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[BREXIT] Farewell Europe, and thanks for all the Fish stocks

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  • GumpyGumpy There is always a greater powerRegistered User regular
    JoeUser wrote: »
    Will that push some on the right to UKIP though?

    May is 100% behind the Brexit cause and it looks like she's going to try to use that to lock in the votes of the right while the she uses the broader policy platform to move leftwards a bit

  • KarlKarl Registered User regular
    Michael Gove is a fucking joke of a man and I hope his political career is ruined for ever.

  • DouglasDangerDouglasDanger PennsylvaniaRegistered User regular
    I call it the "loose kindling" theory of history. Socioeconomic and Environmental factors setting the stage that the right decisions could up-end everything.

    Taking Rome again: The Crisis of the Third Century could have taken down the empire, but the likes of Aurelian and Diocletian were able to stabilize things. Then you have the Gothic War and mass invasions 100 years later and the likes of Valens and Honorious and Valentinian III totally lost control of the situation.

    My favorite from WWI is the lead general of the German Army deciding to put Lenin and his communists on a train to make sure they made it safely from Switzerland to Russia as a gambit to create a third belligerent in the war who would fight the Allies as well as the Germans. Had he not made that play, it is quite probably the moderates win the Russian Revolution and, if not fulfill their goal of creating a democratic society based on the American Constitution, at least not become the Soviet empire.

    @Phillishere
    Whoa
    What

  • JoeUserJoeUser Forum Santa Registered User regular
    So I guess the Queen needs to haul back to London?

  • PhillisherePhillishere Registered User regular
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    I call it the "loose kindling" theory of history. Socioeconomic and Environmental factors setting the stage that the right decisions could up-end everything.

    Taking Rome again: The Crisis of the Third Century could have taken down the empire, but the likes of Aurelian and Diocletian were able to stabilize things. Then you have the Gothic War and mass invasions 100 years later and the likes of Valens and Honorious and Valentinian III totally lost control of the situation.

    My favorite from WWI is the lead general of the German Army deciding to put Lenin and his communists on a train to make sure they made it safely from Switzerland to Russia as a gambit to create a third belligerent in the war who would fight the Allies as well as the Germans. Had he not made that play, it is quite probably the moderates win the Russian Revolution and, if not fulfill their goal of creating a democratic society based on the American Constitution, at least not become the Soviet empire.

    @Phillishere
    Whoa
    What

    Yup.
    After the outbreak of the February Revolution, German authorities allowed Lenin and his lieutenants to cross Germany en route from Switzerland to Sweden in a sealed railway car. Berlin hoped, correctly, that the return of the anti-war socialists to Russia would undermine the Russian war effort, which was continuing under the provisional government. Lenin called for the overthrow of the provisional government by the soviets; he was subsequently condemned as a “German agent” by the government’s leaders. In July, he was forced to flee to Finland, but his call for “peace, land, and bread” met with increasing popular support, and the Bolsheviks won a majority in the Petrograd soviet. In October, Lenin secretly returned to Petrograd, and on November 7, the Bolshevik-led Red Guards deposed the Provisional Government and proclaimed soviet rule.

  • SnicketysnickSnicketysnick The Greatest Hype Man in WesterosRegistered User regular
    edited July 2016
    JoeUser wrote: »
    So I guess the Queen needs to haul back to London?

    nah, I mean she could do but she doesn't have to really. There's a lot of talk about us having a new PM by the end of the day and that's theoretically possible, but more likely is the end of the week. Which is still pretty fast!

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  • KarlKarl Registered User regular
    Yeah, I reckon the Queen will just wait until it's settled down a bit.

  • NyysjanNyysjan FinlandRegistered User regular
    JoeUser wrote: »
    So I guess the Queen needs to haul back to London?

    Nah, she can just stay in Scotland if she likes, let them come to her. (no idea what the actual rules are for this)

  • GumpyGumpy There is always a greater powerRegistered User regular
    Nyysjan wrote: »
    JoeUser wrote: »
    So I guess the Queen needs to haul back to London?

    Nah, she can just stay in Scotland if she likes, let them come to her. (no idea what the actual rules are for this)

    That is the opposite of the actual rules

  • Rhesus PositiveRhesus Positive GNU Terry Pratchett Registered User regular
    Gumpy wrote: »
    Nyysjan wrote: »
    JoeUser wrote: »
    So I guess the Queen needs to haul back to London?

    Nah, she can just stay in Scotland if she likes, let them come to her. (no idea what the actual rules are for this)

    That is the opposite of the actual rules

    Now is not a time for rules

    Now is a time for Liz to play the biggest wide game ever

    Cameron turns up at the Palace of Holyroodhouse, only to be met with a footman who hands him a note saying to meet him at Hillsborough Castle

    He gets to NI only to find a message flying from the flag pole: "Nice try, schweinschtupper, I'm in Sandringham"

    He's met in Norfolk by a corgi carrying a map of the Balmoral estate

    When he reaches Aberdeenshire a Scots Guard hands him a compass, a canteen of fresh water, and a paintball rifle

    And now the hunt truly begins

    [Muffled sounds of gorilla violence]
  • Donovan PuppyfuckerDonovan Puppyfucker A dagger in the dark is worth a thousand swords in the morningRegistered User regular
    Gumpy wrote: »
    Nyysjan wrote: »
    JoeUser wrote: »
    So I guess the Queen needs to haul back to London?

