-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 5] Author : slimshady2357 Date : 12-13-2019 04:06 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done It fucking amazes and disgusts me that so many people here can look at what is happening in the U.S. with Trump and say 'Yep, we want that too'. We want a liar, buffoon, self-serving asshole in power too. We want a party that ignores climate change, that gives tax cuts to the ultra rich and corporations. We want to see our NHS head towards a U.S. style system where people have to go to kickstarter to pay for healthcare. Fuck those people. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 6] Author : erimir Date : 12-14-2019 06:25 AM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done The world really is sucking ass lately. It does seem like a bit of a pickle for Labour regardless of what strategy they picked. Although I think ditching Corbyn was a no-brainer given his -40 approval rating. It couldn't have been worse really, but it wouldn't totally solve the issue of what to do on Brexit. Polls seem to suggest that public opinion has moved towards Remain - and while the polls slightly underestimated Leave in 2016, they also underestimated Labour in 2017 and were close to the mark in 2019, so it's a better bet that Remain support is higher than Leave than vice versa. But the inherent issue of the splitting of the left (LibDems, SNP, Greens, Plaid Cymru and others) is a problem. Boris mostly united the Brexit vote (UKIP and Brexit Party didn't do so well). Seems like doing whatever you could to get some sort of pact with some of those third-parties would've been a smart move. They didn't really take it as seriously as they should've, believing, somehow, that someone as unpopular as Corbyn could win and then tell his critics on the left/center-left to fuck off, rather than as the desperate situation that requires the opposition to actually unite and cooperate. The LibDems also bear some blame for not trying harder in this regard, they could've unilaterally stood down in seats that were primarily competitions between Labour and the Conservatives. But Corbyn seems to be too big of an issue to ignore even so. Perhaps they could've been tempted with a promise of electoral reform, proportional representation of some sort? It seems that the single-member districts are most helpful for the Conservatives at this point, so it would be a good idea for Labour too. The Tories + Brexit and UKIP were less than 50% even with Corbyn's poor performance. The wildcard there is that the SNP massively benefits from the single member FPTP (first past the post) system. They got about 4% of the national vote but about 8% of the seats. And it would be hard for Labour to get a majority coalition without the SNP... On the other hand, they use MMP in Scotland, so they would have a hard time arguing against the idea of proportional representation as inherently bad... -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 7] Author : fragment Date : 12-14-2019 08:42 AM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done The Lib Dems tried to get an AV system in place but it was roundly rejected 2011 United Kingdom Alternative Vote referendum - Wikipedia (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_United_Kingdom_Alternative_Vote_referendum?wprov=sfla1) -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 8] Author : Dragar Date : 12-14-2019 10:24 AM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done The Lib Dems tried to get an AV system in place but it was roundly rejected 2011 United Kingdom Alternative Vote referendum - Wikipedia (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_United_Kingdom_Alternative_Vote_referendum?wprov=sfla1) And the price they paid for getting that referendum nearly wiped out the party entirely. They have never recovered. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 9] Author : erimir Date : 12-14-2019 11:41 AM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done Well, I wasn't talking about 1. A referendum necessarily. Parliament can, in fact, pass laws without having a referendum. Brexit is a pretty clear model for how putting everything to a referendum can be a bad idea. This may be a large change, but seeing as it makes things more democratically representative, people will have a perfectly fair opportunity to express their displeasure if they don't like it! 2. I wasn't talking about the "alternative vote" which is the same as IRV, or instant runoff voting. Single member districts with IRV is not nearly as good a method as proportional representation (the "single transferable vote" which is a similar method with multi-member districts works a bit better, but it's still not the best). If the British are overly attached to their regions and/or constituency seats, they could implement a system similar to that of Germany or Scotland, where you vote for your local representative and also for a national party, and then additional seats are assigned in order to bring the results more into proportionality, either nationally or at the region level. So, for example, in this election, the Tories won over 50% of the seats with only about 44% of the votes. Labour got a similar percentage of seats relative to their percentage of the vote (32% of the vote but 31% of seats). The LibDems, however, got 12% of the vote and only 1.6% of the seats, and the Greens got 2.7% of the vote and only 0.15% of the seats. Overhang seats (if you kept the starting point of 650, which would be silly, IMO) would imply you'd add something like 187 additional seats to parliament. The Conservatives would get no additional seats. The LibDems would gain 86 seats this way, Labour would gain 67 or 68, the Greens would get 22, etc. (the Brexit Party would also gain seats this way). The precise details of the implementation can vary a bit (the fact that the SNP got almost twice as many seats as their vote share would imply but the MMP method doesn't take seats away in that scenario causes some disproportionality, but you get the idea. IRV, on the other hand, wouldn't be all that helpful, if say, Labour > Brexit Party folks listed the Tories as their second choice. If you're running up huge margins in London and other city centers while the Tories are winning narrower victories elsewhere, IRV won't make it any better, and the Tories will still be able to win with a minority of the national vote. 3. Labour didn't take a position which may be part of why it was such a blowout. There may also have been good reasons to reject some of the connected changes (Tory gerrymandering). So I don't know that the result of that referendum is a very good barometer of how a referendum on proportional representation would go, particularly if all the non-Tory parties were united (or maybe without the SNP). But even so, unless there would be a large backlash, I'd go ahead and say to do it without a referendum, because the only reason it was a referendum in the first place was that Cameron and the Tories didn't want it and thus were unwilling to outright give it to the LibDems (who were idiots to agree to a referendum for that reason). Labour had a chance before the 2010 election to do that... it would've been a very good idea, because under a proportional representation election, Labour would've potentially been able to form a government with the LibDems instead! But what actually happened was that since the LibCon coalition only required two parties, it was much more workable than a LibLab coalition that would've needed support from some combination of the SNP, PC, NI parties, etc. And you know, Clegg was a sucker/idiot/asshole who got played by David Cameron. Of course, vote totals would be different under different rules - but things would've generally worked out better for the left under such a system. (Of course, after Blair's huge win would've been a good point to do it - his popularity would've allowed it to stick for multiple elections so that by the time the Tories got in, it would be harder to eliminate.) But I guess Labour thought that the rules would continue to favor them... now they're fucked in much the same way as the Democrats with gerrymandering and the senate, but even worse, since they can't win more than a seat or two in Scotland and any coalition with SNP will be conditioned on your vital coalition partner trying to GTFO of the country, thus destroying your majority! There's a lesson there... (I'd say that the lesson is most important for Justin Trudeau and the Liberals, who were able to win despite the NDP splitting the left vote, but they should be more worried about the Conservatives getting in despite right-wing parties basically never getting a majority of the vote, given that it's happened before... rather than trying to never enter a coalition with the NDP.) -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 10] Author : Kamilah Hauptmann Date : 12-14-2019 02:54 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done Re: NDP. That's my riding, 65% of the vote split between Green, NDP, and Liberal. So we're sending a Tory to Ottawa. The kind of guy who thinks mental illness is your own fault. This is the consequence of multi parties in a FPTP system. ETA: In Canada an electoral district that sends a representative is commonly called a 'riding'. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 11] Author : Kamilah Hauptmann Date : 12-14-2019 03:58 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done After a polarizing U.K. election, online searches for moving to Canada spike - again - National | Globalnews.ca (https://globalnews.ca/news/6295452/move-to-canada-uk-election/) Well then, we could use some good English stock, better late than never. How does a place named Cambridge Bay sound to you? Where, you ask? Oh, just on Victoria Island. Pack those bags, we'll arrange the travel. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 12] Author : JoeP Date : 12-14-2019 09:31 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done From The Last Leg last night, some things to celebrate: Because of the stonking™ majority, the Conservatives can now ignore the ERG (Jacob Twee-Toff and his band of rabid Eurosceptics) and the DUP (Ulster Unionist anti-choice anti-gay nuts) meaning more chance of a softer Brexit. And in the same vein, this: Boris out-cunted Nigel Farage Plus, Adam Hills will get to shave his beard (https://cstonline.net/the-last-leg-a-beardy-guide-to-the-brexit-that-might-have-been-by-liz-giuffre/) off. https://cdn.newsapi.com.au/image/v1/cc010ce3b5ccf13d038fb0591ce6b37a?width=650 And - the highest number of female MPs ever. Britain elects highest-ever number of female MPs to the Commons | PoliticsHome.com (https://www.politicshome.com/news/uk/politics/news/108530/britain-elects-highest-ever-number-female-mps-commons) - even though Gender imbalance in General Election media coverage as women ‘marginalised’ - ITV News (https://www.itv.com/news/2019-11-15/gender-imbalance-in-general-election-media-coverage-as-women-marginalised/). -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 13] Author : JoeP Date : 12-14-2019 09:34 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done They made a big feature of celebrating delivery of the following campaign promises: 40 new hospitals! 20,000 more police! 50,000 more nurses! Although a small part of me suspects that segment may have been ever so slightly tongue in cheek. I mean, are they alleging those might be lies? -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 14] Author : erimir Date : 12-14-2019 11:51 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done It does seem to me that Corbyn was a larger issue FOR LABOUR than first-past-the-post though. Labour got about 32% of the vote, and received 31% of the seats. They weren't the ones who got fucked by FPTP, it's that the LibDems were and the Tories were the ones who benefited from the LibDems getting fucked. But the thing is that the LibDems were polling nearly even with Labour, even ahead of them in a few polls in the spring, and still quite close until the early fall. But once the election became likely, and then called, they lost vote share. People realized it wasn't going to happen and went back to Labour because the LibDems couldn't win. But in a proportional system, there would be no reason to unite around Labour if you don't like them or don't like Corbyn. Every vote for a LibDem counts, if you vote 20% for them, they get 20% of the seats, there's no possibility of them gaining votes but losing seats like in this election. And not only that, but the LibDems vote share could've been depressed even at their polling peak because even then there were people who figured that only Labour could stop the Tories. Likewise, some Tory voters may have been unwilling to abandon the Conservatives because they wanted to stop Corbyn, and voting LibDem wouldn't get the LibDems many seats but might instead help Labour win more seats. Therefore I think it's likely that the LibDems would've broken 20% in an election under proportional representation, and Labour would've fallen to the 20s or mid 20s, since the LibDems' election period slide was likely due to FPTP not because Corbyn won them over per se. In fact, it's very plausible that the LibDems could've won more votes than Labour and thus more seats, under proportional representation. It's possible that a PR election would've resulted in PM Jo Swinson in coalition with Labour as the junior partners (possibly with Corbyn forced out as part of the deal). Or with a minority government with Swinson as leader of the opposition. Or in a hung parliament. In which case you'd still have Labour infighting about what the fuck went wrong, why are we the third-largest party for the first time in a century, and the answer would still mostly be: Corbyn was massively unpopular with a -40 approval rating. And he refused to take a clear position on Brexit, while resulted in the LibDems sucking up a bunch of Remain voters. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 15] Author : fragment Date : 12-15-2019 06:57 AM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done Well, I wasn't talking about... Most of which I agree with to some extent, but given that 1) the fairly recent attempt at electoral reform failed badly, so there is unlikely to be much political appetite for anyone to try again for another 10 years at least, no matter what system is proposed, 2) when the Lib Dems had their chance to put electoral reform on the table AV is what they chose, and 3) if the Lib Dems were willing to work with Labour they could have done so as soon as BoJo lost his majority a few months ago, it seems to me like your speculations on this don't match up with the political reality. FWIW my experience living through and supporting electoral reform from FPTP to MMP here in NZ suggests that 1) a party in power under FPTP will not support it because they are most concerned about their immediate political advantage rather than the long-term situation (let alone the good of the country), so 2) reform requires a large popular movement, which will only occur when most people are thoroughly disgusted with the major parties but are also not so politically disaffected to think that change is impossible or ineffective. So maybe if BoJo thoroughly fucks up and Labour doesn't get their act together it could happen for the UK. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 16] Author : fragment Date : 12-15-2019 07:25 AM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done electoral reform from FPTP to MMP here in NZ I'd like to add that this has IMO been a fairly successful change. Diversity shot up in our Parliament since the change, and Māori in particular have had much greater representation and influence. It could be argued that these reflect other trends, which is likely true, but the rapidity and extent of the change implies a facilitation effect from the voting system. In addition, since we adopted MMP, Governments have rarely passed major legislative changes lacking significant popular support, a stark contrast with the prior decade. Which is not always to my preference - tackling climate change, for example, has moved as slow as the flow of our shrinking glaciers - but it's hard to deny the relative improvement in quality of democratic representativeness. I suspect being a small country also helped a lot with both the feasibility of electoral reform and the impacts of it. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 17] Author : JoeP Date : 12-15-2019 01:25 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done 1) a party in power under FPTP will not support it because they are most concerned about their immediate political advantage rather than the long-term situation (let alone the good of the country) :nowai: -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 18] Author : erimir Date : 12-15-2019 11:30 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done 3) if the Lib Dems were willing to work with Labour they could have done so as soon as BoJo lost his majority a few months agoIt's kinda hard to disentangle that from the LibDems being unwilling to work with Jeremy Corbyn. And I mean, I don't blame them that much - his approval rating, as noted, was toxic, and would he really be willing to compromise with the LibDems in a coalition when he didn't even have great relations with many of his own MPs? Like, it would've been better to just do it anyway, but Corbyn probably deserves more blame. The LibDems should've stood down in seats where their candidates would split the vote and help the Tory win. But if Corbyn stepping down as Labour leader was the price to get an anti-BoJo agreement with the LibDems, then he should've done it. Given his rancid approval ratings and "preferred Prime Minister" margins vs. May and Johnson, it's hard to make the case that LibDems were the ones making an unreasonable request, other than by delusional denial of the polls because you don't like what they say. But his cult, basically, viewed Corbyn, the man, as more essential than anything else, it seems to me. it seems to me like your speculations on this don't match up with the political reality.You may be right about the LibDems being unreasonable. I don't know what they would've done if Corbyn had, in fact, stepped down a several months ago. Maybe they still would've hoped they could win more seats by refusing to ally with Labour and put that partisan interest above country. And I have less knowledge of what they would've done in 2015 or 2010 or earlier. But I think probably the best opportunity for Labour to have done this was 1. without a referendum 2. before the 2010 election. But they would've had to prioritize keeping the Tories out over being able to form a single party government. A change like that would pretty much guarantee they need to form coalitions to govern. But had they read the movement towards the SNP in Scotland correctly, they would've realized that was going to be the case anyway. But maybe it was too hard to see where things were going then. Likewise, it may be right that Obama couldn't have gotten DC statehood through Congress in 2009, or gotten the Democrats to blow up the filibuster, etc. but it remains the case that those would've been smart things for the Democrats to do. It's just not solely his failure, but also the failure of people like Pat Leahy and Dianne Feinstein and Blanche Lincoln, etc. I'm perfectly fine with saying that Nick Clegg was a dumbass back then too. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 19] Author : fragment Date : 12-16-2019 12:10 AM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done It's kinda hard to disentangle that from the LibDems being unwilling to work with Jeremy Corbyn. True, but any of this counter-factual speculation depends on when we choose to start counter-factualising and which facts we counter. At the time of the loss of Tory majority working with Labour and working with Corbyn were the same thing and the LibDems had to deal with that reality. They would have served their stated agendas better by accepting the offer to form a temporary coalition, get a soft Brexit deal negotiated with referendum to confirm and then going to general election. But if Corbyn stepping down as Labour leader was the price to get an anti-BoJo agreement with the LibDems, then he should've done it. Also true. He didn't need to even stand down as Labour leader, he could have just agreed to support an alternative Labour MP as interim PM. Ultimately I'm a bit less interested in apportioning blame than in judging the actions of individuals/organisations based on the situations they actually found themselves in. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 20] Author : mickthinks Date : 12-16-2019 08:08 AM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done My name is mickthinks and I am a Corbynist. I want to defend both Corbyn from unfair criticism, and the Momentum project from hasty rejection. I think I have a lot to say , but right now I have little time to order my thoughts as well as erimir has done, so I'm just putting this here and raising a question: Is vox one of the sources you are using for your information and analysis, erimir: UK election results: Labour’s crushing defeat, explained - Vox (https://www.vox.com/world/2019/12/13/21004755/uk-election-2019-jeremy-corbyn-labour-defeat) ? Because I think it is faulty in a number of areas. That's it for now ... -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 21] Author : erimir Date : 12-16-2019 08:55 AM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done I did not see that Vox article until just now. And I'll admit I don't know all the details of the various anti-Semitism accusations and so forth to distinguish entirely what's overhyped and what was real. But I do know that the vast majority of British Jews thought Corbyn was anti-Semitic, and I'm not that inclined to dismiss the opinion of almost 90% of British Jews on whether something is worrying regarding anti-Semitism without a really good defense. And some of the instances I read about can, at best, be defended as Corbyn being oblivious. Like that mural isn't that subtle, and his excuse was that he didn't look that closely at it, right? It's not really a defensible kind of obliviousness, you know? Like, if a Democratic candidate claims to be unaware of various racist stereotypes about black people and thus "accidentally" hangs out with and seems to endorse anti-black racists, it doesn't really exculpate you, it just suggests you've concerned yourself so little with anti-black racism that you can't notice obvious instances of it. And in some cases, I suppose, it could be a lack of due diligence as a politician. But sorry, if you wanna be leader of a political party, you really ought to avoid praising people who say that Jews use the blood of children to bake bread and they knew about 9/11 beforehand. As a politician, it's not that great of an excuse to say you can't be bothered to look into these sorts of things. Your staff should be doing background not just on people you don't like, but on people you might be inclined to agree with. And maybe the PLP was unfair to him. But still, there's a reason why basically any party leader who's not Corbyn would resign after a vote of no confidence, and it doesn't seem likely to lead to victory if the leader doesn't have the support of their MPs. And I'm aware that the media situation in the UK isn't better than in the US. And I certainly would build in some forgiveness there, given that I think that media fucked up in 2016 and that's part of why Hillary lost. But I mean, we're talking about a 2 pt popular vote victory vs. a 12 pt popular vote loss. She had -13 favorability vs. Corbyn's -40. Even giving the UK media bias a larger bit of blame, there's still a lot more blame left to distribute. And certainly Brexit was a big issue, and one which any Labour leader would've struggled with. But it seems to me whether you should drop a -40 approval leader is a much simpler question to answer than how Labour should deal with Brexit. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 22] Author : JoeP Date : 12-16-2019 04:07 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done They won the election with a decisive majority, they don't need to lie and promise impossible things any more. And yet ... Michael Gove promises Brexit trade deal with EU by end of 2020 | Politics | The Guardian (https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/dec/15/michael-gove-promises-brexit-trade-deal-with-eu-by-end-of-2020) The deal may be "oven ready" in de Piffle's words, but the govt is not "match fit". Despite Gove’s confidence, a new report from the Institute for Government warned that Whitehall is not “match fit” for the next phase of Brexit negotiations. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 23] Author : JoeP Date : 12-16-2019 04:10 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done And in the "you don't say" department: One thing Johnson’s victory doesn’t change: he’s still lying about Ireland | Fintan O’Toole | Opinion | The Guardian (https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/dec/15/boris-johnson-lying-ireland-withdrawal-agreement-brexit-belfast-dublin) When someone called Fintan O'Toole tells me what the situation is for Ireland, I'm inclined to believe him. The first big problem is that Johnson’s thumping majority doesn’t make his mendacity and fecklessness go away. The Irish government wants the withdrawal deal to be ratified, largely because it got what it wanted: a version of the Northern Ireland-only backstop. But this is like inheriting valuable shares in a very dodgy company. one part of it is effectively being jettisoned as dead weight so that the great Brexit balloon can ascend into the blue skies of renewed greatness. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 24] Author : JoeP Date : 12-16-2019 04:17 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done And from the "who else have I heard this kind of language from" department: Boris Johnson threatens BBC with two-pronged attack | Media | The Guardian (https://www.theguardian.com/media/2019/dec/15/boris-johnson-threatens-bbc-with-two-pronged-attack) No 10 boycotts Today programme and considers decriminalising non-payment of licence fee The licence fee as a mechanism is pretty anachronistic, but this is an attack on state funding itself - and they're also attacking Channel 4 which has a state mandate but is commercially funded. (And Labour are also attacking the BBC.) No sign of rowing back from populism yet, then. No sign of statesmanship. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 25] Author : Kamilah Hauptmann Date : 12-17-2019 08:34 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done :surprise: :uk: Boris Johnson could ditch promise to protect workers' rights and environmental protections after Brexit, No 10 suggests | The Independent (https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/boris-johnson-brexit-workers-rights-environment-climate-change-election-a9248611.html) -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 26] Author : erimir Date : 01-05-2020 10:43 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done So the Labour leadership election should be getting up and running about now, eh? Any updates on that? -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 27] Author : JoeP Date : 01-06-2020 08:52 AM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done A trickle of MPs are announcing their candidacies. It hasn't got serious yet. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 28] Author : ceptimus Date : 01-07-2020 04:30 AM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done The timetable has been announced. We'll know who is the new Labour leader in early April. Long-bailey is the continuity Corbynist candidate. Nandy and Philips are the two women candidates who appear to be normal human beings. The (currently two) male candidates will find it difficult to win, as the general perception seems to be that it's time the party has its first female leader. Thornberry seems to be about as charming and diplomatic as Jabba the Hutt. Next stage is for the (currently six) candidates to see if they can get enough support from MPs and trade unions to qualify for the next stage where the winner is chosen by a ballot of Labour party members. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 29] Author : Kamilah Hauptmann Date : 01-09-2020 08:06 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done Canada - the perfect place for Brits to live post-Brexit | World news | The Guardian (https://www.theguardian.com/world/shortcuts/2020/jan/08/canada-the-perfect-place-for-brits-to-live-post-brexit) Leading the charge? Prince Harry and Meghan to step back as senior royals ('https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-51040751') -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 30] Author : JoeP Date : 01-09-2020 10:59 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done That Harry and Meghan thing is the most interesting bit of royal news since ... well since Prince Andrew's notorious interview which wasn't that long ago. Perhaps it's just what the article says, that they were feeling a lot of pressure. But my first & continuing thought is that they know some stuff going in Royals plc, and they are leaving a sinking ship before it's too late. Perhaps they're quitting before Granny can fire them the way she did with her own son. Prince Harry and Meghan: Where do they get their money? - BBC News (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/explainers-51047186) As senior royals, Harry and Meghan are not allowed to earn income in any form. And they are resigning as senior royals ... so ... they want to get jobs? Prince Harry and Meghan: Royal Family 'hurt' as couple begin 'next chapter' - BBC News (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-51043220) Prince Harry and Meghan did not consult any royal about making their personal statement ... Buckingham Palace was "blindsided" That's just Not the Way Things are Done. But nothing is any more. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 31] Author : Kamilah Hauptmann Date : 01-09-2020 11:23 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done Frankly, I don't blame Harry at all and an unsurprised. Not the kind of guy who wants to live subservient to his dad, then his brother... then maybe his nephew. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 32] Author : ceptimus Date : 01-09-2020 11:38 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done The British royal family should be trimmed back somehow. Most other European royal families only have four members - the monarch and spouse and the crown prince or princess and spouse. Harry and Meghan should pay their own way (including travel, security, and rent on that house in Windsor). They're both millionaires so they're not likely to starve. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 33] Author : Kamilah Hauptmann Date : 01-10-2020 05:13 AM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit DoneBut after this vote, do we deserve better? Apparently not. We have established our credentials as a myopic, petty nation of fence gossipers & snipers. Jealous, ugly & hateful.
— Duncan Jones (@ManMadeMoon) December 12, 2019
I thought we might be better.
I thought we could rescue ourselves from our baser instincts. Grim.
