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10000 Sex Arses posted:Just typical shellfish behaviour from the EU, trying to intimidate Britannia by flexing their mussels. oarful post
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Someone who understands the innate silliness of UK law please explain the Queen's Consent scandal to me. Because it sounds kinda like the UK is a constitutional monarchy except if Swiss bank accounts are involved.
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CactusWeasle posted:eels
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This is bait, but I can respect it
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i really wanna know what happens to this dude
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It continues to blow my mind that the Brits have voluntarily reconstructed the continental system and then are also surprised to find out that it is really bad for them. Like I'm pretty sure the economic lesson of the Napoleonic wars was that Britain must trade freely with the continent to survive, and that blocking that trade off is basically such an existential threat to Britain that war would be a necessity to re-assert British influence and trade into Europe. My crappy public school in Canada taught me this, did you guys never learn this stuff or something?
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https://twitter.com/Israel/status/1359223320210792450
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lol no of course not we learned two world wars and one world cup and maybe a bit of the civil war
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Virtual Russian posted:It continues to blow my mind that the Brits have voluntarily reconstructed the continental system and then are also surprised to find out that it is really bad for them. Like I'm pretty sure the economic lesson of the Napoleonic wars was that Britain must trade freely with the continent to survive, and that blocking that trade off is basically such an existential threat to Britain that war would be a necessity to re-assert British influence and trade into Europe. Lucky for the EU, the Pentagon rated the British military as incompetent after the Iraq War
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Feb 9, 2021 22:18
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Okay place your bets, how long until we have senior brexiteer Tories proposing a 'common sense' single market & customs union agreement which is ABSOLUTELY NOT a Norway deal?
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multijoe posted:Okay place your bets, how long until we have senior brexiteer Tories proposing a 'common sense' single market & customs union agreement which is ABSOLUTELY NOT a Norway deal? hasnt the EU said her mom that sweetheart deals like that are off the table?
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Shear Modulus posted:hasnt the EU said her mom that sweetheart deals like that are off the table? I didn't say the EU had to accept it, just for Michael Gove or whoever to float that it would be a really good idea maybe and very capitalist and sensible
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Nonsense posted:Lucky for the EU, the Pentagon rated the British military as incompetent after the Iraq War Did they really?
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Biplane posted:Did they really? Obama was a huge dick about it once he came into office. He was friends with Cameron but Barry fell in love with Jupiter later, and the Pentagon convinced him of the British "concerns" since he kept Gates as Sec. Def. for the first term he lobbied Macron hard to rejoin NATO when he came into office. It was surprising since France ran out of munitions during Libya, and I don't think the British ever had supply problems. Nonsense has issued a correction as of 22:39 on Feb 9, 2021 |
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Virtual Russian posted:It continues to blow my mind that the Brits have voluntarily reconstructed the continental system and then are also surprised to find out that it is really bad for them. Like I'm pretty sure the economic lesson of the Napoleonic wars was that Britain must trade freely with the continent to survive, and that blocking that trade off is basically such an existential threat to Britain that war would be a necessity to re-assert British influence and trade into Europe. Uh, excuse me I'll think you'll find that being embargoed from the whole of Europe just spurred the Great Men of Great British History to swashbuckle and disrupt their way to wealth through their innovative jams and world-renowned cheeses. We went and traded freely with the rest of the world (on entirely free terms and with no coersion whatsoever, which is why the British are so beloved all over globe to this present day). Napoleon did as a loving favour by showing that we don't need Europe for anything and can be entirely aloof from anything that those weird continental types do in their funny languages. We can just bask in our exceptionality for ever and nothing bad can happen  Can we have another crack at a trade deal so our ports aren't full of rotting fish, pretty please?
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Feb 9, 2021 22:38
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I don't care if it's a joke this is unbelievably cursed
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Feb 9, 2021 22:44
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oh for gently caress's sake
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Feb 9, 2021 22:59
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They're right about hummus though
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multijoe posted:Okay place your bets, how long until we have senior brexiteer Tories proposing a 'common sense' single market & customs union agreement which is ABSOLUTELY NOT a Norway deal? an exit from brexit brexitxit
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spankmeister posted:They're right about hummus though Food is the great unifier in ethnically fractured regions. When language, religion, nationalist myth and all else tries to pretend nothing in common exists... the dinner table stands nearly alone in unity (along with maybe music). But of course that falls apart as soon as anyone asks who invented a particular dish first, or uh what the name is...
