Brexit and the waning days of the United Kingdom

[Richard Hakluyt]

..as the old saying goes, every cloud has a silver lining.

I'm currently reading Ring of Steel by Alexander Watson : https://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/aug/10/ring-of-steel-review-alexander-watson-germany-austria-hungary-first-world-war

It is an account of WW1 from the point of view of the Central Powers.

For years I've struggled (along with many others) to comprehend why the European powers behaved in such a self-destructive fashion............it was baffling. Well it is far less baffling now when I see the current generation of politicians making similar (hopefully less destructive) mistakes. We really are that stupid.

[celedhring]

We're not going to invade Gibraltar, firebrand tories have no need to indulge in their dago-crushing fantasies. 

[garbon]

Someone in the House of Lords said something silly? To the battlements, I say!

[celedhring]

Someone in the House of Lords said something silly? To the battlements, I say!

Norman Tebbit also suggested London should back Catalan separatism to get leverage over the Gibraltar issue. God, we're definitely back to 1714 aren't we 

[Josquius]

Oh to be a neutral in this whole situation. The way the Kippers are getting so excited screaming about war with Spain....
Not helped by the papers comparing our militaries

[Syt]

[Agelastus]

Oh God, the most painfully unfunny thing I've ever had the misfortune to see a few minutes of.

[Josquius]

I'm told the live show was actually pretty good, but the move to TV sanitised it into the abyss.
It does strike me that most of its comedy comes from "Irish people. Lol"

[Richard Hakluyt]

I managed about 14 seconds, a trailer; mindbogglingy stupid and stomach-churning garbage.

[garbon]

Just saw an ad at Sainbury's for a new product: Bud Light. Wow, they said Brexit was going to be bad but who would have thought?

[Richard Hakluyt]

Yeah, unfortunately a disturbing proportion of the British population hate beer 

[HVC]

Yeah, unfortunately a disturbing proportion of the British population hate beer 

it's all the tea you guys drink, kills the taste buds. See English cooking.

[Duque de Bragança]

Yeah, unfortunately a disturbing proportion of the British population hate beer 

it's all the tea you guys drink, kills the taste buds. See English cooking.

They don't really drink tea, given all the milk they pour on it.  A bit like Spaniards don't really drink coffee.

[garbon]

Yeah, unfortunately a disturbing proportion of the British population hate beer 

it's all the tea you guys drink, kills the taste buds. See English cooking.

They don't really drink tea, given all the milk they pour on it.  A bit like Spaniards don't really drink coffee.

In it, dear. In it.

[Tamas]

Yeah, unfortunately a disturbing proportion of the British population hate beer 

it's all the tea you guys drink, kills the taste buds. See English cooking.

They don't really drink tea, given all the milk they pour on it.  A bit like Spaniards don't really drink coffee.

In it, dear. In it.

But it's true, innit?