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

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the toast of every coast (cajunsunday), Friday, 24 June 2016 05:38 (seven years ago) link

I'd like to go out there and ask all the people who voted LEave exactly what they thought was going to happen today. Did they really think that when the sun rose that a giant cash register would ring and there'd be £350M sitting there that would have otherwise gone to the EU? Because some Leave wonk was just on BBC News being interviewed by Dimblebey and they're already backpedalling so hard on everything. Basically everyone who voted Leave voted for a fairytale fantasy that's about as real as fucking Narnia.

get on (down) / to the funky (sound) / of (snoball), Friday, 24 June 2016 05:46 (seven years ago) link

This is the worst vote to happen to Europe since Hitler. Literally, I can't think of any other situation where a public vote resulted in a worse outcome for Europe. Well of course Brexit isn't as bad as Hitler becoming Chancellor of Germany. But that's not saying much. In fact it's saying practically fuck all.

get on (down) / to the funky (sound) / of (snoball), Friday, 24 June 2016 05:52 (seven years ago) link

Fuck everything and fuck the noisy window that woke me up at 6.30am and fuck me for checking the news instead of going back to sleep

kinder, Friday, 24 June 2016 05:57 (seven years ago) link

Fucking Corbyn calling for an immediate Article 50. Fucking twat should be calling for Cameron's head, he's still talking like a sodding back bencher

stet, Friday, 24 June 2016 06:30 (seven years ago) link

yep. cameron has literally done this. it's not even an open goal. it's all he should be saying. totally feeble.

Fizzles, Friday, 24 June 2016 06:34 (seven years ago) link

Fuck waking up in Chicago horribly jetlagged and worying about this at 1am, and thinking that looking at my phone would reassure me and let me get back to sleep. I've never felt remotely this upset at a political result in my life. Apart from anything else this is going to be unbelievably bad at work (academia), so many ways this is fucked.

toby, Friday, 24 June 2016 06:45 (seven years ago) link

what, he should go on the telly and 50-odd percent of the electorate that david cameron is a bad person for allowing them the success they just had?

the ghost of tom, choad (thomp), Friday, 24 June 2016 06:45 (seven years ago) link

and TELL obv.

the lolguardian lolliveblog has some pages from the script labour MPs have been given ... and promptly leaked to someone at the FT ...

the ghost of tom, choad (thomp), Friday, 24 June 2016 06:46 (seven years ago) link

now more than ever what labour leads is petty, goalless rebellion with no clear goals other than to further reduce their own standing

the ghost of tom, choad (thomp), Friday, 24 June 2016 06:47 (seven years ago) link

If I see the front page of any pro-leave newspaper this morning I think I will vomit.

I wanna whole Dior hand (ledge), Friday, 24 June 2016 06:52 (seven years ago) link

The baby boomers had one last flourish eh

imago, Friday, 24 June 2016 06:53 (seven years ago) link

Thomp: yes, because he is talking to Labour voters, who either are remain or are out for reasons that only a Labour-led exit negotiation could deliver. Either way he has to get Cameron to go

stet, Friday, 24 June 2016 06:54 (seven years ago) link

i don't think it'll make the papers this morning. tomorrow though.

koogs, Friday, 24 June 2016 06:55 (seven years ago) link

I think that will be taken care of for him. Xp

On a Raqqa tip (ShariVari), Friday, 24 June 2016 06:56 (seven years ago) link

"I don't know barely anyone who's been to war. Who needs all this multilateral nonsense. See you in Switzerland!"

― El Tomboto, Friday, 24 June 2016 05:25 (1 hour ago) Permalink

ding ding ding.

brexit is like the political version of those moms who say "I don’t know anyone who’s died of smallpox recently, so I don’t think I’ll have my child immunized."

wizzz! (amateurist), Friday, 24 June 2016 06:59 (seven years ago) link

is kate hoey popular in her constituency

conrad, Friday, 24 June 2016 07:04 (seven years ago) link

Half the FTSE has failed to open, fucking hell

stet, Friday, 24 June 2016 07:09 (seven years ago) link

Xp She's always been a funny one. Good at the local level but chair of the countryside alliance and pro fox hunting. Anti war and usually rebels in all the right votes - but now this so fuck her.

I wanna whole Dior hand (ledge), Friday, 24 June 2016 07:12 (seven years ago) link

Given that a lot of Corbyn's supporters in Labour presumably voted to Remain, I guess it's a pretty smart move for the Blairites to put all the blame on him and force a new leadership contest.

ǂbait (seandalai), Friday, 24 June 2016 07:13 (seven years ago) link

Barclays opened down 30%, RBS 35%.

On a Raqqa tip (ShariVari), Friday, 24 June 2016 07:14 (seven years ago) link

Chris Ship from ITV is reporting an unconfirmed story that Cameron is resigning today.

