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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
How much trouble is Boris Johnson in? Maybe quite a lot | Boris Johnson | The Guardian

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
And this has just happened:
Letter signed by 170 cultural figures seeks a ‘unilateral and open offer’ to rejoin EU ahead of Holyrood elections.
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
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:
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Rogue state rattles sabre.

Probably more about policing threats by French trawlers than war with France.

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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.
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Meanwhile,

Tory quarrels determined UK's post-Brexit future, says Barnier | Michel Barnier | The Guardian

It's all quotable, but I'll just go with this one:

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EU citizens arriving in UK being locked up and expelled | Brexit | The Guardian

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.
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I don’t know how ‘more tweets’ works, but I saw this and thought it was accurate.
Twitter”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.
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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.
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Nigel Farage called the Royal National Lifeboat Institute a taxi service for illegal trafficking gangs.

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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.
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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.
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NHS drops from first to fourth among rich countries’ healthcare systems | NHS | The Guardian

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.)

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Oh no. What an expected un-shock.

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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.
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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

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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!
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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
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Will the English be eating Irish babies?



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That's a modest proposal you have right there.
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