The Brexit Thread

[Lang Spoon]

Well that’s why they will walk away with no deal. No matter the cost. Pride is more important than food supply.

[Tubby Isaacs]

Stupid Brexiteers. They Don't seem to understand that all their important decisions are made by Dublin now.

Please continue to make them, preferably backed up by a referendum that kicks our arses out the door. Then hold another referendum and stop us starving ourselves to death.

I want to see people who bang on about the EU "making people vote till they get the right answer" look very silly.

[Tubby Isaacs]

This is great. Tories wanting the whip withdrawn from Michael Hestletine for being nice about Corbyn and nasty about Brexit.

The Bow Group, a rightwing Conservative pressure group whose patrons include Norman Lamont and John Redwood, said: “Heseltine has made clear it is his aim to prevent Brexit at all costs, including the sabotage of his own party and nation, the Conservative party must therefore withdraw the whip and end the inevitable continuation of his sniping from inside the tent.”

What's "the nation" got to do with it?

[E10 Rifle]

Tories have always seen their interests as indivisible from "the national interest", whatever the fuck the latter is.

[Tubby Isaacs]

Happy coincidence, isn't it?

There are exceptions to their role though, like Enoch Powell suddenly supporting Labour 5 days before the Feb 1974 election. That's OK. Plus the "Maastricht Rebels".

[Tubby Isaacs]

But Tory MEPs who tried to give the government a nudge by voting to say it wasn't making enough progress on negotiations, that's bad and they lose the whip.

And this vote was a couple of months ago, when the negotiations were properly going nowhere. The flurry of activity in the last week suggested these MEPs had a point.

[Diable Rouge]

DD has reportedly been sidelined in the Brexit negotiations:

https://mobile.twitter.com/mrjamesob...08176126922752

[Diable Rouge]

Meanwhile, might Tubbs assuage his SNP paranoia if the Soft Brexit alliance gains traction?

https://www.theguardian.com/politics...ht-hard-brexit

[Satchmo Distel]

The sane Brexiter's at it again. Immigration is "Rotherham" apparently.

That poisonous racist meme of immigrants = perverts has been applied to groups from the Irish onwards. It's probably at least 300 years old.

[Tubby Isaacs]

Meanwhile, might Tubbs assuage his SNP paranoia if the Soft Brexit alliance gains traction?

https://www.theguardian.com/politics...ht-hard-brexit

They've got the odd Jim Sillars or "EU is beating up Catalonians" bufffoon, but mostly they're good on the EU.

[Diable Rouge]

May rivals Putin and Trump in terms of unpopularity in Ireland:

http://cdn.thejournal.ie/media/2017/...izens-view.jpg

[Diable Rouge]

Is Sam our only Bristolian?

http://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/br...ear-old-984810

[Toby Gymshorts]

As ever, never read below the line.

[Tubby Isaacs]

I got to the second comment. I've never heard this one before.

Any Remainer can move to an EU country under free movement rules and remain an EU citizen.

Given that our country is supposedly going suffer an economic catastrophe, why are the Remainers still here? How come I can still hear them?


Millions of East Europeans got off their backsides and came here, how come the Remainers won't head in the opposite direction?

You have dozens of countries to choose from. You can Remain in the EU forever. Go.

You can almost hear him saying "take that!" as he posts it.

[Eggchaser]

Let's all go, and leave naught but Singapore fellating cunts and racist old chucklefucks behind.

[Benjm]

Is Sam our only Bristolian?

http://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/br...ear-old-984810

OTF's foremost principled sovereignty reclaimer was based in Bristol, wasn't he?

[Tubby Isaacs]

Andrew Adonis has resigned from the Infrastructure Commission, in protest over Brexit. He's been having something of a mid-life crisis recently, transforming himself from the ultimate wonk into a fearless "straight talker", and made an arse of himself. Yet I'll give him credit here.

[Fussbudget]

Isn't curmudgeon extraordinaire treibeis from Bristol as well?

[Toby Gymshorts]

Curmudgeon and EU enthusiast, yes.

I mean, I presume he's enthusiastic. He lives there and he married a bloody European, so it's an easy leap to make, but he is a contrary bugger at the best of times.

[Diable Rouge]

160k Irish passports issued to UK citizens this year - 81k in GB and 81k in NI:

https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/n...-36444527.html

[Mr Beast]

Arise, Sir Nick!

https://www.theguardian.com/politics...w-year-honours

Not only this twat, but Liberal Jo Swinson been given a wholly merited MBE for her tremendous services to politics, which amounts to being an MP for a whole ten years. Her voting record is a fucking disgrace, I won't link it but it's easily found.

Obviously the honours system is a pitiful relic but it is unsurprising these nonentities have their snouts in the trough. No doubt someone will be along to tell me Clegg had a hellish decision to make for the good of the nation when he was always a slash government fan and doing so was fulfilment of a wet dream, whatever the state of the economy. But because he's sound on Europe that's ok.

[Satchmo Distel]

160k Irish passports issued to UK citizens this year - 81k in GB and 81k in NI:

https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/n...-36444527.html

How much revenue does the Irish govt earn per passport? Could be a good earner for them.

[anton pulisov]

They aren't cheap, they recently put the price up to 80 euros.

160k Irish passports issued to UK citizens this year - 81k in GB and 81k in NI:

How do they know they are UK citizens, considering that when you go to apply for your Irish passport, you only have to prove Irish citizenship?

[ursus arctos]

The article says “people living in the UK”

[anton pulisov]

Yeah, and somehow they managed to extrapolate that to a headline that says "UK citizens".