Brexit Thread 2

[Lex-Man]

https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/no-deal-brexit-could-lead-to-sandwich-shortages-claims-industry_uk_5b602579e4b0fd5c73d2ea74?ncid=fcbklnkukhpmg00000001

NOOOOOOOO

Francis Grove-White, the deputy director of the pro-Remain Open Britain think-tank which backs a referendum on the eventual deal, said Brexit was “turning out to be jam-packed with nasty surprises”.

“Now it looks like the great British sandwich could be toast if the Brextremists get their way,” he said in an excruciatingly pun-heavy statement.

“With the Brexit on offer looking increasingly stale, and with the Government’s plans going aw-rye, we need a People’s Vote on Brexit so the public can decide whether or not the crumby deal on offer is good enough.”

That reads like a forum post.

[DML]

For a referendum or a decision change to be made, either the Lords or the Commons has to pole-axe one of the many votes that will come up. Quite frankly I'm utterly amazed we're so many months on Theresa May is still Prime Minister. Her time has to end soon! If she goes then bloody anything could happen. Could May go, and that force an election? Corbyn again seems to be the wildcard, he may be pro-Brexit, but I'm not convinced he wouldn't flip policy if he felt it would secure Labour their place in governance.

Referendum odds HAVE started to drift away again though in wake of the PMs announcement. Man politics is infuriating. Its like the curtain has been raised on the Wizard of Oz and we just carry on regardless!

[Dangerblade]

Francis Grove-White, the deputy director of the pro-Remain Open Britain think-tank which backs a referendum on the eventual deal, said Brexit was “turning out to be jam-packed with nasty surprises”.

“Now it looks like the great British sandwich could be toast if the Brextremists get their way,” he said in an excruciatingly pun-heavy statement.

“With the Brexit on offer looking increasingly stale, and with the Government’s plans going aw-rye, we need a People’s Vote on Brexit so the public can decide whether or not the crumby deal on offer is good enough.”

I don't know why but the bit in bold is just

[Moggy]

twitter.com/sturdyalex/status/1024207148014870529

[Moggy]

twitter.com/damocrat/status/1024402336591040512

Stewart Lee

Although he’s not as funny as Garry Bushell.

We can’t be sure which part of his marathon snooze-athon appealed most to the BBC.

But I’ll go out on a limb and suggest it was when Lee put the boot into Brexit supporters.

“It wasn’t just racists who voted to leave Europe,” he sneered.

“C***s did as well, stupid f***ing c***s”. Wow. Such wit! Such subtle elegance! Truly he is the Oscar Wilde of our times...

Lardy Lee describes modern Britain as “a chaotic inferno of hate”. The seaside town of Southend, where he recorded the show, is “a hive of racists”.

And non-city people are ignorant “trolls”.

He claims to be playing a caricature of himself, but there’s too much venom in his material for it to be just an act.

Educated at private school and Oxford, Lee represents a privileged world view that sees itself as radical but really isn’t.

He once said that comedy’s job isn’t to protect power structures, but doesn’t seem to have noticed how corrupt, unaccountable, inefficient and institutionally anti-democratic the EU is.

Lee had a dig at me for saying his anti- comedy shtick appealed to the “Metropolitan liberal elite”. But that’s a fact.

The Times newspaper recently – madly – dubbed him the funniest person alive. The establishment seal of approval. That’s how unthreatening he is.

And here’s a scary thing, scarier even than the thought of Big Mo in Victoria’s Secret lace-time baby-doll lingerie: thousands of posers and snobs agree.

Many of them work in TV and share his contempt for everyday people and popular comedy.

Lee hates Fools & Horses and lays into more successful turns (Jimmy Carr, Corden, McIntyre, drivelling goon Russell Howard...), stomping on their DVDs.

He is a Twitter mob made flesh, and over-nourished flesh at that – an intolerant smartarse who despises anyone he disagrees with.

Lee’s act is the comedy of self-indulgence. It isn’t anything most people would recognise as humour. But then it’s not meant for us.

We’re just the mugs whose licence fee money has subsidised his bile-spewing career for decades.

I’d rather neck a Novichok smoothie than suffer that again.

● Lee wore a Les Rallizes Dénudés T-shirt. The 60s band were renowned for their tediously repetitive instrumental passages and painful use of guitar feedback. Pretentious? Naturally.
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/columnists/ ... bbc-hot-tv

[Hypes]

Gary Bushell is still a thing?
Also, is there a Stewart Lee thing on TV then?