    Nah, she can just stay in Scotland if she likes, let them come to her. (no idea what the actual rules are for this)

    That is the opposite of the actual rules

    Now is not a time for rules

    Now is a time for Liz to play the biggest wide game ever

    Cameron turns up at the Palace of Holyroodhouse, only to be met with a footman who hands him a note saying to meet him at Hillsborough Castle

    He gets to NI only to find a message flying from the flag pole: "Nice try, schweinschtupper, I'm in Sandringham"

    He's met in Norfolk by a corgi carrying a map of the Balmoral estate

    When he reaches Aberdeenshire a Scots Guard hands him a compass, a canteen of fresh water, and a paintball rifle

    And now the hunt truly begins

    Except while he's got a paintball gun, Liz has an SA80 slung over her shoulder...

  • LiiyaLiiya Registered User regular
    Gumpy wrote: »
    Nyysjan wrote: »
    JoeUser wrote: »
    So I guess the Queen needs to haul back to London?

    Nah, she can just stay in Scotland if she likes, let them come to her. (no idea what the actual rules are for this)

    That is the opposite of the actual rules

    Now is not a time for rules

    Now is a time for Liz to play the biggest wide game ever

    Cameron turns up at the Palace of Holyroodhouse, only to be met with a footman who hands him a note saying to meet him at Hillsborough Castle

    He gets to NI only to find a message flying from the flag pole: "Nice try, schweinschtupper, I'm in Sandringham"

    He's met in Norfolk by a corgi carrying a map of the Balmoral estate

    When he reaches Aberdeenshire a Scots Guard hands him a compass, a canteen of fresh water, and a paintball rifle

    And now the hunt truly begins
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  • honoverehonovere Registered User regular
    Liiya wrote: »
    Gumpy wrote: »
    Nyysjan wrote: »
    JoeUser wrote: »
    So I guess the Queen needs to haul back to London?

    Nah, she can just stay in Scotland if she likes, let them come to her. (no idea what the actual rules are for this)

    That is the opposite of the actual rules

    Now is not a time for rules

    Now is a time for Liz to play the biggest wide game ever

    Cameron turns up at the Palace of Holyroodhouse, only to be met with a footman who hands him a note saying to meet him at Hillsborough Castle

    He gets to NI only to find a message flying from the flag pole: "Nice try, schweinschtupper, I'm in Sandringham"

    He's met in Norfolk by a corgi carrying a map of the Balmoral estate

    When he reaches Aberdeenshire a Scots Guard hands him a compass, a canteen of fresh water, and a paintball rifle

    And now the hunt truly begins
    qv5eCDB.jpg?3

    No wonder they picked Helen Mirren for R.E.D., she was just continuing to play her role from The Queen

  • DisruptedCapitalistDisruptedCapitalist I swear! Registered User regular
    Now we need a picture of her corgis viciously mauling an MP.

    "Simple, real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time." -Mustrum Ridcully in Terry Pratchett's Hogfather p. 142 (HarperPrism 1996)
  • Rhesus PositiveRhesus Positive GNU Terry Pratchett Registered User regular
    "In town you're the democratically elected head of a government: up here it's one"

    [Muffled sounds of gorilla violence]
  • KarlKarl Registered User regular
    I bet the Queen is well fucked off she has come back early.

    "I delegate this shit to you for a reason" etc

  • tzeentchlingtzeentchling Doctor of Rocks OaklandRegistered User regular
    Actually, question from an ignorant American: Can the Queen veto the decision of Parliament to enact Article 50 and leave the EU? (Assuming they bite the bullet and actually do.) Does she have any power at all in regards to their decisions?

  • Rhesus PositiveRhesus Positive GNU Terry Pratchett Registered User regular
    The Queen has power as long as she never tries to use it

    [Muffled sounds of gorilla violence]
  • ProlegomenaProlegomena Frictionless Spinning The VoidRegistered User regular
    I know I said last week I wouldn't be surprised by anything that could happen now, but now Cameron has gone and done something that makes him briefly slightly likeable

  • SolarSolar Registered User regular
    I always had a soft spot for him because of the whole thing where his poor son died.

  • JoeUserJoeUser Forum Santa Registered User regular
    Does Larry get to stay?

  • NyysjanNyysjan FinlandRegistered User regular
    Queen is basicly a person with their hand on an emergency break.
    She can pull that break anytime she wants, but when she does, people will take it away from her.
    Unless she has a bloody good "we're all going to die" reason for it.

  • SnicketysnickSnicketysnick The Greatest Hype Man in WesterosRegistered User regular
    I believe Larry is a member of the Civil Service and so will remain on station. I could be wrong though!

