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

Ah but Jo Cox.

This illustrates the new political divide perfectly. Ultra liberals are appalled. Opponents of ultra-liberalism see a self-indulgent protestor breaching security and heading for the Chancellor three years after an MP was assassinated. https://t.co/chM9EpI5uQ

— Iain Martin (@iainmartin1) June 20, 2019

Clear Labour will push this tomorrow. 👇🏼 https://t.co/7C6Q2gz6aO

— Laura Kuenssberg (@bbclaurak) June 20, 2019

how inconvenient for your party Laura.

I know, she’s so scummy.

Perhaps something damning will emerge that changes things, but on the face of it to me that footage makes Mark Field look like a hero. He took the initiative when others were befuddled & he risked his life (she cld easily hv had a gun or knife) to protect others. Give him a medal

— Andrew Lilico (@andrew_lilico) June 20, 2019

makes u think

have-a-go-Lolico

outcome of brecon and radnorshire recall petition expected today. LDs widely touted to win that by election if it happens. this reduces BJ’s working majority to two

xps Wait is Laura K. bad not good? (I only occasionally see her doing stand ups outside of Westminster tbh)

awful tory party stenographer ime. even bobby pesto found a half decent line on this

Mark Field should resign. #Girls4Gove denounces all forms of violence or physical force against women. The only time a man should touch a woman is if he is touching her heart — just like @MichaelGove has done for so many of us up and down the country. Women love Michael Gove!

— Girls4Gove (@girls4gove) June 21, 2019

at least there are some sensible conservative voices out there :p

If Mark Field is charged and found guilty of assault could he hold on to his seat?

Forget twitter arguments either way, there's a video here.

you would suspect that that would also precipitate a recall petition

Iain Martin, another right wing Tory tosser from Paisley - not that you'd guess where he's from from the accent.

Foreign media outlets are also reporting on Mark Field's outburst. nagl, to say the least.

Field is basically the MP for Zone 1 and there are only about 4000 votes in it.

Suspended now.

Lol

How’s your morning going pic.twitter.com/BIyOJGyupW

— John Self (@john_self) June 21, 2019

highlights from the IPPR report on tHe NOrtHeRn POwErhOUsE - https://www.ippr.org/blog/the-northern-powerhouse-5-years-in:

+ between 2009/10 and 2017/18 the North has seen a £3.6 billion cut in public spending, while the South East and the South West together saw a £4.7 billion rise (in real terms). London also saw a cut in spending, but by far less, at £256 million.

+ 200k more children living in poverty in the north since 2014

+ more jobs, more low paid jobs

+ more mayors & combined authorities (w/ little power)

*that's* what I like about Osborne's legacy... absolutely nothing.

lol when calz confused frank field w/dobson i was briefly like dobbo is not the worst -- he was reluctantly pushed into standing against ken and ken is kinda bad not good anyway -- but by all means drop a dime on FF in place of mark field

outcome of brecon and radnorshire recall petition expected today.

It's passed.

200k more children living in poverty in the north since 2014

It could be worse :p

Xps

For some reason my abiding memory of Dobson is of him telling a reporter to "get stuffed" when an impertinent question was asked about his beard or something to do with his appearance.

absolutely ludicrous to suggest Frank Field would have physically assaulted a protester when he's perfectly capable of placing them under a hypnotic trance and then sucking their blood at leisure

lolz

From what I remember about Frank Dobson his campaign was like 90% folornly explaining to reporters that he really did want the job, honestly, and wasn't secretly miserable that Blair had decided to try and shuffle him out of Parliament.

lol, it was either him or Hodge they were trying to fit up for that one.

well at least Hodge enjoyed the shouting down at lefties to stfu element of the job!

banner day for the discourse

MP Bob Stewart defends @MarkFieldUK on @BBCWorldatOne "only way you can control someone in these circumstances is possibly by the collar -she wasn't wearing one, that's why his hand was round her neck. If he'd touched her anywhere else he'd have been deemed highly inappropriate"

— Allie Hodgkins-Brown (@AllieHBNews) June 21, 2019

boris begs to differ probably.

Bob Stewart a known authority on hands-on inappropriateness where the opposite sex are concerned

bob definitely doesn’t think women are equivalent to dogs

he's clearly thought about this a lot

As opposed to more appropriate methods like grabbing her by the throat?

the UK's pretty terrible and all, but I do sometimes feel relieved that I'm not in the US where all these delusional weirdos would get to carry guns around with them

https://i.imgur.com/fB4ZNbU.png

The only thing the tories have got right in the last decade is keeping borderline psychotic, jobsworth security guards on minimum wages/zero hours contracts - fuck every last one of them.

so many gfs under so many patios :|

:p

when you are permanently walking about with a severely disabled adult you really do wrack up some hatred for security guards - generalising of course - but idgaf about the nice ones either - cos I've never actually met them!

IOW, nobody wearing that much polyester/viscose should be able to tell other people what to do.

apologies calz i failed to xp -- my post referred to all the brave tweeters approving this man's attack on the protester by announcing how ready they are to do the same

No need to apologise for otm post there, mark!

getting chilling comparisons in the France: The Dark Years book with hard/no-deal brexit ultras and Vichy regime who used the fall of France as useful op to sneak in a fascist national revolution. But lolling at right-wing bishop having his 'putting some shine on the defeat to nazis' Thought for the Day: "victorious we would probably have remained prisoner of our errors".

christ

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/jun/21/police-called-to-loud-altercation-at-boris-johnsons-home

“... police initially said they had no record of a domestic incident at the address.”

ACAB

Jame Sob keeps winning

uhh I dunno about this one pic.twitter.com/3qx3icY1K1

— Mollie Goodfellow (@hansmollman) June 21, 2019

how to be right

Front pages tomorrow (exc Telegraph, obv)

what did i just hear? some fucking tory twat whinging that Rylance's RSC/BP snub is hypocritical because he is a Corbyn AS apologist... give me strength!