Brexit and the waning days of the United Kingdom

Started by Josquius, February 20, 2016, 07:46:34 AM

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How would you vote on Britain remaining in the EU?

British- Remain
12 (12%)
British - Leave
7 (7%)
Other European - Remain
21 (21%)
Other European - Leave
6 (6%)
ROTW - Remain
34 (34%)
ROTW - Leave
20 (20%)

Total Members Voted: 98

HVC

nice that languish's mascot made into the painting.
Being lazy is bad; unless you still get what you want, then it's called "patience".
Hubris must be punished. Severely.

mongers

Quote from: Syt on June 21, 2019, 04:39:56 AM
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Syt, isthat by the chap who used to do the montages on his mobile phone during the daily commute?

And who's recently got some big commissions, like a time/vogue magazine cover?
"We have it in our power to begin the world over again"

Zanza

Three years since this shitshow started.

Syt

Quote from: mongers on June 21, 2019, 12:40:40 PM
Quote from: Syt on June 21, 2019, 04:39:56 AM
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Syt, isthat by the chap who used to do the montages on his mobile phone during the daily commute?

And who's recently got some big commissions, like a time/vogue magazine cover?

I honestly don't know.
I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.
—Stephen Jay Gould

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Syt

QuoteLabour Whips
@labourwhips

@CommonsLeader announces the summer recess dates, rising on Thurs 25 July and returning on Tues 3 Sept. Unclear whether the new Tory Leader will have been announced by summer recess.

A well deserved rest, after all they managed to settle everything regarding OH WAIT
I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.
—Stephen Jay Gould

Proud owner of 42 Zoupa Points.

garbon

I'm confused by the news about how an alternative to the Irish backstop could be available in 3 years time...assuming DUP were to either not have power, or agree to policies they have since refused to back.
"I've never been quite sure what the point of a eunuch is, if truth be told. It seems to me they're only men with the useful bits cut off."
I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows, but now the damned things have learned to swim.

Tamas

Quote from: garbon on June 24, 2019, 04:32:55 AM
I'm confused by the news about how an alternative to the Irish backstop could be available in 3 years time...assuming DUP were to either not have power, or agree to policies they have since refused to back.

Possibly/hopefully this will be the line they'll be using the sell the Withdrawal Agreement to the Leaver idiots in the country.

mongers

Chris Grayling is an ardent supporter of Boris Johnson, enough said.
"We have it in our power to begin the world over again"

Duque de Bragança

BoJo uses Napoleon as strawman

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-britain-eu-johnson/uks-johnson-warns-eu-against-any-napoleonic-tariffs-in-no-deal-brexit-idUSKCN1TP2SR

Quote"I think it would be very bizarre if the EU should decide on their own... if they decided to impose tariffs on goods coming from the UK it would be... a return to Napoleon's continental system," Johnson told LBC radio on Tuesday.

What's next, closing the Channel tunnel, just in case?

mongers

Quote from: Duque de Bragança on June 25, 2019, 06:49:06 AM
BoJo uses Napoleon as strawman

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-britain-eu-johnson/uks-johnson-warns-eu-against-any-napoleonic-tariffs-in-no-deal-brexit-idUSKCN1TP2SR

Quote"I think it would be very bizarre if the EU should decide on their own... if they decided to impose tariffs on goods coming from the UK it would be... a return to Napoleon's continental system," Johnson told LBC radio on Tuesday.

What's next, closing the Channel tunnel, just in case?

:blink:

Duque, be thankful for where you live.  :bowler:
"We have it in our power to begin the world over again"

Tamas

Quote from: Duque de Bragança on June 25, 2019, 06:49:06 AM
BoJo uses Napoleon as strawman

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-britain-eu-johnson/uks-johnson-warns-eu-against-any-napoleonic-tariffs-in-no-deal-brexit-idUSKCN1TP2SR

Quote"I think it would be very bizarre if the EU should decide on their own... if they decided to impose tariffs on goods coming from the UK it would be... a return to Napoleon's continental system," Johnson told LBC radio on Tuesday.

What's next, closing the Channel tunnel, just in case?

Impressively, the last few days he has been managing to push my expectations even lower than they already were.

A month from now we will be desperately missing May and the era of decisive normalcy she was reigning over.

Duque de Bragança

Quote from: mongers on June 25, 2019, 07:22:53 AM
Quote from: Duque de Bragança on June 25, 2019, 06:49:06 AM
BoJo uses Napoleon as strawman

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-britain-eu-johnson/uks-johnson-warns-eu-against-any-napoleonic-tariffs-in-no-deal-brexit-idUSKCN1TP2SR

Quote"I think it would be very bizarre if the EU should decide on their own... if they decided to impose tariffs on goods coming from the UK it would be... a return to Napoleon's continental system," Johnson told LBC radio on Tuesday.

What's next, closing the Channel tunnel, just in case?

:blink:

Duque, be thankful for where you live.  :bowler:

I knew I had to leave Germany!  :D

The Minsky Moment

Quote from: Syt on June 24, 2019, 04:19:25 AM
QuoteLabour Whips
@labourwhips

@CommonsLeader announces the summer recess dates, rising on Thurs 25 July and returning on Tues 3 Sept. Unclear whether the new Tory Leader will have been announced by summer recess.

A well deserved rest, after all they managed to settle everything regarding OH WAIT

It's not like having MPs on the job was helping.
The purpose of studying economics is not to acquire a set of ready-made answers to economic questions, but to learn how to avoid being deceived by economists.
--Joan Robinson

garbon

"I've never been quite sure what the point of a eunuch is, if truth be told. It seems to me they're only men with the useful bits cut off."
I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows, but now the damned things have learned to swim.

Tamas

Wait, this is a joke, right? This isn't his actual GF showing off he was telling the truth about the buses, right?