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

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The Fine art of Heart-attack diplomacy

calzino, Tuesday, 7 August 2018 11:29 (five years ago) link

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.

brain (krakow), Tuesday, 7 August 2018 11:32 (five years ago) link

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!

calzino, Tuesday, 7 August 2018 11:45 (five years ago) link

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

the Joao looked at Jonny (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 7 August 2018 11:47 (five years ago) link

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

calzino, Tuesday, 7 August 2018 11:52 (five years ago) link

cupboards and cupboards just stiff with keep-calm comedy marmalades

mark s, Tuesday, 7 August 2018 11:58 (five years ago) link

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

Rogan Twort's highly portable product (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 7 August 2018 11:59 (five years ago) link

gammon rendering plants

mark s, Tuesday, 7 August 2018 12:12 (five years ago) link

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.

calzino, Tuesday, 7 August 2018 12:24 (five years ago) link

render unto gammon the things that are gammon's

Rogan Twort's highly portable product (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 7 August 2018 12:27 (five years ago) link

such as their delicious free-range flavour

mark s, Tuesday, 7 August 2018 12:36 (five years ago) link

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

"mum, please let me slowly die from scurvy"

calzino, Tuesday, 7 August 2018 12:59 (five years ago) link

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

dele alli my bookmarks (darraghmac), Tuesday, 7 August 2018 13:02 (five years ago) link

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

mark s, Tuesday, 7 August 2018 13:06 (five years ago) link

putting the m into omg

dele alli my bookmarks (darraghmac), Tuesday, 7 August 2018 13:27 (five years ago) link

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

Mince Pramthwart (James Morrison), Wednesday, 8 August 2018 02:17 (five years ago) link

David Camerom

conrad, Wednesday, 8 August 2018 06:55 (five years ago) link

It was a joke

Mince Pramthwart (James Morrison), Wednesday, 8 August 2018 07:38 (five years ago) link

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

Andrew Farrell, Wednesday, 8 August 2018 07:45 (five years ago) link

joke news

conrad, Wednesday, 8 August 2018 08:44 (five years ago) link

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.

Father Ted in Forkhandles (Tom D.), Wednesday, 8 August 2018 11:55 (five years ago) link

master tactician playing 5D chess

Neil S, Wednesday, 8 August 2018 12:00 (five years ago) link

another stunning flan.

calzino, Wednesday, 8 August 2018 12:02 (five years ago) link

Media people and artists tend to be unthinking soft centrists (not hard ones, the hard ones are active players where soft ones are passive receivers of hard ideology), because they don't read about politics and get their sense of reality from the same place most people do, media

— Matthew Collings (@m_collings) August 8, 2018

I didn't realise Matthew Collings was a Canary RT'ing variety of the twitter Corbynites these days!

calzino, Wednesday, 8 August 2018 17:48 (five years ago) link

I love Collings in a lot of ways, which is not an endorsement of his politics, but he always seems like a thoughtful guy

the Joao looked at Jonny (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 8 August 2018 18:03 (five years ago) link

Can't argue with anything he says on that thread. I didn't always like the art he repped for but his ch4 show was good stuff

calzino, Wednesday, 8 August 2018 18:15 (five years ago) link

he's far from the worst artist who talks about art imo

the Joao looked at Jonny (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 8 August 2018 18:19 (five years ago) link

The art world is either very left Labour or fairly FBPE, with the exception of a few Tories (who are Remain anyway because of ease of travel in the EU).

suzy, Wednesday, 8 August 2018 19:53 (five years ago) link

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/aug/08/visas-refused-for-a-dozen-authors-invited-to-book-festival?CMP=share_btn_

talking of ease of travel, this is something...

