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

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i think PENNYCORBS IS BAD NOT GOOD is a point of agreement so that's probably a bad lever to tug on

the good lever is WHO IS THE MOST STUBBORN IN THE LAND

mark s, Friday, 8 December 2017 09:52 (six years ago) link

good from this very particular POV i mean, in every other context it's probably as terrible as ever

mark s, Friday, 8 December 2017 09:53 (six years ago) link

.....which land

remember the lmao (darraghmac), Friday, 8 December 2017 09:53 (six years ago) link

i guess fear of pennycorbs from both dup and hardcore brexit shitlads strengthens her hand tho?

Bein' Sean Bean (LocalGarda), Friday, 8 December 2017 09:54 (six years ago) link

Likes: unionism in its many forms.
Dislikes: being reminded that we're all in it together with them (for a wide variety of thems).

Andrew Farrell, Friday, 8 December 2017 09:56 (six years ago) link

"the land" usefully unclear in this instance, further precision wrecks all

mark s, Friday, 8 December 2017 10:01 (six years ago) link

i've sat here for thinking abt an answer to LG's q and this best i can come up with is, fear of PC is what's keeping her in office, so yes in that narrow sense

i don't think there's any sense it which it makes her hand easier to play: she is going to end up giving away at least one of several farms, possibly more

mark s, Friday, 8 December 2017 10:07 (six years ago) link

minutes that could have been spent writing sentences in english, yes

mark s, Friday, 8 December 2017 10:08 (six years ago) link

.....which land

DUP most stubborn in the universe so question is redundant.

Action of Boyle Man Prompts Visitor to Stay (Tom D.), Friday, 8 December 2017 10:12 (six years ago) link

"this is the kingdom of not, which while it is not, yet is"

as sun ra teaches us

mark s, Friday, 8 December 2017 10:15 (six years ago) link

Sun Ra couldn't teach anything to these tin-eared infidels, only the gulags will teach them *something*.

calzino, Friday, 8 December 2017 10:23 (six years ago) link

brexit is finally getting good

ogmor, Friday, 8 December 2017 10:25 (six years ago) link

Sun Ra couldn't teach anything to these tin-eared infidels, only the gulags will teach them *something*.

Couple of Sun Ra titles did pop into my head, "We'll Wait For You" and "They'll Come Back".

Action of Boyle Man Prompts Visitor to Stay (Tom D.), Friday, 8 December 2017 10:28 (six years ago) link

The Nu Plebians of Brexitia

calzino, Friday, 8 December 2017 10:32 (six years ago) link

The Eurosceptic Worlds of Sun Ra

Action of Boyle Man Prompts Visitor to Stay (Tom D.), Friday, 8 December 2017 10:33 (six years ago) link

I don't really understand what the detail of this agreement actually means and but it feels like a fudge to me. The general aim seems to be to cleave as closely to the existing situation as possible while pretending the exact opposite? In which case the howls of betrayal from Tory Brexit ultras should be due any minute now.

Matt DC, Friday, 8 December 2017 11:15 (six years ago) link

It's an Irish solution to a British problem

I can see it suiting everyone tbh

remember the lmao (darraghmac), Friday, 8 December 2017 11:24 (six years ago) link

Just accidentally clicked on Torygraph piece with Farage going ham on May. The fading pay-walled tedious and angry words reminded me of that amusing comment that it creates the visual effect of walking away from the pub bore.

calzino, Friday, 8 December 2017 11:35 (six years ago) link

"Nope, its the monarch that is supreme." <- a line I've just read

xyzzzz__, Friday, 8 December 2017 11:44 (six years ago) link

Is that with cheese and ham or is that with mushroom sauce I can never remember

remember the lmao (darraghmac), Friday, 8 December 2017 11:54 (six years ago) link

arron banks also squeaking angrily

mark s, Friday, 8 December 2017 11:59 (six years ago) link

I look forward to hearing Arron Banks squeaking from a prison cell some day.

kim jong deal (suzy), Friday, 8 December 2017 12:00 (six years ago) link

This is the first time since the election that I've actually sought out Farage's opinion. Watching him pissing his pants is hugely entertaining.

On the other hand it really does hammer home the extent to which these fuckers are never going to be satisfied.

Matt DC, Friday, 8 December 2017 12:05 (six years ago) link

am i misremembering, or was there a large semi-dodgy handover of actual cash from some shadowy brexiter to the DUP election fund? if so that was money well spent, lol

mark s, Friday, 8 December 2017 12:08 (six years ago) link

Expecting leave EU lot (their twitter was hilarious when I had a quick look) to be begging Brexiteers to get a leadership challenge going.

