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

Seeing Dubya in those tight blue jeans turned his head.

That and his psychotic will to create his legacy.

at any cost.

Oh he did that alright.

not to beat a dead horse but

that on is what throws people off i think

i mean spin lies
lies is the object right?

spinning on doesnt have an object

that preposition makes you doubt like

on should be in but then theres spinning not turning and why their
i dunno mebbe its a mistake but surely theyre wordsmiths

im just a casual reader

but spinning (a web of lies) from his/their graves

okay okay he is spinning a web of lies
spider like

and now hes on the graves of the dead british troops and civilians
big like
monster like

okay okay

i dunno

took a bit of thinkin but yer right i spose

im just a casual reader

no it's just "spinning" as in what a spin doctor does. and he's doing it on the graves of people killed in the iraq war.

^^^

spin doctors

say no more

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I thought that was Steve Kilbey posting for a moment there

Spoke to a friend who's head of a dept. at Glasgow Uni. They have people who've been working on establishing relationships with continental partners over the past decade, building Erasmus exchanges, funding research. All of it gone to shit in the past fortnight. So sad.

Are Erasmus schemes necessarily gone if Brexit goes ahead? The Uni I was at here in Galway had a lot of Americans who I assume were Erasmus. So wonder if it would mean a more complex story on funding rather than ending full stop?
Thought it a pretty vital part of some courses, languages especially.

American students have a separate Year Abroad programme. The UK could potentially still stay in Erasmus if it stays within the EEA (Norway, Turkey, etc still qualify) but leaving all forms of economic union / freedom of movement arrangements would probably end it.

Jeez

No way of saying this without sounding incredibly mawkish but I've seen genuine understandings develop between people from different countries on Erasmus courses. Not just 3AM spliffepiphanies either, I mean like Turks and Greeks and Irish and Northern Irish young people having a multi-way discussion about their situations etc

(Which seemed somehow to be facilitated by being in the UK as a neutral backdrop with lots of pubs they could go in)

Interesting take on what neutral means to an irish person tbh

Erasmus is definitely A Good Thing but it's only one part of a broader international student picture and the whole sector is in turmoil. I was at a conference for international student support officers last week and nobody has an idea of what happens next. There has been a battle in the cabinet for years between May, who puts reducing migration numbers ahead of the economic benefits of international students, and Osborne, who prefers to have the $8bn a year they contribute to the country. If, as seems inevitable, May is the next PM, that has the potential to radically change the whole industry. Even without that, we probably have at least two years of uncertainty and sector-wide paralysis, not to mention the clear message that the UK is increasingly hostile towards outsiders. It's a gift to Ireland, tbh.

some great nominative determinism:

As well as omitting mention of her family buy-to-let business, Leadsom’s CV also glosses over her directorship at Seaperfect, a company that invested heavily in clam and scallop farming in Chile and America during the 90s.

However, the company lost millions after the investments failed and her brother in law, Peter de Putron, subsequently took control of the business through an offshore vehicle called Wildernesse Holdings. Leadsom, working under her maiden name of Andrea Salmon, became a director of Seaperfect from February 1998 to May 1999.

put that in your lobster pot, stephen crabb

she still seems to be acting a bit koi about making her tax return public

yeah, it does all sound very fishy to me ..

I am pretty sure Marcus Fysh MP is one of the 66 who voted for her.

C'mon, this is the party with an MP called Fabricant.

you couldn't make it up

So called, i believe, because of his Fabricated hair

http://i1.birminghammail.co.uk/incoming/article336807.ece/ALTERNATES/s615/fabricant.jpg

He is a fascinating creature, the Fabricant.

Its a combi word.

There's Fabri, from fabrication...

& cant cos he loves Emmanuel but can't spell?

... and Cant, from his hypocritical and sanctimonious talk, right?

At the very least.

Feel like Peter de Putron is being overlooked here

Indeed, he's like something from some 13th century text.

Bloody Normans, coming over here with their yokes etc etc

Leadsom said she did not like the gay marriage law. She would prefer to offer equality by letting heterosexual people have civil partnerships, she said.

Theresa May, the home secretary and favourite in the Tory leadership contest, has accused her rival Andrea Leadsom of being willing to let foreign criminals stay in the UK. Picking up on Leadsom’s declaration in her speech that she would let EU nationals who are in the UK legally remain after Brexit (see 9.49am), a spokesman for the May campaign said:

Andrea Leadsom’s commitment to give permanent residence to foreign criminals is concerning - and is exactly the kind of misjudgment that her inexperience can cause. That’s why we need strong, proven leadership - something only Theresa can offer.

What a fabulous choice the party has.

oh the tory electorate will be loving this stuff

foreign criminals stealing the jobs of our fine english burglars

Or marrying them - i don't know which is considered worse these days.

Maybe you shouldn't laugh but Leadsomites on the march.

If that was old b/w Pathe footage none of them would sound out of time, timeless braying poshos!

jesus how do you reason with some of these people if not at gunpoint?

Leadsomites on the march

read this as "Leadsodomites"

Leadsomoids

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CmxAy9AWcAAB4kV.jpg

new shakespeare play

;)

could totally see a play in the vein of king charles iii

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CmxC0HXWEAA6QAf.jpg

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/jul/07/angry-remain-voter-working-class-division-britain

otm but it's like poking a nest of very radge ants

things i've learned about andrea leadsom today:

- her cv has so many holes she must have stolen it from the trypophobia thread
- disagrees with gay marriage as it's insensitive to homophobes
- wants to scrap hs2, eh so what
- intends to hold a vote to repeal the ban on fox hunting
- hates molluscs