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

Speaking of which, I hear our new PM is up in Scotland today pretending to care about the Union, I imagine they will keep as far away from Scottish people as possible - Scottish Tories don't count.

he's arriving with more unfunded bribes no doubt and all he'll get back is hopefully an egg landing on his ugly-arsed head.

UK and Scots is bad, it's true.

I am still surprised when I read serious people saying 'Ireland was once part of Britain', rather than part of the Union or the UK.

I recently read that United Kingdom was barely used in newspapers/language/government documents until the 60's I think it was. Perhaps the dying global empire concentrated minds on matters closer to home.

The Japanese might have brought vile cartoon porn to the world and committed many colonial atrocities. But at least they were never a demented enough island nation to declare themselves Great Japan.

Erm, test they did by putting a whacking great 大 in front of 日本 after the Meiji restoration

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empire_of_Japan

hah! vmic then.

Also if you want an island nation to give the uk a run for its money in the corrupt nationalist wackjobs in government stakes, japan is definitely the place to start looking.

Warning from history: monoculturalism is the first step on the road to Manga degeneracy!

I imagine they will keep as far away from Scottish people as possible - Scottish Tories don't count.

it's true, scottish tories aren't people

c'mon woke Ruth hasn't got a bad bone in her body!

i refer the honourable gentleman to my previous statement on the matter

she is an invertebrate though, so it figures.

i think there was a point where some libs were suggesting she is quite "progressive" for a tory. like a disease my a inner voice used to think.

Lesbian = Progressive. Like that Britain First woman Morrissey is so enamoured of. Apologies for using the m-word

lol we're all gonna die

Raab claimed that negotiating a good trade deal with the EU could be “much easier” after a no deal Brexit. He made the point after the interview, Mishal Husain, put it to him that, if the UK were to leave the EU with no deal, problems like the backstop, and what to do about the Irish border, would re-emerge as soon as the UK tried to strike a deal with the EU for a long-term trading relationship. Raab replied:

"Of course, over the long term, whether we get a deal before the end of October or whether that’s not possible because the EU sticks very stubbornly to its line, we will want to put the relationship on a firmer footing. It will take both sides to show the pragmatism, the flexibility to make that happen. But I think it will be much easier, for example, to deal with the backstop issue in the context of a free trade agreement than it would under the current arrangements, which are so undemocratic. So actually although there will be risks on all sides of this [from a no deal Brexit], I think the prospects of reverting and getting a good deal for the UK will be easier after we leave, if that’s the case, and the reason being is we will do so as an independent third country and we will be less subject to, effectively, the demands and unilateral dictates of the EU as we are now."

¯\_(ツ)_/¯ pic.twitter.com/X0nRqagIZP

— Jonathan Fisher (@fishplums) July 28, 2019

I can't wait to hear Raab's shitty lies when almost all the manufacturing industry has to close their doors because of tariffs + import/export logistics. gonna pull up a deckchair for this show, well before I burn it to keep warm!

having the most right wing cabinet in decades is giving me a sense of sinking dread. but I can't imagine what it is like facing deportation.

whether that’s not possible because the EU sticks very stubbornly to its line,

really hate this charmless shitbag

I think the prospects of reverting and getting a good deal for the UK will be easier after we leave, if that’s the case, and the reason being is we will do so as an independent third country and we will be less subject to, effectively, the demands and unilateral dictates of the EU as we are now.

i think you’re being v negative and not turbocharged enough gyac. why just look at the effect the prospect of our independence is having already:

Since summer of 2016 investment in the UK has lagged that of the major economies of the eurozone.https://t.co/wcBLrpq4zx pic.twitter.com/VPGETjPBiD

— Adam Tooze (@adam_tooze) July 28, 2019

They're all just waiting until we are a free people again and then they'll come running.

... I'm sure I heard this exact argument made at the weekend.

So are charges being bought against Mark Field or not?

