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

the plot thickens https://twitter.com/PaulKGB/status/788000120591777792

http://i.imgur.com/JU56ur9.png

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/britain-just-got-its-first-concrete-sign-that-brexit-will-destroy-the-economy-a7152306.html

Let's all laugh @ UKIP, an ongoing series

Cardomon, that first concrete evidence is from July. Wondering if its even worse now.

In the BBC interview, Mr Woolfe said he had told Mr Hookem "let's go outside and discuss this man-to-man"

Its "mano el mano" get it right ffs.

None of that foreign shite.

I love it when Kippers try to use European expressions...

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/brexit-senior-conservative-mps-seize-on-a-forgotten-government-pledge-to-let-parliament-decide-the-a7366316.html

I think the chances of May being able to invoke Article 50 without a legal challenge from someone seem very slim.

stoked for the madness

good luck uk

Had someone done something about restricting royal prerogative over the last 200 years it might be an interesting line of enquiry but I can't see any legal challenge being successful as it is.

I think the chances of May being able to invoke Article 50 without a legal challenge from someone seem very slim.

There's a pretty serious challenge being heard in the High Court right now. I think the Govt. will win, though.

FM 17 has got in on the Brexit debate

http://i.imgur.com/mIaZbxL.jpg

shit just got real

FM18: league cancelled as remoaners herded into larger stadiums while all small grounds converted to allotments in Dig for the New British Empire campaign

There's a pretty serious challenge being heard in the High Court right now. I think the Govt. will win, though.

This morning it has turned into a win-win for Bremoainairners. I think. The case is hinging on whether or not Article 50 is reversible. If it isn't, then triggering it will mean people lose rights granted under EU treaties (eg to appeal to the EU courts), and that's a power reserved to parliament — so parliament has to vote and it can't be done under prerogative.

If it *is* reversible, then then govt very likely wins the case and so can trigger A50 — but — then it has conceded it can be reversed and we get two years to do as Tusk suggests and spell out the real economic consequences of this to an electorate that is already starting to realise all may not be quite right here, with the hope of another vote or something to shitcan this awful idea.

The very juicy part of that last one, though, is that the govt would have to *prove* it can be reversed, and the High Court is likely to say it can't rule on that, will send it the Supreme Court, which has to refer it to the ECJ. Christ it might finally give Dacre a fatal stroke to think that a EURO JUDGE gets to RULE ON OUR SOVEREIGNTY

L O L

http://www.politico.eu/article/theresa-may-commits-to-targeted-visa-immigration-system-uk-government-hard-brexit/

May has also asked the taskforce to help cut migration numbers by “making it harder for illegal immigrants to stay in the country.”

Makes you wonder how they work out how many people to add on top of the figure for those moving here legally.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/10/18/british-tea-jam-and-biscuits-will-be-at-the-heart-of-britains-br/

i see we're back at a trade strategy built round comedy marmalades

also lol where/how are british teas grown exactly? as picked by prison-camp coolies in the post-climate-change plantations i guess

it will be uniquely British tea made from domestic ingredients like erm.. dandelions, nettles and purple loosestrife

BEEF TEA

ROAST BEEF TEA

things that we can't even grow and processed foods that can practically be produced anywhere is a real fucking winner!

(haha bcz i am very old and brought up in the actual real country, my brain spasmed briefly towards a "well, actually… " when you said nettles etc)

my pisshead granddad used to make dandelion/nettle tea when he was skint, but that was Irish ingenuity!

Actually tea is grown in Scotland and in Cornwall. It's quite expensive though. I had a fine caddy of Xmas Chai grown in the Dalreoch Estate lsdy Christmas . I think you were aware of this mark?

rich tea? yes
bourbons? NO
jaffa cakes? NO
gypsy creams? NO
shrewsbury biscuits? *grimaces briefly* yes i suppose so

What's the Scottish one called? You'll Have Had Your?

lol scotland will be back in europe and off the list in no time flat

as will hobnobs apparently (and mcvities generally)

tunnock's teacakes? NO

for tom
http://weeteacompany.com/index.php/scottish-tea.html

Abernethy? YES (surprisingly)

wee tea is even less enticing than dandelion tea imo

c'mon they've got their own kirk and everything

also the french for dandelion is pissenlit = piss the bed) but i guess we aren't trying to tell it there anyway

sell it there i mean (sorry for typos i'm watching a gripping film feat.keanu reeves as a disgraced samurai)

That's what we called them when I was growing up. Piss-the-beds, that is.

I think it might be interesting to watch Larry Elliott over the coming months: https://www.theguardian.com/business/2016/oct/16/let-the-pound-fall-and-the-economy-rise

He is probably the one pro-Brexit voice that doesn't make me scream, except I do now and then. In the above you are following the logic and then you get this:

Will dearer food and the coming squeeze on living standards will prompt a change of heart about Brexit? Remainers should not bank on it. Life has not been great for many in recent years anyway. What’s more, Britain is a country with a streak of cussedness that delights in having its back to the wall.

He has said it would take a prolonged and brutal recession for him to regret his vote for Brexit #stokedForTheMadness

authentic austerity >>> spectacular austerity

^^^bold argument

Is this true Brits: Do you like having your backs to the wall? I did not know this about you..

Yeah, that's why people are still bellyaching about some bin bags being piled up in Leicester Square 37 years after it happened.

I don't think these people going to food banks for sustenance are taking selfies and labelling them #Blitz Spirit - Why aren't the Mail celebrating our backs to the wall stoicism?

No don't worry people The Graun loves ya!

anyway, in another 40 years or so, after the famine and at the beginning of the North Sea reclamation of London. The Uk will start looking more like the chain of tropical islands it allegedly was in the Cenzoic era... and then we will be able to start growing proper tea!

Proper tea is theft

kudos

Normal -uh!- tea !

https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2016/10/highland-clearances/

We do not know when they will get the 5am knock on the door and be taken into custody. They have been unable to sell the Wayfarers’ Rest, in which they invested £240,000, because just as before they came, nobody else wants to run it. In an act of supreme pettiness, the Home Office have confiscated Jason’s driving licence, which makes life in the Highlands near impossible. Also as a former pastor Jason used to pay community visits on elderly and vulnerable people in isolated locations, which he cannot now do.

Welcome to Britain!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-37700074

Monmouth MP David Davies said one of the migrants "looks older than I am"

http://ichef-1.bbci.co.uk/news/624/cpsprodpb/A418/production/_91980024_tv026806317.jpg

"If they are desperate enough to jump on lorries we need to check that they haven't had their teeth replaced with stolen kiddies' gnashers. Not to vilify anyone but just to be sure."

Do you remember in the summer when everyone thought Theresa May was a safe and competent pair of hands?