Brexit and the waning days of the United Kingdom

[Richard Hakluyt]

It also tells you that the ice has not travelled far, so useful for people concerned about climate change.

[Syt]

To be fair, every country does crap like that.

On agricultural produce, yeah. But on ice cubes it seems kind of inane.

[Tamas]

BREAKING Westminster Bridge blocked by pro-Brexit yellow vest protesters

Is it: happening?!

So I wonder: are they protesting for crashing out or what?

[Tamas]

They don't seem to match the numbers of the anti-Brexit demonstration so far, though. To put it mildly.

[Richard Hakluyt]

Surely that is just a group of British workmen idling about as usual?

[garbon]

There's a yellow fire marshal vest in my office. Should I get down there?

[celedhring]

Separatists are trying to get a yellow vest thing started over here too. I still find it a rather uninspired choice of revolutionary garb.

[Tamas]

Separatists are trying to get a yellow vest thing started over here too. I still find it a rather uninspired choice of revolutionary garb.

I think its clever. In everyday situations it's usually worn by the "working class" so it sends a message of identity. Plus its very visible (duh) and easy to obtain.

[celedhring]

I associate it with traffic wardens. I guess they are the proletariat of police forces, though. 

[Tamas]

The prime minister shredded goodwill at a question and answer session with her 27 counterparts, who had arrived in Brussels promising to help her but were amazed when she turned up without any developed requests or ideas.

Accounts of the meeting suggest the prime minister's speech in which she called for help to get the agreement "over the line" was repeatedly interrupted by Angela Merkel asking her what she actually wanted from them.

Senior UK government officials admitted that the prime minister did not bring any documented proposals with her to the meeting.

The approach puzzled EU diplomats, who for days before the conference had said they needed to see what proposals Ms May had come up with before they could respond to her request for aid.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/brexit-theresa-may-eu-angela-merkel-scraps-plan-meeting-juncker-european-council-summit-a8682786.html

The Guardian seems to prefer to stick with the official interpretation of events, where a cooperative May was shut down by a conscious effort of the EU states to refuse helping her.

[mongers]

Surely that is just a group of British workmen idling about as usual?

[Razgovory]

I associate it with traffic wardens. I guess they are the proletariat of police forces, though. 

It's what road repair workers wear here.  I have one somewhere.

[Admiral Yi]

I think of school crossing guards.

[Josquius]

Really don't get the British alt right's hijacking of the French yellow vest protests. They've nothing to do with each other

Its definitely fair to say that the less...with it, portion of the British population still think the UK is as powerful as it was during the times of empire.
Pretty sure some of them even think the commonwealth is basically subservient to the UK.

But is it?

I have never encountered such views. What is really common, however, is insularity and a desire to keep foreigners out of our business.

Remember the channel 4 draw the Irish border bit and the woman who said the Southern Irish lost and should just live with it?
I've definitely encountered people saying New Zealand belongs to Britain and the like.
Such a level of idiocy is uncommon. But it exists.
Those who simply don't recognise that the UK is a mid sized country and the world is a large place are far more numerous.

[Syt]

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