Tory backbenchers are going to have to suck it up. Otherwise you get Corbyn. They have nowhere to go.

xyzzzz__, Friday, 8 December 2017 12:10 (six years ago) link

Ummmm ... don’t read too much into this: pic.twitter.com/muMCDt7dKL

— Faisal Islam (@faisalislam) December 8, 2017

xyzzzz__, Friday, 8 December 2017 12:14 (six years ago) link

Arron Banks retweeting people pleading with him to set up a new party of the right - just one investment of a few million could make all the difference.

Andrew Farrell, Friday, 8 December 2017 12:14 (six years ago) link

they could call it union of kingmakers in perpetuity except wait

mark s, Friday, 8 December 2017 12:17 (six years ago) link

The King beyond the G8

remember the lmao (darraghmac), Friday, 8 December 2017 12:33 (six years ago) link

Yes that is a reference to a David Gemmell fantasy from 1985

remember the lmao (darraghmac), Friday, 8 December 2017 12:33 (six years ago) link

all our pasts are coming back to haunt us

mark s, Friday, 8 December 2017 12:45 (six years ago) link

Reporter on BBC trying to explain trade deals outside the USA by talking about 'cheap chickens' - which he quickly regretted when he found out how difficult it is to keep saying 'cheap chickens'.

Action of Boyle Man Prompts Visitor to Stay (Tom D.), Friday, 8 December 2017 12:45 (six years ago) link

... outside the EU, not the USA, that's cholrinated cheap chickens.

Action of Boyle Man Prompts Visitor to Stay (Tom D.), Friday, 8 December 2017 12:46 (six years ago) link

Kentuckyfied chicken

remember the lmao (darraghmac), Friday, 8 December 2017 12:53 (six years ago) link

yummy, it tastes swimming baths water.

calzino, Friday, 8 December 2017 12:56 (six years ago) link

I could imagine (with echoes of Gummer Sr) Gove forcing his children to drink some chlorine for the cameras.

calzino, Friday, 8 December 2017 13:00 (six years ago) link

My God, he has children.

Action of Boyle Man Prompts Visitor to Stay (Tom D.), Friday, 8 December 2017 13:02 (six years ago) link

I hope not tbh.

calzino, Friday, 8 December 2017 13:03 (six years ago) link

it's impressive what you can grow in a vat nowadays

after "after cease to exist" (Noodle Vague), Friday, 8 December 2017 13:03 (six years ago) link

lol!

calzino, Friday, 8 December 2017 13:05 (six years ago) link

Yes, Gove has kids - proof he’s fucked Sarah Vine at least thrice.

kim jong deal (suzy), Friday, 8 December 2017 13:06 (six years ago) link

In every old sci fi movie ever. "For the sake of humanity, whatever you do, don't let them reproduce!"

Action of Boyle Man Prompts Visitor to Stay (Tom D.), Friday, 8 December 2017 13:08 (six years ago) link

https://i.warosu.org/data/tg/img/0417/93/1439245049855.jpg

calzino, Friday, 8 December 2017 13:18 (six years ago) link

(thread)

There’s a hole in my Brexit, dear Liza.

— David Allen Green (@davidallengreen) December 8, 2017

illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Friday, 8 December 2017 13:24 (six years ago) link

time for some DAG theory

mark s, Friday, 8 December 2017 13:26 (six years ago) link

having a moment of intense self-reflection after finding myself gis'ing michael gove to find an expression mostly likely to be his vinegar-strokes face

straightedge is just volcel for vegans (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 8 December 2017 13:26 (six years ago) link

A Feast at Midnight is a 1995 British comedy family film directed by Justin Hardy and starring Christopher Lee, Freddie Findlay, Robert Hardy, Samuel West, Edward Fox and Julie Dreyfus. The film is notable for being the feature film debut of future Conservative politician, Michael Gove, as the chaplain.[1]

straightedge is just volcel for vegans (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 8 December 2017 13:27 (six years ago) link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_auQPmnh1q8

i think gove's reaction shot at 1:00 might be a good candidate for vinegar strokes

straightedge is just volcel for vegans (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 8 December 2017 13:30 (six years ago) link

am i misremembering, or was there a large semi-dodgy handover of actual cash from some shadowy brexiter to the DUP election fund? if so that was money well spent, lol

― mark s, Friday, 8 December 2017 12:08 (thirty-eight minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/election-dup-brexit-donations-saudi-arabia-tale-tories-theresa-may-a7782681.html

Susan Stranglehands (jed_), Friday, 8 December 2017 13:31 (six years ago) link

all bizarro's pasts are comi

mark s, Friday, 8 December 2017 13:32 (six years ago) link


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