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 34] Author : JoeP Date : 01-10-2020 08:37 AM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done I am shocked. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 35] Author : mickthinks Date : 01-10-2020 11:21 AM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done Perhaps it's just what the article says, that they were feeling a lot of pressure. But my first & continuing thought is that they know some stuff going in Royals plc, and they are leaving a sinking ship before it's too late. Afua Hirsch says different: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/09/opinion/meghan-markle-prince-harry.html How many of us suspected — hoping but doubting we were wrong — that what would really initiate Meghan into her new role as a Briton with African heritage would be her experience of British racism. And ironically, by taking matters into their own hands, Harry and Meghan’s act of leaving — two fingers up at the racism of the British establishment — might be the most meaningful act of royal leadership I’m ever likely to see. It's an interesting piece and makes me want to read more from Hirsch. But is it plausible in that one specific speculation: Is Merkle, endowed with all the resources she has to cope with racism in the US, likely to have found the British variety too much to endure? And if so, where will she and Harry go—back to Trump's white supremacists' paradise? -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 36] Author : ceptimus Date : 01-13-2020 03:40 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done Labour leadership contest: five have made it through to the next stage: https://i1.wp.com/metro.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/PRC_119387110.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&zoom=1&resize=644%2C338&ssl=1 Left to right: Emily Thornberry (aka Lady Nugee, aka Jabba), Jess Phillips, Rebecca Long-Bailey (most Corbynite, and most blatantly painted-on eyebrows), Sir Keir Starmer, Lisa Nandy. Thornberry only made the cut in the final hours. Sir Keir got the most MP votes with Long-Bailey second. Sir Keir would be the clear favorite if he didn't have the disadvantage of being a man. Now each candidate has to get the support of 5% of all constituency parties, or three "affiliates" (two of which have to be trade unions). Those that pass this stage will then be eligible for the final stage where Labour party members vote to select the winner. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 37] Author : JoeP Date : 01-13-2020 07:15 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done most blatantly painted-on eyebrows In fairness, I think you ought to give token awards to the others as well. Keir Starmer: most male. Etc ... -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 38] Author : JoeP Date : 01-13-2020 10:47 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done Confusion As Britain Complains About Foreigner Leaving Country – Waterford Whispers News (https://waterfordwhispersnews.com/2020/01/13/confusion-as-britain-complains-about-foreigner-leaving-country/) -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 39] Author : Kamilah Hauptmann Date : 01-14-2020 01:05 AM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done Confusion As Britain Complains About Foreigner Leaving Country – Waterford Whispers News (https://waterfordwhispersnews.com/2020/01/13/confusion-as-britain-complains-about-foreigner-leaving-country/) Unskilled foreigners seek move to Canada - The Beaverton (https://www.thebeaverton.com/2020/01/unskilled-foreigners-seek-move-to-canada/) -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 40] Author : Sock Puppet Date : 01-17-2020 07:33 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done Big Ben won't Bong for Brexit (https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/jan/17/nul-points-eu-revision-contest-brexiters-big-ben) The article's not just about that. It's also about Brexiteers' apparent need for a narrative of oppression. Money quote: The problem with a revolt against imaginary oppression is that you end up with imaginary freedom. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 41] Author : Basset Hound Date : 01-24-2020 02:15 AM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done Parliament approved Brexit. The Queen will give her assent. https://apnews.com/7db2bae830296e4eaf65b877451bdead -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 42] Author : LarsMac Date : 01-24-2020 04:04 AM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done From what I've been readng, The Scotts may be planning a "Brexit" of their own. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 43] Author : Kamilah Hauptmann Date : 01-24-2020 04:16 AM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done To the audience here who's already probably informed: When Scotland had their referendum a few years back that was the Big Thing: "If you want to stay in the EU, you have to stay in the UK!" And so Scotland's more or less taken this development a rather personal insult. Then there's the whole Ireland thing. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 44] Author : JoeP Date : 01-24-2020 08:33 AM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done From what I've been readng, The Scotts may be planning a "Brexit" of their own. Now that Westminster has successfully exited (for questionable definitions of "successfully" and "exit") from the unrepresentative tyranny of Brussels, they will spend the next 2 - 20 years explaining to Scotland that Scotland is better as part of the UK, and they can't unilaterally secede anyway. Meanwhile the Conservatives seem a lot less concerned about Northern Ireland and (possibly but not certainly) aware that an actual land border with the EU is a difficult thing, and might just let it all go away. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 45] Author : Kamilah Hauptmann Date : 01-24-2020 06:27 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done UK leaves EU to keep the foreigners out but joins Schengen to keep Irish from blowing up the London metro. :wantedtololbutreallycantandshouldnt: -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 46] Author : JoeP Date : 01-25-2020 12:37 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done Former 'red wall' areas could lose millions in council funding review | Society | The Guardian (https://www.theguardian.com/society/2020/jan/25/former-red-wall-areas-could-lose-millions-in-council-funding-review) Leopards, faces, no one could have foreseen this. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 47] Author : Kamilah Hauptmann Date : 01-30-2020 01:33 AM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done Never gets old seeing an Irish tell a smug English to Go Try French Opera.UK joins US in standing firm against basic fucking human decency. https://t.co/LmJucb73ol
— The Out And Abouter (@OutAndAbouter) January 9, 2020
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 48] Author : slimshady2357 Date : 01-30-2020 08:23 AM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done My god I fucking hate Nigel Farage. Like I truly despise him, wish him ill, fucking hate him. And I hate that the media, especially the BBC, keeps giving this total gobshite any fucking viewing time. :fuuu: -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 49] Author : JoeP Date : 01-30-2020 11:45 AM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done D-1. Brexit: What will change after Friday, 31 January? - BBC News (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-51194363) :tealdeer:: Not much. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 50] Author : Kamilah Hauptmann Date : 01-30-2020 05:12 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done This is still on then? (https://dndinacastle.com/) -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 51] Author : JoeP Date : 01-30-2020 07:58 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done I'm pretty sure D&D harks back to a time before the EU. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 52] Author : JoeP Date : 01-31-2020 07:28 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done Brexit is nearly done! :hyper: Less than 4 hours to go! -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 53] Author : Kamilah Hauptmann Date : 01-31-2020 07:59 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done I hope you enjoyed electricity! :cheer: -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 54] Author : JoeP Date : 01-31-2020 08:48 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done Pssht, we don't need your foreign electricity. We'll soon be reopening British coal mines. And relearning how to create electricity and maintain the national grid without foreigners. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 55] Author : JoeP Date : 01-31-2020 09:39 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done Outbreaks of xenophobia in west as coronavirus spreads | World news | The Guardian (https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jan/31/spate-of-anti-chinese-incidents-in-italy-amid-coronavirus-panic) Not really surprising but still ... :( Prediction: there will be a number of xenophobic incidents in Britain over the next few days, now that the (alleged) xenophobes (if there are any) are fired up by the thought that they've won. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 56] Author : JoeP Date : 01-31-2020 09:41 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done No sooner posted than ... So a very unpleasant thing happened in the store were I work this evening. A thug - thats what I'm going to call him, went up to some random Arab guy and shouted very loudly 'thank god that from tomorrow your sort will be banned from coming here' then he blotted out before anyone had a chance to pull him up over the comment. I've never experienced Brexit related racism first hand before so this is depressing. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 57] Author : Miisa Date : 01-31-2020 10:27 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done I shall pop over to Britannia ASAP (in March) and speak in Foreign loudly. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 58] Author : JoeP Date : 01-31-2020 10:30 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done This is a special definition of ASAP... -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 59] Author : Miisa Date : 01-31-2020 10:35 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done Says the country that has been rushing out the door for going on 4 years now, and is actually still in the doorway. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 60] Author : Kamilah Hauptmann Date : 01-31-2020 10:55 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done If Finnish sniping is like their snipers it will be impossible to see anyway. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 61] Author : JoeP Date : 01-31-2020 11:12 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done Says the country that has been rushing out the door for going on 4 years now, and is actually still in the doorway.I DO NOT SPEAK FOR THE COUNTRY Although as someone who identifies as a cat, it does seem entirely reasonable behaviour. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 62] Author : JoeP Date : 01-31-2020 11:13 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done If Finnish sniping is like their snipers it will be impossible to see anyway.:invisibleburn: -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 63] Author : Miisa Date : 01-31-2020 11:14 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done BUT THE COUNTRY SPEAKS FOR ALL Y'ALL. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 64] Author : Kamilah Hauptmann Date : 02-01-2020 12:29 AM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done Says the country that has been rushing out the door for going on 4 years now, and is actually still in the doorway.I DO NOT SPEAK FOR THE COUNTRY Although as someone who identifies as a cat, it does seem entirely reasonable behaviour. Get your AR-15 yet? -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 65] Author : JoeP Date : 02-01-2020 12:36 AM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done Hmm, requires opposable thumbs. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 66] Author : Kamilah Hauptmann Date : 02-01-2020 01:08 AM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 67] Author : Miisa Date : 02-01-2020 05:30 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done The Very, Very Important Question that the rest of Europe is mulling over is how will this effect Eurovision? Probably not directly, but will Britain now feel it can moan about it more? Less? Will it lose the automatic spot in the finals? -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 68] Author : JoeP Date : 02-01-2020 05:50 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done Britain will take it even less seriously. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 69] Author : JoeP Date : 02-01-2020 05:54 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done If any country enters a song involving loss or leaving or missing you (all good themes for songs), the press will go crazy. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 70] Author : Miisa Date : 02-01-2020 09:10 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done Britain will take it even less seriously. Funny you should say that, as Britain seems to take it the most seriously of all the countries. It makes a big fuss about *not* taking it seriously, which merely underlines that it actually does. But that could be a cultural interpretation difference. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 71] Author : JoeP Date : 02-01-2020 09:45 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done Britain will take it even less seriously. Funny you should say that, as Britain seems to take it the most seriously of all the countries. It makes a big fuss about *not* taking it seriously, which merely underlines that it actually does. No! Utter nonsense! That's .... that's just what we want you to think! -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 72] Author : Kamilah Hauptmann Date : 02-01-2020 11:05 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done Oh oh! I have an entry! Forgive Us We're Canadian - YouTube -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 73] Author : SR71 Date : 02-02-2020 02:39 AM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done The people want Brexit! Let them have Brexit! Can they have kippers for Brexit, mummy dear, mummy dear? They've gotta have 'em in Texas, 'cause everyone's a millionaire. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 74] Author : JoeP Date : 02-03-2020 01:16 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done Former European colony declares independence | Al Jazeera (https://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/european-colony-declares-independence-200201090629560.html) So to London, capital of what until Friday was the European colony of Great Britain. At 11pm local time, this former coal and pop-music producer declared independence and shook off the manacles of frictionless free trade with its close neighbours. Many observers were concerned lest triumphalist Brexiteers should attempt to perform the ritual bonging of the totemic local clock Big Ben, and thereby infuriate the vanquished subsidy-bloated Europhiles. Linked to control has been sovereignty - a local shamanic tradition which rarely makes sense to outsiders unless they have fully experienced the altered state of consciousness that full exposure to common sense can bring. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 75] Author : Kamilah Hauptmann Date : 02-03-2020 01:32 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done Ah, you must be abroad. You have electricity. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 76] Author : Kamilah Hauptmann Date : 02-04-2020 07:37 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done Belgium says 1666 royal charter grants its fishermen 'eternal rights' to English waters | inews (https://inews.co.uk/news/uk/belgium-says-1666-royal-charter-grants-fishermen-eternal-rights-english-waters-523060) https://media.tenor.com/images/5f1605c098e41de2f1d129da543a7b14/tenor.gif -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 77] Author : JoeP Date : 02-04-2020 07:58 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done One fish two fish red white and blue fish -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 78] Author : Kamilah Hauptmann Date : 02-05-2020 06:07 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit DoneMairead McGuinness cuts Nigel Farage's mic - "Sit down, put your flags away - you're leaving - & take them with you - goodbye" �� pic.twitter.com/XM1hztMelA
— Haggis_UK ���� ���� (@Haggis_UK) January 29, 2020
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 79] Author : Kamilah Hauptmann Date : 02-10-2020 06:33 AM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done Post-Brexit 'free ports' will let companies and super-rich avoid tax, Labour warns | The Independent (https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/boris-johnson-free-ports-tax-trade-brexit-labour-john-mcdonnell-a9325971.html) -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 80] Author : JoeP Date : 02-10-2020 09:06 AM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done Which is why the govt want it and why it will happen. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 81] Author : mickthinks Date : 02-10-2020 10:07 AM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit DoneSo it looks like the 4-day 1st war of Brexit is officially over:
— Nick�������� (@nicktolhurst) February 4, 2020
Brexiters got all excited on Brexit day as Guernsey banned French fishermen. Everything was fine till Guernsey fisherman went to process their fish in France.
France refused, the fish rotted & now the war is over.
I'm not sure Nick Tolhurst (if there is such a thing) hasn't made up the bit about the French refusing and it being over. The latest report seems to suggest that the French boats are currently not fishing in the disputed waters, and that they will seek and be granted the permits that Guernsey authorities say are required. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 82] Author : JoeP Date : 02-10-2020 11:25 AM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done Yes, that particular incident was about a lapse in allocation of permits, not a change negotiated with or as part of Brexit. An unforeseen* exception to the "nothing will change before the end of the transition period" rule. * I mean who could have foreseen that some things might need to be checked, or that people other than the UK (such as Guernsey, which isn't part of the UK or the EU) might be affected. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 83] Author : Kamilah Hauptmann Date : 02-13-2020 07:05 AM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done Bloomberg - Top Trump Adviser Says U.K. Slips Behind EU in Trade Priorities (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-02-10/top-trump-adviser-says-u-k-slips-behind-eu-in-trade-priorities) -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 84] Author : JoeP Date : 02-13-2020 08:52 AM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done What a surprise. It's never been very clear what the trade priorities are of the UK govt (the portion that is pro-Brexit because it will remove the supposed obstacle of the EU from getting trade deals with other countries). USA, China and India are probably the top three, but they don't seem to have any strategy for aligning them or managing the disagreements arising from things like Huawei. Of course, they are beginners at this trade negotiation business, not having done it for 40 years. Also ... top trumps advisers :giggle: Also also ... being a "top" adviser to Trump is not that impressive. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 85] Author : JoeP Date : 02-13-2020 08:55 AM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done Visions of Bozo's team negotiating with T-Rump's team ... it will be like a toddler negotiating with a slightly bigger toddler. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 86] Author : Kamilah Hauptmann Date : 02-13-2020 10:16 AM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done Maybe you’ll get the Canada Deal. The kind where you do as told or get fucked up. :) -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 87] Author : JoeP Date : 02-13-2020 12:12 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done Bozo is having a cabinet reshuffle. This is a thing that happens. The chancellor Sajid Javid has resigned (rather than obey the PM to sack his advisory team). This is not a thing that happens often. The budget is due in 4 weeks. It is quite an extraordinary thing to happen at this stage of a new government. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 88] Author : Kamilah Hauptmann Date : 02-14-2020 05:09 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit DoneSo it looks like the 4-day 1st war of Brexit is officially over:
— Nick�������� (@nicktolhurst) February 4, 2020
Brexiters got all excited on Brexit day as Guernsey banned French fishermen. Everything was fine till Guernsey fisherman went to process their fish in France.
France refused, the fish rotted & now the war is over.
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 89] Author : erimir Date : 02-14-2020 09:28 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done lol Having flown to Europe as a family where some of us (me, my mother and one of my siblings) have EU passports and the other two (my father and the other sibling) do not, you really see the advantage of the EU passport. Of course, when you're with people who don't have it, you still have to wait for them... but you get to sit instead of standing in line at least. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 90] Author : Kamilah Hauptmann Date : 02-14-2020 09:38 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done I dunno, the times I've entered Europe it wasn't rough. US Border is worse, and... I remember the UK bloke being a bit of a cunt. Maybe it's an English speaker thing.I didn't think leaving the EU would mean we'd be out of the EU this is bullshit
— James Felton (@JimMFelton) February 14, 2020
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EQUwl3LWoAEIye6?format=jpg&name=small -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 91] Author : JoeP Date : 02-14-2020 10:52 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done The border queues vary hugely with time of day and where other planes have come in from. I've even experienced the UK/EU queue being redirected to the allotherpassports queue because it was shorter. Back when the UK/EU was a thing. You can easily get monster queues within the EU when anything unusual happens. Frankfurt ... German efficiency doesn't apply when it's their lunchtime. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 92] Author : Miisa Date : 02-15-2020 06:44 AM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done Or if some of the automats are down. You might even have to go to a counter, with a PERSON. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 93] Author : JoeP Date : 02-15-2020 10:49 AM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done You say "person" but can you really be sure? -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 94] Author : Miisa Date : 02-15-2020 11:33 AM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done True, they might be androids. Comforting thought. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 95] Author : JoeP Date : 02-16-2020 11:13 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0116/9430/9438/products/mockup-21178bda_1024x1024@2x.jpg?v=1574449519 Not a Brexit Supporter Mug – VeryBrexitProblems (https://verybrexitproblems.com/collections/mugs/products/not-a-brexit-supporter-mug) -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 96] Author : Ensign Steve Date : 02-18-2020 06:53 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done We arrived in Spain the morning of February 1. We Americans went through the passport line that we would have gone through anyway, but the one UK guy we had with us went through the EU line without any problems. He said, "It's Spain. There's no way they have their systems updated yet." :lol: :spanish: :lol: -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 97] Author : Kamilah Hauptmann Date : 02-19-2020 08:14 AM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done Greece demands Elgin Marbles for EU trade deal (https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/greece-gets-elgin-marbles-included-in-eu-trade-deal-demands-sz5vdh5wd) -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 98] Author : JoeP Date : 02-19-2020 11:39 AM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done I was going to post that. :curses: to busy mornings. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 99] Author : Miisa Date : 02-19-2020 11:59 AM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done Well, NOBODY saw that coming. :gasp: -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 100] Author : Kamilah Hauptmann Date : 02-19-2020 04:59 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done Knock knock. Who's there? Egypt. ...oh shit. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 101] Author : Miisa Date : 02-19-2020 05:09 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done Ah, but Egypt is not an EU member. The EU might be obligated to take the side of one of its member states (Greece) against a non-member (UK). Similar issue with Spain and its claim on Gibraltar. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 102] Author : Kamilah Hauptmann Date : 02-19-2020 05:40 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done Zimbabwe has entered the chat. Sierra Leone has entered the chat. Ethiopia has entered the chat. South Africa has entered the chat. India has entered the chat. China has entered the chat. Canada and Australia go about oppressing some indigenous populations on their own, thank you very much. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 103] Author : JoeP Date : 02-19-2020 06:47 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done All our negotiators are currently busy. Your call is important to us. All our negotiators are currently busy. Your call is important to us. All our negotiators are currently busy. Your call is important to us. All our negotiators are currently busy. Your call is important to us. All our negotiators are currently busy. Your call is important to us. All our negotiators are currently busy. Your call is important to us. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 104] Author : JoeP Date : 02-20-2020 10:47 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done UK Google users could lose EU GDPR data protections | Technology | The Guardian (https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/feb/20/uk-google-users-to-lose-eu-gdpr-data-protections-brexit) Surprise!! -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 105] Author : Kamilah Hauptmann Date : 02-22-2020 01:07 AM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done https://satwcomic.com/art/it-s-genetic.png It's genetic - Scandinavia and the World (https://satwcomic.com/it-s-genetic) -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 106] Author : JoeP Date : 02-27-2020 10:47 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done https://i.imgur.com/RAErQzC.jpg -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 107] Author : Kamilah Hauptmann Date : 02-29-2020 06:54 AM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done https://i.imgur.com/eiv3LTL.jpg 11042 -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 108] Author : JoeP Date : 02-29-2020 10:39 AM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done Home Office chief Sir Philip Rutnam quits over Priti Patel 'bullying' | Politics | The Guardian (https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2020/feb/29/home-office-chief-sir-philip-rutnam-quits-over-priti-patel-bullying) Which is just as much Bozo and Dominic Cummings bullying, very much their strategy. Take back control ... from other parts of Westminster. :popcorn: -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 109] Author : JoeP Date : 02-29-2020 06:36 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done His video statement: Home Office boss quits over 'campaign against him' - BBC News (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-51687287) -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 110] Author : Kamilah Hauptmann Date : 02-29-2020 10:02 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done Needs more Yakity Sax. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 111] Author : JoeP Date : 03-01-2020 10:50 AM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done Mary Beard blocked by No 10 as British Museum trustee 'for pro-Europe views' | Books | The Guardian (https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/mar/01/british-museum-put-mary-beard-on-the-board-despite-downing-st-veto) Does this look like more interventionism from an insecure government bent on centralising all power and punishing those it sees as opponents? Why yes, yes it does. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 112] Author : JoeP Date : 03-01-2020 06:03 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done This makes me a little bit happier ... Slavish support for Boris Johnson has turned the Telegraph into a joke | Roy Greenslade | Media | The Guardian (https://www.theguardian.com/media/commentisfree/2020/mar/01/barclay-brothers-face-struggle-to-sell-the-telegraph-titles) The reclusive Barclay Brothers now face a struggle to sell their once great titles -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 113] Author : SR71 Date : 03-02-2020 03:44 AM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done There's a Telegraph? I thought the Daily Mail was the equivalent to Fnocks News. It must be pretty bad. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 114] Author : JoeP Date : 03-02-2020 08:19 AM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done The Telegraph was a well-respected newspaper, considerably more highbrow than the gutter Daily Fail. Always right-wing and not something a Guardian reader would be seen with, but not un-intellectual. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 115] Author : JoeP Date : 03-26-2020 04:01 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done Hey, remember when Brexit was in the news ... Oh look ... No 10 accused of putting 'Brexit over breathing' in Covid-19 ventilator row | World news | The Guardian (https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/26/no-10-boris-johnson-accused-of-putting-brexit-over-breathing-in-covid-19-ventilator-row) -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 116] Author : Kamilah Hauptmann Date : 03-26-2020 04:59 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done 11075 -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 117] Author : JoeP Date : 03-26-2020 08:15 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done Oh look, part 2... Downing Street announced what amounts to a*U-turn over participating in the EU-wide effort to procure ventilators and other medical equipment. No 10 accused of putting 'Brexit over breathing' in Covid-19 ventilator row | Politics | The Guardian (https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/26/no-10-boris-johnson-accused-of-putting-brexit-over-breathing-in-covid-19-ventilator-row) the UK claims not to have received an email from the EU asking it to participate. So basically they are bungling our way through this, all outcomes by mistake, just like the whole Brexit project. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 118] Author : Miisa Date : 03-26-2020 08:20 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done Oh look, part 2... the UK claims not to have received an email from the EU asking it to participate. Did they check their spam folder? Do they have any rules that might redirect or delete EU emails? -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 119] Author : JoeP Date : 03-26-2020 08:41 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done The answers are probably no & they have no idea. They've had enough of experts. Probably using private email servers anyway. With IT support outsourced to Poland, if not even India. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 120] Author : Kamilah Hauptmann Date : 03-29-2020 07:48 AM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit DoneCartoon for @TorontoStar #BrexitDay #Brexit50p #Brexiteers #BrexitShambles pic.twitter.com/tANe3Wijvm
— Michael de Adder (@deAdder) February 3, 2020
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 121] Author : BrotherMan Date : 03-29-2020 01:57 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done We're Americans now, here, we brought some blankets for you. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 122] Author : ceptimus Date : 04-04-2020 11:05 AM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done Labour leadership contest: five have made it through to the next stage: https://i1.wp.com/metro.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/PRC_119387110.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&zoom=1&resize=644%2C338&ssl=1 Left to right: Emily Thornberry (aka Lady Nugee, aka Jabba), Jess Phillips, Rebecca Long-Bailey (most Corbynite, and most blatantly painted-on eyebrows), Sir Keir Starmer, Lisa Nandy. Thornberry only made the cut in the final hours. Sir Keir got the most MP votes with Long-Bailey second. Sir Keir would be the clear favorite if he didn't have the disadvantage of being a man. Now each candidate has to get the support of 5% of all constituency parties, or three "affiliates" (two of which have to be trade unions). Those that pass this stage will then be eligible for the final stage where Labour party members vote to select the winner. It's finally over - the most anticlimactic leadership election result in a long time, completely overshadowed by the pandemic. And the winner is The Right Honourable Sir Keir Starmer KCB (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_of_the_Bath) QC MP. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 123] Author : Kamilah Hauptmann Date : 04-04-2020 06:03 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done Ah, Britain have a Testicular Qualification too? -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 124] Author : SR71 Date : 04-04-2020 07:50 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done https://metro.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/pri_45792016.jpg?quality=80&strip=all Are you implying... ? -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 125] Author : Kyuss Apollo Date : 04-04-2020 07:57 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done NOT implying. And Thatcher's Balls was one the best hardcore bands from Earth-616. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 126] Author : Kamilah Hauptmann Date : 04-04-2020 08:25 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done https://metro.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/pri_45792016.jpg?quality=80&strip=all Are you implying... ? https://i.imgflip.com/3ve5sq.jpg -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 127] Author : Kamilah Hauptmann Date : 04-04-2020 08:32 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done Side note about Kim Campbell, 19th Prime Minister of Canada: She was on that Bill Maher show some years back as the 'token conservative'. As the discussion went on she pointed over to the other two American 'liberals' and noted (paraphrase), "I think I'm the furthest to the left of anyone here." -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 128] Author : JoeP Date : 04-05-2020 11:15 AM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done Ah, Britain have a Testicular Qualification too? Yes. Although it's not an automatic qualification. Ed Balls lost the same leadership election in 2010. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 129] Author : JoeP Date : 05-07-2020 10:12 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done Revealed: the secret report that gave ministers warning of care home coronavirus crisis | World news | The Guardian (https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/may/07/revealed-the-secret-report-that-gave-ministers-warning-of-care-home-coronavirus-crisis) The 2017 report is likely to raise questions over whether ministers ever implemented key recommendations pertaining to the care home sector. It contained 26 key recommendations, including boosting the capacity of care homes and the numbers of staff available to work in them. It also warned of the challenge facing homes asked to take in patients from hospitals. Asked recently about the report on Exercise Cygnus, the health secretary, Matt Hancock, said he had been assured by officials at the Department of Health that “everything that was recommended was done” passed the buck. Cygnus Redacted Annex 01scribd Redactedv3 (https://www.scribd.com/document/460161101/Cygnus-Redacted-Annex-01scribd-Redactedv3#from_embed) No quotes, I can't copy anything from this ... that's kind of the point of scribd ... anyway I haven't quite got through all 57 pages. It's pretty dry. I put this item in this thread because of my (wholly unsupported) belief that the CONservative government ignored the findings of this report because they were obsessed with austerity and Brexit. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 130] Author : Kamilah Hauptmann Date : 05-13-2020 05:17 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done"we're the dutch and we're ready to trade with you"
— Rebecca (@beccadottex) March 24, 2020
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 131] Author : JoeP Date : 05-13-2020 07:05 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done Doubt. They've spent 10 years building a hostile environment, why change now? -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 132] Author : Kamilah Hauptmann Date : 05-13-2020 11:35 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done Surprise: Brexit will mean checks on goods crossing Irish Sea, government admits | Politics | The Guardian (https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2020/may/13/brexit-will-mean-checks-on-goods-crossing-irish-sea-government-admits) -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 133] Author : JoeP Date : 05-14-2020 08:18 AM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done Such a surprise. However he was then accused of misleading the public after he was recorded on video telling local businesses weeks later that there would be no checks. Um ... However he was then accused of lying after he was recorded on video telling local businesses weeks later that there would be no checks. :fixed: -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 134] Author : Kamilah Hauptmann Date : 06-09-2020 07:34 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit DoneTen words from the English language to terrify the last remaining Reaganites in the Conservative Party https://t.co/3yGWbBmxCN
— Matthew Holehouse (@mattholehouse) May 13, 2020
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 135] Author : BrotherMan Date : 06-10-2020 05:16 AM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done :twitch: -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 136] Author : JoeP Date : 06-10-2020 09:05 AM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done The Queen requests* Canada to attend an informal* interview. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 137] Author : Kamilah Hauptmann Date : 06-10-2020 09:20 AM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done Just wondering if you pronounce it ‘kettle’ or ‘keh-el’. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 138] Author : JoeP Date : 06-10-2020 09:27 AM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done I speak proper, innit. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 139] Author : JoeP Date : 06-10-2020 09:29 AM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done Just to clarify, does Canada have proper domestic electrical wiring & voltage capable of delivering 3kW? And do Canadian households generally have kettles? Or are you hobbled with the unfortunate antiquated American approach? -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 140] Author : JoeP Date : 06-10-2020 09:31 AM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done USA: property is the most important thing. Britain: proper tea is the most important thing. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 141] Author : Kamilah Hauptmann Date : 06-10-2020 09:57 AM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done https://www.tiktok.com/@jchelle36?lang=en is an American living in the UK. And a quite good troll given the hair on fire responses that video has been getting. :) As for plug outlet standard, I believe it’s uniform in the Americas from the North Pole to the tip of Chile. As for Canadians and tea: The Tea Rap - YouTube -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 142] Author : JoeP Date : 06-10-2020 10:25 AM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done And a quite good troll Yes there were so many transgressions in that video that I got suspicious ... I think it was not measuring the sugar that finally convinced me this has to be a spoof. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 143] Author : Kamilah Hauptmann Date : 06-10-2020 08:49 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done https://i.imgflip.com/43emhe.jpg https://i.imgflip.com/43en2c.jpg -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 144] Author : JoeP Date : 06-10-2020 10:44 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done https://i.imgflip.com/43emhe.jpg It's 21 miles to Europe*, we've got an empty tank of petrol, half a pack of pharmaceuticals, it's dark, and we're wearing rose-tinted sunglasses. End it. * In true Brexit style the existence of Ireland is overlooked -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 145] Author : Corona688 Date : 06-10-2020 11:20 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done Just to clarify, does Canada have proper domestic electrical wiring & voltage capable of delivering 3kW? And do Canadian households generally have kettles? Or are you hobbled with the unfortunate antiquated American approach? Actually, most of North America has proper high-amp 240V wiring and sockets in their homes! But the plug is so absurdly huge(even rivalling yours) we don't use it for anything but the largest stationary appliances, like ovens, battleships, and AK-47's. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 146] Author : erimir Date : 06-10-2020 11:46 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done Just wondering if you pronounce it ‘kettle’ or ‘keh-el’. This is the proper way to pronounce "kettle": (go to 1:40) Salad Fingers 1: Spoons (HD) - YouTube -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 147] Author : slimshady2357 Date : 06-18-2020 01:59 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done We are so fucked. Here is a great thread on why any trade deal with the US will mean lower food standards for the UK. Not to mention a royal fucking over of our farmers.Canada resolves to keep border closed until 3021. pic.twitter.com/VYckm0mOWB
— The Out And Black Lives Matter (@OutAndAbouter) June 8, 2020
I fucking hate Johnson and his whole lot of asscockmotherfuckers :rage: -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 148] Author : JoeP Date : 06-18-2020 04:48 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done :sadnod: -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 149] Author : Kamilah Hauptmann Date : 06-30-2020 09:54 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done https://i.redd.it/c8j3lmzwyz751.png :chefskiss: -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 150] Author : slimshady2357 Date : 06-30-2020 10:12 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done I don't know if any of that is true*, but the thread keeps on giving. Here is the original post in case you want to keep following along.�������� NEW: how can the U.K. strike a trade deal with USA while protecting U.K. farmers and consumers? Answer they probably can’t. (And don’t be fooled by specious assurances on ‘chlorinated chicken’) Stay with me. 1/thread. https://t.co/LkzjCh1ShW
— Peter Foster (@pmdfoster) June 17, 2020
* the part about a British couple voting for Brexit and then being SHOCKED they will no longer be able to easily retire where-ever-the-fuck-they-bloody-well-want sounds all to believable. Not sure about the stuff with the son. I know a guy here whose business is providing foreign farm workers to companies for picking veggies/flowers/etc. He voted Brexit and it could literally ruin his business. But he's SURE the government wouldn't let that happen, it will all work out. My god there are some fucking dumb people here. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 151] Author : Kamilah Hauptmann Date : 07-01-2020 12:33 AM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done I don't know if any of that is true*, but the thread keeps on giving. Here is the original post in case you want to keep following along.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.
