PMs change and lol we're all gonna die (but brexit will never end)

I'm fine with anything that dumps a tonne of money into transport infrastructure, but that kind of investment makes much more sense without shareholders to pay

Sorry for obvious point

Hold your breath for my riveting observations about how low investment shrinks economies and other Keynes 101 favourites

Sat on a clunky pacer train with a leaking septic tank, sputtering along between Morley and Batley really feeds one's visionary neo-vorticist inclinations. Nah.... Fuck ya HS2!

It's not like hs2 qualifies as a vanity project like a bridge nobody can use or a sixth airport for London.

Also, the UK needs more and better trail links. I realise this needs a much more nuanced cost benefit analysis but has anybody every been on the M25

Where it passes through the Tory shires I'd advocate breaking the budget to route it as to piss off as many rich nimbys as possible.

Add slurry spreaders as a sweetener for the farmers!

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.independent.ie/business/brexit/phil-hogan-launches-scathing-attack-on-boris-johnson-unelected-pm-gambling-with-the-peace-process-38422925.html

Irish politicians have been so polite for so long about England that these headlines feel weird. It was only a couple of years ago that dim aunties were feeling smug about how civilized everyone was about the queen coming.

Unfortunately there's no attack on Johnson re: Ireland that'll have any impact on his base, quite the opposite

Sure, but it really takes a lot to get the hackles of the Irish middle classes up about this nowadays, there has been a real effort to *put all that behind us,* so the recent radicalisation of fine gaelers has been some doing.

Like this is mobilising a real shift in sentiment.

xxp ikr? And under a blueshirt government too. It’s a long time since Leo talking about Love Actually in No 10.

"However, in the event of a no deal Brexit, the UK government’s only Churchilian legacy will be –‘never have so few done so much damage to so many’."

British tories just... aren't aware that fine gael, and their supporters, even exist. All Irish governments might just as well be sinn fein to them.

ikr? And under a blueshirt government too. It’s a long time since Leo talking about Love Actually in No 10.

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yeah, i mean idk if the lads know about how much fg love them but its important context historically

remember how giggly homer j bruton got about meeting the queen or am i jumbling memories together

xp its delicious context, on a local level. leo couldnt be much more

blairite, or does it map? soft tory? i dunno does it map.

anyway. FG <3 the brits. FF/SF would already have carried out black flag attacks imo

xp ikr, I’d enjoy the notion of the West Brits pandering to the SF vote but like...

Can’t say I remember the Bruton thing deems, bit before my time! Garret Fitzgerald wrote this atrocity of a letter to Thatcher back in the day

He went on to make to points on a purely personal note. “It is not for me to comment on the domestic politics of Britain, but I think I am entitled to say that for Ireland’s sake I hope you are returned to power.

“The other is that I very much hope our paths will cross again. The relationship which began when we stepped on board that motor launch in Cesme 12 years ago – and when you got soaked because of my Irish optimism about the behaviour of the Turkish sea! – has I believe been extraordinarily fruitful for both our countries, and our encounters have always been stimulating – whether calm, as they usually were, or heated, as they sometimes became. With all good wishes for the future.”

xp Leo’s auld fella was a Labour voter when he lived in the UK and was more upset about Leo being in young FG than being gay or wanting to skip transition year. Definitely Tory.

Fg are lib dems

Sindo readers who run boutique hotels that specialise in weddings

AU: 100 years after Brexit, where nearly everyone is Tories but the descendants of the ones that voted for the WA remain implacably opposed to the descendants those that voted against.

"entrepreneurs" that moved home to head the European operations of the multinational they worked for in the States

FG but taller?

*FF

Literally the only thing fg have going for them is not being FF

Fg are lib dems

TS: the big fella vs the long fella

They are lib Dems because they all look like Paul and Nicola from fair city

its an important balancing mechanism

imagine there was a makeweight alternative to the tories that ppl could actually vote for like

before my time

u did not just

in re tory/libdem/blue labour blairites i dunno FG is a broad church imo

like what the fuck are FF if mapped

chancer lab, chancer tory? would they only thrive outside london?

FF are provincial Tories

Heartlands-ey

It's all in Felix Holt the radical: Aul wans polishing ugly silverware pictureframes and narrowing their eyes. Prick farmers.

I should write a guardian editorial.

Can you be provincial and Hearlands-ey?

agreed, you should!

provincial tory hmmm

again its v difficult to map

youd have to imagine scotland a hunnert years after scoxit and think about what lab, snp, tories would all be at

Garrett Fitzgerald=paddy ashdown and other meaningless spitballs

Allimsaying is I read a Marian Keyes book recently where she’d renamed FG and FF for foreigners as, respectively, the Christian Progressives and the National Party of Ireland, which I felt was fairly accurate in terms of broad view politics.

Imagine FG with Charlie Kennedy as leader. You can’t.

Weirdly I feel like the PDs (gays good, crime and poors bad) would clean up in both UK & Ireland today.

Don't forget they hated refugees!

(speaks a functional foreigner) wouldn't FG be in danger of getting their head turned on social liberal issues now they see the cover Leo gives them?

Please write the editorial with the headline “To ye they’re all a bunch of Fenians, but to me they’re distinct. Why you should try to understand civil war politics in Ireland”

xp I mean Leo opposed abortion until the repeal campaign pressured him (and he a doctor!)

Don't forget they hated refugees!

Michael McDowell (was that his name?) Was a fn nasty piece of work.

David Attenborough blasts ‘silly squabbles about Brexit’ saying UK is ‘fed up’ with EU

#notmyprimeminister

David Attenborough is a divisive figure!

splitting the atten