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

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

Anyway he was .. scotch

We can definitely chuck in Morrissey as well, yet another inglorious example of the diaspora. Parents both poor immigrants, does that classic white immigrant thing of shitting on people of colour and immigrants who aren’t white or Christian. Shameful. It’s really nauseating when you consider his Mexican fan base.

Wogan was always a cunt, the UK can have him tbh.

feel like hopping on some ukip-leaning facebook groups and suggesting henry bolton was a double agent sent to sabotage the people's party

Was Wogan a cunt just cos embracing Britishness for career or is there a roll of ignominious behaviour I've missed

Anyway he was .. scotch

And a Hibee to boot.

Morrissey I mean

I don't think hes Irish.

Not cos of birth location.

It's just he's so British.

the campaign to repatriate morrissey begins here

Something for Farage's new party to consider, for sure.

Where do I sign up?

multiple xps

Always hated his sneering shite in general but he’s a National Treasure over here(🙄)...and that interview of his with drunk Best never sat well with me.

Fair enough

his hosting of eurovision caused brexit

I mean I should say that people love him partly due to his xenophobic comments on Eurovision, when he’s an immigrant himself. (Was an immigrant?) I feel foreign a lot and I can’t stand than attitude some Irish abroad take here, that they’re not “really foreign” so it’s ok for them to shit on others.

but yeah tl;dr

Nah it's all valid was just curious

Also his shit shit shit chat show, dgaf about his radio broadcasting, fuck listening to Radio 2.

*chthuloid surge of rage again breaching*

NEW: Yorkshire & Humber MEP @mikehookemmep (best known for the ‘Strasbourg Scuffle’) resigns as UKIP’s Assistant Deputy Leader. Pressure mounts on leader Henry Bolton to stand down.@itvcalendar pic.twitter.com/AP0NGbGDVx

— Joe Pike (@joepike) January 22, 2018

Mike is becoming very cultured + urbane, why he's a man of letters now.

On Sky News, the reporter honestly just said that on top of the hotel where Bolton holed up, there's a flashing light that sends out morse code which was installed by Yoko Ono.

wtf has happened to British politics? https://t.co/bwQKNPWLak

— Stuart Millar (@stuartmillar159) January 22, 2018

bout time she showed up

when even noted manpuncher and fugitive mike hookem mep is calling your leadership 'an almost farcical scandal' you have to acknowledge it's time to gtfo

Hook'em, Danno

(xxp) The only option left for Henry and his girlfriend now is probably a Bed-In.

All we are saying
Is give racism a chance

ok, UKIP guy just hinted at the "Bolton is a Lib Dem sleeper agent" theory on the Beeb

HERE WE GO

His sex life is certainly complicated enough to be a Lib Dem.

He’s definitely earning his money then - vowed to cling on, says he’ll “Drain the Swamp”.

@mrjamesob
Boris Johnson’s preening narcissism leads the news. Again.

guy gets it

I simply don't understand how it's possible someone as incompetent, blatantly lying, thinking up crazy stuff every other week for the glorification of his own ego, is still secretary.

But then that probably goes for the whole lot idk

Unsackable.

https://www.ft.com/content/075d679e-0033-11e8-9650-9c0ad2d7c5b5?segmentid=acee4131-99c2-09d3-a635-873e61754ec6

"Be a Brexit Beater, have lunch with Boris Johnson and take tea with Mark Carney"

Appropriate company after you've just finished making a pissed up prick out of yourself + groping the hostesses at a men only charity event. Harvey who?

Every paragraph absolutely bone-chilling, an Inglourious Basterds-style lock the door and burn it down setup would have been too good for them

i am moved once more to ponder the morality, legality, and mechanics of crowdfunding an assassination

Enjoyed the BBC interview about this where the interviewer kept asking the reporter variations of “did these women know what they were getting into?” as though that made the events less awful.