— RS Archer (@archer_rs) June 29, 2020
The blame apparently is with "Brussels".
* the part about a British couple voting for Brexit and then being SHOCKED they will no longer be able to easily retire where-ever-the-fuck-they-bloody-well-want sounds all to believable. Not sure about the stuff with the son. I know a guy here whose business is providing foreign farm workers to companies for picking veggies/flowers/etc. He voted Brexit and it could literally ruin his business. But he's SURE the government wouldn't let that happen, it will all work out. My god there are some fucking dumb people here.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.
— RS Archer (@archer_rs) June 29, 2020
The blame apparently is with "Brussels".
:D -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 152] Author : Pan Narrans Date : 07-01-2020 09:47 AM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit DoneI have spoken to our Mayor's wife (Mayor is out having lunch). She says after knowing him for thirty years he could be probably be corrupted if a date with Vanessa Paradis could be delivered as part of the deal.
— RS Archer (@archer_rs) June 30, 2020
:lolfruits: -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 153] Author : SR71 Date : 07-01-2020 09:25 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit DoneThe Mayor is with us here, he has dropped in for a small apéro. It seems the entire Mayor's office is now following this. He has no idea how they are all going to keep straight faces when 'you know who' turns up on Friday. One lady has switched her day off to be there.
— RS Archer (@archer_rs) June 30, 2020
Fill your boots! :snicker: :tiltwindmills: -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 154] Author : Kamilah Hauptmann Date : 07-01-2020 09:47 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit DoneThe son has been back on, it seems he will be,
— RS Archer (@archer_rs) June 29, 2020
"Taking this to the top" I have no idea what that means.
:popcorn: -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 155] Author : Kamilah Hauptmann Date : 07-02-2020 06:09 AM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done You know, that guy has a lot of followers for a brand new account. :examine: -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 156] Author : JoeP Date : 07-02-2020 08:42 AM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done You know, that guy has a lot of followers for a brand new account. :examine: "Joined April 2020" That's ancient history. I barely even remember May. Did we even have murder hornets in April? -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 157] Author : fragment Date : 07-02-2020 01:23 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done The R S Archer account is gone. Thread here Thread by @archer_rs: Just had conversation with a British couple who have a holiday home near us. They voted for Brexit and have made no arrangements whatsoever… (https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1277505330885386240.html) I'm leaning towards fiction, but very entertaining. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 158] Author : JoeP Date : 07-02-2020 04:57 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done The best fiction is entirely plausible. It holds up a mirror to reality. In this case, possibly a rather dirty, cracked, WOT YOU LOOKIN AT MATE mirror, but still plausible. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 159] Author : Kamilah Hauptmann Date : 07-03-2020 12:18 AM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done The R S Archer account is gone. Thread here Thread by @archer_rs: Just had conversation with a British couple who have a holiday home near us. They voted for Brexit and have made no arrangements whatsoever… (https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1277505330885386240.html) I'm leaning towards fiction, but very entertaining. If the account is gone the reader site will dump it eventually. Archive it now if you want to keep it. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 160] Author : Kamilah Hauptmann Date : 07-05-2020 12:05 AM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit DoneHe just sent me a message asking how far is it from my house to Brussels. I said about 850km.
— RS Archer (@archer_rs) July 1, 2020
He then asked for the distance in miles as he,
"Doesn't do French lengths"
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 161] Author : Kamilah Hauptmann Date : 07-12-2020 11:17 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done Not Brexit but everything's Brexit:My job doing sign language for the PM didn’t last long pic.twitter.com/y1MscyPoJO
— Boothby Graffoe (@boobygraffoe) July 4, 2020
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 162] Author : JoeP Date : 07-13-2020 09:14 AM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done but everything's Brexit: :sadnod: wait i mean YOUR FACE IS BREXIT :fuming: -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 163] Author : Pan Narrans Date : 07-14-2020 12:46 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done My Brexit face: :sniggle: My real brexit face: :brooding: -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 164] Author : JoeP Date : 07-14-2020 06:53 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done My Brexit face: :whatthefuck: -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 165] Author : BrotherMan Date : 07-14-2020 10:38 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done :piginablanket: -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 166] Author : Kamilah Hauptmann Date : 08-10-2020 04:48 AM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit DoneYou will rarely see a select committee chairman spring a trap during questioning quite so smoothly as Greg Clark did with Huawei bosses this morning pic.twitter.com/7jdBvGC6w0
— Jack Maidment (@jrmaidment) July 9, 2020
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 167] Author : Kamilah Hauptmann Date : 08-10-2020 04:51 AM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done It’s back!Brexit crash course for the Home Secretary pic.twitter.com/GM5DbGT6sD
— Andrew Adonis (@Andrew_Adonis) August 9, 2020
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 168] Author : Kamilah Hauptmann Date : 08-11-2020 11:22 AM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done Check that last paragraph:New Thread:
— RS Archer (@archer_rs) July 10, 2020
Over the last few days the father, since reunited with Idiot Son (he may or may not be happy about that) has been pursuing a tactic of trying to persuade various institutions to allow him an exemption from Brexit. He started with the EU and felt I should know.
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 169] Author : Kamilah Hauptmann Date : 08-15-2020 07:54 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done This is the British Absurdity Thrad (BAT), right? Police issue warning about Donald Trump-shaped ecstasy pills | UK news | The Guardian (https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/aug/15/police-issue-warning-about-donald-trump-shaped-ecstasy-pills) -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 170] Author : JoeP Date : 08-15-2020 09:53 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done I note that they are orange. :ffnod: -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 171] Author : JoeP Date : 08-19-2020 09:40 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done Yes, this is general British cock-ups thread. Since there've been no exams due to pandemics, schools have predicted grades based on coursewrok, assessments, and mock exams. So far so good. Then Ofqual - a body which is now more than likely to be disbanded and replaced by a new body run by a chum of the government (*cough* Public Health England *cough*) re-graded these predictions - downgrading at least 40%, with more severe effects for underprivileged areas. (I saw in a meme, so I know it's true, that 0 predictions at Eton were downgraded.) Massive uproar. Scotland cancelled the whole thing quite swiftly; England did nothing for a bit then said students could appeal; then backtracked completely. And now: Student who wrote story about biased algorithm has results downgraded | Education | The Guardian (https://www.theguardian.com/education/2020/aug/18/ashton-a-level-student-predicted-results-fiasco-in-prize-winning-story-jessica-johnson-ashton) An 18-year-old student who predicted this year’s A-level results crisis in an award-winning dystopian story about an algorithm deciding school grades according to social class, has had her own results downgraded. “I’ve fallen into my story. It’s crazy,” said Jessica Johnson, a student at Ashton Sixth Form College in Greater Manchester. “I based it on the educational inequality I already saw. I just exaggerated that inequality and added the algorithm. But I really didn’t think it would come true as quick as it did!” Johnson won an Orwell youth prize senior award in 2019 for her short story titled A Band Apart, which was the first one she had written. Set in 2029, it imagined a system where students were sorted into bands based on their background. “Mum still thinks I can be a doctor. She doesn’t understand how hard it is to get into Band 1 for people like us,” says a character in the story. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 172] Author : Ensign Steve Date : 08-19-2020 11:39 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done And you can read the short story: https://www.orwellfoundation.com/the-orwell-youth-prize/2018-youth-prize/previous-winners-youth/2019-winners/a-band-apart-jessica-johnson/ -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 173] Author : Kamilah Hauptmann Date : 08-19-2020 11:40 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done Algorithm by Google, Apple, or Facebook? -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 174] Author : JoeP Date : 08-20-2020 09:11 AM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done Algorithm by Google, Apple, or Facebook? I doubt it, they probably subcontracted to the lowest bidder. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 175] Author : JoeP Date : 08-20-2020 10:54 AM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done Algorithm by Google, Apple, or Facebook? I doubt it, they probably subcontracted to the lowest bidder. OH. WAIT. Firm linked to Gove and Cummings hired to work with Ofqual on A-levels | Education | The Guardian (https://www.theguardian.com/education/2020/aug/20/firm-linked-to-gove-and-cummings-hired-to-work-with-ofqual-on-a-levels) Public First was given communications contract without competitive tender I literally can believe this. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 176] Author : Kamilah Hauptmann Date : 08-20-2020 11:08 AM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done Algorithm by Google, Apple, or Facebook? I doubt it, they probably subcontracted to the lowest bidder. OH. WAIT. Firm linked to Gove and Cummings hired to work with Ofqual on A-levels | Education | The Guardian (https://www.theguardian.com/education/2020/aug/20/firm-linked-to-gove-and-cummings-hired-to-work-with-ofqual-on-a-levels) Public First was given communications contract without competitive tender I literally can believe this. CRONYISM SURPRISE -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 177] Author : JoeP Date : 08-23-2020 06:09 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done This is a "What's up with you?" thing and it may be a First world problem and it's definitely a "Bits and PCs" thing. But it's a fuckup and it's affecting me and not most of y'all, so I think it's logical to blame Brexit. I haven't been able to access :ff: via my wired broadband all day. No other sites are affected (though I wouldn't be surprised if it's a cloudflare issue) - and it turns out to be fine using my mobile data. So here I am. :glarecat: -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 178] Author : SR71 Date : 08-24-2020 12:56 AM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done If it'll help get Brexit done I will disclose that I'm using Edge and the past few days :ff: was slow and generating lots of 503 errors. It seems better today. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 179] Author : JoeP Date : 08-24-2020 08:21 AM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done The 503 errors were Cloudflare's fault and the improved speed to thanks to vm getting rid of that Weirdness (http://freethought-forum.com/forum/showthread.php?p=1344567#post1344567). The inability of my ISP to cope with the change is definitely due to Brexit, though. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 180] Author : Kamilah Hauptmann Date : 08-26-2020 10:05 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit DoneFour years on & the government’s level of Brexit aspiration is a symbolic cheese victory pic.twitter.com/WrxWPToeS2
— Toby Earle (@TobyonTV) August 10, 2020
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 181] Author : Kamilah Hauptmann Date : 09-03-2020 10:43 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done Brexit Corona!Whichever librarian managed to get not just the "The Twits" but also "Betrayed"; "Resistance" and "Fahrenheit 451" in the shot behind Johnson has my admiration. https://t.co/i1RYB00lcr
— Sam Freedman (@Samfr) August 26, 2020
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 182] Author : Kamilah Hauptmann Date : 09-04-2020 10:27 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit DoneOver 50 Tory MPs crammed into a Commons committee room that was limited to 29 under Covid rules to hear PM speak - Johnson told them he wanted to see the nation "cheek by jowl" just like them by Christmas https://t.co/9bolNil7Vo
— Emily Ashton (@elashton) September 3, 2020
Thrad -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 183] Author : Kamilah Hauptmann Date : 09-05-2020 07:26 AM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done Michael Gove: "People in this country have had enough of experts" - YouTube eXpErTs -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 184] Author : slimshady2357 Date : 09-05-2020 05:50 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done https://www.freethought-forum.com/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=11498&d=1599324621 -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 185] Author : slimshady2357 Date : 09-25-2020 11:07 AM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done Exchange I just had with oldest on Skype: T: got my new passport. it's not very blue, it's almost black. but i'm glad i can finally reap the mighty benefit of brexit with it, for all the ten times i'll look at it again Slim: Well then it's all been worth it. And what follows will be much easier to bear, knowing your passport is such a deep blue as to be nearly black. Like the hearts of every true brexiter. T: I mean if Scotland exit the uk they'll have to change the passports again, perhaps this type will be collectible -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 186] Author : Miisa Date : 09-25-2020 11:59 AM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done Look what I found: https://i.imgur.com/DGLBalqm.jpg BLACK -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 187] Author : JoeP Date : 10-01-2020 11:53 AM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done Brexit: EU launches legal action against UK for breaching withdrawal agreement | Politics | The Guardian (https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2020/oct/01/brexit-eu-launches-legal-action-against-uk-for-breaching-withdrawal-agreement) None of you can imagine what it's like living in a country that seems hell-bent on becoming an international pariah. (Oh wait ...) -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 188] Author : JoeP Date : 10-02-2020 04:10 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done Councils given five minutes' notice of local lockdown confirmation | Politics | The Guardian (https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2020/oct/02/councils-given-five-minutes-notice-of-local-lockdown-confirmation) These councils just need to understand and accept that central government (:bow4:) knows what is best for them. And they should be thankful for being information in advance. While they're run by Whitehall, England's local lockdowns are bound to fail | Gabriel Scally | Opinion | The Guardian (https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/oct/02/run-whitehall-england-local-lockdowns-fail-covid) -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 189] Author : Kamilah Hauptmann Date : 10-02-2020 09:04 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done good thing a little self abusing brexit taught those bellends in the city a lesson -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 190] Author : Kamilah Hauptmann Date : 10-03-2020 03:45 AM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done Concentrating on camps (https://www.ft.com/content/ff1dc189-5531-4d81-8d17-7f332596f2cd) Quick screencap on the unreliable link: https://i.gyazo.com/a7c1faaee511f1726ffbeaa64cc13b96.png -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 191] Author : Sock Puppet Date : 10-03-2020 04:18 AM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done I'm guessing it'll be a little less Ellis Island, and a smidge more Alcatraz. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 192] Author : Miisa Date : 10-03-2020 11:24 AM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done My guess is a smidge more Van Diemen's Land, as in ship them there and forget about them. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 193] Author : ceptimus Date : 10-03-2020 12:44 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done Look what I found: https://i.imgur.com/DGLBalqm.jpg BLACK I posted a pic of mine the same colour when they started talking about it a year or more back: maybe on :ff: but I just searched and couldn't find it :shrug: It reminded me of this: very very very dark blue - YouTube -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 194] Author : Kamilah Hauptmann Date : 10-05-2020 07:17 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit DoneI think it's time I walked you through the mechanics of the modern phenomenon that is a Johnson government political interview.
— John Bull (@garius) September 3, 2020
I like to call this the Hancock-Partridge curve. It's like Dunning-Kruger, but it has a couple more stages.#thread https://t.co/0ZfTPhdeN1
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 195] Author : JoeP Date : 10-16-2020 01:13 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done Live Boris Johnson says UK should prepare for a no-deal Brexit and 'Australia-style' future (https://www.theguardian.com/politics/live/2020/oct/16/uk-coronavirus-live-boris-johnson-local-restrictions-lockdown-tier-2-covid-brexit-latest-updates) Australia is known for having lots of things that are out to kill you, yes? I can think of no better metaphor for the Conservative Party, (unless you're white, well-off, Christian or atheist, and have several generations of British ancestors). -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 196] Author : Kamilah Hauptmann Date : 10-17-2020 04:01 AM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit DoneDid you see this? Sums it up very well. #wato #bbcpm pic.twitter.com/81KKDx9eeO
— RoslynByfieldTherapy (@RoslynByfield) October 5, 2020
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 197] Author : Basset Hound Date : 10-17-2020 07:50 AM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done Never been there, but they tell me Australia is a wonderful place. Does that mean Boris Notquite Badenov wants the UK to be more like Australia? -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 198] Author : Kamilah Hauptmann Date : 10-17-2020 08:01 AM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done Gonna be wild when UK gets permanently turfed form Eurovision and replaced with Australia. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 199] Author : JoeP Date : 10-17-2020 02:25 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done Britain won't get turfed out of Eurovision - more likely to turf itself in a fit of pique - "they keep given us 'nul points' because they are biased not because our songs are crap". -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 200] Author : Kamilah Hauptmann Date : 10-17-2020 08:49 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done Rule Britannia on the bagpipes year after year does get a bit tiresome, yes. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 201] Author : mickthinks Date : 10-24-2020 10:35 AM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done This 'Boris Johnson is a Lying Shit' - Fugue - YouTube -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 202] Author : JoeP Date : 10-30-2020 10:30 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit DoneA mate just sent me this, you do have to laugh, not cry sometimes, pic.twitter.com/2ODyNOmJSX
— Phil Jones (@Phil_Jones01) October 15, 2020
Except they had no fucking idea what they were talking about, and they didn't bother to check any of their assumptions. Trade department's Brexit soy sauce price cut claim prompts backlash | Politics | The Guardian (https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2020/oct/28/dfids-brexit-soy-sauce-price-cut-claim-prompts-backlash-bake-off)The bakers used a lot of soya sauce in the first challenge on #GBBO, so it's a good thing it will be made cheaper thanks to our trade deal with Japan ����
— Department for International Trade (@tradegovuk) October 27, 2020
We already have a zero-tariff deal with Japan via the EU, oh and the UK imports a lot of its soy(a) sauce through the Netherlands where, come 1 Jan, the likely lengthy delays and additional paperwork will probably *add* cost to the consumer. Otherwise great stuff, Liz! https://t.co/EPdnTduWZc
— Seb Dance ������ (@SebDance) October 27, 2020
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 203] Author : Ari Date : 10-31-2020 06:23 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done Thatcher shall help! Boris has a Halloween Séance and Summons Thatcher | Spitting Image - YouTube -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 204] Author : Kamilah Hauptmann Date : 10-31-2020 08:43 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done "I'm just tucking my shirt into my trousers." -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 205] Author : viscousmemories Date : 11-01-2020 12:43 AM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done Where do :ff: brits stand on Corbyn getting ousted from Labour? i know very little about the subject but most of the sources I have believe it is a fully fabricated controversy designed to rid Labour of Corbyn and Corbynites, who I understand to be the more progressive caucus of the party? -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 206] Author : JoeP Date : 11-01-2020 01:10 AM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done Corbyn was (a) a breath of fresh air for people hoping for a change, and (b) complete anathema for people hoping for yes but not that kind of change. Corbyn is (a) strongly pro-Palestine and against the shit Israel are doing to Palestine and the Palestinians, which is a solid position because they are shits, and (b) a complete failure at distinguishing criticism of Israel from antisemitism, which is important because they are different things and Israel tries to conflate them. Corbyn does represent the proper socialist, true labour movement wing of the Labour Party (and the unions love him), and was supported by the very organised "Momentum", um, organisation. These guys hate the centrist (speaking loosely) wing which Blair rode into power. Starmer is kind of representing that centrist wing. Antisemitism in the Labour Party is real and not well managed - that's the essence of the EHRC report - but ousting Corbyn is almost certainly not honestly related to that but is a continuation of Starmer purging the Momentum tendencies from the party. It seems really heavy-handed and likely to backfire, but I don't expect subtly and balance from politicians. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 207] Author : viscousmemories Date : 11-01-2020 05:07 AM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done That's pretty much exactly how I understood the situation, except for this part: [Corbyn is] a complete failure at distinguishing criticism of Israel from antisemitism Do you mean he is prone to classifying antisemitism as criticism of Israel, or the other way around? Because I thought the critique was that he was insufficiently critical of (what I understand to be falsely alleged) rampant antisemitism in Labour. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 208] Author : JoeP Date : 11-01-2020 12:08 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done The second thing. I think he's fully aware of the difference but made no visible effort to articulate it - and it's quite possible he was unwilling to tackle the antisemitism there was in the party (rampant, creeping, sparse, whatever it in fact was) if he saw it as something minor exaggerated by the Israeli govt (which they surely tried to do). -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 209] Author : mickthinks Date : 11-01-2020 04:00 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done The Palestinian-supporting wing of the Labour Party has fallen victim of an internationally orchestrated campaign on behalf of Israel: Reut's Broad Tent and Red Lines Approach (https://www.reutgroup.org/Publications/Reut's-Broad-Tent-and-Red-Lines-Approach) Corbyn is ... a complete failure at distinguishing criticism of Israel from antisemitism, which is important because they are different things and Israel tries to conflate them. The difference between antisemitism and criticism of Israel has never been at issue, and if Corbyn is not on record making the distinction clear that's because no one has been attacked on the basis of their criticisms of Israel. Almost all the major figures who have been disciplined by the party were accused of blaming the Israel Lobby for manufacturing the crisis. Antisemitism in the Labour Party is real and not well managed There have been real cases of antisemitism among Labour Party members and officials. No one, not even the EHRC afaik, has found that it was widespread or tolerated under Corbyn. This doumentary is long, but useful viewing for anyone who wants to understand the background : WitchHunt, a documentary film by Jon Pullman (https://witchhuntfilm.org/) -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 210] Author : mickthinks Date : 11-01-2020 08:54 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done This was posted in a pro-Palestinian facebook group that I follow: Lynne Segal 3 h I have just written a piece for Red Pepper on the unbearable weight of being Jewish in North Islington LP. I posted my reasons on a different thread, below, but they may be hard to find, so I repost here. It is unbearable because the views of Jewish Labour activits in North islington have been consistently ignored, as has all the work the Corbyn has always done in support of the Jewish community in Islington. We do NOT deny that there is antisemitism in the LP, but we do happen to KNOW Corbyn rather well, unlike most of his critics. Every Jewish activist I know in Nth Islington has always felt at home & supported in our constituency, we also know a few other things. Over the years, Corbyn has built mutually supportive relations with the practising Jewish community in Islington, attended a huge number official Jewish events – orthodox and liberal. Against some opposition, he promoted the recent installation of a plaque on a demolished synagogue site to celebrate Jewish life in Islington. Unlike most of his critics in Westminster, Corbyn unfailingly turned up to vote for motions addressing anti-Semitism in Parliament. Finally, though it is so hard to unearth, buried under mountains of misinformation, comparing two YouGov polls on antisemitism in 2015 and 2017, reveals that antisemitism had significantly declined within the LP under Corbyn. I could say much more, but I'll just conclude by saying Corbyn should not have been suspended for speaking the truth about the extent of antisemitism in the party – not 30% as the media says, but 0.3%. And, IF Starmer wants to follow the suggestions of the EHRC he should reinstate Corbyn forthwith, since that document EXPLICITLY protects freedom of expression, with enhanced protection under Article 10 to protect LP members who ‘express their opinions on internal Party matters, such as the scale of antisemitism within the Party, based on their own experience and within the law’. I think that helps to give a sense of how little this has to do with antisemitism and how much to do with being left wing and unsupportive of Israel. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 211] Author : viscousmemories Date : 11-02-2020 02:13 AM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done This was a good read. What Has Been Done To Jeremy Corbyn ⧠Current Affairs (https://www.currentaffairs.org/2020/11/what-has-been-done-to-jeremy-corbyn/) -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 212] Author : slimshady2357 Date : 11-03-2020 05:09 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done This is the best explanation of why we're headed for no deal, imo. The fucking muppets running this shitshow would have to admit that even a deal will be worse than the current situation, in nearly every measurable way.Not unless the Netherlands, Brazil, Canada ans the US are somehow included within this Japanese trade deal https://t.co/PAHm1sJ0eH pic.twitter.com/nWEtfO6yzw
— Dean Hochlaf (@Dhochlaf) October 27, 2020
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 213] Author : slimshady2357 Date : 11-04-2020 05:44 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done https://www.freethought-forum.com/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=11599&d=1604511854 -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 214] Author : Kamilah Hauptmann Date : 11-06-2020 07:53 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit DoneA Brexit deal would be good for the UK & the EU. But politics trumps economics. Good summary of where we are by @ChrisGiles_ https://t.co/N7VaBRZjTt pic.twitter.com/FLBjJ5Rd62
— Jonathan Portes (@jdportes) November 3, 2020
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 215] Author : Kamilah Hauptmann Date : 11-06-2020 11:49 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit DoneWhat if all the people being proved completely right about Donald Trump & Boris Johnson were also right about Brexit?
— James O'Brien (@mrjamesob) November 6, 2020
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 216] Author : Kamilah Hauptmann Date : 11-08-2020 07:49 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done Things about to get interesting for Johnson.Daily Mail on the bleeding edge of the news agenda here. pic.twitter.com/HowakOqdzM
— Ian Dunt (@IanDunt) November 6, 2020
Sajid Javid on #Ridge saying Boris Johnson & Joe Biden will ‘hit it off’, so he neither had a long memory nor has he seen today’s Sunday Times pic.twitter.com/VRo6pQw3gQ
— Toby Earle (@TobyonTV) November 8, 2020
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 217] Author : Kamilah Hauptmann Date : 11-09-2020 11:33 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit DoneSadly for Boris, the feeling is decidedly not mutual. https://t.co/SXUy6OGn43
— Sarah Churchwell (@sarahchurchwell) November 8, 2020
Background: UK peer sparks outrage after calling Kamala Harris ‘the Indian’ | Kamala Harris | The Guardian (https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/nov/09/uk-peer-sparks-outrage-after-calling-kamala-harris-the-indian) -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 218] Author : JoeP Date : 11-10-2020 08:49 AM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done Wrong thrad. (https://www.freethought-forum.com/forum/showthread.php?p=1348760#post1348760) You even thanksed it. :hmph: -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 219] Author : Kamilah Hauptmann Date : 11-10-2020 10:27 AM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done but everything's Brexit: :sadnod: wait i mean YOUR FACE IS BREXIT :fuming: :sadcheer: -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 220] Author : slimshady2357 Date : 11-10-2020 10:53 AM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done https://mastersamuraitech.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/picard-facepalm-face-palm.jpgLord Kilclooney should retract and apologise. This is an offensive way to refer to anyone, let alone a woman who has just made history. The comment is entirely unacceptable and has no place in British politics. I could not be clearer.
— Lord Speaker (@LordSpeaker) November 9, 2020
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 221] Author : Kamilah Hauptmann Date : 11-11-2020 08:34 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done Has he seen the UK? (https://www.yahoo.com/news/easy-uk-canada-trade-deal-121601067.html) -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 222] Author : JoeP Date : 11-11-2020 09:10 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done Is he known for smoking / ingesting substances that might lead to delusions like this? -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 223] Author : Kamilah Hauptmann Date : 11-13-2020 09:20 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit DoneMatt Hancock on @BBCr4today telling us that the Pfizer COVID vaccine will be manufactured in Belgium and needs to be transported and stored at minus 70 degrees. Let’s hope there’s nothing happening in January that’ll cause huge queues and delays at the ports...
— Adam Leyton (@AdamLeyton) November 10, 2020
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 224] Author : fragment Date : 11-14-2020 03:25 AM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done Dominexit (https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2020/nov/13/dominic-cummings-has-already-left-job-at-no-10-reports) -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 225] Author : JoeP Date : 11-14-2020 10:31 AM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done aka "Dominic Goings" -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 226] Author : JoeP Date : 11-14-2020 10:24 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done So goodbye, Barnard Castle Spice. Looking forward to your solo material | Marina Hyde | Opinion | The Guardian (https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/nov/13/dominic-cummings-barnard-castle-brexit) He has been thrown under a £350m bus -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 227] Author : Kamilah Hauptmann Date : 11-15-2020 06:42 AM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done“Wait till I write my blog” Frank Get the Door #janeygodleyvoiceover catch me on tour https://t.co/eT2ppleupZ pic.twitter.com/spQ8IpOZta
— Janey Godley (@JaneyGodley) November 13, 2020
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 228] Author : JoeP Date : 11-17-2020 12:45 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done :^: Amazon ridiculed on Twitter for error reunifying Ireland | Technology | The Guardian (https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/nov/15/amazon-reunifies-ireland-and-apologises-for-troubles)Amazon just declared a United Ireland https://t.co/GuotXck0AR
— Owen Jones �� (@OwenJones84) November 14, 2020
Oh yes, the Troubles ...Hi there. You can find information here on how to cancel your Prime membership: https://t.co/KYzTxnWHsj. We hope this helps! ^RF
— Amazon Help (@AmazonHelp) November 14, 2020
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 229] Author : JoeP Date : 11-25-2020 07:22 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done Trial of Brexit border checks causes five-mile lorry queues in Kent | Brexit | The Guardian (https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2020/nov/24/trial-of-brexit-border-checks-causes-five-mile-lorry-queues-in-kent) Well this is totally unexpected. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 230] Author : JoeP Date : 11-26-2020 09:51 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done British-only passport holders barred from playing Prince William in new film | Film | The Guardian (https://www.theguardian.com/film/2020/nov/26/british-actors-barred-from-playing-prince-william-in-diana-film-kristen-stewart) Dammit.Hi there! We apologize for the troubles. The Ireland vs Wales and Ireland vs Georgia matches will only be available on Prime Video as a replay, 2 hours after the live broadcast.
