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Kurtofan
Feb 16, 2011

hon hon hon

Jose posted:

Lol the guy in charge of turning point UK is apparently engaged to Candace owens

https://twitter.com/TheRedRoar/status/1092102188585967618?s=19

Lol thats sad

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Kurtofan
Feb 16, 2011

hon hon hon
The United Kochdom

HiHo ChiRho
Oct 23, 2010

So, while both our countries are turning to absolute dog poo poo, we got way too many alt-right / neo nazi groups on our side of the Atlantic. Would you kindly just take Charlie Kirk and the entire TP org? I know it may seem like a lot to take on but Charlie's face is extremely tiny, so space shouldn't be a concern there.

Communist Thoughts
Jan 7, 2008

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


HiHo ChiRho posted:

So, while both our countries are turning to absolute dog poo poo, we got way too many alt-right / neo nazi groups on our side of the Atlantic. Would you kindly just take Charlie Kirk and the entire TP org? I know it may seem like a lot to take on but Charlie's face is extremely tiny, so space shouldn't be a concern there.

e's just trying to save face

dont be mean to me
May 2, 2007

I'm interplanetary, bitch
Let's go to Mars


Elevator Screamer posted:

I have a friend whose family owns one of those houses on the British border on the island of Ireland where the front door of the house is in the UK and the back door is in Ireland. We may be able to set up an underground railroad to smuggle Britgoons out, assuming the powers that be don't install a blockchain border post in her kitchen.

the crown will probably bulldoze her house op

JFairfax
Oct 23, 2008

by FactsAreUseless
UK plc's risk appetite at "recessionary" level - Deloitte https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-britain-economy-idUKKCN1PT001

etalian
Mar 20, 2006

JFairfax posted:

UK plc's risk appetite at "recessionary" level - Deloitte https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-britain-economy-idUKKCN1PT001

lol

quote:

Businesses are not just afraid of short-term disruption: 78 percent of the 110 companies surveyed by Deloitte said they expected Brexit to damage the economy over the long term, compared with just 10 percent who expected an improvement.

Jel Shaker
Apr 19, 2003


the ten percent presumably being debt collectors and funeral homes

etalian
Mar 20, 2006

Jel Shaker posted:

the ten percent presumably being debt collectors and funeral homes

Someone should invent the suicide booth thing from Futurama

dont be mean to me
May 2, 2007

I'm interplanetary, bitch
Let's go to Mars


etalian posted:

Someone should invent the suicide booth thing from Futurama

i thought they discontinued coal gas service

JFairfax
Oct 23, 2008

by FactsAreUseless
Brexit: 700,000 tourism jobs at risk if Britain leaves EU with no deal, trade body warns https://www.independent.co.uk/news/...l-a8761546.html

Taintrunner
Apr 10, 2017

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

JFairfax posted:

Brexit: 700,000 tourism jobs at risk if Britain leaves EU with no deal, trade body warns https://www.independent.co.uk/news/...l-a8761546.html

wrong, disaster tourism will be a booming industry post-brexit

etalian
Mar 20, 2006

Taintrunner posted:

wrong, disaster tourism will be a booming industry post-brexit

It would be a Children of Men (The theme park ride)

I would blow Dane Cook
Dec 26, 2008

Yinlock
Oct 22, 2008

etalian posted:

It would be a Children of Men (The theme park ride)

C-SPAM: it means "central spam" > BREXIT: Children of Men (The theme park ride)

Fallen Hamprince
Nov 12, 2016



https://twitter.com/BBCNews/status/1091748805358350336

Astrochicken
Aug 13, 2007

So you better go back to your bars, your temples
Your massage parlors!

U-turn if you want to.

Fallen Hamprince
Nov 12, 2016

i wouldn't characterize the turning point weirdos as 'alt-right', they're much more of the traditional "human-shaped garbage bag stuffed with libertarian billionaire cash" flavor of right-wing activist

Yinlock
Oct 22, 2008

Fallen Hamprince posted:

i wouldn't characterize the turning point weirdos as 'alt-right', they're much more of the traditional "human-shaped garbage bag stuffed with libertarian billionaire cash" flavor of right-wing activist

so alt-right then

Fuligin
Oct 27, 2010

wait what the fuck??

so there was some new poll that showed labor being bushwhacked by the tories? is that a real thing or did i dream it

Fallen Hamprince
Nov 12, 2016

Yinlock posted:

so alt-right then

some of the libertarian billionaires are theoretically ok with immigrants as long as they don't have to pay them a living wage. for the alt-right the racism is an end to itself, not an electoral vehicle for tax cuts. in conclusion, conservatism is a land of contrasts

dont be mean to me
May 2, 2007

I'm interplanetary, bitch
Let's go to Mars


don't mind me; just getting the ghost post through raw brexit customs

BrutalistMcDonalds
Oct 4, 2012


Lipstick Apathy
yeah it's alt-right internally, libertarian garbage bag externally

https://twitter.com/jerryiannelli/status/1052172087287271424
https://twitter.com/An_MarcosTX/status/1063267618281406464

