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

Might organise an online petition to boycott the Downton Abbey movie

i feel like there's gotta be some FBPE/CBE riff to be worked but i just can't be arsed tbh

― VONC louse-wits (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 28 August 2019 16:55 (three minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

CBFA

The quote-marks-for-emphasis is a "Your uncle texting" trademark that I've been surprised not to see before now.

he (or Scavino) does this a lot btw

I think what the US president is saying, is that Boris Johnson is exactly what he has been looking for, a compliant Prime Minister who will hand Britain's public services and protections over to US corporations in a free trade deal. https://t.co/kcg2jkYi0o

— Jeremy Corbyn (@jeremycorbyn) August 28, 2019

pic.twitter.com/NVRAx4CQ6g

— Alec Flood (@AlecFlood) August 28, 2019

Petitions are magical thinking.

The imperial flagship that is radio bbc 2 pushed away Radio Oceane here in Bretagne to bring us - an ilxor desperate to get away from it all during holiday, and herself blissfully unaware of ilx obv - the Big News. Brexit rules the waves ;_;

(gl uk)

Honestly if these two pensioners fought you’d put money on Corbs

Thousands chanting #StopTheCoup at emergency protest against #prorogation of Parliament pic.twitter.com/iIk1tZudYT

— Mark Lankester (@markrlankester) August 28, 2019

Corbyn: tai chi on the allotment
Trump: KFC in bed

Corbyn cycles and can climb rocks and has undoubtedly faced the blunt end of a police baton on protests. Trump is a big man but he’s out of shape.

Legit; even the shabbiest national school in Ireland will teach you about what the president does, the various parts of the EU, Northern Ireland and what your taxes etc are used for; I remain shocked at how many people here don’t know that NI is in the UK or that Ireland isn’t.

What does Norman Davies say in "The Isles"? The United Kingdom is one of the only countries in the world where the vast majority of the population have no idea how and why it exists and what it even is - something like that. Yes, I have personal experience of people, in England of course, of fairly intelligent people not knowing that Northern Ireland is a separate entity from the rest of Ireland and a part of the UK.

Look sorry I know low-hanging fruit but SO STUPID

Not yet but Hancock and Rudd are in v difficult positions.

— Emma Kennedy (@EmmaKennedy) August 28, 2019

emma kennedy has big mensch energy

also cycling back to trump vs corbyn: trump is the most fit president ever according to his doctor and corbyn is dying according to anonymous civil servants so i know who im backing

Trump would have to cheat with a horseshoe in his right glove in this horseshoe brawl

I should probably not have been shocked by this, but a friend today, as part of saying they didn't understand what was happening, mentioned that politics wasn't available as a subject at their school, even at a Modern Studies / Civics level.

Civics was only introduced in the early 00s iirc and is not really taught beyond the age of about 14.

Or ‘citizenship’, as I think it’s called.

hope we get this scene in a future season of The Crown

https://i.imgur.com/asAbNr7.png

JC going really big in drawing connections to trump since boris’ inauguration. trump must be so toxic w all demos across GBP

https://yougov.co.uk/topics/politics/explore/public_figure/Donald_Trump

https://yougov.co.uk/topics/politics/explore/public_figure/Donald_Trump(popup:related_entities/favorite/Donald_Trump) lol

i assume Tom Watson's a fan then

The Queen made an it's/its mistake, what a dummy

Nah, it would have been too big, too influential an interference in politics for a non elected official to make.

were not amused

Ah misread your sentence, I made a dyslexia mistake. Queen and I are dyslexia buds.

Some people say things like 'NI is part of Britain'.

I don't consider this statement correct (I think NI is part of Ireland and part of the UK) but perhaps Ulster Unionists who say 'NI is British' do?

At that level it could become quite conceptual. Maybe a place can have the quality of another place despite not being part of that place. Like - the Costa del Sol is British? Earl's Court is Australian?

Even a very senior academic known to me has written 'Ireland, in the early C20, was part of Britain'. Again, this seems to be a basic inaccuracy.

Beyond this, not knowing that the ROI is not in the UK is a different level.

A genuine ambiguity that I have still never truly seen cleared up is whether Scotland, Wales and NI, or for that matter England, are: 'countries', 'nations', or 'regions' of the UK. I think this is something that people continue to improvise and vary - which is possibly absurd.

You could say that none of them is a 'state' (that only the UK is) but even then, there is arguably a Scottish state?

im going from possibly flawed memory here, isnt britain the island and the uk the inclusive territory

Correct

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (I read that off a passport)

yeah it's a fuck off to the Irish of NI, but I don't United Kingdom entered common usage till the 60's (I think that was what D Edgerton said in his recent book) but at the olympics it was all Team GB.

Foreigners use 'the UK' more often than Brits do, or so it seems to me.

Well it’s not like stuff we call ‘Britain’ or ‘UK’ are going to exist much longer so why bother.

Then again, we also tend to lazily refer to the whole thing as 'England', which I imagine can be quite infuriating (see also: Holland).

i like "UK", it's short, more countries shd try this

U&K

u (o)k?

I object to the ‘K’ and the ‘U’ is highly debatable.

News at 10 is going pretty hard on this. First 3 reax: Hammond, Corbyn, Sturgeon. Later a quite shifty close-up on Gove.

not sure this is strictly relevant to the immediate editorial position of the News at Ten but the BBC have a fair bit to fear from a Johnson led government. noises already are that he would put public pressure on them to avoid charging over 75s (never mind that this was a complete stitch-up by the government/Osborne, to which the BBC should never have agreed.)

While they’re already looking at moderate reductions this would blow a massive hole in their budget.

The DG has already made the decision. It will be means-tested. Balls's in govt's court now on whether to top that up.

Christ the people they find on these shows. "There's a little core of politicians in Parliament who are throwing their rattles out of the pram and trying to stop what WE voted for. Boris is absolutely right - let him get on with it!"

There does seem to be an endless supply of these people.

I cannot help imagining every cunt who voted for this shit and still goes on about "get on with it" having their faces rubbed in it, I know this is probably not a reasonable or mature position, but at this point, yup.

yeah it's a fuck off to the Irish of NI

xp they’re all on twitter today, going on about Remainer tears. It’s purely spite driven among some of them now. To nick a horrible phrase off some American journalist: “they’d eat shit so the others have to smell it on their breath”.

So genuine question, are Parliament going to assert their much-vaunted supremacy and decline to be prorogued or are they going to say "oh well, we're supreme except we can be deconstituted at will by the hereditary monarch" and go home

lol govt still not providing anyone for Newsnight. no credibility! (for Newsnight)

xp suspect they’ll fiddle us all off the cliff (none of the Tory rebels will do so). But I love to be proved wrong!

xp I see Kirsty Wark is still saving the majority of her contempt for when she says the words "Jeremy Corbyn" though

#AbolishTheMonarchy is no.1 Trending on UK Twitter now lol

lads if ye play yere cards right ye could get out of the EU under corbyn and be rid of boris and liz in time for all souls