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

Are Lumley and Heatherwick on board?

Boris Johnson, u got Maersked.

engineers on the today programme this morning speculated on two bridges to artificial islands in the channel (with duty-free shopping) and a tunnel between the two islands.

so much media energy being expended today on badgering academics to comment on the feasibility of the idea as if boris hadn't just farted it out with no prior forethough and it deserved serious consideration

the blood sausage bridge, I like it

there's something escher-like abt the picture andrew posted: do can the bus get all its wheels on the wire at once?

It is just a cardboard facade - one either side of the tandem, for stability and disguise.

lol i love the idea of building approx 120 eiffel towers across the sea in order to support the passage of ca. 25 people at a time in a wobbly cable car

stephen bush is bad now

I wouldn’t kick him out of bed.

— Stephen Bush (@stephenkb) January 19, 2018

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ew

the dead Ben Bradlee is looking more handsome than that fucker.

hey if you’re into bawheids with cold dead eyes and a contemptuous sneer you couldn’t ask for more

http://westbridgfordwire.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/Bradley.jpg

I'd guess he's probably trolling him, because he is likely to be strongly homophobic.

Isn’t Ben Bradley missing a trick in relation to castrating the poor (‘Vasectomies for jobless’ MP to keep job as Tory’s youth chair, 18 January)? If they are allowed to breed, the progeny could be sold as an excellent source of meat.
Roy Creamer
Rotherham, South Yorkshire

You didn't tell us you lived in Rotherham, bizarro.

next time i’ll use a pseudonym less obvious than ‘roy creamer’, i’ll tell u that much

You're gonna tell me that isn't actually al murray pub landlord aren't you

ben bradley one of those people all of whose features seem to occupy a v small circumference of space on his head. sure an actual artist who can draw (v much not me) will tell me actually this is all people actually, but a combination of the broadness of his heid in that pic and the hair makes the effect q striking.

also two not one TWO of the most staggering stupid centrist respect your betters pieces from who would have guessed it marr and jenkins in the last 24hrs have assaulted me.

this marr piece was lying open on the tube seat next to me: where his grate brane manages to combine in one piece his keen expertise in history with his shrewd eye for contemporary culture in a “know your place proles!” piece:

Basic civility and respect must prevail over the rule of the mob, The reign of Charles I shows that the 17th- century’s version of angry social media led to bloody violence

and today simon jenkins has come up with an absolute thing of beauty, where he refers to “the silence of the rational centre”, a phrase worth memorising for its apparent blind faith in a void and its deafness to the sheer noise these apparently silent fuckers make everywhere all the time all the time.

Marr's head goes second when we thin these cunts out

just filed a new patent pic.twitter.com/JTheWxsa3T

— leon 🌨 (@leyawn) May 4, 2017

imagine just how terrible a human being you have to be to get no confidenced by UKIP's NEC

Almost bad enough to be a Tory.

gosh i wonder who could take the reins of ukip now

might be worth having Farage back just to see him fail to get elected as an MP for a tenth time tho

just when i thought i was out.... they pull me back in

Can’t see it being anything other than a choice between Farage and going full fash with Anne Marie Waters.

i'm sure the UKIP centrists will ensure the party sees sense

A choice between.Farage and full fash, you say?

never mind, NV made the point

some people seem to be suggesting that Farage and Arron Banks are more likely to set up a new party rather than attempt to reboot UKIP? Waters has already set up her own neo-fash party: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/For_Britain

A new party? Perhaps a more *moderate* centre-right version of UKIP, allied to a Hard Brexit pressure group, hmmm...

I'm kind of grimly fascinated by Waters, the idea of going from "Islam is intolerant of my sexuality" to "deport the Muslims" seems like dystopian political sci-fi, "you'll never guess where the next nazi movement comes from!" page-turner stuff. All academic as she has only got Morrissey on her side so far of course.

Also she's Irish.

Otto 'Scarface' Skorzeny, once described as Hitler's favourite soldier and the most dangerous man in Europe, was feted by the Dublin social glitterati.

Fourteen years after he had rescued Mussolini from a hilltop fortress in 1943, Skorzeny arrived at a reception in his honour held at Portmarnock Country Club.The cream of Dublin society attended the event, including a young politician, Charles Haughey.

The two-part television documentary Hidden History on RTE, Ireland's national broadcaster, will tell the story of Skorzeny, who went on to raise prize-wining lambs in Co Kildare.

Ah no I'm pretty sure you lads have her now.

ME: lol, collar on this shirt is fucking tiny!
BEN BRADLEE: hold my beer

did i do that joak format right

sadly yes

Bradley is Grant Mitchell to Toby Young's Phil I just realised.

Not like ye to blame us

Not so much that as the always nauseating spectacle of an Irisher draping themselves in the Union flag.

See Wogan, Lynam, Green et al.

*rises from flu-bound torpor at mention of wogan to deliver long vein-popping scream of inarticulate rage*

•subsides*

rip iron mike

BBC Look North (EYL) (@looknorthBBC)

BREAKING NEWS Yorkshire and the Humber MEP Mike Hookem has resigned as Assistant Deputy Leader of UKIP.

Lest we forget

After years on life support, it looks as if the party might finally be over for @UKIP. So here is an attempt to collate the weird, bizarre things during the rise and fall of the "People's Army":

#1: The Ukip Calypso by Mike Reed https://t.co/hbUBfqU9pO

— Sebastian Payne (@SebastianEPayne) January 22, 2018

sorry for Farage

Henry Bolton is a fucking hero.

Lynam came over when he was 6 in fairness - though I didn't realise that he was UKIP-endorsing!

I'm happy for people to go where they want, identify as they want - it makes sense that someone who's sought out UK nationality would be more defensive of it.

Which is to say that flag-draping is nauseating for all.

Did James Connolly die in vain? I mean, not when he actually died but all those times I had to listen to my dad drunkenly murder that song about him.

The songs have been murdered often enough surely