Brexit and the waning days of the United Kingdom

[Monoriu]

Brexit has really been amazing and provide much needed comic relief from our own dumpster fire politics. The Brits should really be commended for going above and beyond to entertain.

I don't know.  I never find Brexit funny.  Not one bit.  It is highly likely that I can't use the fast EU citizen lanes any more when I visit Europe in the future

[Zoupa]

Labour seem to be going for Norwayish. Though without free movement. Somehow.
Hopefully they'd sacrifice the free movement (the thing we should be fighting to keep, not trying to get rid of, jeez) for the trade.

So having your cake and eating it too. Again. Why do Brits think the EU would ever accept that? Do they not understand that a Union has pros and cons? You can't just have the pros. Jesus. It's not rocket science.

How is the Francophone press covering this story?  The American press isn't covering it worth shit, despite 1) It is one of the biggest stories in the world right now and 2) most of the principals speak English.

The editorials I've read are mostly bewildered. Both by the Rees-Moog category of british politicians and by the endless patience of EU representatives.

[Josquius]

The  truly bewildering thing is not the existence of the likes of mogg but the many poor people who doff their caps to him and believe the shittier the brexit the better.

[Richard Hakluyt]

I see that Nick Boles has boughed out of the tory party :

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-politics-47779760/brexit-votes-boles-resigns-conservative-whip-after-vote-defeat

[Syt]

Beautiful summary by a commenter:

Brexit is like one of those impossible logic problems given to  dangerous robots in scifi films purposefully to cause their circuits to overload. Parliament has smoke coming out of its ears and is bleeping weakly as its blinking lights go out

[Razgovory]

The editorials I've read are mostly bewildered. Both by the Rees-Moog category of british politicians and by the endless patience of EU representatives.

I sure as hell find it bewildering.  Hopefully this will serve as a warning to those who want a Frexit.

[celedhring]

Over here the feeling is a progressive realization that ultimately, brits are made of the same mud as us (regarding politics and well-functioning democratic institutions).

[Duque de Bragança]

Brexit has really been amazing and provide much needed comic relief from our own dumpster fire politics. The Brits should really be commended for going above and beyond to entertain.

I don't know.  I never find Brexit funny.  Not one bit.  It is highly likely that I can't use the fast EU citizen lanes any more when I visit Europe in the future

Tough luck, next time choose Macao and Portugal like Stanley Ho! 

[Duque de Bragança]

The editorials I've read are mostly bewildered. Both by the Rees-Moog category of british politicians and by the endless patience of EU representatives.

I sure as hell find it bewildering.  Hopefully this will serve as a warning to those who want a Frexit.

Not even Marine Le Pen wants a Frexit now. Only some fringe people and parties.
Editorials now are past being bewildered, they just want this farce to end, one way or another.

PS: there was some Schadenfreude early on about how the Brits threw themselves into this mess, jokes about British insularity but most of it is gone.

[Monoriu]

Brexit has really been amazing and provide much needed comic relief from our own dumpster fire politics. The Brits should really be commended for going above and beyond to entertain.

I don't know.  I never find Brexit funny.  Not one bit.  It is highly likely that I can't use the fast EU citizen lanes any more when I visit Europe in the future

Tough luck, next time choose Macao and Portugal like Stanley Ho! 

It isn't like there is a passport supermarket where I can pick and choose    I received my UK citizenship from my father who chose to go to the UK in his youth.  He didn't choose Portugal, so I can't. 

[Duque de Bragança]

Actually, there is, somewhat:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portugal_Golden_Visa
It's money or rather investment-based so I thought you would like it. 
The program has been controversial at times though, so hurry! 

As of January 2016, Portugal's Real Estate Professionals and Brokers Association reported that 80% of the 2,788 people who had been issued a Golden Visa are Chinese nationals (see Chinese people in Portugal).[3]

[Richard Hakluyt]

Only 500k Euros..................would be feasible 

[The Larch]

Some lighting operator at the BBC has been naughty.

[mongers]

That's the worst 'photoshop' I've ever seen.


Has it perchance a microsoft advert for MS paint?

[jimmy olsen]

Calling it now, on April 12th the UK will undergo hard Brexit.

On the same day Trump will shut the southern border and call it Mexit.