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 Post subject: Re: Taking the Brexit
PostPosted: Tue Jun 12, 2018 11:10 
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Missed opportunity for a zinger of an Iraq comeback there, though.


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 Post subject: Re: Taking the Brexit
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Check out @campbellclaret’s Tweet: https://twitter.com/campbellclaret/stat ... 53472?s=09

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 Post subject: Re: Taking the Brexit
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Missed opportunity for a zinger of an Iraq comeback there, though.

I think about 500 people did it for him, looking at the replies....

Normally Campbell is a sensible, intelligent, worthy chap, but that was just silly.

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 Post subject: Re: Taking the Brexit
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 Post subject: Re: Taking the Brexit
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1) All of what parliament is saying and doing doesn't make any sense to me. They can say "We want X and Y but not Z" and make all the noise in the world about it, but if you need XY and Z together to do anything, an have been told that, then it all becomes a stupid waste of time. It's just posturing bullshit.
2) Christ knows what "We'll abstain" is going to achieve other than being able to say "we didn't vote for it". it's cowardly.
3) Let Scotland go on its own now. They got well shafted yesterday.

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 Post subject: Re: Taking the Brexit
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We're long past the point of Brexit going well. Everything happening in politics right not is maneuvering for a post Brexit position of being able to say 'I wasn't at fault'.

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 Post subject: Re: Taking the Brexit
PostPosted: Wed Jun 13, 2018 22:02 
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3) Let Scotland go on its own now. They got well shafted yesterday.


Pains me to say it, but I wouldn't blame them if they go their own way thanks to all of this. :attitude:

Good work, Conservative and Unionist Party, good work.


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 Post subject: Re: Taking the Brexit
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Arguably makes more sense than the actual Brexit 'policies' that are being pursued.

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 Post subject: Re: Taking the Brexit
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Anyone fancy a cup of tea? Karen's brought in a packet of Brexit. There's enough for everyone! Well, some of you might have to share. And some of you aren't eligible. Definitely not you, Muhammed.


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 Post subject: Re: Taking the Brexit
PostPosted: Fri Jun 15, 2018 8:38 
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:)

I'm trying to turn 'Brexit' into an adjective. As in, 'my last essay was a bit Brexit' or 'I made a complete Brexit of that date last night', but perhaps the word is just too powerful for those kinds of sentences.
Maybe it should be reserved for the most serious of cases: 'the Charge of the Light Brigade was a complete Brexit of a military action'


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 Post subject: Re: Taking the Brexit
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They're making a right fucking Brexit of Brexit.

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 Post subject: Re: Taking the Brexit
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Get To Brexiting Brexit

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 Post subject: Re: Taking the Brexit
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I'm absolutely disgusted that the Prime Minister is harping on about a 'Brexit Dividend' to pay for the NHS. A complete and utter lie. We might as well fund it from the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow, but that would just bring the Irish Border question up again and cause all manner of additional trouble.

Sadly, I fear we're going to see more of this kind of open deceit, now that Mr Trump has demonstrated how successful lying constantly and openly can be.


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 Post subject: Re: Taking the Brexit
PostPosted: Mon Jun 18, 2018 8:20 
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It's so farcical as to be beyond ridicule, if ever there were a fitting scenario for the old saying 'It'd almost be funny if it weren't true', Brexit is it.

I try not to worry about it too much as it's completely out of my control, and I like to believe we won't crash out of the EU with no deal, (even accepting that any deal will be far worse than what we have now), but looking at the burning wreckage hurtling down the tracks to the cliff edge, one has to wonder.

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After all, the people who are supposed to be in charge of Brexit, the contestants on the Hate Island that is the Tory party, don’t appear to have a clue either. The negotiations with Brussels are stalled because the cabinet is still not agreed on which form of customs arrangement to propose for rejection by the EU.


