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Tsaedje posted:She literally considers stubbornness to be her greatest virtue Reminds me of a politician that I know across the pond
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Firos posted:It is my birthday today so I am getting a burger and chips from a chip shop and watching this government burn to the ground
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Nov 15, 2018 21:11
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Rather be pushed than jump, I guess? Though in all fairness it's not like her party has ever had the stones to actually bring her down before now, so I guess gambling that they'll fall in line and she can make up the duppers with Labour defectors is not completely insane? Why she wants to be in this position at a time like this is beyond me though. If it was me you can bet that I would have hosed right off to lobby for corporations and take cushy speaking gigs long ago. E; Burgers are excellent Happy Birthday Firos!
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Firos posted:It is my birthday today so I am getting a burger and chips from a chip shop and watching this government burn to the ground Merry burgmas
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Nov 15, 2018 21:14
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Maugrim posted:My honest opinion is she sees this deal as a great achievement that nobody else could have done any better, and prides herself on being bloody-minded enough to see it through to the very end regardless of opposition. Mummy knows best. She'll go if/when she's forced to and not before. Well she is a #bloodydifficultwoman
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Nov 15, 2018 21:15
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Firos posted:It is my birthday today so I am getting a burger and chips from a chip shop and watching this government burn to the ground Happy birthday, Firos! I was going to go to the chippy but I couldn't be arsed so I'm glad you went for me.
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Nov 15, 2018 21:26
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Firos posted:It is my birthday today so I am getting a burger and chips from a chip shop and watching this government burn to the ground Every chip shop burg ive ever had has been terrible, go for a nice bit of haddock instead
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Nov 15, 2018 21:27
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So I went to Subway for my dinner earlier because my wife is out this evening and gently caress it. Paid with a £20 note and the girl on the till was looking at it funny, I could see as she was holding it up, the light shining through it and could see some writing but not what it said. I said "Oh is there some writing on it?", she said, "Yeah, it says Hitler", "... what? Really?". Yup. Hitler written across the queen's forehead in purple pen, and #WhiteGenocide above that. I was like "Wow, that's extremely not cool". Luckily it was just me and the two girls working there at the time or I might have got some funny looks but they were pretty cool about it and we had a bit of a laugh about how crazy it was. 
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Bardeh posted:Every chip shop burg ive ever had has been terrible, go for a nice bit of haddock instead Or don't go to the chippy at all because chip shops suck
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Nov 15, 2018 21:30
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Gosh darn it that speach was lame. I wanted blood dammit!
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Nov 15, 2018 21:31
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Best defaced note I ever had was a tenner where someone drew a speech bubble for the queen that said 'WANK'. Just the right level of profanity. A wanknote.
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Nov 15, 2018 21:33
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notaspy posted:A delusional sense of duty? Power. She's just trying to cling on as long as possible because every day she doesn't quit is another day when she's in power. Doesn't matter that it's pretty much all theoretical by now and she can't actually do anything with it. It's a Tory thing.
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Nov 15, 2018 21:35
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Ms Adequate posted:Rather be pushed than jump, I guess? May believes in brexit. All these conservatives are believers in an ideology. That's how they can look past evidence that they end up hurting people when they get power. Just ascribe it to something else.
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Nov 15, 2018 21:37
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Hi do we still have a government?
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Nov 15, 2018 21:41
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So seeing some confusion on what this deal is so here's the quick rundown in fake question form. So is this passes we leave the EU next March right? Sort of. Until December 2020 nothing will actually change, but we should be in that time working to implement everything about Brexit that's been discussed for the past few years. We will have left the EU, but other than not getting to vote on EU matters that's all that really changes. Unsurprisingly the Hard Brexiters hate that. Wait so if this passes it just means May can continue to delay and do gently caress all until the end of December 2020? Yes. Welcome to hell. Will EU citizens get to stay? Yes, sort of. The UK must ensure a "smooth, transparent and simple" administrative procedure for people to stay, and application forms must be "short, simple and user friendly". So that'll be a poo poo show then? Oh boy will it ever. Will there be a Customs Union and Free Movement? Maybe? That's to be decided while in the Implementation period leading up until December 2020. Until then yes we will still have those. What happens if by some miracle we fail to achieve anything and December 2020 comes about? That's when the Backstop hits. This means we'll be forced to allow a Customs Union between Ireland and the Republic of Ireland. What about the rest of the UK? We'll have to have a Customs Union to trade with the EU, but it's not as strict as the rules placed on the Republic of Ireland because the EU doesn't really care if the Great Britain wants to gently caress itself over, but it won't allow us to cause trouble in Ireland. This will mean a border in the Irish Sea, Arlene Foster strangling May to death and Dover becoming a Lorry filled wasteland of rotting food. What if we decide we don't want to do the backstop? That's not an option, the Backstop can only be ended by an agreement with the UK and the EU. Why do people hate that? Because technically the EU can force us to stay in the Backstop forever, essentially trapping us in a Customs Union until the end of 2099 at which point the backstop runs out. Ireland is never going to allow a deal that creates any kind of hard border and the DUP will never allow a border in the Irish Sea. So the only option is a Customs Union. Which the DUP don't want either and neither do most Conservatives. So basically even if by some miracle this does pass nothing has been solved except we're now technically outside the EU and so we have technically Brexited. Technically. What happens if we don't vote for it?  Maybe we'll get No Deal, maybe a General Election, maybe the Conservatives will change Leader and try again, maybe we'll get an extension. Who knooooows.
