Would it be too much to ask some of those freedom-loving statue protectors to come and protect some real live human beings ?
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 30 June 2020 17:18 (three years ago) link
yes
― scampo, foggy and clegg (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 30 June 2020 17:19 (three years ago) link
He repeated it three times today so it seems a fair guess that Boris Johnson's next big slogan is "When you're in a hole this big the only option is to keep digging." ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
― Future England Captain (Tom D.), Tuesday, 30 June 2020 18:24 (three years ago) link
Back to Brexit, is this actually genuine? Funniest/saddest thing for a while if so.
Just had conversation with a British couple who have a holiday home near us. They voted for Brexit and have made no arrangements whatsoever for what happens on Jan 1. They have now discovered the reality of their situation. The blame apparently is with "Brussels".— RS Archer (@archer_rs) June 29, 2020
― the bournemouth supremacy (Matt #2), Tuesday, 30 June 2020 18:28 (three years ago) link
Lol no.
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 30 June 2020 18:35 (three years ago) link
that should be on the reddit house calamity thred imo
― Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Tuesday, 30 June 2020 18:39 (three years ago) link
Yeah he blew it with the mayor stuff. A friend's family divide their time between UK and an EU country for tax purposes, I do wonder what arrangements they've made though.
― the bournemouth supremacy (Matt #2), Tuesday, 30 June 2020 18:44 (three years ago) link
kinda stinks of a FBPE parable but i guess there could be a kernel of truth in there
― i have no scampo and i must scream (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 30 June 2020 18:45 (three years ago) link
It's clearly fake, as is the book series he claims to have written afaict.
― Scampo di tutti i Scampi (ShariVari), Tuesday, 30 June 2020 18:51 (three years ago) link
I haven't seen anything so obviously made up since the ILX trucker hat story.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 30 June 2020 18:52 (three years ago) link
I mean there are a lot of dumb expats out there who haven't thought things through properly but this guy just doesn't know when to stop.
That’s the most obviously fake story I’ve ever seen on Twitter and I follow relationships.txt
― Keir’d flex (wins), Tuesday, 30 June 2020 18:53 (three years ago) link
I haven't seen anything that fake since user gyac's user bizarro gazzaro and user sharivari sock accounts
― specific fry such as scampo (||||||||), Tuesday, 30 June 2020 19:12 (three years ago) link
Starmer’s Labour is doomed to repeat the mistakes of 2010-2015 with its predeliciton for short-term thinking. For @LRB, I discuss how centrism offers no answers to the problems of today https://t.co/zEDUHvFAF3— Your Mum says Black Lives Matter (@judeinlondon2) June 30, 2020
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 30 June 2020 19:38 (three years ago) link
Good to see someone who is a great poster and absolutely loathes Starmer getting published in the LRB.
― calzino, Tuesday, 30 June 2020 19:43 (three years ago) link
The eternal question, are the soft left malign fuckers because they’re naive or because they know precisely what they’re doing? https://t.co/keSuyvoa0f— Tom Gann (@Tom_Gann) June 30, 2020
burn it down and salt the earth below it!
― calzino, Tuesday, 30 June 2020 19:55 (three years ago) link
xp yayyyyyy Jude! This is good.
― santa clause four (suzy), Tuesday, 30 June 2020 20:27 (three years ago) link
Might be the first twitter thread as lrb blog
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 30 June 2020 20:32 (three years ago) link
True, and it’s a banger but now she’s got FBPEs up in her mentions trying to say there’s no such thing as centrists.
― santa clause four (suzy), Tuesday, 30 June 2020 20:40 (three years ago) link
It is bad enough when tories are trying to say austerity doesn't exist, but it is even worse when melts try and pretend they are the nice guys and get pissy about being called what they are!
― calzino, Tuesday, 30 June 2020 21:06 (three years ago) link
That’s the last Brexit extension deadline passed now.
― stet, Tuesday, 30 June 2020 23:01 (three years ago) link
haha this guy https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/28/tech/nick-clegg-facebook-boycott-reliable/index.html
(please note his predecessor as mp for sheffield hallam is director of policy for facebook in europe (and my old boss))
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, 1 July 2020 05:39 (three years ago) link
Is the Jude Wanga writer also an ilx poster?
― the pinefox, Wednesday, 1 July 2020 08:14 (three years ago) link
No, just someone popular here.
― Andrew Farrell, Wednesday, 1 July 2020 08:33 (three years ago) link
her tweets have made regular appearances on here, and she was nice to me once on twitter when I was in a section 47 hell and feeling like topping myself!
― calzino, Wednesday, 1 July 2020 08:35 (three years ago) link
Fantastic to hear at today’s #LabourNEC meeting that @UKLabour now has around 580,000 members.— Alice Perry (@aliceperryuk) June 30, 2020
sounds like they are still counting lapsed and dead members here (or as some would have it disappointed Jess Phillips entryists), because I think the next count will be much lower.
― calzino, Wednesday, 1 July 2020 08:53 (three years ago) link
what’s the deal with 100s of wankers in ukblm’s mentions using the same few lines about how they had their chance but everyone sees through their marxist agenda now
― If you choose too long a name, your new display name will be truncated in (Left), Wednesday, 1 July 2020 09:12 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZF1SJW7JFw
― Scampidocio (Le Bateau Ivre), Wednesday, 1 July 2020 09:18 (three years ago) link
ever noticed how fascists are the worst
― If you choose too long a name, your new display name will be truncated in (Left), Wednesday, 1 July 2020 09:20 (three years ago) link
at least they have keir’s back on this, doubt it will last
― If you choose too long a name, your new display name will be truncated in (Left), Wednesday, 1 July 2020 09:21 (three years ago) link
Kier's bending the knee photo op and then dismissing the aims of BLM follow up has delighted James Cleverly!
