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

I suspect it'll be Boris doing the cosying up tbh.

“If Boris Johnson is the next Prime Minister and is unable to get a better deal from the European Union by the 31st of October, he should ask the EU for an extension to the UK’s leaving date”

Agree: 33%
Disagree: 36%

via @ComRes, 15 - 16 Julhttps://t.co/w1YhXsBJDI

— Britain Elects (@britainelects) July 19, 2019

Sample Size: 2,038 GB Adults

always reassuring to see they get their polling data from adults!

curtzino is the saving of my Friday!

Great Big Adults, no less

2000 adults Vs 20 readers of ilx

lmao thread

In the last week we have seen:

The former General Secretary of the Labour Party criticising decisions for which he was responsible and being taken entirely seriously.

— Socialist Dad (@shirleymush) July 19, 2019

The Guardian just raised the possibility of Dominic Raab as Home Secretary which tbh terrifies me more than Johnson as PM.

maybe it's for the best these cunts will all be in situ when the revolution comes

Love too watch this thread radicalising people in real time

I can imagine Rabat having an outsize influence as I can’t really see Johnson and Truss doing much work.

You don’t hear much about the Moroccan lobby these days.

Been a while since we had a proper escalation:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jul/19/british-tanker-iran-capture-fears-stena-impero-uk-ship-latest

The source added that Britain had raised its ship security level to 3, the highest category, for British-flagged ships in Iranian waters early on Tuesday.

“Level 3 for shipping would be comparable to ‘critical’ and that is where there is a much-heightened risk ..,” the British source said. “We went to level 3 for Iranian waters at the start of this week.

maybe the IRGC have gone up to level 4, too bad!

It’s less an escalation than reciprocity. idk how, under the current political circumstances, you accidentally sail into Iranian water.

The original seizure of the Iranian tanker by the Royal Marines was legit strange in a way that I’ve not seen fully articulated in the press coverage, tbh.

they are saying it happened in an international waterway, but looking at that map of there isn't much distance between mainland Iran and any of that waterway there.

If any media personnel is reading this, the ship is British flagged, that doesn't mean it's a British ship, it's ran by a Swedish company, operated by a Scottish company.

lol!

Iranian news agencies apparently reporting they have taken a 2nd tanker.

Can't really blame them tbh. Still, this does not bode well.

when I saw Rory trending I thought he might have selflessly offered himself as a peace envoy/hostage to Iran, to go there in full Islamic dress with a bag of plunder from the British Museum. But alas it is only golf related crap!

as a speaker of dari (basically just a dialect of farsi) i think he's the man for the job

Del Piero’s resignation letter is a peach.

A Labour Party so stricken that it can’t keep someone like ⁦@GloriaDePiero⁩ on its benches is in deep, deep trouble. This, from her resignation speech tonight. pic.twitter.com/b1M6ANAhZz

— Tom Newton Dunn (@tnewtondunn) July 19, 2019

Gloria the latest in a long line of young talent to walk: Heidi Alexander, Tristram Hunt, Jamie Reed, Iain Wright, Michael Dugher, Tom Blenkinsop, Chuka Ummuna, Chris Leslie, Luciana Berger. Like the Aztecs, sacrificing their best.

— Tom Newton Dunn (@tnewtondunn) July 19, 2019

pissed myself laughing @ this Newton Dunce comment as well.

Gloria the latest in a long line of young talent to walk: Heidi Alexander, Tristram Hunt, Jamie Reed, Iain Wright, Michael Dugher, Tom Blenkinsop, Chuka Ummuna, Chris Leslie, Luciana Berger. Like the Aztecs, sacrificing their best.

— Tom Newton Dunn (@tnewtondunn) July 19, 2019

Side note that the political editor of The Sun thinks Heidi Alexander was a Labour MP.

oops!

easy mistake to make when you are making lists of arsehole tories.

gyac has corrected me - Heidi Alexander was a Labour MP

Heidi Alexander was the Labour MP for Lewisham who quit to work with Sadiq Khan.

Lol @ Tom Blenkinsop in that list, though. His seat went Tory in 2017, against the grain, and he jumped before he got booted. Now he spends all day everyday on twitter tweeting anti-Labour trolls and punching left. Does he even work?

Here he is lecturing Diane Abbott on racism:

So you’re saying Labour isn’t now institutionally racist...but every leader prior to summer 2015 was more racist than the present leader?

Contortions of logic encapsulated within self delusion.

— Tom Blenkinsop (@TomBlenkinsop) September 10, 2018

ahh ..Heidi Allen confusion. That Newton Dunce comment is still hilariously bad

I keep imagining that TND tweet as sung by Neil Young.

Let's just say that on Monday these people get their way and Corbyn resigns. Do they really think that he's going to be replaced by a pliant 2006ish centrist? Because with the membership the way it is that's bordering on delusional.

It's possible that Labour MPs could prevent even a token lefty from getting through the nominations process but the make up of the PLP is considerably different from 2015 and any contest would be very different. Not gonna happen, obviously.

When it got to Tristram I was sure it was a joke

Is there an unabashed left-wing alternative to Corbyn within the Labour Party?

some say Rebecca Long-Bailey is the heir apparent.

she's one of them 2nd gen Irish so obv a friend of terrorists!

RLB is John McDonnell’s choice I think but I prefer Laura Pidcock. There’s tons of leftish alternatives, I don’t see who the right could put up as a unity candidate.

Yvette Cooper is the people's choice. The people of the political commentariat, that is.

ideally they'd need someone who is a mix between Tristam Hunt and Yvette Cooper, with the swagger of Rory S.

to the political commentariat "talent" = looking like a classic squared nice but dim tim tory. that is literally their only criteria of judging a pols talent.

squared jaw

of course they have be corrupt corporate shills as well.

It's not just a simple left-right thing any more, stance on Europe is going to be a huge issue from now on which is another reason it's not going to be Cooper. She has been genuinely helpful in frustrating the Tories' more destructive tendencies this year but she represents a heavily Leave-voting constituency and has already committed to not blocking Brexit.

It's possible she could row back on this (hell, she's rowed back on worse) but even then it's difficult to see her making it credibly stick.

parachute in empress caroline and announce green labour merger

posting as i always do

nah parachuting involves flying, she'd have to be catapulted with one constructed from forest-friendly timber of course.

How do I block Newton-Dunn tweets itt thx

FPed Tom ND.

Despite having the middle name Zoltan he is somehow bad.

Even Caroline Lucas would laugh at the idea of joining Labour.