Taking the Brexit

NervousPete · **Posted:** Fri Jun 22, 2018 18:55

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!

Grim... · **Posted:** Fri Jun 22, 2018 19:37

What march?

myp · **Posted:** Fri Jun 22, 2018 19:44

Grim... wrote:

What march?

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

Guessing that one.

NervousPete · **Posted:** Fri Jun 22, 2018 20:08

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.

Doctor Glyndwr · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 32619

https://twitter.com/JimMFelton/status/1 ... 4759789569

2016:
â€œBrexit will provide more opportunities for businessâ€

2018:
â€œFuck businessâ€ pic.twitter.com/qM0S4oX6ye
— James Felton (@JimMFelton) June 23, 2018

myp · **Posted:** Sat Jun 23, 2018 10:26

The party of capitalism I guess?

Doctor Glyndwr · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 32619

If we had a party of opposition, this would be on billboards come the next election.

Trooper · **Joined:** 4th Mar, 2010 **Posts:** 22266

Maybe he was highlighting how Brexit will help the prostitution industry?

NervousPete · **Posted:** Sat Jun 23, 2018 16:14

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.

Kern · **Posted:** Sat Jun 23, 2018 20:12

Love the Ship and Shovel. Great choice!

NervousPete · **Posted:** Sat Jun 23, 2018 23:40

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!

myp · **Posted:** Sun Jun 24, 2018 0:30

NervousPete wrote:

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.

Hearthly · **Joined:** 11th May, 2008 **Posts:** 13382

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

Quote:

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).

Doctor Glyndwr · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 32619

https://twitter.com/Jim_Cornelius/statu ... 4946933761

https://t.co/VHdH91t0Vj pic.twitter.com/sh4nxQh5wD
— Jim CorneliusðŸ‡ªðŸ‡ºðŸ‡¬ðŸ‡§ #WATON (@Jim_Cornelius) June 25, 2018

Kern · **Posted:** Mon Jun 25, 2018 17:36

Hearthly wrote:

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.

JBR · **Joined:** 2nd Jun, 2008 **Posts:** 3214

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.

Sir Taxalot · **Joined:** 5th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 4668

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.

Doctor Glyndwr · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 32619

Sir Taxalot wrote:

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.

MaliA · **Posted:** Thu Jun 28, 2018 14:07

"Why Brexit is different to Iraq"

myp · **Posted:** Thu Jun 28, 2018 14:11

MaliA wrote:

"Why Brexit is different to Iraq"

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

Kern · **Posted:** Fri Jun 29, 2018 9:39

Guardian: 'Theresa May tells EU leaders: you are putting lives at risk over Brexit '

Guardian wrote:

Theresa May has issued a stark warning to EU leaders that their citizens’ lives will be at risk if they fail to show more flexibility on Brexit, as she struggled to regain the initiative at a bad-tempered summit in Brussels.

If I wanted a good example of projection, I'd go to the cinema.

Kern · **Posted:** Wed Jul 04, 2018 14:20

has solved the Brexit Irish Question!

ZOMG Spoiler! Click here to view!

You keep Scotland in the customs union, and move the border to the mainland!

Our King over the M4 wrote:

That’s because NI would no longer be shut off from the rest of the UK, the situation that’s so intolerable to the DUP – instead it would be England and Wales that were effectively quarantined. The need for a hard land border on the island of Ireland could be avoided, replaced with one between Scotland and England which would have no implications for the Good Friday Agreement.

DavPaz · **Joined:** 27th Jun, 2008 **Posts:** 38460

Wings Over Scotland wrote:

And let’s be honest, nobody much cares what the Welsh think.

What a cunt!

Doctor Glyndwr · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 32619

https://twitter.com/Petercampbell1/stat ... 8638657536

EXCLUSIVE - Jaguar Land Rover boss tells the Financial Times that a hard Brexit threatens the company's survival in the UK: https://t.co/n0hQJ3eW5M pic.twitter.com/fDz5CrRjpb
— Peter Campbell (@Petercampbell1) July 4, 2018

https://twitter.com/faisalislam/status/ ... 4704534530

Blimey these are extraordinary quotes from Jaguar Land Rover boss - â€œweâ€™re in a cycle plan, I have to make a decision...I just canâ€™t wait wait wait waitâ€ he tells @Petercampbell1 about stalled investment on new production while awaiting if heâ€™ll still get frictionless EU trade
— Faisal Islam (@faisalislam) July 4, 2018

https://twitter.com/Petercampbell1/stat ... 5252923393

JLR story is on tomorrow's front page: pic.twitter.com/QfpeUILLyT
— Peter Campbell (@Petercampbell1) July 4, 2018

Grim... · **Posted:** Wed Jul 04, 2018 23:00

Well, they've only been making them in this country for seventy years.

Doctor Glyndwr · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 32619

Technically incorrect, as “they” — in the form of Jaguar Land Rover Automotive PLC — was founded January 18, 2008.

myp · **Posted:** Wed Jul 04, 2018 23:26

I assumed they were part of Rover at one point but didn't realise they sold them as early as 1967!

Ah, British Leyland bought all of the Rover family of cars it seems.

Curiosity · **Posted:** Thu Jul 05, 2018 9:14

Who needs them?

We can make innovative jam!

