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

Proving the lie of nominative determinism since 1969

James C - the first living brain donor.

MP for Braintree.... coincidence???

It's withered.

Nigel Lawson, a former chair of the Vote Leave campaign during the EU referendum and one of tens of thousands of Britons living in France, is to apply for his official French residency card.

Lord Lawson was speaking to the Connexion, a newspaper for the English-speaking community in France, which asked him if he was concerned about the impact of EU immigration controls. European officials have warned that Britain’s new blue passports could lead to travel delays and extra paperwork rather than the enhanced freedom promised by the government.

He replied: “I’m not particularly familiar with it, but as I live in France I’m not concerned.

christ almighty

Cunt.

did somebody just declare at some point in the last two years that the concept of shame was no longer operative?because these people should be ashamed of themselves.

academies who outsource janitorial staff should be ashamed of themselves. politicians who voted for war in iraq should be ashamed of themselves. those who voted through dla and pip cuts should be ashamed of themselves. home office employees who lost or destroyed entire boxes of people's personal fucking paperwork should be ashamed of themselves. they should feel bad. they should be made to feel bad.

we all died on december 21 2012 iirc, nothing means anything anymore

Tracer otm

Shame is for other people, people with less money.

elites have been 180 degrees wrong on every single goddamn defining issue of our times - war in Iraq, the financial crisis, the reaction to the financial crisis, austerity, the Syrian refugee crisis - fuck, even the smaller-bore NON-defining issues and when progressives and socialists and the left pointed this out IN REAL TIME they were ignored or mocked as out-of-touch morons who should leave the room while the real grown-ups dealt with things. how much longer is this shit going to continue? it's cognitively somewhat uh how you say DISSONANT

lol forgot to include BREXIT in my list there but it's another shining example

it doesn't help when moderates like Barry "I'm not a lobbyist, I'm the chairman of a lobbying company" are still in the Labour party and couldn't give a flying fuck (beyond the usual insipid lip service) about the millions affected by austerity, but get very upset about Brexit because it might affect the gravy train they've been riding hard for the last four decades. I remember that cunt visiting our little sink school in Brackenhall in the 70's and telling us how much hard work the life of an MP is! Well at least you can afford a nice farmhouse well outside your shithole constituency after four decades of solid backhander graft.

Barry "I'm not a lobbyist, I'm the chairman of a lobbying company" Sheerman, I should add.

Well.

Exclusive: The Conservative Party accepted a £50,000 donation from the wife of a former minister in Vladimir Putin’s government on the same day Theresa May announced Russia was "highly likely" responsible for the poisoning of Sergei and Yulia Skripal. https://t.co/yEwWEN4fwQ pic.twitter.com/r4l6K3AJBi

— andrew gregory (@andrewgregory) June 1, 2018

we've been through this, shame is dead

principles, how do they work

When she took office in July 2016, the PM said it would not be “business as usual” with Russian donors amid growing tensions between Moscow and the West. But her party has since received more than £800,000 from Russian-linked supporters.

All donations from oligarchs, bankers and billionaires in return for access and favours are inherently appalling. Chernukhin has been on the outs with Putin for 14 years, though, and had a fraud case (which he claims was politically motivated) targeted at him by the Russian government. Framing all donations from British Russians as substantially more suspicious than anyone else with hundreds of thousands of Pounds to chuck around for the privilege of playing tennis with Boris Johnson is not helpful.

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lol 2016, the year May paid lip service to Blue Labour and some media fools made preposterously daft comments about her! It seems a world away.

that's a good reminder sv, you're right of course

Shari v much otm, altho what's fascinating is the media distinction between evil Russian oligarchs and peaceful cuddly non-Russian oligarchs

I can remember a piece in Graun in the early 00's about how scum like Abramovich ruthlessly held people to ransom for their shares in Gas companies by withholding wages, probably not even close to the worst of his sins, but for a long time before his latest visa problems he has been in the cuddly category of oligarchs for some *strange* reason!

Arsenal fans tend not to like talking about Usmanov ime.

See also cuddly old Thaksin Shinawatra when he owned Man City.

d davis' new idea for Irish border is to create a 10-mile wide strip along the border where both (?) EU and UK market rules would apply (??) i shit you not

David Davis unveils latest idea. "This Irish border is small. The one out there is far away." pic.twitter.com/hlKTD1OdLz

— Andrew Mueller (@andrew_mueller) June 1, 2018

oh I see, if you make a border 10 miles wide then those easily jived Irish ppl won't think it's a border!

they say Davis even has a swagger about him in the sitting position, he's gonna need it to make this bullshit walk!

further proof that degrees from harvard and the london business school don't necessarily make you smart

lol the 10-mile swathe encompasses arlene foster's own house

He's very excited to see what will happen in the next episode of The City & The City

can someone explain the thinking behind this buffer zone idea plz? i don't understand what it's trying to achieve

I think he's using the Golan Heights as a model.

instead of one border there will now be two! it's twice as great!

having your cake and shitting it out: a model for brexit, by david davis (age 69 1/2)

(nice)

and there's this:

https://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/news/scottish-news/2721673/orange-order-arlene-foster-dup-northeern-ireland-lead-scottish-march-cowdenbeath/

‘Ms Foster’s party – whose 10 MPs are propping up Theresa May’s government – oppose extending women’s rights to Northern Ireland.’

Not a line you’d expect written in the sun, even the Scottish one.

hey they're not criticizing

i grew up a few miles from cowdenbeath and it is exactly the kind of backward-arse shithole where arlene foster will feel right at home

kind of amazing EXCEPT COMPLETELY NOT that exactly at the moment when the irish border becomes a live issue and threatens to completely derail whatever orderly brexit might have been hoped for, the tories have abrogated the UK's responsibility to act as an honest broker (ok, ok) for NI's power sharing exec thereby ensuring that there is no functioning exec and can never be one for the length of this parliament - it is a perfect clusterfuck

https://media1.tenor.com/images/bb7e5cbc77cf9e933709a270155d29dd/tenor.gif?itemid=10322371

i don't think the Conservative and Unionist party have ever felt the need to be an honest broker for NI

yes and i think this is simply the flowering of that underlying reality (which elites insisted was NOT ACTUALLY AN ISSUE and only DEFEATISTS would point it out in real-time when it was agreed)

Ayn Rand devotee has opinions on responsibility

Never thought I would see a mainstream British retailer running a public advertising campaign against our hardworking police. This is not a responsible way to make a point https://t.co/dZqF3iMN6U

— Sajid Javid (@sajidjavid) June 1, 2018

this ad campaign reminds me a bit of the 90's Benetton model of edgy exploitation rinse, which Viz lampooned at the time with a crudely photo-shopped Pope John Paul II shagging Queen Elizabeth II, or something like that! I hate it when advertising tries to be all edgy and expectation confounding, even worse than innocent smoothies aesthetic imo. Yes I know coppers are mostly a bunch of devious and violent Tory thugs, but fuck yo hand cream!

come on this is minted tbh

tbf lush fairly quietly donate quite a lot of money to left-wing causes, feel that this is at least partly an earnest attempt to raise awareness (not that they aren't also bad in all the ways that a high street chain is going to be inevitably bad)

i mean, i'm no marketer but i'm not sure that bringing attention to the behaviour of undercover cops is much of an advertising strategy