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

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

"For everybody said so, all our friends,
They all were sure our feelings would relate
So closely! I myself can hardly understand.
We must leave it now to fate.
You will write, at any rate.
Perhaps it is not too late.

this is like Dark Side of the Moon and The Wizard of Oz.

The response below this = Ukraine + customs deal arrangment

and Norway model = free movement... https://t.co/7cf2YXDuP2

— Will Davies (@davies_will) December 8, 2017

Ofc given the madness this may not follows any previosuly known models lol.

somewhere along the line david allen green got mixed up in my mind with facebook alternative-therapy meme made flesh david avocado wolfe and now i have trouble separating the two

The Irish border question has pretty much eclipsed the issue of citizen's rights but a frighteningly large number of people are going to get very angry when they realise all the Romanians and Bulgarians are not going to be sent packing.

They're always angry and hopefully will soon die of anger.

DUPer magic from before the dawn of time

haha sorry i got there via Matt DC and nashwan causing me to think of this: "Call the Ghouls, and the Boggles, the Ogres and the Minotaurs. Call the Cruels, the Hags, the Spectres, and the people of the Toadstools. We will fight."

O'Toolery: https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/fintan-o-toole-ireland-has-just-saved-the-uk-from-the-madness-of-a-hard-brexit-1.3320096#.WiqKzMeCIUA.twitter

The Irish: not just good for building motorways/railways and paving your drives, for sure!

fintanpunditspasm needs more discussion of the radiators from space imo

ctrl+f "Bob Geldof" - 0 returns.

Oh it must be because its Friday, and this was a good outcome. I get it.

the more i look at this the more it looks like a classic fudge that actually solved nothing but enabled May to claim a victory. which the EU needs - an enfeebled May is not in their interest presumably

Loved how this was done by about 8am uk time lol. Expect more plots at the weekend, and an article by Boris over xmas.

Meanwhile:

Wow. @jeremycorbyn delivered a stunning speech in Geneva: tax evasion, illicit flows, trade-misinvoicing, structural adjustment programs, Allende's assassination, Thomas Sankara (!!), debt cancellation, climate justice, regulating MNCs, etc. https://t.co/n5bagLS91n

— Jason Hickel (@jasonhickel) December 8, 2017

bit late to start cobbling together an illusion of competence around the pm tbh

(xp to tracer)