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

I think even much of the pro-brexit commentariat are mindful that they might look a bit ridiculous getting too irate about this, and some are spinning the £50m taxpayers money saved by "Global Britain".

angle

exactly! if Brexit stands for anything it's outsourcing

It really makes no commercial sense at all for the company in question to win it at this price. Does that necessarily suggest a different motivation for winning?

makes perfect sense if they're doing it for the lulz tho

no finer motivation for anything

iconic blue lulz

Absolutely where my mind took me too.

> De La Rue

the irony.

correct me if i'm rong but the really dumb thing about this story afaict is that the british company that lost the contract also get a huge amount of work making documents for lots of other countries, and if those nations reverted to making their own passports like the brexit ears are allegedly arguing we should do, that could possibly be a far worse blow to de la rue

oh right, this graun snippet pretty much implies that:

The chief executive, Martin Sutherland, said: “We have a very skilled, proud workforce in Gateshead and I am going to have face those workers, look at them in the whites of the eyes and try to explain to them why the British government thinks it’s a sensible decision to buy French passports not British passports.

“I would like to invite Theresa May or Amber Rudd to come to my factory and explain to my dedicated workforce why they think this is a sensible decision to offshore the manufacture of a British icon.”

As well as UK passports, the company manufactures identity documents and e-passports for countries as far apart as Trinidad and Tobago, Qatar and Afghanistan.

ah bless it's like when people dressed head to toe in clothes made in the far east protest about foreigners taking their jobs

Why is anyone surprised at the 'offshoring of the manufacture' of a British anything? Where have these people been for the last 40 years?

Signing the offshore agreements and redundancy letters, duhhh!

why would you look someone in the whites of their eyes and not, y'know, the pupil, the part of the eye that they actually use for vision

also how the fuck do you 'manufacture' an e-passport

he might have said "the eyes of my completely white workforce"

that de la rue workforce in full

https://i0.wp.com/havealaughonme.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/tumblr_ldx4twZokF1qz7lxdo1_500_large.png

lol!

gazzarra - an e-passport is a regular passport with a chip in it

how very british

fucking hell, the bar to adding the 'e-' prefix to stuff is even lower than i thought then

"Don't shoot until you see the whites"

"Of their eyes?"

"Whose eyes?"

e-eyes

those e-whites in full

https://static.standard.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2016/12/15/09/paulgolding1412a.jpg?w968h681

you don't get that prematurely old looking as my man there by snorting crystal mdma, its mainlining hateful dogma that makes you that ugly.

"Can someone kindly point me in the direction of the most sweaty palmed and furious commentator on this story please?"

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DY7SkhRX0AINO6s.jpg

Kinda glad the Mail seem to have shifted their entire masthead to the left (lol) permanently because it looks so shit stupid and wrong it distracts me from all their other evildoing a little longer.

Ian Drury?

Heck, even my spelling korrector insisted it's Dury!

oof

@britainelects
12 hours ago
Ockendon (Thurrock) result:

CON: 36.2% (+7.8)
LAB: 36.2% (+11.2)
TI: 27.6% (+27.6)

Conservative GAIN from UKIP.

Result determined by drawing of straws/coin toss.

No UKIP (-46.5) as prev.
TI: Thurrock Independents.

CORBYN OUT

these drawing straws shit is feeble, they could at least have a feight for the prize.

this

that was my second thought, bet the UKIP candidate would have been game last go round

actually my second thought was lol democracy but y'know

also, "Ockendon" and "Thurrock" do not sound like placenames that belong in Essex

well in the era of 36 bookies in every dilapidated shithole town in the UK, settling elections with card games could be another option. Of course the Tories would rig the game in their favour by choosing Bridge over Snap or Scabby Queen!

at least a general knowledge quiz could've indicated relevant skills. on the other hand being a jammy bastard might be more relevant.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sortition

i used to think the main objection to Athenian sortition was that their electorate were much more equal in terms of education, lifestyles and abilities than that of a modern democratic state, but i've come to realised that the Athenians just felt it was more reasonable if the thick useless bastards were given a go.

as opposed to that being a job requirement now.

AAAARRRGGHHHHHHH pic.twitter.com/VrCU1CB48x

— Dawn Foster (@DawnHFoster) March 22, 2018

another thick useless bastard embarrasses himself on QT.

What’s the opposite of nominative determinism?

lol, good point!

Owen Smith pumped for incessant 2nd ref talk. I know some say he was good in his N Ireland capacity, but it his hard to forget the bbq + bantz when he ran against Corbyn.

hmm

this has made me waver on corbs more than much else so far

ach idk. noodle vague pls talk some sense into me

I really dislike Smith and hate referendums, or indeed 2nd ones to undo the first one, and then the resulting "stabbed in the back" UKIP revival years followed by a glorious 3rd ref. I can't find anything objectionable about this sacking tbh.

that seems fair

the objectionable bit is shadow N Ireland secty pointing out the obvious reasons border/single market and Corbz denying it. harder to believe he's doing it to continue constructive ambiguity at this point.

this has made me waver on corbs more than much else so far

― imago, Friday, 23 March 2018 Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

'hmm'