— Amazon Help (@AmazonHelp) November 14, 2020
Visit https://t.co/uo1bLeUK1X to see the full schedule. We hope this helps. ^DR
— Amy Hubbard (@amyhubcast) November 25, 2020-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 231] Author : Kamilah Hauptmann Date : 11-26-2020 11:45 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done All those movies supposedly taking place in medieval and renaissance France, where all those actors have British accents? I see a hard reversal coming up. The future is Jean Reno in Just Visiting. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 232] Author : Kamilah Hauptmann Date : 11-27-2020 11:06 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done
— Poorly Aged Things (@PoorlyAgedStuff) November 27, 2020-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 233] Author : JoeP Date : 11-27-2020 11:45 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done Well it's not necessarily wrong. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 234] Author : Miisa Date : 11-28-2020 09:01 AM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done Companies should not have Gmail addresses. It is like a reverse blue tick badge. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 235] Author : JoeP Date : 11-28-2020 09:22 AM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done Exactly! They should have @freethought-forum email addresses! -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 236] Author : Kamilah Hauptmann Date : 12-08-2020 07:39 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 237] Author : Kamilah Hauptmann Date : 12-12-2020 10:31 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit DoneFirst person to be vaccinated, 90-year-old Margaret Keenan of Coventry, is immediately weaponized by cabal of secretive global elites via her new microchip, knits surface-to-air missile launcher and prepares to assassinate Boris Johnson with a tea cozy.
— The Out And Black Lives Matter (@OutAndAbouter) December 8, 2020
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 238] Author : JoeP Date : 12-13-2020 12:22 AM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done Project fear! It's the easiest trade deal ever. The deal is "oven ready". -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 239] Author : slimshady2357 Date : 12-16-2020 04:03 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EpVrnICWEAI4Laj?format=jpg&name=900x900 -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 240] Author : Kamilah Hauptmann Date : 12-16-2020 08:00 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done UNICEF has arrived to feed starving British children. (https://news.sky.com/story/covid-19-for-the-first-time-in-its-history-unicef-will-help-feed-kids-in-the-uk-12163515) -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 241] Author : Kamilah Hauptmann Date : 12-17-2020 08:55 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit DoneThat time when @GreenPartyMolly was challenged by a #Brexit Party MEP on her economic qualifications and she reminded him she’s a professor of economics before going on to predict, word for word, the utter mess we’re in now. Pesky experts.#BrexitShambles pic.twitter.com/WTos3MeuOm
— Brendan May (@bmay) December 12, 2020
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 242] Author : Kamilah Hauptmann Date : 12-19-2020 03:14 AM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done https://i.imgur.com/5ztnDav.jpg 11685 -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 243] Author : Kamilah Hauptmann Date : 12-20-2020 08:46 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit DoneMillionaire Jacob Rees-Mogg complains UNICEF are ‘playing politics’ by feeding vulnerable British children pic.twitter.com/YQJhbAj26r
— Toby Earle (@TobyonTV) December 17, 2020
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 244] Author : Kamilah Hauptmann Date : 12-23-2020 12:53 AM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit DoneJust adds to impression this whole thing has been bigged up for domestic media management purposes re cancelling Xmas.
— Captain Haddock (@JXB101) December 20, 2020
No thought given to wider consequences.
Govt by journalists and PR spivs.
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 245] Author : JoeP Date : 12-23-2020 11:58 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done“Brexit” successful, albeit convoluted plot to put entire country into gigantic queue, fulfilling masturbatory fantasies of Englishmen everywhere. pic.twitter.com/GBQKWlcxAi
— DPRK News Service (@DPRK_News) December 22, 2020
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 246] Author : JoeP Date : 12-24-2020 04:11 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done A Brexit deal has been agreed and we can all relax! UK and EU agree Brexit trade deal | Brexit | The Guardian (https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2020/dec/24/uk-eu-agree-brexit-trade-deal-agreement) Or does this just mean that Bozo's team and Ursula von der Leyen's team have moved from publicly disagreeing to publicly agreeing? This supposed deal still has to be agreed by the UK parliament and every one of the 27 EU governments, although the news seems to imply it will apply provisionally from 1 Jan and the EU votes will be later in the month. Theresa May (remember her) and David Cameron (remember him) have come out in favour, so it's got to be a bit suspect. Nicola Sturgeon says it's 'disastrous' for Scottish seed potato farmers (https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2020/dec/24/scottish-seed-potato-farmers-sold-out-in-brexit-deal-says-snp), but it's her job to oppose. The trade agreement – running to 2,000 pages – is unprecedented in scope, containing provisions on subjects varying from civil nuclear cooperation and energy interconnections to fishing and aviation. At least it's all about one thing, Britain's relationship with the EU, unlike US bills. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 247] Author : Dragar Date : 12-24-2020 04:13 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done https://twitter.com/faisalislam/status/1342133231404113921?s=19 As I expected, we get a deal and it's crap. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 248] Author : JoeP Date : 12-24-2020 04:17 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit DoneThe EU have negotiated to get the Pfizer vaccine at €10 less per dose than the UK. Turns out, the bigger your market, the better deals you can strike. Who knew?
— Stevie (@FlyingSte) December 21, 2020
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 249] Author : Kyuss Apollo Date : 12-24-2020 09:38 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done So in other words, it would have been better for the UK to stay in the EU. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 250] Author : JoeP Date : 12-24-2020 10:37 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done :shh: you're not supposed to say that out loud -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 251] Author : ceptimus Date : 12-24-2020 11:36 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done One good thing about the deal (there had to be one, right?) is that the MPs have to go back to work now, during their Christmas holiday, to vote the thing through. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 252] Author : ChuckF Date : 12-25-2020 12:16 AM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit DoneJPMorgan on the Brexit deal: pic.twitter.com/V3itxeqnVJ
— Guy Faulconbridge (@GuyReuters) December 24, 2020
It is almost as if - stick with me here - Brexit was never actually a negotiation between equals and there was never a moment when the EU didn't have disproportionate power to essentially impose its priorities on the UK. But I guess that would suggest that the Brexiters were perhaps not telling the truth, so maybe I'm way off base. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 253] Author : Kamilah Hauptmann Date : 12-25-2020 02:04 AM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done https://i.gyazo.com/a0d94bbb4046cebea3e40c3606bfd1d4.jpg -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 254] Author : Kamilah Hauptmann Date : 12-30-2020 06:04 AM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done https://i.redd.it/mr79epmvh7861.jpg 11708 -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 255] Author : JoeP Date : 12-30-2020 10:29 AM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done The British virus! Already exported to continental Europe and the USA, whether you like it or not. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 256] Author : Ymir's blood Date : 12-30-2020 05:13 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done BRB dumping some tea in a harbor. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 257] Author : JoeP Date : 12-30-2020 07:29 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done Hope some of it floats over here, expecting critical tea shortages in the near future. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 258] Author : JoeP Date : 12-31-2020 07:29 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done Brexit is done! All thousand+ pages of the "deal" have gone through the House of Commons and the House of Lords and been given Royal Assent by HM the Queen in the past couple of days. Transition ends in a few hours. Parliament's role in scrutinising the UK-EU Trade and Cooperation Agreement is a farce | Hansard Society (https://www.hansardsociety.org.uk/blog/parliaments-role-in-scrutinising-the-uk-eu-trade-and-cooperation-agreement) Bye Europe! :byecry: And bye :ff:, because I fully expect Britain's internet to get cut off at random points over the next few months. And for there to be skirmishes between fishing boats in the channel. Exactly zero businesses are fully prepared for the actual deal because no one will have been able to read the final version in full. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 259] Author : JoeP Date : 12-31-2020 07:39 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done On the plus side, now everything will be Bozo's fault. Nothing can be pushed to the future "when we have a deal". On the minus side, and a 20-mile queue of lorries in Kent would not be sufficient to hold all the minuses, we'll have endless attempts to blame problems on the pandemic, and even attempts to present government failings as benefits of Brexit ... like this one: Tampon tax: government axes VAT on sanitary products | Tax and spending | The Guardian (https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2020/dec/31/tampon-tax-government-axes-vat-on-sanitary-products) Great news! Long overdue! Already benefits from quitting! Except, not really: it would have been quicker to campaign for this at the EU level - which Cameron's government had already started on over 4 years ago - and get it passed. Instead, they gave up after the brexit vote. Now we have a (pretty rare) example of the EU being weaker without Britain, such that the other 27 countries won't be getting this benefit any time soon. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 260] Author : Kamilah Hauptmann Date : 12-31-2020 07:41 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done At least you have those flats of peas! 11710 Three meals a day! ... now I'd like some fish and chips, tbh -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 261] Author : Kamilah Hauptmann Date : 12-31-2020 07:45 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit DoneJPMorgan on the Brexit deal: pic.twitter.com/V3itxeqnVJ
— Guy Faulconbridge (@GuyReuters) December 24, 2020
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 262] Author : Kamilah Hauptmann Date : 01-01-2021 01:21 AM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done 11711 -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 263] Author : Stormlight Date : 01-01-2021 06:47 AM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done At least you have those flats of peas! 11710 Three meals a day! ... now I'd like some fish and chips, tbh Let them eat hake! :rimshot: -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 264] Author : Kamilah Hauptmann Date : 01-05-2021 02:23 AM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done THIS THE UK THRAD? https://i.imgur.com/30psWVm.jpg 11716 -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 265] Author : Kamilah Hauptmann Date : 01-11-2021 09:08 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit DoneJust a friendly reminder pic.twitter.com/HtAyhvNpTl
— Scott Kerr (@scott_kerr) December 31, 2020
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 266] Author : slimshady2357 Date : 01-12-2021 02:43 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit DoneNext time people tell you there's no new friction at the borders because of Brexit, you can show them this Dutch TV clip of drivers being stopped and having their lunches confiscated. pic.twitter.com/B9eZfDWKFB
— OwenAdamsYT (@OwenAdamsYT1) January 10, 2021
Nigel Farrage is one of the biggest gobshite assholes this country has ever produced. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 267] Author : JoeP Date : 01-16-2021 01:11 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done "Internexit" for Leave.EU as domain name temporarily suspended | Brexit | The Guardian (https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2021/jan/15/leaveeu-has-domain-name-temporarily-suspended) The "Leave.EU" organisation doesn't have rights to a .eu domain ... and somehow they are annoyed ... at getting exactly what they campaigned for? -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 268] Author : Kamilah Hauptmann Date : 01-19-2021 08:34 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done Control took back!So Farage's party is Reform UK - or as some wags have put it - ReFuk. Yes that sums it up.
— Otto English (@Otto_English) January 12, 2021
x24 boxes sent Fedex before xmas to Italy by Fedex at a cost of £454 and returned yesterday at our own cost, - none deliverable, a €5000 order lost. If I want to re-supply I need a Italian VAT number, EORI number and a fiscal representative costing €1400 a year for Italy alone pic.twitter.com/ZpkBvJSuyV
— Hedgehogg (@Hedgehogg16) January 19, 2021
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 269] Author : Kamilah Hauptmann Date : 01-19-2021 11:41 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done Boris Johnson announces that UK residents will only be allowed to leave their homes to colonize a sovereign nation - The Beaverton (https://www.thebeaverton.com/2021/01/boris-johnson-announces-that-uk-residents-will-only-be-allowed-to-leave-their-homes-to-colonize-a-sovereign-nation/) When asked if colonized peoples would be allowed to move to Britain, Ms Clarke shouted that immigrants cannot be trusted to respect English culture and stomped off down to the street to look for an Indian curry takeaway. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 270] Author : Kamilah Hauptmann Date : 01-20-2021 02:44 AM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done Something satisfying watching tweets get deleted like this. https://i.gyazo.com/5c622e474423dd19381245e6e886c567.png https://i.gyazo.com/20dab2d91ea80a803c104b444887467b.png -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 271] Author : Kamilah Hauptmann Date : 01-20-2021 03:00 AM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done Here's the tweet, some fun shitposting in the replies.I think there’s a question there about return on investment, maybe? The new measures are painful-but-imperative if you’re a UK business sending 90% to the EU. If you’re an EU business sending 10% to the UK, is the incentive as great?
— Mark Laffan (@MLaffan) January 19, 2021
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 272] Author : JoeP Date : 01-20-2021 11:49 AM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done Boris Johnson announces that UK residents will only be allowed to leave their homes to colonize a sovereign nation - The Beaverton (https://www.thebeaverton.com/2021/01/boris-johnson-announces-that-uk-residents-will-only-be-allowed-to-leave-their-homes-to-colonize-a-sovereign-nation/) prepares to invade Finland demands the right to arm bears -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 273] Author : Kamilah Hauptmann Date : 01-21-2021 04:53 AM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done 11740 -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 274] Author : Ymir's blood Date : 01-21-2021 05:08 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done Well... he won't get fooled a third time. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 275] Author : Kamilah Hauptmann Date : 01-21-2021 07:37 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done UK refuses to recognise diplomatic status of EU ambassador Joao Vale de Almeida - EU Today (https://eutoday.net/news/politics/2021/uk-refuses-to-recognise-diplomatic-status-of-eu-ambassador-joao-vale-de-almeida) -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 276] Author : JoeP Date : 01-21-2021 09:41 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done UK refuses to recognise diplomatic status of EU ambassador Joao Vale de Almeida - EU Today (https://eutoday.net/news/politics/2021/uk-refuses-to-recognise-diplomatic-status-of-eu-ambassador-joao-vale-de-almeida) The BBC said EU sources had accused Britain of pettiness and hypocrisy Newsflash: some British sources (:glarecat:) also accuse Britain of pettiness and hypocrisy. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 277] Author : Kamilah Hauptmann Date : 01-23-2021 09:33 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit DoneEvery fisherman I met in sunny Peterhead passionately wants to leave the EU. See why on ten o'clock news on BBC 1 pic.twitter.com/BioDzfCUST
— sarah smith (@BBCsarahsmith) May 31, 2016
*laughs in colonized peoples -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 278] Author : fragment Date : 01-24-2021 05:25 AM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done In an extraordinary twist to the Brexit saga, UK small businesses are being told by advisers working for the Department for International Trade (DIT) that the best way to circumvent border issues and VAT problems that have been piling up since 1 January is to register new firms within the EU single market, from where they can distribute their goods far more freely. I'm perplexed that any company large enough to be able to set up an EU-based offshoot hadn't already realised at some point over the past two years that they needed to do so. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 279] Author : JoeP Date : 01-24-2021 09:44 AM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done Perplexed but not surprised, I assume :wink: I think the current news is mainly from businesses not large enough to have spare cash to do lots of research and planning and who therefore relied on the lies, I'm sorry, the considered advice from the government that it would be frictionless. What would be surprising is honesty from politicians. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 280] Author : Kamilah Hauptmann Date : 01-28-2021 10:53 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done"Never was so much stolen by so few to so many"
— Labour for Europe (@Labour4EU) January 23, 2021
The Brexit liars should be locked up for fraud. https://t.co/nywO5GxOfb
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 281] Author : Kamilah Hauptmann Date : 02-01-2021 06:01 AM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit DoneNo fucking way!? https://t.co/QGEeSnPWId
— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) January 28, 2021
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 282] Author : Kamilah Hauptmann Date : 02-01-2021 06:01 AM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done :ff: be still double posting when Brexit finishes. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 283] Author : JoeP Date : 02-01-2021 08:35 AM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done Bold of you to think :ff: will still exist when Brexit finishes. Or that we'll still be here to see it. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 284] Author : Kamilah Hauptmann Date : 02-20-2021 10:47 AM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done Fuck the UK. https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/shoot-beavers-if-they-spoil-our-fishing-urge-anglers-6gjhqz6jg Love, Canada -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 285] Author : Kamilah Hauptmann Date : 03-13-2021 07:08 AM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done This the UK being twats thrad? Johnson claims UK legitimate owner of Parthenon marbles (https://www.rte.ie/news/world/2021/0312/1203667-parthenon-marbles/) I dunno, I think the marbles belong in the EU at least. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 286] Author : Kamilah Hauptmann Date : 03-16-2021 12:04 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done Law nerd talking: The European Commission launches legal proceedings against the United Kingdom – a guided tour – The Law and Policy Blog (https://davidallengreen.com/2021/03/the-european-commission-launches-legal-proceedings-against-the-united-kingdom-a-guided-tour/) -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 287] Author : Kamilah Hauptmann Date : 04-06-2021 11:42 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit DoneBoris Johnson encourages Brits to focus on the fact that in 10 years time they’ll all look back on this and think farking hell I can’t believe this has been going for 10 years now.
— The Out And Abouter (@OutAndAbouter) February 1, 2021
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 288] Author : Kamilah Hauptmann Date : 04-08-2021 02:08 AM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done Who would have ever expected violence in North Ireland. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 289] Author : Kamilah Hauptmann Date : 04-09-2021 08:55 AM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit DoneYour occasional reminder that Boris Johnson that he’d never sign up to a border in the Irish Sea and that if people in NI are told to fill in customs forms, they should ring him and he’ll tell them to throw those forms in the bin. pic.twitter.com/54knGRa7br
— David Schneider (@davidschneider) April 6, 2021
Sad Trombone - YouTube (https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=yJxCdh1Ps48) -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 290] Author : JoeP Date : 04-16-2021 12:08 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done They mention the Suez blockage, and obviously lockdown plays a part, but I think this is Britain being Britain: Gnome shortage: garden centres run out as business booms | Gardens | The Guardian (https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2021/apr/16/garden-gnomes-running-out-in-uk-as-garden-centres-business-booms) :ungnomeglomp: -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 291] Author : JoeP Date : 04-24-2021 12:17 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done Ex-minister Johnny Mercer says ‘almost nobody’ tells truth in Johnson’s government | Politics | The Guardian (https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2021/apr/21/ex-minister-johnny-mercer-says-almost-nobody-tells-truth-in-johnsons-government) The former veterans’ minister Johnny Mercer has launched an extraordinary attack on Boris Johnson’s government, describing it as a “cesspit” and “the most distrustful, awful environment I’ve ever worked in”. Which seems entirely fair, probably a bit restrained. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 292] Author : JoeP Date : 04-24-2021 12:52 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done Wait, there's more. No 10 refurb row: Grieve calls Boris Johnson ‘vacuum of integrity’ | Boris Johnson | The Guardian (https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2021/apr/24/boris-johnson-a-vacuum-of-integrity-dominic-grieve-joins-downing-street-row) ‘Mad and totally unethical’: Dominic Cummings hits out at Boris Johnson | Boris Johnson | The Guardian (https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2021/apr/23/dominic-cummings-launches-attack-on-boris-johnson) (pot, kettle) -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 293] Author : JoeP Date : 04-24-2021 12:57 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done This is all to distract attention from what's really going on, of course. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 294] Author : Kamilah Hauptmann Date : 04-24-2021 06:10 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done This is all to distract attention from what's really going on, of course. Something to do with the immunity to war crimes prosecution for British soldiers legislation they keep working toward? -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 295] Author : JoeP Date : 04-24-2021 07:27 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done That's what the "failure to protect our veterans" noise is about. The other things are trying to divert from why Bozo is having cosy texts with Dyson and other business traitors - by asking who leaked the texts instead of whether they should have been texted in the first place. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 296] Author : Ari Date : 04-24-2021 08:11 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done I’ve always had an unsubstantiated hate for Dyson products. I wonder, do they sell their products in the UK by flogging how much of a British genius Dyson is, like they do in the US? -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 297] Author : JoeP Date : 04-24-2021 09:25 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done Yes. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 298] Author : JoeP Date : 04-24-2021 09:26 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done I think you may be mistaken though - it's not a unsubstantiated hate. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 299] Author : Kamilah Hauptmann Date : 04-25-2021 03:42 AM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done That's what the "failure to protect our veterans" noise is about. Ah, like when America threatens to bomb the Hague* whenever some US war crime comes up. Only the UK thinks it's big like 'Merica. :pat: *hyperbole. cope. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 300] Author : Kamilah Hauptmann Date : 04-26-2021 07:45 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done https://static.existentialcomics.com/comics/HarryPotterandthePhilosophersQuestion.png Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Question - Existential Comics (https://existentialcomics.com/comic/391) -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 301] Author : JoeP Date : 04-29-2021 05:54 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done I think the British Conservative Party must be trying to step up the sleaze factor to fill the news void left by the orange conman. Bozo has allegedly received undeclared gifts and/or used taxpayer money in renovating the flat he and this Carrie Symonds woman have the use of in Downing Street. Along with a suggestion of classist disdain for John Lewis furnishings (supposedly the favourite store of the middle classes), festering resentment from the psycho former adviser Dominic Cummings, and an alleged Bozo quote “no more fucking lockdowns – let the bodies pile high in their thousands”. Primal rage at PMQs as Boris the joker is unmasked | John Crace | The Guardian (https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2021/apr/28/primal-rage-at-pmqs-as-boris-johnson-the-joker-is-unmasked-keir-starmer) How much trouble is Boris Johnson in? Maybe quite a lot | Boris Johnson | The Guardian (https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2021/apr/28/how-much-trouble-is-boris-johnson-in-maybe-quite-a-lot) Meanwhile, Scottish independence continues to bubble along as a possibility that's simultaneously very real and quite unlikely. There are elections for the Scottish Parliament next week: Scottish election 2021: a visual guide on what to expect | Scottish politics | The Guardian (https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2021/apr/15/scotland-elections-2021-visual-guide-what-to-expect) And this has just happened: Letter signed by 170 cultural figures seeks a ‘unilateral and open offer’ to rejoin EU ahead of Holyrood elections (https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2021/apr/29/eu-should-hang-out-welcome-sign-for-independent-scotland-letter-signed-cultural-figures). The EU won't make such an offer because none of its member governments want to give any support to their own separatist regions, but that's not going to hold Scotland back. And in Northern Ireland we have this: Arlene Foster to step down as Northern Ireland first minister | Arlene Foster | The Guardian (https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2021/apr/28/arlene-foster-to-quit-as-dup-leader-and-northern-ireland-first-minister) Arlene Foster is in trouble for backing the Tories in the Brexit fights, leading to - how could anyone have foreseen this - massive compromises to the Unionist principles and the "border in the Irish Sea" because the UK wants a hard border with Europe and that border has to be somewhere. There's also some suggestion that she wasn't sufficiently homophobic for the DUP as a whole, and possibly the electorate - although the actual opinions of the electorate maye not be nearly as strong, and this could be a pink herring. Overall, interesting times. :popcorn: -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 302] Author : Kamilah Hauptmann Date : 05-06-2021 05:25 AM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done Rogue state rattles sabre. (https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/5/6/uk-sends-two-navy-boats-to-jersey-after-france-threatens-blockade) Probably more about policing threats by French trawlers than war with France. :staytuned: -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 303] Author : JoeP Date : 05-06-2021 10:16 AM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done Or, more about the fact that we have local elections across Britain today that are being widely seen as a test of Bozo and of Keir Starmer's leadership of Labour (the militant left still hate him) - and of Scottish independence opinion as well - in fact everything. Brandishing a few guns worked for Margaret Thatcher. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 304] Author : JoeP Date : 05-06-2021 10:56 AM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done Meanwhile, Tory quarrels determined UK's post-Brexit future, says Barnier | Michel Barnier | The Guardian (https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/may/05/tory-quarrels-betrayals-uk-post-brexit-future-barnier-eu) It's all quotable, but I'll just go with this one: When one of Barnier’s 60-strong team explains to Britain’s new prime minister the need for customs and quality checks on the Irish border, Barnier writes, it was “my impression that he became aware, in that discussion, of a series of technical and legal issues that had not been so clearly explained to him by his own team”. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 305] Author : Stephen Maturin Date : 05-06-2021 08:45 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done Rogue state rattles sabre. (https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/5/6/uk-sends-two-navy-boats-to-jersey-after-france-threatens-blockade) Four months into Brexit, the UK and France have resorted to gunboat diplomacy over fish - CNN (https://www.cnn.com/2021/05/06/uk/britain-france-war-ships-jersey-cmd-intl-gbr/index.html) https://media2.giphy.com/media/DM9n9fNry8tq0/giphy-downsized-large.gif -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 306] Author : Kamilah Hauptmann Date : 05-08-2021 06:24 AM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit DoneTim Martin says the UK Government is starting to make the EU look like a bastion of sensible regulation. It’s hard to disagree at the moment. https://t.co/KfUqxqDphX
— Nigel Farage (@Nigel_Farage) April 7, 2021
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 307] Author : Kamilah Hauptmann Date : 05-12-2021 10:53 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit DoneIt’s the background laughter after Jayda Fransen’s 46 votes are announced that really makes it #telt pic.twitter.com/GWjBgn7jwU
— Graham Love (@glove931) May 7, 2021
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 308] Author : JoeP Date : 05-13-2021 05:54 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done EU citizens arriving in UK being locked up and expelled | Brexit | The Guardian (https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2021/may/13/eu-citizens-arriving-in-uk-being-locked-up-and-expelled) Absolute fucking bastards those Brits. Presumably this isn't going to happen to EU citizens arriving for holidays or to visit relatives or on actual business trips, but who knows. I suppose the EU citizens trapped by this actually told border control "I'm coming for an interview" - which the article explains is explicitly allowed as long as you leave the country to apply for your work visa. I guess the moral is admit nothing. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 309] Author : Kamilah Hauptmann Date : 06-05-2021 08:36 AM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit DoneHow it started. How it's going. pic.twitter.com/cFXeK0KHX0
