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Jazerus posted:so just hypothetically, what if there are no votes to pass anything at all entire country of England is disbanded, they have to start from scratch
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Mar 31, 2019 02:37
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I brexit You brexit We all brexit
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Chokes McGee posted:entire country of England is disbanded, they have to start from scratch I'm almost 40, we've done that like twice in my life time. gently caress's sake, I can't be arsed this time, I'm just going to torch everything.
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Hexyflexy posted:I'm almost 40, we've done that like twice in my life time. gently caress's sake, I can't be arsed this time, I'm just going to torch everything. Ye Olde Death Crewe
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honestly by this point if I was a Brit I'd just want a Brexit just to get it over with and start working on the next steps
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Hexyflexy posted:The election is an empty threat, she can't pull it off. Nothing has changed, and it'll fail the next time too. Oh, lmao never mind then! let the brexit laughs continue! Its incredible watching a country self destruct in slow motion. They can't pass anything, even no deal preparations they don't have time for. Its crashing out in 2 weeks and nothing on earth can stop it from happening. Even once they crash out, and things go pear shaped the government can't even collapse! Its extraordinary.
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staberind posted:I used to occasionally read Private Eye but gave up because it got a bit depressing, however, now I try to avoide every and all forms of news because over the past 5 years politicians in this country have given up any pretense of attempting to govern the country, in favour of just shovelling cash into their pockets blatantly. the initial plagues unleashed by the colonizers were accidental The second, third, fourth, etc. were very deliberate
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SKULL.GIF posted:honestly by this point if I was a Brit I'd just want a Brexit just to get it over with and start working on the next steps
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I'm really proud of how Europeans have made Simpsons memes their own thing. Shine on you crazy diamonds.
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Tom Guycot posted:Oh, lmao never mind then! let the brexit laughs continue! the main thing holding the tory line is that nobody wants to take the blame for brexit, especially may(even though that's her entire job) cameron meanwhile is laffing all the way to the bank
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Mar 31, 2019 03:50
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Maybe you'll get lucky and the Vikings will conquer you again
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PostNouveau posted:Maybe you'll get lucky and the Vikings will conquer you again https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRSGSb7_L2Y 
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Literally based a Scion RPG game on brexit tonight Can't leave england legally, therefore you can't leave england illegally Parliament's authority completelydissolved due to someone stealing the mace Inbred morons in the house of Lords being the only common sense Everything leading towards Irish republicans being violent, purposeful, intelligent, and motivated Much like the real world, the party fixed everything by slaying some mystical creatures and fleeing the country before things got worse
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buy our shampoo so you can... get picked first for rape?
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Tom Guycot posted:buy our shampoo so you can... get picked first for rape?
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A Buttery Pastry posted:Nah, she's trying to set herself up as a supplier to the vikings, who were of course known for obsessing over their personal appearance and hygiene. Not sure if it's the joke but they literally were
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It's amazing to me that the only part of British governance that hasn't turned out to be utterly useless in the face of a total shitshow is the Speaker of the House, and only because it is a position with the authority to shut down Theresa May belonging to a guy who hates her guts and knows how to hold a crowd.
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frankenfreak posted:TheRZA, the JZZA, and the Goveface Killah
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Tom Guycot posted:buy our shampoo so you can... get picked first for rape? was this campaign made by the same guy from Monty python who did conquistador coffee or something
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Zulily Zoetrope posted:It's amazing to me that the only part of British governance that hasn't turned out to be utterly useless in the face of a total shitshow is the Speaker of the House, and only because it is a position with the authority to shut down Theresa May belonging to a guy who hates her guts and knows how to hold a crowd. he’s a deeply lovely human being
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Like apparently medieval european aristocrats complained about how women were all swooning over the well groomed regularly bathing norsemen
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Zulily Zoetrope posted:It's amazing to me that the only part of British governance that hasn't turned out to be utterly useless in the face of a total shitshow is the Speaker of the House, and only because it is a position with the authority to shut down Theresa May belonging to a guy who hates her guts and knows how to hold a crowd. The current issue of Private Eye quotes a short but funny exchange between Bercow and one of his foes Ian Hislop's rag posted:Bercow has long known (and disliked) North Dorset's Tory backbencher Simon Hoare. The two knew each other years ago when Bercow was a raging right-winger equivocal about apartheid South Africa, and Hoare was markedly more liberal.
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Jel Shaker posted:he’s a deeply lovely human being Oh, I didn't mean to imply he wasn't. He just seems to be the only guy who is actually able to do his job without being hampered by the parliamentary process and/or his own incompetence. Fake edit: lol, pro-apartheid. Of course.
