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

Surely the fault is with those who failed to close the door on the possibility of prorogation at time.

As I was slowly scrolling through this thread and saw the tip of Calzino's image post, I thought it was going to be this - which I'm sure could easily be adapted into a pro/anti brexit image:

https://www.music-bazaar.com/album-images/vol3/221/221203/1579170-big/CAN-cover.jpg

More like CAN'T...

Corbyn brought the anti-prorogue amendment before the summer recess and unfortunately the noes had it, to much haw-haw-haw from Tory benches. Rare outburst of yelling from Corbyn: ‘you won’t be laughing in September!’

at this difficult time id like to point you to the irish model of "two big parties that do p much the same thing, vote one out when you're sick of the other" with a dash of actual political theory based sprinkling coalition partners

I was reading you guys trying to define FF and FG the other day and I can still never remember what the difference is but my friend's got a cousin who's a big cheese in the one of them

FF was founded by the long fella and FG was founded by the big fella.

FG had a fascist movement in the 30s called the Blueshirts.

FG is Barry’s tea and FF is Lyons.

FF gets a mention in the national anthem and FG doesn’t.

finding the ceremonial functions of the queen or the constitutional conventions of the uk beyond the pale.

tbc I'm just a defenestration fetishist

RTÉ’s insistence on calling them “Fianna Foyle” is much more annoying than “Fine Gwael”.

FG west brit thatcherites, FF thatcherites who like a rebel song now and then

At some point I'll develop a mnemonic but this has been helpful ta

FF: show up at the hurling
FG: rather be at the rugby

Friend's cousin is FF, I googled them, makes sense tbh

FF famous for their big cheeses so that checks out.

https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/smith-let-them-eat-cheese-26697206.html

Lol

FG is Barry’s tea and FF is Lyons.

― gyac, Thursday, 29 August 2019 21:10 (fifty-three minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

fuck....otm

fg: house with the big door
ff: i can get you a house with a door, sign here

Hurrah I’m a flake!

tbf a far more generous epithet than fookin' clueless ignoramus!

at this difficult time id like to point you to the irish model of "two big parties that do p much the same thing, vote one out when you're sick of the other" with a dash of actual political theory based sprinkling coalition partners

Australia's centrist party v narrowly lost the election to a coalition of right-wing headbangers of various stripes the other month, and within weeks had decided that instead of denigrating the government's actions in press and parliament, they would begin three years of campaigning that the concentration camps for brown people aren't harsh enough, and we should stop immigrants from coming by planes as well, and that as there's still some of the Great Barrier Reef left alive we should sell more of the second-largest state to foreign mining companies

I mean I guess we'll see how it goes

tbf a far more generous epithet than fookin' clueless ignoramus!

― calzino, Thursday, August 29, 2019 7:25 PM (fifty-eight minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

aka everyone who ever said Maduro is a piece of shit.

I mean I guess we'll see how it goes

update: 18 months after campaigning for same-sex marriage & seeing the largest surge in young ppl registering to vote ever, have announced they are excited to vote for new government loopholes eradicating anti-discrimination legislation, as long as you love jesus while you are saying gay ppl should be set on fire, and don't speciifcally ask anyone else to set the gay ppl on fire

i imagine there will also be a lot of use cases that make our lives look like a kakatopian nightmare future.

lol wrong thread. sort of.

irl sad lol

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jfc, beyond parody

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Can't believe anyone's still paying any attention to that ineffectual washout.

I agree with the view, expressed by Fizzles I think, that while what the disgusting government is doing is terrible, many MPs are also to blame for failing to forestall such things much earlier.

In that interesting period (March?) when Parliament had a series of votes on options, and people like Soubry or whoever refused to vote for a Customs Union -- you may say: that's because if you're against Brexit, doing that doesn't go far enough: but then, MPs also refused to vote to cancel Brexit, and also refused to legislate against a No-Deal Brexit. People who had the chance to enact safeguards against the vaunted disaster refused to do it, mainly because they support the Con government or oppose JC.

Good MPs like JC have kept doing the right thing again and again (and most Labour MPs repeatedly voted the right way also), but dozens of MPs who claim to be against bad Brexit have repeatedly voted to enable it. And now they complain that they only have a few days to do the same thing when they would otherwise have taken weeks to do the same thing.

that Customs Union proposal only got tanked by 3 votes and Swinson and her pro-austerity pals voted against it, and then they have the gall to call into question JC's credentials on opposing NDB.

you say that is if "reality" has any bearing on the current political discourse

state of this snide shitbag

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Hey guys

Lord Doherty (republican lol) just ruled that Johnson can prorogue parliament.

lol we’re all gonna die

never in doubt tbh

TEMPORARILY! Because the suspense must last if the show is to go on.

These court actions don't really help.

these hand-wringing phonies need to VONC him or stfu

There are two more legal cases being brought. I wouldn't expect them to be successful but i also didn't expect Gina Miller to be successful.

But yes, it's VONC or stfu.

Relevant: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Frans_Vonck

it couldn't be more clear or straightforward, either. If you're a Tory who is sincerely opposed to No Deal, you will have to work with the opposition, before a general election and after an election if it's won by Johnson. If you're a Lib Dem and you want to prevent No Deal you will have to work with the leader of the opposition, before and after an election. the leader of the opposition is the leader of the Labour party. so either you work with them or you're not serious about what you claim to want.

all the rest of the fantasy GNU horseshit is an avoidance of the obvious and for what? the approval of a few C-listers on Twitter?

Yes, but party >>>>> country the rest of the known world.

damning stuff: https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandpolicy/prorogation-british-constitution/

Day of Reckoning is Mon/Tues next week where these ppl have to actually do something. Vonc won't happen, it's more like a legislative change of the sort discussed on Newsnight last night.

And then that could get Johnson into a people Vs parliament GE. Which is what I'd like.

Anyone remotely serious needs to put a fucking vonc on it.

I notice that the serious ex-Labour moderates are not included in this. Good old Islamophobe Nora agonising over hypotheticals when there’s a very real situation tells you yet again how seriously anyone should be taking these people.

For anyone labouring under the misapprehension that the hard left wouldn't prorogue parliament in a heartbeat if they were in charge and wanted to pursue an agenda that wouldn't pass in parliament, watch this. 👇 My God, @Conservatives, what a terrible precedent you have set. https://t.co/ictrlsTYmZ

— Nora Mulready (@NoraMulready) August 30, 2019

the old "go shit in your hat" junior soprano line couldn't be more appropriate