Hold your breath for my riveting observations about how low investment shrinks economies and other Keynes 101 favourites
― plax (ico), Wednesday, 21 August 2019 14:22 (four years ago) link
Sat on a clunky pacer train with a leaking septic tank, sputtering along between Morley and Batley really feeds one's visionary neo-vorticist inclinations. Nah.... Fuck ya HS2!
― calzino, Wednesday, 21 August 2019 14:27 (four years ago) link
It's not like hs2 qualifies as a vanity project like a bridge nobody can use or a sixth airport for London.
― plax (ico), Wednesday, 21 August 2019 14:29 (four years ago) link
Also, the UK needs more and better trail links. I realise this needs a much more nuanced cost benefit analysis but has anybody every been on the M25
― plax (ico), Wednesday, 21 August 2019 14:31 (four years ago) link
Where it passes through the Tory shires I'd advocate breaking the budget to route it as to piss off as many rich nimbys as possible.
― calzino, Wednesday, 21 August 2019 14:35 (four years ago) link
Add slurry spreaders as a sweetener for the farmers!
― Andrew Farrell, Wednesday, 21 August 2019 14:37 (four years ago) link
https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.independent.ie/business/brexit/phil-hogan-launches-scathing-attack-on-boris-johnson-unelected-pm-gambling-with-the-peace-process-38422925.html
― plax (ico), Wednesday, 21 August 2019 14:40 (four years ago) link
Irish politicians have been so polite for so long about England that these headlines feel weird. It was only a couple of years ago that dim aunties were feeling smug about how civilized everyone was about the queen coming.
― plax (ico), Wednesday, 21 August 2019 14:43 (four years ago) link
Unfortunately there's no attack on Johnson re: Ireland that'll have any impact on his base, quite the opposite
― what's wrong with being centre-y? (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 21 August 2019 14:44 (four years ago) link
Sure, but it really takes a lot to get the hackles of the Irish middle classes up about this nowadays, there has been a real effort to *put all that behind us,* so the recent radicalisation of fine gaelers has been some doing.
― plax (ico), Wednesday, 21 August 2019 14:47 (four years ago) link
Like this is mobilising a real shift in sentiment.
― plax (ico), Wednesday, 21 August 2019 14:48 (four years ago) link
xxp ikr? And under a blueshirt government too. It’s a long time since Leo talking about Love Actually in No 10.
― gyac, Wednesday, 21 August 2019 14:49 (four years ago) link
"However, in the event of a no deal Brexit, the UK government’s only Churchilian legacy will be –‘never have so few done so much damage to so many’."
― gyac, Wednesday, 21 August 2019 14:51 (four years ago) link
British tories just... aren't aware that fine gael, and their supporters, even exist. All Irish governments might just as well be sinn fein to them.
― Aston "Family Court" Barrett (Bananaman Begins), Wednesday, 21 August 2019 14:54 (four years ago) link
ikr? And under a blueshirt government too. It’s a long time since Leo talking about Love Actually in No 10.
― gyac, Wednesday, 21 August 2019 14:49 (four minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
yeah, i mean idk if the lads know about how much fg love them but its important context historically
remember how giggly homer j bruton got about meeting the queen or am i jumbling memories together
xp its delicious context, on a local level. leo couldnt be much more
blairite, or does it map? soft tory? i dunno does it map.
anyway. FG <3 the brits. FF/SF would already have carried out black flag attacks imo
― phil neville jacket (darraghmac), Wednesday, 21 August 2019 14:59 (four years ago) link
xp ikr, I’d enjoy the notion of the West Brits pandering to the SF vote but like...Can’t say I remember the Bruton thing deems, bit before my time! Garret Fitzgerald wrote this atrocity of a letter to Thatcher back in the day
He went on to make to points on a purely personal note. “It is not for me to comment on the domestic politics of Britain, but I think I am entitled to say that for Ireland’s sake I hope you are returned to power.“The other is that I very much hope our paths will cross again. The relationship which began when we stepped on board that motor launch in Cesme 12 years ago – and when you got soaked because of my Irish optimism about the behaviour of the Turkish sea! – has I believe been extraordinarily fruitful for both our countries, and our encounters have always been stimulating – whether calm, as they usually were, or heated, as they sometimes became. With all good wishes for the future.”
― gyac, Wednesday, 21 August 2019 15:03 (four years ago) link
xp Leo’s auld fella was a Labour voter when he lived in the UK and was more upset about Leo being in young FG than being gay or wanting to skip transition year. Definitely Tory.
― gyac, Wednesday, 21 August 2019 15:04 (four years ago) link
Fg are lib dems
― plax (ico), Wednesday, 21 August 2019 15:07 (four years ago) link
Sindo readers who run boutique hotels that specialise in weddings
― plax (ico), Wednesday, 21 August 2019 15:11 (four years ago) link
AU: 100 years after Brexit, where nearly everyone is Tories but the descendants of the ones that voted for the WA remain implacably opposed to the descendants those that voted against.