— Michael�� Ⓥ #FBPE (@changed_gear) May 12, 2021
The Express on a roll. 11994 -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 310] Author : Kamilah Hauptmann Date : 06-27-2021 05:25 AM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit DoneHow it started. How it's going. pic.twitter.com/cFXeK0KHX0
— Michael�� Ⓥ #FBPE (@changed_gear) May 12, 2021
The Express on a roll. 11994 https://i.redd.it/387qbyj2zh771.jpg -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 311] Author : Kamilah Hauptmann Date : 07-17-2021 08:33 AM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit DoneHow it started. How it's going. pic.twitter.com/cFXeK0KHX0
— Michael�� Ⓥ #FBPE (@changed_gear) May 12, 2021
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 312] Author : Ari Date : 07-17-2021 04:04 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done I don’t know how ‘more tweets’ works, but I saw this and thought it was accurate. ”I have lived in England for nineteen and a half years and I really think the defining attitude of this country is that they've internalised the idea that "it could be worse" so deeply that they've completely lost the ability to imagine that it could also be better” - Alice Proctor One thing I’ve noticed from some of the Brexiters, especially older well off ones is a “Wouldn’t we feel prouder if we did it all ourselves without help? Yes, we would! That would be a real accomplishment!” attitude, while expecting the working class will bear the brunt while thanking them for it not being worse. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 313] Author : JoeP Date : 07-20-2021 11:01 AM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done Based on some comments by comedian Henning Wehn, it occurs to me that the British right will achieve their goal of reducing the number of immigrants in Britain. Wehn, a German who lives in London, says he doesn't feel like an immigrant. "Immigrants" are essentially people moving to a better country - if you move to / live in a worse country you are more an "ex-pat" (or ... a relief worker). So ... UK policies are basically converting immigrants into expats. And the people we urgently need to pick our fruit and drive our HGVs won't be immigrants, they'll be relief workers. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 314] Author : Kamilah Hauptmann Date : 07-29-2021 11:21 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done Nigel Farage called the Royal National Lifeboat Institute a taxi service for illegal trafficking gangs. Derp. (https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/rnli-donate-migrant-rescue-channel-b1893000.html) -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 315] Author : slimshady2357 Date : 07-30-2021 07:01 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done I don't think I could loathe a person more than I loathe that toad faced shit smear Farage. There are some on equally (low) footing I guess, but fuck that prick. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 316] Author : JoeP Date : 07-30-2021 11:44 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done http://www.threepanelsoul.com/comics/1626764673-791.png http://www.threepanelsoul.com/comics/1627280189-792.png -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 317] Author : BrotherMan Date : 07-31-2021 05:04 AM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done ... ease of use ... no silent letters :frysees: -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 318] Author : JoeP Date : 07-31-2021 10:41 AM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done Yeah I first read that as all letters will be delivered like in Hogwarts by hooting owls. Then I realised probably letters of the alphabet. *stares in Finnish* *especially at French* -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 319] Author : JoeP Date : 08-04-2021 11:11 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done NHS drops from first to fourth among rich countries’ healthcare systems | NHS | The Guardian (https://www.theguardian.com/society/2021/aug/04/nhs-drops-from-first-to-fourth-among-rich-countries-healthcare-systems) Oh no. What an unexpected shock. (This isn't a direct result of Brexit, rather of the years and years of underfunding and neglectful mismanagement ... so pretty much indistinguishable from Brexit.) The US had by far the worst-rated system, despite spending the most on care. Oh no. What an expected un-shock. In addition, just 33% of patients said that they got counselling or treatment for mental health problems when they sought help from a specialist in psychological or psychiatric illness – a new indicator that the thinktank had not previously analysed. The NHS was the second worst performer of the 11 countries on that criterion, just ahead of France. We may be nutters who can't get treatment but at least we're better than the French. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 320] Author : JoeP Date : 08-05-2021 07:26 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done They would probably say I should post this in the climategate thread. But climate change is only one of the factors. UK and Ireland among five nations most likely to survive a collapse of global civilisation, study suggests | World News | Sky News (https://news.sky.com/story/uk-and-ireland-among-five-nations-most-likely-to-survive-a-collapse-of-global-civilisation-study-suggests-12366136) A "very likely" collapse would be characterised by the disintegration of supply chains, international agreements and global financial structures, according to researchers at the Global Sustainability Institute at Anglia Ruskin University. I suppose the UK's well placed to survive a collapse of civilisation because it's already made a significant head start in these matters. We don't need no bloody supply chains or international agreements! -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 321] Author : ChuckF Date : 08-05-2021 07:44 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done NHS drops from first to fourth among rich countries’ healthcare systems | NHS | The Guardian (https://www.theguardian.com/society/2021/aug/04/nhs-drops-from-first-to-fourth-among-rich-countries-healthcare-systems) Oh no. What an unexpected shock. (This isn't a direct result of Brexit, rather of the years and years of underfunding and neglectful mismanagement ... so pretty much indistinguishable from Brexit.) Yeah but now the NHS is getting that £350m week, like the bus said -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 322] Author : Kamilah Hauptmann Date : 08-05-2021 09:18 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done Will the English be eating Irish babies? https://i.gyazo.com/0e9e98fbf63380ede2b0856cfab8e5cb.png Glory days (https://imgur.com/gallery/XqJod) -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 323] Author : JoeP Date : 08-05-2021 09:29 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done That's a modest proposal you have right there. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 324] Author : Kamilah Hauptmann Date : 09-05-2021 03:44 AM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit DoneHere's a picture of the Swedish warship Vasa, which also sank on its maiden voyage. pic.twitter.com/XdjgLJ7wVT
— Chris Williams (@Chris_A_W) July 15, 2021
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 325] Author : JoeP Date : 09-06-2021 08:18 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done https://twitter.com/JudyMurray/status/1434432845850816514?s=19Frequent symptom of alcoholism is poor memory, due to drunken blackouts and stupors. https://t.co/o1fxaX7RBi
— DPRK News Service (@DPRK_News) August 28, 2021
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 326] Author : Kamilah Hauptmann Date : 09-12-2021 04:46 AM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done Terrible Brexit Shortages (https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9980003/Six-men-including-one-Brit-arrested-yacht-coast-Plymouth-120m-worth-cocaine.html) -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 327] Author : JoeP Date : 09-12-2021 10:41 AM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done oh no what will we do -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 328] Author : ChuckF Date : 09-25-2021 06:34 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done how's this going -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 329] Author : Dragar Date : 09-25-2021 08:41 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done Could be better. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 330] Author : JoeP Date : 09-25-2021 11:16 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done Everyone's freaking out about petrol (y'know, gasoline) because due to Brexit (and they would like to blame covid too) there are no HGV drivers. But where are you going to drive to? The same lack of drivers means the shops don't have any food, and your friends and family don't have any food. Oh and due to a sharp rise in the wholesale price of natural gas we're all going to get hypothermia over the winter anyway. If the UK's energy suppliers were publicly owned, would we be having this crisis? | David Hall | The Guardian (https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/sep/23/uk-energy-suppliers-publicly-owned-crisis) Supply chain crisis: Tories poised to U-turn on foreign worker visas | Supply chain crisis | The Guardian (https://www.theguardian.com/business/2021/sep/24/supply-chain-crisis-tories-poised-turn-foreign-worker-visas) UK supermarket prices 'to rise by 5%' as supply chain costs increase | Supply chain crisis | The Guardian (https://www.theguardian.com/business/2021/sep/24/uk-supermarket-prices-to-rise-as-supply-chain-costs-increase) -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 331] Author : JoeP Date : 09-25-2021 11:20 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done This guy was destined from birth to report on panic buying of petrol. https://i.imgur.com/2dk0mJV.jpeg -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 332] Author : ChuckF Date : 09-26-2021 12:49 AM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done Supply chain crisis: Tories poised to U-turn on foreign worker visas | Supply chain crisis | The Guardian (https://www.theguardian.com/business/2021/sep/24/supply-chain-crisis-tories-poised-turn-foreign-worker-visas) A senior government source said some ministers appeared keen to avoid the perception that Brexit was to blame, and were therefore reluctant to relax immigration rules. :nonstop: -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 333] Author : Ari Date : 09-26-2021 12:57 AM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done Perhaps Britain should considered aligning themselves with other local countries in some sort of union to increase their buying power. UK mulls bid to join North American trade pact | The Independent (https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/trade-deal-usmca-johnson-biden-b1924344.html) There has previously been no talk of extending the three-nation [US, Mexico and Canada] arrangement beyond the continent. But the UK government figure said it was an option London was interested in pursuing, adding: “There are a variety of different ways to do this. The question is whether the US administration is ready. “The ball is in the US’s court. It takes two to tango.” Borris is that doggy that just drops a muddy slobbery ball at people’s feet like “Oow we’re playing fetch now! Your throw!” While all the humans are trying to eat dinner. Also, I don’t think this has been posted here yet, What If The Simpsons Was British? - YouTube -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 334] Author : Kamilah Hauptmann Date : 09-26-2021 01:06 AM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done Perhaps Britain should considered aligning themselves with other local countries in some sort of union to increase their buying power. UK mulls bid to join North American trade pact | The Independent (https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/trade-deal-usmca-johnson-biden-b1924344.html) There has previously been no talk of extending the three-nation [US, Mexico and Canada] arrangement beyond the continent. But the UK government figure said it was an option London was interested in pursuing, adding: “There are a variety of different ways to do this. The question is whether the US administration is ready. “The ball is in the US’s court. It takes two to tango.” Borris is that doggy that just drops a muddy slobbery ball at people’s feet like “Oow we’re playing fetch now! Your throw!” While all the humans are trying to eat dinner. Also, I don’t think this has been posted here yet, What If The Simpsons Was British? - YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=66w6GTFB8FU) Oh COOL! THREE less than reliable partners! -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 335] Author : ChuckF Date : 09-26-2021 01:11 AM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done Perhaps Britain should considered aligning themselves with other local countries in some sort of union to increase their buying power. UK mulls bid to join North American trade pact | The Independent (https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/trade-deal-usmca-johnson-biden-b1924344.html) There has previously been no talk of extending the three-nation [US, Mexico and Canada] arrangement beyond the continent. But the UK government figure said it was an option London was interested in pursuing, adding: “There are a variety of different ways to do this. The question is whether the US administration is ready. “The ball is in the US’s court. It takes two to tango.” Borris is that doggy that just drops a muddy slobbery ball at people’s feet like “Oow we’re playing fetch now! Your throw!” While all the humans are trying to eat dinner. Just speaking purely as a paid pharmaceutical industry goon for whom National Institute for Health and Care Excellence/NHS stinginess is occasionally a nuisance: this is a fucking fantastic idea. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 336] Author : Kamilah Hauptmann Date : 09-26-2021 01:16 AM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done 12160 -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 337] Author : JoeP Date : 09-26-2021 09:49 AM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done European lorry drivers "will not want to come to UK", warn haulage chiefs | Supply chain crisis | The Guardian (https://www.theguardian.com/business/2021/sep/25/european-lorry-drivers-will-not-want-to-come-to-uk-warn-haulage-chiefs) Who would? -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 338] Author : JoeP Date : 09-26-2021 09:52 AM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done https://i.imgur.com/NDsUJDZ.jpg This is a call-out to a political ad from 1979, for any of you who might not have been following British news at the time. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 339] Author : JoeP Date : 09-26-2021 09:56 AM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done And in more returning to the glorious past: Brexit: Downing Street confirms Imperial measurements could return | Metro News (https://metro.co.uk/2021/09/17/brexit-downing-street-confirms-imperial-measurements-could-return-15275817/) Now a review of EU law could see retailers once again allowed to sell food in pounds and ounces. But good news! Our ration books will be blue! https://i.imgur.com/FRQA1zd.jpg -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 340] Author : ChuckF Date : 09-26-2021 03:08 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done mmmm three day week :homdrool: -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 341] Author : JoeP Date : 09-28-2021 07:06 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done PM says UK fuel situation improving but urges motorists to go about business in ‘normal way’– business live | Business | The Guardian (https://www.theguardian.com/business/live/2021/sep/28/uk-fuel-crisis-health-services-companies-petrol-diesel-brent-crude-80-dollars-stock-markets-ftse-business-live) :freakout: If bozo says things are getting better I'm pretty sure it's time to worry ... -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 342] Author : JoeP Date : 09-28-2021 07:07 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done Meanwhile https://i.imgur.com/4qSFpkm.jpg -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 343] Author : Kamilah Hauptmann Date : 10-02-2021 07:29 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done Fuel supplies: Mortar tanker tailed by drivers looking for petrol (https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-northamptonshire-58767230) 'You could have stopped and told us you weren't a petrol tanker.' https://i.imgflip.com/5p1g6w.jpg Add: Don't follow tankers, petrol haulers call the police if they think they're being followed. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 344] Author : JoeP Date : 10-06-2021 10:09 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done Let the next panic buying wave commence. Frozen turkeys in high demand as Christmas shopping starts early | Supermarkets | The Guardian (https://www.theguardian.com/business/2021/oct/05/frozen-turkeys-in-high-demand-as-christmas-shopping-starts-early) -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 345] Author : Kamilah Hauptmann Date : 10-09-2021 11:25 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done������@willesdenstaff
— judy murray (@JudyMurray) September 5, 2021
�� @RealJamieKay pic.twitter.com/yu5xUY1hAO
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 346] Author : Kamilah Hauptmann Date : 10-11-2021 07:36 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done1 musician, 1 gig. One example posted by @judithbusbridge of the #BrexitReality for our once-thriving, mobile, growing industry ��
— Howard Goodall (@Howard_Goodall) October 8, 2021
Remember everyone, the EU offered us a Europe-wide creative visa waiver during TCA negotiations, which the UK's chief negotiator Lord Frost REJECTED. pic.twitter.com/gsxFghUNkT
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 347] Author : Kamilah Hauptmann Date : 10-18-2021 08:13 AM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done Dude writing stuff about Brexit and late stage capitalism in general: https://eand.co/brexit-is-making-britain-a-third-world-country-4fa1288e820f -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 348] Author : mickthinks Date : 10-18-2021 09:27 AM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit DoneMy light bulbs are more environment friendly when used in the UK. pic.twitter.com/lUtlPRXIjR
— Fabian Stäber (@fstabr) October 7, 2021
I think “Fabian Stäber” is manufacturing outrage there. The colour-coded energy efficiency scale for lamps used by the EU was recalibrated recently. The new scale was introduced on Sept 1. In Britain its implementation date was a month later; ie. two weeks ago. So the EU’s and the UK’s standards were out of sync for the month just gone, but are back in harmony now. The tweet exposes a temporary anomaly then, rather than an environmental scandal, I reckon. https://www.lighting.philips.co.uk/support/purchase/installer/eu-regulations -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 349] Author : JoeP Date : 10-18-2021 01:36 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done Dude writing stuff about Brexit and late stage capitalism in general: Brexit is Making Britain a Third World Country | by umair haque | Oct, 2021 | Eudaimonia and Co (https://eand.co/brexit-is-making-britain-a-third-world-country-4fa1288e820f) The title is self-evidently true, but the content of the article is lunatic fringe stuff. He's not reading the same Guardian I am, which may be a bit nuanced and insufficiently outraged for him but never fails to point out that the shortage of HGV drivers - and abattoir workers - is entirely because of Brexit. 1 out of 5 red stars. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 350] Author : Ari Date : 10-18-2021 06:24 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done [Bulb Tweet] I am amused though by A++, A+, A, then B,C,D. I’m not sure how common this is in the UK, but here in the US everyone would look at A as top grade and not realize it was a C. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 351] Author : ceptimus Date : 10-18-2021 09:44 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done The EU added A+, A++ (and even A+++ for some items) energy efficiency categories for various products as more efficient technologies emerged that outperformed the original A rating. They're now attempting to reclassify the system, falling back to a simpler A to G rating. It's going to cause lots of confusion though, because a bulb previously categorized as A++, is now categorized as C under the new system. Simpler EU energy labels for lighting products applicable from 1 September 2021 - official EU website (https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/IP_21_4484) Wikipedia entry covering labels for fridges, televisions, etc. (but not up to date on light bulbs) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Union_energy_label) -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 352] Author : Kamilah Hauptmann Date : 10-19-2021 05:48 AM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done More Express https://i.redd.it/lhjpf3vuf9u71.jpg -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 353] Author : Kamilah Hauptmann Date : 10-22-2021 04:18 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done Some wider news on the importance of public health officials and what happens when “gubmit bad”. US public health in crisis as Covid prompts curbs on officials’ powers | US healthcare | The Guardian (https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/oct/22/us-public-health-crisis-covid-curbs-on-powers) -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 354] Author : JoeP Date : 10-22-2021 09:43 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done Some wider news on the importance of public health officials and what happens when “gubmit bad”. US public health in crisis as Covid prompts curbs on officials’ powers | US healthcare | The Guardian (https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/oct/22/us-public-health-crisis-covid-curbs-on-powers) Death isn't enough to persuade the feudal lords, their outriders, and their addicts voters. It'll loss of income over several years to change their tune. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 355] Author : Kamilah Hauptmann Date : 11-01-2021 01:27 AM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done 12199 -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 356] Author : JoeP Date : 11-03-2021 12:26 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done Meat carcasses sent to EU for butchering amid UK worker shortage | Food & drink industry | The Guardian (https://www.theguardian.com/business/2021/nov/03/meat-carcasses-sent-to-eu-for-butchering-amid-uk-worker-shortage) So glad we are getting this Brexit dividend. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 357] Author : JoeP Date : 11-05-2021 11:16 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done https://i.imgur.com/hXqXJTp.png Yes, like a typical dysfunctional couple France and Britain are fighting over something that represents a tiny fraction of the whole. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 358] Author : JoeP Date : 11-23-2021 03:20 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done Post-Brexit scheme to lure Nobel winners to UK fails to attract single applicant | Immigration and asylum | The Guardian (https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/nov/23/post-brexit-scheme-to-lure-nobel-winners-to-uk-fails-to-attract-single-applicant) -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 359] Author : Kamilah Hauptmann Date : 11-30-2021 06:24 AM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done Drool Britannia (https://theaviationist.com/2021/11/29/british-f-35b-crash-video/) -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 360] Author : JoeP Date : 12-02-2021 12:52 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done Macron: It is sad to see a major country with which we could do huge numbers of things being led by a clown. (https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/dec/02/macron-privately-called-boris-johnson-a-clown-says-french-magazine) -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 361] Author : JoeP Date : 12-25-2021 01:48 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done Food shortages hitting Britons more than many in EU, poll finds | Supply chain crisis | The Guardian (https://www.theguardian.com/business/2021/dec/22/food-shortages-hitting-britons-more-than-many-in-eu-poll-finds) The YouGov poll showed residents of the UK were multiple times more likely to have experienced, or to know people who have experienced, shortages of food and fuel than people in France, Germany, Spain, Italy, Sweden and Denmark, and somewhat more likely to have experienced them than those in the US. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 362] Author : Kamilah Hauptmann Date : 01-07-2022 03:36 AM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit DoneMy light bulbs are more environment friendly when used in the UK. pic.twitter.com/lUtlPRXIjR
— Fabian Stäber (@fstabr) October 7, 2021
:lol: -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 363] Author : Ensign Steve Date : 01-07-2022 05:48 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done The penny-drop sounded a lot like genuine, sincere laughter, and it legit made me giddy. The laugh could just as easily have been spiteful or bitter, but it somehow sounded downright delightful, as if the man laughing is just completely done with fucking clown show. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 364] Author : ChuckF Date : 01-19-2022 07:17 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done So who is going to be left standing once they're done knifing Boris? Rishi Sunak? Michael Gove? :LOL: -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 365] Author : ceptimus Date : 01-19-2022 07:54 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done Boris put in some good words for Peppa Pig, but she's too young and not a Tory MP. Priti Patel has the same initials. Or we could get Sunak, or Zafari, or Javid. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 366] Author : ceptimus Date : 01-19-2022 08:55 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done Or Truss? :hide: Liz Truss - Pork Markets - YouTube -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 367] Author : JoeP Date : 01-19-2022 09:17 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done Liz Truss would be a godsend for comedians and satirists. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 368] Author : Kamilah Hauptmann Date : 01-19-2022 10:16 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done Liz Truss would be a godsend for comedians and satirists. I thought by now we’d all have had enough of clowns. I want the experts back. :( -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 369] Author : Sock Puppet Date : 01-19-2022 10:25 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done When the hell were THEY ever in charge? -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 370] Author : JoeP Date : 02-03-2022 05:00 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done Lying about parties is one thing, but lying about the opposition is apparently bad. Boris Johnson’s policy chief quits over PM’s ‘scurrilous’ Savile remark | Boris Johnson | The Guardian (https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/feb/03/boris-johnsons-policy-chief-quits-over-pms-scurrilous-savile-remark) Meanwhile, Brexit still not actually done. Northern Ireland first minister resigns over Brexit checks on goods | Northern Irish politics | The Guardian (https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/feb/03/northern-ireland-first-minister-poised-to-quit-over-brexit-reports-say) -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 371] Author : slimshady2357 Date : 02-04-2022 07:21 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done This is hilarious, but it also perfectly expresses how I feel about the fuckwit PM and his corrupt, cocksucker pals.That magical moment when the penny drops for Brexiter MP Edward Leigh, that stopping freedom of movement from Europe may mean more immigrants from India.
— Best for Britain (@BestForBritain) January 5, 2022
Another for the ever expanding That's-Not-The-Brexit-I-Ordered collection. #PMQs ~AA pic.twitter.com/k7dT6NHsCU
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 372] Author : ChuckF Date : 02-04-2022 08:09 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done Lying about parties is one thing, but lying about the opposition is apparently bad. Boris Johnson’s policy chief quits over PM’s ‘scurrilous’ Savile remark | Boris Johnson | The Guardian (https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/feb/03/boris-johnsons-policy-chief-quits-over-pms-scurrilous-savile-remark) Johnson has repeatedly refused to apologise, after saying in a rowdy House of Commons session on Monday that, as director of public prosecutions from 2008 to 2013, Starmer had “spent most of his time prosecuting journalists and failing to prosecute Jimmy Savile”. wat -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 373] Author : Kamilah Hauptmann Date : 02-04-2022 08:21 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done“Seriously I can just come out and say it? Call him a liar?” asks @JonathanPieNews, a fictional broadcast reporter created and performed by comedian Tom Walker, in a satirical video about Britain’s Prime Minister.
— New York Times Opinion (@nytopinion) February 4, 2022
“God bless America.” https://t.co/Hu6Q6q8TBp pic.twitter.com/ojr8Pb1d0S
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 374] Author : Kamilah Hauptmann Date : 02-06-2022 05:40 AM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done Bumped from your flight? Take comfort in your blue passport. (https://www.theguardian.com/money/2022/feb/05/uk-flight-compensation-plan-will-slash-average-payouts) -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 375] Author : JoeP Date : 02-07-2022 02:45 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done In the words of whoever it was, "believe nothing until it has been officially denied" ... Boris Johnson ‘not a complete clown’, says his new press chief | Boris Johnson | The Guardian (https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/feb/07/boris-johnson-not-a-complete-clown-says-guto-harri-new-press-chief) -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 376] Author : Kamilah Hauptmann Date : 02-07-2022 11:19 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done 12370 -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 377] Author : Kamilah Hauptmann Date : 02-08-2022 02:16 AM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit DoneIt's cost the DUP support - there is a very real prospect of Sinn Fein topping the poll in May. Now in a desperate attempt to stop that, they're undermining devolved government. But that's just going to further damage support for the status quo #whenyoureinaholestopdigging
— Gavin Barwell (@GavinBarwell) February 3, 2022
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 378] Author : JoeP Date : 03-07-2022 10:44 AM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done Russia ‘will not forget’ Britain’s support of Ukraine in worrying threat – Plainsmen Post (https://plainsmenpost.com/russia-will-not-forget-britains-support-of-ukraine-in-worrying-threat/) Well that's us told. :hide: -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 379] Author : Miisa Date : 03-07-2022 10:57 AM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done Only a Boris can call another Boris "Boris" -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 380] Author : Kamilah Hauptmann Date : 03-13-2022 07:47 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done 12436 -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 381] Author : JoeP Date : 03-13-2022 09:43 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done :ffnod: -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 382] Author : JoeP Date : 03-15-2022 12:03 AM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done#BREAKING African journalists emerging from risky expeditions into the interior of disease-ridden Caucasian world describe heartbreaking scenes among region's primitive tribes with the sick abandoned by friends and family to die alone while ruling elites enjoy lavish parties.
— gathara (@gathara) January 27, 2022
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 383] Author : JoeP Date : 03-29-2022 10:12 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done https://i.imgur.com/4LzRRDB.jpg -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 384] Author : Kamilah Hauptmann Date : 03-29-2022 11:11 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit DoneThat £2.6m Downing Street briefing room refit?
— Alan Ferrier ������������������ (@alanferrier) March 12, 2022
A firm called Megahertz carried out the crucial work, installing computers, cameras, microphones and control desk.
Megahertz is owned by Okno-TV. Based in Moscow.
At the time, No10 said they had ‘absolutely’ no security concerns.
