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

How would Ireland be f’d by brexit if they’re in the EU still? Loss of access to UK ports being able to handle import load?

Cross border agribusiness, food exports, horses...

Just saw Jeremy Corbyn arrive at the Harry Leslie Smith memorial over the road, on my way back from Waitrose with my shopping. NBD, did not stop to harangue him about Brexit.

Traitor!

Gyac otm but while EU can’t implement border in Irish Sea, it can use the offer of one to defang any perceived May leverage.

It’s infuriating the way the rockets present what is a big benefit to the UK (a UK-wide backstop) as a negative to be avoided. When the EU withdraws that offer post no-Deal they’ll probably start insisting it must be UK-wide again

could have reported this em

Before Xmas I was told by one senior cabinet minister that Mays plan was to keep delaying vote until there was no option left but her deal. Nothing I’ve seen since has made me think she’s come even an inch off course.The trips to Brussels /chats with labour are window dressing 1/

— emily m (@maitlis) February 12, 2019

May's Turnip Surprise

It’s infuriating the way the rockets present what is a big benefit to the UK (a UK-wide backstop) as a negative to be avoided. When the EU withdraws that offer post no-Deal they’ll probably start insisting it must be UK-wide again

totally - the backstop is in many ways what the EU always insisted was impossible

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/feb/12/theresa-mays-brexit-tactic-my-way-or-a-long-delay

But Robbins, the most senior civil servant involved in the Brexit process, was overheard by a reporter from ITV, holding a late-night conversation in which he appeared to suggest she would wait until March – and then give MPs the choice between backing her, or accepting a long extension to article 50.

According to the broadcaster, Robbins said the government had “got to make them believe that the week beginning end of March ... extension is possible, but if they don’t vote for the deal then the extension is a long one.”

long delay it is then i guess

'Overheard in a Brussels bar' not something you'd want as a reason to be fired iirc.

i was working for the eu in a brussels bar
that much is true

:D

nv otm that the eu will not *negotiate* a hard border

im utterly in the dark as to what and how serious the effects of a hard brexit would be on eg me in dublin.

im kinda thinking....fuck all...? but im a lazy fatwlist about stuff

fatwa list?

yes. step back.

I honestly don't think hard brexit is very likely. Most likely = May gets her deal through in extremis. Second most likely = last-minute extension and renegotiation. A long way third is hard brexit. No one wants hard brexit except for a few ERG nutcases. It could happen by accident but I think everyone - UK govt, parliament, EU - would pull out all stops to ensure it didn't.

they wont

its the option that nobody can be fully hit with the blame for because it happens automatically and anyone on the hook for it is either already maximally fucked or has proven to be teflon

I salute your optimism ZZ but it can't be repeated enough: hardbrex isn't an option to be chose, it's an increasingly inevitable result of fuckery

Y'know like nobody *wanted* WWI?

ok everyone time for some game theory

Jasper Carrott to thread

Irishes could find it trickier to get hold of some of their favourite UK foodstuffs for a while, including dairy, cider, sausages and crisps. Please prepare yourselves thoroughly for the impact of this.

No way in hell do the Irish buy British crisps.

They have them for sale alright but fuck knows why.

wouldn't eat them in a fami-

Some people do eat them (fuck knows why), but then I expect their ancestors took the soup as well.

British sausages, don't make me laugh

If only there was an Irish cider manufacturer to fill the gap...

i think we should prob extend credit for ironic intent lads

800 years of ironic intent /shakes fist

Taytos are bullshit tbh

Manhattan secretly the best crisps.

So I guess the gossip I heard last week from [senior broadcaster] may have been... OTM?

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/feb/12/theresa-mays-brexit-tactic-my-way-or-a-long-delay

^^ thought about that little nugget you managed to catch recently. Loose lips etc.

xxxp now you know this isn’t true, but even so...King is your only man for cheese & onion.

xxp I’ve never had (or seen) the crisps, but their popcorn is 100% classic.

what does long extension mean ? until the next european parliamentary election cycle ?

I think it means 'enough to make the ERG shit their pants'. Except that won't happen because they would prefer no Brexit at all, and the martyr/betrayal narrative it would provoke, to May's deal.

My source told me one year. There are some EU tax laws coming in on 1 April that will cause the offshore ERG types to shit themselves.

i swear to god kids if i see one more Facebook post from some group called "We Support Jeremy Corbyn" or something doing some fuck awful cult of personality steez i'm going full Tory

*sees one more Facebook FBPE post about how Corbyn must die*

ah fuck it i'm done

my disdain for Taytos may have been exaggerated due to intoxication last night, apologies to all concerned

nah, you’re good, taytos are bullshit

we are a thread divided

taytexit starts here

Nordie Taytos: bad
Free State Taytos: good
Pub Taytos: very special
King: the best

Thanks Brexit for making me sympathise with Bertie FUCKING Ahern!

British MP: "What are Irish people's view of Ireland "rejoining the UK"?

Bertie Ahern: "I’ll just be kind and say ‘not very well’”

Brexit select committee

— lisa o'carroll (@lisaocarroll) February 13, 2019

i can't honestly tell the diff between the nordie taytos and the irish ones but a friend says the same about them. i've never tried one after another and relative to p much all english cheese and onion crisps the nordie taytos are still great. there are one or two english brands that are tayto-like but tbh every pub seems to have a different new brand of innocent smoothie 'cooked with love in lancashire' bollocks crisp.

king is good too but i wouldn't necessarily elevate it, long time since i had a bag tho. there seem to be loads of tayto clones around now in ireland. at xmas (but not for xmas) my mum bought me a pack of 'keoghs' which she says is her occasional treat at the shop and they were very good.

xpost

Brexit supporting MP Craig Mckinlay says he is "surprised" people of Ireland aren't pressing Irish government for more flexibility over backstop.
"I'm surprised the people of republic aren’t saying, come on government, you’re not actually reflecting our views here" 1/2

— lisa o'carroll (@lisaocarroll) February 13, 2019

Craig McKinlay clearly doesn’t know any Irish people or read ilx or he’d get why this is something you’d be embarrassed to say out loud.

xp a colleague of mine brings back those really posh crisps from home and like...keep it simple.

I have to admit my objection to Nordie Tayto is mostly the aesthetic.

I would also take 99% of Tayto corn snacks (Johnny Onion Rings, Wheelies) over the crisp export of the entirety of Britain tbh.