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Shear Modulus posted:so when is brexit for real happening again? is there like a specific date where if they havent reached a deal everything will go down? Yeah that's the funniest part of this whole thing, before she had any strategy or even a just a goal in mind for what she might want to get from an exit agreement, Theresa May whipped Parliament to pull the trigger on a 2-year countdown to negotiate something or crash out of the common market with no trade deals. ...then she immediately took 3 months off to have an election because she thought delivering the Brexit bill would grant her a huge majority, smashing Labour forever...whoops lost the majority completely and had to form a coalition with Irish religious fanatics whose one Brexit goal is to maintain open borders with Ireland and with mainland Britain so as not to restart the Troubles, something which half of her own party will under no circumstances accept because open borders with Ireland means open borders with Poland and all the Poles were supposed to go home. Having wasted three months with the time ticking away, and now saddled with a coalition partner having desires fundamentally incompatible with much of her own party, finally she says "okay team, what should we ask for from Europe, what do we all want out of this." Smelling blood, the biggest Brexit boosters in her own party resigned so when it all goes tits-up they can say "all those great things we promised were all true, Theresa May stabbed Brexit in the back!" Everything about it is mind-bogglingly stupid from start to finish.
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bob dobbs is dead posted:march 29 2019 11pm british time, 12am brussels time apparently they can still call backsies before then, and bookies are giving it nearly even odds that they will (whatever that's worth)
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Jose posted:i'm just blindly treating it like everyone will come to their senses and it won't be that bad That just means you'll make your own gravy.
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Jul 26, 2018 22:34
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Jul 26, 2018 22:37
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VitalSigns posted:Everything about it is mind-bogglingly stupid from start to finish. The next general election isn't until 2022 too, so they can't just run down the clock and let Labour own it without collapsing their own government and triggering yet another election.
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Jul 26, 2018 22:39
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Pener Kropoopkin posted:The next general election isn't until 2022 too, so they can't just run down the clock and let Labour own it without collapsing their own government and triggering yet another election. if they trigger another election won't the absolute boy become pm and tell all the racists to gently caress off while he nationalizes all their assets?
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Gringostar posted:if they trigger another election won't the absolute boy become pm and tell all the racists to gently caress off while he nationalizes all their assets? God Save the Boy
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Jul 26, 2018 23:06
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Dixie Cretin Seaman posted:the funniest brexit outcome is, of course, they go through with it, decide it was a huge mistake, and run back to the EU under less favorable terms than they had to begin with my completely uninformed guess is thats what the most likely outcome is
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Jul 26, 2018 23:07
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Jul 26, 2018 23:09
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Shear Modulus posted:my completely uninformed guess is thats what the most likely outcome is my even more uninformed guess is that everybody is so prideful and unwilling to admit defeat that brexit happens and the nation goes full mad max
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Jul 26, 2018 23:13
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logikv9 posted:my even more uninformed guess is that everybody is so prideful and unwilling to admit defeat that brexit happens and the nation goes full mad max pretty solid uninformed guess based on what's happening in every liberal democracy everywhere (except portugal?)
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Jul 26, 2018 23:18
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logikv9 posted:my even more uninformed guess is that everybody is so prideful and unwilling to admit defeat that brexit happens and the nation goes full mad max i'm gonna get sooooo many cheap games workshop products from their suddenly devalued currency lol
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Jul 26, 2018 23:21
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H.P. Hovercraft posted:i'm gonna get sooooo many cheap games workshop products from their suddenly devalued currency lol you will be able to buy the entire company for a shipping container full of factory second bread
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Jul 26, 2018 23:23
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looking forward to looting the country to upgrade my record collection.
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Jul 26, 2018 23:33
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im kidnapping British panel show guests for my own personal amusement
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Jul 26, 2018 23:34
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India and Ireland get the first asset draft picks.
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VitalSigns posted:Yeah that's the funniest part of this whole thing, before she had any strategy or even a just a goal in mind for what she might want to get from an exit agreement, Theresa May whipped Parliament to pull the trigger on a 2-year countdown to negotiate something or crash out of the common market with no trade deals. That's an amazingly good summary.
