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

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

I like to think 90's indie encompasses all the worst elements from UK politics (tories-meltzone-spiked crew). I might be wrong but there is something pleasing to me about that theory!

... turrican.

Look, Britpop was the old way of doing things. In fact it didn't exist. Sensible people need to come together and restore a sense of Gaz Coombes in our fractured political system.

Stella Creasy loves da Shed 7 and Tom Watson shed 7 stone.

Gaz Coombes, probably a bit of a muddle-brained monkey (despite the obv musical genius) but also a bit of a quiet crypto-tory methinks!

Austerity forced all these bands to reform. Truly despicable policy.

I do hope they go for Crispian Mills now, ideally without bothering to check his past pronouncements.

I'd say he looks like the bastard son of Bojo and Hayley Mills in jest .. but ...

what was his controversy? bhuddist swastikas or something? I can't remember.

there is definitely no crypto about his tory!

another TIG candidate bites the dust for racism

he was no. 1 on their list on scotland. he tweeted “black women scare me” and that the owner of dominos was a “loony catholic”

Also a vocal critic of...prosecuting paedophiles.

The owner of Dominos absolutely was a loony catholic, tbf.

he sounds like a typical Spiked contributor.

Crispian Mills' crime was definitely being an idiot rather than a fascist but there's no idiot like a posh idiot, innit me blokes

Can the Beeb arrange for Andrew Neil to interview this Greta Thunberg character? Because afterwards I guarantee we’ll never hear from her again. She may even have a meltdown on national telly into the bargain.

— Helen Dale (@_HelenDale) April 23, 2019

I don't even know who this aussie pos is, but to talk about an autistic meltdown in such a snidey jocular way - means I hope she dies painfully ..very soon. Twats like that make me pro- XR times 10.