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

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

she just wants a chance to kill some more disabled people with a 2nd tory coalition. But this time try and make it like she didn't trade their lives for bullshit gestural politics - some more noble reason for pushing them into destitution and death.

Timothy Garton-Ash:

What nearly died was not liberal Britain, but the Liberal party. (That was the subject of George Dangerfield’s celebrated Strange Death.) Pull up the graph of the Liberals’ electoral performance over the last 100 years and you have the side-view of a fairground rollercoaster. Having been one of the major parties of government for six decades until the end of the first world war, it sunk to a small minority (in votes and, due to an unfair electoral system, even more in seats) between 1931 and the early 1970s. It then revived, strengthened by an alliance and eventual merger with the Social Democrats, who had broken away from the Labour party – hence the name change to Liberal Democrats – and in 2005 got 62 parliamentary seats, its best result since 1923. In 2010, with 57 MPs, it scored the apparent triumph of going into coalition government with the Conservatives, only to be punished for the sin of pragmatism by an electoral dressing-down to eight MPs in 2015, and just a few more after the 2017 snap election.

Tommy boy, you and your big mouth...

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7153977/Tom-Watson-quit-says-son-peer-falsely-accused-rape-Carl-Beech.html

idk, which noted campaigner against antisemitism hasn’t accused one of the most prominent Jewish politicians in British history of being 'as close to evil as any human could get' for his role in a completely fictional child murder conspiracy at one point or another?

you see Tom this bundle of David Peace novels you bought from your local oxfam ... just because they were in the non-fiction it doesn't mean they actually are non-fiction... think about it!

xp weird how similar this is to the fantasists across the Atlantic (and ofc their stories are riddled with antisemitism too). That Britton thing smacks of blood libel, y/n?

Waiting for the massed guffaws the next time Watson questions Corbyn's judgement.

MEANWHILE:

Hi @johnmcdonnellMP your office has just emailed to say you are coming to speak at an event in Walthamstow today. I don’t know where or what it is as not invited myself but you might want to be aware there’s a major fire here affecting travel options.

— stellacreasy (@stellacreasy) July 22, 2019

Thanks Stella. Sorry to hear about fire & hope everyone is safe. I’m not at a meeting in Walthamstow today. I was hoping to speak at a SERA meeting there last Saturday & my office emailed to let you know. My earlier meeting overran & I couldn’t make it. We emailed you to say.

— John McDonnell MP (@johnmcdonnellMP) July 22, 2019

I'm sure an email would have sufficed, unless Stella Creasy has another agenda? https://t.co/tfyGg5LCLT

— Jerry Hicks (@JerryHicksUnite) July 22, 2019

Hi @JerryHicksUnite have tried that the previous times it has happened and no response. Seems twitter is indeed a better way of getting a message to him after all which is a relief! 👍 https://t.co/s1BCLMEeK0

— stellacreasy (@stellacreasy) July 22, 2019

And extremely good MP Alex Sobel channeling SV’s dress sense:

pic.twitter.com/yOevPtqQMU

— (((Alex Sobel MP))) (@alexsobel) July 20, 2019

Didnt think of the blood libel/pizzagate parallels before - there is definitely something sinister there all right.

xp I like it!

Lol made my evening has that.

dissolve jeremy corbyn in a vat of acid in front of a crowd of millions of supporters gathered in hyde park

you love to imagine seeing it tbh

I don’t know where or what it is as not invited myself

chills

my policy has been to nonchalantly roll my eyes at anything Stella says before i even read it these days. It works for her when people start talking about the damage caused by austerity on QT.

but never forget she's a fucking cracking constituency MP.

Some fresh bullshit
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/jul/22/wework-us-brexit-european-medicines-agency

aggro centrists circling the wagons for jolyon swinson

hi john, just to let you know that you might want to reconsider coming to that event you pointedly didn't invite me to in case you burn to death, cheers pic.twitter.com/mmEQxvwsg2

— Stan The Golden Boy (@tristandross) July 22, 2019

I mean this with love, but I am really curious to see the shapes some of you will writhe yourselves into regarding the Labour-Lib Dem government.

Didn’t know Chuka posted here.

As a minister in the Tory LibDem govt, LibDem leadership candidate Jo Swinson enthusiastically slashed workers rights so hard that the high court had to overturn her "reform" -charging workers £k's for tribunals- calling it a "denial of justice" https://t.co/iI72uWBjOO

— Solomon Hughes (@SolHughesWriter) July 22, 2019

I mean this with love, but I am really curious to see the shapes some of you will writhe yourselves into regarding the Labour-Lib Dem government.

― Andrew Farrell, Monday, July 22, 2019 2:35 PM (eight minutes ago)

Swinson would never

Confidence-and-supply agreement with a second referendum as a precondition seems more likely than a coalition with Labour. Difficult to see them entering any kind of agreement with Johnson as PM although who even knows any more.

I for one will welcome the adults into government with open arms

This also supposes they win enough seats to hold the balance of power in anything, she can't do worse than Farron and she'll be built up as a kind of Ruth Davidson cuddly moderate figure - if they win many seats they're more likely to be at the expense of the Tories than Labour.

going to be funny when both conservatives' and LDs' leaders lose their seats at the next GE

I mean this with love, but I am really curious to see the shapes some of you will writhe yourselves into regarding the Labour-Lib Dem government.

― Andrew Farrell, Monday, 22 July 2019 21:35 (twenty-three minutes ago) link

Here for the tough love

going to be funny when both conservatives' and LDs' leaders lose their seats at the next GE

― ||||||||, Monday, July 22, 2019 2:59 PM (four minutes ago)

ach i imagine swinson will be fine. east dunbartonshire toffs will be happy enough with a thatcherite liberal as their mp

personally cannot wait for CONDEM II... accompanied by much sucking of teeth, mumbling about grown_ups_acting_in_the_national_interest and caping for further tory austerity behind the need to "moderate the worst excesses of a tory hard brexit"

aye don't think JS will realistically lose her seat, just idly fantasising - 5% swing needed, and you'd have to think the CON and LAB (unionist/remainer) bloc would collapse into LDs not SNP

we’ve been over this with the swinson fanfic posted upthread - iirc it all ends with her standing resolutely in the rain outside buckingham palace after an election and the queen invites her in for a cuppa and asks her to be pm

then corbyn is dissolved in acid &c &c

(xxp) She's lost the seat before, remember.

2015 election was a trip but. unionist voters showed a wee bit more nous next time round

Labour voters, what's left of them, should vote SNP just to get her out.

She is an active campaigner against packaging of chocolate Easter eggs, and each year from 2007 saw Swinson attack confectionery manufacturers for what she sees as excessive packaging of the seasonal goods. She has named Guylian as the worst offender, followed by Lindt, Baileys and Cadbury.

Labour voters, what's left of them, should vote SNP just to get her out.

― Arthur Lowe & Love (Tom D.), Monday, July 22, 2019 3:13 PM (two minutes ago)

they willnae but

We'll see.

In the area of employment, she was supportive of both zero hours contracts and flexible working, seeking to promote the latter especially. On minimum wage, in February 2013 Swinson joined calls by other ministers to warn that "caution" was required when increasing it any further amid claims that minimum wage could be cut or frozen if it began costing jobs.

minimally-packaged easter eggs and utterly craven corporate bootlicking: a few of jo swinson’s favourite things