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PostNouveau posted:Maybe you'll get lucky and the Vikings will conquer you again If only.
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Raskolnikov38 posted:the only way an election is going to get called is if May blows her brains out on the commons floor and the billion shithead tories that rise up to seize the turd of leadership can't form a majority in the tory party let alone parliament Part of me wants to see how far a right-wing democracy can go toward dictatorship before liberals in other countries start calling for regime change (they never would) looking forward to 2022, I guess
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Ghost Leviathan posted:Like apparently medieval european aristocrats complained about how women were all swooning over the well groomed regularly bathing norsemen Yeah they whined about Vikings getting all the women since Vikings combed their hair and bathed once a week. https://cjadrien.com/2016/01/05/long-or-short-how-did-the-vikings-wear-their-hair/
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I still haven't forgiven the vikings for England, Russia and the US
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Zulily Zoetrope posted:Oh, I didn't mean to imply he wasn't. He just seems to be the only guy who is actually able to do his job without being hampered by the parliamentary process and/or his own incompetence. Everyone loves shouty speaker, the speaker who loves to shout! 20 years ago: We regret to inform you that the right honourable gentleman is a racist
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Raskolnikov38 posted:rise up to seize the turd of leadership BREXIT: Rise up to seize the turd of leadership
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Zulily Zoetrope posted:Oh, I didn't mean to imply he wasn't. He just seems to be the only guy who is actually able to do his job without being hampered by the parliamentary process and/or his own incompetence. This was back when they wanted Mandela hanged
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to be fair he was like 20 at the time and went on to firmly distance himself from and apologise for his positions back then. During his time as an MP he seems to have been mostly on the sane side of things (unless I overlooked something?), even defying a three-whip order when he voted for a Labour proposal to let gay couples adopt children I wonder if there are any Brexiteers who insist on calling him „Berkowitz“
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Gaukler posted:Everyone loves shouty speaker, the speaker who loves to shout! UK Parliament just seems such much more hilarious than US Congress especially all the dry humor and use of backhand insults. Especially all the events in which parties face off and spend a few hours just trolling each either then waiting for a rebuttal speech.
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I think someone has already made a similar observation but it seems that the UK set up a fairly competent bureaucracy in the postwar period and then used their newfound time to just shitpost/host PMQs while inertia kept the government working. The job description went from “governing” to “opinion pieces” and respectable work for failsons. And now, a few generations on, the inertia is slowing down, some people have been actively trying to jam a wrench in it, and it’s heading for a cliff and since no one has had to actually govern for years MPs are only equipped to shitpost. Same as in the US, really, though we never got anything cool like the NHS.
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Gaukler posted:I think someone has already made a similar observation but it seems that the UK set up a fairly competent bureaucracy in the postwar period and then used their newfound time to just shitpost/host PMQs while inertia kept the government working. The job description went from “governing” to “opinion pieces” and respectable work for failsons. And now, a few generations on, the inertia is slowing down, some people have been actively trying to jam a wrench in it, and it’s heading for a cliff and since no one has had to actually govern for years MPs are only equipped to shitpost. Isn't this basically the typical 'triumph and rot' imperial pattern?
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Ghost Leviathan posted:Isn't this basically the typical 'triumph and rot' imperial pattern? Yeah I suppose the Roman Empire did pretty much the same thing and now everyone is just speedrunning Rome.
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I'm not sure that's true. Like, we may hate them, but both Thatcher and Blair made some fairly fundamental changes to how the country works, and that's just the examples in my political lifetime. Cameron's government was notable rather than typical for its journalism centred vacuousity. tarbrush has issued a correction as of 13:48 on Mar 31, 2019 |
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tarbrush posted:I'm not sure that's true. Like, we may hate them, but both Thatcher and Blair made some fairly fundamental changes to how the country works, and that's just the examples in my political lifetime. Yeah I'd put the point at around the 90s, when Thatcherism was accepted as just The Way Things Are Done - the whole Fukuyama end of history thing, where neoliberal technocracy was going to be the rule forevermore. Unsurprisingly this led to said vacuous managerial-minded failson and daughter rule, since there was no longer any need for things like convictions and ideology and all that outdated crap. Basically, as Mark Blyth sums up in under a minute... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C1Uo6FlMr9g
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Barry Foster posted:Yeah I'd put the point at around the 90s, when Thatcherism was accepted as just The Way Things Are Done - the whole Fukuyama end of history thing, where neoliberal technocracy was going to be the rule forevermore. And probably no coincidence that we're hitting the point where a generation of young people have grown up their entire lives with politicians who don't even pretend to care about the future.
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That makes sense, I guess I was optimistically thinking that it couldn’t go to hell quite so quickly but here we are.
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