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

May was going for the jugular on Corbyn at PMQs there. Novel way to kick off your cross-party talks, that

I can't emphasise enough how humiliating it would be, and how much ire it would draw from the Conservative Party, for May to be perceived as having gone cap-in-hand to Jeremy Corbyn to bail out her Brexit deal. It's probably the single biggest reason why these talks won't go anywhere (and obviously Theresa May and Jeremy Corbyn are such famously ameliorative bipartisan types).

guys i accidentally tweaked my backstop last weekend

i wouldn't recommend it

just heard this total nimrod on R4 talking about a magical frictionless "administrative border" controlled by IT systems

look we all know that uk government it systems are famously inexpensive and effective, what could possibly go wrong

how's this for an alternative arrangement, we stay in the fucking EU

has anyone thought of this?

BREXIT MEANS BREXIT iirc

The Will has spoken i am sorry

look we all know that uk government it systems are famously inexpensive and effective, what could possibly go wrong

lol every time read someone boosting 'max fac' or whatever i can practically see the randy glint in their eye - 'technology will fix it - a big it contract called something like max fac - nobody knows what it is, what it does, how big it is, how long it would take to build, how much it would cost or whether it's possible, but we can shake hands on launching it and wave our wangs around'

same kind of thinking that leads to a referendum on 'brexit'

Obligatory drive by bitch about the press & how little pressure the government faces:

As an alternative to asking why the PM keeps wasting time on political stunts, try asking why Britain’s overwhelmingly pro-Conservative newspapers keep humouring or endorsing her, and why that tactic is so obviously working. pic.twitter.com/FigcYwth8E

— Flying_Rodent (@flying_rodent) January 30, 2019

didnt brussels respond within 6 minutes?

red tape and inefficiency what what

i presume that they left a note with the third secretary left watching the phones:

off to ferrero rocher event. keep and eye on place. if uk calls, its a 'no'. feed le chat.

tbf brussels have been saying the same thing for a couple of years now, there probably wasn't much need for a complicated chain of command to get their response signed off

max fac me til I fart

go off king

Jean-Claude Juncker, the president of the European commission, is speaking now.

He says the UK will soon leave the EU. This is a bad decision.

He says the withdrawal agreement is the best and only agreement available. The EU has said that repeatedly. He says the votes last night do not change that.

The EU is determined to prevent any return to the “dark times” in Ireland.

The EU has no desire to use the safety net (his term for the backstop). But he says a safety net that can only be used sometimes is not a safety net.

He says the Commons is against many things. It is against a no-deal Brexit, and it is against the backstop. But we don’t know what it is for, he says.

He says he will continue to be in close contact with Theresa May, “for whom I have the greatest respect”.

He will listen to her ideas. But he will also be clear about the EU’s position.

When will the leavers realise brexit is fyre festival. What will be the cheese sandwich of realisation.

— Stevie Parle (@StevieParle) January 29, 2019

feral dogs or gtfo

nigel farage is truly our emily ratajkowski

mjacob rees-mogg

the cheese sandwich of realisation will probably only come on the day when leavers realise they no longer have a) cheese or b) bread

fun thread on prime scottish gammon david coburn acting the twat in the european parliament

David Coburn, eurosceptic MEP and purveyor of proper lunches, shouts 'auf wiedersehen' as German MEP Elmar Brok finishes his intervention in the EU Parliament's #Brexitdebate

— Joe Barnes (@Barnes_Joe) January 30, 2019

I’ve seen several tweets about the May/Corbyn meeting ending in kisses and/orhatesex and like, why do people have to put their ids out there like that?

their ian duncan smiths?

^^^bg's id out there

the id: very much the quiet man of the psyche

genuinely loling at this appalling pun

43: Beach House – “Lemon Glow” – 202 points – 7 votes – 1 first place vote
video

Beach House

a flash in the pan― Stephen Bush, Saturday, November 18, 2006

That S Bush became the ilxor "ilxor", fact fans. Think he's still around as something else now?

no less surprising discovery today than that the only ok-ish uk political commentator is actually also the ilxor formerly known as ilxor

we win

:(

Like actually?

no

pretty sure the ilxor ilxor was american

i think it's unlikely (i'm am still committed to the "mcternan posts here" bit tho)

a cursory search of threads he created has him refer to "senior year in high school"

my xls is strong

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/jan/30/it-is-terrible-but-i-still-want-it-crewe-voters-size-up-no-deal-brexit

We voted because of immigration and we didn’t realise how poor we would be. It will be terrible but I still want it, because of immigration.

the most disingenuous aspect of the coverage of brexit is the pretense that it isn't almost completely about immigration

Much of it non-European, to boot.

sorry you guys have your own racist morons

I mean that he posted here, not that he was a specific user, alas. Though I do feel less guilty about telling people how to circumvent the NS paywall, so there’s that.

It would not surprise me about John McT, he follows obscure left accounts with few followers.

the most disingenuous aspect of the coverage of brexit is the pretense that it isn't almost completely about immigration

That includes the coverage on ILX if you back through these threads.

I think a sizeable chunk of the Brexit vote is people who've convinced themselves that it isn't about immigration, tbf. There's some degree of hypothetical difference between nationalism and anti-immigration sentiment, too.

Much of it non-European, to boot.

― pomenitul, Wednesday, January 30, 2019 10:29 AM (three minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah that's my favourite bit. brexit will mean we won't have immigrants coming from the EU countries of the indian subcontinent!

leaving the EU will mean that no Syrians come here!

The 73-year-old former builder and engineer said he had been lied to by the leave campaign. “They didn’t tell us the true facts. They kept us in the dark like mushrooms and fed us bullshit,” he said. “We voted because of immigration and we didn’t realise how poor we would be. It will be terrible but I still want it, because of immigration.”

It’s not about immigration but...

67% Immigration
23% Protest vote over austerity or whatever
10% Other?

The absolute core is a belief that England/Britain/the UK - let's be honest, mostly England - has some kind of manifest destiny.

Got some bad news for that British-Cypriot woman in the article...

hey dumb American here I struggle to keep up and understand what's going on, is there a good place to start?