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I voted Leave because doing so would remove the one personal issue I had with the E.U. and not affect me in any other way at all!
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Dec 12, 2018 12:50
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What about the welsh in all of this?
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FizFashizzle posted:What about the welsh in all of this? I think they voted like 80% to stay but they have a different constitutional arrangement with England than the Scots do, so they're pretty much bound to do whatever London tells them. (Happy to be corrected on this one)
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Dec 12, 2018 12:52
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FizFashizzle posted:What about the welsh in all of this? Despite their protestations, they are Englishified as all gently caress. They will never have any popular will towards independence
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Dec 12, 2018 12:53
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I had to double check that I didn't wander into the UK politics thread for a minute...
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CyberPingu posted:Shes Maggie Thatcher 2.0 basically, except without the iron will to actually do anything. Yeah, Thatcher never had May's talent for making such a loving pig's ear of anything she tried to do. As appalling as Thatcher was, she got poo poo done. It was just all terrible poo poo she got done.
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What the Tories think of Ireland, by the way: "We simply cannot allow the Irish to treat us like this. This simply cannot stand. The Irish really should know their place." I'm English (well, I've got Irish ancestors, but not recently enough to bag a passport), and I'm going "Oh, gently caress you" at that level of arrogance. If the 'precious union' really does break up entirely as a result of Brexit, I will laugh as I eat cold baked beans from a rusty tin over the body of the wasteland survivor I just clubbed to get them.
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There Bias Two posted:I had to double check that I didn't wander into the UK politics thread for a minute... You're right, apologies for derail. Further elucidation is available in the UKMT, but would probably be better to lurk and read the OP rather than making GBS threads up this special day with questions (?). Anyway, sorry
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poo poo that reminds me I need to apply for my Irish Passport.
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CyberPingu posted:poo poo that reminds me I need to apply for my Irish Passport. In the same vein, I have never been happier about my NZ passport and can-loving-not wait to get as far from this country as possible. Although the way things are going, I'll probably end up losing half my savings due to the pound crashing and burning, yay 
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There Bias Two posted:I had to double check that I didn't wander into the UK politics thread for a minute... Yeah, but I love listening to them talk. Let's let this play out.
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I know we like AOC but can we show a little love for Ayanna Pressley These women. These women are so loving inspiring. They are also sticking together and supporting one another which I...haven't really seen the Democrats do so publically, at least not with the sincerity of the new members. friendbot2000 fucked around with this message at 13:50 on Dec 12, 2018 |
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Dec 12, 2018 13:47
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Pressley is legit and I’m proud to have voted for her.
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friendbot2000 posted:I know we like AOC but can we show a little love for Ayanna Pressley I think you'll find the other women are too dark or not as conventually attractive and thus... *Listens to ear piece* no wait, I'm being told it's not years if white media influence but instead... AOC is our first Instagram Influencer candidate so she's better at messaging or something
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AOC is just talked about more here because she does more Twitter burns
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Koalas Massacre posted:I think you'll find the other women are too dark or not as conventually attractive and thus... Sad, but true KM.  In other news, ProPublica has a great series about how Congress is secretly gutting the IRS so their audit capacity is getting more and more limited, which means the rich get to steal more and more money from citizens by not paying tax. https://www.propublica.org/series/gutting-the-irs This is absolutely disgusting. https://www.propublica.org/article/after-budget-cuts-the-irs-work-against-tax-cheats-is-facing-collapse This article is especially damning...I wonder who would have a vested interest in making sure their dirty money couldn't be found? Hint: This has been going on for 8 years so it isn't Trump, though he does benefit.
