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wilderthanmild
Jun 21, 2010

Posting shit




Grimey Drawer
Wait, what happens if EU says no to the Brexit delay? Hard Brexit happens despite whatever parliament is saying?

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forkboy84
Jun 13, 2012

Corgis love bread. And Puro


wilderthanmild posted:

Wait, what happens if EU says no to the Brexit delay? Hard Brexit happens despite whatever parliament is saying?

Technically, Parliament could unilaterally revoke Article 50 and not Hard Brexit out but entirely pause the entire Brexit process, but there's no way that passes the current HoC

Hexyflexy
Sep 2, 2011

asymptotically approaching one

wilderthanmild posted:

Wait, what happens if EU says no to the Brexit delay? Hard Brexit happens despite whatever parliament is saying?

Hard Brexit isn't something the UK chooses, it's what happens if the treaties expire without anyone doing anything about it. It's the default.

(I asked a mate what happens to air traffic control on that day, that'll be fun).

Squizzle
Apr 24, 2008




the people voted for pain

GABA ghoul
Oct 29, 2011

Hexyflexy posted:

Hard Brexit isn't something the UK chooses, it's what happens if the treaties expire without anyone doing anything about it. It's the default.

(I asked a mate what happens to air traffic control on that day, that'll be fun).

Where Brits are going they won't need air traffic control or air traffic

Der Meister
May 12, 2001

marktheando posted:

Looking it up, it was last refused in 1707 by Queen Anne. Which was something to do with military stuff, and was done on the advice of her ministers.

So yeah pretty untested in modern times.

I was thinking about queen’s consent rather than royal assent ofc, different entity

Inexplicable Humblebrag
Sep 20, 2003

Norton the First posted:

It'd be cool if a death-cult Tory destroyed the monarchy, the UK, just burned the entire isle of Britain to the ground.

i still can't get over how much c-spam wants to see vulnerable people die

Squizzle
Apr 24, 2008




the queens consent to the royal rear end

Bip Roberts
Mar 29, 2005
drat it I want no deal now

Bear Retrieval Unit
Nov 5, 2009

Mudslide Experiment
did someone do brexit deal with it memes yet?

Ague Proof
Jun 5, 2014

they told me
I was everything

Squizzle posted:

the people voted for pain

Jupiter: let them eat cake

gh0stpinballa
Mar 5, 2019

Man Musk posted:

liberal democrats are not left it's even in the name lol

the other day oz katerji tweeted "it's liberalism or barbarism" and i don't think i could find a better example of the collective mania breaking their brains atm

Ika
Dec 30, 2004
Pure insanity


So he is the scheming evil grand vizier?

Hexyflexy
Sep 2, 2011

asymptotically approaching one

Inexplicable Humblebrag posted:

i still can't get over how much c-spam wants to see vulnerable people die

Reciprocation of abuse is a hell of a thing.

Hexyflexy
Sep 2, 2011

asymptotically approaching one

Ika posted:

So he is the scheming evil grand vizier?

Yeh - if you've read Small Gods by Terry Pratchett, that guy is Vorbis.

Ika
Dec 30, 2004
Pure insanity

Hexyflexy posted:

Yeh - if you've read Small Gods by Terry Pratchett, that guy is Vorbis.

I was actually reading interesting times earlier today on the ride home, with lord hong, but vorbis is probably a better fit.

Taintrunner
Apr 10, 2017

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

gh0stpinballa posted:

the other day oz katerji tweeted "it's liberalism or barbarism" and i don't think i could find a better example of the collective mania breaking their brains atm

liberalism is just stealing from the poor and downtrodden, I concur

forkboy84
Jun 13, 2012

Corgis love bread. And Puro


Ika posted:

So he is the scheming evil grand vizier?

He's a slightly less racist Steve Bannon. Read Sun Tzu & therefore a certain segment of the press think he's a genius.

Inexplicable Humblebrag
Sep 20, 2003

Ika posted:

I was actually reading interesting times earlier today on the ride home, with lord hong, but vorbis is probably a better fit.

ya vorbis is a quietly insane zealot

also,

Norton the First
Dec 4, 2018

by Fluffdaddy

Inexplicable Humblebrag posted:

i still can't get over how much c-spam wants to see vulnerable people die

It'd be cool if the decline and decay of liberalism across the globe could be redirected in a more positive way, but lol if you're not on board for maximum comedy in absence of a socialist breakthrough.

Der Meister
May 12, 2001

Inexplicable Humblebrag posted:

ya vorbis is a quietly insane zealot

also,



yeaaaaa about that...

