Be Excellent To Each Other

And, you know, party on. Dude.

All times are UTC [ DST ]




Reply to topic  [ 6503 posts ]  Go to page Previous  1 ... 75, 76, 77, 78, 79, 80, 81 ... 131  Next
Author Message
 Post subject: Re: Taking the Brexit
PostPosted: Thu Jul 12, 2018 22:23 
User avatar
Excellent Member

Joined: 27th Sep, 2009
Posts: 876
Interesting, if there's No Deal we'll be in a State of Emergency .....

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/p ... 43241.html


Top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject: Re: Taking the Brexit
PostPosted: Fri Jul 13, 2018 4:02 
User avatar
SavyGamer

Joined: 29th Apr, 2008
Posts: 7600
Who could have possibly predicted that Trump, who destroys everything he touches, would respond to May offering him a state visit by throwing her under a bus.

Makes sense though. Putin wants him destabilising Europe, and it's in America's interest to weaken the UK's negotiating position.

I eagerly anticipate the UK taking back power by adopting the US pharmaceutical/medical model, dropping food standards, revoking many workers rights, fully embracing the prison industrial complex etc as part of the USA trade deal it will have no choice but to make.


Top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject: Re: Taking the Brexit
PostPosted: Fri Jul 13, 2018 10:10 
User avatar

Joined: 30th Mar, 2008
Posts: 32618
Absurd, Kafkaesque hypocrisy:

https://twitter.com/steven_swinford/sta ... 9529487360




Top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject: Re: Taking the Brexit
PostPosted: Fri Jul 13, 2018 11:59 
User avatar
ugvm'er at heart...

Joined: 4th Mar, 2010
Posts: 22256
Melania Trump is currently hanging out with Philip May, that must be an interesting conversation!


Top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject: Re: Taking the Brexit
PostPosted: Fri Jul 13, 2018 12:44 
User avatar
Hello Hello Hello

Joined: 11th May, 2008
Posts: 13381
Probably at it like rabbits.


Top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject: Re: Taking the Brexit
PostPosted: Fri Jul 13, 2018 19:25 
User avatar
Excellent Member

Joined: 27th Sep, 2009
Posts: 876
LewieP wrote:
Who could have possibly predicted that Trump, who destroys everything he touches, would respond to May offering him a state visit by throwing her under a bus.

Makes sense though. Putin wants him destabilising Europe, and it's in America's interest to weaken the UK's negotiating position.

I eagerly anticipate the UK taking back power by adopting the US pharmaceutical/medical model, dropping food standards, revoking many workers rights, fully embracing the prison industrial complex etc as part of the USA trade deal it will have no choice but to make.


And now he's saying that The Sun posted "fake news", even though there's a damn audio recording:

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/201 ... rexit-plan


Top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject: Re: Taking the Brexit
PostPosted: Fri Jul 13, 2018 19:28 
User avatar
UltraMod

Joined: 27th Mar, 2008
Posts: 55715
Location: California
Of course, we already know where Trump is concerned that "fake news" just means "stuff I said but now need to disown for political reasons".

_________________
I am currently under construction.
Thank you for your patience.


Image


Top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject: Re: Taking the Brexit
PostPosted: Fri Jul 13, 2018 20:25 
User avatar
Noob as of 6/8/10

Joined: 6th Aug, 2010
Posts: 5296
Location: , Location, Location.
Four_Candles wrote:
LewieP wrote:
Who could have possibly predicted that Trump, who destroys everything he touches, would respond to May offering him a state visit by throwing her under a bus.

Makes sense though. Putin wants him destabilising Europe, and it's in America's interest to weaken the UK's negotiating position.

I eagerly anticipate the UK taking back power by adopting the US pharmaceutical/medical model, dropping food standards, revoking many workers rights, fully embracing the prison industrial complex etc as part of the USA trade deal it will have no choice but to make.


And now he's saying that The Sun posted "fake news", even though there's a damn audio recording:

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/201 ... rexit-plan


I'm surprised he hasn't said that audio recordings can be faked and claimed that he wasn’t even interviewed by The Sun.


Top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject: Re: Taking the Brexit
PostPosted: Tue Jul 17, 2018 7:27 
User avatar
Isn't that lovely?

Joined: 30th Mar, 2008
Posts: 10910
Location: Devon
Vote leave fined and reported to the police. I'd paste a link, but long pressing isn't doing anything in this text entry box.

