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

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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.

Gove is kinda the last guy i'd associate with beavers.

that Gove brain at clonking away at full tilt is an awesome force of nature itself!

Environment Secretary, Michael Gove who helped released the beavers, said: “The beaver has a special place in English heritage and the Forest of Dean.

They've released TWO beavers btw. Homeowners in the South West of England can sleep easier in their beds tonight knowing the risk of catastrophic flooding as been averted for generations to come.

“gove releases disappointing number of beavers”

adequate food? BREXIT DIVIDEND

.@MattHancock : "The department is working up options with industry for stockpiling medicines, medical devices and substances of human origin in the case of a no-deal Brexit. Obviously there will be a cost for this."

— Health and Social Care Committee (@CommonsHealth) July 24, 2018

Yes - under EU law “substances of human origin” refers mainly to blood and also tissues and organs... so the Health Secretary is referring to the need for blood stockpiles in event of No Deal Brexit pic.twitter.com/05OgYrwvNp

— Faisal Islam (@faisalislam) July 24, 2018

meanwhile the remoaner massive (source: cafc messageboard) is rapidly coming around to the theory that corbyn is another version of trump. how can i deal with these motherfuckers

threat of gulags > actual gulags > firing squads

Tell them that Chuka Umunna said they should all jump off a cliff.

ADEQUATE FOOD: The Britannia Unchained Story

Found on the train and submitted without comment, one of the most astonishing things I have ever happened across. pic.twitter.com/KtBHZxtvTO

— John Allison (@badmachinery) July 24, 2018

It's very much worth scrolling down the comments to listen to @mrnickharvey's musical setting of the piece.

upminster: 19th C psalm tune or ian dury LP title reference which will win

wtf at the brigadoon reference - are they suggesting that britain becoming a mysterious isolated isle, forever stuck a couple of hundred years in the past and only very occasionally appearing from the mist to contact the outside world, is a good thing?

(i know the answer to this already obv)

GOHOMEWITHBONNIEJEAN!!!

think they must have meant LAPUTA

https://shortstorylongblog.files.wordpress.com/2013/11/gulliver-laputa.jpg

"Laputans are… so lost in thought that they cannot function in everyday life unless constantly struck by a bladder full of pebbles or dry peas"

(same tbh)

meanwhile the remoaner massive (source: cafc messageboard) is rapidly coming around to the theory that corbyn is another version of trump. how can i deal with these motherfuckers

So the serious answer is - mention that they're both symptoms of the same problem, low pay, low job secrurity, low sense of life opportunity and poor access to decent education at the bottom, and the decline of the lower-middle class in both economies. Mention that unless these issues are addressed then it'll become harder and harder to preserve the legitimacy of liberal democracy. Stopping Brexit *alongside all this* would probably help (and I'm very sceptical of the Corbyn/Mason line here anyway), but stopping Brexit in and of itself isn't a magic bullet. In fact it just rewinds the clock back to to 2013, except the conditions that created the Leave vote are even more febrile - in effect you'd just be postponing Brexit, rather than cancelling it.

And unless these things are addressed than a real British Trump is almost certain to emerge.

it's gonna be piers morgan isn't it

(booming matt dc post btw)

The Welsh voted for Brexit so I don't know why they're bracketed along with Scotland and 'Ulster' (nice touch that) as "voices counter to our cause". I suppose they're not English, as good as though.

dude mae ganddynt eu hiaith go iawn eu hunain