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

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.

Looking at that dumb list and I'm happy that all of them are nowhere near front line politics.

Labour's loss was the Victoria and Albert Museum's gain and i don't think the talented mr Hunt has introduced admission fees yet, like he proposed should be done in the Graun some time back.

Meanwhile Michael 'I'm here to get things done and discover the new Beatles *swigs curry sauce from mug*' Dugher has put British bands back on the map.

Never heard of him tbh. Jamie Reed did the Sex Pistols covers and Iain Wright made 8 appearances for Celtic in season 1999-2000.

Seriously though, this Jamie Reed character seems like a great loss to the Labour movement:

On 12 September 2015, one minute into Jeremy Corbyn's acceptance speech as leader of the Labour Party, he publicly resigned as shadow Health Minister giving as his reason Corbyn's opposition to nuclear energy.[4]

He announced on 21 December 2016 that he would be resigning his seat at the end of January 2017 in order to take up a new role as Head of Development and Community Relations for Sellafield Ltd, triggering a by-election,[7][8] which was won by Conservative MP Trudy Harrison.[9]

ICYMI Here’s our CEO @MichaelDugher presenting @DCMS_SecOfState - Coldplay's biggest fan in Parliament - with a copy of his favourite album, X&Y, personally signed and dedicated to him by the band. pic.twitter.com/h9VNoQpknm

— UK Music (@UK_Music) July 16, 2019

so was Michael Dugher

If you need any more proof of Labour's institutional anti-Semitism look at those swastika designs hanging on the wall there >:(

the discussion of parachuting and planes reminded me that most nights when i'm dozing off these days there comes unbidden into my brain a vision of all who deserve it being bundled onto trebuchets and let fly

(i think trebuchets r ok carbon-footprint-wise?)

other nights i dream of savage clone-armies of wereworms undermining all major cities and the palaces of the powerful swallowed up into seething soothing sinkholes

just posting as i normally do here, what of it

piles of skulls is very 2018, yes i'm coming nurse

https://preview.redd.it/25z0oix6vuhz.png?width=960&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=f71e8c9612faab6f9c818b93e342fe2683aac8fe

when in doubt, get the trebuchets out!

I think you meant to post this:

https://www.forgottenempires.net/wp-content/uploads/britons_combo.png

"other nights i dream of savage clone-armies of wereworms undermining all major cities and the palaces of the powerful swallowed up into seething soothing sinkholes"

ILX is only read by 20 people but they are all being radicalised.

Great stuff from Johnny Mac, saying Jeremy Hunt has failed to protect UK vessels because he's too busy fighting the Tory leadership election.

Actually, based on having really enjoyed my trip to Stroud this week, I'll have David Drew as my next leader of choice, he seems nice

Jamie Reed is another one like Blenkinsop that spends most of the day trolling on twitter. Again spends most of his time cheering on any bad Labour news (real twisted mentality, that). I remember him for this:

@mmegannnolan
“I’m going to write about the English.”
Fine. Which ones.
“Oh, you know.”
No. Which ones?
“The evil arseholes.”
Ok. What about those with Indian grandparents?
“Not them.”
Jamaican?
“No.”
Irish?
“No.”
Scots?
“No.”
Travellers?
“No.”
What about the poor?
“...”

— Jamie Reed (@JamieFonzarelli) October 18, 2018

Not at all. Poor writing as click bait is mundane. Just don’t try to tell yourself you’re not a bigot. Try and be better. Hate for clicks is boring.

— Jamie Reed (@JamieFonzarelli) October 18, 2018

That’s your prerogative. Try and be better. Don’t be a bigot.

— Jamie Reed (@JamieFonzarelli) October 18, 2018

Be better. I didn’t earn my nationality, class, ancestry. Like I said, I know ‘hate for pay’ is where a lot of journalism is going. I know you have to front it out. I know you can’t acknowledge you’ve got it wrong. I know you have to conform. Just be better.

— Jamie Reed (@JamieFonzarelli) October 18, 2018

xxxp

Someone with a moderate opinion itt: I-
thread: wololo

Way more effective than the priests. I used to get so many killed trying to convert people.

Aztecs were the best wololo civ iirc.

Since I don't wish to derail this thread, Britons had subpar monks but made up for it with their top-tier trebuchets.

When you say Britons...

Celts were also a playable civ. I say 'were' but the game is still very much alive and a definitive edition should be out later this year.

The trebuchets were the best, just roll them in and destroy. Always made me laugh when the civ I was attacking wasted time rebuilding granaries or markets.