"oh you don't get me I'm the end of the union": lol brexit is how we're all gonna die

I always find them weird though - isn’t the real worry that people can get at your post easily?

not if your a postie with missing digits and a bad back!

for sending low-level letters or tweets as i call them

does that joke work? no it does not

Bruised letters must be the rationale; people are so weird.

maybe it's just me but i settle for the letterbox that's already there when i move in somewhere

I assumed it was a leftover from those doors, v.popular in the 70s (I think?) that were almost all glass.

meanwhile back in Hull

https://www.irishtimes.com/news/world/brexit/brexit-the-students-view-1.3760313?mode=amp&fbclid=IwAR1h9kaiSjadYeVwwPKEeD8CrZFD7yXjAl_vz1ugAEeWp_Gz4kwGAiI4IOA

its the obvious post-hock solution to gammon leafletting

low-level letterboxes usefully double as a tortoise-flap

TBH if May was hoping to make any further political capital out of Corbyn's refusal to meet, then telling the other party leaders that she wasn't going to negotiate on any issues of substance is probably the single worst way to go about it. I know Caroline Lucas only has one vote but it was obvious she was going to come straight out and talk.

low-level letterbox burglary sounds like a tough and very unrewarding gig, you'd be laughing stock of the crim fraternity when you are captured on cctv crouching down awkwardly and looking all desperate and sweaty while rifling someones letterbox for only a bubble wrapped pack of germolene or something.

grudging but respectful golf clap for dmac's post-hock / gammon post btw

Ah, I see it now. My knowledge of ungulates is lacking.

Cooper and Benn emerge after long meeting with David Lidington - absolutely adamant that PM has to take no deal off the table before there can be any compromise - they say also that Lidington did not mention any new ideas or ways forward

— Laura Kuenssberg (@bbclaurak) January 17, 2019

government in 'no new ideas' shocker

not saying they look like fools here (I am), but they ignored this request & now have only themselves to blame.

Yvette Cooper and Hilary Benn have just walked into the Cabinet Office to see Lidington and Gove. So they're the first to ignore the below. https://t.co/PNEPkuuSAx

— Tom Newton Dunn (@tnewtondunn) January 17, 2019

yvette cooper and hilary benn in 'looking like fools' shocker

Cooper chairs the Home Affairs Committee and Hilary Benn is Chairman of the cross-party Brexit Committee so they're there in that capacity rather than as Labour MPs, is my understanding.

Far be it from me to suggest there might be a bit of shit stirring from the political editor of The Sun here.

And if the Irish Republican Teabag wants to build a wall then The Republic can pay for it

— David Coburn MEP (@DavidCoburnUKip) January 16, 2019

He’s got previous.

the Irish Republic owes us millions from bailing out their bannana republic economy so lets pull the plug.
The Republic are our enemies not our friends https://t.co/NzY7adh2ak

— David Coburn MEP (@DavidCoburnUKip) November 6, 2018

SNP want to bring the politics of N Ireland to Scotland when it never existed before

— David Coburn MEP (@DavidCoburnUKip) February 17, 2017

Always get a bit Stephen Rea in Michael Collins about people calling it “the Irish republic”.

...

What?! pic.twitter.com/ZJVM8UecI2

— Dawn Foster (@DawnHFoster) January 17, 2019

Always get a bit Stephen Rea in Michael Collins about people calling it “the Irish republic”.

― gyac, Thursday, 17 January 2019 17:07 (nine minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

how dwe feel about eire

i visibly start at it these days ive been burnt so often by anyone using it (saorstart eire is the condition imma name after it)

Éire = acceptable as Gaeilge, Eire or variations of should be viewed with suspicion.

oh yeah as gaeilge is true as a die

but i mean pronounce eeey-ra

schoolboy eire

eire shhhtop

Eire is weird, is v "what are you saying?"

I think it probably is a dog whistle term to an extent. Denying territorial claims over the whole island of Ireland, etc

Ironically I'd still take it over 'Southern Ireland' any day.

xp it is but not for that reason anymore (since GFA), it’s struck me more as denying sovereignty, the Irish republic much more so, but both basically mean the same thing/ we won’t call you what you say your country is called, only the whole island is called that.

PLP largely seem to be holding the line - I'm impressed. they know she's goosed

southern ireland is only used by people who ask you if you're from northern or southern ireland in a slightly confused tone. like trying to imply in a vaguely respectful way that they have some idea about what ireland is whereas they've actually never thought of it (although they used to work with a girl from cork). eire is a much more suspicious mix of knowledge and ignorance.

as a diversion from brexit, a piece on recent goings-on in the SNP
https://www.gerryhassan.com/blog/salmond-sturgeon-and-the-end-of-an-era-for-the-snp/

can't pee, poo or pry through a low level letter box

May not ruling out no deal:

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/live/2019/jan/17/brexit-deadlock-as-theresa-may-and-jeremy-corbyn?page=with:block-5c40b5e5e4b058cfe6d92073#block-5c40b5e5e4b058cfe6d92073

forget about brexit for a sec guys, prince philip has tragically survived a car accident near sandringham

can’t believe that the same security services philip used to assassinate diana have now bungled an attempt on him, smdh

i blame budget cuts and a decline of national moral fibre

i have gotten that "I am disappointed that..." email so many times at work. and usually from similarly atrocious managers.

David Coburn? Knew he had to be Scottish from the initial tweet and without having to google him.

how can you be an mp in 2019 and struggle to you kneau ocshully teaulk

Who are you talking about deems?

This reminds me of how the lobby always scorns his leaden delivery but personally I hate how every time Corbs says “is-yoos”.

whatley on behalf of tories on politics live

is andrew neil always this daily mail

i... thought blair was a decent interviewee....

Andrew Neil is a Tory cunt, despite coming from Glenburn.

Andrew Neil chairs the spectator which publishes Taki and a range of other head-measurers.

i am now informed

I've only just switched on QT and first thing I saw was a wall of gammon applauding No Deal.

watching new format QT

what the hell is going on in that country's head