Relevant Tangent
Nov 18, 2016

Tangentially Relevant

twoday posted:

Pubs are great but the medieval system of pricing beer by alcohol percentage is ridiculous

seems legit, charging less for weak beer and more for booze

twoday
May 4, 2005



C-SPAM Times best-selling author
by that logic only the aristocracy could afford to drink liquor

Relevant Tangent
Nov 18, 2016

Tangentially Relevant

Inexplicable Humblebrag posted:

i still can't get over how much c-spam wants to see vulnerable people die

the british aren't people
also tbh i'd rather nobody died, even the british
i have zero control over it though and :yeshaha: is a c-spam emoji for a reason

Civilized Fishbot
Apr 3, 2011

Inexplicable Humblebrag posted:

i still can't get over how much c-spam wants to see vulnerable people die

daddy, daddy, why won't c-spam press the "stop brexit" button

Der Meister
May 12, 2001

i wish from the bottom of my heart that the queen’s involvement gets more controversial and intricate and britain discussion forums worldwide are flooded with obnoxious americans forever obsessed with their colonial grampas endlessly dunking on the english until the end of days

it starts with this poast

Bip Roberts
Mar 29, 2005
What england needs is a gin riot.

Squizzle
Apr 24, 2008




if we're dunking on the uk i just wanna pop in w some chuckles that they keep looking for ways to ban restrict and/or monitor blades, one of the first technologies ever created

marktheando
Nov 4, 2006

Squizzle posted:

if we're dunking on the uk i just wanna pop in w some chuckles that they keep looking for ways to ban restrict and/or monitor blades, one of the first technologies ever created



This guy is a conservative MP

Clyde Radcliffe
Oct 19, 2014

I heard John Wick once killed several men in a bar with only a pencil.

When are we going to get a nationwide pencil DB?

Squizzle
Apr 24, 2008




BMX Ninja posted:

I heard John Wick once killed several men in a bar with only a pencil.

When are we going to get a nationwide pencil DB?

you mean, hb

Arsenic Lupin
Apr 12, 2012

This particularly rapid💨 unintelligible 😖patter💁 isn't generally heard🧏‍♂️, and if it is🤔, it doesn't matter💁.


BMX Ninja posted:

I heard John Wick once killed several men in a bar with only a pencil.

When are we going to get a nationwide pencil DB?

When all men look like John Wick.

HiHo ChiRho
Oct 23, 2010

https://www.google.com/amp/s/ukconstitutionallaw.org/2019/09/05/michael-detmold-the-proper-denial-of-royal-assent/amp/ posted:

She is a constitutional monarch with no opinion of her own on Brexit, and if advised by her Prime Minister to refuse assent, she must do so.   She also has advice to the same effect from the people.  It was rather legalistic for the Supreme Court in Miller to refuse to regard the European Union Referendum Act 2015 as, given its result, authorising the Article 50 notice; but as advice from her people to their fiduciary Queen, the referendum was unambiguous.  It didn’t change the law in any legislative sense; but it did give a definite content to the sovereign Parliament’s duty to its people – and in particular to the acting part of the sovereignty, the executive power.
A Prime Minister advising the Queen to refuse assent to a bill is acting in a way appropriate to his office in the sovereign Parliament – acting legitimately no less than the legislators of the two Houses are doing.  Such a thing is rare, but proper.  Only the fallacious idea that the legislature is itself the Parliament, gives pause here.
I think this makes Brexit mean Brexit, right

BioMe
Aug 9, 2012


marktheando posted:



This guy is a conservative MP

Fishing, one of the few edge cases

Squizzle
Apr 24, 2008




im fishing *flings knife overhand into the sea*

Der Meister
May 12, 2001

HiHo ChiRho posted:

I think this makes Brexit mean Brexit, right

only the fallacious idea that the legislature is itself the parliament

hakimashou
Jul 15, 2002
Upset Trowel
The solution to the knife violence is for people to remember that none of this is new. Before guns were around people killed each other with knives and swords all the time, it was so common that countermeasures for it were developed.

For thousands of years, people wore armor in public. They can do it again. From simple contemporary synthetic stab-plates available at little to no cost to the masses, all the way up to sumptuous handmade armor with gems and precious metal inlays for the rich. Britain can regain its lost heritage and its lost identity. Bring back the middle ages.

PhilippAchtel
May 31, 2011

hakimashou posted:

Bring back the middle ages.

My friend, in two months, you won't have to ask for this.

FMguru
Sep 10, 2003

peed on;
sexually

PhilippAchtel posted:

My friend, in two months, you won't have to ask for this.
Nah. In the middle ages, Britain had thriving trade relationships with cities and nations all over the continent.

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OhFunny
Jun 26, 2013

EXTREMELY PISSED AT THE DNC
In some cool news:

https://twitter.com/Reuters/status/1170848319771467777?s=19

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