brexit negging when yr mandate is is trash: or further chronicles of a garbage-fire

The UK wants only high value people, if you can’t pony up for these documents then you can return to where you came from IE the dirt.

Some of us 20th century relics have never held a driving license and have no intention of getting one this late in the game. And bad luck if you don't do any international trips either. Feelings of bus wanker destitution amplified by my young niece barely into 6th form and already driving!

young people are driving less, you're ahead of the curve

Someone on R4 earlier seemed to posit the idea of Thatcher as an unintentional Green hero

Expecting more of this in years to come - Brexit good for the environment as poor people can no longer afford meat etc.

sounds more like they want to turn the countryside into a giant factory farm/slurry pit given the voting a couple of days ago on animal sentience and environmental legislation

our vegetable growing will be fucked once foreign labour dries up, it'll be huge tracts of penned cattle serviced by robots instead

this idea of the UK as an autarky that I heard Rees-Mogg talking about is nonsense. This country has barely been able to scrape past 60% food self-sufficiency since the 19th century*

*I might be a bit out there, but not far off.

dying is particularly good for the worms that keep our soil healthy

the case for a booming post-brexit soylent green industry is getting ever-stronger

When the brexiters are talking about a "green revolution" I think they are driving at a sort of reverse revolution back to Tsarist Russian serfdom, with added windfarms and solar energy.

soylent green revolution morelike amirite

cannibalism was all the rage back then, none of this processed shit!

ra-ra-rasputeeen
had no need for soylent green
just munched a serf and breakfast was done

you're right, cannibalism has a really low carbon footprint xp

let's build the cradle-to-plate culture the uk deserves

http://art-bin.com/art/omodest.html

hah! it seems more appropriate for these times than ever.

brexit: an immodest proposal

just realised i should have said cradle-to-table instead of cradle-to-plate upthread, mods pls fix thx

I dug the grave/plate business.

(Just saw Children of Men in the cinema again - Jesus I wish that film hadn't aged as well as it has)

i’ve been meaning to rescreen that for a while but I’ve been kinda reluctant to for fear that it would feel a little too close for comfort

cradle-to-plate is better imo *scores out item on hot-takes list*

thx to andrew and mark for their support during my crisis of confidence, i will now go back to posting only the first thing that comes into my head

the news that comes out each day defies belief. it's like they've talked to no one, arranged nothing.

that’s cuz they haven’t

have i got this right:

- soft Irish border only possible if N. Ireland remains in customs union

- maybot & DUP have explicitly ruled this out (possibly because no one has any idea how this would work)

- therefore hard border is a requirement of brexit

- but Ireland (and maybot!) has explicitly ruled this out

- ?????

- no profit as far as the eye can see

I would like to believe that, after Brexit, people in NI (you know who they are) finnaly wise up to the DUP - I wouldn't bet on it though.

isn't DUP also pro a soft border? or at least no change to current arrangements?

they have ruled out any separate arrangement to the rest of the UK. i.e. if UK's out of customs union then so are they

DUP are pro soft border but supported Brexit, they're morons.

Good for sticking a bowler hat on and marching up and down in front of Catholics but that's about it.

Though, tbf to them, they've had three hundred years of having their cake and eating it why should they think Brexit would be any different?

Did we ever get this sorted where 'this' was the source of huge donations to the DUP's Brexit campaign btw?

I have John Cleese in mind in Life Of Brian when Brian gets heckled having fallen out of the spaceship (I think) and onto one of the preaching spots.

"He's making it up as he goes along!"

David Davies' absurd dig at the French and Germans today made me think of the birds in the same sketch.

"He's having a go at the birds now"
"Oh I like the birds what's wrong with them?"
"There's nothing wrong with them. But what have the birds ever done for you?"

Sry if memory isn't 100% but it's quicker to type than to try and find a you tube link and fck the formatting up.

And it's Friday after work and I'm in the pub. Happy Friday all.

Boris Johnson has just said on @SkyNews that he hadn’t understood the Irish position until now.... #Brexitchaos https://t.co/EHahINWOD6

— JOHN NICOLSON (@MrJohnNicolson) November 17, 2017

all kicking off in scottish labour again I see...

what, kez dugdale heading aff tae the jungle?

Election to parliament is a privilege to serve and represent people. It’s not a shortcut to celebrity. https://t.co/SrcA6h1gxz

— Jenny Marra (@JennyMarra) November 17, 2017

and on the eve of the leadership results too, hmmm....

Yay, Leonard is the new leader of the SLab.

what's that sobbing, foot-stamping sound i can hear off in the distance?

yaaaaaasssssss

would hope that in the spirit of unity anybody who's dismayed by this vote gets the fuck out of the Labour party and never comes back

otm

I figured he'd win when my local party supported him - they opposed Corbyn.

Until now, Scottish Labour had backed centrist candidates, with its members voting in the UK party’s leadership election for Corbyn’s rival, Owen Smith, last year.

This is great, had not expected this tbh

57/43.

Any reaction from the SNP yet?

panic, i’d imagine

OTM - on top of their worst week for a long time.

Scottish Labour are still “holed below the waterline” according to an unimpressed Ruth. After the complete shitshow of the last few months (+years) can she really still count on those sectarian votes?