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

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!

Some stupid old Tory cunt on Newsnight saying people are fed up with establishment politicians and Boris Johnson is not part of the establishment. You couldn't make this shit up.

fucking hell

De Pfeffel

Eton/Balliol/Bullingdon, that axis of anti-establishment radicalism

Trump managed it, why not Boris?

Easily my favourite genre of tweet

Jermy Combyrn, resplendent on his liar's throne leans forward over his super-communist control panel. His hand tantalisingly inches toward the button marked "Stop Brexit". He laughs, a long, cold laugh before passing over it to hit the "tweet about summer solstice" button instead https://t.co/WT1Y03ePcp

— ㄒ丨爪ㄖㄒ卄ㄚ (@XRedTimX) June 21, 2019

This however...the NECKKKKKKKKKK

On this Windrush Day and every day, let us give thanks to those pioneering men and women. They crossed an ocean to build a future for themselves, their communities and the UK, the country that will always be their home. pic.twitter.com/YvUeEB0U2d

— Theresa May (@theresa_may) June 22, 2019

it’s funny because it’s true

take yr pick as to whether that was an xp or not

still no upgrade to the maybot's only very basic installed language package, still no self-awareness or thoughtfulness packages installed. she's so fucking worthless.

imagine if one of your relatives had died because of her actions as HS and PM and then reading that rinse.

Windrush victim dies with no apology or compensation

Shame he couldn’t have heard her words during the period where he was “stressed and depressed during the protracted process of attempting to sort out his paperwork and prove the government’s errors had caused him severe problems for years”.

OK, that's taking the top prize ever.

(Wow, great sentence construction, keeping that one)

This is what a labour left should do at the least - call it out as racism:

This story is so sad. My dear constituent has passed away with no apology or compensation from this racist Gov't despite being a victim of the windrush scandal.

RIP Richard Stewart https://t.co/VwzP1tXSq5

— Kate Osamor || Labour & Co-op MP for Edmonton (@KateOsamor) June 22, 2019

I have it on good authority from a Labour staffer that Owen Smith visited a building site for a hotel or similar and had a shit in non plumbed in toilet.

— Monster Lady (@generousmoblin) June 22, 2019