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

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I bet if you told Mogg that some amazing british agri-science head has just discovered that deep ploughing and close planting increases crop yields by 90 %, he'd totally believe you.

Why would you need to give someone a cash prize to come up with a free market solution to the housing crisis? Surely the financial incentive is already built into the system?

maybe Kate Andrews birthday is coming up, and she only managed a paltry 28 tv appearances this month.

Aren't most crops in Britain irrigated?

― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 24 July 2018 1:19 AM (two hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Not a lot of irrigation, traditionally we are a rainy island and irrigation is expensive - even if you have water you have to pump it which costs.

Farming would be a nightmare but my sympathy for those doing it here in Australia is limited by the fact that farming communities here consistently vote for the right wing anti environmentalist pro coal fuckwits accelerating all the climate problems.

Right wing farmers, who'd've thought it?

https://www.adamsmith.org/blog/planning-transport/britain-needs-more-slums

We finally made it, guys.

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Theo Cliffard, is this fucking sub-britpop fetus?

Slum-Mogg Millionaire

that article, though egregious, is from 2015, meaning that its author is now 12 years old

Slum-Mogg Millionaire

LOL

please tell me that's a modest proposal-style satire

please god

Slum-Mogg Millionaire

LOL

― Father Ted in Forkhandles (Tom D.), Tuesday, 24 July 2018 11:07 (thirty minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Pressing the virtual like button.

30 days suspension/holiday for Ian Paisley Jr. over undeclared corruption. Be good to get the by-election.

he should have declared his corruption, he'd have been fine

Dominic Raab has some advice for us

https://i.imgur.com/XGETndz.png

i'm way ahead of him on that one

This seems promising:

BREAKING: Raab promises government will "make sure there is adequate food" in Britain in the event of no Brexit deal. But says it is wrong to say government itself is stockpiling.

— lisa o'carroll (@lisaocarroll) July 24, 2018

finally, some adequate food here in Britain

lol we're all gonna die

i don't believe the rest of the world will let ol' Wrink GB slump to the status of Bongo-Bongo Land

I do like the one-two of sending him out to promise great and glorious things ahead at the same time that they move the actual negotiations to Olly Robbins in the PM's office.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Di4SIprXgAIseCl.jpg

ALL HAIL THE SLOTTED FOOD CUBE

im starting to rly look fwd to this

if i volunteer for brexit corps in civil service i wonder could i find myself handing out aid packages to any of yis

me to dmac, circa summer 2019

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the secret undercurrent of the project i've been working on for the last three years is "how we failed to get our heads round the end of empire (even tho some of us tried)"

remember when a quarter of the globe was red? well most of that quarter is now chortling to itself and thinking "oh you SO earned this"

i don't care how bad shit gets i'm not eating boiled potatoes

A developed country having to promise citizens who are not actively mobilized for a world war that “there will be adequate food” is pretty end-times-y. I’m sure we’re going to get more of it.

I mean you’re allowed salt on the potatoes xp

butter in a 1:1 ratio or gtf

i don't care how bad shit gets i'm not eating boiled potatoes

― diarrhoea of a blimpy kid (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 24 July 2018 16:07 (three minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

amusing reversal this

the situation lends itself

the lenders are circling this situation alright

you'd think there'd be funnier "cap in hand to the IMF" gifs but no

What has happened with the new bill and the withdrawal date? Is it now saying that next March isn't the date-date that May fought so hard to get in, and that it will actually be 2020 (even if we don't get a deal)?

Keeping up with this shit is like being at school again where if you miss as little as a day you have no fucking idea what the new gossip is

I think that's been the case since last December and they've been trying to keep quiet about it for some reason?

is date-date the new out-out?

Britons living in Germany who meet the requirements will be able to become German citizens during the post-Brexit transition period, according to a bill being drafted by Berlin.

https://www.politico.eu/article/germany-to-help-brits-stay-eu-citizens-during-brexit-transition-period/

time to move to Germany? I'm going to Berlon tomorrow btw but not for good, afaik so far.

Berlin!

i don't care how bad shit gets i'm not eating boiled potatoes

Love a boiled potato.

> butter in a 1:1 ratio or gtf

do we lose access to the european butter mountain too?

(is that still a thing?)

"The size of the surplus changed significantly over time, and had mostly disappeared by 2017." 8(

something something beef mountain something twitter something guy verhofstadt

potatoes are poisonous you have to do something a bit more drastic than boiling them to take the taste of the poison away

They'll have to find a new nickname, les Rosbifs no more.

I find spices, garlic, ginger, onions and tomatoes is alls you need to "cure" boiled spuds.

Meanhwile Gove is on top of the, errrrrr, flood crisis..

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/2018/07/24/michael-gove-releases-beavers-wild-help-stop-flooding/

You've got Gavin Williamson with his owls and now Gove with his beavers.