On a Raqqa tip (ShariVari), Friday, 24 June 2016 07:15 (seven years ago) link

so is Laura K

xyzzzz__, Friday, 24 June 2016 07:17 (seven years ago) link

sarah wollaston mp on bbc speaking sympathetically

conrad, Friday, 24 June 2016 07:20 (seven years ago) link

hey american cousins worried about war, don't worry we're still in the tip-top internationalist organization that really counts

Exit Poles (Noodle Vague), Friday, 24 June 2016 07:20 (seven years ago) link

Douglas Murphy ‏@entschwindet Jun 16

Is it possible that the only global influence Britain has left is to trigger the endgame to the 2008 crash?

xyzzzz__, Friday, 24 June 2016 07:20 (seven years ago) link

he's gone

schlump, Friday, 24 June 2016 07:22 (seven years ago) link

this fucking country

the hallouminati (lex pretend), Friday, 24 June 2016 07:22 (seven years ago) link

Cameron fought this campaign in the only way he knows how

obv

Exit Poles (Noodle Vague), Friday, 24 June 2016 07:22 (seven years ago) link

"there will be no immediate change in your circumstances" - that's bloody reassuring

ǂbait (seandalai), Friday, 24 June 2016 07:22 (seven years ago) link

PM resigns - not immediate, but by October.

xyzzzz__, Friday, 24 June 2016 07:23 (seven years ago) link

it bloody doesn't look like that a very fucking clear decision.

Fizzles, Friday, 24 June 2016 07:24 (seven years ago) link

The last leadership campaign took three months.

Dan Hannan was apparently talking about "phased repatriation" on the radio this morning.

On a Raqqa tip (ShariVari), Friday, 24 June 2016 07:25 (seven years ago) link

LOL his voice was breaking.

xyzzzz__, Friday, 24 June 2016 07:26 (seven years ago) link

can't wait to have a real legend in charge

Exit Poles (Noodle Vague), Friday, 24 June 2016 07:26 (seven years ago) link

looking forward to Farage disbanding UKIP later

Exit Poles (Noodle Vague), Friday, 24 June 2016 07:28 (seven years ago) link

The most poisoned chalice I can remember is about to be offered around the top end of the Conservative party.

Tim, Friday, 24 June 2016 07:30 (seven years ago) link

Cameron has resigned - why am I not happy?

xyzzzz__, Friday, 24 June 2016 07:30 (seven years ago) link

We deserve a general election to choose who leads these negotiations, not the fucking 1922

stet, Friday, 24 June 2016 07:30 (seven years ago) link

LOL his voice was breaking.

shouted "don't you *dare* shed any tears" at that point.

Fizzles, Friday, 24 June 2016 07:31 (seven years ago) link

have we got a list of anybody funny who promised to leave the country?

http://www.jhbooks.com/pictures/137370.jpg (Noodle Vague), Friday, 24 June 2016 07:31 (seven years ago) link

theresa may surely. she's been totally silent throughout the campaign.

Fizzles, Friday, 24 June 2016 07:32 (seven years ago) link

well i consider myself vindicated in my corbyn comment

the ghost of tom, choad (thomp), Friday, 24 June 2016 07:32 (seven years ago) link

ah, xpost.

Fizzles, Friday, 24 June 2016 07:32 (seven years ago) link

Cameron has resigned - why am I not happy?

― xyzzzz__, Friday, June 24, 2016 8:30 AM (52 seconds ago)

Because as bad as Cameron is, his replacement is going to be a complete cock. And the public have absolutely no say in who that cock is going to be (unless you happen to be a member of the Tory party).

get on (down) / to the funky (sound) / of (snoball), Friday, 24 June 2016 07:33 (seven years ago) link

Hey, at least we'll get a new hospital built every week now with that £350m we're going to get.

Fuck this country.

Just noise and screaming and no musical value at all. (Colonel Poo), Friday, 24 June 2016 07:35 (seven years ago) link

I know the ans to my own question btw.

xyzzzz__, Friday, 24 June 2016 07:36 (seven years ago) link

Don't really see how Cameron's successor can really trigger Article 50 unless they've won a General Election first?

get on (down) / to the funky (sound) / of (snoball), Friday, 24 June 2016 07:39 (seven years ago) link

We deserve a general election to choose who leads these negotiations, not the fucking 1922

― stet, Friday, June 24, 2016 4:30 AM (6 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

sympathetic to everyone's horror about how limp corbyn's response this morning was, but surely he shd be pushing for an election? i wd have thought there was as good a case for getting out the vote with this in the rearview mirror than at any other time

schlump, Friday, 24 June 2016 07:40 (seven years ago) link


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