According to Barley, the dozen authors were asked to provide three years’ worth of bank statements to demonstrate financial independence, despite being paid to participate in the Edinburgh book festival, and having publishers and the festival guaranteeing to cover their costs while in the UK.

calzino, Wednesday, 8 August 2018 20:02 (five years ago) link

Suzy otm

the Joao looked at Jonny (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 8 August 2018 20:27 (five years ago) link

I know the words "purity test" were directed at me last week but even I don't have the strength for this:

https://mronline.org/2018/08/06/social-imperialism-in-the-21st-century/

xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 8 August 2018 21:13 (five years ago) link

why do people leave communism for good

imago, Wednesday, 8 August 2018 21:35 (five years ago) link

because they're bourgie cunts

the Joao looked at Jonny (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 9 August 2018 04:59 (five years ago) link

Things that don't need unpicking..

Boris Johnson faces anger in his constituency but Tommy Robinson sympathiser thinks he is 'a legend'

Mark G, Thursday, 9 August 2018 06:32 (five years ago) link

Forgot to add- Independent article headline

Mark G, Thursday, 9 August 2018 06:33 (five years ago) link

Evil arsehole

Never changed username before (cardamon), Thursday, 9 August 2018 08:33 (five years ago) link

Every time I read something by Louis Allday I want to link to that 'Anti-Imperialism of Idiots' article again and again and again.

Matt DC, Thursday, 9 August 2018 08:46 (five years ago) link

oh i wouldnt read something by louis all day

dele alli my bookmarks (darraghmac), Thursday, 9 August 2018 08:52 (five years ago) link

you didnt

lbi's life of limitless european glamour (Le Bateau Ivre), Thursday, 9 August 2018 08:53 (five years ago) link

tomorrow, this thread will actually be occurring on THE DAY AFTER THE DEADLINE btw

dele alli my bookmarks (darraghmac), Thursday, 9 August 2018 08:56 (five years ago) link

it seems "pre-eminent left-winger" Paul Mason is still without a club!

calzino, Thursday, 9 August 2018 09:06 (five years ago) link

rah!

dele alli my bookmarks (darraghmac), Thursday, 9 August 2018 09:10 (five years ago) link

Every time I read something by Louis Allday I want to link to that 'Anti-Imperialism of Idiots' article again and again and again.

here it actually is: https://leilashami.wordpress.com/2018/04/14/the-anti-imperialism-of-idiots/

there's no way I'm going to read allday denouncing mason or jones again, but I didn't find reading this polemic against grand narratives from someone who wrote a book with robin 'corbyn is a stalinist/putinist/assadist worm who should be put to sleep' yassin-kassab v edifying either. I don't think ppl on either side of the regime change issue have a monopoly on placing grand narratives over lived realities, supporting brutal regimes in far off countries, or peddling racism, conspiracy theories and atrocity denial

ogmor, Thursday, 9 August 2018 10:37 (five years ago) link

Boris to be investigated by a Tory party panel. The 1.5d chess view would be that losing the whip and being ineligible for this year's leadership challenge would probably be a good thing for him.

Andrew Farrell, Thursday, 9 August 2018 11:41 (five years ago) link

can't wait to find out whether there's a place for racist cunts in the Tory party

the Joao looked at Jonny (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 9 August 2018 11:43 (five years ago) link

Baroness Warsi found out that certain types of Asian MPs (i.e. ones that stfu about Tory Islamophobia) are tolerated, but not her type.

calzino, Thursday, 9 August 2018 11:47 (five years ago) link

Source close to Boris Johnson: “The world has gone mad. Or specifically the people at Matthew Parker Street (Conservative Central Office) have gone mad. They and Number 10 would be very, very wise to calm this down very, very quickly.”

— Lewis Goodall (@lewis_goodall) August 9, 2018

Matt DC, Thursday, 9 August 2018 13:01 (five years ago) link

BJ is like 2 steps from going full Mosley

the Joao looked at Jonny (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 9 August 2018 13:43 (five years ago) link

You can just smell the desperation coming off him.

Matt DC, Thursday, 9 August 2018 13:44 (five years ago) link


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