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mobby_6kl posted:Lol I wonder what the EU thinks of that Tough poo poo for them! They're screwed and they know it. vyelkin posted:Hooray, 6+ more months of uncertainty. Ya this isn't the case at all, the uncertainty is going to massively damage the European as well and it's basically going to end up as a game of who blinks first. Combined with terrorism and immigration that whole continent is completely hosed, it's only a matter of time. MrKonarski posted:I spent a week in a czech hotel seeing the BBC during brexit and I beg to disagree, it felt a lot like Pravda. A lack of perspective will do that.
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Cross posting from the UKMT, I don't know whether anyone here in the Brexit thread made it through Brexit: The Movie, but I did and I've cut together the highlights for easy viewing: https://vimeo.com/175840985
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Jul 22, 2016 17:39
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Was the Brexit movie mainly financed by people giving them Loose Change?
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Jul 22, 2016 17:45
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josh04 posted:Cross posting from the UKMT, I don't know whether anyone here in the Brexit thread made it through Brexit: The Movie, but I did and I've cut together the highlights for easy viewing: I would like to marry you, no matter what David Davis or Theresa May might think about that.  The movie is brilliant. On the other hand, hey, those clowns won! 
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Jul 22, 2016 17:48
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hobbesmaster posted:Your plan of not having a military capable of a coup seems to be working! There's an amusing book published in 2009 called "How to Stage a Military Coup" which while predominantly a light-hearted work of history/political science, starts each chapter with imagined vignettes from a contemporary UK coup d'etat. You can read the first couple chapters on Google Books. https://books.google.com/books?id=hsDbEeaVk9YC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false
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Jul 23, 2016 00:37
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Nitrousoxide posted:Looks like an enormous recession could be coming to the UK. No the pound is stronger then ever, and 40% preference in polling puts the Tory party, the party of Brexit, well ahead of all others. #Brexit, was #Winit!
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MikeCrotch posted:The big problem with the BBC is that a lot of the top people, most notably Political Editors Laura Kuenssberg and Nick Robinson, are out and out Tories and will spend as much time as they can get away with smashing the left while throwing softballs at the current governments. The puff pieces they put out for Cameron, May and Osbourne were loving disgusting, though unfortunately they were not alone in that regard in the traditional UK media. I've been drinking, which is very rare, and I've been on the internet a lot, which is very common, and I read BBC as "big black cock." I just thought I'd put that out there.
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Jul 23, 2016 05:46
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Centripetal Horse posted:I've been drinking, which is very rare, and I've been on the internet a lot, which is very common, and I read BBC as "big black cock." I just thought I'd put that out there. You know, I always thought Big Black Cock was an odd name for a state-owned network.
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Jul 23, 2016 05:59
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josh04 posted:Cross posting from the UKMT, I don't know whether anyone here in the Brexit thread made it through Brexit: The Movie, but I did and I've cut together the highlights for easy viewing: You left out the fact that all the numbers were made up by searching EUlex for "pillow" or "tea" and writing down how many hits you got! I still love you and your video though. Is that the Dr Schnuggles theme song in the gravy train part?
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Centripetal Horse posted:I've been drinking, which is very rare, and I've been on the internet a lot, which is very common, and I read BBC as "big black cock." I just thought I'd put that out there. I often find myself baffled that porn about the British Broadcasting Company is so popular on the internet.
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Jul 23, 2016 07:47
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Antti posted:You left out the fact that all the numbers were made up by searching EUlex for "pillow" or "tea" and writing down how many hits you got! Thanks! Yeah, someone told me that after I'd started putting it together, they skate round exactly where the numbers are coming from in the film itself - or it's woven into the "stupid EU laws are made of too many words" theme that runs through. That's the Thomas the Tank Engine theme though!
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Yeah I think the Last Week Tonight Brexit clip had the number for pillows including stuff like a name for something like insulation or padding with the word pillow in it.
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Illuyankas posted:Yeah I think the Last Week Tonight Brexit clip had the number for pillows including stuff like a name for something like insulation or padding with the word pillow in it. It included regulations for cereal pillows
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Pochoclo posted:It included regulations for cereal pillows To be fair, regulations on the use of marshmallow pillows in cereal is a pretty good reason to brexit
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Azhais posted:To be fair, regulations on the use of marshmallow pillows in cereal is a pretty good reason to brexit loving Brussels bureaucrats, if I want rusty razors in my cereal that's my god-given right as a True Briton.
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KirbyKhan posted:I often find myself baffled that porn about the British Broadcasting Company is so popular on the internet. Posh English accents in sensible business attire is my kink
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Jul 23, 2016 19:12
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What's the difference between a marshmallow pillow and a... well, marshmallow?
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Pureauthor posted:What's the difference between a marshmallow pillow and a... well, marshmallow? Tube versus pillow shape? No idea just guessing.
