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

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.

a chilling vision of Britain under Corbyn

Aztecs, Incas and Mayas would be his civilizations of choice, obv.

don't forget the sandworms

https://media.giphy.com/media/5t4CZ4QMyBT0I/giphy.gif

wololo

how did I not know this was a thing

at some point slightly earlier in the 90s I had a fever dream of a game of religious conversion when I had a week off school with the flu and spent it all alternately reading Terry Pratchett's "Small Gods" and playing Populous (perhaps slightly after doing an RE project on Lourdes), so I would have been very much into this

also what's good to do in Stroud? I think I went as a kid (my Nan lived near Cheltenham and had friends she'd often meet for lunch in Stroud) but as an adult I suppose I assumed it probably wasn't very good or they wouldn't have been reduced to teaming up with Swindon to form a building society

simon wren-lewis has been getting raked over the coals this week by the aggro centrists and gnasher crew, following his article expressing very lukewarm support for labour

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mIVgm7YG8ZY

did anyone get to the bottom of why the new statesman “unpublished” it?

jason cowley?

well yes but i was interested to see if he had at least attempted to explain why.

a specific bone of contention seems to have been a somewhat casually expressed comparison in mechanics of response wrt clinton’s email server and labour’s anti-semitism. swl should have been more careful possibly, but that can be corrected editorially. rather than just removed.

honestly this feels like it was 300 years ago :|

Four years to the day since Labour whipped MPs to abstain on the welfare bill, a disgraceful decision that showed how foolish triangulation was electorally, and how much harm it caused the poorest: https://t.co/5eCtDEwprU

— Dawn Foster (@DawnHFoster) July 20, 2019

hate 'em or really fucking hate 'em I say. Another companion piece to this one was them jetting Loyd Webber in from New York to vote for a cutting working tax credits bill in the Lords... happy brexit free days!

When I see blairite scum.. I see something much worse than tories.

I never have felt such hatred for politicians as I did at that moment.

for some reason I didn't think Khan had voted against it, but I knew Thornberry had abstained - a lot of her voting record is dodgy.

lol Iain Wright voted against it as well.

Totally forgot that while interim leader in 2010, Harriet Harman also fucked up on letting Tories blame the recession on Labour/public spending.

that was always such a unconditionally false line of attack, and one so simple to challenge and debunk. I think one of the problems might have been weak leadership.