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[celedhring]

And their goat fetish.

[Sheilbh]

To be fair they're not alone in that, the previous Royal Welsh goat's retirement do:


Cummings is now running late to his own press conference and may well actually run over and clash with the official government covid-19 briefing. Which is a weirdly appropriate situation

Edit: This is particularly stupid because they announced it would be at 4. If you delay a normal press conference you will piss off journalists. If you delay a press conference that the broadcasters have cleared their schedules to show you will be late and disrupting Antiques Roadshow. Which is really going to piss people off.

Edit: It's started now. He's at a desk in the garden (? ) and there's a really weird background noise going off repeatedly

[Richard Hakluyt]

Which is extraordinary given the uniforms

In the words of the poet :

"Young man, there's no need to feel down..." etc etc

[The Brain]

Did Tom of Finland design the uniforms?

[Duque de Bragança]

Meanwhile, in Spain.

Not even a Francoist flag? 

[Duque de Bragança]

Which is extraordinary given the uniforms

Sorry Sheilbh, they are already taken. 
They are the (Bride)Grooms of Death (Novios de la Muerte).
Muerte being feminine. 

PS: clarification, just in case.

[celedhring]

Not even a Francoist flag? 

Can do better than that.



Dude with a carlist cap waving the Sacred Heart flag of Spain. Doesn't get more old-school far right than that. He might as well be riding a horse cart.

[Sheilbh]

"First of all, I didn't think it would be reasonable to ask a friend to come and expose themselves to a deadly diseae when a 17 year old niece had already volunteered"

[Sheilbh]

Can do better than that.



Dude with a carlist cap waving the Sacred Heart flag of Spain. Doesn't get more old-school far right than that. He might as well be riding a horse cart.

Amazing

I saw one lad out with the Carlist flag too. Nice to see they're still a going concern on the Spanish right.

[Duque de Bragança]

Not even a Francoist flag? 

Can do better than that.



Dude with a carlist cap waving the Sacred Heart flag of Spain. Doesn't get more old-school far right than that. He might as well be riding a horse cart.

Not good enough, reactionary maybe but pro-autonomies, so still under a rip-off of German slogan and motive. 
I see Sacred Heart flags as a bit passé as well:



PS: OTOH, White is for the king in the French flag. 

[The Larch]

Can do better than that.



Dude with a carlist cap waving the Sacred Heart flag of Spain. Doesn't get more old-school far right than that. He might as well be riding a horse cart.

Amazing

I saw one lad out with the Carlist flag too. Nice to see they're still a going concern on the Spanish right.

That's not the Carlist flag per se, but the Burgundy Cross one, which Carlists adopted. Nowadays it's more of a generic far right symbol than necessarily Carlist (which is a really minoritary group), which is a damn shame as it's a historical flag of the country and part of the arms of many military units and, until the current King, part of the arms of the King of Spain as well.

[Legbiter]

Bah, Carlists. Bring back the Visigothic royal line. 

[Sheilbh]

Spain really has an enviable number of politically charged national flags - all the variations on the Republican flags too.

All our national flags are really boring by comparison

[garbon]

I was testing my eyesight?

[The Larch]

Spain really has an enviable number of politically charged national flags - all the variations on the Republican flags too.

All our national flags are really boring by comparison

I saw a a tweet this morning with a compilation, there were easily 15 or so. 

We're even seeing a revival and mash ups of some of the weird historical ones, like this one with the modern colours but with a version of Charles the Ist arms on it, two headed eagle and everything.