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

kind of makes me wonder if it wasn't a) aggrieved neighbours or b) neighbourhood posh kids after a day on the lash

false flag attack from the maid imo

All the evidence points towards the perp being his old nanny.

apart from being famously weird, why does he have an umbrella stand in the garden?

to put his umbrellas in

oh it probably means a "table umbrella stand", doesn't it

very non-u, we called it a "parasol base" at s towers

All the evidence points towards the perp being his old nanny.

:D :D :D

the GOAT

cook pass Babtridge

cowe gonna Be chopps

Johnson'a busted flush. he could have walked into number 10 two years ago but bottled it. No amount of dog whistle articles is going to change that, Tories are looking for someone younger and sexier, like erm Rees-Mogg.

Can't see Johnson making it down to the final two in any case, if only because a load more Brexit MPs will bundle into the contest and split the vote.

I suspect that’s exactly why Bannon is meeting them, to make sure they don’t compete against one another.

"The mischief makers"

"the cheeky vandals"

No one in Paris, Berlin or Brussels doubts that Brexit is dangerous for the EU and that the failure of talks would be disastrous. But what those who seek to mobilise that prospect for leverage in the negotiations fail to appreciate is how the whole threatening idiom – defiant swigging from the bottle marked “no deal” – completes the picture of a nation losing its balance, sliding out of control. British politics has turned crazy and the craziest politicians wave their craziness around as proof that they should be taken more seriously. The red-eyed, slurring drunk offers to demonstrate his sobriety by pouring out another drink without shpilling a shingle drop.

I have some sympathy with JM's call for an urgent battle against the Far Right -

https://labour.org.uk/press/john-mcdonnell-calls-launch-new-broad-based-nationwide-movement-resist-racism-growth-far-right/

- though it could be seen as slightly unfortunate that his model was linked, as far as I know, to the SWP more than Labour.

I also have a sense that the main problem with treatment of the far right isn't the absence of left opposition to them (though attempts to crush and demoralize the left will increase this problem), but the accommodating credulousness of the liberal / consevrtaive / presumably supposedly centrist media.

Bang on cue, https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/ukip-suspends-members-protest-bookmarks-socialist-bookshop-attack-london-a8480466.html

what an utterly shocking turn of events

two seconds of that video, these people are infants

i was browsing thru some of Nash-Jones's online handiwork today, he's just one of those pathological weirdos too in his senses for the asylum and too out of them to be roaming the streets

these people mushroom up in every town, golems reified from the collective id of public schoolkids and the gammon community

lol we're all gonna die

Britain would run out of food on this date next year if it cannot continue to easily import from the EU and elsewhere after Brexit, the National Farmers’ Union has warned.

Minette Batters, the NFU president, urged the government to put food security at the top of the political agenda after the prospect of a no-deal Brexit was talked up this week.

“The UK farming sector has the potential to be one of the most impacted sectors from a bad Brexit – a frictionless free trade deal with the EU and access to a reliable and competent workforce for farm businesses is critical to the future of the sector,” she said.

Batters’ warning comes a fortnight after the Brexit secretary, Dominic Raab, said Britain would have “adequate food supplies” after Brexit.

While Downing Street has insisted it is confident an agreement can be made in time, the international trade secretary, Liam Fox, warned over the weekend that the prospect of a no-deal Brexit was now at “60-40”, fuelling fears at the NFU and among food importers.

Food security in Britain is in long-term decline, with the country producing 60% of what it needs to feed itself, compared with 74% 30 years ago, according to figures from the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra).

In a statement issued by the NFU, Batters expressed concern that Britain would not be able to meet its food needs if Brexit was mismanaged.

Research showed 7 August 2019 would be the nominal day that Britain would run out of food if it were asked to be wholly self-sufficient based on seasonal growth, the NFU said.

in other food news

Gerry Adams is set to publish a cookery book, with recipes that will reveal the "best-kept secrets of the Irish peace process".

Appearing at the Feile an Phobail festival in west Belfast on Monday night, the former Sinn Fein president said the recipes would be based on cooking that sustained republicans through many years of negotiations.

