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

Singapore has the money to build really high sea walls. They are contemplating building a power line to the Pilbara so they can power themselves with Australian sunshine. (Wind is crap at the equator and solar is limited by a lack of land area and a lot of cloud)

Which is to say that Singapore is tackling climate change from both ends.

broke: fighting climate change
woke: building electric cars to present the illusion of caring about climate change
bespoke: building seawalls so high they eventually meet and form a dome and we can all live in bioshock

stoke: 4the madness

(also worth reading the phil edwards thread appended):

(1)We are getting a whole new set of "big demos achieve nothing" pundit comment after the "People's Vote" demo. Almost always from people who don't want demos to achieve anything. I'm 100% against a 2nd Referendum, but it's nonsense that "demo's don't ever work"

— Solomon Hughes (@SolHughesWriter) October 23, 2018

' or not ' that is the question

by the time Singapore has been claimed the sea, "global" small-state UK will be a hive of thriving sweatshops and an ideal production hub for scumbag dark satanic Mill owners 2.0 like Dyson. UK workers just need another decade of foodbank austerity to whip them into shape!

IDS's current line is basically "car manufacturing is only 1% of the economy who cares and also I spoke to one guy who said it would make no difference".

heartening to know that our economy is so strong that we can just blithely write off one percent of it

it might be a more than 1% when loads of the financial services bugger off to Holland, France and Eire!

imagine fucking up so badly that "no, he was calling the *stepfather* of the hospitalised child a pathetic cretin, not the child himself" is the 'good' explanation here

Pretty sure it’s obvious @BrexitStewart’s comment was aimed at the stepfather, not the child... but why let that get in the way of a good story, eh? https://t.co/bwHGH2j4Jw

— Julia Hartley-Brewer (@JuliaHB1) October 23, 2018

RTÉ are reporting that the EU will offer an all-UK customs union.

xp

Brexiteers: Remainers are ideologically obsessed and immoral deviants
Also Brexiteers: calling either the child with cancer or his parent a “pathetic cretin” to own the Remoaners is good actually

imagine anybody in a public position using that language and keeping their job

https://www.rte.ie/news/brexit/2018/1023/1006113-brexit/

If this is accurate then 'tinkering the edges' by the EU doesn't begin to describe it.

imagine anybody in a public position using that language and keeping their job

it's 2018! anyone can anything now!

er, anyone can SAY anything

well, not "anyone"

fuckin' owned :(

Have now heard it from others - people in David Davis's office are calling MPs' offices to check that they've got the right mobile number for the MPs, which I'm sure is just a bit of standard admin and nothing else! https://t.co/leqfOyD1WY

— Marie Le Conte (@youngvulgarian) October 22, 2018

aw hell yeah, who better to become pm and lead the nation to a successful brexit than er the man who quit his role as brexit secretary in a huff

I think he’s unemployed actually? He lost his job after DD stepped down.

yeah, you're right. obviously opinions as a private citizen are fine.

UPDATE: Tory source tells PoliticsHome: “The brains behind the DD operation is publicly attacking kids in hospital so I think the PM is going to be fine this week.”https://t.co/HhEPD7dEEF

— PoliticsHome (@politicshome) October 23, 2018

20 dimensional chess, obviously.

"If Ireland had been a good friend to the UK there would be none of this trouble at all. They have not. The opportunity to make mischief for the UK has been too good to miss. United, as close friends, by an agreed solution, the EU would not have seized upon this as a bone of contention with which to beat the British.
How sad this is when you consider the approach of the UK to the Republic since its formation. Complete freedom of movement, of the right to benefits and voting in the UK. Respect for neutrality in the War despite provocation, and even bailing them out financially so recently. What a way to repay the UK. The Irish people should be concerned."

"They have also been waging financial destruction on the UK for years. Some were backed to get to the top of certain organisation and companies. They then destroyed them. I was given a first hand account of a situation where one person gave away their motivation just prior to destroying a UK company. He then went on to remove another company from the UK.

The UK needs to wake up."

"Very grim. I don't understand the apparent hostility towards GB. We should obviously be the closest of pals, I feel. Meeting Irish people abroad, as I duo a great deal, I'm always struck by their warmth and friendliness. Great people!"

"I think that if we put in a border and give them a major advantage in business they will hopefully stop feeling so hardly done by and start making progress.

