Psychoactive Substances: Rolling UK Politics in The Neo-Con Era

there's a fearmongering/defeatist tone in the guardian that's really feeling damaging in this campaign.

A land without Polish plumbers, the end of the Calais booze trip and no more need to learn tricky foreign languages … Welcome to post-EU Britain

http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/jun/15/brexit-survival-guide-freeze-cheese-holidays-albania

it really feels like it's getting into "don't bother voting" territory.

Meanwhile, lots of entertainment to be had watching "Sir" Philip Green having a stand up fight with allcomers on the Select Committee.

He just broke off an answer to ask Richard Fuller MP to “stop staring” at him, as it’s making him uncomfortable.

Fuller insists he doesn’t want to make Green uncomfortable, as everyone stares at Green in disbelief.

Given the UK will effectively be in the EU for some time even if Leave wins, the short term effect would presumably be a lot of people trying to get into the country while they still can? ie it could actually increase migration in the short term?

could be balanced out by the people trying to escape this nuthouse?

Independent Scotland will welcome them with open arms.

I was thinking of moving to Dublin.

Need your passport for that.

I know we're not in the habit of quoting Guardian commenters with approval, but silkmonkey here mirrors my own state of anxiety at the moment:

https://discussion.theguardian.com/comment-permalink/76427843

peter_brentiskew
15 June 2016 12:48pm
I am getting increasingly happy and upbeat as the polls awing towards Brexit.

It's a great time to be British. About to lead the way to a better future for Europe by shattering the misguided EU.

I just can't imagine how someone's perception could be scrambled enough to believe this is a great time to be British.

when is it ever a great time to be British?

Who is ever "british"?

Apart from yknow the orangemen

was just thinking on the way to work what a difference 4 years make, how it DID feel good in 2012 with the olympics and all.

Still, though, Boris and the zip-line.

(xxp) deems about as otm as it's possible to be.

Farrage and Geldoff are literally fighting on boats in the Thames, right? wtf

What a time to be alive!

The 17th century!

end times, yeah

I want to shoot the whole day down.

spent the morning intermittently praying for them to all sink or be washed away in a deluge

https://scontent-lhr3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/13445600_10153510820561644_8352904423666611749_n.jpg?oh=6eaa097e205b164c4f24ffe20f5aceac&oe=5805226F

^^^ Was just about to post that myself. Glorious.

:)))))

lol

"A trawler once involved in Britain's biggest fishing fraud and now owned by a Sunday Times Rich List millionaire is an unfortunate choice to lead a flotilla supposed to represent a fishing industry on its last leg because of Brussels. But it's also an unwitting clue to where the real problem lies. It's not the EU but the grossly unfair division of fish quota rubber stamped by successive UK governments that's threatening the livelihoods of thousands of small-scale fishers."

http://www.greenpeace.org.uk/media/press-releases/brexit-flotilla%E2%80%99s-star-trawler-was-involved-%C2%A363m-fishing-fraud-20160615

Facebook and geldof have both been pointing out that Nigel himself was our mep in charge of fishing quotas and he went to exactly 1 meeting in his time. I wonder how true this is.

Also fishing quotas, like taxes, are there for a reason

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-06-15/yellen-says-brexit-vote-influenced-fed-call-to-hold-rates-steady

DON'T
SWALLOW
DAVE'S
PORK
PIES

Leave have taken to flyposting the above around the place, probably to get the cockney vote. took me a while to work out what they were for (it does say VOTE LEAVE underneath but in smaller font)

"FACK ME, THIS GEEZER SPEAKS MY LANGUAGE, 'E'S DEFINITELY GOT MY VOTE"

maybe not

there is some subliminal pig fucking imagery in there, genius!

Are the Anarchists saying "Vote Leave", because then there'd be, um, you know, anarchy and suchlike?

It's only just sinking in that we could be about to enter the final week of David Cameron's Premiership, and no matter how much of a destructive and divisive failure it was, what's probably coming is going to be much worse.

stoked 4 da madness

Also trying to work out which of Osborne's tax and cuts threat or Farage's literal horde of brown people is going to backfire the worst.

Osborne's "punishment budget" was probably his stupidest move yet.
https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/76ae1de38b2bb6b0892012e1636b9de73517a693/0_0_650_444/master/650.jpg?w=700&q=55&auto=format&usm=12&fit=max&s=3ce1690839d7ee8eebae09a2e8c6af7c

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxXsEFajtrI

every time I see alasdair darling these days he's on stage with some odious tories

these days?

thank you

Boom.

Nominative determinism

Fucking hell

https://twitter.com/Channel4News/status/743426961683451904

holy shit that is just up the road from me, hope she is ok.

Jesus

It's being reported the attacker was in their late sixties or early seventies and had a homemade gun. This is completely bizarre and horrifying.

And shouted "Britain First"

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/live-jo-cox-shot-birstall-8207676

Christ :( And the Vote Leave bellends on twitter are already starting with the 'false flag' nonsense ...

Yeah, couldn't believe the second comment I saw was 'false flag'. Jesus christ, what the actual fuck?