it was referring to, didn't know anything about the Mosley connection before

NP AF, I am perfectly calm and shoneen-bashing as I always do (this is directed at Leo).

And if you can't trace your lineage back to Æthelwulf (Cerdic is preferable, however), your trial period isn't over yet.

... EU immigrants both.

Wait wait hold on is this the point where the common enemy is stet? I've just checked on my phone and ILX is only showing the Rachel Clarke tweet, without the context that she's slapping down Jacob Rees-Mogg's "we clearly don't need Europe to win"

tbf German and French cricketers aren't the best. The Dutch are not bad though.

I've just checked on my phone and ILX is only showing the Rachel Clarke tweet

It shows the context for me, which is what matters

Downing Street: Theresa May’s view is the language used to refer to these congresswomen by Donald Trump was completely unacceptable @theresa_may https://t.co/y4mfmvp5Bu

— Nicholas Watt (@nicholaswatt) July 15, 2019

The language itself is unacceptable. Whether that also applies to its signification remains to be seen.

Maybe Theresa would have been fine with him calling them “queue jumpers” or “citizens of nowhere”.

Tbf cutting in line is generally less of an unforgivable faux pas in the US.

Yeahhhhh if Theresa May wanted to make first and second generation immigrants uncomfortable, she’d just commission Go Home vans to drive around multicultural areas.

Poll numbers about to skyrocket:

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/jul/15/boris-johnson-islam-muslim-world-centuries-behind-2007-essay

Hopefully his punishment in Hell will consist of a never-ending dialogue with the ghost of Averroes wherein he is forever made to feel intellectually and humanly inferior in his heart of hearts.

Get prepared for him to invoke his Muslim granddad yet again I guess.

The Conservative leadership frontrunner wrote that the inhibitor of progress was “a fatal religious conservatism” and the further the Muslim world had “fallen behind, the more bitterness and confusion there has been, to the point where virtually every global flashpoint you can think of – from Bosnia to Palestine to Iraq to Kashmir – involves some sense of Muslim grievance”.

I'm pretty certain the Ra only got guns and money from Ghadaffi, but who knows, he might have been holding back a case of Muslim grievance, in case they ever ran out of their own.

Wait, the war in Bosnia was about “Muslim grievance”?!?!

What a fuckhead. I would ask what his take is on Hinduism but given his citation of Churchill, I imagine he again speaks the empty voice of empire.

if only that young turk revolution had battered boris' great granddad to death a bit bloody earlier.

pic.twitter.com/FIkhc0IJNB

— Poppy Bullard (@PoppyBullard) July 16, 2019

A+++.

:D

Nice.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/jul/16/black-undercover-officer-who-spied-on-stephen-lawrence-campaign-named

i've never been clear why the clearly routine practice of the police spending huge amounts of time & resources infiltrating all manner of benign groups is commonly accepted and not seen as insanely authoritarian

Because it makes for eminently readable tales of true espionage.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D_lMpR8W4AA0r8v.png

lol, this is a few years old, but can't remember reading this at the time.

Where was Gaz Coombes though?

that sequence of Gaz having a "cheeky nando's" with Himmler was genius work mr Boyle!

We know they're anti-fascist, but it's imperative that we find out whether they're prematurely anti-fascist!

Next he’ll be telling us he’s a lifelong anti-racist... https://t.co/nJp6naRxuy

— Wes Streeting MP (@wesstreeting) July 16, 2019

Streeting comparing Corbyn to Trump following the latter’s racist tweets, a day after having falsely accused Angela Rayner of avoiding questions, feels like desperation at this stage. Any veneer of being a Serious MP asking Serious Questions has gone.

choo choo...

“The state of Berlin has bought back 670 apartments on the historic Karl-Marx-Allee from a private owner, after decades of property privatisation in the German capital.” https://t.co/m9LmJFXNxK

— Laurie Macfarlane (@L__Macfarlane) July 16, 2019

literally dangerous Marxism! well not really just a modest dose of denationalisation to increase public housing stocks in Berlin, there would be a military coup if Corbyn did this in London.

Apparently at the debate yesterday, Boris and Hunt both said that a time-limit to the backstop wouldn't do, it would have to be removed entirely.

I mean, I know that the EU have underlined a lot that a time-limit wasn't on the table, but this feels to me like a serious sign that it's definitely No Deal now.

It was Laura Pidcock.

Fuck off, Wes.

Pretty sure Trump is boneless tbfttl

Wes was the very special guest on the last ep of the Remainiacs podcast for all you suicidal hate listeners + lovers of very fine political discourse out there!

full disclosure: I didn't last to the bit where Wes shows up.