The EU are doing all they can to hurt us. The latest is dividing us from the US using time zones. I used to work closely with the US due to having some hours of overlap in the working day. The EU want now to break that.

Ireland is well placed physically, temporally and sociably close to the US. It is a chance for them to be competitive and a cross roads of the west. They have this one chance, or they give it away forever."

(I really need to stop reading conservativehome.com)

I don't understand the apparent hostility towards GB. We should obviously be the closest of pals, I feel.

yeah it's a fuckin mystery alright ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

jesus from what depths

xp ah

Look you could replace 99% of comments on CH with the words KNOW YOUR PLACE and lose no content.

You do have to love the most modern iteration of this which is going WHAT ABOUT THE BAILOUT like it’s some showstopper of an argument, rather than the impotent whine of someone living in the world that exists in their head where Paddy and all the other Johnny Foreigners knew their place and every face on the street was white.

The EU are doing all they can to hurt us. The latest is dividing us from the US using time zones. I used to work closely with the US due to having some hours of overlap in the working day. The EU want now to break that.

what in the fuck is this person talking about

Although I guess I’m slightly heartened even the headbangers are calling the country by its proper name?

xp I for one am looking forward to when our clocks are harmonised with the US and I start work at 1pm and finish at 10pm.

Never has the simple word, "Lads", seemed more propitious.

Also having just seen the post this was on, I note that this is about Leo responding to a twitter random. Weirdly I (and his parents) agree that it was him shooting his mouth off, but I can also hardly blame him given the shit he gets from Brexiteers. I would also like to make it absolutely clear that I would never vote for Leo and basically only support him
on this.

Can’t imagine what about Leo needles the good humoured folk of CH so!

We have met the grand bunch of lads, and it is us.

It's not even on that post - it's in a comment on one about how the Spaniards are playing ball on Gibraltar.

sure glad the city of london bailed us out, hate to get confused about what occurred in that transaction huh

Sorry I hadn’t even looked when I wrote that!

Still some gold though:

Further, the hidden deception is the promotion of discrimination by this Government. The people from the EU in the UK will have more rights than the UK people. That will set up a class system. The EU will be able to give rights to their citizens that go beyond our own. Therefore in allowing these acts the government is discriminating on a nationality.

The difference between 'the terrorist-sympathising, IRA-hugging, anti-British appeasing Communist' and Mrs May increasingly appears to be the beard.

Where's the negotiation “Back stop” In Mr Trump saying Germany buying Russian Gas was Bad, then three weeks later Germany “suddenly “ decides to buy US liquid gas?

Where's the “Back stop” in refusing to foreclose on the Republics debt ?
Lets wonder about Clinton's security clearance revocation, where that “Back stop” heading?

Varadkar will leave a legacy that will paint him very badly in Irish history. Instead of working non-stop to preserve Ireland's special interests he is working to nurture the EU. Threatening and taunting his largest trading partner is ill-advised and totally foolish.

god forbid we allow a class system to be established in the united kingdom

im wary of too easily dismissing these clueless idiots because history teaches us that they win is the thing

these clueless idiots are like the being john malkovich gateway into jacob rees-mogg's inner monologue

being jake moggovich

xxp these are the people they ignored when putting the dementia tax into the manifesto, I’m absolutely sure they’ll ignore them again to get a deal because of their fear of Corbyn.

There was a fairly good comment about the inevitability of the DUP getting burned but I didn’t paste cos there was an unironic Soros reference. :|

everything will be alright. Liam Fox has sailed into New York harbour on the aircraft carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth today - big trade mission. The Torygraph are saying this highlights our lack of a shiny new royal superyacht for such an important event, and the need to splash out on a new one.

yacht rot

you don't need to go all the way to the US for some chlorinated offal, there is a plentiful supply in Keighley.

>> The EU are doing all they can to hurt us. The latest is dividing us from the US using time zones. I used to work closely with the US due to having some hours of overlap in the working day. The EU want now to break that.

> what in the fuck is this person talking about

there's forever talk of messing with DST, i'm guessing it's that.

from a couple of months ago:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-45366390

but i can never work out how this affects us.

first they straightened bananas, now they want to bend time

God the prospect of this government until 2022, I ... just can’t.

look on the bright side, we might all be wiped off the face of the earth by a cleansing blast of total nuclear war between now and then