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

i couldn't even work out how to google it earlier tbh

Yeah, most search terms lead to bad places - had to dig around upthread

Politic's is back baby. It's good again. Awoouu (wolf Howl). pic.twitter.com/ciFgwWDmmL

— Trevor Bastard NVQ Level 2, CEO Grannymugger Media (@GRANNYMUGGER) March 17, 2019

Would have appreciated a warning.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Dmjwo5MWwAEWkeG.jpg

I think it is supposed to be Michelle Dorrell. Which is fucked up if correct because she is a citizen not a celeb.

That is fucked up.
xp
sorry if that was a NSFW warning request (rather than my-eyes-my-eyes) - I read with images off + didn't think about it. mods delete if necessary obvs.

well I'm guilty as well, but it was already all over my twitter feed that day.

some background for darragh on "cultural marxism" from noted ultra-leftist website "business insider":

https://www.businessinsider.com/conservative-mp-suella-braverman-far-right-anti-semitic-conspiracy-theory-cultural-marxism-2019-3

Cherie Blair claims 'most African women's first sexual experience is rape' https://t.co/1ABxSezmaa

— Maya Wolfe-Robinson (@mwolferobinson) March 26, 2019

xxp It's originally (IE first time on Twitter) from the comments on this - Grannymugger is a lovely bloke but not as far as I know known for his work in oils.

I like how @OwenJones84 is the proxy punching bag for liberal journalists who understand how bad the optics of bullying people of colour making the same points would look.

— Shafik Mandhai (@ShafikFM) March 17, 2019

wtf cherie, not cool imo

that moronic twat's comment about "british genius" is making me think of a funny bit in the latest really excellent D Edgerton book where he mentions that ICI, who were just short of being nationalised and very much backed by the British government as far as they could. Spunked away millions trying to make synthetic wool out of peanuts! i think they almost got there but it would start falling to pieces if it got wet. Oh yeah the ZX80 as well.

Apparently a lot of support coming for an amendment that makes revoke the default instead of No Deal if we get to exit day with nothing else approved.

wow something reasonable might happen?

MALTHOUSE IS BACK BABY

So this is the Malthouse amendment that I assume will be supported tomorrow by most Brexiters including DUP - but which ⁦@theresa_may⁩ will have to dismiss as a unicorn, since she has consistently refused to push it on EU27 pic.twitter.com/Pq3qf5alGC

— Robert Peston (@Peston) March 26, 2019

xp which amendment is that, stet?

Oh yeah the ZX80 as well.

Don't wobble the RAM pack! I loved my childhood ZX Spectrum but I did feel a bit embarrassed for the old "British genius" when I saw a display of calculators at the local science museum - some amazing super-high-precision Curta mechanical calculators from the 50s, right next to the 70s Sinclair which takes seconds to answer and the precision for anything complicated is usually about half the (limited) number of display digits...

(though yes, it was v v cheap for the time and I'm told still something of an achievement given the constraints)

Meanwhile, back in 2019, I see the Revoke A50 petition has an official reply from DExEU in rather hives-inducingly May-ish terms now ("biggest democratic mandate" etc etc). Not that I'm surprised they've said no, but I did think they might hedge their bets a little more and just say that parliament were still voting on the options available or something.

It's one of those on the list for tomorrow, has a lot of cross bench signatories too (inc Grieve and the Tory usuals) xp

Ah here is a copy

Here is the text of the cross-party proposition on Revocation versus No Deal that has the maximum prospect of being supported by Parliament. It has just 'gone in'. pic.twitter.com/B3WalY1IIW

— Jo Maugham QC (@JolyonMaugham) March 26, 2019

"Don't wobble the RAM pack!"

Bittersweet memories of early 80's Computer clubs :p The Sharp MZ-80 k was badass!

Ty, I thought it might be the Cherry amendment!

I never played our spectrum much - it was my dad’s - but have fond memories of Oh Mummy.

Brexiteer Andrew Percy is a signatory, in a significant boost to Common Market 2.0.

He told me: "I am an avid Leaver but I have signed it because I have run out of patience with the ERG." https://t.co/BvoWu2Be5v

— Anna Mikhailova (@AVMikhailova) March 26, 2019

what is with all this legislation being run off MS Word with the default font

would think ppl so fussed about English heritage would use Gill Sans ffs

Wasn’t Gill into some...controversial...things

"sapiosexual, lover of gin, avid leaver"

not talkin bout gill i hasten to add

Tom seemed to have jumped the gun in applying the Watson-Kyle amendment – but Labour’s not going to be supporting it in its current form and any mention of supporting May’s deal will be removed if we’re going to back the amendment, because our policy remains to defeat her disastrous deal by any means. During the whole time he was being put right, he didn’t say a word – and then he just got up and walked out.

Tom seems to have missed or misunderstood the policy. He doesn’t do detail.

good - wasn’t happy when I heard him saying (at the PV thing) labour would support may’s deal

some background for darragh on "cultural marxism" from noted ultra-leftist website "business insider":

https://www.businessinsider.com/conservative-mp-suella-braverman-far-right-anti-semitic-conspiracy-theory-cultural-marxism-2019-3

― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, 26 March 2019 17:48 (three hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

ty!

Wasn’t Gill into some...controversial...things

― gyac, Tuesday, March 26, 2019 4:50 PM (seventeen minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

"sapiosexual, lover of gin, avid leaver"

― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, March 26, 2019 4:52 PM (fifteen minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lmao

hahaha

also not that I don’t love silby posting itt ( I do!) but why would you want to follow this shitshow if you didn’t really have to? Or are you just here for the sweet sweet Corbyn titty art?

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/tom-watson-labour-court-case-racial-discrimination-harassment-bullying-a8836086.html

oof, nagl for the boy Watson there

well gyac I'm certainly not going to follow the domestic shitshow, and I already know how a bill becomes a law here

am trying to infer the UK's constitution from the available evidence

This thread would be a lot shorter if there was one

not worth the paper it's written on tbh

fair enough, a shitshow holiday is as good a reason as any.

Can anyone explain to us foreigners why the constitution remains unwritten? I’m aware this is probably a stupid question and something to do with the nature of the state.

dont rly need one when youre a monarchy, be grand

It’s more fun if you make it up as you go along.

Probably much of that is to do with Parliament being a long history of power being slowly and grudgingly trickled out to the UK's subjects rather than something created for the purpose of representing them

To be fair a lot of it is written down, just not all in one document with the word constitution written a the top. Something that definitely has pluses and minuses

it's all different fonts for one thing

Some is written on goat, some on calf.

constitutions are generally products of modern democratic states created by some rupture after the model of the US. britain is a kingdom, which has reformed bit by bit in good whig history style from rank despotism towards our current enlightened, liberal democratic, constitutional monarchy (ahem)

Tom Watson must have been pumping iron with some alt-right types, oh no sorry I forgot he was a complete twat when he was a fat fucker as well.

so you're saying sovereign authority is vested in whomever manages to keep her head screwed on while presuming to exercise it xp

did u just assume the UK's sovereignty 😯

you think not having a written constitution is bad and then you think about some fucking antonin scalia sophistry around a centuries old sentence and you're not so sure

some have greatness thrust opon 'em

Theresa Maylvolio, is there anything there