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baka kaba posted:it does feel like something's up, they keep doing this "we will not ask for an extension" and "yes of course we will act in accordance with the law When they say this they're talking about a different law, like the one where you can't sell alcohol before 11am or something. So they're technically not lying
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Guavanaut posted:Queen Elizabeth II enters the room. She is also a boat. How can she be a boat and a mace at the same time?
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Tarnop posted:Let's not forget that every time in the last month we thought the Tories had a cunning plan, 24 hours later we were laughing at what a dipshit Dom Cummies is Current cunning plan - get a GE by failing to get a Queens Speech?
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Guavanaut posted:Queen Elizabeth II enters the room. She is also a boat. I agree. Joris Bohnson should be keel-hauled by the HMS Queen Elizabeth.
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^^^ That's precisely the plan. Fail to pass a Queen's Speech, upon which Boris says "oh dear, that means I'm not PM so I don't have to go to Brussels". Then he sits back and waits for two weeks while Jo Swinson causes No Deal Brexit by refusing to back Corbyn. Bobby Deluxe posted:Just my big brained take, but I think ironically throwing in with Corbyn as caretaker PM, showing a united anti-Tory front, going hard after Tory marginals and ending up in opposition against a Labour government (or in a Lib/Lab coalition after showing it can be done with the caretaker arrangement) and building from there is about the only way the pissbirds could exit this mess with any kind of credibility. If we get a genuine left wing Labour government then the Lib Dems die a little more with every problem that gets addressed. This is the challenge faced by every minor centrist party: if the big boys can get what you want to do done, then minor parties in a coalition exist only to enable them. And if a party is just an enabler, why should voters not cut out the middleman and vote for the party that will actually do what they want? Jedit fucked around with this message at 09:51 on Oct 3, 2019 |
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Jedit posted:^^^ That's precisely the plan. Fail to pass a Queen's Speech, upon which Boris says "oh dear, that means I'm not PM so I don't have to go to Brussels". Then he sits back and waits for two weeks while Jo Swinson causes No Deal Brexit by refusing to back Corbyn. No, I mean he should be literally keelhauled under the largest ship in the RN.
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goddamnedtwisto posted:Like I say I don't think it does gently caress them - Johnson gets to pretend like he's "Got Brexit done" and all his mates in the press back him up. The vast majority of voters will go along with that story, IMO. This might be a volcanic take but honestly I think if he somehow gets it passed by both the EU and parliament (is the second step required?) then it hurts his chances. Boris has to call an election immediately, he has no working majority. Even if the expelled Tories are readmitted, a good chunk either wont rejoin or have already joined another party. Boris will get an initial boost for 'delivering Brexit' as he said he would but once the party ends the hangover will kick in for the average Brexit voter that their life is still hosed and their grandkids still don't respect them etc. The Lib Dems will have completely hosed themselves into being the party of 'rejoin' which is like who the gently caress wants that hassle after the last three years. Labour gets to actually fight the election we want to fight about austerity and living conditions and actually have a shot at winning. Honestly, if we go into this election with Brexit still up in the air I'm not hopeful at all.
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OwlFancier posted:A shame they don't have the catapults to accelerate the keel hauling process.
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Miftan posted:How can she be a boat and a mace at the same time? Brenda is the oldest-known Transformer. No wonder she hangs out with Anthony Hopkins.
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CGI Stardust posted:This sent me on little journey to Wikipedia, apparently the naval cat o' nine tails had a smaller version used on younger sailors, called the "boy's pussy" Aaand I just snorted irn bru through my nose thanks. For anyone else who doesn't know, keel hauling isn't just an expression, it's where you tie a rope to someone and chuck them over the side of the boat, then use the rope to drag them under it and up the other side, usually fatally because they either drown, get smashed into the ship, or cut to poo poo on all the barnacles growing on the keel. OwlFancier fucked around with this message at 10:03 on Oct 3, 2019 |
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baka kaba posted:it does feel like something's up, they keep doing this "we will not ask for an extension" and "yes of course we will act in accordance with the law I think the ERG lot only voted down May's deal at the urging of Boris's faction that they could get an even better deal if they tried again. Boris knew that May would completely steal his thunder if she succeeded in delivering what he started. Now we are where we are it's dawning on the lot of them that the wind is changing directions and they better settle for what they can while they can. That said I'm still not sure he has the numbers now, so it may be some sort of I don't need to offer an extension if I have reached a deal with the EU but parliament hasn't ratified it type ruse; is that ruled out by the Benn act?
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CGI Stardust posted:This sent me on little journey to Wikipedia, apparently the naval cat o' nine tails had a smaller version used on younger sailors, called the "boy's pussy"  (i almost am)
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Junior G-man posted:Brenda is the oldest-known Transformer. No wonder she hangs out with Anthony Hopkins. Well she needs more grounding imo
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Jessflaps just managed to get about something other than herself. Indeed she celebrated Diane Abbott taking PMQs yesterday. https://twitter.com/jessphillips/status/1179627602320994304?s=19 Guess she's decided this is better optics than lying about telling her to gently caress off.
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Red Oktober posted:Clear why the Tories love it. BAE's new reactive armour looking good.
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Red Oktober posted:Clear why the Tories love it. So this is what Epstein paid all those scientists for.
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Bobby Deluxe posted:I was reading an article the other day about sociopaths and how the absolute worst thing in the world to them is to be bored. For the most part, they don't weigh other people's safety or feelings into the equation of whether to do something or not. We know from previous times he had to do "work" that he usually fucks things up and handles failure awkwardly. He doesn't exactly blame himself, reflect, or learn, he just goes off to sulk. All he's good at is playing a room and fast talking, and even then he's been running the same material since his primary school days.
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Bobby Deluxe posted:I was reading an article the other day about sociopaths and how the absolute worst thing in the world to them is to be bored. For the most part, they don't weigh other people's safety or feelings into the equation of whether to do something or not. I dunno, he looks pretty beaten down a lot of the time, sometimes on the front bench he looks like he's trying to disappear behind the cushions. He's risen to the highest position in the british establishment, basically what he was prepared for from birth, and he's bad at it and it's nowhere near as easy as he'd assumed. He definitely gets fired up sometimes, but he seems completely out of control when he does it, just wildly ranting. But yeah he probably does enjoy the whole thing, it's just a game in the end, he just thought he'd be better at it As far as thinking about the consequences for other people, reminds me of this George Monbiot article quote:But the damage goes far beyond this skimming. British private schools create a class culture of a kind unknown in the rest of Europe. The extreme case is the boarding prep schools, which separate children from their parents at the age of eight in order to shape them into members of a detached elite. In his book The Making of Them the psychotherapist Nick Duffell shows how these artificial orphans survive the loss of their families by dissociating themselves from their feelings of love(14). Survival involves “an extreme hardening of normal human softness, a severe cutting off from emotions and sensitivity.”(15) Unable to attach themselves to people (intimate relationships with other children are discouraged by a morbid fear of homosexuality), they are encouraged instead to invest their natural loyalties in the institution. there's always gonna be some detachment at that level because of the scale you're working on, but these people are conditioned to not care at all. it's just beep boop what's the winning move
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The chair of my union branch has been fired by his studio for the flimsiest of 'definitely not related to his union activism, honest!!' reasons. So we're making some noise about it. https://twitter.com/IWGBunion/status/1179653303661207553
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floofyscorp posted:The chair of my union branch has been fired by his studio for the flimsiest of 'definitely not related to his union activism, honest!!' reasons. So we're making some noise about it. Good on ya. Also lol the woman in the white top looks like she has antlers due to the hands behind her.
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