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

Can't remember which one and am on the phone.

It was the 1981 British Nationality Act lol. Obviously such hypocrisy meant that the Thatcher government was owned by its own logic, was unable to extract any political capital from the falklands war and was soundly defeated at the subsequent general election

some hasty amendments were made to the act in '83 to keep the highly vigilant Murdoch press at bay as they were ready to hold the Thatcher gov to account at the first sign of incompetence.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/apr/21/new-ira-staged-derry-riot-to-impress-tv-presenter-reggie-yates

. “There is a strong belief that they were being stoked by dissidents for the benefit of the film crew,” the paper quoted one community worker as saying.

Sunday Times so take with a pinch of salt.

The cosplay ‘RA arrested for the shooting were 18 and 19.

Both have just been released without charge.

Some @ExtinctionR people got the police involved, accusing a couple of young men of pickpocketing. They have just been searched by police who found nothing. Now the police are doing an immigration check on them. Potential deportation for at worst some petty theft. Well done XR.

— Sam Swann (@SamGSwann) April 22, 2019

this is the very type of story that feeds my antipathy towards posh eco-warrior types, of course it may have been an isolated incident of comprehensive twattery - but just saying.

Claire Fox is standing as a Brexit Party MEP. The formal link-up between the Institute Of Ideas / Spiked / Furedi crew and Farage seemed inevitable.

I was agreeing with to her to some extent t'other day, probably a sign I need to kill myself! But feeling some of these green campaigners would be quite happy with a 2 tier austerity system where don't forgo air miles and ppl carriers and too much of the good life they are accustomed to, for some futile concessions that most certainly won't stop the great dying 2.0 (or 6.0 even), whilst it get's even worse for those already fucked hard by austerity. And smugness!

tbf if the value of an idea was whether oblivious wealthy people could turn it to their own ends or not there'd be no worthwhile ideas

what BTL landlords and assorted dangers do we think will announce their candidacy for CHUK today ?

nora mulready is a shoe-in. jiminy bollocks would be hilarious

Was going to say surely now Claire Fox won't be able to show up on Radio 4 as a "former communist thinker" or w/e, but actually the opposite is true isn't it?

Peter Hitchens is a former Communist, if not thinker, so don't see the problem.

there wouldn't be much need to introduce P Hitch's credentials because invariably the rambling old fucker will mention at least a few times that he used to be a trot in just about every interview.

Used to be, Claire Fox still claims to be 'of the left, lol.

she is as "of the left" as that Blue Labour fireman/trade unionist cunt is, who I can't remember the name of. But that all her main "snowflake" type hate-speak stchik is deeply small c conservative reactionary stuff is plain to see

I aspire to be described as a 'former thinker'

Gavin Esler and Rachael Johnson standing for CHUK.

Lots of overlap between Climate Extinction and Momentum/Novara types, doubt you'd get a lot of applause for austerity with those guys. I don't doubt there's some clueless rich ppl being obnoxious in the middle of it all but frankly it's too serious an issue for me to focus on that.

Also running as an MEP candidate for Change UK: former Labour councillor Frances Weetman

— Patrick Maguire (@patrickkmaguire) April 23, 2019

Absolute scenes.

Calz was wondering if any U.K. comedians would try to follow the example of Zelenskiy in Ukraine but tbh without any particularly glam jobs to be directly elected to, Esler, etc, is the calibre of ‘personality’ you are going to get,

Oh lord Rachael Johnson does not seem like a good idea to me, unless they've essentially given up in trying to win many votes/seats off Labour.

Combine that with the announcement that they won't vote against May in a VONC while continuing to campaign for a second referendum she won't offer anyway, it just doesn't make any real political sense. And trying to make the European Elections into a kind of proxy referendum is looking more like a disastrous strategic move with every passing day.

Most of left Twitter has blocked or muted Weetabix.

My Rachel Johnson story: she goes to my friend’s literary salon a lot and once when asking for assistance from staff to find her reserved seat, believed it was helpful to tell the staffer, “I’m a VIP!”

