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

The Isle of Man, meh, that would be a fucking holiday camp, way too temperate.

i'm not sure it'd be productive to employ them or feed them or house them tbh

Theresa May > Theresa May's husband > Paradise Papers > Isle of Man

get 2 work momentum thugs

At least if we have an ex Soviet spy in no 10 his pal Putin could lease some Siberia to us, and spare us even having to think about the Isle of Shit!

Getting quite enough Siberia as things stand right now thanks.

all former tory ministers to be tried at the tynwald and then strapped to the laxey wheel so that they can spend their retirement rotating, groaning and taking in idyllic views of a tax haven whilst staying in touch with a proud bit of heritage

The Isle of Man, meh, that would be a fucking holiday camp, way too temperate.

Muckle Flugga, Hirta, North Rona, all preferable.

True fact: Adult film actor TT Boy is so named because he hails from the Isle of Man, home of the famous motorcycle race

http://unst.org/web/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Muckle-Flugga.-Image-Griffon.jpg

guys all i'm proposing is we take away all their assets and repatriate them to Singapore

Just pointing out that public flogging is legal on the Isle of Man.

we're back to talking about No Deal is Better Than a Bad Deal again. This drives me nuts. Of course it is! But no deal is so bad, the bad deal would have to be apocalyptically bad to be worse than it. The EU's not going to do that, it's just going to be worse than the Tories want.

I can't believe her speech was re-heated tripe. Was fully expecting a game-changer at this point!

not meant meant as a sarcastic response to Stet

kinda cool that the stars aligned to bring us the worst imaginable crew of idiots to arrange for the country to exit the eu

but trade wars are good, didn't you hear?

fucking manchildren's endless movies

PM’s speech is a bit like someone who used to say they wanted to move out of their home to a shiny new one, but end up moving into the attic of the house they lived in all along. Except this time they still pay for the bills while following the rules set by others.

— Nick Clegg (@nick_clegg) March 2, 2018

no keep going with that metaphor nick i think it was just about to get really good

like being savaged by a dead Geoffrey Howe

lol my twitter circles overlap with a poster who believes that clegg is the greatest political leader the uk never had and that him losing his seat is the big political tragedy of our age

RIP Cleggbama, at least you managed to moderate the Tories harsher kill-the-disabled impulses.

The FT has an interview with John McDonnell!
https://ft.com/content/d9c2b1be-1c10-11e8-aaca-4574d7dabfb6

Some great quotes in there.

Would be interested in a choice quote, cos these buggers are pay-walled now and I'm all out of coffee!

spent a minute or two idly scrolling down nick clegg’s twitter timeline there and now i have cancer

I was able to read it via this link

https://amp.ft.com/content/d9c2b1be-1c10-11e8-aaca-4574d7dabfb6?__twitter_impression=true

still pay-walled for me, they obv haven't seen my FTSE index!

yeah neither link work for me even in incognito mode.

xxxp

Clegg does threads ffs, he's exhausting enough within the 280 limit.

reading clegg's threads is like watching BBCQT if it was on all day every day, be kinder to yourselves

Sorry - the twitter link Simon posted is the one I trimmed without thinking. 🤦🏻‍♀️

His plaque for the hunger strikers is getting some traction from the usual crowd on Twitter but they’ve been on that line for nearly three years now. The author has some interesting outtakes that didn’t make the piece in this thread:

I called former GMB boss Paul Kenny because he was named in 2007 as a friend of McDonnell: this is what he told me. pic.twitter.com/fROa9QHupv

— Jim Pickard (@PickardJE) March 2, 2018

This link might work, or just search for the headline on twitter

Fancy some bedtime reading? Read this profile of @johnmcdonnellMP in the @FT - a long read, but a good one. https://t.co/wYN6pThjM3

— Luke Pollard MP (@LukePollard) March 2, 2018

In keeping with these turbulent political times, he is currently reading Imperium, the Robert Harris book about Cicero and the Roman Republic. Asked whom he empathises with in it, he replies: “The poor guy Cicero employs to write all this up.”

legend

weirdly the link worked for me, i even instapapered it w no problem

caek's link works, but the others didn't from this end.

Described as “Torvill and Dean” in one paragraph, and then someone describing Corbyn as an idle dosser to McDonnell's Stakhanovite. It's a very colourful piece for sure!

It is probably a relative hagiography, compared to what the FT would have written about him back when he was throwing the little red book at Gideon in parliament.

<B Johnny Mac

The BBC have invited fucking Brendan O'Neill onto Any Questions.

BBC and Sky love Spiked and all of those Living Marxism wankers. Not surprisingly.

listen to the state of O'Neill talking about how tough it was being 2nd gen Irish in the 70's. What a pathetic fucking jerkoff!

At for a reformed Stalinist he knows fuck all about class politics

The RoI should have refused him an Irish passport on the grounds that he is an absolute embarrassment every time he starts Irishing himself up, like as if he is somehow marginalised and downtrodden.

I genuinely wonder if we have the worst diaspora sometimes. They should have rescinded his passport just for saying that Remain were “using” Ireland to thwart Brexit.

Think the worst place he turned up was the Select Commitee on same-sec marriage.

Northern Irish Catholic
Northern Irish Protestant
London Irish
26 county republican
Irish

Descending order of how much you seem to have been affected by the troubles, or act as if you were in 2017, perhaps

You seem to have missed out the Scotch there.

Which self-interest group in the RoI doesn't back the North staying in the custom's union solution? a small bunch of nutters at The Grand Lodge? Someone with a big stash of baccy?

XP yer honorary in either of the NI groups you like

Calz- the lunatic unionist fringe

Which is the majority like

xxp don’t forget the Irexit crew frantically astroturfing on twitter!

Irexit is certainly an interesting little GS wormhole to go down. I was only recently made aware of it through a Horslips thread on ILM!

Luke O’Connor applauded and cheered with gusto and occasionally leapt to his feet during speeches at the Irexit conference for those opposed to Ireland’s membership of the European Union.

The 21-year-old Kilkenny student warmed to the praise lavished by former Ukip leader Nigel Farage on US president Donald Trump and the Brexit-like political earthquake he unleashed in 2016.

O’Connor wore a Trump-campaign “Make America Great Again” red baseball cap to the Saturday conference at the RDS in Dublin.

“I honestly get a great reaction. I would wear it on nights out,” he told The Irish Times.

THE horslips thread iirc