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

Oh get a room you two.

I'm just a closet small c conservative reactionary cunt, don't tell anyone!

lmao how did I miss this at the time (JC was talking about it in his interview w/ash sarkar today)

Jeremy Corbyn killed my sister's baby rabbit! Only in @thesundaysport tomorrow pic.twitter.com/quvbG78mpz

— Sunday Sport (@thesundaysport) May 13, 2017

Louise Ellman quits Labour.

I have made the truly agonising decision to leave the Labour Party after 55 years. I can no longer advocate voting Labour when it risks Corbyn becoming PM. I will continue to serve the people of Liverpool Riverside as I have had the honour to do since 1997. pic.twitter.com/3BTzUacZvo

— Louise Ellman MP (@LouiseEllman) October 16, 2019

Her CLP voted to trigger reselection a few weeks ago and she’s making it an antisemitism issue. Is it? I don’t know much about her CLP.

Not sure, but she’s been a long term critic of Corbyn even pre leadership and I think the CLP held the trigger ballot on Yom Kippur, which is just fucking horrendous

That's bad. As was her voting record.

it's always agonising for a piece of tory shit to realise they've spent half a decade in a party that isn't recognisably "the labour family" any more. long may it continue.

I don't really understand the two XR people disrupting public transport this morning. Am I missing something here?

about climate change I think

I doubt it, nobody seems to understand what they thought they were up to.

about climate change I think

ah yes, so it is! Just googled

you don't expect right-wing outlets like Guido Fawkes to corroborate the slurs contained in "anonymous" dossiers leaked by Ellman, but it appears also the Graun and the BBC were just as happy to take hers (+ Councillor Nick Small's) very untrustworthy words as sincere. Good riddance.. shut door on't way out etc..

passengers piling into XR wth

nagl disrupting public transport lads

There'll be dancing on the streets of whatever street Spiked is on tonite

I fucking hate cars, but I thought public transport was good.

xp Challops Boulevard iirc

The XR action was rubbish but...assaulting people to get to work?!

Its a form of road rage, no? Pent up frustration, claustrophobia, stress

Try getting the 91 bus in the morning, you have to manhandle people to get on the fucking thing.

EXTINCTION REBELLION ACTIVISTS COP AN OLD-SCHOOL LONDON STOMPING
Get into them, lads! The spirit of “Sod off, swampy” rides again as enraged London commuters go to war with Extinction Rebellion sub-normals:

The Telegraph's take!

Sub-normals? That's nice.

Its weird to me to put it in terms of "wanting to get to work" as though people are rational animals making logical decisions, and not rammed into small spaces, already on edge for purely physical and immediate reasons, and then acting as a crowd. Its a surprise panic doesn't break out more often, then giving a crowd a focal point? "Its that guy up there".

xp
i was very much reading it in a plummy pathe news accent

crowd/mob psychology is dark scary shit

Oh, I thought that was a genuine Telegraph headline! They've gone completely barking in the last few months.

it is a c+p from the Telegraph!

https://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/subscribe/news/1/?sourceCode=DTWEB_WRE170_a_GGL&dest=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.dailytelegraph.com.au%2Fblogs%2Ftim-blair%2Fextinction-rebellion-activists-cop-an-oldschool-london-stomping%2Fnews-story%2F6e39071a43571cce11636bfc2da362e3&memtype=anonymous&mode=premium&v21suffix=56-a

It's the Australian Telegraph, but that doesn't make it any less weird

I know most XR people were against it, and anything decentralized runs this kind of risk but for those two to not realize something like this would happen is unfathomable (unless they intended it, but thats also weird)

xp
lol, reading it in a Shane Warne voice now.

Oh right, it's positively urbane by Australian standards.

I'm torn on the XR thing. Feels like an acid test as to where sympathies go. None for the cnuts who got violent with them though. Maybe it's a little taste of what's to come if Brexit/Tories finally push us to HK-style disruption.

Would the people who attacked them even have registered, at the time, that they were anything to do with XR? (not that it justifies anything

Back our brave commuters

they were holding up a big XR banner, so probably no confusion there.

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2019/oct/17/unemployment-figures-should-be-millions-higher-says-research

Millions more people in Britain are without a job than shown by official unemployment figures, according to a study that suggests the jobless rate should be almost three times higher.

https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fbootstheory.files.wordpress.com%2F2015%2F08%2Fjuking-the-stats.gif%3Fw%3D525&f=1&nofb=1

a piece of tory shit

I can't imagine why Ellman feels unwelcome.

Crying for her

When you don't even have the guts to admit you've been in the Labour Party your whole life but you hate socialism

xxp
why does she read ILX? you fule!

Protests are supposed to be a nuisance to people, that's how they work, but this is exactly the wrong target. Also, anyone getting the DLR or the Jubilee Line from deep East London at 7am or before is going to be either very busy and stressed, poor/in precarious employment and stressed, or both. I guess they chose Stratford for a reason but Canning Town of all places is an abysmal choice of target.

I suspect the idea for some XR activists is that everything is a target for disruption because CC affects everything.

would never excuse violence and I do overall sympathise with the cause, but all those XR posters around town saying "Summer rebellion - take two weeks off work!" maybe lends us some clue as to the fact that some of the XR team may not understand the lives of normal people who have to go to work every day in stressful and uncomfortable circumstances and aren't privileged enough to be able to take 2 weeks off whenever they want to stop people getting to work. maybe they don't realise some people on those tubes will have their pay docked, or will get a ton of shit for being late

otm

for the zero hour precariat there is often a very thin line between struggling to get by and going under, just arriving half an hour late to work can have disastrous knock on effects for some people.

Are they really that stupid though?

(xp)