[Moggy]

Gary Bushell is still a thing?

Typical metropolitan sneering elitist comment.

You should try a real mans job. Something like getting paid to watch lots of telly.

[Moggy]

Also, is there a Stewart Lee thing on TV then?

It was on the other night, it’s probably on iPlayer.

[Hypes]

Gary Bushell is still a thing?

Typical metropolitan sneering elitist comment.

You should try a real mans job. Something like getting paid to watch lots of telly.

Or schmoozing with celebrities, managing a band, being on TV and running for parliament. Real work.

Also, is there a Stewart Lee thing on TV then?

It was on the other night, it’s probably on iPlayer.

[Benzin]

I really hope the page opposite the Stewart Lee review in the Star was a scantily clad woman (providing it was actually printed), because irony is a dying art form...

[Moggy]

I really hope the page opposite the Stewart Lee review in the Star was a scantily clad woman (providing it was actually printed), because irony is a dying art form...

His whole review is basically just about how nasty he thinks Stewart Lee is, but he also drops this in:

scarier even than the thought of Big Mo in Victoria’s Secret lace-time baby-doll lingerie

LOL OLD FAT WOMEN ARE FUNNY!!!1!!!!

[Squinty]

http://uk.businessinsider.com/exclusive ... ent-2018-8

So much for taking back control of our borders.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/news.sky.c ... y-11455918

LOL

[KK]

Theresa May's government is considering allowing the free movement for EU citizens at the UK border to continue if Britain leaves the EU without a deal, according to confidential details of a Home Office meeting leaked to Business Insider.

Border Force officials met in January to discuss contingency plans for a no-deal Brexit. Among the options considered was a plan to allow "no more checks at the border," according to official notes of the meeting sent to BI.

A source close to the Home Office explained that the Border Force would likely have little other choice than to carry on allowing EU citizens freely into the UK as it would not have the staffing capacity, resources, or infrastructure to implement a new registration scheme in a no-deal scenario.

Well if that comes to pass then there really is no point in leaving. Complete control of the borders is the defacto purpose of Brexit, with everything else falling underneath it.

An alternative plan being considered by Home Office officials to cope with a no-deal Brexit would be to "throw resources" at borders, filling airports with extra immigration officers to handle the huge extra capacity that would result from the government having to process every new arrival as a non-EU citizen.

Well duh.

Crap on borders, crap on crime, crapping on business. This is like anti-Conservatism at every turn at the moment.

[Moggy]

Well if that comes to pass then there really is no point in leaving.

There never was any point in leaving.

[DML]

Theresa May's government is considering allowing the free movement for EU citizens at the UK border to continue if Britain leaves the EU without a deal, according to confidential details of a Home Office meeting leaked to Business Insider.

Border Force officials met in January to discuss contingency plans for a no-deal Brexit. Among the options considered was a plan to allow "no more checks at the border," according to official notes of the meeting sent to BI.

A source close to the Home Office explained that the Border Force would likely have little other choice than to carry on allowing EU citizens freely into the UK as it would not have the staffing capacity, resources, or infrastructure to implement a new registration scheme in a no-deal scenario.

Well if that comes to pass then there really is no point in leaving. Complete control of the borders is the defacto purpose of Brexit, with everything else falling underneath it.

An alternative plan being considered by Home Office officials to cope with a no-deal Brexit would be to "throw resources" at borders, filling airports with extra immigration officers to handle the huge extra capacity that would result from the government having to process every new arrival as a non-EU citizen.

Well duh.

Crap on borders, crap on crime, crapping on business. This is like anti-Conservatism at every turn at the moment.

BRINO is the only Brexit because Brexit is that ludicrous.

[Moggy]

BRINO is a terrible word.

Just use BINGO (Brexit Is Not Good Ok)

[Lagamorph]

twitter.com/joetwyman/status/1024220891897647104

[Moggy]

:dread:

twitter.com/joetwyman/status/1024220891897647104

"I don't live in Northern Ireland but I am sick of straight bananas!"

[Herdanos]

Crap on borders, crap on crime, crapping on business. This is like anti-Conservatism at every turn at the moment.

Only if you're gullible enough to buy into the myths that the Conservatives have ever been pro-business, or genuinely committed to prioritising the reduction of crime.

[satriales]

:dread:

twitter.com/joetwyman/status/1024220891897647104

"I don't live in Northern Ireland but I am sick of straight bananas!"

"Which is more important to you - the thing that doesn't affect you or the thing that does affect you and you voted for?"