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Pureauthor posted:What's the difference between a marshmallow pillow and a... well, marshmallow? The former comes with a lovely slip.
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Jul 24, 2016 14:37
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Pureauthor posted:What's the difference between a marshmallow pillow and a... well, marshmallow? 327 EU regulations
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Pureauthor posted:What's the difference between a marshmallow pillow and a... well, marshmallow? The former exists so you can eat it on your sleep, the latter is intended for awake consumption only.
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Jul 24, 2016 23:24
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Depending on your head, size may be a factor as well.
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KirbyKhan posted:I often find myself baffled that porn about the British Broadcasting Company is so popular on the internet. 
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Sydney Bottocks posted:"When asked, we can say the Brexit paperwork is 'under consideration', or--if we feel so inclined--'under active consideration'." Once again, the best TV show about government ever.
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What's the status update on the brexit situation?
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Grouchio posted:What's the status update on the brexit situation? Everything is still hosed.
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May has stated that 'Brexit means Brexit.' May has not stated what Brexit actually entails.
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I think media interest trailed off the moment everyone realized that this is happening whenever the hell May feels like it.
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MiddleOne posted:I think media interest trailed off the moment everyone realized that this is happening whenever the hell May feels like it.
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Ersatz posted:Is it possible that she's just sitting on the issue until it's politcally palatable to back away? If she waited for a couple of years, maybe. But as of right now, it's not happening anytime soon. The new UKIP leader is implicating violence if Brexit isn't enacted fully and the EU keeps sending signals that they're not allowing the UK to squirm their way out of this.
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MiddleOne posted:If she waited for a couple of years, maybe. But as of right now, it's not happening anytime soon. The new UKIP leader is implicating violence if Brexit isn't enacted fully and the EU keeps sending signals that they're not allowing the UK to squirm their way out of this. Does the EU benefit from making the UK sleep in the bed they've made though?
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Jonas Albrecht posted:Does the EU benefit from making the UK sleep in the bed they've made though? The EU doesn't benefit from having an UK as a member that can block any EU reforms. And it would probably "help" if Brexit is at least a bit painful for the UK.
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Jonas Albrecht posted:Does the EU benefit from making the UK sleep in the bed they've made though? The UK is free to chose any deal that isn't access to the internal market but without free movement of labor.
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The EU's optimal outcome is if the UK enters some kind of association agreement instead of being a member. That means the UK losing all of their exceptions and almost all of their political influence while still having to adhere to almost all the pillars of the EU. Essentially, the outcome that would see the UK lose all its current advantages for no gain. Personally, I worry that any such outcome would incite and unprecedented wave of nationalism in the UK but who knows.
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Sep 22, 2016 08:23
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I found this short video pretty good for explaining the situation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3_I2rfApYk
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Also four EU members (Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia, and Hungary) have publicly said that they will veto any deal that involves their EU citizens being denied freedom of movement to the UK.
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Another thing is that I wouldn't count on the stalemate lasting forever. After the successful creation of the Eurogroup and the subsequent Troika literally nothing in the treaties should be taken for granted. They have been worked around before and it's probably only a matter of time until they are so again. We're already kinda seeing it with the UK getting excluded from meetings and EU institutions pulling their assets out of the UK.
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MiddleOne posted:If she waited for a couple of years, maybe. But as of right now, it's not happening anytime soon. The new UKIP leader is implicating violence if Brexit isn't enacted fully and the EU keeps sending signals that they're not allowing the UK to squirm their way out of this. The EU hasn't indicated that Brexit can't be called off. They are saying that it's going to be a horrible loud affair that won't happen quietly with Britain getting all the good things from the EU and none of the bad. Basically they won't allow the UK to remain in the EU in all but name. They've said nothing about just publicly reversing course. As for the UKIP shitlords, just start throwing them in prison for breach of the peace. These are white middle to upper class dorks. They don't have much staying power. Once their "useful idiots" thugs start getting prison time along with some of the ring leaders you'll see the worlds shortest failed revolution. That we still have far right groups in the UK is because we've treated them with kid gloves for decades, preferring to go after dangerous threats like animal rights groups and vegans. Regarde Aduck fucked around with this message at 15:06 on Sep 22, 2016 |
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Wait, the UKIP has, like, literally promised violence if there is no Brexit within x years? Because the answer to that must always, always, ALWAYS be "Let's loving have it, then". Extremists thrive on the threat of escalation because they believe their opponents will fold. So you have to call them on it.
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Nah, people are just hypothetically worried about the far right going nuts and blowing things up. There's been a few cases of white supremacist terrorism in the past, and then one of them assassinated an MP in broad daylight just before the referendum. tbh I would be extremely ok with just putting all the UKIP supporters in camps but some people want to maintain the thin pretence that we're a modern liberal democracy despite all evidence to the contrary
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