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

his dad! Great Fergie anecdote

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Gardiner_(footballer,_born_1911)

Gardiner returned to Queen's Park after his playing career and taught a young Alex Ferguson, Ferguson had complained that an opponent had bitten him during the game and Gardiner told Ferguson to "bite him back". Gardiner became president of the club in the 1960s.

Didn't want to bring that up meself ^^, but I'm fairly certain I speak on behalf of the *huge* (..) ILF massive that we welcome you for deliberations and shit-posting on next seasons' EP thread, Gyac!

I like shitposting but I already live with one Spurs fan, not sure I could cope with a whole thread of ye

oof

one british open and a few hurling trophies and the lip curls up easy enough but

A burn more solid than Spurs' back four.

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xp :D

Nah I don’t mean it like that! Just that the emotions are too much for me in multiple...

https://youtu.be/ifQxEurjiDo exiting this thread but not before posting the time Bercow appeared on Arsenal fan tv

look youve said your piece and we'll see you out there at kick off *doesnt shake hands*

El Clasico <3

xp

xp excuse you, I am a good wife and supportive of the other half when his team wins, and my own mother has adopted Spurs as her second team. So if you would not...

*loses ffs, why would I need to be supportive when Spurs win

I like shitposting but I already live with one Spurs fan, not sure I could cope with a whole thread of ye

It's no picnic for the rest of us, let me tell you.

*dragged away from gyac, makes "mouthing" gestures with hand, points to tunnel*

No-one needs that much Spurs in their lives. Enough's enough.

xp to gyac obv

No no, I think it has wider applications.

Well, Tripier's gone, reducing 'wider applications' by quite a margin tbf

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2019/jul/23/health-secretary-buries-paper-smoking-obesity-johnson

grovelling lickspittle Hancock at it again, clear case of physiognomic determination because he looks like a classic toady. He had a furious argument with May who forced him to put the paper out and threatened to take his dept heading off it. can't be upsetting boris :0=

Hey if he's lucky he'll be demoted before he gets the chance to take any shit for it.

Toady is the prefect description of him, with emphasis on toad.

Before today gets really mental I just want to post this very good thread:

[Thread] My book focuses a lot on Blairism and I've interviewed several key New Labour figures as part of my research. I've been reflecting on his premiership today https://t.co/vAVFxHfpFo

— Ellie Mae O'Hagan 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 (@MissEllieMae) July 22, 2019

as prof D Edgerton says in Rise & Fall of the British Nation, people became so blindingly determined to get the Tories out, a lot of them didn't notice they were voting another set of tories in. With the huge mandate he had iirc Blair's first acts were monstering single parents + cutting their benefits and then going far more aggressively with NHS PFI's than even John Major thought was permissible. I think one of his choice quotes at time was along the lines "you could build a new hospital a week with what them feckless scroungers get".

there was a significant spend on tax credits and things were much better than they are now in terms of working/child poverty, homeless services, youth services etc a sort of paternalist One Nation Thatcherism. But their true ruthless, nasty Thatcherite colours started to show through after the crash.

getting the

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feeling again this morning at the certainty of prime minister boris johnson popping into number 10 tomorrow

lol we're all gonna die

... of embarrassment, if nothing else.

I was talking this nutcase in the park this morning. And he says you know what is coming next in this country? And I thought he was going to say a neolib dictatorship with half the brittania unchained lunatics in key positions in the cabinet. No he says Socialism, and he didn't mean a Corbyn government. So possibly he has a slight misunderstanding of socialism means!

TS Nutcase in the Park vs. Man in Pub.

I voted Labour in 1997 still half convincing myself that Blair's position was at least partly a PR act or that he'd be balanced out by the Party's left. That was the last time I voted Labour in a GE for 20 years.

Nigel Evans, the Conservative backbench MP, told the BBC: “The only thing that’s certain is that Larry the Cat is going to stay in place as the Downing Street cat.

“Prime ministers come and go, Larry remains in place.”

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didn't blair have the no.10 cat drowned or something?

Same here (as NV), except I've voted Labour in every GE since, Corbyn is my MP after all.

failing to repudiate austerity & punching left... LDs clearly think the route to more seats runs through tory-LD home county marginals

I hope Ellie's book has more to offer than account of the New Labour years. She might have interviewed ppl and all but I've read thousands of posts along those lines.

xp = I hope Ellie's book has something on Blair drowning the no 10 kitty.

They're right. (xp)

I may have voted for EMil in 15 tbh, depends whether I got drunk enough on the day to forget the racist monolith

2001: a race odyssey

2015: a race odyssey obv, goddammit

Boris definitely strikes me as the cat kicking type #prayforlarry

I was one of them young people on twitter who was inspired to vote through Iannucci's avuncular encouragement to get out there and use your vote for goodness sake! And I voted for either Britain First or UKIP in every election since.

failing to repudiate austerity & punching left... LDs clearly think the route to more seats runs through tory-LD home county marginals

FWIW I think she's right on this, a lot of Labour seats either have unassailable majorities or are in areas where the LibDems trail heavily. I mean look at all that blue:

http://www.electionpolling.co.uk/battleground/targets/liberal-democrat

And if they've any self-awareness they'll realise that they're still toxic with a substantial section of Labour voters. The wavering Tories are easier pickings.

strap in folks, it's con/dem coalition time again

Jo Swinson, the new Lib Dem leader, has again ruled out working with Jeremy Corbyn, branding him a Brexiter who cannot be trusted to fight for a second referendum to keep the UK in the EU.

She said her door was open to MPs from other parties who wanted to work towards a second referendum.

But she said the Lib Dems could not join a pact with Labour while Corbyn was leader, even in the event of a hung parliament.

Speaking on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme, Swinson was scathing about Labour’s Brexit approach, even though the party has now said it would support a referendum on any deal put forward.

“There is nothing to suggest Jeremy Corbyn can be trusted on Brexit or that he will campaign to remain. Let’s remember in the last referendum he went on holiday for two weeks in the middle of it. Forgive me for not believing Jeremy Corbyn’s newly mouthed words on Brexit. He can barely bring himself to say the words people’s vote,” she said.

“I’m not supporting Jeremy Corbyn. If we are to have an election I would fight as Lib Dem leader as the party of remain that hasn’t equivocated on this like Jeremy Corbyn.

“There are plenty of people in the Labour party that I can work with, that I do work with. But Jeremy Corbyn is a Brexiteer. He cannot be trusted on Brexit. That is abundantly clear.

“And to boot he is somebody that is failing to deal with the scourge of antisemitism in his own party.”

can’t wait for the PLP to use this as a casus beli for another failed coup

'corbyn is a brexiteer, so it is with a heavy heart that i must ally with the party of brexit to govern the nation'

finally, a grown up

Lib Dems posting as they normally do

now I'm super excited to tie myself in knots defending the coming LibLab coalition

the LibDems really do inflame my murderous tankie sensibilities, their politics suck so much shit and they have that added smugness that they are the nice party.