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

Fuck, no way are these heid-the-ba's building a bridge to Scotland. Orange Walks are bad enough with even more of these cunts showing up. It would help attendances at Ibrox Park though.

surely Giant's Causeway can be reconstructed as a land bridge

they could parade up and down it to their hearts' content

to Hearts' content

Fuck, no way are these heid-the-ba's building a bridge to Scotland. Orange Walks are bad enough with even more of these cunts showing up. It would help attendances at Ibrox Park though.

i live right round the corner from ibrox, no fuckin way do we need any more of these bams walking the streets of a saturday. it's hard enough getting to asda on match day as it is

Exactly and Ayshire has enough bigots to cover any shortfall.

How is it that an electorate which was already deeply hostile to Toryism has managed to go through almost a decade of Tory governments far worse than Thatcher and ended up more likely to vote for them? The answer to this lies in the most miserable paradox of all: it is precisely the defensive ramparts of devolution, designed to protect Scots from Tory governments, that have insulated Scotland’s new Tory voters from the experiences that have turned people against the government down south. While austerity undoubtedly exists up here too, Scots are simply not subjected to the same unyielding barrage of reaction as the English. The SNP, still Scotland’s most credible party, flatters and reassures a wide spectrum of Scottish society when it portrays the country as a safe haven from English Tory cruelty. It should be no surprise that people who associate this comfort with Scotland’s place in the union decide to vote Tory to protect that.

http://salvage.zone/online-exclusive/give-us-peace-on-the-scottish-conservatives/

you mean voting for isolation isolates us?

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-40376673

That salvage article is excellent and beautifully written.

http://cdn.c.photoshelter.com/img-get/I0000ORaT2F2b9TU/s/900/720/Scotland-Ireland-Maps-Cartoons-Punch-Magazine-George-Morrow-1913-10-01-299.jpg

I object.

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/236x/4e/b0/b7/4eb0b70306b244252fe410fb9a47d853.jpg https://vignette2.wikia.nocookie.net/avp/images/b/b1/Facehugger_Diagram.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20100323195903

well that could have worked better

What was the idea?

That pretty much is Dál Riata, albeit now populated by knuckle-dragging Billyboy bampots.

Leadsom's "broadcasters should be patriotic" - the please be nice to us remix of "crush all saboteurs".

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

"She was the worst minister we've ever had," another piece of human garbage told the FT, recalling her time as City minister from '14 to '15. "she found it difficult to understand issues or take decisions. She was monomaniacal, seeing the E.U. as the source of every problem."

the prime minister's due on at conservative party conference any minute now

bummer

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-40394074

this story in yesterday's Times about passwords belong to UK politicians, foreign office officials and senior police being passed around on hacking forums was not very encouraging

Despite official guidance advising the use of strong passwords to guard against hacking, the leak shows that many would have been easy to guess. One senior politician used the name of their home county followed by a number. Another used a relative’s surname.

Peter Jones, the Foreign Office’s chief operating officer, who has overall responsibility for IT, appears to have used a highly insecure password which occurred more than 3,700 times in one of the lists.

The lists contain more than 7,000 police passwords, including that of former Detective Chief Inspector Andy Redwood, who led the investigation into the disappearance of Madeleine McCann. The three most common passwords associated with police email addresses in one of the lists were “police”, “password” and “police1”.

come on, no-one would guess anyone in the police would use 'police'

I remember a story from yonks back where a hacker had been arrested, they brought him into the main office as he was clearly no physical threat etc, they had him sat on a seat and he looked around and on the notice board was a note that said "The password is 'handcuffs'"

plod in 'retrograde thinking' shocker

there's something hilariously stupid yet interesting about using the word "police" as a password. that sort of low level, stultified self-regard feels unique to the cops.

123abCID

also lol at tolkien of all ppl being the first to clown this tendency

to be fair i am entirely on anyone's side who uses a dumb password, a world that needs passwords at all is already stupid beyond imagining *waves hands around yelling "capitalist realism" at anything that moves*

theabsoluteboy1234

replies to this are great

Have this lot had a look at what they're actually supporting? Google 'Marxism'. #Glastonbury pic.twitter.com/2X30SviHME

— Nigel Farage (@Nigel_Farage) June 24, 2017

Peak Telegraph pic.twitter.com/VapmJYgSYv

— Anita Singh (@anitathetweeter) June 26, 2017

being an old asocial grouch I really am allergic to Glastonbury. But seeing Corbyn's presence there winding the fuck up all the worse people in this country is A+

Fun(?) counterfactual- would things be much different if Andrea Leadsom had stood against, and beaten, Theresa May in a ballot of tory members?

I think she would have turned up more often during the campaign, been more gaffe prone and got booed more often, but might have managed to put together a more palatable (to tory voters) hard brexit manifesto and avoided the dementia tax that doomed May.

I snuck a peek at a no doubt horrible person reading the Daily Mail the other day and Littlejohn's call for a Leave protest was illustrated thusly:

https://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2017/06/23/01/41A5EC7700000578-4631048-image-m-12_1498177532450.jpg

xp

would Leadsome have surrounded herself with the couple from Sightseers tho?

Ya I think Leadsom would have had a kind of dotty gin-soaked auntie vibe going on, which while obviously clueless and gaffe-prone, would have come over as less toxic to many than May's... well, whatever the fuck her vibe is.

Siri, create the most Brexit tableau imaginable pic.twitter.com/wBIQuQ253s

— Dawn Foster (@DawnHFoster) June 26, 2017

when people say "a £1 billion deal with the DUP" what does that mean? (srsly) not quite understanding this

Just that they are getting an extra Billion in funding innit? it was initially reported they were after 2 bn, but because of Barnett they will have to leave suitcases of money on benches or maybe launder it through a sandwich shop or something.

NI gets an extra billion pounds from the actual money tree. Maybe time to send Arlene to Brussels in place of Davis.

Say what you like about the DUP I'm pretty sure they know their way around a negotiating table, probably better than anyone in the Tory cabinet.

Rang rings round them I'm betting.

How long before someone suggests Arlene Foster as the next leader of the Conservative Party?

increased NI's budget by 10%, secured extension of the armed forces covenant to NI, and saved the pension triple lock & non-means tested winter fuel allowance. not bad, arlene

Yeah but when you are dealing with grasping desperadoes who are pleading for a coalition on their knees it isn't the toughest negotiating table you will ever see.

Devolving corporation tax and expanding enterprise zones as well.

It's already fairly attractive. The company i work for just put 300 jobs in Belfast and, aiui, the government is picking up half of the cost.

good to hear things are booming in Northern Ireland

lol

Prince William to be officially named King Billy V on accession to the throne.

Actual lol

you gotta think they could've bought every single Lib Dem MP for less than a billion in total