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 385] Author : JoeP Date : 04-01-2022 11:17 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done ‘Bleak Friday’: websites of UK energy suppliers crash in meter reading rush | Energy bills | The Guardian (https://www.theguardian.com/money/2022/mar/31/energy-supplier-websites-crash-as-uk-customers-rush-to-send-in-meter-readings) This is tenuously connected to Brexit if at all. But it's on topic as a government fuck-up causing pain for the public. In the "free" market for household energy in the UK, there's a price cap. With the cost of natural gas having rocketed gone up in flames whatever in the past several months, and now oil joining it (thanks, Zelenskyy), they've "had to" raise the cap. Nearly all energy suppliers have of course raised their prices with effect from today. Boom. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 386] Author : JoeP Date : 04-05-2022 10:01 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done ‘Homes for Ukraine’ is just a slogan – as I found out by trying to welcome a refugee | Rafael Behr | The Guardian (https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/apr/05/homes-for-ukraine-refugee-britain-hosts) Making pain from generosity is an innovation in nastiness that no single Whitehall department could achieve. It takes a special failure of collaboration involving Michael Gove’s Levelling Up department, Priti Patel’s Home Office and the special ingredient – Boris Johnson’s delinquent inattention to detail. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 387] Author : Kamilah Hauptmann Date : 04-10-2022 11:46 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit DoneAs so often, Brexit works best when not implemented. https://t.co/vHAOfvPaqF
— Chris Grey ���� (@chrisgreybrexit) March 29, 2022
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 388] Author : Kamilah Hauptmann Date : 05-05-2022 04:49 AM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done I laughedEven Burger King know it was a lie @BorisJohnson pic.twitter.com/lZvGxzPvWc
— BT ��⚽️������ (@brian_tea) April 9, 2022
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 389] Author : Ensign Steve Date : 05-05-2022 04:25 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done "some sort of value brand" -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 390] Author : JoeP Date : 05-05-2022 05:47 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done "some sort of value brand" Replace previous quality with discount store-brand? New Brexit slogan. New Conservative party slogan. Put that on the side of bus. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 391] Author : Kamilah Hauptmann Date : 05-05-2022 06:36 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit DoneWhoever I need a break from US politics I'm reminded Britain is run by people who haven't had to spread the butter on their own toast in 5 generations https://t.co/7CggwmixsM
— SwiftOnSecurity (@SwiftOnSecurity) May 4, 2022
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 392] Author : Kamilah Hauptmann Date : 05-06-2022 02:19 AM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit DoneTurn down the heating in the servant wing. #ToryBudgetingTips
— Edwin Hayward �� �� (@uk_domain_names) May 5, 2022
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 393] Author : Kamilah Hauptmann Date : 05-06-2022 07:37 AM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done See, the UK knows how to do an election. I had no idea they were having one. :D -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 394] Author : Pan Narrans Date : 05-06-2022 08:36 AM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done election Or Votey McVoteface, as it's known these days. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 395] Author : Miisa Date : 05-06-2022 10:14 AM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done See, the UK knows how to do an election. I had no idea they were having one. :D The other extreme is if the residents haven't realized it was going on either. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 396] Author : JoeP Date : 05-06-2022 01:39 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done It's local elections only. A level of government gutted by successive Westminster governments and thus having only problems and little actual power. So only really a bit of a temperature check on how bad a mess people think Bozo's making of everything - and the answer appears to be pretty bad, but not as disastrous as they deserve. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 397] Author : Kamilah Hauptmann Date : 05-23-2022 01:33 AM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit DoneCheaper food, the Brexit way. https://t.co/f9OrE41jds
— Richard Barfield���� (@rjbarfield1) May 5, 2022
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 398] Author : JoeP Date : 05-23-2022 10:42 AM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done Who could possibly have foreseen this. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 399] Author : JoeP Date : 05-27-2022 04:49 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done Boris Johnson changes ministerial code to avoid need to resign over breaches | Boris Johnson | The Guardian (https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/may/27/boris-johnson-changes-ministerial-code-to-remove-need-to-resign-over-breaches) Another step towards fascism in the UK? -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 400] Author : Ari Date : 05-27-2022 06:05 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done How can a PM rule his subjects and entertain his peers if he’s worried about all these silly rules and regulations meant for the common folk. They should be so lucky to get even a swift apology from their superiors, then right back to the mines with em! I can’t wait to hear the Torries’ reasons for why this doesn’t apply to a labor PM. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 401] Author : JoeP Date : 06-06-2022 09:14 AM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done Boris Johnson to face no-confidence vote today as scores of Tory MPs call on him to go | Boris Johnson | The Guardian (https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/jun/06/boris-johnson-face-confidence-vote-scores-tory-mps-call-on-him-to-go) He'll probably survive because there's no other candidate for the leadership who can unite it. And even if he does go, the Conservative party will still stay in power because we can't have nice things. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 402] Author : Kamilah Hauptmann Date : 06-06-2022 08:37 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit DoneBloody foreigners not coming over here and stealing our jobs pic.twitter.com/0dr7uOwwQh
— Secret Drug Addict (@ScrtDrugAddict) May 22, 2022
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 403] Author : ceptimus Date : 06-06-2022 09:19 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done Boris won 211 votes for, 148 against. That's worse than Theresa May's confidence vote result - and she was gone six months later. Boris will never resign: he'll have to be prised out of Downing Street with crowbars. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 404] Author : Kamilah Hauptmann Date : 06-06-2022 09:47 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done Definitely nothing like Trump. No sirrie-bob. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 405] Author : Kamilah Hauptmann Date : 06-13-2022 07:11 AM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done Watching an English 20 something I know, what should ordinarily be reasonably employed (in 1960s) with a HMG employer about to become homeless due to a 35% rent increase on a place she didn't heat over last winter while managing on one meal a day being all she could afford. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 406] Author : JoeP Date : 06-13-2022 08:37 AM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done In the context of Queen Elizabeth II's Platinum Jubilee which happened recently or something https://i.imgur.com/U12Smuv.jpg -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 407] Author : ChuckF Date : 06-13-2022 06:18 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done I see this continues to go well. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 408] Author : Stephen Maturin Date : 06-13-2022 07:37 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done I say, Reginald, all continues to go well, yes? Quite. ..................................................... :aristea: -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 409] Author : JoeP Date : 06-13-2022 07:42 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done In terms of actual Brexit matters ... still not done. They continue not to take the land border seriously. UK risks EU trade war as Northern Ireland protocol bill is published | Brexit | The Guardian (https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/jun/13/uk-risks-brexit-eu-trade-war-as-northern-ireland-protocol-bill-is-published) -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 410] Author : Kamilah Hauptmann Date : 06-13-2022 08:06 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done English friend: I’m glad we don’t have indigenous troubles here. Me: *laughs in Irish* -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 411] Author : JoeP Date : 06-21-2022 09:56 AM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done Whenever Johnson has a problem, he calls Zelenskiy – and the bill is rapidly mounting | Simon Jenkins | The Guardian (https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/jun/20/boris-johnson-volodymyr-zelenskiy-phone-call-kyiv-aid) Each domestic disaster is followed by a call pledging more aid to Kyiv – it’s the most expensive therapy session in history :sniggle: -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 412] Author : slimshady2357 Date : 06-21-2022 12:36 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done I will blame brexit for everything and everything. Fucking train strikes on the 23rd when I get into Heathrow. Not really sure how I'm going to get home from the airport! -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 413] Author : JoeP Date : 06-22-2022 08:22 AM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done I will blame brexit for everything and everything. Correct. Fucking train strikes on the 23rd when I get into Heathrow. Not really sure how I'm going to get home from the airport! If you're still stuck at Heathrow on the 29th I will come and say hi. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 414] Author : JoeP Date : 06-22-2022 09:03 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done Fucking train strikes on the 23rd when I get into Heathrow. Not really sure how I'm going to get home from the airport! In unrelated news, there is a thunderstorm warning for the 23rd. UK weather warnings - Met Office (https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/warnings-and-advice/uk-warnings#?date=2022-06-23) Thunderstorms and torrential downpours may cause travel disruption and, in a few places, flooding. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 415] Author : Sock Puppet Date : 06-22-2022 09:24 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done Well, there's the solution - bring an inflatable boat and you'll get home quicker than anybody else. :rowboat: -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 416] Author : fragment Date : 06-23-2022 03:06 AM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done Nah it'll just get stuck in baggage https://cbcnnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/skynews-heathrow-terminal-baggage_5807947.jpg Heathrow asks airlines to cancel 10% of flights today as airport faces baggage - CBC-news - Daily Business News (https://cbcnnews.com/heathrow-asks-airlines-to-cancel-10-of-flights-today-as-airport-faces-baggage/) -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 417] Author : Pan Narrans Date : 06-23-2022 08:17 AM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done I'm So Worried - YouTube -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 418] Author : JoeP Date : 07-01-2022 05:19 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done I will blame brexit for everything and everything. Correct. Fucking train strikes on the 23rd when I get into Heathrow. Not really sure how I'm going to get home from the airport! If you're still stuck at Heathrow on the 29th I will come and say hi. I hope you weren't still there. Anyway I didn't see you. As for myself ... flight was reasonable, landed on time ... and then had to wait for an hour on the apron for the gate to become ready. I'm definitely blaming Brexit for this. In one of his periodic apologies the Finnish pilot said "This is London Heathrow" in a significant tone of voice, so I think he does too. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 419] Author : Kamilah Hauptmann Date : 07-01-2022 05:22 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done My fairly well employed British late 20 something is now living in her car as a full time salary no longer buys shelter in central Scotland. She sent me this: 12526 -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 420] Author : Kamilah Hauptmann Date : 07-01-2022 11:31 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit DoneI doubt the consultation will lead to anything changing, but it is sphincter-crunchingly embarrassing that the government would put such a thing out, and a mark of the ludicrous dishonesty and stupidity that Brexit has reduced us to. 2/2
— Chris Grey ���� (@chrisgreybrexit) June 6, 2022
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 421] Author : Kamilah Hauptmann Date : 07-01-2022 11:38 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done Add'l, here's what led up to that.Sadly, this or something like it was an inevitable consequence of unilateral action to rip up a treaty (let alone a treaty the same UK govt negotiated & claimed as a diplomatic triumph) https://t.co/AklrdkUZZY
— David Lidington (@DLidington) July 1, 2022
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 422] Author : Sock Puppet Date : 07-02-2022 12:58 AM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done "The UK will continue to hold China to account for its actions." Y-you m-m-m-mean ... MORE strongly worded statements? :rughide: -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 423] Author : erimir Date : 07-02-2022 01:35 AM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done (BoJo is actually right in this case though, even though he's being hypocritical.) (Offering a way out for Hong Kong dissidents is also a good thing to do, even if BoJo's motivation is probably not altruistic.) -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 424] Author : ChuckF Date : 07-05-2022 06:29 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done Britons please correct my reading, but after Boris survived the Tory no-confidence vote, it now appears that Sajid Javid and Rishi Sunak are resigning in what appears to be an attempt at Geoffrey Howesque Cabinet knifing, except with a more comically buffoonish cast of characters? Is it wrong to be in camp Truss for comedy value? Legit question: does Keir Starmer have any lines here? Like he seems like a bit player and I do not understand why. (I assume this is not a fair question and somewhat analagous to asking an American to explain why Democrats control 2 branches of government and are unable to enact a policy agenda.) -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 425] Author : JoeP Date : 07-05-2022 06:31 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done The peasants toffs are revolting. Sajid Javid and Rishi Sunak resign as PM apologises for Chris Pincher ‘mistake’ – UK politics live (https://www.theguardian.com/politics/live/2022/jul/05/boris-johnson-accused-not-telling-truth-chris-pincher-politics-live) 16m ago Sunak resigns as chancellor, saying government should be run 'properly, competently and seriously' 25m ago Sajid Javid resigns as health secretary, saying UK needs 'strong and principled Conservative party' 27m ago Johnson apologises for making Chris Pincher deputy chief whip Chris Pincher resigned in disgrace from his post as deputy chief whip (a) because he drank too much at an evening event (b) when the details leaked, because he'd groped two men at said event (c) and had a history of doing this. Bozo (a) knew nothing about it (b) knew nothing formally about it (c) was not aware of any open, unresolved complaints (d) knew all about it. Q: Did you once call him ‘Pincher by name, pincher by nature’? -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 426] Author : slimshady2357 Date : 07-07-2022 10:34 AM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done The useless turd has agreed to resign finally. :yes!:Cough, ‘legally binding commitment’.#NIProtocol pic.twitter.com/m1Xf9YcLns
— Cathal Mac Coille �� (@CMacCoille) June 30, 2022
Found it amusing that the Sun put out this headline this morning and by the time anyone was out and about and seeing it in every shop he had already resigned :lol: https://i.imgur.com/wSX1ZvH.jpg -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 427] Author : JoeP Date : 07-07-2022 12:55 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done :cheerful: -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 428] Author : Stephen Maturin Date : 07-07-2022 01:16 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done lol Pitchbot (https://twitter.com/DougJBalloon/status/1545015406557011968) -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 429] Author : viscousmemories Date : 07-07-2022 01:34 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done I woke up at about 3:00 AM for no apparent reason, started scrolling TikTok, and landed on a live broadcast of the parliament meltdown. I watched it for a while not really understanding what I was watching, but definitely had the sense that wild things are happening over there. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 430] Author : Ensign Steve Date : 07-07-2022 07:03 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done What is happening?! :freakout: Something like 59 Conservative MPs walked off the job and/or resigned in disgrace? Nobody wants to work anymore! :shakeuk: -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 431] Author : Kamilah Hauptmann Date : 07-07-2022 08:50 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done They’ll be lining up for lorry driver jobs then off to the fields to get the crop in. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 432] Author : JoeP Date : 07-07-2022 09:48 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done They resigned from posts in the cabinet. They didn't resign as MPs. That would imply some kind of integrity. (Actually it would imply they believed they had done something wrong themselves. Like sexual offences in office. Only about 3 have done that. This year.) -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 433] Author : ceptimus Date : 07-07-2022 11:53 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done The reason they finally turned against Boris, was that they were ordered, by Boris's team, to go out and defend him in media interviews by telling lies about how much Boris knew about the history of the sex predator (a friend of Boris) who Boris had given a government job too. This is normal behaviour for ministers, of course, but on this occasion the lies were particularly transparent and quickly unravelled with Boris having to apologize with the explanation, "I forgot - I'm a busy man, you know, you can't expect me to remember every tiny detail." The ministers have long known that Boris is a compulsive liar: he'd been sacked when a journalist for making up news stories, and a former Tory leader had sacked him from a junior political job for lying about one of his mistresses. But the ministers didn't mind that. They were happy for Boris to lie to the electorate; to the Queen, to his wives and girlfriends, but they didn't like Boris lying to them - at least not when those lies weren't good ones that would remain undiscovered for a reasonable time. So Boris had to go, and the mechanism they used to force him to go was by mass resignation of government ministers till there were insufficient ministers in post to allow the country to be governed. Most Tory ministers are vehemently against public workers going on strike, but they're happy to do it themselves without feeling the slightest twinge of hypocrisy or guilt. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 434] Author : Kamilah Hauptmann Date : 07-08-2022 06:00 AM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit DoneInterestingly, Boris Johnson will be the third Prime Minister in a row brought down by Boris Johnson.
— Alex Andreou (@sturdyAlex) February 4, 2022
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 435] Author : Basset Hound Date : 07-10-2022 05:38 AM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done The pro-Brexiteers are pissed with BoZo too. They say he hasn't tried to do half the things he said he'd do. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 436] Author : ceptimus Date : 07-16-2022 07:04 AM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done Liz Truss CHEESE Speech : HIGH DEFINITION - YouTube - YouTube A beacon of hope for stupid people. You might think that being stupid would prevent you from getting a well paid job, but here is Truss: a cabinet minister, traveling the world as Foreign Secretary, and hoping to become the next British Prime Minister. Things have changed in our modern world: it's no longer necessary to be musically talented to become a musical superstar; acting talent is not necessarily a prerequisite to land a top job in Hollywood*, and thick people can now do jobs where intelligence would once have been a requirement. * Nicholas Cage, for example. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 437] Author : Ensign Steve Date : 07-18-2022 09:28 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done * Nicholas Cage, for example. How dare you. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 438] Author : Miisa Date : 07-18-2022 10:01 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done Shots fired. :popcorn: -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 439] Author : Stephen Maturin Date : 07-18-2022 10:15 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done I'll be takin' these Huggies. "I'll be taking these Huggiesâ„¢ and whatever cash you got" - YouTube -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 440] Author : ceptimus Date : 07-19-2022 01:22 AM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done * Nicholas Cage, for example. How dare you. Sorry, I didn't intentionally misspell his name. Nicolas is the way he spells it. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 441] Author : JoeP Date : 07-20-2022 08:37 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done A beacon of hope for stupid people. You might think that being stupid would prevent you from getting a well paid job, but here is Truss: a cabinet minister, traveling the world as Foreign Secretary, and hoping to become the next British Prime Minister. The shortlist has been shortened to two: Rishi Sunak, short of stature, short of understanding; and the above-mentioned Liz Truss, short of ideas, short of speaking ability. This article suggests she may have a slightly better chance at the final stage (where the entirely unrepresentative electoral college of Conservative Party members votes)! Who will be Britain's next prime minister, Rishi Sunak or Liz Truss? | Zoe Williams, Sahil Dutta, Henry Hill, Moya Lothian-McLean and Simon Jenkins | The Guardian (https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/jul/20/britain-next-prime-minister-rishi-sunak-liz-truss-conservative-leader) Which, if it happens, will be a natural evolution of Britain's descent through the multiple circles of farce. And a godsend for comedians and satirists. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 442] Author : Kamilah Hauptmann Date : 07-20-2022 10:25 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done Ah yes, the "Kim Campbell". We did that in Canada some decades ago. Tories about to be soundly humiliated so put up someone other than a white man to be the face of the collapse. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 443] Author : ceptimus Date : 07-20-2022 11:15 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done Truss's first tweet, after becoming a finalist, said that she was "ready to hit the ground from day one." The tweet was deleted and retweeted with the word 'running' inserted between 'ground' and 'from'. I expect her keepers will be managing her tweets from now on... A glimpse of the standard of leadership we can expect from this intellectual titan. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 444] Author : ChuckF Date : 07-20-2022 11:59 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done Having observed Liz Truss from a healthy distance for a little while, I wonder if there's some sort of gender equity achievement in having a very stupid woman credibly contending to replace a surprisingly stupid man. Like, I never got the sense that Theresa May is exceptionally dim. Truss could really inspire other stupid women in the UK that they no longer have to do better than stupid men to achieve. (The US far outpaces most countries in this particular dimension of gender equality, at least in one specific party.) -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 445] Author : erimir Date : 07-21-2022 02:06 AM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done This reminds me of the immortal words of Roman Hruska (R-NE), defending a Nixon SCOTUS nominee who was called mediocre: "Even if he were mediocre, there are a lot of mediocre judges and people and lawyers. They are entitled to a little representation, aren't they, and a little chance? We can't have all Brandeises, Frankfurters and Cardozos." (There may have been (((something))) going on in his choice of those three particular justices in his statement there...) -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 446] Author : slimshady2357 Date : 07-21-2022 09:02 AM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done Saw an article that said the MPs prefer Sunak, but the membership prefers Truss... I've been saying since the start that Sunak can't win because the Tory membership is too racist. I guess we'll see. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 447] Author : ceptimus Date : 07-21-2022 10:28 AM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done Sunak was also the chancellor in charge of our 'levelling up' agenda, with a billionaire wife who paid zero tax. And he was fined for attending a partygate party. Both Sunak and Truss propped up Boris throughout his reign, and Truss remains his Foreign Secretary to this day. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 448] Author : Ari Date : 07-21-2022 07:06 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done At this rate the PM seat seems like a live grenade being passed around like hot potato and people should be voting for whom ever they want to see crash and burn. Question, what happens now to Boris, does he slink back to one of his mistress’s house or is he still a major part of the conservative party, just not in the PM hot seat? -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 449] Author : JoeP Date : 07-21-2022 09:33 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done Question, what happens now to Boris, does he slink back to one of his mistress’s house or is he still a major part of the conservative party, just not in the PM hot seat? His view is probably "still indispensable". Everybody else was only a fan because they believed he could win elections. So, there will be slinking. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 450] Author : JoeP Date : 07-21-2022 09:34 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done Thursday briefing: The questions that will determine the next prime minister | Conservative leadership | The Guardian (https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jul/21/thursday-briefing-the-questions-that-will-determine-the-next-prime-minister) a Westminster campaign to succeed him that has occasionally felt like a knife-fight in a clown-car Also Clownfall: Britain after Boris | Jul 9th 2022 | The Economist (https://www.economist.com/weeklyedition/2022-07-09) -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 451] Author : ChuckF Date : 07-22-2022 01:27 AM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done Clownfall what a fucking turn of phrase :giggle: I let my Economist subscription lapse years ago. That alone makes me want to resume it. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 452] Author : Kamilah Hauptmann Date : 07-31-2022 09:29 AM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit DoneRemember when the British used to make fun of Italian politics?
— Duncan McDonnell (@duncanmcdonnell) July 7, 2022
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 453] Author : Kamilah Hauptmann Date : 08-23-2022 12:00 AM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit DoneBrexit Explained ����*♂️��*♀️ pic.twitter.com/kNYjTa6R6S
— Marie-Ann Detests Tories & Brexit ���� ���� ���� (@MarieAnnUK) July 29, 2022
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 454] Author : JoeP Date : 08-23-2022 08:53 AM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done We They are having an increasing level of strike action in Britain. A summer of discontent. https://i.imgur.com/OpUwQtx.jpg -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 455] Author : Kamilah Hauptmann Date : 08-23-2022 06:35 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit DoneGenuinely think the Brits might be better at deranged culture-war stuff than us, every economic headline out of there is like "inflation hits 28%" and all their politicians are going "our top issue is keeping up the statue of Lord Nonceford, the Butcher of Bengal"
— Zack Budryk (@BudrykZack) August 22, 2022
Well, well, well,
— Marina Purkiss (@MarinaPurkiss) August 21, 2022
Have a watch of this…
Govt voted to relax laws on letting water firms pump sewage into our waters
Why?
Because water firms could no longer get the chemicals needed to treat the water
Why?
…BREXIT
pic.twitter.com/wVVVF8iH3a
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 456] Author : ChuckF Date : 09-05-2022 07:54 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done Sorry guys. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 457] Author : Ari Date : 09-05-2022 09:52 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done I’m just going to get out ahead of this one… Wow, who knew after surviving the tax poor students to fund the NHS, children to coal and Boris in her ear scandals, Lizz Truss would resign only 2 days into the war with Ireland. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 458] Author : JoeP Date : 09-05-2022 10:27 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done Liz Truss would be a godsend for comedians and satirists. :ffnod: Radon Liz romps home in a pyrrhic victory | John Crace | The Guardian (https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/sep/05/radon-liz-romps-home-in-a-pyrrhic-victory) Tory MPs’ hopes of Truss’s transformation into a plausible leader were dashed by her robotic acceptance speech Truss for PM really is a laughing matter, finds Laura Kuenssberg panel | John Crace | The Guardian (https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/sep/04/liz-truss-pm-laura-kuenssberg-panel-john-crace-sketch) Laura Kuenssberg's new panel show included comedian Joe Lycett. As the interview came to a close, you could hear applause coming from the panel. Though it soon became clear that all the clapping was coming from just one source. “I loved it,” enthused Lycett. “I feel thoroughly reassured.” “Really?” asked Kuenssberg. Of all the potential disasters she had feared, sarcasm clearly hadn’t been one of them. Lycett just kept going. “She’s going to sort everything out!” he declared. By now Laura had realised that Lycett had gone rogue and was making a mental note to herself to tell the bookers not to get another comedian. Perhaps she should have settled for a house band instead. She moved on to a lightning newspaper review – every Sunday politics show has to have one of these – but Lycett still wasn’t done. If he was a leftwing comedian, he said, he might conclude that Truss was just the backwash we’d been left with after 12 years of Tory governments. But he wasn’t leftwing! He was incredibly rightwing! And wasn’t it brilliant of Liz to ignore the predictions of all the economists who said the UK was heading for the worst economic crisis in decades. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 459] Author : mickthinks Date : 09-06-2022 10:34 AM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done Like every other right-wing politican, Truss is no laughing matter: Warning over Truss’ links to US lobbyists | Open Democracy (https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/liz-truss-heritage-foundation-lobbyists-climate-obama/) Riley Dunlap, a professor at the Oklahoma State University who has spent decades tracking climate denial groups, said organisations like the Cato Institute have “had a major impact on US policy-making in general, and on climate change in particular”. “Truss’s ties to these lobby groups are a bad omen for climate change policy making in the UK should she win election,” he told openDemocracy. “She’ll keep the Tories from doing anything helpful unless really pressured, which seems unlikely.” Many of the think tanks that Truss met played a key role in forcing Obama to abandon what was to be his signature piece of climate policy in 2009. The American Clean Energy and Security Act would have set an overall cap on greenhouse emissions, but never made it to a final vote in the Senate – despite passing through the House – after an organised backlash against it. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 460] Author : Kamilah Hauptmann Date : 09-06-2022 10:16 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done https://i.redd.it/5yjiwt39v7m91.jpg -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 461] Author : Kamilah Hauptmann Date : 09-08-2022 07:16 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit DoneMarr: Are you absolutely clear that our environmental standards will not be loosened by leaving the EU?
— UK is with EU (@ukiswitheu) August 23, 2022
Gove: Yes, we can have a green brexit that ensures Britain is an environmental leader
2016 #BrexitLies #TorySewageParty pic.twitter.com/iRPujCMTBF
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 462] Author : Kamilah Hauptmann Date : 09-08-2022 11:22 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit DoneConservative party donor Lord Spencer says there are "many" benefits from leaving the EU when it comes to cutting regulations.
— Theo Usherwood (@theousherwood) September 8, 2022
Top of his list:
"We should take away the cap on bankers' bonuses."
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 463] Author : JoeP Date : 09-28-2022 05:20 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done IMF urges UK government to reconsider tax-cutting plans | Politics | The Guardian (https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/sep/27/kwasi-kwartengs-tax-cuts-likely-to-increase-inequality-imf-says) Zombie-in-chief Liz Truss and weirdo chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng have introduced a budget - sorry, a mini-budget - sorry, a special monetary operation - that has promptly fucked up the pound's exchange rate. Hope everyone's unwound their holdings of sterling. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 464] Author : Kamilah Hauptmann Date : 09-28-2022 06:04 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done https://i.gyazo.com/bb2be0b5cef59122a366e69c00c82414.png https://i.gyazo.com/055ac28871132bd9fe8e3f068fe14c91.png https://i.gyazo.com/d1f9c983de450c149815ad0d8ba1d74f.png https://i.gyazo.com/480a4ad9a6d29a0455aafbafbd9fd957.png https://i.gyazo.com/205132c05cad833674d6ea4291721c9c.png https://i.gyazo.com/ee995d11fb77e14fc7727b16f53a5f8e.png Having trouble seeing why the UK is special or different here. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 465] Author : Ari Date : 09-28-2022 07:09 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done It’s the magnitude of the left bar. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 466] Author : JoeP Date : 09-28-2022 08:05 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done The dollar is "strong" for sure, but the pound has fallen (and risen again and fallen again) against that fabled basket of currencies. And the IMF have not highlighted many other economies recently. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 467] Author : Kamilah Hauptmann Date : 09-29-2022 12:02 AM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done Ah, double digit drop versus mid single digit drop. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 468] Author : LarsMac Date : 09-29-2022 04:53 AM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done I reckon now would be a bad time to try and cash in all my pound notes with pics of QE2 on them. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 469] Author : mickthinks Date : 09-29-2022 09:23 AM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done People are saying Kwasi Kwarteng holds big dogecoin and is trying to make crypto look sound. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 470] Author : Kamilah Hauptmann Date : 09-29-2022 10:36 AM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done 12648 12649 Yeah, I see it. Thunk. Invasion of France begins when the Pound drops under the Euro? :frenchmanincastlecatapultingacow: :goawayoriwilltauntyouasecondtime: -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 471] Author : Kamilah Hauptmann Date : 10-02-2022 01:41 AM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit DoneI’m no fan of The Queen but meeting Liz Truss and then immediately dying is a move I respect.
