Guavanaut posted:

Remember when he pronounced the name of the pedophile the British way instead of the American way?

Guavanaut posted:

Remember when he pronounced the name of the pedophile the British way instead of the American way?

keep punching joe posted:

Worse, the German way

Tijuana Bibliophile posted:

I'm the gammon rage about the head of the EU popping in to see the UK chief-of-state

keep punching joe posted:

sinky posted:

Corbyn also forced these Palestinian kids to paint anti-Israel propaganda on plates, will his crimes never end??

https://twitter.com/guardian/status/1630239813424095234?s=20

Guavanaut posted:

Children's plates to be replaced by a Dilbert collage celebrating old white men.

Gonzo McFee posted:

Folks, Where's the lie?!

Tesseraction posted:

Imagine any other ethnic minority being granted this level of accommodation for being whiny little baby freaks.

crispix posted:

oh i suppose i should probably point out that by "a mrs norman", i meant a woman who very much reminds me of the character mrs norman, not that the woman's name was actually mrs norman

but if you want to gotcha me on that you can go ahead, i don't like to dampen other people's jollies however they get them

Nilbop posted:

So, the "Stormont Brake:"



This seems to imitate the old Petition of Concern (which was itself notoriously abused by the DUP) in every manner that matters. Setting the number of MLAs being required to sign a petition as low as 30 seems just as open to abuse as the PoC itself was. 30 member signatures can be gained from a single party, never mind a single community (as, in fact, was the case in the past with the PoC). There's a lot of good-faith language in there ("The Brake will not be available for trivial reasons," "there must be something significant" etc etc) which seems to be drafted completely in ignorance of the DUP's history abusing exactly this sort of mechanism.

This doesn’t seem about ensuring cross-community consensus so much as it seems about placating Unionists and getting them back to the table with the carrot that if they do better in the next election they can go right back to abusing their position as they have done in the past, rather than having to put up with a filthy taig First Minister.

Dead Goon posted:

I thought it was Keev, and we were wrong to pronounce it Keyev for all these years?

Dead Goon posted:

I thought it was Keev, and we were wrong to pronounce it Keyev for all these years?

Just Another Lurker posted:

30 member signatures are required from BOTH the unionist & nationalist parties for it to go through... unless it's something both agree on the EU law is applied.

DUP gets to say NO! but they can't do squat without Sinn Féin.

OwlFancier posted:

Everybody very conspicuously started trying to pronounce it the ukrainian way after the war started, with varying degrees of success.

Nilbop posted:

It's 30 members from at least 2 parties, it doesn't say anything about requiring representatives from both sides of the community.

I'd agree that's probably their intention, but it's not the letter of the law. And with these cunts that's what matters.

TACD posted:

This is good though, isn't it? Like how everybody understands it's impolite to say _the_ Ukraine now, I thought we were all trying to move towards pronouncing foreign countries / regions according to the preferences of people that live there?

E: I'm not sure how Türkiye is pronounced now, is it like Turkey-ey? (thanks to my laptop for autocorrecting the spelling for me )

Nilbop posted:

So, the "Stormont Brake:"



This seems to imitate the old Petition of Concern (which was itself notoriously abused by the DUP) in every manner that matters. Setting the number of MLAs being required to sign a petition as low as 30 seems just as open to abuse as the PoC itself was. 30 member signatures can be gained from a single party, never mind a single community (as, in fact, was the case in the past with the PoC). There's a lot of good-faith language in there ("The Brake will not be available for trivial reasons," "there must be something significant" etc etc) which seems to be drafted completely in ignorance of the DUP's history abusing exactly this sort of mechanism.

This doesn’t seem about ensuring cross-community consensus so much as it seems about placating Unionists and getting them back to the table with the carrot that if they do better in the next election they can go right back to abusing their position as they have done in the past, rather than having to put up with a filthy taig First Minister.

quote:

Petition of concern including:
 The mechanism, which was designed to ensure that all sections of the community are
protected and can participate and work together, will return to its intended purpose
 Parties to publicly commit to using it in most exceptional circumstances and as a last resort
 Petition can still be triggered by the support of 30 MLAs, but it needs members from two or
more parties (this can include independent MLAs)
 A valid Petition shall trigger a 14-day period of consideration. After this, if 30 MLAs confirm
support, the Assembly will determine the matter in accordance with the cross-community
consent procedure.

Clyde Radcliffe posted:

The Ukraine came about because Ukraïna translated as "borderland" so the definite article was applied similar to Nederlanden translating as "lowlands" so in English it's the Netherlands. But yeah, preferences of the people who live there should be respected.

On that note and closer to home, can the British media stop using "the Republic", "the Republic of Ireland" or "the ROI" when referring to their closest neighbour? The country is called Ireland. That's its name. You'll never see it referred to as anything else on any official Irish documentation (except Éire).