PMs change and lol we're all gonna die (but brexit will never end)

i just discovered* a south african metalband called BOARGAZM so i feel i am way ahead of everyone, they play in pig masks

*in the columbus sense of discovered = just now came across something many many ppl already knew about

"It was a frost-coated day in a late Autumn when my room mate at university inserted the Boagazm classic "The Baconing" into the music system and changed my life"

I believe it.

Pram is another ILM favourite with an even more blatant Spiked connection.

The Baconing... what a classic title

Dogwhistle for The Gammoning iirc.

Re: Pram

Canvassing today in central Birmingham with Martin Daubney, Andrew Kerr, Rupert Lowe, and many others! @MartinDaubney @brexitparty_uk @RCuckston pic.twitter.com/ZgwK5fJU1j

— Tom Fenn (@tomfenn8) May 18, 2019

is there something in that cult 60's movies/library music/space age exotica aesthetic that is also nostalgic for some whiter than white Britain? In this case most definitely!

Isn’t Michael Dugher head of the UK music thing?

Kerry McCarthy as Joy Div stan = fine by me.

In other media shite, McD has done the ES Magazine Londoner’s Diary this week and says the best meal he’s ever eaten is Rochelle Canteen at the ICA. Worth it for his ambition to have BJ picking up litter on community service until the end of days as payback for the Garden Bridge.

Lol gyac u r obsessed with baggymp last.fm. love John Martyn so this makes me feel ill (but solid air is maybe my third favourite)

I hadn’t looked at it in a while and tbf it’s weird af

No it has some pretty straightforward songs on it too, 'one world' is much weirder

I mean in the context of folk rock I guess it's weird but that's a very conservative genre

Canvassing today in central Birmingham with Martin Daubney, Andrew Kerr, Rupert Lowe, and many others! @MartinDaubney @brexitparty_uk @RCuckston
— Tom Fenn (@tomfenn8) May 18, 2019

oh no, never mind Pram, is that the same Tom Fenn as in T3l3:Funk3n who had an album on Domino and did a sublime Avrocar remix?

I suspect it is and that makes me v sad, damn this civil war :(

I saw him do a great live set once and he was v nice and enthusiastic at the merch stand, unlike Pram who were v standoffish, or maybe just shy and having a bad night - rude of me to make assumptions as I am socially anxious and possibly the most socially inept person ever to have lived, but still

Who is @rcuckston though? More BXP nominative determinism LOL.

she's the singer from Pram.

Ah, can visualise her now. Bet the Too Pure folk are doing little mouth coma at the thought of this.

While we’re here UGH THAT PRICK MARTIN DAUBENEY.

just scrolled down the Birmingham Salon "discussions/meetings" that Mrs Cuckston chairs.. jesus fucking wept.. it's got the lot for xenophobic anti-NHS terfs!

re Pram being standoffish, as someone who used to share dressing rooms with them they were probably v v stoned. depressed how R turned out tho :(

ha, fair enough

now I'm curious about yr own band/work/etc - but I understand you may not want to tell us disdainful doxxing hordes...

(oh no, T:F's twitter contains climate change denial stuff too. never look up people you thought were vaguely cool and underrated 18 years ago)

Oh no I'm nobody, just was around the scene at the time
Reading up on the Spiked people and trying to make sense of their stances, are they accelerationists or just incoherent? Idgi

attention seeking right wing bigotry disguised as libertarianism is their usual mo.

they like to show their sponsors that they are good vfm and the bbc love them.

Claire Fox, Brendan O'Neill... if only more people vigorously scrutinised ideas like these great lads do!

They seem particularly delighted by Ella Whelan at the BBC.

Distill everything bad about the SWP and mix it with 'rivers of blood' types.

Reading up on the Spiked people and trying to make sense of their stances, are they accelerationists or just incoherent? Idgi

As far as I can tell, the Spiked/Quilette brand is about loudly proclaiming yrself left-wing while attacking every socially left-wing cause and just never commenting on anything relating to economics so people don't call yr bluff.

has corbyn ever expressed support (or "adulation", as I've just seen claimed) for assad, putin or xi?

My favourite spiked appearances are when some second generation cunt like big head Brendan or Ella Whelab gets put on by someone more representative.