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 Post subject: Re: Taking the Brexit
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Hearthly wrote:
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/jun/17/europe-losing-interest-brexit-soap-it-has-bigger-worries


That's a good article. He's quite right to highlight that the rest of the EU doesn't really care about this, and how insignificant we are outside of the larger bloc. Sadly this won't stop the nostalgic-Britannia-rules-the-waves Brexit fans from continuing to delude themselves that the world was happier when it was mostly pink.


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 Post subject: Re: Taking the Brexit
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I think they (leave campaign) tapped into lying as tactic - check the official flyer, I counted four in there. And that's not including Farage's lot. The Tories continued into the election campaign, and probably still haven't learned their lesson, given the way they increased their vote.

It's short-sighted, though, short term expediency at best. Once they get properly stuck with the brand of being liars, it'll take them a long time to shift it. A bit like the sleaze tag hung around, not always justifiedly, for a long time. It is depressing and maddening, mind.


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 Post subject: Re: Taking the Brexit
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Where do I apply for my share of the Brexit dividend?


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 Post subject: Re: Taking the Brexit
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Where do I apply for my share of the Brexit dividend?


Easy. Just move to Paris, Frankfurt, or Dublin.


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 Post subject: Re: Taking the Brexit
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Definitely on board with Dublin; get me some tasty Guinness...


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 Post subject: Re: Taking the Brexit
PostPosted: Tue Jun 19, 2018 13:00 
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Yup:

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 Post subject: Re: Taking the Brexit
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I'm still struggling to understand why MPs wouldn't want to have control over the negotiations and what happens if the agreement is a bit rubbish. Otherwise we might as well just not bother with a legislature and turn Westminster into a rather ornate Wetherspoons.

I tried to write a message to my MP but was unable to find a form of words that wasn't angry or condescending, so just started yelling at my TV instead.


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 Post subject: Re: Taking the Brexit
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I tried to write a message to my MP but was unable to find a form of words that wasn't angry or condescending, so just started yelling at my TV instead.


Officially 100% more effective than Mrs May was on Brexit yesterday.


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 Post subject: Re: Taking the Brexit
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 Post subject: Re: Taking the Brexit
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Akin to the wolf promising to eat you last.


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 Post subject: Re: Taking the Brexit
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And the rebel tories have fallen back into line, again. Why they trust a word the administration says anymore is beyond me.


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 Post subject: Re: Taking the Brexit
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And the rebel tories have fallen back into line, again. Why they trust a word the administration says anymore is beyond me.


I'm amazed that the Tories are still doing pretty well in polls. I don't know if it's due to the general public not paying attention to the news, Twitter etc., or they do pay some attention and just don't see Labour (or anyone else) as a viable alternative. Depressing, either way.

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 Post subject: Re: Taking the Brexit
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I'm amazed that the Tories are still doing pretty well in polls. I don't know if it's due to the general public not paying attention to the news, Twitter etc., or they do pay some attention and just don't see Labour (or anyone else) as a viable alternative. Depressing, either way.

i think it's more a "fuck you, got mine" attitude.


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 Post subject: Re: Taking the Brexit
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Maybe it's me, but a debate about whether Germany should be paying Poland war reparations probably isn't the best place for a cheap anti-EU jibe:

Daniel Kawczynski (Shrewsbury and Atcham) (Con) wrote:
The Minister will have to correct me if I am wrong, but my understanding from the Library and other sources is that the Germans have paid a total of €75 billion in compensation to other countries for war damage. I find that figure breathtakingly small. When we bear in mind that we are being told to stump up €40 billion for having the temerity to leave the European Union, it is amazing that the Germans have paid only €75 billion for the complete destruction of our continent and the murder of millions of people.


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 Post subject: Re: Taking the Brexit
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Jesus Fucking Christ. I can't say that surprises me, he's my old MP (I no longer live in that constituency)

He voted overwhelmingly for equal gay rights and same sex marriage, but against the promotion of equality and human rights - which I just can't reconcile in my head other than a "well, equal gay rights directly affects me" kind of way (he's bisexual)

He's also consistently voted against further integration with the EU, and also against a right to remain for EU nationals already living in the UK, which again I can't understand given his heritage.

