the day after the deadline: can the union survive brexit and other deep questions

My word, they couldn't even be bothered with the figleaf of joining the LibDems and just let it all hang out instead.

If I was Vince Cable I'd be furious.

They sound like a right pair of charmers.

Good work, Momentum!

The pair were among more than 600 Labour councillors across the country who called on Mr Corbyn to stand down as leader of the party in 2016.

Mr Baron - who was suspended in 2016 for poor attendance at council meetings - now sits with the Conservative group on Ashfield District Council.

He said: "It is disappointing for me after over 30 years in the Labour Party, but the Labour Party is not the Labour Party I joined."

Mr Anderson, who was handed a four-month suspension when he hired a digger and placed concrete blocks to stop travellers illegally camping in a car park, said: "The Labour Party has been taken over by the hard-left and Momentum in particular and I will play no part in that.

"It's been a very difficult decision to come to."

Ms De Piero thanked Mr Anderson, who was her office manager, but added: "If he has had a political change of heart and decided to leave the Labour Party and join the Conservatives, that's a matter entirely for him."

can labour afford 2 lose good ppl like this

Also, assuming that's a recent photo, one of em is a year round poppy wanker

" ... then he's dead to me now"

I've heard unsubstantiated reports that both were not being reselected by their CLP and were under investigation due to "irregularities", which may have something to do with this otherwise entirely principled and non-opportunistic stand.

lol, these ppl are pure joke, far funnier than any comedians.

Talk about dead wood.

at least when some of the new intake of Momentum backed councillors end up being more bent than a £9 note, through slow indoctrination or apathy. I won't be remotely disappointed or shocked, because I have never met one of them worth shit in 40 odd years tbh. Probably slightly negative here, but some of squawky triumphalist shit on twitter does my fucking box in.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DYxDFPiX0AAzVpu.jpg
This is really from 2018 and not 1974!

"Special" eh?

"Havering resembling boroughs like Hackney, Newham, Camden and Barking, rather than a traditional part of Essex" - I'm still a bit too new to this place to be sure, so natives help me out: is this a racist dogwhistle?

100% I'd say, without knowing the area.

oops, I possibly missed your sarcasm!

Noting that in 1971 Havering had around 250,000 people in it. Steadily dwindled since then (actually a bit surprised by that) and has only returned to around the same level now. Still around 90% white though.

Havering is fucking batshit, they were talking about seeding from London a while back.

Seceding.

No wavering in Havering when it comes to the May local elections for the Tories, but they are in a shitload trouble everywhere else.

oops, I possibly missed your sarcasm!

Haha I was 99% sure but didn't want to make assumptions about the racial make-up of Havering. Seems I could've assumed away!

Think Daniel has had his answer, but just want to point out that the local MP was responsible for this quote about passport colour:

The humiliation of having a pink European Union passport will now soon be over and the United Kingdom nationals can once again feel pride and self-confidence in their own nationality when travelling, just as the Swiss and Americans can do.

National identity matters and there is no better way of demonstrating this today than by bringing back this much-loved national symbol when travelling overseas.

the real salient issue about passports in some areas is that many people that don't possess one have been struggling to eat because UC will impede applications to those that don't have them.

and I'm not making this shit up, one of my local MP's Tracy Brabin (yes, the ex-Corrie one!) got very angry about this recently.

Hi,

Just enquiring...

This whole "fish protest" featuring JRM and NFarg and so on.. Pre-booked the front pages of tomorrows newspapers as a resounding triumph? and so on?

more stunning diplomacy from bj today: "Boris Johnson says World Cup in Russia will be like Hitler hosting Olympics in 1936"

just ignore him

bit harsh on respected ilxor dot com poster nickb imo

oi!

we went to the Olympics in 1936 tbf

and in 1980

and in 2008

and i haven't heard BoJo saying owt about the Qatar World Cup

and in 1980

How else would a pasty faced Scotsman have ever won the 100m gold?

don't forget the England football team sieg heiling Hitler in '38.

would be in favour of boycotting every olympics tbh

1908 london olympics were just a few years after the atrocities (concentration camps etc) of the boer war

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— Jonathan (@demarionunn) March 19, 2018

Loooooool

wow

always happy to see that venerable screenshot, as polled here on ilx

actual laughing here and unable to quite stop

hahaha - shows us the poll, please!

Fighting Baseball for Super Famicom: A League of Fake Americans POLL

That is brilliant

'A national humiliation': Brexiteers furious as Franco-Dutch firm 'wins contract to produce blue passports'

not a happy return for "iconic" blue passport it seems.

"Now we learn that the passports will be printed by a foreign company. And to add insult to injury, we will pay over the odds for them because the value of the pound has fallen since Brexit and they will have to be imported."

I'm getting a warm Ready Brek glow from this.

i don't understand, do they want us to sign trade deals or not?

can't believe that the rapacious anarcho-libertarians that actually run the Brexit campaign give one hoot about this, so it's just the useful idiots getting their first taste of bilkdom

Not going to get all tin foil hat over this but a winning bidder in the passport contract undercutting the market price by more than 10% (£50M less than the next bid, last competition was won at circa £400M) on a tender where the maximum declared profit will be somewhere between 8% and 11% is absolutely sketchy as fuck.

A company might do it on a small contract to get your foot in the door so when a big contract comes around you're semi-incumbent, but this is the big contract. You might do it over a short period to fill gaps in your resource demand so you don't have to cut staff but this is a 10 year contract.

It really makes no commercial sense at all for the company in question to win it at this price. Does that necessarily suggest a different motivation for winning? That's where the TFH brigade enter I think.