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Inexplicable Humblebrag
Sep 20, 2003

absolutely the former. it's always self-interest, always

e:

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Kurtofan
Feb 16, 2011

hon hon hon
Oh boi

https://twitter.com/AFP/status/1170617619793219585?s=19

twoday
May 4, 2005



C-SPAM Times best-selling author
Jupiter to the rescue

hakimashou
Jul 15, 2002
Upset Trowel

Sheng-Ji Yang
Mar 5, 2014



:getin:

Anime Schoolgirl
Nov 28, 2002


:w00t:

twoday
May 4, 2005



C-SPAM Times best-selling author
...which is especially funny if you consider:

https://twitter.com/Nigel_Farage/status/1170367777422663681?s=20

quote:

Senior MPs opposing a no-deal Brexit sought assurances from the EU that their bid for a three-month delay would be granted, it has emerged.

European leaders were sounded out before MPs, including the “rebel alliance”, passed a bill, which is expected to receive royal assent on Monday, forcing Boris Johnson to ask for an extension. However, those involved said there were no guarantees in a process that was changing by the day.

gschmidl
Sep 3, 2011

watch with knife hands


This probably just means "we're not going to keep extending by 3 months"

Dance Officer
May 4, 2017

It would be awesome if we could dance!

Agean90 posted:

Jeremy loving corbyn is gonna put the UK boomers to the torch only downside is it becomes a lot more difficult to make fun of the UK

No it'll be even worse. They'll have healthcare again.

Samurai Sanders
Nov 4, 2003

Pillbug
Once again I'm wondering what happens if the EU says that the UK exited and the UK government says they didn't.

Bip Roberts
Mar 29, 2005

Samurai Sanders posted:

Once again I'm wondering what happens if the EU says that the UK exited and the UK government says they didn't.

Then they get to export freely to the uk like with eu rules and block imports if they want.

GABA ghoul
Oct 29, 2011


Time is a flat circle

Samurai Sanders posted:

Once again I'm wondering what happens if the EU says that the UK exited and the UK government says they didn't.

Nothing interesting. The same thing that would happen if India suddenly declared itself to be the 51th US state. EU just starts enforces its laws and tariffs and if the Brits don't want to collect tarrifs on their side or enforce British laws it's their thing.

e: to clarify, with no extension the UK automatically stops being part of the EU and the issue is completely settled from the legal perspective for the EU. There are zero grey areas

GABA ghoul has issued a correction as of 11:48 on Sep 8, 2019

Pryor on Fire
May 14, 2013

they don't know all alien abduction experiences can be explained by people thinking saving private ryan was a documentary

lol so if Boris goes off the rails the only way to remove him is by executive order of the queen? this system is loving nuts.

Obliterati
Nov 13, 2012

Pain is inevitable.
Suffering is optional.
Thunderdome is forever.

Pryor on Fire posted:

lol so if Boris goes off the rails the only way to remove him is by executive order of the queen? this system is loving nuts.

Except the procedure in question has only ever been used to remove governments in the colonies, like Australia

Unlike the football, the Empire's coming home

Dance Officer
May 4, 2017

It would be awesome if we could dance!

Pryor on Fire posted:

lol so if Boris goes off the rails the only way to remove him is by executive order of the queen? this system is loving nuts.

And a vote of no confidence.

Obliterati
Nov 13, 2012

Pain is inevitable.
Suffering is optional.
Thunderdome is forever.

Also this oval office begging Poland to help them Brexit, just as he did in March

https://twitter.com/DKShrewsbury/status/1170439183208472578

Pryor on Fire
May 14, 2013

they don't know all alien abduction experiences can be explained by people thinking saving private ryan was a documentary

So they're just gonna call his bluff and force another delay and thus the Trumpian pattern of everyone calling your bluffs immediately is established.

Jose
Jul 24, 2007

Adrian Chiles is a broadcaster and writer

Pryor on Fire posted:

lol so if Boris goes off the rails the only way to remove him is by executive order of the queen? this system is loving nuts.

its a lot easier to get rid of him than it is a US president

CactusWeasle
Aug 1, 2006
It's not a party until the bomb squad says it is

they should apply for a new brexit and transfer the remaining balance of this brexit to a new brexit with better rates

GABA ghoul
Oct 29, 2011

Pryor on Fire posted:

So they're just gonna call his bluff and force another delay and thus the Trumpian pattern of everyone calling your bluffs immediately is established.

yeah, as far as I understand it nobody really expects the Brits to go through with it anymore. that's why bojo is doing all these stunts to re-establish plausible self-destructability.

twoday
May 4, 2005



C-SPAM Times best-selling author
https://twitter.com/brexitparty_uk/status/1170653003444965380?s=20

Inexplicable Humblebrag
Sep 20, 2003

CactusWeasle posted:

they should apply for a new brexit and transfer the remaining balance of this brexit to a new brexit with better rates

yeah honestly it might sound complicated but sensible brexit management is really best for your long term investment. ask your brexit advisor what's best for you, today!

