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Louise Mensch Confuses Fabric Night Club With Brexit, Gets Comically Torn Apart

'God, Louise f*cking Mensch. Honestly.'
Chris York
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Senior Editor, HuffPost UK

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On Tuesday night it was announced that the famous Fabric nightclub in London would be closing due to a number of drug-related deaths at the venue.

In June Britain voted to leave the EU.

The two events are - quite clearly - completely and wholly unrelated, but it appears the former Tory MP turned Stateside commentator, Louise Mensch, didn’t get the memo.

Vice’s Clive Martin eloquently lamented the closing of the club on Twitter.

Fabric hearing is bizarre. Councillors for inner city areas like Farringdon acting like they represent a village parish.

— Clive Martin (@thugclive) September 6, 2016

The problem is it's a massively unfair jury. None of the people deciding Fabric's future have any vested interest in the place...

— Clive Martin (@thugclive) September 6, 2016

Sounds basic, but it's essentially agism. The people making the calls are from a totally different demographic to those it affects.

— Clive Martin (@thugclive) September 6, 2016

Mensch, 45, for some unfathomable reason took issue with this final tweet, using it as a springboard to lambast Martin to her 101,000 followers.

Yes you are being agist, Clive https://t.co/LTcjnLREGO

— Louise Mensch (@LouiseMensch) September 6, 2016

Freedom and sovereignty affect the old as much as the young https://t.co/LTcjnLREGO

— Louise Mensch (@LouiseMensch) September 6, 2016

Did you even vote? #Brexit https://t.co/LTcjnLREGO

— Louise Mensch (@LouiseMensch) September 6, 2016

"Activists" are usually just the opposite #Brexit https://t.co/LTcjnLREGO

— Louise Mensch (@LouiseMensch) September 6, 2016

How this conflating of two totally separate topics occurred is a mystery, prompting widespread disbelief and an unexpected dose of comedy joy on a #HumpDay morning.

@thugclive Did she actually confuse Brexit and Fabric? Amazing.

— Hadley Freeman (@HadleyFreeman) September 7, 2016

Louise Mensch confusing the #FabricReview with Brexit is a gift from God on a rainy weds morning. pic.twitter.com/duyuU3k8xy

— Nilam (@NilamAtodaria) September 7, 2016

Commendably, Martin took it all in his stride, continuing his tirade against the closing of Fabric, but not before he gave this succinct evaluation of Mensch’s intervention.

God, Louise fucking Mensch. Honestly.

— Clive Martin (@thugclive) September 6, 2016

Remember when Louise Mensch was an MP. That happened.

— Grace (@GemOfAmara) September 7, 2016

Starting to wonder whether Louise Mensch is some kind of perverse performance art project. https://t.co/iUSZxgkJiZ

— Craig Grannell (@CraigGrannell) September 7, 2016

I thought I was having a bad morning then I remembered I'm not Louise Mensch.
Feeling much better.

— Bryan Hible Artist (@BryanHible) September 7, 2016

The moral of the story?

@philnmarks @LouiseMensch read before you tweet

— Catherine Humphrey (@cathumphrey) September 7, 2016

Indeed.

Here’s some more reaction because, well, it’s hilarous.

This story made us laugh out loud in the office. https://t.co/KrSbTMqPG1 #FabricNotBrexit @ChrisDYork

— Rory Stoves (@RoryStoves) September 7, 2016

@LouiseMensch Louise what's it like to regularly own yourself so hard

— Andreas 😏 (@AndreasLeKirk) September 7, 2016

I'm certain Louise Mensch is a parody account https://t.co/QKphz5F9Xu

— ️ (@woltman29) September 7, 2016

Louise Mensch thinking someone is talking about Brexit when hes in fact talking about a closure of a club is one of my favourite things ever

— Joseph Roberto (@JoeAntonio1878) September 7, 2016

And credit where credit’s due, Martin’s argument against the closing of Fabric is worth reading in full.

Also, on the subject of licensing in Islington i'd say you see far more trouble on Upper Street on a Saturday night these days.

— Clive Martin (@thugclive) September 6, 2016

And aside from shutting down clubs, the overlooked part of this purge is how difficult it must be to start one up.

— Clive Martin (@thugclive) September 6, 2016

I know some twitter heads think I talk about this too much, but it really is the shame of modern British culture.

— Clive Martin (@thugclive) September 6, 2016

You only have to look at the speed and ferocity of clubs shutting down to understand that it's a concerted effort.

— Clive Martin (@thugclive) September 6, 2016

And you only have to look at what happens to these properties after to realise that there are forces beyond government invested in it.

— Clive Martin (@thugclive) September 6, 2016

Perhaps the worst thing about this case is using those tragic deaths as ammunition for property development. Absolutely fucking shameful.

— Clive Martin (@thugclive) September 6, 2016

What closing down clubs and stricter ID laws have created, is a generation of kids that are basically drug hobbyists.

— Clive Martin (@thugclive) September 7, 2016

But by pushing out clubs, sending youth cullture into the shadows then you've got kids sitting in dark rooms and parks hammering drugs.

— Clive Martin (@thugclive) September 7, 2016

Not only is that dangerous it's bad for your personal development. It makes you insular, charmless, spaced-out, unaware, lost.

— Clive Martin (@thugclive) September 7, 2016

I've known a lot of people that have had bad experiences with drugs, sectioning, suicide. But clubs were never at the root of those cases.

— Clive Martin (@thugclive) September 7, 2016

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