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

Which makes you wonder who would want to be a councillor.

This estimable thread illustrates, if not fully explains: Local councillors

It does !

pothole inspection fetishists

Great lost Fall title.

people with a long-standing need to be photographed pointing at street furniture

― Django Chutney (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 30 March 2017 15:46 (six hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I wanted to be able to click a "like" button then.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/mar/31/future-of-gibraltar-at-stake-in-brexit-negotiations

if we go to war with spain it's really gonna fuck up my summer holiday plans :(

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-ELiV8dgUxiQ/TzgZwaDzN0I/AAAAAAAAArY/V6VNmBDkx-8/s1600/Screen%2Bshot%2B2012-02-12%2Bat%2B2.57.34%2BPM.png

surprised the Remain vote was so overwhelming there, always assume sunshine expats are the lowest of the low, politically

like I could imagine them all voting to leave the EU without thinking for 2 seconds of where that might lead. suppose that's more likely among the Costa del Retirement crew maybe.

They typically go to Spain to shop iirc.

“an implacable, marmoreal and rock-like resistance”

for goodness sake, STFU BJ.

Noodle Vague and ShariVari, you guys seen that Guardian video thing about British pensioners in Spain? I have to assume the journalist intentionally went after the most loathsome people he could find, aside from the main interviewee and some of the younger people, but it was still pretty blood-boiling...

totally offtopic but..

It seems remiss that Nazi Germany never occupied Gibraltar considering how strategically important it was to Britain in WW2. Sorry I'll stfu now and nip over to wiki.

probably would've fucked off Franco I guess

haven't seen that vid Daniel, will hate-watch over the weekend

Per Wikipedia:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gibraltar#Modern_history

During World War II, Gibraltar's civilian population was evacuated (mainly to London, but also to parts of Morocco, Madeira and Jamaica) and the Rock was strengthened as a fortress. The naval base and the ships based there played a key role in the provisioning and supply of the island of Malta during its long siege. As well as frequent short runs (known as 'Club Runs') towards Malta to fly off aircraft reinforcements (initially Hurricanes but later, notably from the USN aircraft carrier Wasp, Spitfires), the critical Operation Pedestal convoy was run from Gibraltar in August 1942. This resupplied the island at a critical time in the face of concentrated air attacks from German and Italian forces. Spanish dictator Francisco Franco's reluctance to allow the German Army onto Spanish soil frustrated a German plan to capture the Rock, codenamed Operation Felix.

I'd forgotten that Franco was one of them type of entente buddies that magically disappears when it's their round!

“an implacable, marmoreal and rock-like resistance”

for goodness sake, STFU BJ.

― calzino, Friday, 31 March 2017 13:35 (four hours ago) Permalink

BJ or LJ?

I'd have used 'petrous' rather than 'rock-like', or perhaps 'Saxonian' if you want the classical pun. BJ is an amateur

or perhaps 'Saxonian' if you want the classical pun

explain this to me lj

something to do with the New wave of British heavy metal band, maybe!

haha

'saxum' = Latin for 'rock'

I can respect a learned application of obscure language or whatever, but Boris does it in a very wooden try-hard manner and lacks flair in my unqualified opinion. But as a recent infamous ILX troll showed, even 7-8 years of higher education at a venerated institute such as Goldsmiths won't polish some turds.

oh now I'm curious

the latest White Dorke sock I meant.

hahaha that surely isn't him?

I might have mis-read some ILX history, but I thought he was unmasked on the ask raccoon thread.

and I'm sure they both had a penchant for Slick Rick. But apologies if I'm wrong and slandering someone here.

oh shit you might be right

was the new guy def RT? seemed to be slightly different, idk

This could be one for the ILX Department of Forensic Sockiology Investigations. Without the search facility working it is very hard to process all the various strands of this case!

was the new guy def RT? seemed to be slightly different, idk

No doubt whatsoever.

gibraltar vote is hugely remain less bcz they shop in spain than that a significant proportion *work* there (they're not a retiree community), which requires daily freedom of movement

Wight Dorke seemed to be just another trash DiS hipster with cool opinions at the time, if this is true his descent into full batshit reactionism is almost heartening

tbf with bitter, stalkery trolls the personal politics are an irrelevance, i doubt he is your actual EDL simp

Joey Ayoub 🌹‏Verified account @joeyayoub Mar 31

The breakup of the UK should be decided by a random Indian or Pakistani official

LOL @ hopeless Spiked guy being all Hard(man) Brexit on that terrible programme w/ Nicky Campbell.

... talking of posh trolls.

Oh fuck, they've dredged up Obergruppenfuhrer Mark Littlewood.

https://s30.postimg.org/9i3nf7f41/IMG_0072.jpg

https://s11.postimg.org/rxaithkwj/IMG_0071.jpg

Looking forward to the proposed reintroduction of the £1 note, smallpox and Myra Hindley.

Time to bring back these bad boys...

http://www.mirfieldmemories.co.uk/images/coins/five_pound_note1944.jpg

nobody but a liar or somebody who was mentally ill would describe a passport colour as a source of humiliation

https://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm/cmallparty/register/flags-and-heraldry.htm

Title
Flags and Heraldry All-Party Parliamentary Group

Purpose
To promote the flying of the Union Flag and flags associated with the UK, British territories, dependencies, the Commonwealth, heraldry, British symbols and related issues.

lol Tom Watson is one of the vice-chairs. also, a guy from the SNP, which seems a little...odd?

is Heffer calling for Great British Scientists to drop the use of SI measurements btw?

these people are so abject

there's something to be said for having enough money that you can wear a lot of tweed, sit in the pub all day and just make up any old shite that comes into your head without having to understand what the world outside the snug looks like

No, you see we're the ones that are completely out of touch with the real concerns of normal, decent people.

Simon Heffer is not normal.

> nobody but a liar or somebody who was mentally ill would describe a passport colour as a source of humiliation

Colour-blind too. Who sees an EU passport and thinks "pink"?