Fallen Hamprince
Nov 12, 2016

the lines between alt-right and vanilla conservative activist have become blurred in the trump era, particularly for younger activists. any americans under 30 getting involved in GOP politics can basically be presumed to be down with the racism frog. not a ton of young campus conservatives fired up about the estate tax these days

as todays college republicans start getting into mainstream state and federal politics in the next few years you're gonna see some pretty wild poo poo

Fallen Hamprince
Nov 12, 2016

on a more thread-relevant note, imagine the caliber of nightmarish bog mutant that the brexit-era tory party is attracting to its youth wing

frajaq
Jan 30, 2009

#acolyte GM of 2014


JFairfax posted:

Brexit: 700,000 tourism jobs at risk if Britain leaves EU with no deal, trade body warns https://www.independent.co.uk/news/...l-a8761546.html

drat who could have foreseen this

Ramc
May 4, 2008

Bringing your thread to a screeching halt, guaranteed.

Sheng-Ji Yang posted:

people who jerk off migrants

so you, uh, work from home, op?

Fallen Hamprince
Nov 12, 2016

Ramc posted:

so you, uh, work in home office, op?

bob dobbs is dead
Oct 8, 2017

I love peeps
Nap Ghost
hmm, the new avengers movie will show a basically post-apocalyptic world (new york and environs). great timing for the british as they shiver in the gloom and fight for the last of the canned food

HiHo ChiRho
Oct 23, 2010

Ramc posted:

so you, uh, work from home, op?

StashAugustine
Mar 24, 2013

Do not trust in hope- it will betray you! Only faith and hatred sustain.

Ramc posted:

so you, uh, work from home, op?

SMILLENNIALSMILLEN
Jun 26, 2009



SKULL.GIF posted:

Was reading this earlier today, does this generally ring true to youse UK goons?

https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/economy/2019/01/why-uk-cannot-see-brexit-utterly-utterly-stupid
Yeah, the uks media environment is a rat eating it's own babies. Rupert murdoch did a number on the entire English speaking world really

quote:

How did Remain voters become effectively disenfranchised? Why is the lunacy of what this country is doing only apparent to foreigners? Answering this question is not hard for anyone who has read my book The Lies We Were Told. What we have that foreigners do not is a public discourse shaped by a handful of newspaper proprietors who just happen to be intensely hostile to the EU. Partly through intimidation by that same press and their political allies, the BBC follows this discourse. This is where the “will of the people” came from. It was this press that puts rebel Conservative MPs on their front pages, and that uses language like saboteurs and traitors. It is intimidating MPs in order to influence the democratic process, but of course few in the media call it that. 

....

If people have doubts about my argument that the media played a central role is misdirecting the public then (and many do), well Brexit should be a test case. And so far Brexit has gone exactly as these newspaper proprietors would have wished. Three coincidences is a row? The reason why those overseas can see that Brexit is utterly, utterly stupid while the UK stockpiles food and medicine, and the Prime Minister tries to blackmail MPs into supporting her deal, is because those overseas are not influenced by the UK media

Raskolnikov38
Mar 3, 2007

We were somewhere around Manila when the drugs began to take hold
the daily mail killing britain is such a fitting endcap

Fallen Hamprince
Nov 12, 2016

the deadly mail

SMILLENNIALSMILLEN
Jun 26, 2009




These people have diseased minds

Jose
Jul 24, 2007

Adrian Chiles is a broadcaster and writer
https://twitter.com/VonnSand/status...ingawful.com%2F

Avirosb
Nov 21, 2016

Everyone makes pisstakes

HOW ARE THEY ALWAYS NURSES

Zulily Zoetrope
Jun 1, 2011

Muldoon
If you told me those were photoshopped faces and parody texts I would 100% have believed it.

Jose
Jul 24, 2007

Adrian Chiles is a broadcaster and writer
Darren Grimes got convicted for electoral fraud in the brexit referendum

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System Metternich
Feb 28, 2010

But what did he mean by that?


I was looking up voting demographics for the 2016 ref and noticed that most of the strongly pro-Brexit areas can be found in sort of a triangle stretching very roughly from Yarmouth to Birmingham and then again to Scarborough. I've only ever been to London and Manchester and have no idea about how England looks like in this area. Is it super rural, or a post-industrial hellscape, or very poor, or very rich, or what is going on?

Also I found this:



Kinda weirded out by a slight majority of British Jews voting for a campaign driven in large parts by the hard right stoking xenophobic sentiment, but :wow: at the CoE going hard Brexit. I guess that correlates with the rural/urban split?

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