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

"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’."

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.

ikr? And under a blueshirt government too. It’s a long time since Leo talking about Love Actually in No 10.

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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

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.”

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.

Fg are lib dems

Sindo readers who run boutique hotels that specialise in weddings

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.

"entrepreneurs" that moved home to head the European operations of the multinational they worked for in the States

FG but taller?

*FF

Literally the only thing fg have going for them is not being FF

Fg are lib dems

TS: the big fella vs the long fella

They are lib Dems because they all look like Paul and Nicola from fair city

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

like what the fuck are FF if mapped

chancer lab, chancer tory? would they only thrive outside london?

FF are provincial Tories

Heartlands-ey

It's all in Felix Holt the radical: Aul wans polishing ugly silverware pictureframes and narrowing their eyes. Prick farmers.

I should write a guardian editorial.

Can you be provincial and Hearlands-ey?

agreed, you should!

provincial tory hmmm

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

Garrett Fitzgerald=paddy ashdown and other meaningless spitballs

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.

Don't forget they hated refugees!

(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?

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”

xp I mean Leo opposed abortion until the repeal campaign pressured him (and he a doctor!)

Don't forget they hated refugees!

Michael McDowell (was that his name?) Was a fn nasty piece of work.

David Attenborough blasts ‘silly squabbles about Brexit’ saying UK is ‘fed up’ with EU

#notmyprimeminister

David Attenborough is a divisive figure!

splitting the atten

Oh David :(

Still we don't hear much from that nice Mr Bellamy nowadays

I’m fed up with his musings about population so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

ugh i don't think i'd noticed he was one of them

Richard was in Jurassic Park and The Great Escape, clearly the better one.

did his bit for population reduction in both iirc

https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/41Aeme94v5L._SX376_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg

xp irl lol, and in Brighton Rock as well

https://pictures.abebooks.com/isbn/9780091341411-uk.jpg

he gets a bit prickly when you challenge his "unorthodox" opinions on climate change.

Daniel Hannan on Newsnight talking about Irish politicians being tempted to get one over on the 'old enemy'.

getting one over on the old enemy by not doing exactly what they want you to do to your own detriment based on them still partitioning your country a century later

the bbc love a good tobacco enema on a crumpled tory corpse, but they are sowing the seeds of their own destruction a lately.

Lol remember when they were trying to pass this guy off as some kind of intellect? Arse well and truly shown. We should be thankful CCHQ blocked his selection for a safe seat in 2017. A clown, a spoofer, a charlatan.

Also remember the time he bragged about going for a walk somewhere in England and the photo he posted was a stock photo of somewhere in Wales?

When you go for a walk in the English countryside but tweet stock photos of Wales from 1998-what that Daniel Hannan? pic.twitter.com/5VaF6FAj4g

— Party Paul 🌹 (@Real_Party_Paul) November 3, 2017

"pausing for an imaginary maggot addled pie (again). "