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If there is any big royal news, the meeting may have been whether or not to disclose any today, given that it could severely disrupt the local elections going on. And if you're lucky enough to be in a place with a local election in today, then vote Labour, please.
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Pissflaps posted:Hopefully it won't come to that but it has to be a backstop option, surely?
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Reminder: Everything Brexit related coming from the UK government is meant for internal consumption only until the polls close on election day. If you want to go full tinfoil even the leaks about the dinner could have been orchestrated to give May an easy opponent to beat up on while not even engaging her internal opposition, given that even the EU has an interest to see May win as much high as possible.
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GaussianCopula posted:Reminder: Everything Brexit related coming from the UK government is meant for internal consumption only until the polls close on election day. If you want to go full tinfoil even the leaks about the dinner could have been orchestrated to give May an easy opponent to beat up on while not even engaging her internal opposition, given that even the EU has an interest to see May win as much high as possible. Bit convoluted given the leaks were in German language in a German paper-only newspaper. Wasn't until someone on Twitter picked it up and translated did it start getting reported here
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Igiari posted:If there is any big royal news, the meeting may have been whether or not to disclose any today, given that it could severely disrupt the local elections going on. good point, hopefully the olds are too concerned with the Queen's mortality to go out and vote today.
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May 4, 2017 09:06
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GaussianCopula posted:Reminder: Everything Brexit related coming from the UK government is meant for internal consumption only until the polls close on election day. If you want to go full tinfoil even the leaks about the dinner could have been orchestrated to give May an easy opponent to beat up on while not even engaging her internal opposition, given that even the EU has an interest to see May win as much high as possible. Shut the gently caress up you nazi oval office
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Ewan posted:Bit convoluted given the leaks were in German language in a German paper-only newspaper. Wasn't until someone on Twitter picked it up and translated did it start getting reported here Yes, in today's world a detailed account about an exchange with the British PM getting translated/reported on in the UK after being published in the newspaper of record in Germany is totally unexpected.
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LemonDrizzle posted:screw those filthy eurowogs we're taking our money and going home in a huff "If you don't give in to our demands, I'll shoot myself"
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GaussianCopula posted:Yes, in today's world a detailed account about an exchange with the British PM getting translated/reported on in the UK after being published in the newspaper of record in Germany is totally unexpected.
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Pluskut Tukker posted:"If you don't give in to our demands, I'll shoot myself" GaussianCopula posted:Reminder: Everything Brexit related coming from the UK government is meant for internal consumption only until the polls close on election day. If you want to go full tinfoil even the leaks about the dinner could have been orchestrated to give May an easy opponent to beat up on while not even engaging her internal opposition, given that even the EU has an interest to see May win as much high as possible.
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Oberleutnant posted:Remember a few months ago when the foreign office was nervously shuffling its feet about how it had literally no negotiators for the brexit department with any kind of experience at negotiating huge international deals like this?
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May 4, 2017 09:23
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Jack2142 posted:Prince Charles has been disinherited for shits and giggles and the Queen is abdicating in favor of Prince George. Sadly it's probably something unimportant like Randy Andy being caught up in dodgy arms sales to horrifically brutal & oppressive Middle Eastern regimes again. Lord of the Llamas posted:It's a loving stupid idea. Our best-in-the-world negotiators are playing 11th dimensional chess, have some faith in glorious Britannia. learnincurve posted:I like Philip Nah mate, Phil The Greek is a racist piece of royal poo poo.
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he's the nation's slightly racist old grandpa being forced to go to places he really does not want to be by his wife, so is getting as much entertainment value out of it as possible by taking the piss in the full knowage that she cant yell at him for it in public.
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I will put up with liberal whinging about Brexit from southern keyboard warriors all day long, but Philip is a treasure and I'm voting Tory today to spite you. .
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I'd appreciate it if you voted for your local Labour candidate, instead.
