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

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)

kinda delighted and despondent that that Corbyn speech has more meat on its bones than every public statement made by the last 20+ years of Labour leaders

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

― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Friday, 8 December 2017 19:15 (twenty-nine minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

What did it not solve?

Everyone who matters agreed that the UK isn't going ahead with brexit.

Solved

kinda delighted and despondent that that Corbyn speech has more meat on its bones than every public statement made by the last 20+ years of Labour leaders

― best display name of 2017 (Noodle Vague), Friday, 8 December 2017 Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Yeah that was beautiful. No doubt there are thousands of pricks rn who are saying 'why oh why wasn't this wall to wall Brexit, huh, Jeremy?'

absolutely dead at arron banks pissing his pants. going on about 'paedo ted'

READ | @Arron_Banks calls on any Tory backbencher “with any integrity or sense of duty left” to trigger a leadership contest and help save the Brexit 17.4 million people voted for! pic.twitter.com/qHb06qFcn8

— LEAVE.EU 🇬🇧 (@LeaveEUOfficial) December 8, 2017

almost worth the billions we've spunked on uh whatever the fuck we've spent billions on to watch arron banks throw his toys out of the pram

Corbz and O'Donnell are something else, listening to the slimeball Tory barrister Gauke doing his lawyer routine on Universal Credit on AQ, just reminds me of how much hope they have brought to UK politics.

I never realised before reading that Betting The House book that Corbyn's first divorce was caused by his strict ideological lack of ability to compromise on a local comprehensive/posh school argument.

o'donnell? john o'donnell?

are you thinking of john mcdonald

?

lol

can't tell if self-own or joke

yeah SURE it was calz's mum that went to see him.

it was my psychologically deep-seated obsession with Daniel O'Donnell at work there.

She's is off to see him next week, and I just sent her a food possessor for Xmas!

the_food_possessor has logged on

Corbz and O'Donnell are something else, listening to the slimeball Tory barrister Gauke doing his lawyer routine on Universal Credit on AQ, just reminds me of how much hope they have brought to UK politics.

Gauke is literally the most boring man in Britain, I think that's why the Tories have started using him more, you can't listen to him for more than 30 seconds without your eyes glazing over.

Imagine having to shill for UC on a weekly basis, and keep talking up it's social benefits and progressive qualities. His beady little eyes are so indiscernible, you can't even tell l/r are both looking in different while he talks.

directions*

Nick Cohen's piss is busted again.

" They do not shudder when they see Corbyn surrounding himself with aides from the Communist party of Britain and the fragments of the Socialist Workers party because they know little or nothing of communism."

He is obviously completely senile and needs help.

come on, Cohen did 20 years in a gulag, he knows of which he speaks

sorry i meant 20 years at the Observer

Never forget the forced collectivism, mass famines and genocide committed by the Communist party of Britain.

i think Cohen would argue that British Communists cheered for those things and so are complicit in them, in the same way that people who cheered for the 2003 invasion of Iraq are complicit in the deaths of 10s of thousands of civilians and the empowerment of ISIS

http://k-punk.abstractdynamics.org/archives/006116.html

Cohen is quoting Mark Fisher in that Observer piece, only fair to quote Fisher on Cohen in response.

Not entirely sure how Boris Johnson meeting Peter Gabriel is going to help that woman in Iran tbh.

https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/styles/article_small/public/thumbnails/image/2017/12/09/17/boris-johnson-iran.jpg

Boris' hair evolving into a bowl-cut, I see.

Who's in the urn behind them?