Me, standing behind her: *snort*

TIG are really amateurs who think they’re slickly pro, yes?

i: e2r dies*
ii: monarch chosen by popular acclamation on-line (= tweets)
iii: king jonathan "pie" mcpieface, first of that name

*actually she died early 2018 i mean the delayed official announcement obv

Lots of overlap between Climate Extinction and Momentum/Novara types...

is there? all commentary I’ve seen from those types seems to be along the lines “wasn’t sure about XR but they seem to be boiling all the right people’s piss so critical support”

Also running as an MEP candidate for Change UK: former Labour councillor Frances Weetman

— Patrick Maguire (@patrickkmaguire) April 23, 2019

you love to see it

announce hedges u cowards

Lmao, former Polish finance minister (super neoliberal and super conservative) is also on CUKs lists https://t.co/nHIaS8aEk5

— eggramsci 🍳 (@HelloPoli) April 23, 2019

their new logo is quite something

I may need to change my dn lest u lot start calling me comrade TIG

Weetman doesn't seem as bona fide as Hedges. Lol I thought Suzy meant everyone was blocking Weetabix through empathy with green campaigners cos it's destroying the planet!

TV Programme Idea: Big Brother, but instead of housemate “tasks” the housemates have to read and discuss a George Orwell book each week

— Frances Weetman (@francesweetman) April 23, 2019

Read and discuss some effing Orwell!

"One morning I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got into my pajamas I'll never know." - George Orwell

Here for Gavin Esler's working class friend

Weetabix was the one who showed her arse about good grades = better person than ooooooh, dunno - Jeremy Corbyn? These people *never* chat this shit about John Major.

this article posted upthread is good btw if anyone missed it: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/apr/19/who-owns-england-secretive-companies-hoarding-land

the trafford centre is p much the grandest building in manchester & it doesn't make a lot of sense until you see it as john whittaker's vanity project. amidst all the marble and gold leaf are these faux-classical portraits of him and his family, it's totally surreal & yet completely normalised. these companies are so much more powerful than any of the councils they run up against, you can't say you have a functioning democracy while that imbalance exists

tag yourself i'm 'The' pic.twitter.com/rk4DCbL0zt

— ciarán (@schmrn) April 23, 2019

change the independent group UK

I made a poll with the same joke, oops

Time for a quick poll. #ChangeUK #Tiggers #Chuggers #Cuks #Chucks #TIG - I'm firmly on #TeamThe

— uoʇƃuᴉɹɹƎ sǝɯɐſ (@weejay) April 23, 2019

I’m sure this will just be a one-off, isolated incident, it’s fine

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/apr/23/shots-fired-at-home-labour-councillor-sheffield

having once seen (and heard) the damage a shotgun discharge did to a thick wooden joist in the ceiling of a bookies I worked at during an armed robbery. I can safely say that is not fucking good and it's very lucky no-one is injured.

the discourse is good today

I asked Chuka why TIG-Change UK is using so many colours in its branding.

His response: "It's not relevant. That is Westminster bubble speak ... Oh my god! We've dared to use three or four different colours! Listen to yourself. That's the same old Westminster way."

— Thomas Colson (@tpgcolson) April 23, 2019

Out in the country, people are using colours that would blow your mind.

The 90s benetton adverts of uk politics are blowing minds.

Look, assuming people do things for reasons or have thoughts about the world outside them is the old way of doing things. Clunge.UK is for the children

Change UK, they don't care if you're black, white, purple ...

does this vile misogynist, this large adult baby, cross his arms whenever a woman is speaking

Opposition politicians genuinely co-operating cross party today to listen to @GretaThunberg and key voices from #Youthstrike4climate about what needs to happen to tackle our climate emergency.

But a no show from @theresa_may pic.twitter.com/XmUT8sGeoD

— Caroline Lucas (@CarolineLucas) April 23, 2019

in other news, the tinge candidate that did a racism has gone

is CHUK’s logo meant to symbolise all the candidates that have been redacted for doing a racism

in other news, the tinge candidate that did a racism has gone

It's okay, they've got another - oh no he's gone too.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/change-uk-brexit-racism-ali-sadjady-romania-pickpockets-european-elections-a8883241.html

lol I thought that was the one the post was referring to, these motherfuckers have a strength in depth squad of racists/xenophobes!

Look, worrying about whether using racial stereotypes is racist is old politics

Ukip: we just can't compete with CHUK in the transfer market..

people who think dead widdecorpse has comedy value are almost everything that is wrong with this country.

if you ever needed proof that CHUK are a continuity group for the long 90s... the guy from the longpigs is standing for them