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  • OmnipotentBagelOmnipotentBagel floof Registered User regular
    JoeUser wrote: »

    God help me I love pet-run social media accounts. By all rights I should hate them for being a dumb gimmick, and yet...

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  • Butler For Life #1Butler For Life #1 Twinning is WinningRegistered User regular
    edited July 2016
    wait

    the cat doesn't belong to Cameron? He has to give it to the next PM when he leaves office?

    that's terrible

    not even a jackass like Cameron deserves to have his cat taken away

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  • LiiyaLiiya Registered User regular
    Cameron's kids play with Larry I think, he's kind of their pet so I dunno.

    Larry should be Minister Of Being A Cutie Pie.

  • LiiyaLiiya Registered User regular
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    "Don't mock me, Liiya. I'm a fucking professional".

  • SnicketysnickSnicketysnick The Greatest Hype Man in WesterosRegistered User regular
    He's a member of staff, and remains attached to the post like the IT guy or the cleaner. "Chief Mouser" sounds like a joke, but it's his job title

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chief_Mouser_to_the_Cabinet_Office
    The cats do not necessarily belong to the Prime Minister in residence and it is rare for the Chief Mouser's term of office to coincide with that of a Prime Minister.[9] The cat with the longest known tenure at Downing Street is Wilberforce, who served for eighteen years under Edward Heath, Harold Wilson, Jim Callaghan, and Margaret Thatcher.

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  • OmnipotentBagelOmnipotentBagel floof Registered User regular
    Liiya wrote: »
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    "Don't mock me, Liiya. I'm a fucking professional".

    Professional cutie-pie, maybe.

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  • TubeTube Registered User admin
    God, if I were David Cameron I'd be so happy right now. Stupid job over, still a millionaire

  • RMS OceanicRMS Oceanic Registered User regular
    Tube wrote: »
    God, if I were David Cameron I'd be so happy right now. Stupid job over, still a millionaire

    There's only so much money can do to address your impending negative place in the history books.

    I mean it can do a lot, but not everything.

  • GrogGrog My sword is only steel in a useful shape.Registered User regular
    Tube wrote: »
    God, if I were David Cameron I'd be so happy right now. Stupid job over, still a millionaire

    There's only so much money can do to address your impending negative place in the history books.

    I mean it can do a lot, but not everything.

    Blair's done alright for himself.

  • ShortyShorty touching the meat Intergalactic Cool CourtRegistered User regular
    Tube wrote: »
    God, if I were David Cameron I'd be so happy right now. Stupid job over, still a millionaire

    There's only so much money can do to address your impending negative place in the history books.

    I mean it can do a lot, but not everything.

    since when has criticism ever mattered to a conservative?

  • SnicketysnickSnicketysnick The Greatest Hype Man in WesterosRegistered User regular
    Shorty wrote: »
    Tube wrote: »
    God, if I were David Cameron I'd be so happy right now. Stupid job over, still a millionaire

    There's only so much money can do to address your impending negative place in the history books.

    I mean it can do a lot, but not everything.

    since when has criticism ever mattered to a conservative?

    Tbh this is kind of funny given that he'd be a Democrat on your side of the pond. I know what you mean though.

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  • lonelyahavalonelyahava Call me Ahava ~~She/Her~~ Move to New ZealandRegistered User regular
    Gumpy wrote: »
    Nyysjan wrote: »
    JoeUser wrote: »
    So I guess the Queen needs to haul back to London?

    Nah, she can just stay in Scotland if she likes, let them come to her. (no idea what the actual rules are for this)

    That is the opposite of the actual rules

    Now is not a time for rules

    Now is a time for Liz to play the biggest wide game ever

    Cameron turns up at the Palace of Holyroodhouse, only to be met with a footman who hands him a note saying to meet him at Hillsborough Castle

    He gets to NI only to find a message flying from the flag pole: "Nice try, schweinschtupper, I'm in Sandringham"

    He's met in Norfolk by a corgi carrying a map of the Balmoral estate

    When he reaches Aberdeenshire a Scots Guard hands him a compass, a canteen of fresh water, and a paintball rifle

    And now the hunt truly begins

    I can't believe you didn't go for the "Your Queen is in another castle" joke.

  • ToxTox I kill threads he/himRegistered User regular
    I know I said last week I wouldn't be surprised by anything that could happen now, but now Cameron has gone and done something that makes him briefly slightly likeable


    http://boingboing.net/2016/07/11/david-camerons-swan-song-ri.html
    If you, like me, heard former UK Prime Minister David Cameron's post-abdication accidentally captured odd tune and self-affirmation and thought, "That's my next ringtone," then here you go.
    https://ia801506.us.archive.org/34/items/camerons_swansong/camerons_swansong.mp3

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  • Donovan PuppyfuckerDonovan Puppyfucker A dagger in the dark is worth a thousand swords in the morningRegistered User regular
    Tube wrote: »
    God, if I were David Cameron I'd be so happy right now. Stupid job over, still a millionaire

    There's only so much money can do to address your impending negative place in the history books.

    I mean it can do a lot, but not everything.

    David Cameron does not give a FUCK about what anyone who's not himself thinks of him.

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