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HORSE-SLAUGHTERER posted:oh for gently caress's sake haha oh why not at this point
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BalloonFish posted:Uh, excuse me I'll think you'll find that being embargoed from the whole of Europe just spurred the Great Men of Great British History to swashbuckle and disrupt their way to wealth through their innovative jams and world-renowned cheeses. We went and traded freely with the rest of the world (on entirely free terms and with no coersion whatsoever, which is why the British are so beloved all over globe to this present day). Napoleon did as a loving favour by showing that we don't need Europe for anything and can be entirely aloof from anything that those weird continental types do in their funny languages. We can just bask in our exceptionality for ever and nothing bad can happen Sadly we didn't elect the leading expert in disruptive jam tech to lead the country.
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mrmcd posted:Someone who understands the innate silliness of UK law please explain the Queen's Consent scandal to me. Because it sounds kinda like the UK is a constitutional monarchy except if Swiss bank accounts are involved. Basically an unspoken law in Britain is that the royal family get to hang around on the taxpayers dime because they have no real power, you just need to get the queen's rubber stamp on things to become law (the "royal assent"). If the monarchy were to actually try anything like exerting power parliament would boot them out. However it turns out that since the Queen gets all laws passed through her, she and the rest of the royal family can quietly ask for stuff to be changed if it would reveal things like how embarrassingly wealthy the royal family are through things like real estate. It's a big deal because, outside of the pure corruption, the royal family are supposed to be "outside" of politics. If it turns out that the royal family are in fact politically fair game, then people might start asking questions like "why do we pay them so much money" and "should we abolish them".
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In the Netherlands we have a very similar situation where the King has a role in appointing a informator who will conduct coalition talks after an election but that is about the extent of his political power and after that the royal family is just like a really expensive diplomatic mission.
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Feb 10, 2021 01:25
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MikeCrotch posted:Basically an unspoken law in Britain is that the royal family get to hang around on the taxpayers dime because they have no real power, you just need to get the queen's rubber stamp on things to become law (the "royal assent"). If the monarchy were to actually try anything like exerting power parliament would boot them out. previous monarchs have done this and this isn't even the first time for liz. you don't have to go to the extent of withholding royal ascent, just do some back channel negotiation I think the other time was with some gay marriage thing?
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Feb 10, 2021 02:26
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Virtual Russian posted:It continues to blow my mind that the Brits have voluntarily reconstructed the continental system and then are also surprised to find out that it is really bad for them. Like I'm pretty sure the economic lesson of the Napoleonic wars was that Britain must trade freely with the continent to survive, and that blocking that trade off is basically such an existential threat to Britain that war would be a necessity to re-assert British influence and trade into Europe. wot the bloody hell are you on about?
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They named Napoleon, must be French history. Britain left Europe though.
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i know that we sent johnny napoleon packing but thats as far as i care to pursue such things
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MikeCrotch posted:Basically an unspoken law in Britain is that the royal family get to hang around on the taxpayers dime because they have no real power, you just need to get the queen's rubber stamp on things to become law (the "royal assent"). If the monarchy were to actually try anything like exerting power parliament would boot them out. This is different from Royal Assent, which is a formality of the monarch accepting the law after it was passed. This was about the royal office lobbying for changes to bills before they had every been debated or read in Parliament under threat that they would prevent it from even proceeding if they didn't get their way.
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Communist Thoughts posted:wot the bloody hell are you on about? He's saying Brexit is dumb because the UK is intrinsically connected economically to Europe.
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Feb 10, 2021 03:27
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well, was.
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gimme the GOD drat candy posted:well, was. more so than ever, you know what starts at Calais. . .
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Grape posted:He's saying Brexit is dumb because the UK is intrinsically connected economically to Europe. wissy annabout?
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I hope Saudi Arabia replies to this threatening to 9/11 us
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Feb 10, 2021 04:39
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Has brexit killed off the gammons yet, lads?
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Feb 10, 2021 04:44
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Shocked to see this wasn't posted because it's the   cherry on top of this lolsundae:https://twitter.com/cirian75/status/1359084656122089476
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Biplane posted:Did they really? Obama was so horny for military intervention in Syria that after Cameron lost the parliament vote on it it permanently ruined his relationship with cameron
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Feb 10, 2021 10:10
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Wait, bonus, look at the date. Almost like Tories are living in the past...
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Virtual Russian posted:It continues to blow my mind that the Brits have voluntarily reconstructed the continental system and then are also surprised to find out that it is really bad for them. Like I'm pretty sure the economic lesson of the Napoleonic wars was that Britain must trade freely with the continent to survive, and that blocking that trade off is basically such an existential threat to Britain that war would be a necessity to re-assert British influence and trade into Europe. a system of global dominance set up to benefit them at the expense of the rest of the world being torn down by the children of its creators because they forgot it was there
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