Oh, and he's very pro-Saudi Arabia.


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 Post subject: Re: Taking the Brexit
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 Post subject: Re: Taking the Brexit
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If anyone's in London tomorrow am probably heading to the march, should I get my act together for a super-early start, so if anyone is up for pub afterwarda in the city centre, or is likewise marching, PM me. Ta!

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 Post subject: Re: Taking the Brexit
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What march?

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What march?

https://www.theneweuropean.co.uk/top-st ... -1-5573899

Guessing that one.

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 Post subject: Re: Taking the Brexit
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Yup, that's the one. Not that I'm even remotely optimistic, but at least I might get some good photography out of it, as well as venting frustration.

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 Post subject: Re: Taking the Brexit
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The party of capitalism I guess?

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 Post subject: Re: Taking the Brexit
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If we had a party of opposition, this would be on billboards come the next election.


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 Post subject: Re: Taking the Brexit
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Maybe he was highlighting how Brexit will help the prostitution industry?


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 Post subject: Re: Taking the Brexit
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Phew. Lots out here. Did the full march but now my scrawny pins doth protest so have retreated to The Ship & Shovel for a pint. Saying might be a 100k out. Felt like it funnelled down Pall Mall.

Good day for street photography too. Obv.

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 Post subject: Re: Taking the Brexit
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Love the Ship and Shovel. Great choice!


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 Post subject: Re: Taking the Brexit
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Love the Ship and Shovel. Great choice!


Looks like my fellow remainers do too, lots of blue and yellow were to be seen!

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 Post subject: Re: Taking the Brexit
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Kern wrote:
Love the Ship and Shovel. Great choice!


Looks like my fellow remainers do too, lots of blue and yellow were to be seen!

Sweden were playing Germany, tbf.

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 Post subject: Re: Taking the Brexit
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I don't know if Brexit annoys or upsets me more. Perhaps it's about equal amounts of both.

No one's even pretending now that it's going to be anything other than a fucking disaster in every conceivable sense. Fucking Boris Johnson and his cabal of Leavers should be tried for treason, the lying duplicitous cunts.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfr ... orth-wales

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Make no mistake: a multinational is now showing Brexit Britain and its shambles of a government the red card. And it will not be the last.

The significance of this is hard to overstate. Airbus directly employs 14,000 people in Britain; its supply chain supports a further 110,000 jobs here. In a country beset by low pay and low productivity, this sector is the opposite: highly skilled, highly paid, and with productivity growth of around 4% a year (compared with only 1% in the wider economy).


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 Post subject: Re: Taking the Brexit
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 Post subject: Re: Taking the Brexit
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No one's even pretending now that it's going to be anything other than a fucking disaster in every conceivable sense. Fucking Boris Johnson and his cabal of Leavers should be tried for treason


At the very least they lose all right to criticise Mr Corbyn and his pals for being blinded by ideology.


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 Post subject: Re: Taking the Brexit
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But trade will be "as frictionless as possible"! They even put the word "frictionless" in the sentence, to show that the trade with newly added friction will have that friction minimised. If possible.

Honestly, these companies. Coming over here, being all ...corporationy.


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 Post subject: Re: Taking the Brexit
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So wait, is big business good or bad, I'm confused? Should things be done for the markets, or for the people, or for the principles?

Are these things even separable now or too intertwined to unpick? Does it even matter anymore? I'm finding this increasingly bewildering and am close to just giving up paying it any heed anymore.

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So wait, is big business good or bad, I'm confused? Should things be done for the markets, or for the people, or for the principles?

You can believe both that big businesses sometimes have too much clout over our societal processes and also that they employ a lot of people who on the whole would probably rather have jobs than not. It doesn't have to be either/or.


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Hahaha! I can't believe he was goaded into writing that.

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