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Sudden Loud Noise: Feb 18, 2007

Holy poo poo UK, it's awesome how awful you are at governance even after existing for like 12 billion years.

It's as if Alzheimer's Reagan was an entire government.

Sudden Loud Noise has issued a correction as of 17:57 on Mar 29, 2019

# ? Mar 29, 2019 17:54

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univbee: Jun 3, 2004

Wife's FB friend is mad.

So is the person who wrote this comment.

quote:

I don�t fear poverty. I don�t fear for my job. I don�t fear �falling off a cliff edge�. I don�t fear for a lack of groceries on the shelves. I don�t fear inadequate stocks of medicine. I don�t fear repercussions because of a border in Ireland. I don�t fear a lack of volunteers to do �mediocre� jobs.

I fear living in a cage. Living in a prison without bars or walls or barbed wire. A prison built by those who create and enforce our laws but are not elected. Where a foreign power has rule over this, our United Kingdom. A prison where our destiny is not in our own hands and we are not free to navigate the world as we so please.

That is why I voted Leave.

# ? Mar 29, 2019 17:55

Nebakenezzer: Sep 13, 2005; The Mote in God's Eye

Number19 posted:

I seriously hope the queen has to get involved because that�s the true maximum chaos option

I can see a different Queen coming in at this juncture and using her in theory total powers to end Brexit, order reforms, and throw a bunch of people in the tower, thereby becoming the hero of the situation and using this to protect her mandate and funding

But that's GoT stuff, not Brexit stuff

# ? Mar 29, 2019 18:00

Nebakenezzer: Sep 13, 2005; The Mote in God's Eye

Also the CBC took at jab at the UK in their radio reporting, announcing the EU was going to have an emergency session "since the British Government is incapable of resolving the crisis"

# ? Mar 29, 2019 18:01

Gaukler: Oct 9, 2012

univbee posted:

Wife's FB friend is mad.

So is the person who wrote this comment.

Where does the "unelected" part come from? I thought there were elections for MEPs? I can see getting mad at the Eurozone/ECB over that but for its faults the EU seems fairly democratic at least to an outside observer.

# ? Mar 29, 2019 18:03

Relevant Tangent: Nov 18, 2016; Tangentially Relevant

I would blow Dane Cook posted:

The Lord’s bar, The Bishop’s bar, The Peer’s dining room, The Peer’s guest room, The Pugin room, The Terrace Pavillion, The Stranger’s bar, The Terrace Cafeteria, The Thames Pavillion, The Speaker’s State Rooms, The River restaurant, Bellamy’s, The Debate, The Jubilee room, The Adjournment, The Member’s Dining Room, The Stranger’s Dining Room, The Sport’s and Social bar, The Inter-Parliamentary Union Room, The Churchill Room, The Cholmondeley Room, The Barry room, The Home room, The Jubilee Cafe, The Atlee Room, Millbank House Cafeteria, The River dining rooms and Moncrieffs (the club house for journalists).

My list of places is not exhaustive, as I am told that there are nearly 30 places to drink across the entire parliamentary estate.

Imagine being a bartender there and how hard you'd have to resist the temptation to slip Lord South Wark an emetic.

# ? Mar 29, 2019 18:04

SMILLENNIALSMILLEN: Jun 26, 2009

For sure she's got that sword right? I mean realistically she could definitely get away with stabbing one politician as a 9ne time thing

# ? Mar 29, 2019 18:05

FMguru: Sep 10, 2003; peed on;
sexually

Gaukler posted:

Where does the "unelected" part come from? I thought there were elections for MEPs? I can see getting mad at the Eurozone/ECB over that but for its faults the EU seems fairly democratic at least to an outside observer.

But sometimes the EP votes for things that the UK doesn't want, and that's tyranny, don't you see?

# ? Mar 29, 2019 18:05

Gaukler: Oct 9, 2012

FMguru posted:

But sometimes the EP votes for things that the UK doesn't want, and that's tyranny, don't you see?

Sounds like democracy to me :shrug:

# ? Mar 29, 2019 18:07

it dont matter: Aug 29, 2008

Gaukler posted:

Where does the "unelected" part come from? I thought there were elections for MEPs? I can see getting mad at the Eurozone/ECB over that but for its faults the EU seems fairly democratic at least to an outside observer.

We didn't vote in every single person who works for the EU down to the guy assigned the job of cleaning the toilets after Farage has had an ale poo poo, so they are unelected and undemocratic.

gently caress this bullshit I'm gonna get drunk in the sun

https://youtu.be/3NPxqXMZq7o

# ? Mar 29, 2019 18:10

prefect: Sep 11, 2001; No one, Woodhouse.
No one.; Dead Man’s Band

univbee posted:

Wife's FB friend is mad.

So is the person who wrote this comment.

I think this calls for a simple "You mad", possibly in image form.

