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

yeah I think the women Clark's wife was referring to was from an upper middle class South African family and her husband was a top solicitor - but still below stairs to the landed gentry.

this is just sketchy memories from some tabloid report 20 odd years ago, so the general jist of it ftr

Clark wasn't the landed gentry, his ancestors were weavers from Paisley one of whom invented the cotton spool and thereafter made a fortune from having 12 year olds working 16 hours a day in his mills.

The town hall in Paisley is named after one of his horrible bastard family.

I should have known that, to my shame (it came with some book club bundle) for a few years I had an edition of the Alan Clark Dairies in my bathroom pile of on the crapper reading, he was an absolute bell end. My favourite passage was where he nearly drowned in the Falkland Islands, although I think that was 90% self-dramatising bullshit.

He was just milking it by that point..

not so great beast Crowley gone

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/sep/30/veteran-boris-johnson-aide-quits-as-downing-street-adviser

Crowley was research director and then political director of Johnson’s London mayoral election campaigns in 2008 and 2012. He wrote Victory in London about Johnson’s political rise, which at one point describes how at “particularly stressful moments” the future prime minister would disappear and hide behind a giant coffin in a prop store.

40* new** hospitals + £220m for buses + broadband... is the conservative party's "compelling new vision" calibrated to help them pass the "lift test" according to some talking head on newsnight

def agree the country wants brexit done - I want to be done w/brexit. would rather drink bleach than vote conservative but

We’ve been doing Brexit for 40 years will be doing Brexit long after we’re all dead.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EFvv7roXoAERsTI?format=jpg&name=small

Big fan of the alarmed eye and the way NI is just freefloating

Also the Cornwall-munching carp, or is it a shark?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJRW5z0XHt0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=03heSW9WXak

so no serious proposals on border in the latest timewasting effort then

more time-wasting bollox ("custom clearance zones") being reported as if it is somehow different to previous versions of the same by bbChq

But by personal magnetism, this pile of shite sculpted into the monument from Close Encounters will persuade the EU to refuse to offer an extension?

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/politics/brexit-news-boris-johnson-asking-eu-to-block-delay-as-new-plans-to-be-tabled-this-week-a4250526.html

lol it’s just making the border like three times the width & is a load of shit

It’s a joke proposal to be floated as a “we tried” for when they impose a sea border and throw the DUP under the proverbial

tbf it's not like the DUP make any difference to his minority at this point

i have a bad feeling about no deal tho. the EU can't unilaterally enforce an extension.

That’s what makes me think he’ll go for the sea border. But yeah, who the fuck knows? EU isn’t going to do that anyway cos all the fash will be like EUROPE IS FORCING US TO STAY WAAAH

As Grievesy said, it's just moving the border ten miles and having a no man's land in between it and the actual border.

if only there was some precedent for Northern Ireland being within the UK but having separate rules

It has to be rules that work in favour of Unionists or else it's the work of the Antichrist.

Not even all unionists - just the extremists.

hilariously soft ball BJ interview on today

Robinson practising his back massage techniques again

only thing in that was the denial of the leak overnight

idk how we can rly speculate about any intent other than hard brexit at this stage tbh

have their been any polls about the percentage of people who "just want Brexit to be done" because i can't find any of those but then i can't find a solid majority for anything so i suspect "most people" might be a slight rhetorical innaccuracy

I am pretty sure those people only exist in the ventriloquism of vox pops.

as an aside in Lord Ashcroft's latest poll 64% of LibDem voters would prefer a Corbyn government to a NDB.

100% of Jo Swinson disagrees.

not a significant figure

Here's a map showing what a 10 mile buffer zone along *both* sides of the border would look like.

There are over 625,000 people living in the zone. pic.twitter.com/tCsmNwIsEw

— Richard Cantwell (@ManAboutCouch) October 1, 2019

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although it can't counterbalance the long article abt the war in yemen that would leave an uninformed reader with the impression that britian is not involved, there's a nice piece in today's guardian by chantal mouffe abt populism, centrism and brexit

i regret to inform you that katie hopkins is being horny on main

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EFvPQl4UYAAwCyz?format=jpg&name=medium

if this isn't ample proof that she needs to be permanently deplatformed once and for all i dunno what is

I was wondering what a "buffer zone" 10 miles either side of the border was going to do to that bit of Donegal that's less than 10 miles wide, and, welp, there it is all painted red on that map. Can the UK really make Ireland put up infrastructure on their side though?

xp Toby Young has said something like - " back in the good old days you'd be offended if Boris didn't squeeze your thigh". Why do these fuckwits lurve him so much?

cause he's so fuckin' hot

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/ce/21/3f/ce213f1a87fd50200c1d70395a9cd536.jpg

it's strange how such a deformed and useless specimen as TY would rep for bringing back the eugenics movement without being concerned it might want to take his ugly arse out of the gene pool

Possibly a bit niche when so many other bizarre statements are emanating from the Tory conference, but this is annoying me today - presumably from the mind of Dominic Cummings, Brain Genius and Science Enthusiast (NB not an actual scientist) (nor am I)

.@Conservatives have ‘announced plans to design, develop and build…a commercially viable fusion power plant by 2040.’ For, er, <checks notes> £200 million! Funding for fusion is good news, but this is so ridiculous as to be a simple lie. https://t.co/tvJ1wqWAZY

— Andrew Steele (@statto) September 30, 2019

(waves from 8 miles away from the Joint European Torus, the great still-not-quite-realised hope of 80s/90s science and still going, funding & staffing now in question what with Theresa May deciding that Brexit meant Brexit meant pulling out of Euratom for no reason whatsoever, funding also very much in the "a lot more than that number there" category)

harnessing fusion power is probably an easier problem to solve than the irish border tbh

"There will be an Englishman on the moon by 2040, and that is a promise!" *cheers*

£200 m might be enough tho, especially if you use a 2 dimensional architect for the structure!