Jolly good.
Unless it’s commit suicide and take several conservative MP’s with him, I don’t want to know.
3 Likes
Bit harsh, but fuck it
6 Likes
And what plausible pathway is there to that in the case of a hard Brexit?
More over we’ve just had a couple decades of peace and prosperity. Where what peace there was ran through the EU. And the prosperity largely passed NI by, with the ecconomoc development and support that did happen coming from the EU.
Meanwhile the IRA are already arming up in expectation of that hard border. And even with the border agreements sticking around, or reunification they won’t be too happy. They aren’t exactly supportive of the Republic and reunification is not what they’re fighting for, and neither is it really independence.
A major reason why NI has become so central to Brexit is that any format for leaving that doesn’t preserve the status quo there as much as possible creates a powder keg. A big honking catch 22 hanging over the subject. The harder the Brexit, the more potentially dangerous. But a move in nearly any direction off the baseline is gonna piss one side of the nasty off. And once one of these groups starts lashing out there will be reprisals and escalation.
From what I’m seeing the closer the UK moves to crash out. The better chance there is that reunification becomes the least worst option for the Irish. And the more potential there is that the Brexit issue becomes pressing enough to shift polls and voting on the subject.
I don’t think its meant to be respectful.
I certainly don’t mean it to be fond. Radio was playing his speech just know. He sounds like Jamie Oliver’s train obsessed uncle. Kinda knob won’t shut about “the war” despite being born well after.
The IRA has been arming up, a number of arrests and a scattering of small attacks since the Brexit vote. The fears of reignited violence aren’t unfounded. These groups never really went away, and they never really had a ton of popular support to begin with, so they aren’t exactly gonna stall out due to lack of cheers. And the prosperity in question in large part passed NI by.
I think you hit on a big reason why reunification makes more sense all of the sudden. Do you stay tied to a sinking ship whose big solution to your problems has been neglect? Over fears of violence that will happen or not either way? Or do you make the only upwards move you can?
Reunification is a proactive move, it takes the decision of EU membership, peace, and economic decisions out of the UK’s hands. That alone makes it more likely. But I also tend to think its gonna require Brexit to go off, and the resulting bad times for that to really happen.
3 Likes
2 Likes
That’s brilliant. The whole thing is hysterical, but my favorite sequence is
4pm: Make savage love to girlfriend, or other available party, from behind in Downing Street bedroom while calling her ‘Maggie’ and a ‘dirty iron bitch’
4.20pm: Wonder idly if it’s even worth carrying on now that’s over and done with. Do so out of boredom.
5pm: Downing Street press conference. Lie to public for first time as PM. Should feel special but doesn’t.
5 Likes
9 Likes
Other highlights:
Housing- The one whose family own a demolition business.
Business- his brother.
Scotland- Absentee landlord with links to the world’s worst tax haven
Northern Ireland- The one who published details of people who worked for the security services- then called the police on the newspaper that reported it.
Transport- The one who sold get-rich-quick schemes under an assumed name and got blacklisted from Google
Justice- The one that was found guilty of professional misconduct by the Bar Standards Board
I swear I’m not making any of this up…
11 Likes
It looks like the U.K. and the U.S. cabinets have much in common. There should be some scary synergy there.
4 Likes
But, and I’m probably thinking way off base here, a few of them might be pro-Brexit, so it’ll all work out fine.
By “fine” obviously I mean “a horrible shit show resulting in financial difficulties and hardship for millions at the very least.”
6 Likes
I’ve got a little list
they never will be missed
4 Likes
I have to admit that most of my “knowledge” about British politics and politicians comes from watching “Have I Got News For You”, so his cabinet looks like a freak show to me:
I hope my impression is a result of the left-leaning bias of the BBC…
1 Like
The BBC themselves admit to being right wing
So the evidence from the research is clear. The BBC tends to reproduce a Conservative, Eurosceptic, pro-business version of the world, not a left-wing, anti-business agenda.
The study referenced by the author, who was also an author of the study.
The BBC more right wing today than it was when that study was released six years ago
4 Likes
The irony was lost in the translation. I was merely quoting Ian Hislop, who himself was quoting proponents of a hard Brexit.
Sorry. I have come across too many people who genuinely believe that the bbc is either unbiased or has a left wing bias.
5 Likes
And today I get a letter from the DWP telling me to reapply for ESA.
Can’t these arseholes leave me and everyone else alone?
5 Likes
ETA because of no-more-than-two-replies-rule:
(Audio)
Not so much satire as accurate political commentary, if you ask me.
5 Likes
2 Likes
This topic was automatically closed after 5 days. New replies are no longer allowed.