― calzino, Wednesday, 1 July 2020 09:26 (three years ago) link
They've been a particular target in the last week, following the Starmer interview and their tweets about Palestine.
It's always sort-of assumed that at least some of the Twitter stuff is generated by bots but idk - one prominent ex-BNP 'libertarian' blogger has been attacking them obsessively over the last few days and they have 73k followers. A couple of thousand people with too much time on their hands and too little imagination to do anything other than copy-and-paste is plausible.
― Scampo di tutti i Scampi (ShariVari), Wednesday, 1 July 2020 09:28 (three years ago) link
You underestimate how much 'common sense' opposition to BLM there is in the big wide world of old cunts
― imago, Wednesday, 1 July 2020 10:35 (three years ago) link
Let’s see what some of 2019’s biggest political advertisers in the UK are up to these days...— Who Targets Me (Install our browser extension!) (@WhoTargetsMe) June 30, 2020
Very good thread.
― Scampo di tutti i Scampi (ShariVari), Wednesday, 1 July 2020 10:41 (three years ago) link
That is excellent but I'd be very nervous indeed about installing that browser extension.
I dunno if it's the safety of my seat but I never get any political advertising of any kind on Facebook. It's all single malt, food delivery services and (in the old days) concert and theatre tickets. So while they've probably got me bang to rights it's hard not to feel a little offended when you aren't considered a valued demographic for dark money.
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 1 July 2020 11:41 (three years ago) link
Good thread (and I was about to install it but bowed out when it asked for my postal code).
― Scampidocio (Le Bateau Ivre), Wednesday, 1 July 2020 11:45 (three years ago) link
oddly i looked up SaveBrexit (.org) and it was a full page, not as he described it.
would a whois lookup on these sites show useful information? (that one seems to be godaddy. i guess the arizona address is theirs.)
that site, btw, seems aimed at getting farage to not stand against boris.
― koogs, Wednesday, 1 July 2020 12:20 (three years ago) link
The Guardian Business pages seem like a bloodbath:
"That slump forced aerospace giant Airbus to announce 15,000 job cuts last night, including 1,700 in the UK."
"Furniture chain Harveys and shirt maker TM Lewin both fell into administration on Tuesday, costing 800 jobs - with another 1,300 at risk."
"British travel food group SSP has confirmed it is planning to cut up to 5,000 jobs"
"The pandemic is forcing Britain’s manufacturers to keep slashing jobs.
Data firm IHS Market reports that employment at UK factories fell for the fifth consecutive month in June."
This is all before furlough will supposedly wind down.
― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 1 July 2020 12:30 (three years ago) link
... doesn't even include john lewis or ryanair
― specific fry such as scampo (||||||||), Wednesday, 1 July 2020 12:31 (three years ago) link
I remember getting bombarded with Tory ads in 2017 which was weird as we live in a safe seat. I have adblockers and content blockers on everything so I rarely see anything anyway apart from the rare occasions I go on Facebook.
― scampos mentis (gyac), Wednesday, 1 July 2020 12:35 (three years ago) link
― specific fry such as scampo (||||||||), Wednesday, 1 July 2020 bookmarkflaglink
And Harrods.
I guess local lockdowns may stop re-hiring too...
― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 1 July 2020 12:45 (three years ago) link
NEW: Boris Johnson has just confirmed the UK will open a path to citizenship for almost 3m Hong Kong residents in a bold riposte to China's security crackdown on its former colony.— Laura Hughes (@Laura_K_Hughes) July 1, 2020
― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 1 July 2020 13:07 (three years ago) link
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jul/01/data-reveals-coronavirus-hotspots-in-bradford-barnsley-and-rochdale
This is the data we've been needing for ages. Looks like levels are pretty low in London right now and across the South in general (although Kent is a weird anomaly, maybe Dover-related?), and they shouldn't even be considering reopening pubs in some Yorkshire cities this weekend.
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 1 July 2020 13:09 (three years ago) link
wonder what would happen if you broke Kent down into say Medway / Dover / Posh bits / other
― Anti-Cop Ponceortium (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Wednesday, 1 July 2020 13:27 (three years ago) link
That 'bold riposte' by BoJo is... good not bad. Don't care about his motivation but if it can save dissidents from being crushed in Hong Kong, I'm all for it and think EU should follow suit in someway.
― Scampidocio (Le Bateau Ivre), Wednesday, 1 July 2020 13:41 (three years ago) link
is red bad
xxp
― specific fry such as scampo (||||||||), Wednesday, 1 July 2020 13:44 (three years ago) link
Re: London - there's noise about local lockdowns being required in K+C, Ealing, Hammersmith and Richmond but I don't see that in the Guardian story
― stet, Wednesday, 1 July 2020 13:45 (three years ago) link
is that Hammersmith (W6) or Hammersmith (constituency)? - i'm in the one but not the other.
― koogs, Wednesday, 1 July 2020 13:52 (three years ago) link
(if it stops the pub over the road becoming the modern equiv of that cholera pump then bring it on)
― koogs, Wednesday, 1 July 2020 13:53 (three years ago) link
― Scampidocio (Le Bateau Ivre), Wednesday, 1 July 2020 13:41 (seventeen minutes ago) link
It's whether his voters think this is good or not, given so much of the damaging rhetoric was over EU migrants in the last 15 years.
― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 1 July 2020 14:03 (three years ago) link