— ������������ ������������ (@papasombra) September 8, 2022
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 472] Author : JoeP Date : 10-02-2022 07:24 AM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done :lolwut: -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 473] Author : JoeP Date : 10-02-2022 07:27 AM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done The far right is all about finding enemies anywhere and everywhere. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 474] Author : Kamilah Hauptmann Date : 10-02-2022 07:45 AM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done :lolwut: I KNOW, RIGHT? -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 475] Author : JoeP Date : 10-06-2022 08:50 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done https://i.imgur.com/XQE7bGA.jpg -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 476] Author : Sock Puppet Date : 10-06-2022 10:46 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done Ants would go for some beans and toast as well, although perhaps not if prepared by British people. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 477] Author : JoeP Date : 10-13-2022 09:57 AM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done From Liz Truss has made Britain a riskier bet for bond investors | The Economist (https://www.economist.com/leaders/2022/10/11/liz-truss-has-made-britain-a-riskier-bet-for-bond-investors) Liz Truss has already secured a place in history. However long she now lasts in office, she is set to be remembered as the prime minister whose grip on power was the shortest in British political history. Ms Truss entered Downing Street on September 6th. She blew up her own government with a package of unfunded tax cuts and energy-price guarantees on September 23rd. Take away the ten days of mourning after the death of the queen, and she had seven days in control. That is the shelf-life of a lettuce. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 478] Author : Kamilah Hauptmann Date : 10-13-2022 09:51 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit DoneTruss urged to embrace role as leader of free world https://t.co/yefpSgEtd6
— Nile Gardiner (@NileGardiner) September 30, 2022
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 479] Author : Ensign Steve Date : 10-14-2022 12:25 AM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done the UK now has a more favourable view of the EU than France The UK now has a more favourable view of the EU than it has of France? The UK now has a more favourable view of the EU than France has? Ambiguous sentence is ambiguous. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 480] Author : ceptimus Date : 10-14-2022 01:11 AM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done It just means that from the UK, you can just about see France over the channel, on a clear day: it's just over 20 miles from Dover. You're unable to see any other EU countries from the UK (except you can just about glimpse mountain tops in Ireland from mountain tops in the Lake District, or from the Great Orme, when viewing conditions are exceptionally clear). Not being able to see other countries at all, is more favourable than being able to see them, when you're a Brexiteer. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 481] Author : JoeP Date : 10-14-2022 08:46 AM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done the UK now has a more favourable view of the EU than France The UK now has a more favourable view of the EU than it has of France? The UK now has a more favourable view of the EU than France has? Ambiguous sentence is ambiguous. After an extra cup of coffee: The UK now has a more favourable view of the EU than France has. Sadly, the article contains no information on anyone's views regarding France. But, fuck them anyway. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 482] Author : JoeP Date : 10-14-2022 08:49 AM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done Another graphic in European Union views reach new highs in many countries | Pew Research Center (https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2022/10/13/positive-views-of-european-union-reach-new-highs-in-many-countries/): https://www.pewresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/ft_2022.10.13_viewsoftheEU_03.png What. A. Surprise. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 483] Author : Kamilah Hauptmann Date : 10-14-2022 09:49 AM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done After an extra cup of coffee Didn’t you blokes throw all that in the harbour? -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 484] Author : JoeP Date : 10-14-2022 10:14 AM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done After an extra cup of coffee Didn’t you blokes throw all that in the harbour? What do you mean, "you blokes". :finnish: -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 485] Author : ceptimus Date : 10-14-2022 03:45 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done Brain Truss has sacked her finance minister, Kwasi Kwarteng, for introducing her policies at his recent "mini-budget". These were the policies she campaigned on during her successful campaign to become our Prime Minister. Two of those policies, the cut in corporation tax, and the cut in income tax for high earners, have now been reversed. Both of those policies, along with the other tax cuts, were unfunded, and to be paid for by government borrowing. This is what spooked the markets, and led to the inevitable U-turn. Truss had been repeatedly told that this would happen during her election campaign, but she branded those who told her, 'The Anti-Growth Coalition', and chose to ignore them. :popcorn: -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 486] Author : ChuckF Date : 10-14-2022 04:26 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done And now JEREMY HUNT is Chancellor (at least he was a few minutes ago). Didn't he back Rishi? Seriously when are the Tories going to run out of Tories? When is Rees-Mogg's turn? -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 487] Author : ceptimus Date : 10-14-2022 05:17 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done Kwasi Kwarteng was Chancellor for only 38 days, and didn't (apparently) do much during his first couple of weeks in office, which was overshadowed by official mourning for the Queen. Kwarteng still didn't beat the record of only 30 days, set by another Tory, Iain Macleod, in 1970. However, Macleod did die suddenly in order to set his record, which could be construed as cheating. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 488] Author : ceptimus Date : 10-14-2022 05:34 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done Hunt also ran to be PM in the contest this year, but was eliminated by MPs, in the first round. Interestingly, he, like Truss, also campaigned to cut the planned rise in corporation tax. But he actually went further: promising not only to cancel the planned rise to 25% back to the current 19%, but to make it even lower, 15%, in his first budget after becoming PM. He, like Truss and Kwarteng, argued that it was justified to borrow more money for tax cuts now, as this would stimulate growth and the resulting wealth would trickle down to benefit everyone! -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 489] Author : JoeP Date : 10-14-2022 06:42 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done Essentially Liz Hernia Belt is just trying to act on experimental policies her string-pulling "think"-tank masters have been dying to try out. She has no thought of her own. Unfortunately this will only make them keener to try. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 490] Author : ceptimus Date : 10-14-2022 07:07 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done There was a homeless person, begging, in town today. I wanted to help, so I immediately walked to the road where the rich people live, found the most expensive-looking house, and stuffed fifty pounds in the letterbox. I'm confident that money will be amplified, and will then trickle down to those who really need it. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 491] Author : ceptimus Date : 10-14-2022 11:05 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done While we're waiting for Truss to be sacked, there's time for a brief interlude. 1953: POTTER'S WHEEL Interlude | BBC Television Interludes | BBC Archive - YouTube -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 492] Author : Kamilah Hauptmann Date : 10-15-2022 06:43 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done This is somehow a step down from Glenn Beck's gold exchange ads:Magnificent - the UK now has a more favourable view of the EU than France https://t.co/4Gm7eslhPl
— The Columnist (@Sime0nStylites) October 13, 2022
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 493] Author : Ari Date : 10-15-2022 06:53 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done A reply to that said that cash loses over 90% of its value of a lifetime, so go bitcoin! Now I’m wondering, are they purposefully crashing the pound so they can move the UK onto the block chain? -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 494] Author : Kamilah Hauptmann Date : 10-15-2022 08:38 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done Speaking of 90%.�� On Farage tonight from 7pm...@Nigel_Farage is at the Bitcoin conference in Amsterdam and wants to know:
— GB News (@GBNEWS) October 13, 2022
Are you ready for bitcoin?
Let us know what you think!
�� farage@gbnews.uk
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-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 495] Author : Ensign Steve Date : 10-17-2022 06:16 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done Now I’m wondering, are they purposefully crashing the pound so they can move the UK onto the block chain? I can't find the post or tweet or whatever where I saw it last week, but you're not the only one wondering that. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 496] Author : erimir Date : 10-17-2022 08:23 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit DoneAs a public servant Mark Carney declines to offer a 'value judgement' on Brexit. He's happy to give a neutral valuation though: “Put it this way, in 2016 the British economy was 90 per cent the size of Germany’s. Now it is less than 70 per cent." Boom. https://t.co/QkzrU4tM7w
— Edward Luce (@EdwardGLuce) October 14, 2022
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 497] Author : slimshady2357 Date : 10-19-2022 07:16 AM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done 12722 -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 498] Author : ceptimus Date : 10-19-2022 04:56 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done Another record short term. This time, Suella Braverman, Home Secretary, has resigned (probably told to by Dis Trust) after only 43 days in office. Apparently for breaching the ministerial code by leaking a draft document about immigration policy. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 499] Author : Kamilah Hauptmann Date : 10-19-2022 11:22 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit DoneUnbelievable, the Daily Star have a live feed, seeing whether Truss will outlive a lettuce. pic.twitter.com/AfcOIEcJy9
— Jaimie (@JaimieAlexKay) October 14, 2022
This shit is so fucking funny, Wikipedia is having to specify months pic.twitter.com/jozlSNXGCM
— ����������™ (@Devon_OnEarth) October 19, 2022
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 500] Author : Kamilah Hauptmann Date : 10-19-2022 11:31 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit DoneGreat minds think a like! Vraag jij Willem-Alexander of zal ik het doen? pic.twitter.com/I93XwbG9Di
— Tijs Broeke CC (@Tijs_Broeke) October 19, 2022
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 501] Author : Kamilah Hauptmann Date : 10-19-2022 11:33 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit DoneAbsolutely incredible opening to itv news tonight pic.twitter.com/Hp5PDzmsfG
— Niall (@notinaboyband) October 19, 2022
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 502] Author : Kamilah Hauptmann Date : 10-20-2022 12:45 AM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit DoneDefinitely fine that all these people have decided to call this a "globalist coup"! In no way dangerous rhetoric informed by a century of antisemitic conspiracy theories! pic.twitter.com/6aMtY1WRjB
— Tom Phillips (@flashboy) October 19, 2022
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 503] Author : erimir Date : 10-20-2022 01:05 AM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done For all the shit we've been able to give the UK over the past few years about their shitty government (making us Americans feel a bit better about ourselves), I've gotta say that I have zero confidence that Americans will ever turn on the GOP the way the British public have turned on the Tories, no matter how much the GOP deserves it :sigh: -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 504] Author : ceptimus Date : 10-20-2022 01:42 AM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done August 20th Pfff. I had her summarized on 16th July Get Brexit Done - Page 18 - Freethought Forum (https://www.freethought-forum.com/forum/showthread.php?p=1371979) -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 505] Author : JoeP Date : 10-20-2022 08:33 AM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done I think you mean January: Get Brexit Done - Page 15 - Freethought Forum (https://www.freethought-forum.com/forum/showthread.php?p=1365681#post1365681) -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 506] Author : ceptimus Date : 10-20-2022 01:36 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done ... and Truss is gone. She lasted just 46 days as Prime Minister. We now have a week for the Tories to elect a replacement. Truss will remain in office for that week, so might yet manage 53 days... -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 507] Author : slimshady2357 Date : 10-20-2022 01:53 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done WhatsApp Video 2022-10-18 at 22.16.52.mp4 - VEED (https://www.veed.io/view/cc8ec77e-5008-4574-8337-f14d4ca81a8a?sharingWidget=true) Not sure how to embed this, but Joep if you know how feel free to use your powers to do so! -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 508] Author : ChuckF Date : 10-20-2022 01:53 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done fucking lol -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 509] Author : ceptimus Date : 10-20-2022 02:49 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit DoneI keep thinking about this Matthew Parris column from August 20. pic.twitter.com/OnBjhphaC2
— fleetstreetfox (@fleetstreetfox) October 19, 2022
Steven Swinford is political editor of The Times newspaper. I can't believe that Boris might make a comeback so soon, but there's lots of unbelievable stuff going on right now. Also, I was wrong about Truss only lasting 46 days, so far. The correct figure is, apparently, 44. She will set a new record if, as expected, she's gone in a week. The previous record holder was George Canning, 118 days; he died in office in 1827. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 510] Author : slimshady2357 Date : 10-20-2022 03:09 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done I was watching the odds of PM after Truss right after she resigned and it was about Sunak 1.80 Mordaunt 3.40 Wallace 13.0 Johnson 30.0 After announcement, it's now Sunak 2.15 Mordaunt 3.75 Wallace 20.0 Johnson 6.5 :stunned: What a fucking farce that would be.... but then this is all a major farce. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 511] Author : Ari Date : 10-20-2022 03:26 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done Theresa May must be ecstatic, she’s gone from the PM that bungled Brexit to appearing like she was the competent one before the the clown parade. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 512] Author : Pan Narrans Date : 10-20-2022 03:58 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit DoneEXCLUSIVE:
— Steven Swinford (@Steven_Swinford) October 20, 2022
I'm told that Boris Johnson is expected to stand in the Tory leadership contest
He's taking soundings but is said to believe it is a matter of national interesthttps://t.co/SuApE3RmIr
How is the lettuce doing? -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 513] Author : slimshady2357 Date : 10-20-2022 04:00 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done :lettuce: :rarrow: :trophy: -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 514] Author : ceptimus Date : 10-20-2022 04:02 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit DoneUnbelievable, the Daily Star have a live feed, seeing whether Truss will outlive a lettuce. pic.twitter.com/AfcOIEcJy9
— Jaimie (@JaimieAlexKay) October 14, 2022
How is the lettuce doing? LIVE: Can Liz Truss outlast a lettuce? - YouTube According to the live feed, the lettuce is due to make a speech to the nation at 18:00 -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 515] Author : JoeP Date : 10-20-2022 04:25 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done The lettuce would do a better job, for sure. But really, the best new PM would be Larry the Cat. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 516] Author : Miisa Date : 10-20-2022 05:28 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done This season of "Britain!" is just too absurdist, I think it jumped the shark some time ago. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 517] Author : JoeP Date : 10-20-2022 06:20 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done https://i.imgur.com/GAHqMNz.jpg -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 518] Author : JoeP Date : 10-20-2022 06:22 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done German television news quotes the chief whip verbatim: -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 519] Author : Kamilah Hauptmann Date : 10-20-2022 06:29 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done https://31.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lrktzxipkN1qfkkv5o1_500.gif Only 3 more prime ministers until christmas! -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 520] Author : Kamilah Hauptmann Date : 10-20-2022 09:10 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit DoneUnbelievable, the Daily Star have a live feed, seeing whether Truss will outlive a lettuce. pic.twitter.com/AfcOIEcJy9
— Jaimie (@JaimieAlexKay) October 14, 2022
— No Context Brits (@NoContextBrits) October 20, 2022-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 521] Author : Kamilah Hauptmann Date : 10-20-2022 10:16 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done As a measure of time, a Truss is 4.1 Scaramuccis. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 522] Author : Kamilah Hauptmann Date : 10-20-2022 10:18 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 523] Author : ChuckF Date : 10-20-2022 11:41 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done Is my understanding correct that things are now so bad for the Tory party that the prospect of bringing Boris Johnson back, uh, 2 months later is actually preferable to the prospect of a general election? -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 524] Author : erimir Date : 10-21-2022 12:31 AM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done Can a British-politics-understander explain to me whether the Tories can be forced to have an election? It seems like under the parliamentary system, in theory, they would be considered to have lost their mandate to govern at this point, but I guess technically if they remain united and don't have enough defectors voting with the opposition, they can stay in power until 2025? One of the advantages of the parliamentary system is the possibility of calling snap elections in these sorts of scenarios, but I guess that the PM's party rarely is forced to call an election in a disadvantageous environment unless they're in a coalition government that collapses. So I guess the Tories can keep shambling along and appointing new PMs for the next two years as long as there isn't a large enough group of Tories who resign or change parties, basically? -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 525] Author : ChuckF Date : 10-21-2022 12:48 AM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done A general election could be forced if a motion of no confidence in the government passes the House of Commons. (This is different from a vote of no confidence in the leadership by the Conservative Party of leadership of the party, and hence the PM.) But the Tories have a huge majority and with current polling, Tories voting in favor of the motion would be slitting their own throats. So they are incentivized to carry on until the next election, despite obviously having shredded their own mandate and legitimacy. Theoretically, this should change the behavior of the party. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 526] Author : Stephen Maturin Date : 10-21-2022 12:54 AM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/73bc0f0593628ea7874f99099014e7271e9f8197e2f9b06536d5ba40e276ac30.jpg?w=800&h=960 Out of the blue And into the red (Apologies to Neil Young.) -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 527] Author : Kamilah Hauptmann Date : 10-21-2022 02:48 AM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done Theoretically, this should change the behavior of the party. :dielaugh: But yeah, you guys get the idea. Out of date, but this is a comedian's take about what happened when a non-confidence vote occurred in Canada. Everything You Wanted To Know About Canada But Were Afraid To Ask - YouTube This is basically how it works in any Commonwealth country. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 528] Author : erimir Date : 10-21-2022 02:58 AM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done Perhaps King Charles could dissolve the parliament. Surely the people would thank him! Also, was Ed Miliband always this good at politics and just got horribly unlucky/sandbagged in 2015, or has he massively improved since his performance against David Cameron? Or is he not actually good now either, and he's just gotten a few good hits in on the Tories out of blind luck? -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 529] Author : Kamilah Hauptmann Date : 10-21-2022 03:21 AM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done It was a bacongate: How A Bacon Sandwich Derailed Ed Miliband's UK Political Career | HuffPost Life (https://www.huffpost.com/entry/ed-miliband-bacon-sandwich_n_5bbe27b0e4b01470d0580898) -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 530] Author : slimshady2357 Date : 10-21-2022 07:04 AM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done I was watching the odds of PM after Truss right after she resigned and it was about Sunak 1.80 Mordaunt 3.40 Wallace 13.0 Johnson 30.0 After announcement, it's now Sunak 2.15 Mordaunt 3.75 Wallace 20.0 Johnson 6.5 :stunned: What a fucking farce that would be.... but then this is all a major farce. Sunak 1.85 Mordaunt 5.8 Wallace 43.0 Johnson 3.8 The :butt::clown: is now second favourite, Mordaunt in with a chance still and Sunak back into where he started basically, but everyone else is way out. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 531] Author : JoeP Date : 10-21-2022 08:32 AM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done Can a British-politics-understander explain to me whether the Tories can be forced to have an election? Until one comes along I'll have a go. No they can't be forced to have an election. It would take a no-confidence vote which a substantial numbers of Conservative MPs would have to support, which they won't given the likelihood of Labour winning an election called any time soon. It seems like under the parliamentary system, in theory, they would be considered to have lost their mandate to govern at this point Absolutely (technically) not - the election is always for constituency MPs, not for the PM. Only a few MPs have had to resign in disgrace since the last election, so parliament still has the mandate. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 532] Author : mickthinks Date : 10-21-2022 01:25 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done I'm no constitutional or political guru either, but I can speak as a dyed-in-the-wool Brit and I concur with Chuck 'n Joe. Though nominally it is the King that appoints their chief minister, they are obliged these days to appoint whoever has the confidence of the House of Commons, which in practice means the leader of the party that has best claim to command a majority of the members, either because their party has a clear majority or because they have negotiated a coalition that can outvote the combined opposition. This means that the Commons constitutes a de facto electoral college of sorts, but note that this college is available to be consulted at any time, and usually it isn't formally consulted at all because the result of such a consultation is accepted on all sides to be a forgone conclusion—even in the event of a "hung parliament" and the ambiguity entailed in coalition building. This is how it was possible for Truss to become PM automatically after winning an internal vote of the Troy Party. This is why she can be replaced by a similar vote or indeed by any other method the sitting Tory MPs agree is sufficient to produce her successor. It is only if the Tory MPs cannot agree to back anyone that Parliament is deemed to need dissolving and a GE called. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 533] Author : ceptimus Date : 10-21-2022 05:24 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done Tory Leadership: Who's Backing Who October Election - Google Drive (https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1PRufWhh2YAoxPUJEXeVaEOe7rcT1IINOXijeLI6o9Cc/htmlview?pru=AAABhB9hLp4*OrfhXJEgggY2YAXc35lKXg) -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 534] Author : JoeP Date : 10-21-2022 07:54 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done concur with Chuck 'n Joe New podcast available on FF Radio or wherever you get your podcasts. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 535] Author : Kamilah Hauptmann Date : 10-21-2022 08:11 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit DoneThis is the future of British politics #torychaos pic.twitter.com/HpWJRIl8MR
— AJ Ratcliffe (@AJ_ratcliffe) October 19, 2022
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 536] Author : LarsMac Date : 10-21-2022 08:35 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done Seems to me that the Brits might benefit from regular, planned elections. to start with, If nothing else, the campaign ad industry might be able to jumpstart the economy. Nothing like having to sell your soul every few years to keep a politician in his/her toes. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 537] Author : ceptimus Date : 10-21-2022 08:59 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done If Sunak and Boris both get past the threshold of 100 MPs support, and are the only, or final, two that are put to an email vote by the Tory party membership next Friday, then it's very likely that Boris will return as PM. The Tory party membership hate Sunak: remember, they chose Truss in preference to him, last time. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 538] Author : ceptimus Date : 10-21-2022 09:06 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done Seems to me that the Brits might benefit from regular, planned elections. to start with, If nothing else, the campaign ad industry might be able to jumpstart the economy. Nothing like having to sell your soul every few years to keep a politician in his/her toes. They do have to hold a General Election after a maximum of five years from the previous one. But it's up to the Prime Minister to call the election at any time before the five-year limit, if (s)he believes that (s)he can win. Right now, the Tories look very unlikely to win; if that remains the case, they'll delay the election for as long as possible - unless they think their electoral prospects are likely to decrease even further during their remaining term. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 539] Author : ChuckF Date : 10-21-2022 10:25 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done two that are put to an email vote by the Tory party membership next Friday Excuse me? What? An e-mail vote? Of the membership? Isn't this why they have the 1922 Committee? -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 540] Author : ceptimus Date : 10-21-2022 10:34 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done Well, maybe not e-mail, but some on-line thing, because they want to complete it in one day. The rules are the same as last time - MPs whittle down the candidates to the final two. The nomination threshold to qualify is higher this time (100 MP nominations) so only one, two, or three will get through. If three make the cut then Tory MPs will vote to eliminate one candidate. That's all supposed to happen early next week, and then the final two (if there are two) are put to the Tory members. Last time, it took months of hustings and paper votes to complete that last stage, but this time they want to compress it down into one day, next Friday. The government are very keen to prevent Trade Unions holding electronic ballots - because (they say) "Such ballots are open to fraud" - but apparently it's okay for the Tories to do it with something as unimportant as electing the next Prime Minister. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 541] Author : ChuckF Date : 10-21-2022 10:37 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done Last time, it took months of hustings and paper votes to complete that last stage, but this time they want to compress it down into one day, next Friday. Let me guess: to avoid further dividing the party :giggle: -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 542] Author : erimir Date : 10-21-2022 11:14 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done I came up with a good idea for the Tories. Every few weeks (whether it's 5, like Liz, or 3, or whatever, I leave to you) they put all the current Tory MPs names in a hat, or what have you, and they pick out a name. That MP gets to be Prime Minister until the next drawing! After long enough of this, surely they will happen to choose someone who isn't a blithering idiot. King Charles would also support, as it will help him quickly catch up with dear mummy in terms of the number of Prime Ministers he has reigned over. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 543] Author : ceptimus Date : 10-21-2022 11:43 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done Truss is entitled to an extra £115,000 per year now, because she was once PM. I'm sure the Tories would agree with your scheme, if only for the increased wages. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 544] Author : Kamilah Hauptmann Date : 10-22-2022 12:07 AM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done Hugh thinks there’s a bottom. :snicker:This is especially the case in anticipation of October 31st which is a mammoth day for British government and for long term decision making. But PM trapped in the mire and machinery (such as it is) seized by endless firefighting.