# ? Mar 29, 2019 18:10

Relevant Tangent: Nov 18, 2016; Tangentially Relevant

Ghost Leviathan posted:

She must unleash the corgis

MPs coming together to murder the vicious little beasts. The occasional 'accident' as one MP knocks another into the sea of pirahna pooches. Glorious.

# ? Mar 29, 2019 18:12

Gaukler: Oct 9, 2012

Do gammons also get mad at the unelected UN telling them how they can and cannot treat immigrants, PoWs, prisoners, etc, or do they just ignore them and get a pass because lol what's the UN gonna do, write a letter about it?

# ? Mar 29, 2019 18:13

Relevant Tangent: Nov 18, 2016; Tangentially Relevant

The UN is fine because it gives the UK vastly outsized power. Second raters with a permanent seat, makes the whole thing a joke really.

# ? Mar 29, 2019 18:16

V. Illych L.: Apr 11, 2008; ASK ME ABOUT LUMBER

Gaukler posted:

Where does the "unelected" part come from? I thought there were elections for MEPs? I can see getting mad at the Eurozone/ECB over that but for its faults the EU seems fairly democratic at least to an outside observer.

europarliament is one out of seven institutions, of which i believe only two are elected in any real sense

brexit being a moronic idea should not absolve nor disguise the eu being awful

# ? Mar 29, 2019 18:17

FMguru: Sep 10, 2003; peed on;
sexually

https://twitter.com/rosschawkins/status/1111668336692203520

# ? Mar 29, 2019 18:17

Bryter: Nov 6, 2011; but since we are small we may-
uh, we may be the losers

Number19 posted:

the problem with a throne speech is that it has to be voted on and pass. if it doesn’t the government immediately falls and you go to an election

It's not entirely clear that that's the case constitutionally post-FTPA, and opinion generally leans towards the idea that a failed Queen's speech wouldn't automatically cause a government to collapse any more, but it would put intense pressure on the PM to resign which she uh doesn't seem too responsive to so far

# ? Mar 29, 2019 18:18

euphronius: Feb 18, 2009

Relevant Tangent posted:

The UN is fine because it gives the UK vastly outsized power. Second raters with a permanent seat, makes the whole thing a joke really.

the UK should lose its UNSC seat after Brexit and it goes to Brussels

# ? Mar 29, 2019 18:19

Relevant Tangent: Nov 18, 2016; Tangentially Relevant

euphronius posted:

the UK should lose its UNSC seat after Brexit and it goes to Brussels

India. Or anywhere else the UK had a colony but India would be the best.

# ? Mar 29, 2019 18:21

twoday: May 4, 2005; C-SPAM Times best-selling author

# ? Mar 29, 2019 18:22

euphronius: Feb 18, 2009

India works

# ? Mar 29, 2019 18:22

Pf. Hikikomoriarty: Feb 15, 2003; RO YNSHO; Slippery Tilde

so proud to post here with other members of the brexit flowchart community

# ? Mar 29, 2019 18:23

Shear Modulus: Jun 9, 2010

twoday posted:

lol who is pulling these probabilities out of their rear end

# ? Mar 29, 2019 18:24

Randler: Jan 3, 2013; ACER ET VEHEMENS BONAVIS

Arguably the European Parliament is the EU's least democratically legitimate Institution die to the way its swayed in favor of small Member States, while the Commission, Council et al. can derive their legitimation from the individual Member State governments.

Basically, if you wanna find a hook for calling the EU undemocratic you gonna find some way to do it. Or you just randomly foam at the mouth while jerking yourself off to your German queen and being bombed during the Blitz.

# ? Mar 29, 2019 18:25

SKULL.GIF: Jan 20, 2017

india getting the UK's permanent UNSC seat probably wouldn't be good for the india/pakistan situation

# ? Mar 29, 2019 18:25

twoday: May 4, 2005; C-SPAM Times best-selling author

Shear Modulus posted:

lol who is pulling these probabilities out of their rear end

https://jonworth.eu/brexit-where-now-the-flow-diagrams/

# ? Mar 29, 2019 18:26

Shear Modulus: Jun 9, 2010

yeah sure the votes on april 1st having a 90% probability of reaching a consensus and a 10% probability of failing to reach a consensus sounds believable

# ? Mar 29, 2019 18:27

Bip Roberts: Mar 29, 2005

Shear Modulus posted:

lol who is pulling these probabilities out of their rear end

also who's giving anything less than the hardest brexit more than zero percent

# ? Mar 29, 2019 18:27

Kurtofan: Feb 16, 2011; hon hon hon

Give the seat to me

# ? Mar 29, 2019 18:27

SKULL.GIF: Jan 20, 2017

Shear Modulus posted:

yeah sure the votes on april 1st having a 90% probability of reaching a consensus and a 10% probability of failing to reach a consensus sounds believable

april fools! :xd: