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http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-37670091quote:Boris Johnson has insisted the case for leaving the EU was "blindingly obvious" after a previously unpublished article he wrote before the referendum appeared to cast doubt on his views.
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# ? Oct 16, 2016 13:28 |
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vyelkin posted: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. Lol at Hungary : we want freedom of movement but gently caress those refugees
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# ? Oct 16, 2016 13:35 |
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Malcolm XML posted:Lol at Hungary : we want freedom of movement but gently caress those refugees Yeah Hungary especially are, uhh, kinda dicks. I'm a bit curious what the politics are like there, are there any Hungarians on SA?
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# ? Oct 16, 2016 13:38 |
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Private Speech posted:Yeah Hungary especially are, uhh, kinda dicks. I'm a bit curious what the politics are like there, are there any Hungarians on SA? They just had a referendum on whether or not to accept the EU's migrant resettlement quotas. 98% of voters rejected the quotas (i.e. "gently caress migrants") but not enough people showed up to make the results valid.
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# ? Oct 16, 2016 13:41 |
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vyelkin posted:They just had a referendum on whether or not to accept the EU's migrant resettlement quotas. 98% of voters rejected the quotas (i.e. "gently caress migrants") but not enough people showed up to make the results valid.
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# ? Oct 16, 2016 13:56 |
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Also relevant: The Pound being uh... well, pounded after May's hardline speeches.
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# ? Oct 16, 2016 14:08 |
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Don't worry, my uncle, a successful business man who got oversee the bankruptcy and dissolution of a fairly large firm, has assured me that the feeling pound isn't a problem because the gains in the FTSE demonstrate investors have faith in British industry. That there might be some sort of casual relationship between the former to the latter was apparently crazy talk with no basis. I'm convinced these are the sorts of views being put about by actual Tory ministers and advisors. Also in case anyone is wondering pretty much the whole civil service is currently spending all their energies wishing suffering and misery on the current government.
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# ? Oct 16, 2016 14:27 |
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I've lost 20% of my income since the vote, just due to the exchange rate. Every day it gets a little worse.
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# ? Oct 16, 2016 20:44 |
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Measly Twerp posted:I've lost 20% of my income since the vote, just due to the exchange rate. Every day it gets a little worse. Yes but the evil Polish people and various brown hordes from Foreign haven't taken your job, so presumably you should be thankful in the eyes of the cretins that voted for Brexit.
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# ? Oct 16, 2016 21:14 |
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Now there was an article about brexit in the paper today and some guys want some naval ship to go back into service? As if one extra boat will make it all better? What the hell
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# ? Oct 16, 2016 22:00 |
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got any sevens posted:Now there was an article about brexit in the paper today and some guys want some naval ship to go back into service? As if one extra boat will make it all better? What the hell It's not a "naval ship" so much as the royal yacht Britannia which was put out of service and is moored in Edinburgh. Basically, a bunch of people want to reinstate a royal yacht in which the leaders of the British Empire Mk. II can sail the world and, more specifically, which Liam Fox can use to sail to other countries in order to impress, thus making future trade deals more likely. Basically, Britain was great when it had the Empire, Britain will be great post-Brexit, thus we need to reinstate all the markers of having an Empire.
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# ? Oct 16, 2016 22:26 |
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Fox will gently caress Werrity on the boat
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# ? Oct 17, 2016 00:12 |
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Hollow Talk posted:It's not a "naval ship" so much as the royal yacht Britannia which was put out of service and is moored in Edinburgh. Basically, a bunch of people want to reinstate a royal yacht in which the leaders of the British Empire Mk. II can sail the world and, more specifically, which Liam Fox can use to sail to other countries in order to impress, thus making future trade deals more likely. I look forward to england learning what it's like to be the country being under an empire's thumb.
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# ? Oct 17, 2016 02:56 |
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Measly Twerp posted:I've lost 20% of my income since the vote, just due to the exchange rate. Every day it gets a little worse. Am I hugely wrong here, or is this not the case for anyone being paid in sterling e.g. every British person basically? Yours is just more immediately apparent due to (I assume) living or working somewhere that uses the Euro? Also spare a thought for my American colleague who transferred his life savings to U.K. banks and investments two or three months before the referendum.
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# ? Oct 17, 2016 09:37 |
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Hollow Talk posted:It's not a "naval ship" so much as the royal yacht Britannia which was put out of service and is moored in Edinburgh. Basically, a bunch of people want to reinstate a royal yacht in which the leaders of the British Empire Mk. II can sail the world and, more specifically, which Liam Fox can use to sail to other countries in order to impress, thus making future trade deals more likely. Gonna be impressive as hell when your leader has to spend two weeks on sea to travel to a different country like a hobo. Better get yourself a gold plated A380 with an ivory board toilet, that will really impress the local chiefs.
