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

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.

I have a big Remainiacs fan on my FB timeline and around the time of the pro-EU march he posted a Remainiacs macro for the event which was, like, the sun rising over a field with "Good Morning, Britain" or something like that written on it. Straight up taking cues from Reagan, lol.

lol! the bit I listened to was talking someone who though it was a big wheeze to join the Conservative party as a melt entryist!

Well sometimes people want an excuse

I sometimes dream of joining them tho, I enjoy beer and the company of gammons and you've gotta believe you'd soar thru the ranks

Beer & The Company of Gammons is my favourite Wodehouse novel.

"What ho! Gammons" is mine yes

Streeting retweeted the “Corbyn is controlled by rich Jews” tweet I mentioned upthread too.

I honestly am not sure there is a more valuable individual poster in a thread than calz in this one

Islamophobic claims, overt or insinuated, that Labour has been taken over by or serves the interests of "the Muslims" are commonplace on social media AND throughout our press.

No one cares. pic.twitter.com/tNe5ZzNQvk

— Andrew Bartlett (@AndrewBartletta) July 16, 2019

Wes Streeting doorstepped for Phil Woolas in a campaign so openly racist that Woolas' victory was overturned in the courts, and then defended him publicly afterward. he has no place lecturing others on bigotry of any kind

— wariotifo (@wariotifo) July 10, 2019

🔄 Tracy Ann Oberman retweeted pic.twitter.com/Er2VYt6Wjg

— Jonathan Fisher (@fishplums) July 16, 2019

this is the best TAO tidbit:

Former Eastenders actress Tracy-Ann Oberman slams 'pretentious' restaurant after husband accidentally eats napkin
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/former-eastenders-actress-tracyann-oberman-slams-pretentious-restaurant-after-husband-accidentally-a3732841.html

Sent from my iPhone

Wes previously had a pop at Laura Pidcock for referencing the General Strike of the 20's, but he got it mixed with Winter of Discontent in the 70's. Which is a common line of attack from the tories against Labour, but a very weak one as the spring, summer, and autumns of discontent that followed under a thatcher went on much longer and besides a member of the labour party who parrots this nonsense is a fucking disgrace tbf - even if he gets it all wrong!

Easily the best Streeting content on twitter (beside his ancient tweets)

pic.twitter.com/Gj1EIasCWD

— wint MP (@parliawint) February 7, 2018

Any member of the Labour Party who uses the phrase Winter of Discontent should be suspended immediately and expelled shortly thereafter.

God I'm shit at posting on phones but that is the gist of what I was driving at!

I'd take no deal over no Brexit, says Labour's Sarah Champion https://t.co/Cl6YtDO6UI

— The Guardian (@guardian) July 16, 2019

Christ, she’s got some weird views out there lately.

Porn block: Margot James 'extremely sorry' for delay. Sorry won’t prevent children from viewing this stuff https://t.co/jC2IL4b6QL

— Sarah Champion (@SarahChampionMP) July 15, 2019

didn't see this at the time, has just surfaced on the tl... lmaoooo

London 2012 organisers had to stop Jeremy Hunt putting Hitler in the opening ceremony, documentary reveals
https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/jeremy-hunt-hitler-london-olympics-2012-opening-ceremony-world-war-two-a7141791.html

Mike Gapes with the hair of Steve Evans. pic.twitter.com/hyq5Pn6Cy9

— Football Manager Hair on Politicians (@visualsatire) June 26, 2019

this made me choke!

That whole account is gold

Sajid Javid with the hair of Ray Wilkins. pic.twitter.com/OaxHKldkXT

— Football Manager Hair on Politicians (@visualsatire) June 24, 2019