_________________
Where's the Kaboom? I was expecting an Earth shattering Kaboom!


Top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject: Re: Taking the Brexit
PostPosted: Tue Jul 17, 2018 7:39 
User avatar
ugvm'er at heart...

Joined: 4th Mar, 2010
Posts: 22256
Today the MPs are voting on whether they should go on holiday early. I wonder what they will choose...


Top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject: Re: Taking the Brexit
PostPosted: Tue Jul 17, 2018 8:15 
User avatar

Joined: 30th Mar, 2008
Posts: 32618
Parliamentary summer recess isn’t holiday, they’re still working. It’s more like No Meetings Week, only longer.


Top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject: Re: Taking the Brexit
PostPosted: Tue Jul 17, 2018 9:02 
User avatar
ugvm'er at heart...

Joined: 4th Mar, 2010
Posts: 22256
It's "can't do a no confidence vote if parliament isn't sitting" extension, as far as I can see.


Top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject: Re: Taking the Brexit
PostPosted: Tue Jul 17, 2018 9:06 
User avatar
Isn't that lovely?

Joined: 30th Mar, 2008
Posts: 10910
Location: Devon
Also perhaps can't debate the Electoral Commission findings into the Vote Leave campaign either

_________________
Where's the Kaboom? I was expecting an Earth shattering Kaboom!


Top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject: Re: Taking the Brexit
PostPosted: Tue Jul 17, 2018 9:09 
User avatar
Excellent Painter

Joined: 30th Apr, 2008
Posts: 7315
Location: Behind you
Malc wrote:
Also perhaps can't debate the Electoral Commission findings into the Vote Leave campaign either

Isn’t this a moot point as it’s now in the hands of the police

_________________
twitter || website
Malibu Stacy. Everybody's favourite back seat driver


Top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject: Re: Taking the Brexit
PostPosted: Tue Jul 17, 2018 9:16 
User avatar
Isn't that lovely?

Joined: 30th Mar, 2008
Posts: 10910
Location: Devon
I really don't know, I think it's a bit confusing personally, it's not like it's football league, and the players have just been fined for racist behaviour and now it's being referred to the police. It's an inquiry into a referendum that will decide the fate of this country for decades to come, surely it should have the powers of the police here, and now they've been found guilty and fined, all that's left is to work out what to do with the result.

_________________
Where's the Kaboom? I was expecting an Earth shattering Kaboom!


Top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject: Re: Taking the Brexit
PostPosted: Tue Jul 17, 2018 9:43 
User avatar
ugvm'er at heart...

Joined: 4th Mar, 2010
Posts: 22256
Nothing will happen from it, it's basically a 10% election rigging tax... Budgeting for it in your original costings in future will be the outcome, I expect.


Top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject: Re: Taking the Brexit
PostPosted: Tue Jul 17, 2018 18:45 
SupaMod
User avatar
Commander-in-Cheese

Joined: 30th Mar, 2008
Posts: 49232
All these amendment votes are amazing. Basically what's happening is the Tory's 4 red lines on Brexit are becoming 42 red lines by force of domestic law, half of them contradictory.

_________________
GoddessJasmine wrote:
Drunk, pulled Craster's pork, waiting for brdyime story,reading nuts. Xz


Top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject: Re: Taking the Brexit
PostPosted: Wed Jul 18, 2018 7:57 
User avatar

Joined: 12th Apr, 2008
Posts: 17757
Location: Oxford
Vote Leave; end cheese.

Quote:
Everyday dairy products such as butter, yoghurt and cheese could become luxury items in Britain after Brexit, with price rises being caused by the slightest delay in the journey from farm to table, a report by the London School of Economics finds.

The LSE research, commissioned by the company behind Lurpak, Anchor and Arla brands, also found that speciality cheeses could become scarce after Brexit, with escalating costs whatever the outcome of the exit negotiations.

Guardian


Top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject: Re: Taking the Brexit
PostPosted: Wed Jul 18, 2018 8:10 
User avatar
Hello Hello Hello

Joined: 11th May, 2008
Posts: 13381
Good old British Dairylea for everyone! Take that Froggies!



Top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject: Re: Taking the Brexit
PostPosted: Wed Jul 18, 2018 8:11 
User avatar

Joined: 30th Mar, 2008
Posts: 32618
Dairylea is made in Belgium.