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# ? Oct 17, 2016 11:14 |
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Raspberry Jam It In Me posted:Gonna be impressive as hell when your leader has to spend two weeks on sea to travel to a different country like a hobo. Not sure that's seen as a drawback by the ministers proposing it to be honest.
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# ? Oct 17, 2016 13:44 |
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Raspberry Jam It In Me posted:Gonna be impressive as hell when your leader has to spend two weeks on sea to travel to a different country like a hobo. Can't be an A380, the manufacturer's original name even had "European" in it!!! Fox will simply have to ride on a Rolls Royce turbine, Dr Strangelove-style. Airbus Group used to be EADS, i.e. European Aeronautic Defence and Space Company
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# ? Oct 17, 2016 14:53 |
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ineptmule posted:Am I hugely wrong here, or is this not the case for anyone being paid in sterling e.g. every British person basically? Yours is just more immediately apparent due to (I assume) living or working somewhere that uses the Euro? No, because most British people spend most of their money in Britain, and while some things go up in price if the pound falls (imported goods), a lot either doesn't or goes up by a lesser amount. So your loss is much higher if you're paid in pounds and spend in something else.
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# ? Oct 17, 2016 15:04 |
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WhitemageofDOOM posted:I look forward to england learning what it's like to be the country being under an empire's thumb. Its been the case for a while now.
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# ? Oct 17, 2016 16:01 |
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Private Speech posted:Yeah Hungary especially are, uhh, kinda dicks. I'm a bit curious what the politics are like there, are there any Hungarians on SA? Good.
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# ? Oct 17, 2016 19:51 |
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Gort posted:Its been the case for a while now. So far they've merely had to deal with the problems of being one of many sovereign countries trying to outcompete each other. Now they will be a single nation forced to accept rules of a cartel of countries that is not just trying to get an economic advantage over Britain, but also holding a grudge.
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# ? Oct 18, 2016 09:33 |
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WhitemageofDOOM posted:I look forward to england learning what it's like to be the country being under an empire's thumb. Uh we've been Americas lapdog since the 60's. Brexit wasn't the final nail in the coffin. Not sure what "power" you think we had to lose. The real hurt is going to be poor people unable to afford to eat. steinrokkan posted:So far they've merely had to deal with the problems of being one of many sovereign countries trying to outcompete each other. As I said poor people are going to get it hard. The elite will feel nothing of "being under an empire". These people have houses in multiple countries, can live wherever they want. Only the least deserving will feel the full force of brexit. Is this still enough for your schadenfreude? This all seems like sins of the father bullshit. No one from 1827 or whenever is alive today. Regarde Aduck fucked around with this message at 12:50 on Oct 18, 2016 |
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steinrokkan posted:So far they've merely had to deal with the problems of being one of many sovereign countries trying to outcompete each other. It's gonna be awesome. Britain will have to give all EU citizens extraterritoriality, then I can ride through central London on a chav and randomly hit people around me with my whip. Maybe I can even break someone's legs, if they refuse to bow to me.
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# ? Oct 18, 2016 12:55 |
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The article 50 case before the Lord Chief Justice, and the summing up by both the Attorney General for the government, and Lord Pannick for the plaintifs really endorses the article a few weeks ago in the Telegraph on the respective legal 'weight' of the two leads. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/09/29/in-its-battle-for-brexit-the-government-is-bringing-a-knife-to-t/ The key part of Pannick's summing up (though the whole argument has been dense and has involved Scottish devolution, the European rights of the child, Rees-Mogg, a Jamaican common assault trial, and a 19th-century lawsuit regarding lobster factories in Newfoundland): Namely that Royal Prerogative doesn't give the PM (Executive) the power to remove rights unless parliament specifically gives a minister that power.
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# ? Oct 18, 2016 14:19 |
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Regarde Aduck posted:Uh we've been Americas lapdog since the 60's. Brexit wasn't the final nail in the coffin. Not sure what "power" you think we had to lose. The real hurt is going to be poor people unable to afford to eat. I feel no schadenfreude, I just responded to a guy saying that Britain had already been subject of some empire for a long time.
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# ? Oct 18, 2016 15:00 |
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Grate Britane will beg on its knees to rejoin the EU, and will be readmitted as the only country ever to the newly-created status of second class co-prosperity sphere member, in exchange for giving 51% of every British industry to Guy Verhofstadt, chief aide to the iron chancellor Schulz.
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# ? Oct 19, 2016 01:03 |
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https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/593qg4/microsoft_price_increases_for_uk/ Nice.