GazChap · **Posted:** Thu Jul 05, 2018 11:39

How hard can it be to build cars anyway? Surely we can just get some British companies to build them?

MaliA · **Posted:** Thu Jul 05, 2018 11:46

GazChap wrote:

How hard can it be to build cars anyway? Surely we can just get some British companies to build them?

They could call them the Ukgo

Curiosity · **Posted:** Thu Jul 05, 2018 17:37

Apparently Theresa May’s grand plan is to basically obey all EU rules without being a part of the EU, which is surely just a shit idea.

The Brexiteers are obviously up in arms about this, with cries of ‘sovereignty’ and ‘vassal state’, but they’re also massively pissed off that they can’t just destroy all rules, standards and regulations on stuff like food safety, which was their wet dream all along.

Kern · **Posted:** Thu Jul 05, 2018 17:41

Wait... does this mean we'll be less sovereign from Brussels once we've gained our sovereignty from Brussels?

Giphy "paradox":
https://media2.giphy.com/media/1esYHueuKWI24/giphy-loop.mp4

EDIT: Not quite what I was expecting, Giphy, but once again you've summed things up perfectly.

MaliA · **Posted:** Thu Jul 05, 2018 18:16

Kern wrote:

Wait... does this mean we'll be less sovereign from Brussels once we've gained our sovereignty from Brussels?

Giphy "paradox":
https://media1.giphy.com/media/nn06cbC1potfW/giphy-loop.mp4

EDIT: Not quite what I was expecting, Giphy, but once again you've summed things up perfectly.

Lol

Esit: Oh, it's different

JBR · **Joined:** 2nd Jun, 2008 **Posts:** 3214

MaliA wrote:

GazChap wrote:

How hard can it be to build cars anyway? Surely we can just get some British companies to build them?

They could call them the Ukgo

I think this very fine

MaliA · **Posted:** Fri Jul 06, 2018 9:29

Curiosity wrote:

Apparently Theresa May’s grand plan is to basically obey all EU rules without being a part of the EU, which is surely just a shit idea.

The Brexiteers are obviously up in arms about this, with cries of ‘sovereignty’ and ‘vassal state’, but they’re also massively pissed off that they can’t just destroy all rules, standards and regulations on stuff like food safety, which was their wet dream all along.

Used to have an empire.

Doctor Glyndwr · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 32619

https://twitter.com/SamCoatesTimes/stat ... 8694993921

This - from a snr gvt source - extraordinary.

Cabinet ministers who resign will immediately be stripped of the cars and abandoned in mid Buckinghamshire

For those who turn down @bbclaurak offer of a lift, hereâ€™s the source naming the name of the local Chequers taxi firm pic.twitter.com/q4MmcxyzmF
— Sam Coates Times (@SamCoatesTimes) July 6, 2018

Kern · **Posted:** Fri Jul 06, 2018 10:42

Heh. That's very clever. But of course, knowing Mr Johnson and co., they could always agree then backtrack as soon as they're heading back.

Reminds me of one of my favourite political jokes about the former minister who sat in the back of his family car and wondered why it didn't start moving.

MaliA · **Posted:** Fri Jul 06, 2018 10:57

Bloody children. The lot of them

Kern · **Posted:** Fri Jul 06, 2018 11:03

MaliA wrote:

Bloody children. The lot of them

I can help!
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Kern · **Posted:** Mon Jul 09, 2018 5:40

Bye-bye Brexit Bulldog.

Curiosity · **Posted:** Mon Jul 09, 2018 7:19

What a stupid mess the Tory party is in right now.

You’d really expect Labour to be about ten points in front in the polls...

DavPaz · **Joined:** 27th Jun, 2008 **Posts:** 38460

Please, please tell me they're not going to put Michael Fucking Gove in charge of Brexit!

myp · **Posted:** Mon Jul 09, 2018 7:56

DavPaz wrote:

Please, please tell me they're not going to put Michael Fucking Gove in charge of Brexit!

He was ok as justice minister *clutches at straws*

Squirt · **Joined:** 31st Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 6510

DavPaz wrote:

Please, please tell me they're not going to put Michael Fucking Gove in charge of Brexit!

It's OK - Chris Grayling to the rescue!

Kern · **Posted:** Mon Jul 09, 2018 10:36

Dominic Raab gets the poisoned chalice.

Squirt · **Joined:** 31st Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 6510

Raab's resounding success on that whole "British Bill of Rights" thing clearly make him the ideal man for the job.

Kern · **Posted:** Mon Jul 09, 2018 11:25

Ian Dunt's review of David Davis's reign pulls few punches.

The opening paragraph could serve as a full summation of the situation:

Quote:

There are few projects a lifelong eurosceptic could treasure more than managing Britain's withdrawal from the EU. David Davis was given the most coveted role in the history of his ideology and he flunked it, at every stage, with a series of unforced errors based on his own ignorance of the thing he ostensibly cared about.

Findus Fop · **Joined:** 14th May, 2009 **Posts:** 4299

I enjoyed this line:

Quote:

His errors were so consistent and severe the opposition had started copying and pasting his own Commons statements as attack mechanisms.

Hearthly · **Joined:** 11th May, 2008 **Posts:** 13382

That is an excellent piece.

krazywookie · **Posted:** Mon Jul 09, 2018 15:04

And now bojo, Christ they'll be running out of biggots soon.

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