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

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

as sun ra teaches us

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

brexit is finally getting good

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".

The Nu Plebians of Brexitia

The Eurosceptic Worlds of Sun Ra

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.

It's an Irish solution to a British problem

I can see it suiting everyone tbh

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.

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

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

arron banks also squeaking angrily

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

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.

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

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.

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

— Faisal Islam (@faisalislam) December 8, 2017

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.

they could call it union of kingmakers in perpetuity except wait

The King beyond the G8

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

all our pasts are coming back to haunt us

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'.

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

Kentuckyfied chicken

yummy, it tastes swimming baths water.

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

My God, he has children.

I hope not tbh.

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

lol!

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

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

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

(thread)

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

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

time for some DAG theory

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

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]

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

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

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

all bizarro's pasts are comi

let me interrupt you there

the more i read about this i feel like there's a decent chance the dup, in working with this gov at all, and in helping it to enact brexit, is prob leading the way on the path to a united ireland.

a united ireland and a uk forced to pay billions to essentially stay in the eu in all but name would be extremely lol

but mostly sad

mostly lol

(cool that gove got to star in what appears would be his favourite movie of all time)

Empire said of the film: "Nothing about it suggests that it should have been made for the big screen, so modest is its scope."

Sad for the unsuspecting citizens of the ROI to end up with Arlene Foster, Nigel Dodds, Sammy Wilson etc dumped on their doorsteps.

(But our beginnings never know our ends!)

if you read May as the "Lady" in Eliot's "Portrait of a Lady" it's impressively prescient