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GaussianCopula posted:Reminder: Everything Brexit related coming from the UK government is meant for internal consumption only until the polls close on election day. If you want to go full tinfoil even the leaks about the dinner could have been orchestrated to give May an easy opponent to beat up on while not even engaging her internal opposition, given that even the EU has an interest to see May win as much high as possible. It doesn't matter that it's "meant" for domestic political posturing it's still going to have a negative effect. If the electorates in EU nations think we're all cunts then the EU won't want to give us a good deal because they all too have domestic political concerns of their own.
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vote ukip to save the royals from brussels' hex
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Igiari posted:I'd appreciate it if you voted for your local Labour candidate, instead. I'm going to vote for my local Green, Labour, independent & maybe SNP candidates today. STV is great.
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forkboy84 posted:Sadly it's probably something unimportant like Randy Andy being caught up in dodgy arms sales to horrifically brutal & oppressive Middle Eastern regimes again. 24th dimensional fantasy football
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forkboy84 posted:I'm going to vote for my local Green, Labour, independent & maybe SNP candidates today. think of all the incubators and body armor you could have had instead of your communist voting system
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Remember to put the Tories last.
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Kurtofan posted:think of all the incubators and body armor you could have had instead of your communist voting system The thoughts of all those dead soldier babies is all that gets me up in the morning.
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John McDonnell posted:Dear Kokoro Wish,
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LemonDrizzle posted:hello thread good morning and please remember to do a democracy today Done.
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https://twitter.com/paulwaugh/status/860054833071566848 ...except a majority.
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Coohoolin posted:Remember to put the Tories last. I can't. There's a UKIP candidate, and a Unionist party candidate in addition to the Conservative and Unionist one.
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Yeah who knows what it is. I'm guessing something anti-climatic, but it is highly unusual for them to call people from across the country at such short notice. My best guess is that it'll be something like the Queen and/or Phillip formally reducing their ceremonial duties or something, but not an abdication.
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Ewan posted:Yeah who knows what it is. I'm guessing something anti-climatic, but it is highly unusual for them to call people from across the country at such short notice. My best guess is that it'll be something like the Queen and/or Phillip formally reducing their ceremonial duties or something, but not an abdication. https://twitter.com/BBCPeterHunt/status/860057624489930753 You can hear the whole world going 'is that it?'
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Ewan posted:Yeah who knows what it is. I'm guessing something anti-climatic, but it is highly unusual for them to call people from across the country at such short notice. My best guess is that it'll be something like the Queen and/or Phillip formally reducing their ceremonial duties or something, but not an abdication. Phil retiring from public duties is my bet
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Serotonin posted:Phil retiring from public duties is my bet That's cheating
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Might have had a minor heart attack or something to prompt it, but it's not exactly a shocking decision is it.
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"Prince Philip will not be accepting new invitations for visits and engagements, although he may still choose to attend certain public events from time to time." So "he won't be attending any events unless he decides to attend the event". So yeah... anti climatic
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HJB posted:Might have had a minor heart attack or something to prompt it, but it's not exactly a shocking decision is it. This might be the case given how short the notice was, unless that was just to prevent leaks.
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"Everyone has funny names now, so you might think you're meeting with a normal person but then it turns out to be some kind of Chinese" says Philip on withdrawing from public engagements.
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Yeh they were using a mildly interesting announcement as a dress rehearsal for when the queen conks it. There was an aweful stink when Queen Mary of Teck was bedbound and she woke up in the morning to a full dress rehearsal for her own funeral going on - what made it a comedy of errors was that the old harridan was very much alive and kicking and tore everyone involved a new one.
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As much as people hate his racist remarks, he is at times rather witty "I thought it was against the law these days for a woman to solicit." Said to a woman solicitor. "You could do with losing a little bit of weight." To hopeful astronaut, 13-year-old Andrew Adams. "There's a lot of your family in tonight." After glancing at business chief Atul Patel's name badge during a 2009 Buckingham Palace reception for 400 influential British Indians to meet the Royal couple.
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Ewan posted:As much as people hate his racist remarks, he is at times rather witty My autocorrect refuses to recognise lovely as well
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Wittily racist. The liberals favorite kind of racism
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