Taking the Brexit

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:** 38464

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!
\

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:** 38464

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:** 6515

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:** 6515

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:** 4300

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.

Kern · **Posted:** Mon Jul 09, 2018 15:06

He must be really angry about that new runway.

Squirt · **Joined:** 31st Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 6515

Odds of this leading to a leadership challenge / 1922 thingy to May in some form?

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

Rising, I'd say.

Trooper · **Joined:** 4th Mar, 2010 **Posts:** 22270

We're going to end up with the 4 horsemen. Trump, Putin, Boris, Kim Jong Un.
There is a lot of irony in the thought that Kim is the sanest one of the bunch...

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

So in essence the rats are deserting the ship at this point.

Well, Cameron was the first to go, cheerfully whistling to himself the day after he realised quite what the fuck it was he'd done.

Davis was completely out of his depth (Ian Dunt skewers him superbly in the article linked above by Kern), so took his chance to fuck off, and now Boris done the same.

Lying, incompetent, cowardly shower of cunts.

MaliA · **Posted:** Mon Jul 09, 2018 15:59

https://www.beexcellenttoeachother.com/ ... 30#p908030

Trooper · **Joined:** 4th Mar, 2010 **Posts:** 22270

Yougov have Reese-Mogg as the frontrunner to take over from May, rather than Johnson...

NervousPete · **Posted:** Mon Jul 09, 2018 16:20

The grinning twat.

MaliA · **Posted:** Mon Jul 09, 2018 16:28

Trooper wrote:

Yougov have Reese-Mogg as the frontrunner to take over from May, rather than Johnson...

And the advantage of 25 months.....

myp · **Posted:** Mon Jul 09, 2018 16:29

Trooper wrote:

Yougov have Reese-Mogg as the frontrunner to take over from May, rather than Johnson...

Because the vote goes to members, and a poll of them shows he'd lose in a head-to-head to not only Rees-Mogg, but also Gove, Davidson and even flipping Javid.

Kern · **Posted:** Mon Jul 09, 2018 16:43

He should have been sacked for disloyalty (let alone incompetence) years ago.

As for the Prime Minister, if she is defenestrated I really hope the Tory infighting keeps Mr Rees-Mogg away from the membership's leadership vote. Like Mr Johnson, he's someone who's spent years crafting an image to distract us from his real character and ambitions.

Bamba · **Joined:** 25th Jul, 2010 **Posts:** 11128

Kern wrote:

he's someone who's spent years crafting an image to distract us from his real character and ambitions.

Unless his real character is something other than 'Dickensian villain' then I'm not sure he's done a great job there.

Cras · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 49232

https://twitter.com/mutablejoe/status/1 ... 4802397184

Difficult to see how May can replace the knowledge and wisdom of both David Davis and Boris Johnson unless by some stroke of luck Tesco have got TWO pineapples
— joe (@mutablejoe) July 9, 2018

LewieP · **Joined:** 29th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 7600

https://twitter.com/bbclaurak/status/10 ... 6288789504

Whispers Tory MP s have reached the magic number of the 48 letters required to force a confidence vote - no way of knowing yet if true - meeting at 5.30
— Laura Kuenssberg (@bbclaurak) July 9, 2018

Off with her head.

Satsuma · **Joined:** 20th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 14359

Please let JRM be PM, please. It’d be ace.

Curiosity · **Posted:** Mon Jul 09, 2018 18:37

Satsuma wrote:

Please let JRM be PM, please. It’d be ace.

I... I... I...

myp · **Posted:** Mon Jul 09, 2018 18:43

Satsuma wrote:

Please let JRM be PM, please. It’d be ace.

Fuck off would it.

Squirt · **Joined:** 31st Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 6515

I think it would be horrifically compelling to watch, like how people slow down to rubberneck at car accidents, but just across the whole country, continuously, and with awful consequences for everyone for years and years to come.

asfish · **Joined:** 5th Dec, 2010 **Posts:** 3353

LewieP wrote:

https://twitter.com/bbclaurak/status/1016350766288789504

Off with her head.

Not so sure they will be in a hurry to get rid of May, she has made progress, not the best or what everyone wants, but progress all the same

I think even the self-serving Tory backstabbers now understand kicking May out will mean one of them will have to take the thankless task of Brexit negotiations on.

MaliA · **Posted:** Mon Jul 09, 2018 19:43

Some northerner resigned.

Be Excellent To Each Other

Taking the Brexit

Who is online