Bear Retrieval Unit
Nov 5, 2009

Mudslide Experiment

Jeremy loving Corbyn

spaceblancmange
Apr 19, 2018

#essereFerrari

There will be adequate herbs and spices

Charles 2 of Spain
Nov 7, 2017

God it would own if the Queen died in the next couple of weeks.

Horseshoe theory
Mar 7, 2005

Charles 2 of Spain posted:

God it would own if the Queen died in the next couple of weeks.

10/18 so BoJo has an excuse to 'miss' giving the extension on 10/19?

SMILLENNIALSMILLEN
Jun 26, 2009



GABA ghoul posted:

yeah, as far as I understand it nobody really expects the Brits to go through with it anymore. that's why bojo is doing all these stunts to re-establish plausible self-destructability.

theyre definitely planning on crashing out with no deal, thats why theyre asking poland to veto any extension. brexiters dont want a deal they want to trash their country to force the "hard decisions" ie: privatize everything

twoday
May 4, 2005



C-SPAM Times best-selling author
https://twitter.com/guyverhofstadt/status/1170680111189901314?s=19

That guy's face is a pretty good summary of the European reaction to Brexit

Communist Thoughts
Jan 7, 2008

Our war against free speech cannot end until we silence this bronze beast!


SMILLENNIALSMILLEN posted:

theyre definitely planning on crashing out with no deal, thats why theyre asking poland to veto any extension. brexiters dont want a deal they want to trash their country to force the "hard decisions" ie: privatize everything

its gonna be funny when they No deal us then call an election

then labour wins and shock doctrines the country into a marxist republic

Lawman 0
Aug 17, 2010


Lmao you morons earned yourself a second Cromwell

Lawman 0
Aug 17, 2010

Charles 2 of Spain posted:

God it would own if the Queen died in the next couple of weeks.

I had the same thought honestly.
Or honestly what about prince Philip?

Obliterati
Nov 13, 2012

Pain is inevitable.
Suffering is optional.
Thunderdome is forever.

Lawman 0 posted:

I had the same thought honestly.
Or honestly what about prince Philip?

Not even the worst royal bootlickers like Philip that much

Lawman 0
Aug 17, 2010

Obliterati posted:

Not even the worst royal bootlickers like Philip that much

I meant more as an excuse to do something underhanded.

Squizzle
Apr 24, 2008




Lawman 0 posted:

I had the same thought honestly.
Or honestly what about prince Philip?

a lane would finally open up for me to woo the queen

DAD LOST MY IPOD
Feb 3, 2012

Fats Dominar is on the case


1337 8|23><17

Relevant Tangent
Nov 18, 2016

Tangentially Relevant


I love that this dude is trying to single-handedly destroy Britain and nobody has just beat the poo poo out of him yet. Have you seen him? Pretty sure a pensioner could take him, and they may as well, not like pensions are going to exist post-Brexit.

Relevant Tangent
Nov 18, 2016

Tangentially Relevant

Mainwaring posted:

Tories are totally going to find a way to put Cummings in jail when this is all over.

I'll take that bet. He's the dude who gets away clean regardless and then does the exact same thing somewhere else. Him and Bannon, political crime bros for life.

Zulily Zoetrope
Jun 1, 2011

Muldoon

Didn’t Farage visit all the nazi governments with the overt goal of asking them to block the previous extension?

Relevant Tangent
Nov 18, 2016

Tangentially Relevant


:yeshaha: time to get some revenge for Crecy you saucy fucks.

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twoday
May 4, 2005



C-SPAM Times best-selling author
https://twitter.com/carolecadwalla/status/1170606973479456770?s=19

quote:

For experienced Cummings watchers, it’s an odd moment. Here is a figure that many of us – MPs, journalists, lawyers, MEPs and members of the public – have been shouting about for years. And, in a plot twist none of us saw coming, he is wreaking chaos again, but this time in the full scorching glare of the public eye. Or as Ian Lucas, the Labour MP for Wrexham, says: “It’s good that everyone’s talking about him. They’re just talking about him for all the wrong reasons.”

What we need to be talking about, he says, is “his deliberate, systematic conspiracy to commit electoral fraud and the fact that he has refused to come before parliament and answer questions about it”.

The colourful tales about Cummings are all noise drowning the key fact about him, which should be front and centre in every report: that this is the man who – according to evidence published by the Electoral Commission – played a central role in a scheme that resulted in Vote Leave being judged to have broken the law. A scheme that constitutes the greatest electoral fraud perpetrated in Britain for more than a century – one that Cummings has refused to come before parliament to answer questions about.

So that is where we are now: where the man advising the prime minister in parliament was previously judged to have been in contempt of that same parliament.

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