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

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 They should have rescinded his passport just for saying that Remain were “using” Ireland to thwart Brexit.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

the one and only!

gyac otm except htf do you categorise them

The only way forward, (Heseltine) said, was for the issues to be put back to parliament, and then to an election or referendum. “The downsides are becoming more evident as time passes. We have had a serious devaluation of the currency. We have turned ourselves from the fastest growing to the slowest growing economy in Europe and we have made a complete Horlicks of the Irish border. I am totally with the view of Tony Blair and John Major that this matter has got to go back to parliament and possibly to a referendum or a general election.”

a: horlicks is good not bad
b: heseltine major and blair ffs

I like to keep my malt based drinks out of politics.

And Horlicks is amazing not good!

Just checked press only have ovaltine ffs

Just walking past the Tetley Brewery in Leeds and getting that lovely malty aroma, which is far nicer than any of the piss they produce, gives me a massive horlicks craving.

I'm the same with Guinness the drink -bogpiss- and the lovely toasty smell of the malting that covers most of d8 on a cool morning

Anyways I'm on milk rationing thanks to our never forgetting the famine when a weather event comes up

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dS2McPYzEE&t=3m14s

damn - 3:14 in "who spilled their Ovaltine over the weekend?"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dS2McPYzEE

All of this is fantastic. Tempted to spend the day in a Mark Leckey loop.

Take a drink every time T May uses the word 'ambitious' to describe her vision

I can't face another Con party political broadcast on the BBC. I'll start getting bitter and asking for my tv license money refunding/wishing slow painful deaths on various ppl.

LOL @ Theresa May now being presented as some kind of political genius for 'reuniting the Tory Party'.

has her grand Machiavellian strategy been just to act like a fucking idiot all the time?

"act"

I refer you to the "Baldrick" thread

wait, now I'm getting a flashback to a song that went "we are the Heselteeneys" from some satirical TV show in the 80s, probably Spitting image, but I can't find any mention of that online so maybe it's a false flashback.

no i remember that too, must be Spitting Image

stop remembering spitting image, it was bad

wasn't denying that, but it's a formative memory

for some reason I have very vivid memories of that "you'll never meet a nice South African" song spitting image did. It was probably bad, but when you are young and bad yourself, what do you know?

we only had 3 channels

ok, it came back to me via another remembered line from the Heselteeney's song "why did you have to paint him red, you should have used blue paint instead" - Heseltine was sprayed with red paint at a Greenham Common protest, I think.

lol @ Paigon O'Neil, gritty radical brexiteer + Republic of Grime/Ireland spokesman denouncing Stormzy "has been co-opted by the chattering class". Absolute bellend.

he should know his place

at least Sir Bradley Wiggins is having another bad day.

you mean drug cheat and car advert faux sentimentalist Lord Bradley Weller of PEDington?

Need to strip those Golds away before he takes them to Cash Converters!

Most recent election results for European social democratic parties:

Fr: PS 7%
De: SPD 20.5%
Nl: PvDA 6%
Gr: PASOK 6%
Es: PSOE 22.6%
It: PD: 19%
At: SPÖ: 26.9%
Se: S 31%
Cz: ČSSD 7.3%
Dk: S 26.3%
Pt: PS 32.3%
Fi: SDP 16.5%
No: AP 27.4%
Ch: 18.8%
Is: S 12.1%

UK: LAB 40%

— Jon Stone (@joncstone) March 5, 2018

Need to bear in mind the split between FPTP and other systems there though.

issue examined with in the responses

(unless this was the joke yr making)