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# ? Oct 24, 2016 16:20 |
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blowfish posted:Grate Britane will beg on its knees to rejoin the EU, and will be readmitted as the only country ever to the newly-created status of second class co-prosperity sphere member, in exchange for giving 51% of every British industry to Guy Verhofstadt, chief aide to the iron chancellor Schulz. Nah, Brexit cannot fail, it can only BE failed. If things go badly after Brexit it will be the fault of the forruns and the lefty loon Remoaners who didn't BELIEVE IN BRITANE. The government will never do a u-turn and go back to the EU, the papers and the public would never stand for it.
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# ? Nov 1, 2016 11:48 |
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This is an interesting article by the BBC's Berlin correspondent that starts with a metaphor about cookies and rolls with it in order to explain different political cultures and that tries to elucidate why Brits might not "get" that Merkel isn't just playing hard to get when she says "no". http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-37799805
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# ? Nov 1, 2016 14:31 |
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Hollow Talk posted:This is an interesting article by the BBC's Berlin correspondent that starts with a metaphor about cookies and rolls with it in order to explain different political cultures and that tries to elucidate why Brits might not "get" that Merkel isn't just playing hard to get when she says "no". I wonder if anyone in power actually cares what their EU counterparts say/mean/want. Has the Conservative party flatly accepted the deal of ten thousand years of rule in exchange for a collapse in living standards, economic output, and international relevance? Is all the posturing and talk of the negotiating table purely for the benefit of the British Brexit audience, who will be appropriately shocked and appalled when the cruel EU apparatchiks don't play fair and let us crash drunkenly out of the system? Is it all just another setup to blame the forrens when everything goes wrong?
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# ? Nov 1, 2016 17:17 |
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Fargo Fukes posted:I wonder if anyone in power actually cares what their EU counterparts say/mean/want. Has the Conservative party flatly accepted the deal of ten thousand years of rule in exchange for a collapse in living standards, economic output, and international relevance? Is all the posturing and talk of the negotiating table purely for the benefit of the British Brexit audience, who will be appropriately shocked and appalled when the cruel EU apparatchiks don't play fair and let us crash drunkenly out of the system? Is it all just another setup to blame the forrens when everything goes wrong? It's always the Polish: https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/nov/01/liam-fox-pre-brexit-deal-setback-european-union
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# ? Nov 1, 2016 18:58 |
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Hollow Talk posted:This is an interesting article by the BBC's Berlin correspondent that starts with a metaphor about cookies and rolls with it in order to explain different political cultures and that tries to elucidate why Brits might not "get" that Merkel isn't just playing hard to get when she says "no". it would be hillarious if this was the plan of the UK, because if Merkel said no lol boy, guess what the answer is gonna be
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# ? Nov 1, 2016 19:16 |
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Brexit might just get held up indefinitely or killed. I can't believe Nigel Farage is still opening his mouth to spew dumb poo poo. http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-37857785
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# ? Nov 3, 2016 13:02 |
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Hollow Talk posted:This is an interesting article by the BBC's Berlin correspondent that starts with a metaphor about cookies and rolls with it in order to explain different political cultures and that tries to elucidate why Brits might not "get" that Merkel isn't just playing hard to get when she says "no". In short, German rhetoric doesn't gently caress around with "please ask me again later to save face" courtship. No is no and Theresa probably thinks poor Angela has a tic causing her to blurt something sounding like "fik dik ouch" every couple minutes but the truth is that Theresa's the only person who ever sees it.
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# ? Nov 3, 2016 13:19 |
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oohhboy posted:Brexit might just get held up indefinitely or killed. I can't believe Nigel Farage is still opening his mouth to spew dumb poo poo. https://twitter.com/mjrobbins/status/794151054363529220
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# ? Nov 3, 2016 15:03 |
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EUROPEAN FAUXTON posted:In short, German rhetoric doesn't gently caress around with "please ask me again later to save face" courtship. No is no and Theresa probably thinks poor Angela has a tic causing her to blurt something sounding like "fik dik ouch" every couple minutes but the truth is that Theresa's the only person who ever sees it. Pretty much.
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# ? Nov 3, 2016 15:16 |
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"You openly gay ex-Olympic fencer judge" has to be the nicest insult ever made. I mean who reads that and goes "what a terrible person!" Even if you hate gays you have to acknowledge the fact that the guy isn't just a top level athlete but also a top level law expert.
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# ? Nov 3, 2016 18:41 |
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British courts have ruled that any Brexit article 50 declarations need to go through Parliment, instead of just being a PM fiat like Theresa May wants. https://www.theguardian.com/politic...0-politics-live Add a little bit of excitement to the process
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# ? Nov 3, 2016 21:51 |
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Read like literally every other post posted today. We know.
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# ? Nov 3, 2016 21:52 |
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MiddleOne posted:Read like literally every other post posted today. We know. Ah, I lost interest at the gay judges pictures
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