Rolling Brexit Links/UK politics in the neo-Weimar era

haha yes!

I'm told Boris Johnson has made clear to Tory right he WILL end EU free movement after Telegraph column y'day angered ppl.

The big think-pieces drying up today, huh

Farage:

"You all laughed at me. Well, you're not laughing now, are you?"
― stet, Tuesday, 28 June 2016 10:47

Farage is Walder Frey.

Here's Farage's speech if you can stomach it.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-36650014

Family rifts over Brexit: ‘I can barely look at my parents’

Jamie, 28, grew up in a council flat with a single mother who worked hard to make their difficult life better for her children. “I’ve always been so proud of her for all the things she sacrificed for us. She’s warm, kind, generous and funny. She has such acute sympathy that she’s been known to cry hearing about the illness of other people’s relatives. Oh, and she also hates immigrants.”

It is not a prejudice that Jamie shares. “My mum voted to leave the EU because she doesn’t want non-British citizens here. Despite the fact that my brother and I have been extremely vocal about our reasons for staying in, she’s chosen to vote out because she doesn’t like the local Asian population. It makes no sense to me.

“When she tells me wildly embellished stories about how disgusting the local peaceful, quiet, mostly elderly immigrant community are, I laugh at her and calmly tell her she’s wrong. Most of the time, I can see past her views. But right now, I’m angry and ashamed.”

https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2016/06/another-media-setup/

Craig Murray is an unreliable weirdo but this did raise eyebrows. I didn't know the Pride heckler was a PR.

Has farage had a proper job? Wasn't he a trader? Did he have some old productive work I haven't heard about?

Wasn't he a commodity broker for a while?

He worked on the London Metals Exchange, the only open-outcry exchange left in Europe (and the exchange with the highest levels of drunkenness, allegedly).

Stephen Crabb is standing for Tory leader

too ugly

bit of a sideways move?

xp the Corbyn Pride heckler was outed as a PR shill almost the second the footage was made public. Corbyn was at the Orlando vigil with all of the shadow cabinet and has gone to Pride and similar longer than that silly little twink yuppie has been alive.

Why is Farage like he is? When he says "you're not laughing now" he's practically reverberating with emotion. I'm really intrigued by the psychology / identity politics of it.

have you ever heard of egomania

Well yeah, but why is he also a fascist, why does he have this victim thing going on?

Oh, his dad left the family home when Nige was 5.

xp That's basically what fascism is?

And was an alcoholic.

That's what he is but why.

MPs are choosing between Watson and Angela Eagle to be the Corbyn challenger, Sky says

Oh, his dad left the family home when Nige was 5.

someone could find this sort of thing very offensive Hey Bob

cool we've reached the pop psychoanalysis bit of the links thread

Sept 9th for announcement of new Tory leader

Corbyn loses no confidence vote 172 to 40

212 out of 229(?) voted

Corrected figs from @iainjwatson: 176 no confidence, 40 support, 4 abstentions

Passed an old Greek guy in the street earlier, "The English! They've gone crayzy!" Don't think he was too sane himself though.

George Eaton Verified account
‏@georgeeaton

40 MPs back Corbyn. That means he'd need 10 MEPs if not on the ballot automatically.

https://twitter.com/georgeeaton/status/747816359325761537

That Farage speech is O_O. EU has UK over a barrel and he's just baring his ass and telling them to pucker up. Reminded of Rhodes in Day of the Dead, pointlessly frothing and indignant to the bitter end as he's being pulled to pieces.

Kippers will be lapping up Farage (and Nuttall) behaviour in Euro Parliament. I'm a bit surprised The Sun still aren't cheering him on in public.

The Sun is behaving very oddly. That they've even admitted this is having a "rocky start" is unusual too.

Ben Judah
‏@b_judah
As in the USSR, there is immensely charismatic out of control Boris promising a fraudulent "independence" the elite are unable to check.

Can only be a matter of time before the tanks roll in to shell Parliament.

Any chance of a revolution? Or is this inherently one, just in totally the wrong direction.
Is there any way this won't be negative for way too many.

http://steve-patterson.com/less-than-1000-brits-googled-what-is-the-eu-after-referendum/

https://medium.com/@carlgardner/for-britains-sake-how-we-can-solve-this-crisis-d4b20492b303#.yjz03217k

One of the 40 who voted for Corbyn has now recanted so he's down to 39.

Paul Mason is reporting that if Corbyn wins, he'll devolve more power to the members and put mandatory reselection in place so MPs can be replaced if they don't have the backing of their local party.

https://www.amazon.com/Pounded-Pound-Socioeconomic-Implications-European-ebook/dp/B01HJXVP8G?ie=UTF8&ref_=asap_bc#navbar

Humorous gay erotica writer Chuck Tingle's newest book Pounded By The Pound: Turned Gay By The Socioeconomic Implications Of Britain Leaving The European Union.

George Eaton so take with a massive pinch of salt but he's reporting that the reason nobody has challenged Corbyn officially is that they still think he'll resign, which is optimistic.

It's pretty funny to see part of the anti-Corbyn group stomping their feet, abusing him and the "£3 members" and generally acting like spoiled children and another section saying "Corbyn needs to go immediately but in a leadership election against someone supporting an end to free movement / who voted for Iraq / etc I'd vote for him".

@JenWilliamsMEN: Wow. Farage on Mcr's racist tram thugs: 'I'd say to them that if they had those feelings those feelings should not be as strong this week'

xyzzz was asking in the other thread about what the work on the civil service/whitehall side might look like - think this might be a solid guess:

http://infacts.org/henry-viii-perils-brexit/
https://www.ucl.ac.uk/constitution-unit/research/europe/index/edit/constitution-unit/research/europe/briefing-papers/briefing-paper-1

might be some shortcuts, but this is just digital govt geeks taking a guess:
https://twitter.com/richardjpope/status/747788280192708609

tx looking now.

https://twitter.com/LOS_Fisher/status/747682225143984128

TIMES POLL: Should Jeremy Corbyn resign?
Public: 49% Yes, 30% No
Labour voters: 54% No, 35% Yes
(YouGov/Times)

Oh the fannies

There's obligations to be met to be the official opposition in the HofC. Lab now can't meet then. Tomorrow the SNP will seek to replace them
https://twitter.com/PeteWishart/status/747898026157608965

https://i.imgflip.com/16lg9z.jpg

@tnewtondunn Wow, Merkel wants a #Brexit rethink. Chf of stf Peter Altmaier, UK "should have the possibility to reconsider the consequences of an exit"

The Associated Press ‏@AP 10m10 minutes ago
BREAKING: Germany's Merkel says she sees no way to reverse British EU exit vote.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/brexit-parliament-cameron-merkel-corbyn-1.3655607

http://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/a-perilous-nationalism-at-brexit?mbid=gnep&intcid=gnep&google_editors_picks=true

Dutch PM Rutte gives delay on Art 50 triggering, because: "England has collapsed politically, monetarily, constitutionally and economically"

^ gets it.