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Payndz posted:What the Tories think of Ireland, by the way: "We simply cannot allow the Irish to treat us like this. This simply cannot stand. The Irish really should know their place." Please, every English person's destiny is to become a British bulter/nanny for the few years that it'll work, before you then live like its the medieval era again. Haven't you read your 90s dystopia novels? You're supposed to become Cyber Camelot! Crabtree fucked around with this message at 14:09 on Dec 12, 2018 |
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Crabtree posted:Please, every English person's destiny is to become a British bulter/nanny for the few years that it'll work, before you then live like its the medieval era again. Haven't you read your 90s dystopia novels? You're supposed to become Cyber Camelot! I'm excited for Agatha Christie novels to be contemporary again, that'll be nice
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https://twitter.com/TaylorPettaway/status/1072262447396990976 Bring it home Ayanna! friendbot2000 fucked around with this message at 14:19 on Dec 12, 2018 |
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friendbot2000 posted:https://twitter.com/TaylorPettaway/status/1072262447396990976 I love her 
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Koalas Massacre posted:I love her https://twitter.com/AyannaPressley/status/1072173435583938560 https://twitter.com/AyannaPressley/status/1072173437060374529 Here is some more good news! I hope she keeps signal boosting the loving travesty that is the Cynthia Brown case. For those of you that don't know, Cynthia Brown was a child sex-slave who shot and killed the man who purchased her. She got 51 years in prison... quote:Thursday's ruling came in response to a lawsuit in which Brown argues her sentence is unconstitutional, citing a 2012 opinion by the US Supreme Court that said mandatory life sentences without parole for juvenile offenders violate the US Constitution. The Tennessee Supreme Court explained in a statement that "under state law, a life sentence is a determinate sentence of 60 years. However, the sixty-year sentence can be reduced by up to 15 percent, or 9 years, by earning various sentence credits." The system is so loving broken friendbot2000 fucked around with this message at 14:23 on Dec 12, 2018 |
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friendbot2000 posted:https://twitter.com/AyannaPressley/status/1072173435583938560  2019 is the year of the Ultimate Black Girl Glow Up. I'm really excited to see what all of these amazing women do!!
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Dec 12, 2018 14:23
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I am so loving hyped for all these Women of Color to kick rear end and take names. 2018 had so many historic elections and I am loving pumped to see what these ladies do to the white patriarchy.
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Pollyanna posted:Pressley is legit and I’m proud to have voted for her. i'm stuck voting for moulton someone's gonna primary him in 2020 though.
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Mummy Xzibit posted:I'm just impressed with a system where a leader can completely debase and embarrass themselves and face the proposition of losing office within a day.  Normally this is the case, because the PM's party has a majority of Parliament so they all vote for whoever wins the internal party leadership election. But in this case no, because May's party lost their majority (in an election she called because polling looked like she was going to crush Labour and win a huge majority that could survive inevitable defections over Brexit), so a replacement needs some other party to support them as well.
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Dec 12, 2018 14:50
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https://twitter.com/bbcsussex/status/1072243438593196034?s=21 Oh England 
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Dec 12, 2018 15:03
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Not going to be ceremonial for much longer
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Taking the mace is a maceable offense !
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CuddleCryptid posted:Not going to be ceremonial for much longer What good is a mace if you can't swing it at folks? Also, I'm pretty sure he was suspended for this.
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I love how it's mostly just "no... no no." stated politely until someone just asks him to hand them the mace so they can slowly walk it back into it's resting place.
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Is this like the ceremonial gun in thunder ball games?
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AlBorlantern Corps posted:Is this like the ceremonial gun in thunder ball games? The Mace represents the authority of Elizabeth II in Parliament - if it's not there, the meeting is not lawful and must be disbanded. However, when the Parliament discusses finance bills, the Mace is placed under the table. (Seriously)
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VitalSigns posted:
Nope the agreement with the DUP was between the parties (more specifically the chief whips), not the leaders of each. The confidence and supply agreement doesn't change from this
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If the queen actually entered, picked up the mace and said "We're not doing brexit you fuckos" that would be pretty much the end of it then?
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AlBorlantern Corps posted:Is this like the ceremonial gun in thunder ball games? I really, really appreciate this reference. Has anyone posted the raw video from yesterday's exchange between Pelosi, Trump, and Schumer yet? I'd like to see the full thing.
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I’m going to guess Brexit happens because incompetence and then they beg to join the EU in six months to a year when everything has completely gone to poo poo
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Duck_King posted:I really, really appreciate this reference. It's out there, just google it. But it's mostly Trump talking like an rear end about "we've already built so much wall." The part where they actually argue is -- or at least seemed -- short.
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