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2004 Nuclear meltdown at Dungeness in Kent (England) creates a localized irradiated zone.
2005 Conservative government in the United Kingdom establishes regional parliaments in Scotland and Wales.
2009 King Charles III is crowned in Westminster Abbbey.
2011 England's Sizewell B nuclear power station suffers critical meltdown, resulting in a total death count of 17,000.
2011 A nuclear power plant in Dounreay, Scotland suffers a meltdown, creating the Scottish Irradiated Zone
2011 Ley-lines and standing stones re-emerge all over Britain. First sighting of the Great Welsh Dragon, Celedyr, in Caerleon.
2012 King Charles III abdicates in favor of his only surviving son, George VII.
2014 Following magically enhanced terrorist activity, the governments of the U.K. and Eire sign the Treaty of Galway establishing the United Free Republic of Ireland.
2016 United Kingdom Prime Minister Lena Rodale assassinated.
2016 A major oil spill in the North Sea creates the Scottish Fringe Toxic Zone
2021 England's King George VII is declared dead, rumors persist that he was killed when he began changing into a troll.
2024 After a prolonged succession dispute, George Edward Richard Windsor-Hanover becomes King George VIII in England.
2025 The United Kingdom Constitution Act is passed in the United Kingdom, creating the Lord Protector's Offices.
2026 Oxford and Edinburgh Universities establish Bachelor of Science degrees in Occult Studies.
2027 The Lord Protector's office (England) drafts the Magical Practitioners Registration Bill, which Parliament passes into law.
2028 Cambridge institutes a Magical Studies program.
2028 Britain withdraws from the European Economic Community (EEC).
2032 Eurowar I: Great Britain deploys troops in Netherlands and Flanders.
2036 Regeneration and transformation of regional forests begins in Scotland.
2037 Wolves and bears are restored to the Scottish Wild Lands.
2039 A massive chemical spill kills 70,000 people in Teesside, England.
2041 EuroAir Flight 329 from London to Atlanta destroyed by Sirrurg
2043 Gwynedd elves make major advances in Welsh regional parliament.
2046 Para-VITAS outbreak in Tynesprawl (England) kills 120,000. Believed to be the work of unidentified eco-terrorists.
2046 Researchers find a freshwater serpent in Scotland's Loch Ness

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2014 Following magically enhanced terrorist activity, the governments of the U.K. and Eire sign the Treaty of Galway establishing the United Free Republic of Ireland.
2015 Schism splits the Irish Republican Army (IRA) into two factions: the Provisional IRA (led by Liam O'Connor, a "spike baby" elf) and the Official IRA. The Provisional IRA is incorporated into the state security apparatus, where it counters Protestant paramilitaries. It would grow into the core of the Tir Republican Corps (TRC).
2025 In Ireland, the "Walsh's hookers" scandal ends the career of three government ministers, two businessmen and one bishop.
2034 Formation of Tír na nÓg announced.
2035 Liam O'Connor becomes State President of Tír na nÓg.
2042 Liam O'Connor (President of Tír na nÓg) disappears from public life.
2049 The government of Tír na nÓg establishes the Church of Ireland, banning the Roman Catholic Church from the country.

OwlFancier posted:

loving lol I just read the shadowrun wiki entries for the history of the UK and Ireland and tbh I think they're more plausible than the one we're currently living in:

winegums posted:

Bit of a yes, and ho! post, but....

I just learnt about the West Brom FC boiler mascot who came about after the club got sponsored by a boiler company.


Corbyn should put "football clubs will be returned to the hands of their members" as a manifesto pledge. The general corporatisation of football and gentrification of some teams is quite interesting to me as an outsider who doesn't really watch football; but the low-level complaints fans have about disenfranchisement from their teams seems like an easy way to get lots of people who are ostensibly non-political on-board.

thespaceinvader posted:

Fukken bring on the magipocalypse tbh

OwlFancier posted:

I'm gonna die in a chemical spill apparently.

Or possibly a wizard-ra bombing (fireballing?)

E: Which of charles's sprogs do u think is most likely to secretly turn into a troll??

E2: maybe diana died because of trolls makes u think

OwlFancier posted:

loving lol I just read the shadowrun wiki entries for the history of the UK and Ireland and tbh I think they're more plausible than the one we're currently living in:

mehall posted:

Wait, do you work in my office, because I too just learned about this this afternoon.

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2028 Britain withdraws from the European Economic Community (EEC)

OwlFancier posted:

In fairness the EEC is probably run by lofwyr, who is literally a dragon. Unelected eurocrats indeed!

Bobby Deluxe posted:

Oh wow. I cannot imagine anything dumber than a person who supports complete financial deregulation, especially if they are not Branson rich - seems like unless you are in a position to turbofuck others with your riches, you're going to get turbofucked yourself.

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A man who made death threats in calls to the offices of MPs he saw as "anti-Brexit" has been jailed for 18 weeks.