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Nov 15, 2018 21:44
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Thanks thread for the birthday wishes. I got a 1/2 pounder with cheese and a small chips and they were thoroughly enjoyable. The humble chip shop is definitely something worth being proud of imo. I'm now watching V for Vendetta which has been marred somewhat by the fact Eddie "BTL-Landlord-Company-Owner" Marsan is in it.
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Firos posted:Thanks thread for the birthday wishes. I got a 1/2 pounder with cheese and a small chips and they were thoroughly enjoyable. The humble chip shop is definitely something worth being proud of imo. I'm now watching V for Vendetta which has been marred somewhat by the fact Eddie "BTL-Landlord-Company-Owner" Marsan is in it.
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Nov 15, 2018 21:48
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Gonzo McFee posted:Or don't go to the chippy at all because chip shops suck Ban Gonzo McFee
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Nov 15, 2018 21:49
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Firos posted:Thanks thread for the birthday wishes. I got a 1/2 pounder with cheese and a small chips and they were thoroughly enjoyable. The humble chip shop is definitely something worth being proud of imo. I'm now watching V for Vendetta which has been marred somewhat by the fact Eddie "BTL-Landlord-Company-Owner" Marsan is in it. Don't forget History's Greatest Monster (Happy birthday!)
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CptAwesome posted:Ban Gonzo McFee I'm considering it.
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Nov 15, 2018 21:53
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https://twitter.com/faisalislam/status/1063161679096107010 Wait, what? A free vote just increases the chance it won't pass, and if it doesn't pass the People's Vote brigade will have a field day saying Parliament can't decide on anything so another referendum is needed. What the gently caress is she smoking?
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So I hosed off for a couple of hours and come back to see that the press are saying the PM is seriously considering listening to Penny Mordaunt's calls for a free vote Lets say for a minute that happens. She doesn't even have the numbers to pass the bill if her whole cabinet is unified behind her, never mind if half the cabinet is allowed to vote against it. gently caress, why are we wasting time with this poo poo? Michael Gove's idea of being allowed to scrap the thing and start from scratch 4 months out from the deadline was stupid enough but at least it'd be an attempt to find something that could pass our parliament (& then obviously get thrown in the bin by Brussels because Gove is a moron), where as this is dead in the water and May seems the only one not to have noticed. Well, her and the Fubpees who are rallying around her because the spectre of Jeremy Corbyn is lurking on the horizon. Totally beaten on that scoop by being extremely slow writing this post.
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i dont keep track of all this brexit poo poo. my understanding was that a second vote on it was pointless because they had already passed a point of no return from the EU's perspective?
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Still waiting on the result of a court case on whether A50 is revokable.
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Relin posted:i dont keep track of all this brexit poo poo. my understanding was that a second vote on it was pointless because they had already passed a point of no return from the EU's perspective? Your understanding is incorrect
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Relin posted:i dont keep track of all this brexit poo poo. my understanding was that a second vote on it was pointless because they had already passed a point of no return from the EU's perspective? The EU would like to see a deal done on exiting the EU in a controlled manner because while it'll gently caress us more than anyone it'd still have some negative effects for Europe for a hard Brexit to occur & I suspect they'd be fine extending the deadline even to make that happen. Although the problem is that May has shown no willingness to do that. Dumb dumb dumb
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https://twitter.com/SamCoatesTimes/status/1063172743993192456 https://twitter.com/theousherwood/status/1063162182416977921
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Relin posted:i dont keep track of all this brexit poo poo. my understanding was that a second vote on it was pointless because they had already passed a point of no return from the EU's perspective? The EU would accept us back right now if it meant an end to this bullshit. After March? Who knows? Depends on whether we're worth more to them as a member nation over them getting to cripple a nearby nuisance.
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Thanks Fans!  Also after discussing it with CB and amongst ourselves, we’ve decided we won’t punish people just for mentioning pissflaps anymore as long as it doesn’t cause an extended derail. What constitutes “an extended derail” is up to interpretation. Pissflaps is still banned from the thread tho because lol he bad.
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Nov 15, 2018 22:07
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Is it too little time to arrange a bunch of goons to barrage her with questions about having stairs in her house?
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Failed Imagineer posted:Is it too little time to arrange a bunch of goons to barrage her with questions about having stairs in her house? Goons stunned to find her answer "I am protected."
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Communist Bear posted:Goons stunned to find her answer "I am pissflaps."
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Failed Imagineer posted:Is it too little time to arrange a bunch of goons to barrage her with questions about having stairs in her house?
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As someone who watches Brexit in the way they would a noose tightening round their neck the thing I never really understand is where the time to do anything other than “crash out of the EU with no deal” would come from; four months is not enough time for anything else to happen, right? But everyone is acting like that isn’t the case, and I don’t understand why? Is it just kicking back the point that people stop making jokes and go completely batshit insane?
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Nov 15, 2018 22:16
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this is so much fun, i don't know why we don't just vote on brexit every year
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Nov 15, 2018 22:20
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Someone put the cops on notice, there's gonna be a murder
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Nov 15, 2018 22:20
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smiling giraffe posted:this is so much fun, i don't know why we don't just vote on brexit every year yeah and Satan Brexit could come through the chimney and bring us presents all the presents would be bits of poop wrapped in expensive paper
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It all makes sense now. Doh apologies for empty quote.
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My favourite bit from today is the one or two times when May warned that "if you defy my will, there may be... NO BREXIT AT ALL" Why shiver me willikers, what a threat. Rightly my soul is shaking in terror and slivers of coldylumps form on the forehead  (ok I'm not quite fluent enough yet in British to pull that off, doing my best here ok)
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