the day after the deadline: can the union survive brexit and other deep questions

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Going from shooting the breeze with cheeky class traitor Wilson to being lectured to by frosty weirdo Heath.

I still see the white heat of his technology revolution every day. I think it's only use these days is as an oversized mobile phone signal booster.

think TV's probably blunted the skill badly tbh: aristocrats* as wary but brilliant diplomats, able to smile and talk their way out of any scrape feudalism can throw at you

*i'm not talking abt the merely posh, or oafs like the bullingdon mob, i'm talking abt the scene in the crown when mary of teck dismisses prince philip's family -- the schleswig-holstein-sonderburg-glücksburgs -- as parvenus, and not from a line that goes back a thousand years (a thousand years breeds formidable survival skills, the kind you don't lose over a few unrocky shallow decades sat in front of mr bean)

The newish snap election book, Betting the House (excellent btw) mentions that Corbyn gave the Queen jam for her 90th, but wouldn't let his staff tell the press.

This before or after he was pipped to the post

by mark s

it was seedless

mark seedless

Ba-dah-BA-DAH!

The newish snap election book, Betting the House (excellent btw) mentions that Corbyn gave the Queen jam for her 90th, but wouldn't let his staff tell the press.

fairly sure i read about this at the time.

yes i think the important takeaway was actually them getting on so well, the jam was the objective correlative at best

lol! first failed search result for that book: Bet the House: How I Gambled Over a Grand a Day for 30 Days on Sports, Poker, and Games of Chance

Richard Roeper

yes i think the Jam was actually them getting on so well, the important takeaway was the objective correlative at best.

I am drunk.

meant to do scorethroughs and that.

The BBC news site doesn't seem very interested in the Davis stuff...

no reason to expect anyone to feel personal ire towards her majesty, I imagine she is v magnanimous and relaxed in her meetings & she's nowhere near as bad as she could be.

She knows the value of mostly shutting the fuck up.

what vibe will charles emanate

gonna suggest some kind of haughty stoicism, coupled with concessions to moral responsibility that will just about keep him onside

Charles certainly doesn't know the value of shutting the fuck up.

on an "endless maundering" tip

Quite the quote from a DUP source to the Sun: “This is a battle of who blinks first, and we’ve cut off our eyelids."

— Shaun Walker (@shaunwalker7) December 7, 2017

hasn't Charles let it be known that he has no intention of ceasing to make interventions on controversial issues when he becomes king? so unlikely to be a late convert to mostly shutting the fuck up, plus think-skinned and whiny, seems unlikely to go well

24 hrs to go till another deadline is missed xp

Btw the Queen will live forever and we'll never get our bank hols sorry to disappoint.

The DUP, a sadistic cyclops in the kingdom of the blind.

Btw the Queen will live forever and we'll never get our bank hols sorry to disappoint.

yup. they're replacing her bit by bit. Cyberqueen.

Queen Elizabeth 2.0

She'll definitely outlive her Mum by a few years and Charles just handing it straight to Wills would endear him to the fourth estate more than he could manage as a monarch himself.

proud to live in the elizabethan era for eternity

She already outlived her mum by a few years tbf

No she hasn't

Well, not age wise..

some ppl i follow on twitter have been putting forth the amusing theory that the queen died last december and has been replaced with a lookalike while they work out when to announce the death

Yes but following these ppl isn't mandatory is it

aw no they're great

my theory which is mine: he was named charles back at the dawn of what was actually often called the "new elizabethan era", when the firm was still super-bullish about the post-war future and thought they were easily dispelling the "walked and talked an hour after his head was cut off" curse of that particular name*

at some point in the intervening years EiiR realised they hadn't and determined to outlive her firstborn, come what may

*there's also an "arthur" in there. another cursed name for royal first-borns

Flat Queen Society, Chairman BoB the rapper

dude i have posted that theory on ilx

Pleased to see regular Queen impersonator Jeannette Charles is still with us, though apparently 'retired':

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeannette_Charles

Queen Kong (1976) - HM The Queen (uncredited)
National Lampoon's European Vacation (1985) - Queen Elizabeth
Nipagesh Bachof (1987) - Queen of England
The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! (1988) - Queen Elizabeth II
Austin Powers in Goldmember (2002) - Queen

That's quite a range within range.

Blinder from @SadiqKhan on BBC news just now. pic.twitter.com/ge1rmGjuUB

— plain old DJ Artwork (@artworkmagnetic) December 6, 2017

'What does it feel like coming home?'
'Home is sarf London m8'

Khan otm

wonder how many times he's had to use that retort

who is the bolshy footman mentioned a few posts upthread? i didn't know Wilson got on so well with the Queen but it doesn't surprise me.

yeah Jeanette Charles was/is uncanny.

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2014/05/24/article-0-1DCF73FA00000578-543_638x564.jpg

David Davis is not facing contempt proceedings, so he should survive this.

who is the bolshy footman mentioned a few posts upthread?

he is entirely figurative: charles I was haughty with everyone who wasn't also a monarch and considered parliament his servants -- as everyone knows this ended badly. my sketch was an attempt to convey how this tale reads from the inside (where charles is a not-that-distant ancestral relative who might as well be an uncle of some sort)

Guess who's to blame for the UK economy's long-term problem with low productivity? Yes, it's the disabled of course!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-42265268

They constantly get away with this sort of shit though.

Was just laughing at the bit in Betting The House where Hammond was asking if the rumour he had heard that a lot of his colleagues casually refer to him as a "cunt" behind his back was true!

maybe inappropriate to ask the Queen that