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

abolish the lords and deselect the lot - the adult baby takeover is not gonna happen guys

(1) Looking at the Labour right's horror-clown act and wondering what's the plan ?Isabel Hardman has afaik good contacts in the Labour right, so here Spectator has a good sense of "What are they playing at": # 1 Boris victory is better than Corbyn victory https://t.co/bvFLx9PxWt pic.twitter.com/slIOPjbrSD

— Solomon Hughes (@SolHughesWriter) July 18, 2019

Isabel Hardman has good contacts in the Labour Right? You could say that.

Hardman is currently in a relationship with John Woodcock, the Member of Parliament for Barrow and Furness,[16][17] who currently sits as an independent MP, having resigned from the Labour Party amid an investigation into claims of sexual harassment.[18]

the man with three dicks in his name encounters another

actually if woodcock is two dicks then so is hardman

It's a great time to join the labour party

Noise and gossip. No sign Corbyn is going anywhere before autumn. They have to hope Boris stays till 2022 pre- and post- no deal

this thread should have been a book, and while I don’t agree with it all, it is pretty spot on in places particularly re the labour right’s intellectual vacuity and petulance

How should the Labour right respond to Corbyn?

Many are panicking right now, due to the very high probability of an election this year. It's one which Labour could win (but I do not expect them to do so).

A longish (edit: too long) thread, giving my mostly subjective opinions.

— DPWFreeborn (@DPWF0) July 17, 2019

anti Roguing is back baby. It's good again. Awoouu (wolf Howl)

DPWFreeborn (@DPWF0) Tweeted:
It is true, Labour under Corbyn's leadership have been more cautious about taking the word from British intelligence at face value. Again, that seems pretty evidently the *right* approach.

It is true, Labour under Corbyn's leadership have been more cautious about taking the word from British intelligence at face value. Again, that seems pretty evidently the *right* approach.

— DPWFreeborn (@DPWF0) July 17, 2019

It’s one of the things that makes their pro-cop stance both incoherent and disappointing.

It is absolutely reasonable to criticise Labour on that basis. It has countless weaknesses and problems and mistakes. But *that* is the basis on which you should criticize Labour.

Not the demonic bugbear you have conjured from your nightmares.

— DPWFreeborn (@DPWF0) July 17, 2019

Toynbee is backbiting into Corbyn again (but being nice to McD). erm.. sk-woooo--o--oeee ..arr..(dying pigeon death rasp)

Is that a cue to link the greatest Early Day Motion ever I see?
https://edm.parliament.uk/early-day-motion/24837

I also believe that Corbyn makes an excellent pigeon noise here: https://youtu.be/PMAqaavPcz8 (3.49, tw: Piers Morgan)

I hope John McT is making note of the rock-solid evidence I just threw out there proving that Corbyn is working for his pigeon masters. Get him, John!

In actual news

Commons carries a crucial amendment to stop prorogation of Parliament by new PM against its wishes for the purpose of forcing through no-deal Brexit. 315/274. Majority of 41 https://t.co/Yjih7sX2Op

— Labour Whips (@labourwhips) July 18, 2019

Looks like around 17 Tory MPs voted to prevent prorogation against wishes of Parliament.

— Labour Whips (@labourwhips) July 18, 2019

Tories who did not vote on the prorogation amendment. Some may have been slipped/paired pic.twitter.com/nQ6G2lSIdi

— Emilio Casalicchio (@e_casalicchio) July 18, 2019

keeping pigeons was banned in occupied France, nazis understood that pigeons were actually weapons of mass destruction!

My hot take is that there was never any intention of proroguing Parliament but they just had to make it sound like they would to gain Tory votes. Johnson is probably slightly relieved if anything.

Lovely article about wartime pigeons here: https://www.lrb.co.uk/v41/n07/jon-day/operation-columba

Rory Stewart mysteriously absent on high quality photo day.

some fascinating stories in the op Columba piece, AF. I've reached my LRB free article limit, but thankfully you can still listen to the full audio version of it if you have.

interestingly Hawking Divisions are making a comeback as drone hunters these days.

I'd love to have my own personal hawking division: seize that fule's scalp over yonder, Lightning!

Plankton for morons:

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/jul/18/boris-johnson-claims-about-kippers-fishy-brussels-says

boris talking to his base freebasing again.

bottom feeders the lot of 'em

sometimes I think if Shaun Ryder had an RP accent and even without couching his language with much florid verbosity to try make himself sound cleverer than he is, he would still be a more insightful leader of the Conservative party than Boris is ever going to be. This is where I concur with mark s, boris has reached a bad level of wet-brain degeneracy or something, he's just not quite all there.

My friend who I may have mentioned before as witness to BJ stalking a woman she used to know said she was alarmed by how empty/parts missing emotionally he seemed to be, and that was describing the BJ of 10-15 years ago.

Come on people can grow as they get older!

stephen bush and diane abbott are bad now:

Quite sad that #bbctw ends tonight. V good piece on it by @HackneyAbbott here: https://t.co/CnwCG9jqmS

— Stephen Bush (@stephenkb) July 18, 2019

(i haven't read the piece)

"never surpassed"

that's like saying not many horses ever got past Quixall Crossett.

(not read the piece either because I prefer making flip comments about things I'm never going to read!)

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/boris-johnson-s-biographer-i-know-too-well-the-fire-and-fury-lurking-behind-that-smile-03gqmxt5v

"Even as a child his temper was legendary within the Johnson family. He once came to blows with his sister Rachel after a row over the identity of the lead singer of the Clash."

To be fair, Mick Jones did his fair share of singing.

has fists of (big audio) dynamite does this lad.

Imagine being so vile that the only thing you can think of to insult Leo is him being half Indian

Boris Johnson on Varadkar: ‘Why isn’t he called Murphy like all the rest of them’ https://t.co/XLFXGg4y0d via @IrishTimesOpEd

— Irish Times Opinion (@IrishTimesOpEd) July 18, 2019

You're called Johnson you sassanach cunt

Hope the circa 20% of voters who are Asian in his constituency are paying attention.

the state of the lesser NS
https://mainlymacro.blogspot.com/2019/07/reaction-to-there-is-only-one.html?m=1

Imagine being so vile that the only thing you can think of to insult Leo is him being half Indian

Most pieces of shit aren't half as foul as Boris.

most pieces of shit don't have the schooling, the reasoning or the academic intelligence to construct a cathedral of vileness comparable to those of men like johnson

he is sophistry and selfishness personified

Nothing screams erudition quite like using 'Murphy' as a stand-in for all Irish people.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/17/books/boris-johnson-72-virgins.html

as a 2nd gen irish he's radicalising me, I'm ready to enlist for the RA sleeper squad again!

Yeah I see no reason to credit him with intelligence or reasoning, however you modify those words.

if there ever was anything like that there, it's gone now.. that's plain to see.

Tbf we can't and shouldn't rule out the possibility that he was slyly alluding to Sam Beckett's second novel, thus demonstrating his nonpareil knowledge of the Irish avant-garde.

just started reading dante and the lobster yesterday, weirdly!

there's a nice new little edition of it for like a fiver in foyle's. i couldn't help getting it.

Nice. I'll take its 'epiphany' over most of Joyce's.