The classic:

We are all @andrewismaxwell pic.twitter.com/cdppxhsR18

— Naomi O'Leary (@NaomiOhReally) November 4, 2018

“I don’t like this idea that the Irish are super fans of the EU… every time the Irish have been asked to vote on the expansion of the EU, they said: No thanks.” Brendan O’Neill of @spikedonline who hails from Irish ‘peasant stock’#Brexit #politicslive https://t.co/32y2XeRbQ7 pic.twitter.com/fSJ5rNP5JB

— BBC Politics (@BBCPolitics) November 2, 2018

We are all Peter Geoghegan. pic.twitter.com/2hchL5KioO

— Robert Of The Isles (@RobDunsmore) October 3, 2019

hah! that "Irish peasant stock" one was a classic of its genre

Also, this is extremely good
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EGraTgxXkAAmGGO?format=jpg&name=large

lol suck it squaddies, literally lower than cat shit

That is extremely good!

Sincerely hope this is true because there’s a decent chance mad Tories will vote down the queen’s speech because of it

Look it's a basic human rights issue, if you make it to 60 then your war crimes don't count any more

https://secure.i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/00438/news-graphics-2008-_438180a.jpg

They seem particularly delighted by Ella Whelan at the BBC.

I just turned on Sky News and guess who is reviewing the papers?

Poor Ella having to tiptoe round a smear story about Corbyn and the IRA because, of course, Claire Fox and her Revolutionary Communist Party chums actually were gungho bullet-not-ballot Provo cheerleaders.

This is simply voter suppression https://t.co/boJgCEIq5N https://t.co/2TU8lGmk6F

— Dawn Foster (@DawnHFoster) October 13, 2019

great, lets copy America and disenfranchise all the poor voters. I've only read the paywalled headline so it might not mean anything. but ftr I don't possess a driving license, nor a passport. Fuck off and die you moribund, dying party.

Voters across the country will have to show identification such as driving licences or passports before casting their ballot, under plans to be unveiled in the Queen's Speech.

Ministers are planning to introduce a legal requirement for voters to produce photographic ID, in order to safeguard against electoral fraud.

A new Electoral Integrity Bill will also limit the number of relatives for whom anyone can act as a proxy, and outlaw the "harvesting" of postal ballots by political parties and activists.

The proposed roll-out of a requirement for photo ID is likely to be opposed by Labour, which claimed that a series of pilot schemes resulted in some people being unable to vote and were a "blatant attempt" to "rig" elections.

However the Government will insist changes are needed to safeguard against fraud and corruption. The proposals draw on the recommendations of a major report by Sir Eric Pickles, the former Conservative Cabinet minister, in 2016, which said there was evidence of voter fraud “especially in communities of Pakistani and Bangladeshi background”. Sir Eric warned of concerns that cases had been ignored because of “over-sensitivities about ethnicity and religion”.

The number of swing voters has hit record levels at recent elections

The report said there was a risk of "significant abuse" of the electoral system if people were able to impersonate others at polling stations with little risk of detection. It also referred to "instances of campaigners asking people to hand over their postal votes" in areas such as Tower Hamlets, in East London.

The Electoral Integrity Bill is expected to roll out a national requirement for voters to produce photographic identification in order to cast their ballot, rather than simply stating their address. Similar measures have been in place in Northern Ireland since 2002.

It will also make it illegal to cast a proxy ballot on behalf of more than two voters, or for political parties to "harvest" postal ballot papers to deliver them to polling stations.

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A Government source said: “A secure electoral system is vital. By changing the law to require voters to show some ID, as they do in many other daily activities, and taking steps to cut down proxy and postal voter fraud, we can ensure that everyone's vote counts and strengthen public trust in our democracy.”

Sources said voters without the required documentation would be able to apply for a free “electoral ID” from their local council.

When you can’t win the vote, suppress it. Feel like this Queen’s speech has a decent chance of being voted down though.

Wait, you can vote without an ID in Britain? How does that work?

Asking for ID at the polling station is hardly a US-only practice btw:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voter_Identification_laws

No shit but in most other countries having some sort of National ID is compulsory.

I always take my passport with me& polling card even though you don’t need either, but that’s cos I started voting in Ireland. There will be loads of people in the UK without a passport or form of ID acceptable.

turn up - say I'm ||||||||. they ask you your address, then score it out on the list. done

afaik in-person voter fraud is not really an issue, despite the lax approach to voter ID

Weird.

Yeah exactly - this is 100% dog whistling to the crowd who think Labour are constantly doing electoral fraud.

This is some evil shit

As gyac says, there is no compulsory national ID in the UK

I mean, it would still be evil even if there were obv

There is no compulsory national ID in Canada either.