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

xp what do you expect, him to respect a Catholic?

Tusk doesn't show contempt for the voters at all. He's explicitly showing contempt for the politicians campaigning 4 brexit without knowing how to deliver it.

*replaces parliamentary mace with trident*

There’s some good colourful language in there though, “devilish Euro maniac” and “stiffening the resistance” - ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) - leap out but “fanned the flames of fear” just elevated the whole thing.

You can almost feel the spittle!

the paradise of a free and prosperous united kingdom as foretold in the rangers xmas annual

Blair was right, politicians are our betters

i srsly regard the DUP as people with something fundamental missing

I can imagine Sammy Wilson saying to a parliamentary aide, "So this, Donald Tusk, is he a left footer or what? He is? Right, I'm going after him with the full Papist antichrist routine, so I am".

donald tusk, yesterday:

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i guess it's useful to have the DUP around as a reminder of what people were like hundreds of years ago

More like a hundred seconds ago in some parts of our wonderful nation.

Yeah thank god they don't represent a constituency in 2019

i guess it's useful to have the DUP around as a reminder of what people were like hundreds of years ago

those marches are only supposed to happen a few times a year

This is horrendous misreporting by the BBC. I try really hard not to criticise it but the bias here seems undeniable. https://t.co/TsUfiZu4Cd

— project beer 🍻 (@skdougherty) February 6, 2019

Responsible reporting here. There’s no doubt Tusk isn’t the most tactful person, but I find it really relatable. People feigning ignorance about this are just expecting him to take the widespread abuse of Polish people in the UK as given, are they? Not to mention, like, literally everything else.

the paradise of a free and prosperous united kingdom as foretold in the rangers xmas annual

― FernandoHierro, Wednesday, February 6, 2019 12:56 PM (twenty-seven minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Note that the word "United" was cbia

i think this person's saying "Brexiteer" means anyone who voted Leave, but I've usually seen it in reference to prominent Leave politicians i.e. D Davis, JRM etc

xpost

> "I have been wondering what the special place in hell looks like for those who promoted Brexit without even a sketch of a plan how to carry it safely"

> Donald Tusk: Special place in hell for Brexiteers

it's not THAT far away from what he said. the main bone of contention seems to be caused by the brexit voters / brexit promoters / brexiteers conflation.

xp

It makes a big difference because first one makes it sound like he’s attacking the voters.

It makes a huge difference. I don't understand how one can say "it's not THAT far away from what he said'. Doesn't matter how near or far away, it's not what he said. It's not complicated.

The disinformation age is just so disheartening.

it's a paraphrase. it'd have quotes around it if it was a direct quote.

Brexit voters were not expected to have a ‘plan’. The politicians who have been bitching about the EU and demanding we leave - let’s call them Brexiteers - have had 40 years to come up with a plan. This ‘look, he’s calling you proles names’ thing isn’t washing with me.

In the Commons the Tory Brexiter Peter Bone described Donald Tusk’s anti-Brexiter comment as a “completely outrageous insult”, adding:

I don’t recall any president insulting members of this House, members of the government and the British people in such a way.

(Reminder: during the EU referendum Bone campaigned alongside Nigel Farage, the then Ukip leader, under the banner of Grassroots Out, the organisation they both founded. Farage’s offensiveness towards EU politicians is legendary. He famously described Herman Van Rompuy, Tusk’s predecessor as president of the European council, as having “all the charisma of a damp rag and the appearance of a low-grade bank clerk”.)

fact checking we can believe in

(from the graun live blog)

Britain's politicians compare these guys to Stalin, Nazis, or whatever else comes to mind, and just expect them to take it. But the minute they answer back they're "showing contempt".

Britain is in an abusive relationship with the EU. And we're the abusive partner. https://t.co/VufFQ0Z8tm

— Jonn Elledge (@JonnElledge) February 6, 2019

brexit is an attempt to take us back to the glory days when britain was the world's abusive partner iirc

"people who campaigned for something they had no credible plan to achieve are bad" is exactly the same as "FUCK YOU TOMMY ROSBIF" tbf, can't see how the elision possibly changes the context

I believe we're supposed to say Stephen Yaxley-Rosbif these days.

that's right, remove the irish part of his name

Yaxley Neeson?

me, earlier: I will never feel sorry for Theresa May
The New European:

here’s this week’s New European cover - Oh! Jeremy Corbyn! Duvet want Brexit after all? on sale Thursdays pic.twitter.com/OPrOw4wYEu

— Matt Kelly (@mk1969) February 6, 2019

jesus god

Gross.

Marie Le Conte points out that it's almost sad that Paul Dacre's not still at the Mail just to see what tomorrow's front page would be.

Is this a designer thing as much as an editor thing? Honestly idk. Still gross yes.

haha! One thing though. The Union Jack is the symbol of the People's Vote Movement. Hard brexiteers like these two would be far more likely to be sleeping under the red flag of Russia.

— Simon Hedges (@Orwell_Fan) February 6, 2019

pls do not quote MLC itt

I would say it’s the editor given the previous grim cover with Owen Jones on tbh. (

But of course the only one crying on this cover is the gay guy, in no way is the overly emotional / hysterical gay man one of the oldest homophobic tropes in the book https://t.co/amxKQ9fD45

— Owen Jones🌹 (@OwenJones84) August 15, 2018

Here's why I blocked New European editor @mk1969, who celebrated me being violently mugged. But he's a respectable liberal, apparently. pic.twitter.com/vk9UtBExlM

— Owen Jones🌹 (@OwenJones84) August 2, 2017

xp ha otm

pls do not quote MLC itt

I mean, I'm starting with no, but go on..

sorry probably a bit strong just remember when I used to be on twitter that she was p execrable for a long while until she had a woke rebrand. did she not doxx someone at some point too ?

Oh I hadn't heard about any of that, as long as I've seen her (which is mostly just the last few years - I think I saw her first in that BBC 3 "Hey there's a daft referendum coming up, let's ask some Europeans what they think about the UK" clip) she's been pretty alright (as far as I know) - she has the journalist disease that her work twitter account is her personal twitter account, so she's joking around with conhome editors - but by the same measure, it's useful to see how audibly pissed off she is with how things are going.

Xp, she didn’t doxx anyone. The idea that she gave out a Hillsborough campaigner’s home address is something that has taken on a life of its own but seems to be a complete misreading of what was actually published.

However, it was terrible snitch reporting in the first place and she is awful.

conhome editors

dude you shd go on mastermind before humphrys quits that too

Ban Twitter.

Oh yeah that thing - filed under very very very bad faith accusations.

Andrew we’re here for you in your time of need. If you want help getting off CH, I can recommend some aversion therapy.

How would that even work though - they've got the MoggCast, what's more emetic that that?

It works like confession. Every time you think about going to the site, you have to watch the Leo Love Actually clip ten times. If you can stomach that and head for the comments, you need to watch the Leo & Gerry Pilates clip 15 times.
https://youtu.be/7jOZdUX68Pg

If you get past that, you need to watch The Foreigner in full.

got mad because "donald tusk" is trending and i thought it would be a walrus that looked like trump

— DougExeter (@DougExeter) February 6, 2019

I’ve seen Donald Tusk on the news so much today I’m actually starting to find him hot.