Top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject: Re: Taking the Brexit
PostPosted: Wed Jul 18, 2018 8:22 
User avatar
Hello Hello Hello

Joined: 11th May, 2008
Posts: 13381
That's just the kind of defeatist remoaner talk that is ruining Brexit and stopping Britain from being GREAT AGAIN.

You enemy of the people, you.

Fake news!


Top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject: Re: Taking the Brexit
PostPosted: Wed Jul 18, 2018 11:09 
User avatar
UltraMod

Joined: 27th Mar, 2008
Posts: 55715
Location: California
I'm over Brexit satire, tbh.

_________________
I am currently under construction.
Thank you for your patience.


Image


Top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject: Re: Taking the Brexit
PostPosted: Thu Jul 19, 2018 12:40 
User avatar
Excellent Member

Joined: 27th Sep, 2009
Posts: 876
Let's have an Article 50 petition shall we?

' Rescind Art.50 if Vote Leave has broken Electoral Laws regarding 2016 referendum '

https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/223729

Signature count increasing pretty fast


Top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject: Re: Taking the Brexit
PostPosted: Thu Jul 19, 2018 12:50 
User avatar
SavyGamer

Joined: 29th Apr, 2008
Posts: 7600
We can't rescind article 50 unless every other EU member state agrees.

I can't imagine there wouldn't be terms attached. Goodbye rebate and probably goodbye pound sterling.


Top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject: Re: Taking the Brexit
PostPosted: Thu Jul 19, 2018 12:53 
User avatar

Joined: 30th Mar, 2008
Posts: 16552
If there was a chance of Brexit being cancelled then why would the rest of the EU would want to jeopardise it? Surely that would be the best outcome for everyone's self-interest.


Top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject: Re: Taking the Brexit
PostPosted: Thu Jul 19, 2018 13:00 
User avatar
Bad Girl

Joined: 20th Apr, 2008
Posts: 14353
LewieP wrote:
We can't rescind article 50 unless every other EU member state agrees.


The Treaty doesn’t even remotely say this.


Top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject: Re: Taking the Brexit
PostPosted: Fri Jul 20, 2018 11:00 
User avatar
Excellent Member

Joined: 27th Sep, 2009
Posts: 876
Satsuma wrote:
LewieP wrote:
We can't rescind article 50 unless every other EU member state agrees.


The Treaty doesn’t even remotely say this.


Although Parliament do need to vote to withdraw Article 50.


Top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject: Re: Taking the Brexit
PostPosted: Fri Jul 20, 2018 11:01 
User avatar
Excellent Member

Joined: 27th Sep, 2009
Posts: 876
Looks like there will be weekly government warnings on how to prepare for a No Deal Brexit, starting next week ............


https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/publ ... -d9wd3lwbk

Reddit thread ........

https://www.reddit.com/r/ukpolitics/com ... al_brexit/


Top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject: Re: Taking the Brexit
PostPosted: Fri Jul 20, 2018 11:11 
User avatar
SavyGamer

Joined: 29th Apr, 2008
Posts: 7600
I imagine the best advice would be "get rid of the prime minister"


Top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject: Re: Taking the Brexit
PostPosted: Fri Jul 20, 2018 11:21 
User avatar

Joined: 12th Apr, 2008
Posts: 17757
Location: Oxford
Called it.

Crash the country; make people demand a rethink.

Unfortunately, I don't trust her to do this competently, nor the Conservative Party to find a replacement who wouldn't accept that the fault lied with the idea rather than just the execution.


Top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject: Re: Taking the Brexit
PostPosted: Fri Jul 20, 2018 11:26 
User avatar

Joined: 12th Apr, 2008
Posts: 17757
Location: Oxford
Heh. Just realised the irony. Heath took us into Europe but is best remembered for the lights going out; May tries to take us out and becomes remembered for the lights going out.


Top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject: Re: Taking the Brexit
PostPosted: Fri Jul 20, 2018 11:26 
SupaMod
User avatar
Commander-in-Cheese

Joined: 30th Mar, 2008
Posts: 49232
This is also APoD's view.

I don't think public opinion can be shifted that far in the little time we have left. Especially given the public's ability to ignore the thus far entirely accurate warnings of economic disaster.

