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

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some lordly polling from that twat of The Verve's dad. Some Labour Remain voters apparently don't harbour unconditionally hatred for the LibDems and fucking Jo Swinson and feel slightly only slightly more positive about the Labour Party than they do about Nicola Sturgeon!

idk, there's a clear winner at least ;)

yeah the brexit party!

I bet if you googled "irish journalist on brexit" you'd have got a whole page of Tony Connelly until this last week. We are now truly in the Fintan O'Toole age.

Nobody really knows anything about Jo Swinson so I'm not sure how much stock I'd put in that. Most respondents probably don't even realise she was a junior member of the coalition. Including Clegg in the poll would have been interesting.

The Green response is better than the Brexit Party's because its less polarised, partly because they aren't really a threat to anyone and only headbangers want to look like they don't give a shit about the environment.

The other big take home from that poll is that Labour Leave voters on the whole don't feel positively about anyone. You'd think there'd be an opportunity there for someone but hard to find where it would fit in our current political system.

There's not much point arguing about it until it happens

lol we've been doing that for a few weeks now you know.

The point I was making -- that the fate of NI is indepedent of whoever is minister for it -- is not provable but I suppose until he is confirmed it remains to be seen how he will be able to push for the dissolution of the Good Friday Agreement, or seek to undermine it, in ways other than pushing for Hard Brexit, which the rest of a Boris cabinet would be doing anyway.

Ultimately what I've been saying...of which this is but the latest iteration on: Hunt PM/Brexiteer-remain mix in cabinet pushing for Brexit to go through is not that different from Boris PM/Hard Brexit cabinet loudly pushing for deal or no deal by 31st October. It might look better (or less grotesque) if Hunt were in charge but I doubt it will make any difference if the medicine you need isn't available in the counter next week, or for the fate of NI/Ireland border.

Even Raab/Patel/Unchained lot has been on cards for a while...the question is how long can it last when the thing they are pushing for would make it incredibly difficult to carry out post-hard Brexit shock. Especially when the people involved don't look like they have a detailed plan besides a desire for an outcome.

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If there was a snap election it's practically guaranteed the bbc will find and interview shitloads of northern 2017 Labour Leave voters who despise Corbyn and are perfectly amicable with Mr Farage and very positive about his party, because we just want them to get on with it .... etc

They did so during the last election, even if the eventual result wasn't quite what they'd been hoping and working for.

My main takeaway from that poll: the rich don't know how to spend the money they have stolen from us.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/22/opinion/boris-johnson-prime-minister-britain.html?smid=tw-nytopinion&smtyp=cur

Don't think this is v good (and I really like James Butler).

tl:dr summary: 'lol we're all gonna die'

Sorry but if we could land on the moon surely we can solve Brexit

David Icke is the key to figuring it all out.

Sorry but if we could land on the moon surely we can solve Brexit

the moon landings were a hoax, so where does that leave us

friction is real = space is fake

^^^the actual scientific root of all bad politics, in this tweetstorm i will arg

If Chris Davies and now Charles Elphicke, charged with sexual assault, lose by-elections the Tories majority would be down to 2. Dover v much winnable for Labour.

this fuckin' guy

Oh no. I'm devastated. 😭 Cried a river. He was such a... a...

Anyway, what's for lunch?#tinyviolin 🎻 https://t.co/Mrpu8oGuzu

— Ben Bradley MP (@bbradleymp) July 22, 2019

On the 19th of February I made a defamatory statement about @jeremycorbyn. I have apologised to Mr Corbyn and here is the complete text of my apology. Please retweet. pic.twitter.com/6JZc8O9E82

— Ben Bradley MP (@bbradleymp) February 24, 2018

Antoinette Sandbach MP otm about the "extraordinarily low quality of new MP we have" in response.

Totally normal behaviour from an MP with a 2% majority.

Nobody really knows anything about Jo Swinson

Most of the collaborating bastards have been knighted - Clegg, Cable, Alexander, Davey - she somehow missed out. Also she lost her seat once to the SNP, fingers crossed she loses it again as leader.

👏knight👏Jo👏Swinson👏

something with a sword, anyway

bad look Co sobering what happened to the last remainiac mp of that forename

*considering

I saw this piece on twitter the other day that showed that Swinson and Davey (the great moderating force on the tories) voted with the tory whip more times than fucking Jeremy Cunt did during the coalition.

Yes, she's awful. Every post-Charlie Liberal is vile.

The Ben Bradley tweet has been deleted, what was it about?

it was abt alan duncan resigning

dom joly is now roasting him about deleting it

the real resistance.

there can be few clearer signs that you've made very poor life decisions than finding yourself in the position of being roasted by dom joly

me in my guardian column tomorrow

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Dominic John Romulus Joly is an English television comedian and journalist, best known as the star of Trigger Happy TV

fucking romulus, smdh

there can be few clearer signs that you've made very poor life decisions than finding yourself in the position of being spitroasted by dom joly

corrected for accuracy

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the romulans were twats so it fits, i guess

just lolled at Dom Joly for the first time in my life.

dom jolyon

truly Brexit has radicalized us all

sweet shitting christ

absolutely- you should be hoovering up the votes right now- we've had enough of the loony 10% on each fringe https://t.co/f5rd6mIPqP

— Dom Joly (@domjoly) July 22, 2019

damn straight Tim "Gays Burn in Hell" Farron should be hoovering up the votes from the loony fringes

His full name is Tim I-Prefer-Not-To-Be-Drawn-On-Whether-Gays-Burn-In-Hell Farron, that was just a nickname.

His full first name is Tim, though.

dom joly's twitter is 100% cursed and my life is markedly poorer for having spent the last five minutes scrolling through it

it was funny watching Davey and Swinson under the mildest duress from the Sky interviewer the other day, being asked the hypocrisy of their fracking stance and donations they've received from some big fracking corp. and the weak as piss defence was "b-b-b..but they also do green projects as well y'know".

pretty sure the history of Lib Dem economic thinking is "let the oligarchs do what they want but ask them nicely if they'll tidy up afterwards"

the special relationship, you love to see it

The UK must be responsible for the safety of its own ships in the Gulf, the US secretary of state, Mike Pompeo, has said.

His remarks reflect unresolved tensions between Britain and the US over Donald Trump’s plans for a US-led military convoy to protect international shipping operating off the Iranian coast.

Speaking on Fox News, Pompeo said: “The responsibility in the first instance falls to the United Kingdom to take care of their ships. The US has a responsibility to do its part.”

started by Churchill to try polish the glistening turd that was the bankrupt, dying BE iirc. Parroted by many delusional eejits from all UK parties since.. just embarrassing and delusional that ppl parrot this claptrap in 2019.

in other news, congrats to jo swinson on her ascension to libdem leader and then, inevitably, to number 10, where she will harness the power of centrism to heal the rift of brexit, solve climate change, and dissolve jeremy corbyn in a vat of acid in front of a crowd of millions of supporters gathered in hyde park