― Andrew Farrell, Wednesday, 21 August 2019 15:12 (four years ago) link
"entrepreneurs" that moved home to head the European operations of the multinational they worked for in the States
― plax (ico), Wednesday, 21 August 2019 15:12 (four years ago) link
FG but taller?
― Andrew Farrell, Wednesday, 21 August 2019 15:14 (four years ago) link
*FF
Literally the only thing fg have going for them is not being FF
― plax (ico), Wednesday, 21 August 2019 15:15 (four years ago) link
― gyac, Wednesday, 21 August 2019 15:16 (four years ago) link
TS: the big fella vs the long fella
They are lib Dems because they all look like Paul and Nicola from fair city
― plax (ico), Wednesday, 21 August 2019 15:17 (four years ago) link
its an important balancing mechanism
imagine there was a makeweight alternative to the tories that ppl could actually vote for like
before my time
u did not just
in re tory/libdem/blue labour blairites i dunno FG is a broad church imo
― phil neville jacket (darraghmac), Wednesday, 21 August 2019 15:18 (four years ago) link
like what the fuck are FF if mapped
chancer lab, chancer tory? would they only thrive outside london?
― phil neville jacket (darraghmac), Wednesday, 21 August 2019 15:19 (four years ago) link
FF are provincial Tories
― plax (ico), Wednesday, 21 August 2019 15:21 (four years ago) link
Heartlands-ey
It's all in Felix Holt the radical: Aul wans polishing ugly silverware pictureframes and narrowing their eyes. Prick farmers.
― plax (ico), Wednesday, 21 August 2019 15:23 (four years ago) link
I should write a guardian editorial.
― plax (ico), Wednesday, 21 August 2019 15:24 (four years ago) link
Can you be provincial and Hearlands-ey?
― Bidh boladh a' mhairbh de 'n láimh fhalaimh (dowd), Wednesday, 21 August 2019 15:26 (four years ago) link
agreed, you should!
provincial tory hmmm
― phil neville jacket (darraghmac), Wednesday, 21 August 2019 15:26 (four years ago) link
again its v difficult to map
youd have to imagine scotland a hunnert years after scoxit and think about what lab, snp, tories would all be at
― phil neville jacket (darraghmac), Wednesday, 21 August 2019 15:27 (four years ago) link
Garrett Fitzgerald=paddy ashdown and other meaningless spitballs
― plax (ico), Wednesday, 21 August 2019 15:29 (four years ago) link
Allimsaying is I read a Marian Keyes book recently where she’d renamed FG and FF for foreigners as, respectively, the Christian Progressives and the National Party of Ireland, which I felt was fairly accurate in terms of broad view politics.Imagine FG with Charlie Kennedy as leader. You can’t. Weirdly I feel like the PDs (gays good, crime and poors bad) would clean up in both UK & Ireland today.
― gyac, Wednesday, 21 August 2019 15:30 (four years ago) link
Don't forget they hated refugees!
― plax (ico), Wednesday, 21 August 2019 15:31 (four years ago) link
(speaks a functional foreigner) wouldn't FG be in danger of getting their head turned on social liberal issues now they see the cover Leo gives them?
― Andrew Farrell, Wednesday, 21 August 2019 15:31 (four years ago) link
Please write the editorial with the headline “To ye they’re all a bunch of Fenians, but to me they’re distinct. Why you should try to understand civil war politics in Ireland”
― gyac, Wednesday, 21 August 2019 15:31 (four years ago) link
xp I mean Leo opposed abortion until the repeal campaign pressured him (and he a doctor!)
― gyac, Wednesday, 21 August 2019 15:32 (four years ago) link
― gyac, Wednesday, 21 August 2019 15:34 (four years ago) link
Michael McDowell (was that his name?) Was a fn nasty piece of work.
― plax (ico), Wednesday, 21 August 2019 15:36 (four years ago) link
David Attenborough blasts ‘silly squabbles about Brexit’ saying UK is ‘fed up’ with EU
#notmyprimeminister
― conrad, Wednesday, 21 August 2019 15:44 (four years ago) link
David Attenborough is a divisive figure!
― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 21 August 2019 15:49 (four years ago) link
splitting the atten
― phil neville jacket (darraghmac), Wednesday, 21 August 2019 15:54 (four years ago) link
Oh David :(
Still we don't hear much from that nice Mr Bellamy nowadays
― what's wrong with being centre-y? (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 21 August 2019 15:59 (four years ago) link
I’m fed up with his musings about population so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
― gyac, Wednesday, 21 August 2019 16:00 (four years ago) link