Cabinet Office inquiry into Mark Field's conduct has been closed after he was sacked in the reshuffle. No 10 source: 'The current PM considers this issue was a matter for the previous PM.' https://t.co/e4tEA4iYp9

— Jason Groves (@JasonGroves1) July 29, 2019

should be noted on that investment chart that it’s in the context of a bargain basement pound. can’t even pay people to invest.

investment in the uk can't lag behind that of the major economies of the eurozone if we're not in the eurozone anymore

tapping_temple_wisely.gif except it's mark's gold top hat i'm tapping

I had a big lol the other day when reading some reviews on Slant and was getting spammed with adverts for top-hats.

He thinks current employment law offers "excessive protections" to workers. "People who are coasting – it should be easier to let them go, to give the unemployed a chance. It is a delicate balancing act, but it should be decided in favour of the latter."

quote from when Britannia Unchained came out which opens with "The talented and hard-working have nothing to fear," says Dominic Raab.

MORE 👏 PRECARIOUS 👏 JOBS 👏

No deal is not an end point and will preoccupy government for years.

Our new @instituteforgov paper looks at what needs to happen before October 31 and what will follow if the UK leaves without a deal. pic.twitter.com/naD6ihirCI

— Joe Owen (@jl_owen) July 29, 2019

This is good.

in unrelated news

More than 4 million people in the UK are trapped in deep poverty, meaning their income is at least 50% below the official breadline, locking them into a weekly struggle to afford the most basic living essentials, an independent study has shown

thisisfine.jpg

these people are clearly just feckless wreckers, deliberately putting themselves into poverty to undermine Universal Credit.

my favourite part of the thread matt posted

And this new £100m ad campaign will be vital. Because as it stands there's a very real risk that the UK will be LESS ready in October than it was in March. pic.twitter.com/0DRgLERciy

— Joe Owen (@jl_owen) July 29, 2019

lwagd

No-deal Brexit: Government planning for direct rule in Northern Ireland, foreign secretary admits.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/brexit-no-deal-northern-ireland-direct-rule-dominic-raab-boris-johnson-a9024801.html

I think sensible businesses will be doing what they can to prepare but there is still so much uncertainty about what a no-deal scenario means, even if it looks odds on, there's only so much they can do. There are likely to be a lot of contingency plans being drawn up for moving corporate registrations to Ireland or the Netherlands, though.

idk where the goalposts shift to next. We have had 'we will get a better deal before leaving with enough brinksmanship', we're now on 'we will get a better deal after we have crashed out without one'.

"no deal is better than a bad deal, except for the bad deal we will be left with after no deal"

did we miss this over the weekend:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-49135045

US President Donald Trump has said talks about a "very substantial" trade deal with the UK are under way.

He said a bilateral post-Brexit deal could lead to a "three to four, five times" increase in current trade.

(that's the nhs buggered then...)

Boris Johnson’s reception at Bute House pic.twitter.com/Rhy0J4kMMF

— Chris Green (@cghgreen) July 29, 2019

you, quite literally, love to see it

ha! not many safe spaces for him outside the Shires!

come to glasgow u coward

My favourite thing is watching Dominic Raab interviews with the sound off and seeing the way his brain is inwardly screaming "DON'T PANIC DON'T PANIC OH MY GOD I'M PANICKING BUT IT'S FINE THEY ABSOLUTELY CAN'T TELL" https://t.co/f5dXpVMNU5

— Anita Singh (@anitathetweeter) July 29, 2019

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WATCH: The new Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab has told me the the "balance has shifted" towards no deal, but says "there's a deal to be done if the EU shows the flexibility we've shown."

I asked him what flexibility the UK government has shown: pic.twitter.com/HZy3IYKH9s

— Daniel Hewitt (@DanielHewittITV) July 29, 2019

Apologies for any inadvertent humanising of Raab, who the clip makes fairly clear is both dangerous and a complete cunt.

Boris Johnson has just left Bute House through the back door

— Nick Eardley (@nickeardleybbc) July 29, 2019

the bold, decisive leadership these sceptred isles deserve

Churchillian.

dunkirk spirit

(retreating)

Churchillian, in that he also slinked out of a Scottish city.

it's so heartening to see the *baying hate mobs* that restricted May to very lame and pointless campaigning to small audiences of Tory activists outside the Shires are still very much there to cause Boris the same problems when there is an election.