one out all out: a brexit from the modern world and every one of its problems please (we're all gonna die lol)

What legit use could have for a weapon that powerful? Unless you are some deranged N Yorkshire farmer convinced you could should shoot an Iran launched ICBM down before it gets to Beverley!

even if it was a bill to outlaw feeding bairns to Komodo Dragons, they wouldn't gaf.

blasting remoaners into red mist from 1.8k away iirc

Don't come crying to me if a badger comes at you driving a Transit

the hunting sett

I used sometimes work with a f/t shooter of anything that moves on NT land, and tbf he was more funny as fuck than scary, but still somewhat scary sometimes!

gamekeepers are/were interestingly ambiguous figures IMO, inextricably linked with upholding the power of the landed gentry but obviously not of that class, and often radically opposed to it in both temperament and outlook. Land Agents were similar if more lower middle class figures. This sounds interesting on that subject: https://www.lrb.co.uk/v37/n24/nick-richardson/eels-in-their-pockets

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lol yeah

SB on why FB is hiring NC (includes telling typo in the tweet), "facebook" for "brexit") (worth glancing at his conversation on twitter abt this also)

On Nick Clegg's hiring: a sign both of how the UK will matter less after Facebook and also Remainers' low chances of stopping it: https://t.co/ZhdGMrhsAV

— Stephen Bush (@stephenkb) October 19, 2018

clegg's got a proven track record in collaborating with evil regimes so it's a natural move

probably also a sign of the wheelbarrows of bunce FB have offered him, with full bennies and his own castle etc

"facebook hires english knight to protects its property in europe", as alex hern put it :)

lol!

Hard Brexit Tories will use a Commons vote to try to overturn Home Office plans to ban high-powered military-grade rifles in a show of political defiance aimed at Theresa May.

Police want the .50 calibre or higher weapons – which can immobilise a vehicle or truck from a mile away – banned because they fear a terrorist who got hold of one would be impossible to defend against.

But 35 Tory MPs – many of whom are understood to be members of the European Research Group (ERG) – have decided to back an amendment to block the proposed ban.

I know it's been discussed already, but I came to post it and hey.

Maths is not my strong point but I presume Labour are hardly likely to vote against this (except natch Kate Hoey) so won't this be a bit of a damp squib as a show of defiance?

Also (xps) Mercer's part time job for a company specialising in offensive and defensive cyber security is pretty lucrative (although I think his hourly rate's not as good as Chukka's)

From 14 Sept 2018 until further notice, Non-executive Director of Crucial Academy Ltd, One Canada Square, Canary Wharf, London E14 5AB, for which I will receive £85,000 per annum. Hours: 20 hrs a month.

also at facebook, richard allan, Vice President Public Policy EMEA and ... checks notes ... mp for sheffield hallam 1997-2005.

https://www.libdems.org.uk/richard_allan

Reportedly Clegg was playing hard to get and the courtship included lengthy phone conversations while he was walking in the Alps, the inference perhaps being in such surroundings one only thinks pure and deep thoughts!

you know who else liked a walk in the Alps?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-40667038

You would think the fate of Robin Cook might have given these political hillwalkers food for thought.

It makes me think of R Biggs quote about travel narrowing the mind.

https://i.imgur.com/i6dyBmD.jpg

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/16/52/68/165268890494cf92f07e5805c71e9f4d.jpg

"you know who else liked a walk in the Alps?"

Blondi the Alsatian of course!

Feel like this belongs here https://www.instagram.com/p/BpHhkfCleTf/?utm_source=ig_share_sheet&igshid=1aa8mb5w9z9p2

possibly the first time Bobby's played the straight man

Boab thinking, "You're a disgrace to Paisley, Neil".

poor Boab was struggling to articulate a coherent attack on Tory austerity, but at least he tried (couldn't remember Sajid's rhyming surname). It reminded me of a late uncle of mine who used to cane it too much and my mum said "you can't get a word of sense out of him these days, even when he's not drinking - he's got the 'wet-brain'".

https://www.rte.ie/news/brexit/2018/1019/1005373-backstop-tony-connelly/
excellent Tony Connelly piece here - A brief history of the backstop.

I didn't notice the recent anti-Irish stuff in The Sun, but quelle surprise etc...

Reading that was exhausting! So much stress and energy wasted over the two years, so little to show for it.

really good article. so much misunderstanding. this is their job. i’m sure most parties involved are good at it. but it’s fascinating to see how it’s still possible to talk past each other and for assumptions to go unexpressed and unexamined. you just assume the other’s words are working in the same categorical and definitional space as yours. as do they. and it’s possible to maintain misunderstandings with perfect equanimity until a sudden realisation, incredible to both sides, that each of you have a different understanding of the most important thing.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Dp9UuknW4AEMqwx.jpg

the fucking state of that, Londinium shudders with its greatest embarrassment in a thousand years!

maybe the hardships of no-deal brexit are the lesson we all need

Eh I’m normally the first to cringe at this stuff but that’s really not that egregious. If that were, say, a bizarro post itt nobody would blink an eye

this one is not only nauseatingly crap, it has also been thoroughly debunked by hardcore Spice Girls fans.

I'm ready for the great famine, there is lots of protein in insects .. and humans!

Spotted! pic.twitter.com/HvVk0Ijw2E

— Armando Iannucci (@Aiannucci) October 20, 2018

A key downside to that many people at one protest is indeed such woeful signs. Imagine how many ironic Wolves flags at the front tho.

There’s always that one prick who shows up with that father ted reference on a sign

glinner's long game part 2

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2nd ref vote Leave campaign poster.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DqBt6D7XcAAwPud.jpg
lol @Godwin'sFuckwit's Law!

why

why are if ye are which it seems ye are

against the march for a second vote

good old-fashioned British bloodymindedness iirc

just loathe the political players behind it with eternal venom and find the people involved with it laughable at best.

If that were, say, a bizarro post itt nobody would blink an eye

is this the thing about centrists again

I know I'm not the only person who even if I'd rationalised the various self interest reasons to vote Remain in a 2nd ref, would actually trust myself to do it at the polling station. And this is not something I felt at the first ref.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DqByrkyWoAAwHbf.jpg

"is this the thing about centrists again"