_________________
GoddessJasmine wrote:
Drunk, pulled Craster's pork, waiting for brdyime story,reading nuts. Xz


Top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject: Re: Taking the Brexit
PostPosted: Fri Jul 20, 2018 11:29 
User avatar

Joined: 12th Apr, 2008
Posts: 17757
Location: Oxford
We forget how hated the old rates* were, and how any new scheme was expected to be really popular. It was only when the first poll tax bills came through that people started to realise its immense flaws. And thus became the only major policy I can think of that was passed, enacted, and repealed in the same electoral cycle.


* Not in the naval sense.


Top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject: Re: Taking the Brexit
PostPosted: Fri Jul 20, 2018 12:12 
SupaMod
User avatar
Commander-in-Cheese

Joined: 30th Mar, 2008
Posts: 49232
The poll tax really brought home the dichotomy of definitions of the word 'fair'

Was it more fair for provision of council services to cost more to homes with more occupants? Yes, of course, that's just common sense.

But was it more fair for provision of council services to cost more to homes with more occupants? Quite obviously and plainly not, of course.

_________________
GoddessJasmine wrote:
Drunk, pulled Craster's pork, waiting for brdyime story,reading nuts. Xz


Top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject: Re: Taking the Brexit
PostPosted: Fri Jul 20, 2018 13:27 
User avatar

Joined: 12th Apr, 2008
Posts: 17757
Location: Oxford
Nicely put.
Perhaps the same applies to 'sovereignty' or 'control'.


Top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject: Re: Taking the Brexit
PostPosted: Fri Jul 20, 2018 17:44 
Filthy Junkie Bitch

Joined: 17th Dec, 2008
Posts: 8293
Cras wrote:
This is also APoD's view.

I don't think public opinion can be shifted that far in the little time we have left. Especially given the public's ability to ignore the thus far entirely accurate warnings of economic disaster.

“View” is putting it strongly. “Hope” is more accurate.


Top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject: Re: Taking the Brexit
PostPosted: Fri Jul 20, 2018 18:20 
User avatar
Decapodian

Joined: 15th Oct, 2010
Posts: 5134
Kern wrote:
Called it.

Crash the country; make people demand a rethink.

Unfortunately, I don't trust her to do this competently, nor the Conservative Party to find a replacement who wouldn't accept that the fault lied with the idea rather than just the execution.


Yep, I'd love to think this is all some part of a cunning plan to make the public realise it's a stupid idea.
Unfortunately I think it's more likely that we'll end up leaving with no deal, then go crawling back a few years later and rejoin on worse terms.


Top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject: Re: Taking the Brexit
PostPosted: Sat Jul 21, 2018 9:10 
User avatar

Joined: 30th Mar, 2008
Posts: 32618
Another excellent post from Chris Grey. He mentions that recent poll where 51% of people said they believe no deal is better than a bad deal. I’ve often wondered what those people think no deal means. When you dig into the shrieking commenters on Twitter, they usually fall back to “but of course medicines will still arrive and planes will still fly and we’ll go to Spain on holiday, like before we joined the EU” ie. they think ‘no deal’ is ‘quite a lot of deal actually.’ It’s so frustrating.

https://twitter.com/chrisgreybrexit/sta ... 42305?s=21


Top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject: Re: Taking the Brexit
PostPosted: Tue Jul 24, 2018 16:15 
User avatar

Joined: 30th Mar, 2008
Posts: 32618
Raab's first full week as Chief Brexit Guy is going well

https://twitter.com/PickardJE/status/10 ... 4861692928




Top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject: Re: Taking the Brexit
PostPosted: Tue Jul 24, 2018 16:23 
User avatar
Excellent Painter

Joined: 30th Apr, 2008
Posts: 7315
Location: Behind you
I had to be cajoled and escorted out of one of my local restaurants last night when I spotted Dominic Cummings at a nearby table. The urge to render him to a bloody pulp was frighteningly (for HC, who had to ask me to leave before I went and beat him senseless) powerful. I'm not normally prone to violence at all, but he's one of an increasingly large number of cunts involved in fucking over the country for Brexit that I find myself wistfully imagining great harm upon.

_________________
twitter || website
Malibu Stacy. Everybody's favourite back seat driver


Top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject: Re: Taking the Brexit
PostPosted: Tue Jul 24, 2018 16:26 
User avatar

Joined: 30th Mar, 2008
Posts: 32618
Yeah. I'd have reacted similarly.