The Irish Times reports the publication is to be called 'The Negotiators' Cook Book' and will be printed by Sinn Fein.

“The British never fed us. They never had any food. But as intrepid republicans and being blessed by one or two great cooks these are the recipes that sustained the Irish negotiating team," he said.

“It contains some of the best-kept secrets of the Irish peace process.”

potato surprise

The good fried day agreement

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2018/aug/07/uk-run-out-of-food-no-deal-brexit-national-farmers-union#img-2

So basically our only hope is that we're all so fucked on fine single malt that we don't notice when we starve to death.

The Fine art of Heart-attack diplomacy

We can eat cereals (even with milk and cream!) and salmon, so we're sorted for breakfast, and perhaps we'll even have a little lamb and mutton if we're lucky. Should keep us going until whisky time.

the brexit campaigners didn't tell anyone that a bottle of bottom of the range Vin de Piss would now be £25 a bottle in this Global Britain Avalon!

the Brexiters don't believe any of this stuff

gotta say i wonder if it's quite as bleak as painted but i'm always pining for the apocalypse so happy to go along

only being able to afford 2 bottles of wine a week, now that is what I call an apocalyptic vision.

cupboards and cupboards just stiff with keep-calm comedy marmalades

one finds what is so rarely discussed about cannibalism nowadays is timing. yes, one can freely pick and choose from the corpses piled hither and yon along the main thoroughfares of our great nation, but by their very nature these poor starved wretches provide little in the way of sustenance even before the foxes and the birds have had first pick of their softer parts

that's why i'm calling today upon the government to loosen the unnecessarily tight restrictions - many of them unfairly imposed by our friends in europe, from whom we have lately and correctly distanced ourselves - upon satisfying our hunger before we come to the point of scrabbling through the dead to find ourselves a morsel of precious human offal. through the introduction of a completely random lottery system, we can fairly decide which of our fellow citizens will selflessly offer their own flesh, and we will provide new employment opportunities by reopening our moribund slaughterhouses and rendering plants

gammon rendering plants

I bet those beleaguered Gove beavers have already been eaten, even before they got a chance build any flood defenses. The UK is currently on 60% food self sufficiency, Mogg was claiming it was 100% on AQ last year "because of great British agricultural innovations and the great work done by our farmers" or something like that, and of course nobody said: absolute bollox, mate.

render unto gammon the things that are gammon's

such as their delicious free-range flavour

http://www.blackcatimporters.com/image/cache/data/1243269642-228x228.jpg

"mum, please let me slowly die from scurvy"

in other food news

Gerry Adams is set to publish a cookery book, with recipes that will reveal the "best-kept secrets of the Irish peace process".
Appearing at the Feile an Phobail festival in west Belfast on Monday night, the former Sinn Fein president said the recipes would be based on cooking that sustained republicans through many years of negotiations.

The Irish Times reports the publication is to be called 'The Negotiators' Cook Book' and will be printed by Sinn Fein.

“The British never fed us. They never had any food. But as intrepid republicans and being blessed by one or two great cooks these are the recipes that sustained the Irish negotiating team," he said.

“It contains some of the best-kept secrets of the Irish peace process.”

― Rogan Twort's highly portable product (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 7 August 2018 11:10 (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

potato surprise

― mark s, Tuesday, 7 August 2018 11:13 (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

jesus

it was an open goal except it was me that was kicked into it and instead of the back of the net it was the back of hell where i belong

putting the m into omg

just received the embargo notice for the forthcoming david cameron autobiography - there's been lots of trade rumours but this is the first time we've had confirmation the title really is "Sourdough Starter: My Life in 23 Breads". & an early glimpse of the cover too! pic.twitter.com/8yzYZAZ3U7

— LRB Bookshop (@LRBbookshop) August 7, 2018

David Camerom

https://www.google.com/search?source=hp&ei=EpRqW_OAOMvNwQKUkrbgCQ&q=9780333761571

It was a joke

Yes, but it is nice to remember to check the joke.

joke news

LOL @ Boris, displaying a deft touch as always, being the one to finally shift the focus from Labour and anti-Semitism to the Tories and Islamophobia.

master tactician playing 5D chess

another stunning flan.