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Pener Kropoopkin posted:India and Ireland get the first asset draft picks. trading back all the british museum plunder for some chickpeas and paneer
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Jul 27, 2018 00:32
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I think it's a good thing the Anglo beast is finally dying after centuries of attrocity
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Maybe Ireland can repopulate the soon to be uninhabited island
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with the immigrants gone and its agricultural economy in shambles it'll be cool to see england getting back to its culinary roots
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Dixie Cretin Seaman posted:with the immigrants gone and its agricultural economy in shambles it'll be cool to see england getting back to its culinary roots Enough about America though.
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Dreddout posted:I think it's a good thing the Anglo beast is finally dying after centuries of attrocity Perfidious Albion prostrate at long last!
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Jul 27, 2018 02:04
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logikv9 posted:my even more uninformed guess is that everybody is so prideful and unwilling to admit defeat that brexit happens and the nation goes full mad max yeah probably i thought about it a little more and i think may and the tories probably went full steam ahead on this unstoppable two-year brexit deal because they understood at some level that manufacturing another economic crisis would be the most expedient route to ram through even more austerity and privatization. but having lost the majority and control of the situation they arent able to act on that. also "manufacture a crisis to ram through even more austerity and privatization" is the entirety of the neoliberal playbook so being unable to do that, they are literally unable to do anything because they are incapable of understanding the situation as it is. at another level they are also incapable of recognizing they have actually lost control of the process. this is also true of american neolibs in the age of TRUMP
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Jul 27, 2018 02:13
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releasing a plague in which only you have the cure, except the cure doesn't work and also you can't get out
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Shear Modulus posted:at another level they are also incapable of recognizing they have actually lost control of the process. this is also true of american neolibs in the age of TRUMP I think the understated thing about Trump's farm hand out is that it demonstrates he's willing to bail out any industry and not just finance. So when libs complain about it being a "soviet farm bill" they don't even realize how much ground they're ceding in terms of policy.
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Pener Kropoopkin posted:The next general election isn't until 2022 too, so they can't just run down the clock and let Labour own it without collapsing their own government and triggering yet another election.
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Jul 27, 2018 02:17
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to everyone with two brain cells to rub together it all looks mind-bogglingly stupid because theyre still trying to fit square pegs into round holes. and there are no square holes any more. we got a new board without square holes. there are a lot of different shapes of holes except square ones, and actually there are tons of matching pegs for all those shapes but the only one theyre working with is the square one
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Jul 27, 2018 02:20
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https://twitter.com/GarySegura/status/1022407391810387969 the man who ripped the NYT a new rear end in a top hat when they came over to UCLA for a chat can drop some p great burns too, as it turns out
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Al! posted:in a cruel twist of fate, morrissey becomes a cannibal meat is murder and murder is back on the menu boys!
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uber_stoat posted:meat is murder and murder is back on the menu boys! be careful with meat: one time i tried just leaving the meat out but its not worth it, it gets really uh "harsh" (sharp? you know meat thats bad)
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Epic High Five posted:Brexit 2020: "We can't sell these stockpiled non perishables because they are being traded as a speculative investment vehicle, and doing so would cause much instability to the CANBEANS futures" I'm thinking bout those CANBEANS
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Dixie Cretin Seaman posted:apparently they can still call backsies before then Bonfire Lit has issued a correction as of 08:01 on Jul 27, 2018 |
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i gotta say my favorite stories are the ones where people voted for their spouse to be deported
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VitalSigns posted:...whoops lost the majority completely and had to form a coalition with Irish religious fanatics whose one Brexit goal is to maintain open borders with Ireland and with mainland Britain so as not to restart the Troubles, Except that they would never refer to themselves as Irish in a million years, they would welcome a return to the sectarian violence of the Troubles, and they have no interest in an open border with Ireland. But yeah other than that good summary...
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So what happened? That was a month ago. Ahha: https://www.militarytimes.com/news/your-military/2018/07/25/ice-to-deport-wife-of-marine-iraq-vet-aug-3/ Shes being deported next week
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