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

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

Time to bring back these bad boys...

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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"?

Gonna get a pink cover made up to put the blue one inside.

Koogs is correct. The passport is red.

Another Banks interview interesting and frustrating and depressing in equal measures
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2017/apr/02/arron-banks-interview-brexit-ukip-far-right-trump-putin-russia

it is PUCE

http://www.macmillandictionary.com/external/slideshow/full/Puce_full.png

burgundy iirc

(apologies for the #ACTUALLY there, but in my mum and dad's little 60s notebook of "hilarious and/or alarming things our small children have said" there was documentation of tiny me correcting a startled and/or disgusted guest about the colour of of a balloon -- "no the balloon is NOT purple, mrs wiggins, it is PUCE" -- so just assume i cannot help myself faced with this colour, and feel justified solidarity with mrs wiggins re the ghastly nature of the s children)

(burgundy is the colour of a PASSPORT TO PIMLICO, i'll stop now)

I used to read that this was puce - which is a different colour again, more like 'shocking pink' perhaps:

http://gingkopress.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/product_images/blast-1/c01.jpg

to be honest yes that is closer to puce as i understood it aged 4: the slab of colour i linked above is puce as understood by macmillan dictionary

also even in the early 60s not many balloons were burgundy (outside pimlico)

The BLAST colour is fuschia.

Brain's Navy is far weaker than it was during the Falklands war but could still "cripple" Spain, military experts have said.

Rear-Adml Chris Parry, a former director of operational capability at the Ministry of Defence, has called on the Government to "appropriately" invest in Britain's military capacity if it wants to "talk big" over Gibraltar.

It came as a former Tory leader suggested that Theresa May would go to war with Spain to defend the sovereignty of the peninsular just as Margaret Thatcher did with the Falklands.

Well hard Brexit.

a former Tory leader

Brexit: Lord Howard accused of 'sabre-rattling' over Gibraltar

Oh for fuck's sake

Gibraltar voted remain because they could see this stuff was likely. (As well as working in Spain - the folks I met in Gibraltar were horribly right wing, on average, but that doesn't mean their interests align with the agenda of the Tories.)

https://www.buzzfeed.com/emilydugan/these-europeans-are-already-leaving-the-uk-because-of-brexit?utm_term=.yfrMoDYR9k#.yfrMoDYR9k

Just imagine May attempting to go to war with an EU nation and NATO member at the same time as crucial Brexit negotiations.

it's so patently fucking ridiculous that i'd right it off as dementia on Howard's part and tasteless journalism on the other side

however it might give us an accurate measure of how deeply this country's fucked if we could get a headcount on people who sincerely agree with him

British passports are burgundy, with the coat of arms of the United Kingdom emblazoned in the centre of the front cover.

burgundy is of course a french invention. a pressing priority for the uk government must be to spin up puppy farms across the country, providing the british bulldog skin which will cover all post-brexit passports

jobs for all in the vast and roiling puppy-leather tanneries of theresa may's britain

At least we have our dignity as a nation back:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/apr/04/liam-fox-meets-philippine-president-rodrigo-duterte?CMP=twt_gu

idk whether this is worse than May loudly condemning a fictional ban on Easter eggs while glad-handing the Saudis but thankfully there is no need to choose.

https://www.theguardian.com/education/2017/apr/04/disabled-students-future-independence-payments-cut-benefits

The restrictions on PIP payments and the stress of the new assessment, and length of the appeals procedure is effectively making it impossible for many disabled people to pursue degree courses. I'm not familiar with it, but this must be a breach of the EU Human Rights act - not that it seems to be a big deal in the current ghastly climate.

Last month – five months after placing an appeal – Boulle had her PIP rejection overturned at tribunal. But the gruelling process has taken its toll: her condition is exacerbated by stress and she’s been collapsing from additional pain, whilst she’s also had to begin treatment for panic attacks. Several weeks after winning her appeal, Boulle still hasn’t received her backdated benefits.

still don't know anybody who hasn't had to appeal to get their PIP

My partners niece is a young adult with Down's Syndrome and I think she might have got it at the first attempt, her mother says her money is actually slightly more than the DLA was.

I saw a local guy with mental health problems and possibly an autism spectrum type recently, saying they had stopped his money and he was getting rid of his dog, because he can't afford to keep it anymore. He looks like he is physically/mentally deteriorating. It is brutal the way some people are being treated.

Still, what a disgrace about the National Trust and the Easter Egg Hunt, eh?

Well anything that evokes the 1940's (or is it the 1840's?) should be ring-fenced or encouraged (child poverty etc) by this fucking Tory Vicar's daughter.

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Got stopped by a key103 journo in Manchester today collecting vox pops from joe public on "the big story of the day". This turned out to be the national trust rebranding their egg hunt with Easter now omitted. I mumbled some stuff about not being religious, c of e country blah blah. Had granddaughter with me so threw in my anti chocolate easter takeover rant. Then refused to go through it all again for the microphone due to inarticulate. Probably says more about me than the state of the nation. But sharing is caring.

Lol Tom d got here while I was slow typing.

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the editorial inside apparently refers to the spanish people as "donkey rogerers"

Moyes pic deliberately cropped to make him look like Gibraltar

Lol. Sweet 15 quid deal to... Spain! tho.

idk whether this is worse than May loudly condemning a fictional ban on Easter eggs

This nonsense has reached your shores v quick. We've been dealing with this FAKE NEWS for several years now. Politicians crying wolf (even or prime minister) about a ban that does not exist in the real world.

The word Easter is featured quite prominently on the NT website Egg Hunt thing, btw.

https://easter.cadbury.co.uk/find-an-egg-hunt/?utm_source=nt&utm_medium=mainsite&utm_content=article1&utm_campaign=easter2016

not like the right-wing press and the CoE to make things up

hey not all eggs need to conform
https://twitter.com/bnmrsl/status/849224131623124992

What sincere Christian believer would not want the language and imagery of Christ's resurrection to be plastered all over the aggressive marketing of chocolate crap to kids by a Kraft Foods subsidiary.

Any easter egg that isn't packaged in a reproduction of Grunewald's Isenheim Altarpiece is dead to me

(also fuck Nat Trust 4 tacky shilling)

If you turn that Help For Heroes egg around there's a big picture of a mosque on the back.