— Lewis Goodall (@lewis_goodall) October 20, 2022
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 545] Author : erimir Date : 10-22-2022 12:42 AM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done Truss is entitled to an extra £115,000 per year now, because she was once PM. I'm sure the Tories would agree with your scheme, if only for the increased wages.Well, they might need to change that rule... I'm not sure what the rule is for the US presidency, but no president has finished their presidency after less than about 2.5 years (Gerald Ford served for just under 2.5 years). All of the presidents who served less time than Ford died in office, thus making the issue of pensions moot. If Trump had been removed after Jan 6 and Pence had served for two weeks, it might've become an issue that would be addressed. However, for members of Congress (House or Senate), pensions vest over a period of time, and require a minimum of 5 years in office. A one-term Senator would be getting something like $16,000/year in pension. Even a Speaker of the House (who gets a significantly higher salary than a normal member) would not get a substantially higher pension than a member who served a similar amount of time (on the assumption that a Speaker would most likely have spent most of their time in Congress as a regular member). PM obviously is a different situation from Speaker of the House, being the head of government, and so more similar to the President. But as we're seeing, it's also easier to get PMs who serve less than a US presidential term. Seems like you ought to have some sort of minimum term length or a vesting schedule (so that Truss would need to serve for a year or two to qualify for a full PM's pension rather than a regular MP pension). -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 546] Author : ceptimus Date : 10-22-2022 03:52 AM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done It's not so much a pension as an expenses allowance. In recent years, John Major, Tony Blair, and Gordon Brown, have each claimed the full allowance ( or very close ). Theresa May claimed about £40,000. Boris hasn't been out of office long enough for figures to be available, but I imagine he will claim every single penny. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 547] Author : Kamilah Hauptmann Date : 10-22-2022 05:55 AM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit DoneUnable to get jaw any lower. https://t.co/7KX4x4K9lJ
— Hugh Grant (@HackedOffHugh) October 21, 2022
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 548] Author : ceptimus Date : 10-22-2022 11:04 AM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done I forgot about David Cameron. He claims the hundred and fifteen grand per year too, of course. Providing that ex-PMs are still making some show of 'public life' - making the odd speech, or attending a village fete or similar, then they qualify to claim the money as 'office and travel expenses.' -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 549] Author : ceptimus Date : 10-22-2022 05:03 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done Who gets to choose our next Prime Minister? Assuming that the online voting system is secure and not open to fraud, then only paid-up Tory members can vote. But the barrier to becoming a paid-up Tory member is very low - it costs just £25. Amongst those registered are a pet tortoise, and one Margaret Roberts (Maggie Thatcher's maiden name). Who gets to choose? - Tortoise media (https://www.tortoisemedia.com/2022/08/18/who-gets-to-choose/) Note that the article was published before the last vote, that elected Truss. At that time, the tortoise couldn't vote, because it hadn't been a member for the necessary three months. I'm not sure whether the tortoise is eligible to vote this time, but it makes you wonder how many foreign, or fictitious persons did register early enough... -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 550] Author : Kamilah Hauptmann Date : 10-22-2022 09:49 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit DoneTories choosing a new leader this morning…
— Colin Burt (@burt_cdburt) October 20, 2022
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-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 551] Author : Kamilah Hauptmann Date : 10-22-2022 10:03 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done https://i.gyazo.com/d01a13caa1b284530dca684c1a8fbd80.png Brave Sir Robin Ran Away - YouTube -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 552] Author : Kamilah Hauptmann Date : 10-23-2022 09:21 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done 12731 -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 553] Author : Kamilah Hauptmann Date : 10-23-2022 09:37 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit DoneLet's take a closer look at the man running Boris Johnson's leadership campaign: Jacob Rees-Mogg pic.twitter.com/ZKvA0dxxex
— Led By Donkeys (@ByDonkeys) October 22, 2022
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 554] Author : Kamilah Hauptmann Date : 10-23-2022 09:39 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit DoneTheory: Boris Johnson's team is made up entirely of double agents working to undermine him. https://t.co/Y5gDiF6ITl
— Robert Hutton (@RobDotHutton) October 23, 2022
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 555] Author : erimir Date : 10-23-2022 09:40 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done Aaaaaaand... Boris is out Lol Good. Reruns are boring. I want to see their next PM (probably Sunak) fail in new and different ways. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 556] Author : Ari Date : 10-23-2022 10:06 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done The 3 whole minutes I’ve watched Sunak speak he seemed at least reasonably competent although that could have been because those minutes were a debate with Truss, and just wow, I’m not sure what his chances are if Truss was chosen over him on the first go around. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 557] Author : ceptimus Date : 10-23-2022 10:08 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done Brave Sir Boris ran away. The tale of Sir Robin with subtitles (Brave Sir Robin) - YouTube Looks like it was another Boris lie that 'he had at least 102 certain backers', and the real reason he's pulled out is that he didn't want to suffer the humiliation of not reaching the 100 MP nomination threshold before the Monday morning deadline. Good fucking riddance. If you wish, you can now fly back and continue your interrupted Caribbean holiday. Why, as a salaried MP, you are allowed in the first place to be on fucking holiday while the Commons are sitting, we will gloss over. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 558] Author : Kamilah Hauptmann Date : 10-23-2022 10:19 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done The 3 whole minutes I’ve watched Sunak speak he seemed at least reasonably competent although that could have been because those minutes were a debate with Truss, and just wow, I’m not sure what his chances are if Truss was chosen over him on the first go around. In the USA they hate women more than brown people, in the UK it is traditionally the other way around. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 559] Author : JoeP Date : 10-24-2022 07:46 AM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done Aaaaaaand... Boris is out Lol Good. Reruns are boring. I want to see their next PM (probably Sunak) fail in new and different ways. :makeawish: -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 560] Author : slimshady2357 Date : 10-24-2022 02:07 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done Rishi the lucky winner. The MP's wanted him over Truss and now they have him. Surely he can at least last until the next election.... right? :giggle: -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 561] Author : Miisa Date : 10-24-2022 04:03 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done Even if he does, the question will forever hang over his head; "could the lettuce have done it better?" -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 562] Author : Kamilah Hauptmann Date : 10-24-2022 04:52 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done O wow now it’s a woman and a brown guy who destroyed Britain, def not a white guy having had anything to so with it. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 563] Author : ceptimus Date : 10-24-2022 11:51 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done Penny Mordaunt's run for PM was almost as successful as her effort, on the :openquote: celebrity :closequote: TV diving show a few years back. Itv splash! - YouTube -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 564] Author : fragment Date : 10-25-2022 12:20 AM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done Surely he can at least last until the next election.... right? :giggle: If he calls the election soon, sure he can. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 565] Author : ChuckF Date : 10-25-2022 12:58 AM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done What does a Sunak cabinet look like? Boris and Priti Patel? Nadine Dorries? (lol) -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 566] Author : Kamilah Hauptmann Date : 10-25-2022 06:25 AM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit DoneNEW: Boris Johnson drops out of the Conservative leadership race. He says he got 102 nominations https://t.co/86iM2Zczd3
— Chris Mason (@ChrisMasonBBC) October 23, 2022
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 567] Author : Kamilah Hauptmann Date : 10-25-2022 06:28 AM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done What does a Sunak cabinet look like? Boris and Priti Patel? Nadine Dorries? (lol) Canada, Australia, and New Zealand are gearing up to send aboriginal war canoes full of heating oil and Vegemite. We’re going to colonize and bring civilization to the savages. You want in? I hear you lot have some experience with installing new governments. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 568] Author : JoeP Date : 10-25-2022 07:59 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done ... I will place economic stability and confidence at the heart of this government’s agenda. This will mean difficult decisions to come. Translation: "Some of you may lose money. But that is a sacrifice I am willing to make." -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 569] Author : Kamilah Hauptmann Date : 10-26-2022 01:16 AM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done He’s gonna turn off the heat in the servant’s quarters. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 570] Author : Kamilah Hauptmann Date : 10-28-2022 01:00 AM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done�� | BREAKING: Sick pranksters have added further insult to injury last night by placing a giant novelty dildo on top of the already vandalised statue of Baroness Thatcher. pic.twitter.com/ieLySP5N9N
— BAZAKE (@BazakeMedia) October 23, 2022
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 571] Author : JoeP Date : 10-28-2022 05:55 AM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done That seems unfair to foxes -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 572] Author : Ensign Steve Date : 10-28-2022 06:34 AM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done I don't know, she seemed pretty cunning for a fox. Walking around on 2 legs. Talking. Could probably read and write. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 573] Author : Kamilah Hauptmann Date : 11-02-2022 09:55 AM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done wasn’t the removal of the cap on bonuses supposed to prevent thisafter successfully fooling everyone into thinking she was a human woman for six weeks and wrecking mischief, the kitsune returns to the wilds https://t.co/WVRymtlvEt
— James Palmer (@BeijingPalmer) October 25, 2022
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 574] Author : Crumb Date : 11-02-2022 03:33 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done Can we trade our FX? -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 575] Author : Kamilah Hauptmann Date : 11-07-2022 12:56 AM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done https://i.redd.it/9ju6b4q7hby91.jpg Since the UK is defined by Brexit. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 576] Author : Kamilah Hauptmann Date : 11-14-2022 09:15 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit DoneExclusive: Brexit bites into London’s FX trading as Singapore and New York seize City’s derivatives share
— Captain Haddock (@JXB101) November 2, 2022
Remember the City still has no equivalence with EU whilst other markets do. The Tory jihad continues to seriously damage the UK economy.https://t.co/RB50XKdufj
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 577] Author : erimir Date : 11-14-2022 10:44 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done TIL that in Britain "quite" can mean "somewhat". Because that distinction between "very interested" and "quite interested" sounded... quite strange. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 578] Author : fragment Date : 11-14-2022 10:55 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done TIL in America "quite" never means "somewhat". -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 579] Author : Sock Puppet Date : 11-14-2022 11:50 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done It does, but only* when used negatively, e.g., "not quite enough". *(? - not a claim; I just can't think of a counterexample) ETA: that doesn't entirely gloss with "somewhat" - but it does imply few-ness rather than "very". -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 580] Author : fragment Date : 11-15-2022 12:30 AM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done Is "not quite enough" closer to enough than "not nearly enough"? It would be in my neck of the planet. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 581] Author : ceptimus Date : 11-15-2022 01:01 AM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done Here also, 'not nearly enough' indicates a much bigger shortage than 'not quite enough.' 'Not nearly enough' is a slightly more polite way of complaining about a big shortage than, 'nowhere near enough.' -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 582] Author : fragment Date : 11-15-2022 01:14 AM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done Quite right! -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 583] Author : ChuckF Date : 11-15-2022 02:35 AM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done Hm, in some contexts I would say "that is quite odd" to mean something between odd and very odd. Odd, but only somewhat. Though perhaps more odd than "somewhat odd," depending on the stress. Same for "quite interesting." "Quite good" would be quite a bit better than "somewhat good" though. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 584] Author : erimir Date : 11-15-2022 05:18 AM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done I can agree that "quite" is generally (absent marked use of intonation) weaker than "very", but in the US, I think it's generally closer to "very" than to "somewhat". There's a fair bit of overlap though, I think, and it's hard to quantify these things (and the exact distributions probably vary a little bit by person and region, etc.) But yeah, there's some spectrum of these adverbs, and in the US it's something like this: slightly < somewhat < pretty < quite < very < extremely If I said I was "quite interested" in something, it's definitely stronger than "somewhat interested". So a distinction between "quite interested" and "very interested" would seem like splitting hairs in the US, and I'd guess some speakers would say there's no difference at all. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 585] Author : JoeP Date : 11-15-2022 07:06 AM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done I find myself quite in agreement with the sentiments expressed in this thread. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 586] Author : fragment Date : 11-15-2022 07:33 AM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done (absent marked use of intonation) I think I nearly always pick up some cues of intended meaning from some combination of intonation, context and common phrasing. I'm not sure I can even think "quite x" without imagining some extra cues, whether it's to add sly understatement or sarcastic overstatement, or maybe some kind of poetic mild intensifier. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 587] Author : JoeP Date : 11-15-2022 07:33 AM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done Blessed are the cheesemakers (https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/nov/15/cheesemaker-sells-firm-to-overcome-brexit-barriers-after-losing-600000-in-sales) -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 588] Author : fragment Date : 11-15-2022 07:35 AM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done Also, "very interested" would express an unseemly enthusiasm that you'd have to be absolutely sure of. I suspect that goes double for the English. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 589] Author : ChuckF Date : 11-15-2022 01:22 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done (absent marked use of intonation) I think I nearly always pick up some cues of intended meaning from some combination of intonation, context and common phrasing. I'm not sure I can even think "quite x" without imagining some extra cues, whether it's to add sly understatement or sarcastic overstatement, or maybe some kind of poetic mild intensifier. hmm quite -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 590] Author : Kamilah Hauptmann Date : 11-15-2022 06:52 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit DoneHa ha ha ha ha ha ha oh dear pic.twitter.com/16G0L0v1R4
— Otto English (@Otto_English) November 14, 2022
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 591] Author : Kamilah Hauptmann Date : 11-24-2022 08:54 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done Sure, this thrad: World Cup: England fans banned from entering stadiums in Qatar in full crusader costumes | Football | Sport | Express.co.uk (https://www.express.co.uk/sport/football/1700858/England-fans-banned-stadiums-Qatar-crusader-costumes-World-Cup-news) -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 592] Author : Kamilah Hauptmann Date : 12-04-2022 07:23 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit DoneThey. Are. Laughing. At. Us. pic.twitter.com/Bk15nrLuZs
— Pointless Letters (@pointlesslettrs) November 15, 2022
Nadhim Zahawi tells nurses to "send a very clear message to Mr Putin" by accepting another real-terms pay cut. pic.twitter.com/qQ8NmJTFUf
— Adam Bienkov (@AdamBienkov) December 4, 2022
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 593] Author : Kamilah Hauptmann Date : 12-24-2022 07:34 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit DoneI’ll never pass up an opportunity to post this. pic.twitter.com/sZY3up45XJ
— Yeah,No,Maybe. (@YeahNoMaybeUmmm) December 4, 2022
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 594] Author : mickthinks Date : 12-24-2022 11:30 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit DoneThe government's next fleet of armoured ministerial cars will be German built Audi A8s because supply chain issues hampered by Brexit mean no British manufacturer is able to meet its requirements. https://t.co/VQJXEdtilZ
— Brexitshambles (@brexit_sham) December 24, 2022
�� liiiiike the first morneeeeng��
— Niall Paterson (@skynewsniall) December 22, 2022
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 595] Author : Kamilah Hauptmann Date : 01-20-2023 06:32 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done And now for something completely different. (https://www.reddit.com/r/IdiotsInCars/comments/10gtse6/uk_prime_minster_rishi_sunak_not_wearing_a/) -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 596] Author : Kamilah Hauptmann Date : 02-03-2023 04:19 AM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done Buckle up, motherfuckers, looks like you're doomed. (https://www.bbc.com/news/business-64487179) -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 597] Author : JoeP Date : 02-25-2023 01:40 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done "Brits are suffering but for us it's boom time" : how Brexit boosted French and Irish ports | Brexit | The Guardian (https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/feb/25/ports-france-ireland-brexit-cherbourg-rosslare) Those Brexit dividends accruing! Just not to Britain. Interesting angle on the Norman ties to Wexford / Leinster from long before there was a "United Kingdom". -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 598] Author : Kamilah Hauptmann Date : 02-27-2023 09:28 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit DoneLike the first tuuuurd
— NeverTrustATory (@BristolBoy99) December 23, 2022
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 599] Author : Stephen Maturin Date : 02-27-2023 10:02 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done Folks on the continent are dunking on the Brits left and right over that fruit and veggie rationing. The extent to which Brexit may (or may not!) be to blame is open to debate, but it's more fun than a barrel of monkeys watching Brit wingnuts jump aboard the climate change train to avoid blaming Brexit. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 600] Author : JoeP Date : 02-27-2023 11:36 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done I am presently a folk from the continent visiting the fortress island. "You live like this?" -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 601] Author : LarsMac Date : 02-28-2023 03:49 AM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done It seems weird to be seeing the world kinda working toward back-dooring into that whole Eurafrica, Eurasia, and Us thing that I read about way back in the 50s. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 602] Author : JoeP Date : 02-28-2023 08:49 AM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done Are you referring to Oceania, Eurasia and Eastasia? Or some other dystopia? -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 603] Author : LarsMac Date : 02-28-2023 03:13 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done Are you referring to Oceania, Eurasia and Eastasia? Or some other dystopia? Yeah, all that Orwellian Shit. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 604] Author : JoeP Date : 03-23-2023 01:32 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done The Brexit dividend again! UK inflation rate in surprise rise to 10.4% as salad crisis pushes up prices | Inflation | The Guardian (https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/mar/22/uk-inflation-rate-rises-price-rises-interest-rates) :killertomato: :larrow: smilies predict the future -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 605] Author : Kamilah Hauptmann Date : 04-08-2023 06:35 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done Happy Croak Day (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Thatcher) -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 606] Author : JoeP Date : 04-11-2023 07:43 AM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done Happy Croak Day (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Thatcher) https://i.imgur.com/72PM8v6.jpeg -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 607] Author : JoeP Date : 04-15-2023 06:25 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done Oh no. Orient Express to axe UK section after 41 years due to Brexit | Rail travel | The Guardian (https://www.theguardian.com/travel/2023/apr/15/brexit-orient-express-murder-london-folkestone-leg-route-border-delays) -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 608] Author : viscousmemories Date : 04-16-2023 11:33 AM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done I was today years old when I learned the Orient Express is a real thing. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 609] Author : Kamilah Hauptmann Date : 06-09-2023 11:34 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done Boris Johnson to step down as MP with immediate effect (https://inews.co.uk/news/boris-johnson-to-step-down-as-mp-with-immediate-effect-2402386) Boris Johnson has announced he is resigning as an MP with immediate effect as he branded an investigation into whether he misled Parliament a “kangaroo court”. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 610] Author : JoeP Date : 06-10-2023 09:33 AM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done Unpresidented! -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 611] Author : Kamilah Hauptmann Date : 06-11-2023 04:43 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit DoneEU representatives sending a message of sympathy and concern to the UK government regarding the tomato shortages. pic.twitter.com/7xkfifJr3Y
— John Finnemore (@JohnFinnemore) February 27, 2023
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 612] Author : Kamilah Hauptmann Date : 06-16-2023 01:07 AM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done Random idea: various indigenous groups the world over buy some castles in the UK, turn them into museums to the cultures who bought the castles, and put signs at the gate: "You are a guest on (culture) soil." And wait for the shrieking. (Both outrage or amusement.) -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 613] Author : JoeP Date : 07-03-2023 07:41 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done Orkxit... Orkney could leave UK for Norway as it explores 'alternative governance' | Scotland | The Guardian (https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/jul/02/orkney-could-leave-uk-for-norway-as-it-explores-alternative-governance) -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 614] Author : viscousmemories Date : 07-04-2023 02:33 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done "On the street in Orkney, people come up and say to me: when are we going to pay back the dowry?" Same exact thing happens to me in Ypsilanti. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 615] Author : JoeP Date : 07-05-2023 09:53 AM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done Nigel Farage's Coutts bank account closed due to lack of funds | Nigel Farage | The Guardian (https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/jul/04/nigel-farage-coutts-bank-account-closed-lack-of-funds) The private bank Coutts is understood to have shut Nigel Farage’s bank account after he fell below the prestigious lender’s wealth requirements, raising questions over the Brexiter’s claims that the bank was targeting him over his political views. :sniggle: -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 616] Author : Kamilah Hauptmann Date : 07-29-2023 10:59 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit DoneSir Jake was given a knighthood by his friend the former prime minister, who is godfather to his son.
— Robert Saunders (@redhistorian) June 11, 2023
Who does he think "the establishment" is?
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 617] Author : JoeP Date : 07-30-2023 08:06 AM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done *drinks coffee in Finnish* -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 618] Author : Kamilah Hauptmann Date : 08-02-2023 04:35 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done Nope, no corruption here. (https://www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/sunaks-family-firm-signed-a-billion-dollar-deal-with-bp-before-pm-opened-new-north-sea-licences-353690/) -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 619] Author : Kamilah Hauptmann Date : 08-02-2023 08:04 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done The head on this pint will do him more damage politicallyWell well well if it isn't the consequences of my own actions. pic.twitter.com/90rS8RPCRZ
— Sam Freedman (@Samfr) July 29, 2023
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 620] Author : JoeP Date : 08-23-2023 06:18 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done "Land Of Hope And Glory" dropped from Last Night Of The Proms after being fact-checked — NewsThump (https://newsthump.com/2023/08/23/land-of-hope-and-glory-dropped-from-last-night-of-the-proms-after-being-fact-checked/) -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 621] Author : Crumb Date : 08-23-2023 06:49 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done Oh this is the British thread. That's why I have no idea what is happening. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 622] Author : Kamilah Hauptmann Date : 09-05-2023 12:43 AM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done Do you want to bring back the guillotine? Because this is how you bring back the guillotine. ('https://www.cnn.com/style/queen-elizabeth-coin-east-india-company/index.html') -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 623] Author : ChuckF Date : 09-05-2023 01:10 AM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done It was produced by the East India Company, a luxury lifestyle brand with rights to the name of the corporation that once controlled large swathes of Britain’s empire. Wow. Tasteful. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 624] Author : JoeP Date : 09-30-2023 12:21 AM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done Finally, the Brexit dividend! First ever British baked beans harvested at Lincolnshire farm | ITV News Calendar (https://www.itv.com/news/calendar/2023-09-29/farmer-could-make-history-as-first-ever-uk-producer-of-baked-beans) Haricot beans, the beans in Baked Beans, couldn't previously be grown in Britain. But, science to the rescue! Or global warming! -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 625] Author : Kamilah Hauptmann Date : 10-12-2023 05:48 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done Football hooligans learn to read. (https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/oct/12/atrocious-behaviour-visitors-accused-of-sabotaging-batley-library-1-book-sale) -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 626] Author : JoeP Date : 10-13-2023 08:32 AM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done misinformed Facebookers A tautology. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 627] Author : JoeP Date : 10-16-2023 03:39 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done Britain is Suffering From 'Long Johnson' (https://www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/britain-is-suffering-from-long-johnson) -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 628] Author : erimir Date : 10-16-2023 07:45 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done Personally, I wouldn't say that I'm suffering from Long Johnson... :rimshot: :duck: -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 629] Author : Kamilah Hauptmann Date : 11-01-2023 05:29 AM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit DoneWhat a magnificent photo. pic.twitter.com/Zngf5IWHXw
— Balderdash (@notDcfcBoss) August 1, 2023
From covid inquiries but had a more general interest. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 630] Author : JoeP Date : 11-01-2023 09:26 AM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done What competent people at the centre of power? -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 631] Author : JoeP Date : 12-18-2023 05:53 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done That old Brexit dividend just keeps paying out Joe Biden signals he has no interest in signing US-UK trade agreement | Trade policy | The Guardian (https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/dec/18/joe-biden-signals-he-has-no-interest-in-signing-us-uk-trade-agreement) -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 632] Author : Kamilah Hauptmann Date : 12-18-2023 10:36 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done I remember all the USA warhawks in 2003 saying they’ll remember Britain’s loyalty for quietly disposing of the Downing Street Memo. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 633] Author : Crumb Date : 12-27-2023 06:20 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done @tiffanycli.bsky.social on Bluesky (https://bsky.app/profile/tiffanycli.bsky.social/post/3khi4evqf6z2k) -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 634] Author : seebs Date : 12-27-2023 07:14 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done ahh, yes, the Daily Express being furious that the EU transit network plan does not include plans for rail lines inside the UK, which is not part of the EU. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 635] Author : ChuckF Date : 12-31-2023 08:25 AM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done Brexit has completely failed for UK, say clear majority of Britons - poll | Brexit | The Guardian (https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/dec/30/britons-brexit-bad-uk-poll-eu-finances-nhs) Some great details in here (I'm sure the 9% who think Brexit has been good for the NHS have some interesting things to say) but this is just amazing to me: More than half (53%) of leave voters now think that Brexit has been bad for the UK’s ability to control immigration Things were better when UK immigration was managed by foreigners, I guess. Is it possible that a huge number of leavers have simply died since 2016? -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 636] Author : ceptimus Date : 12-31-2023 10:34 AM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done ahh, yes, the Daily Express being furious that the EU transit network plan does not include plans for rail lines inside the UK, which is not part of the EU. They do show a couple of routes through Switzerland - also not part of the EU. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 637] Author : JoeP Date : 12-31-2023 11:08 AM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done Is it possible that a huge number of leavers have simply died since 2016? Well, yes. The Venn diagrams for Brexiteers and anti-vaxxers, and older people, and people who blame their health problems on other people, are not insignificant. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 638] Author : seebs Date : 01-01-2024 12:29 AM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done ahh, yes, the Daily Express being furious that the EU transit network plan does not include plans for rail lines inside the UK, which is not part of the EU. They do show a couple of routes through Switzerland - also not part of the EU. Yeah, and a couple that go into the UK. But Switzerland is between parts of the EU, so it makes sense for the lines to cut through it. The UK is not really a practical way to run rail from one part of the EU to another, for the most part? -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 639] Author : ceptimus Date : 01-01-2024 12:03 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done The route from Ireland through Wales and England to France is the preferred one for most road freight and passengers: it swaps a long sea crossing for two short sea crossings - one of which can be done via a tunnel (trucks carried by train). I don't know how the economics work out for freight carried by rail: presumably, if the single, longer, sea crossings are more economic, then those routes would already have been generally used before Brexit. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 640] Author : erimir Date : 01-02-2024 07:00 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done ahh, yes, the Daily Express being furious that the EU transit network plan does not include plans for rail lines inside the UK, which is not part of the EU. They do show a couple of routes through Switzerland - also not part of the EU. Yeah, and a couple that go into the UK. But Switzerland is between parts of the EU, so it makes sense for the lines to cut through it. The UK is not really a practical way to run rail from one part of the EU to another, for the most part? It doesn't show any stops in Switzerland, but it's also relevant to note that Switzerland is part of the Schengen area, and thus does not require passport control to enter, while the UK is not. You might also think that a line through the non-EU former Yugoslav countries would make sense (connecting, e.g. Greece and Croatia) for the same reason as cutting through Switzerland, but those countries are not part of the Schengen area either. So my guess is that's the main reason. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 641] Author : JoeP Date : 01-26-2024 11:07 AM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done How Belgian MP turned sleuth to solve London Ulez fine mystery | Low emission zones | The Guardian (https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/jan/26/how-belgian-mp-michael-freilich-turned-sleuth-to-solve-london-ulez-fine-mystery) EU drivers visiting London with cars compliant with ULEZ fined thousands of pounds ... via illegal personal data collection. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 642] Author : Kamilah Hauptmann Date : 01-26-2024 04:31 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done One more step turning the UK into The Crimson Permanent Assurance. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 643] Author : Kamilah Hauptmann Date : 03-01-2024 03:04 AM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit DoneDominic Cummings asked if his description of senior government figures as "useless fuck pigs, morons and cunts" undermined the government.
— Adam Bienkov (@AdamBienkov) October 31, 2023
Cummings says his comments were "understatements" and "reflect a widespread view amongst competent people at the centre of power". pic.twitter.com/E1cfAOsLIe
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 644] Author : Kamilah Hauptmann Date : 03-23-2024 09:39 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done Portsmouth's new Brexit border post could be demolished | Business News | Sky News (https://news.sky.com/story/portsmouths-new-brexit-border-post-could-be-demolished-without-ever-being-used-13099358) It is designed to carry out checks on up to 80 truck loads of produce a day. The port now expects to process only four or five daily -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 645] Author : Ari Date : 04-23-2024 11:37 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done Brexit! https://media1.tenor.com/m/UcOtrEBpq7EAAAAd/lizz-truss-book-liz-truss.gif -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 646] Author : Kamilah Hauptmann Date : 05-16-2024 08:31 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done One more step turning the UK into The Crimson Permanent Assurance.The Liverpool end at Wembley strikes up a chant of "fuck the Tories" and the Chelsea end fights back with a chant of, er, "fuck the Tories". Look away now prime minister
— Tim Shipman (@ShippersUnbound) February 25, 2024
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 647] Author : erimir Date : 05-17-2024 10:10 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done It's certainly not traditional and I get why that would bother some people. I'm not sure people interpret it the way Charles wants them to? Nonetheless, I kind of like it :shrug: -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 648] Author : mickthinks Date : 05-18-2024 12:50 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done Yeah, I like it too. Many of the attempts at ridicule seem to me to worthy of ridicule themselves. It's a skilled and immediately recognisable likeness, and the vast expanse of monochrome red is surprising and for me at least, disturbing. It raises a question—arguably the most important question that can be asked of a royal portrait—is the artist's vision respectful or insulting? I don't know the answer. But that doesn't mean it's bad. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 649] Author : JoeP Date : 05-22-2024 05:28 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done Will he won't he ... gotta happen by early 2025 ... he's gonna lose anyway ... Rishi Sunak takes gamble by calling general election for 4 July | General election 2024 | The Guardian (https://www.theguardian.com/politics/article/2024/may/22/rishi-sunak-will-call-general-election-for-july-in-surprise-move-sources) So while America's already in re-election mania and will be until November, in the UK it will all be over in 2 months. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 650] Author : JoeP Date : 05-22-2024 07:48 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done https://www.freethought-forum.com/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=13327&stc=1&d=1716403685 -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 651] Author : mickthinks Date : 05-22-2024 07:50 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done Lazy journalism from The Grauniad to dub it “a gamble”. True, it’s mostly the case that a PM who calls an election earlier than expected is banking on things going against them in the the longer term. But what’s the gamble here—that there’s not some amazing event going to occur between July and next January capable of restoring Tory fortunes at the ballot box? -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 652] Author : Kamilah Hauptmann Date : 05-22-2024 07:53 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done Sun article in 4 years. LABOUR RUINED BRITAIN! NEVER AGAIN! -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 653] Author : ceptimus Date : 05-22-2024 09:31 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done It's Labour's turn now. Many of those who vowed, "I'll never vote Labour again, as long as I live", back in 2007, have either forgotten their vow, or died. And it's likely that in another eight years or so, the people who are currently saying the same about the present Tory government will do the same. People vote out the current crappy government in the hope that the current opposition, "can't be any worse." In a two party dominated system, this leads to the alternation of the governing party, on average every two electoral terms. Some voters are naive enough to believe that the current opposition will actually do a great job in government, but most older voters are jaded enough to not really expect much. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 654] Author : JoeP Date : 05-22-2024 10:11 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done Lazy journalism from The Grauniad to dub it “a gamble”. True, it’s mostly the cast that a PM who calls an election earlier than expected is banking on things going against them in the the longer term. But what’s the gamble here—that there’s not some amazing event going to occur between July and next January capable of restoring Tory fortunes at the ballot box? Quite. It's not a gamble, it's a tacit admission that things aren't going to get better between July and next January. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 655] Author : Ensign Steve Date : 05-23-2024 06:34 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done Rishi Sunak takes gamble by calling general election for 4 July | General election 2024 | The Guardian (https://www.theguardian.com/politics/article/2024/may/22/rishi-sunak-will-call-general-election-for-july-in-surprise-move-sources) Haha Stupid Britishers! Don't they know that's a holiday? -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 656] Author : JoeP Date : 05-23-2024 06:42 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done Oh, the Independence (from the Tories) Day jokes are already flowing -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 657] Author : ChuckF Date : 05-23-2024 10:57 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done Lazy journalism from The Grauniad to dub it “a gamble”. True, it’s mostly the case that a PM who calls an election earlier than expected is banking on things going against them in the the longer term. But what’s the gamble here—that there’s not some amazing event going to occur between July and next January capable of restoring Tory fortunes at the ballot box? That was my exact thought as well. Like, I don't get all the intricate calculations of why British elections are called early and the calendar mysteries, but it seems like there are only a few reasons to call one early: (1) bring your own party into line; (2) take advantage of a weak opposition; or (3) minimize the damage because things are only going to get worse for you before the scheduled election. Let's not pretend he can bring the party into line, and with Labour running 20 points ahead... -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 658] Author : Kamilah Hauptmann Date : 06-10-2024 10:50 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit DoneOn a purely aesthetic level, as far as portraits go, its fantastic. AND as for the choice of colour, my first reaction was: "Steeped in the blood and mayhem of Britain's colonization exploits, that are still playing out globally today." And in this regard - also perfect. https://t.co/XMqQ54wjd0
— Christi Belcourt (@christibelcourt) May 14, 2024
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 659] Author : Kamilah Hauptmann Date : 08-08-2024 03:34 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done�� Italian lorry driver described the UK’s new post-Brexit controls as a “mess” after his �� was held at Brexit border post for more than two days.
— Liz Webster (@LizWebsterSBF) June 10, 2024
�� Antonio Soprano was stopped while bringing plants into the country from central Italy said he was offered nothing to eat during… pic.twitter.com/h9RzxJT9EA
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 660] Author : Kamilah Hauptmann Date : 09-02-2024 08:29 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit DoneAnd there is a history from Britain First’s ASHLEA SIMON: explained by @marcowenjones again
— Fionna O'Leary, ������ (@fascinatorfun) August 8, 2024
So Melon, above all, should be able to verify before he amplifies…indeed before he allows the account to continue posting. He has that power.
And he seems to abuse it. https://t.co/y8lwzGCYoi
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 661] Author : Kamilah Hauptmann Date : 09-29-2024 05:36 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done https://www.smbc-comics.com/comics/1727452098-20240927.png Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Arthur (https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/arthur) -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 662] Author : Kamilah Hauptmann Date : 10-25-2024 11:29 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done Bootstraps, real conservatives use their bootstraps and don't beg for socialism. Redundancy Payouts For Losing MPs "Not Enough", Says Ousted Tory (https://www.politicshome.com/news/article/redundancy-payouts-not-enough-says-former-mp) -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 663] Author : Dragar Date : 10-27-2024 11:22 AM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done I do think there's a reasonable case that MP compensation - both during and after the role - is insufficient to attract people we'd actually want to do the job. Especially given the loss of privacy and real risks to personal and family safety becoming an MP can entail. There's a reason so many of them come from inherited wealth or are 'career' politicians. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [Post 664] Author : Kamilah Hauptmann Date : 10-27-2024 09:53 PM Thread Title : Re: Get Brexit Done While I agree in principle I think my objection is the: Sunderland agreed that politics also plays a role in trying to get a job outside the Commons, saying he has been rejected for roles because he was an ex-Conservative MP. “I have been turned down for jobs over the last three months, jobs which I was perfect for”, he said. That's too god damned bad. And: “In my case, 26 years in the Army, four-and-a-half years as an MP, I'd never been unemployed. I've never had a CV. I never was on LinkedIn, this is stuff we have to do from complete scratch. You're a career Army man, so yeah, I suppose you never needed a CV. But yes, just like any other job an unemployment benefit is in order. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Downloaded from Freethought Forum (https://www.freethought-forum.com/forum) at 10-27-2024 11:36 PM.Oh sweet gods of hilariousness.
— Otto English (@Otto_English) September 1, 2024
Had not realised that the Labour government can only impose VAT on private schools because of Brexit.
Even @the_tpa have suddenly gone all remain#FinallyABrexitBenefit pic.twitter.com/sbnu3uhc6V