Robert Vidler, 64, from Harrow, north-west London, threatened six MPs, including Nicky Morgan who was told her "days were numbered", prosecutors said.

Vidler had denied making the expletive-laden calls and voicemails, claiming he let friends use his phone when drunk.

He was found guilty of five charges of harassment without violence and three counts of sending menacing messages.

City of London Magistrates heard the father-of-three called the offices of independent MP Nick Boles, Tory MPs Ms Morgan and Dominic Grieve, and Labour MPs Sir Keir Starmer, Barry Gardiner and Jenny Chapman.

All of the calls, made in January, were intercepted by staff working for the MPs.

Prosecutor Philip Stott told court the calls, made on Vidler's mobile phone, were all directed at MPs "considered to be anti-Brexit".

'Scumbags'
Several of the voicemail recordings left by Vidler were played to the trial.

In one message picked up by Mr Boles' personal assistant, Vidler swore at the MP, telling him "we know where you live" and threatening to cut his throat.

He told Sir Keir's staff he was a walking "dead man", a "traitor" and that he would "cut his neck".

In a message to Mr Grieve, Vidler said he knew his address and his schedule.

In a later call Vidler added: "You're dead, Grieve, we know where you and your family live."

A voicemail for Mr Gardiner said: "No deal is the only deal and that will be the deal. We are leaving in March, when will you understand that? The only thing that is likely to be extended is your neck."

In text messages revealed by a police analysis of his phone, Vidler said politicians were "absolute scumbags" and that he was angry about the "Brexit fiddle", the court was told.

Vidler was sentenced to 18 weeks for each of the eight offences, all to be served concurrently, and ordered to pay £300 costs and a £115 victim surcharge.

He was also made subject to a criminal behaviour order which prevents him from contacting any MP except his own

OwlFancier posted:

Well ireland is an elf kingdom and doesn't like the megacorps much, you see

OwlFancier posted:

loving lol I just read the shadowrun wiki entries for the history of the UK and Ireland and tbh I think they're more plausible than the one we're currently living in:

Julio Cruz posted:

brb, writing lyrics for "I am the very model of an anarcho-capitalist"

Guavanaut posted:

Top 10 reasons to be ancap:

Azza Bamboo posted:

If you turn on the news it's basically a bunch of vultures praying for a dam to collapse so they can get the money shot and then spend the next week or so pointing cameras at crying families.

HauntedRobot posted:

The state I'm advocating for is actually the littlest
We trust in market forces and let businesses take care of us
With private companies to run all our essential services

We've got a lot invested in our horde of private property
We're not particularly interested in equality
We're pretty laissez-faire if you've got lots and lots of pounds and you
Can't call us libertarian or we'll have to set the hounds on you

HauntedRobot posted:

The state I'm advocating for is actually the littlest
We trust in market forces and let businesses take care of us
With private companies to run all our essential services

We've got a lot invested in our horde of private property
We're not particularly interested in equality
We're pretty laissez-faire if you've got lots and lots of pounds and you
Can't call us libertarian or we'll have to set the hounds on you

OwlFancier posted:

Perhaps we could point cameras at journalists and then set actual vultures on them and televise it?

RabidWeasel posted:

Julio Cruz posted:

luckily there is an easy remedy for this

Pistol_Pete posted:

Young people have given up on tv news altogether and i thoroughly hope this trend continues.

Qwertycoatl posted:

Given up on TVs in general I think. Half my friends don't have a TV and the other half only do so they can hook up a games console and/or netflix

xtothez posted:

Pistol_Pete posted:

Young people have given up on tv news altogether and i thoroughly hope this trend continues.

Gorn Myson posted:

He looks like Jason Watkins' evil brother

Qwertycoatl posted:

Given up on TVs in general I think. Half my friends don't have a TV and the other half only do so they can hook up a games console and/or netflix

AceOfFlames posted:

I hope it does not because it seems I am the only person in my social circle who knows how hosed the world is and I have no one to commiserate with.

Pistol_Pete posted:

They still take news in! They just don't feel the need to get it by switching the tv on and seeing some upper-middle class guy in a suit telling them: "HERE'S what happened in the world today and THIS is what you're supposed to think about it."

Qwertycoatl posted:

Given up on TVs in general I think. Half my friends don't have a TV and the other half only do so they can hook up a games console and/or netflix

OwlFancier posted:

Picking the one that aligns with your feelings about the word definitely seems preferable to being presented with a curated selection of ways you are allowed to feel about the world.

dispatch_async posted:

https://twitter.com/brahmsposting/status/1156747785292648454

This clip actually misses out the best bit of that debate: "You should not be able to sell heroin to a 5-year-old." *audience boos*

AceOfFlames posted:

Also how else is news supposed to be conveyed? Have a bunch of random guys on the internet screaming at you and you pick the one who aligns with your feelings about the world?

AceOfFlames posted:

But then what if you pick one that turns out to be wrong?