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

that Akala clip is gold. Also saw him make similar arguments to a (surprisingly reasonable, though I'm sure he started talking bollocks again as soon as the clip ended) Piers Morgan.

What dick edited that Akala video?

this potential land reform in scotland is probably going to be disappointing but at least there's some noise about it https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/mar/20/report-calls-for-reform-of-unhealthy-land-ownership-in-scotland

never mind, my phone must've played it weird, thought it was all jump cuts

i've just seen my first TV ad for government guidance on leaving the EU, these fuckers sure are organized

dr Liam fox isn't fucking about either, we apparently have a signed + sealed trade deal with Liechtenstein.

disgraced MP liam fox seems to actually be halfway competent at his job... which is perhaps a frightening harbinger of the headwinds to come on negotiating trade deals post-EU exit (looking at the few deals he’s managed to get over the line)

never mind, my phone must've played it weird, thought it was all jump cuts

― Helel Cool J (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 20 March 2019 10:36 (twenty-two minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

my phone does this all the time with twitter videos it is v annoying i agree

Why they spent 2 days fucking around with the no deal vote and the other vote i've forgotten is beyond me

I think it was important in that it established Parliament's red line and the EU knows it, which is why it's pushing for a GE, 2nd referendum or softer Brexit.

It has to be a 2nd ref at this point, it doesn't necessarily solve anything but it's the only way out we've got barring a freak landslide for either side in a GE. Otherwise we end up back at Parliamentary impasse again soon enough.

never mind, my phone must've played it weird, thought it was all jump cuts

that's how you win an oscar nowadays

June isn't anywhere near a long enough delay to hold a second ref

you've got to give Putin at least a few months notice tbf!

Looks like nothing at all has changed, we're still at May's deal or no deal, despite the votes last week. It seems to me there would actually be a parliamentary majority for soft brexit ie customs union, so why can't they get there?

Because they breach the red lines

she’s to go the 1922 committee tonight. presumably getting long knived

we're all dead and this is purgatory or hell

^^

well, yeah

If it's either of them they're funnier than i'd been led to believe

Can we call the next thread "How I brexit down to some extent"?

The current title but remove the space between 'lol' and 'brexit'

that Akala clip is gold. Also saw him make similar arguments to a (surprisingly reasonable, though I'm sure he started talking bollocks again as soon as the clip ended) Piers Morgan.

Yes, saw that one too. As far as the media is concerned people getting stabbed only matters when they're getting stabbed in London - like everything else in this fucking country.

how I brexit down to an extent: VONC me til I fart

Excerpt from a home office reasons for refusal letter for a convert to Christianity. I’ve seen a lot over the years, but even I was genuinely shocked to read this unbelievably offensive diatribe being used to justify a refusal of asylum. pic.twitter.com/R1wA1HMNwH

— Nathan Stevens (@nathestevens) March 19, 2019

what office environment/'institutional culture' or w/e leads to someone writing this

"I've looked into this so-called 'Bible' and frankly it disgusts me"

that letter from May reeks of the flopsweat of someone explaining their excuse in too much detail. i don't need to know which part of your car malfunctioned, i just want to know when you'll be in the office!

wtf at that letter

yes sorry, I'm being confusing by talking about two difft letters; they are both terrible

wtf at both letters, the above and may's 'dear donald' one. "reeks of flopsweat" otm.

I'm assuming 30 June is an opening gambit and there's no way there'll offer such a short extension without a coherent plan.

"dear teacher, today my alarm didn't go off because my brother was a buttface and last night when i was getting (continues)"

EU27 will now ask a panicked UK about whether Big Kahuna Burgers are from that Hawaiian burger joint.

— David Allen Green (@davidallengreen) March 20, 2019

EU to insist short article 50 extension must end by 23 May, not 30 June as May wants, leak suggests

This is from Reuters. It is the report that Catherine West was referring to a few minutes ago. (See 12.37pm.)

The European commission opposes extending British membership of the European Union to June 30 as British prime minister Theresa May proposed on Wednesday, according to an EU document seen by Reuters.

In a note on the Brexit process reviewed by the commission at its weekly meeting on Wednesday, officials wrote that leaders meeting May at a summit on Thursday faced a “binary” choice of a short delay of Brexit from March 29 to before May 23 or a long delay to at least the end of this year, with Britain obliged to hold an election on May 23 for European parliament lawmakers.

“Any extension offered to the United Kingdom should either last until 23 May 2019 or should be significantly longer and require European elections,” the document said. “This is the only way of protecting the functioning of the EU institutions and their ability to take decisions.”

EU states which were due to receive additional legislative seats after Brexit would need to know by mid- to late April if they would be denied those seats because Britain was staying.

The note also said that in any extended membership, Britain should, “in a spirit of loyal cooperation”, commit to “constructive abstention” on key issues, such as the EU’s long-term budget and filling top EU posts after the May election.

lol we’re all gonna die

Remoaners now be hatin' on the EU.

Think it's p reasonable to not want the extension to go beyond the election. Particularly since no-one knows what May wants to actually use the extension for.

23rd of may is more than enough time for another 4 or 5 meaningful votes. bercow permitting.

(and not john virgo as the bbc live captions would have it)

Yes they’re right. She is clearly trying to use the post-election abyss to create a new cliff edge and they’re not having it

presume labour’s stance on a short extension is calibrated to keep pressure on May to force her out

Yes, and they want her to own any long extension

in any extended membership, Britain should, “in a spirit of loyal cooperation”, commit to “constructive abstention” on key issues, such as the EU’s long-term budget and filling top EU posts after the May election.

Kipper MEPs all about the spirit of loyal cooperation iirc

on the other hand they are quite into not turning up, but perhaps not if they have new orders from B*nn*n's pan-European far-right collective

someone wake me up if anyone devises a way to make a Tory govt do something in the interests of the country and not just in the interests of having a Tory govt next week/next year/forever

you’re gonna be asleep for a long time, best cancel any plans for the next hundred years or so

luckily I have been avoiding making all plans after next Friday

people try to make me commit to things in April and it's like, hmm, well, I guess if we are not foraging for rats in a post-apocalyptic wasteland we could pencil that work meeting in, maybe

(Narrator's voice): They were foraging for rats in a post-apocalyptic wasteland

sometimes in a game of chess your opponent can enter into a losing position about 50 moves out.

in those scenarios they don’t always resign but can instead play on in the hope that you will blunder the position and a draw/win might inadvertently emerge out of the murk.

I assume that is what may is doing here - unfortunately she is up against a very capable opposition who have played the position v accurately throughout

thus ends v laboured analogy

luckily I have been avoiding making all plans after next Friday

Shit. As things stand we're leaving the EU *next week*. For some reason that only just hit home.

I assume that is what may is doing here - unfortunately she is up against a very capable opposition who have played the position v accurately throughout

This works except that the house they are playing in has been on fire the whole they've been playing, and then burns down and they all die.

There are reports from French outlets that Macron will oppose any extension but idk how credible they are.