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[Hiberno-Britannic Politics] 240 Days Till Brexit
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"Don't sign on the dotted line until you talk to TEMPO"
I may have misunderstood what this conversation is about.
Fucking bang on with the Happy Eater reference though, champ.
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Yeah, but it would be built over one gutter.
Could we just give Boris the nickname Bloody Stupid Johnson and be done with it? Even shortening it to BS Johnson would work.
His middle name doesn't start with an S does it? Because that would be too perfect.
he responded very rapidly to the news about the Manchester fire brigade reporting issues they had during the attack, and his responses always seem genuine.
I really like him as a mayor and part of me would like to see him at a higher level of politics, but I don't think he'd be able to have the same leverage? I hope he doesn't do something terrible to make him disliked because its rare these days I see a politician I feel actually cares.
His middle name is actually Boris
Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson
You can see why he tends not to use his full name in front of the punters
Seems a decent guy, but I reckon he's probably not going to go back to Westminster. Certainly not like he's not had a decent innings there as part of Blair and Brown's cabinets, think he's found his niche in more devolved politics for the next decade. When I've heard him in interviews he sounds like someone who genuinely believes in what government can do and was frustrated by politics getting in the way - think he would be more than happy to be in the position where he is now, where there's more power to take direct action and most people are largely on the same page rather than weighing up what is right against what puts them in spitting distance of Number 10.
But then I say that with a knowingly naive sense of local city politics. I'd be happy for him as Labour leader of PM though (think there's going to be a good crop coming up through the various mayors).
A quick Wikipedia scan says he ran against and lost to both.
hes at the early boris career stage level of teflon and hasnt had enough time or importance for his views to make him seriously toxic
Good man, decent politician - never going to be the easy choice once things start going anti-establishment.
Bloody Stupid Johnson was by all accounts a decent guy and human being who was just very bad at dimensions.
I object strongly to tarnishing his name by associating it with Boris.
The man was so bad at dimensions he broke space and time in a way that would make The Doctor jealous. If we could get him working on Brexit, he might come up with something we could use.
The most likely outcome would be literally severing us from Europe (and the planet Earth), transforming Britain and Northern Ireland into orbital habitats.
And because it was specified in the design document, there would actually be a seamless border transition with Ireland, so he'd invent some kind of Stargate style interface to get it done.
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The hoho is the BS Johnson version. It's much deeper than the haha.
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EVERYBODY WANTS TO SIT IN THE BIG CHAIR, MEG!
Emetic on many different levels at once. Bravo.
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2018/apr/06/leaked-minutes-show-labour-at-odds-over-antisemitism-claims The article makes it sound like a few Corbyn supporters versus everybody else.
Quick Google points to a very likely reason, (seriously, eww) but I admit that I'm ignorant of the subject.
They're the political arm of the IRA, those that used to blow stuff up. They stopped but a lot of the same people are still there and that is history you don't shed quickly or easily.
The image was a bit more pointed when it was Gerry Adams but he retired from leadership earlier this year.
I'm also curious as to whether Desktop Hippie was dismissing Sinn Fein in general or its current leader (who I know nothing about).
Sinn Féin as a whole. I get that they’ve put the past (mostly) behind them, but they’re still very much the IRA in sheep’s clothing.
I feel pretty much exactly the same way about the DUP.
Yeah, there's a nice thick vein of sectarianism that runs right through the party. Like this absolute gowl.
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Even though I've read about the Troubles, I feel like I sometimes underestimate how brutal it was, just because I'm not used to thinking about that sort of political violence in the UK.
I mean that sounds like a story from ISIS-era Iraq, holy fuck.
Also, civil war era Iraq.
It was nasty, everyone involved fighting like there was no rules. It blows my mind brexiters are so flippant about trashing the peace we have now. Like whee lets go back to families mysteriously vanishing never to be seen again and extra judicial hit squads of SAS hunting down paramilitaries and burning them alive. Sounds fun!
They aired it on April 4th so it should be on BBC iPlayer for whoever has access to that.
The sheer irony of Boris calling someone else an idiot almost made me dislocate my eyes by rolling them too hard.
Corbyn is far from blameless though. As usual his core message is pretty sound when you dig into it but he manages to generate massively unhelpful sound bites that muddy the waters.
Fucking right-wingers always balls deep with the goddamn Russians I swear.
Well, when you believe in authoritarianism and maintaining the status quo, you have a lot in common with brutal oligarchies.
Can't even see this reported elsewhere.