Announcement

Collapse
No announcement yet.

The Brexit Thread

Collapse
X
 
  • Filter
  • Time
  • Show
Clear All
new posts

    Yeah, but 190 of those are branches of River Island.

    Comment


      Tony Connelly stretching the definition of "a brief take" on the May letter to the DUP.

      Comment


        Current Commons numbers on a Brexit deal:

        http://twitter.com/pswidlicki/status/1060837045587845120

        Comment


          Boris's brother, Jo, resigns as a Junior Minister for Transport.

          Comment


            Just read his resignation blog post...asking for a new referendum.

            Comment


              Originally posted by Moonlight shadow View Post
              Just read his resignation blog post...asking for a new referendum.
              The Greening variation as well.

              Comment


                That blog post by J Johnson simultaneously a) doesn't tell us anything we didn't know already b) is absolutely devastating for the goverments case, coming from a minister.

                Comment


                  It might be devastating if a couple of others are prepared to stand with him, but if he stands alone then he'll be far more easily dismissed as a bad loser remoaner who walked because he's not getting his way. Ideally it would require someone of Hammond's stature to really undermine May.

                  Comment


                    http://twitter.com/nick_gutteridge/status/1060954355648643073

                    Comment


                      Oh Christ, Stanley fucking Johnson is on newsnight. So this whole Brexit thing has moved from being a row in the Tory Party, to being a row in one fucking family.

                      Go on, ask the fucker the appropriate question. Is Boris the result of Nature or Nurture? "Is Boris the result of your rotten genes, or your terrible parenting?"

                      Comment


                        Both of these cunts can fuck off. Foster trotting out the "will of the people" line.

                        Get in the fucking bin.

                        Comment


                          Not a good day for May:

                          https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/ent...7d972#comments

                          Comment


                            Originally posted by johnr View Post
                            I found out yesterday that there are around 210 inhabited islands that go to make up the British Isles.
                            On this subject of British inhabited islands, there was an interesting piece a few evenings ago on C4 on the (Caribbean) British overseas territory of Anguilla in relation to Brexit, it’s on YouTube:



                            Anguilla is an island that relies heavily on neighbouring (10 miles away) and much bigger Dutch-French St Maarten/St-Martin island for food, healthcare, services, goods etc., and even tourism (as St Maarten/St-Martin’s main resource is tourism so they pick trade up from them). Needless to say, Brexit is a huge headache for them, they’re very worried and wonder if London hasn’t forgotten them.

                            Poor buggers, I don’t want to break it to them but the Tories don’t give a stuff about the 1.2 million UK citizens in EU27, they've shafted the Windrush people so never mind 15,000 Black people 5,000 miles away.

                            I mean, the Anguillan representative to the UK and EU interviewed by Cathy Newman in that YT clip said that when she went to London to talk to the various gvt departments they depend on, the fuckers didn’t even know Anguilla had a border with 2 EU countries… "They [gvt people] have been on a steep learning curve" she says. No kidding. And some of them are pretty special needs, eg Raab who confessed a few days ago that he "hadn’t quite understood the full extent to which the UK is reliant on the Dover-Calais crossing".

                            Comment


                              If Anguilla was a tax haven I bet they'd be top of the list. See for comparison Jersey, Guernsey, Alderney, the Virgin Islands...

                              Comment


                                Originally posted by Rogin the Armchair fan View Post
                                If Anguilla was a tax haven I bet they'd be top of the list. See for comparison Jersey, Guernsey, Alderney, the Virgin Islands...
                                Anguilla is a tax haven.

                                Comment


                                  Originally posted by Rogin the Armchair fan View Post
                                  If Anguilla was a tax haven I bet they'd be top of the list. See for comparison Jersey, Guernsey, Alderney, the Virgin Islands...
                                  Anguilla are listed as a tax haven by the OECD.

                                  Comment


                                    Well my heart bleeds then.

                                    Comment


                                      The people who live in tax havens are still people. They're not just a bunch of bankers you know

                                      Comment


                                        Indeed. Some of them are lawyers and investors.

                                        Comment


                                          And many/most of them are just humans who grew up there and try to make a living given what is available.

                                          In a place like Anguilla, that distinction will correlate strongly with skin colour.

                                          Anguilla is more than 85 percent Black.

                                          Comment


                                            Cardigan Connor is from Anguilla.

                                            Comment


                                              John Redwood has some advice for Dominic Raab re Dover/Calais. There are lots of other ports who want the business.

                                              What's next? Is he going to tell worried Tom Tugendhat, Tory MP for Tonbridge and Malling, that there are lots of other motorways that want the lorry parks?

                                              Comment


                                                Originally posted by Tubby Isaacs View Post
                                                Cardigan Connor is from Anguilla.
                                                Now in their House of Assembly:

                                                http://www.caribbeanelections.com/kn...t/ai_house.asp

                                                Keith Connor was also born there but moved to the UK at the age of 7, whereas Cardigan did not come until he was 18.

                                                Comment


                                                  Originally posted by ursus arctos View Post
                                                  And many/most of them are just humans who grew up there and try to make a living given what is available.

                                                  In a place like Anguilla, that distinction will correlate strongly with skin colour.

                                                  Anguilla is more than 85 percent Black.
                                                  Yep, too true. No social services for them, they have to live off the trickle down.

                                                  Comment


                                                    Originally posted by Tubby Isaacs View Post
                                                    John Redwood has some advice for Dominic Raab re Dover/Calais. There are lots of other ports who want the business.
                                                    But... that's.. not... how... it... works...

                                                    Comment

                                                    Working...
                                                    X