Meanwhile, in bullshit coming out of Raab's mouth news, we have gone from "Brexit is gonna be great" to "Well, Brexit certainly won't leave you with inadequate food."

https://twitter.com/lisaocarroll/status ... 2884249602




Top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject: Re: Taking the Brexit
PostPosted: Tue Jul 24, 2018 16:27 
User avatar
Hibernating Druid

Joined: 27th Mar, 2008
Posts: 49105
Location: Standing on your mother's Porsche
Is it Civil War time yet?

_________________
SD&DG Illustrated! Behance Bleep Bloop

'Not without talent but dragged down by bass turgidity'


Top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject: Re: Taking the Brexit
PostPosted: Tue Jul 24, 2018 16:39 
User avatar

Joined: 30th Mar, 2008
Posts: 32618
Sigh

https://twitter.com/jamesrbuk/status/10 ... 9048153090




Top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject: Re: Taking the Brexit
PostPosted: Tue Jul 24, 2018 16:40 
User avatar
Isn't that lovely?

Joined: 30th Mar, 2008
Posts: 10910
Location: Devon
Raab's not even in charge of Brexit anymore, Theresa May's office is taking over and Raab will deputise if needs be.

_________________
Where's the Kaboom? I was expecting an Earth shattering Kaboom!


Top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject: Re: Taking the Brexit
PostPosted: Tue Jul 24, 2018 16:59 
SupaMod
User avatar
Est. 1978

Joined: 27th Mar, 2008
Posts: 69502
Location: Your Mum
Still "nonsense on stilts" is a great phrase.

_________________
Grim... wrote:
I wish Craster had left some girls for the rest of us.


Top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject: Re: Taking the Brexit
PostPosted: Tue Jul 24, 2018 17:04 
User avatar
Isn't that lovely?

Joined: 30th Mar, 2008
Posts: 10910
Location: Devon
Oh I wasn't disputing that at all. It just seems even more silly having a new brexit minister and then immediately telling them they are not trusted to do brexit.

_________________
Where's the Kaboom? I was expecting an Earth shattering Kaboom!


Top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject: Re: Taking the Brexit
PostPosted: Tue Jul 24, 2018 17:44 
SupaMod
User avatar
Commander-in-Cheese

Joined: 30th Mar, 2008
Posts: 49232
Good old Private Eye


You do not have the required permissions to view the files attached to this post.

_________________
GoddessJasmine wrote:
Drunk, pulled Craster's pork, waiting for brdyime story,reading nuts. Xz


Top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject: Re: Taking the Brexit
PostPosted: Tue Jul 24, 2018 17:44 
User avatar

Joined: 12th Apr, 2008
Posts: 17757
Location: Oxford
Zardoz wrote:
Is it Civil War time yet?


The Union forever!


Top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject: Re: Taking the Brexit
PostPosted: Tue Jul 24, 2018 18:31 
User avatar
Hello Hello Hello

Joined: 11th May, 2008
Posts: 13381
Cras wrote:
Good old Private Eye


Have you had that one delivered already? I don't have that one yet.


Top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject: Re: Taking the Brexit
PostPosted: Tue Jul 24, 2018 19:15 
SupaMod
User avatar
Commander-in-Cheese

Joined: 30th Mar, 2008
Posts: 49232
No, saw it up on Twitter

_________________
GoddessJasmine wrote:
Drunk, pulled Craster's pork, waiting for brdyime story,reading nuts. Xz


Top
 Profile  
 
Display posts from previous:  Sort by  
Reply to topic  [ 6503 posts ]  Go to page Previous  1 ... 75, 76, 77, 78, 79, 80, 81 ... 131  Next

All times are UTC [ DST ]


Who is online

Users browsing this forum: Columbo, Vogons and 0 guests


You cannot post new topics in this forum
You cannot reply to topics in this forum
You cannot edit your posts in this forum
You cannot delete your posts in this forum
You cannot post attachments in this forum

Search within this thread:
cron
You are using the 'Ted' forum. Bill doesn't really exist any more. Bogus!
Want to help out with the hosting / advertising costs? That's very nice of you.
Are you on a mobile phone? Try http://beex.co.uk/m/
RIP, Owen. RIP, MrC.

Powered by a very Grim... version of phpBB © 2000, 2002, 2005, 2007 phpBB Group.