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[Hiberno-Britannic Politics] Their Worstest Hour

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  • Bad-BeatBad-Beat Registered User regular
    They basically wanted a coin that celebrated us leaving the EU. The date is what matters. The message is just the guff that allows them to think it's acceptable.

    If they could have gotten away with something more jingoistic as the message, they would have. Even if it was just the date and nothing else.

  • danxdanx Registered User regular
    Another reason to vote for yes in 2021. Those stupid coins will go out of circulation up here when we replace the pound with the Scottish pound.

    Seriously though they got a cheek if they send those coins up here en masse instead of just appearing through osmosis.

  • MortiousMortious The Nightmare Begins Move to New ZealandRegistered User regular
    They should have just used that bus slogan, it's just as true.

    Move to New Zealand
    It’s not a very important country most of the time
    http://steamcommunity.com/id/mortious
  • Commander ZoomCommander Zoom Registered User regular
    "Brexit Means Brexit"

    "The Will of the People"

    "SOVEREIGNTY"

  • RchanenRchanen Registered User regular
    "Brexit Means Brexit"

    "The Will of the People"

    "SOVEREIGNTY"

    For stupidity only the Tories could possibly pull off: "FRREEEEEDOM!!!!"

  • AldoAldo Hippo Hooray Registered User regular
    Households stockpiling £4bn+ leading up to Brexit. https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/aug/12/britons-have-spent-4bn-stockpiling-goods-in-case-of-no-deal-brexit

    Of note: the super rich are importing more cars in anticipation of tariff hikes after Brexit.

    I mean, I'm surprised it isn't more. Especially medicines and non-perishables.

  • -SPI--SPI- Osaka, JapanRegistered User regular
    "Brexit Means Brexit"

    "The Will of the People"

    "SOVEREIGNTY"

    "Adequate Food"

  • BogartBogart Streetwise Hercules Registered User, Moderator mod
    The Tories definitely seem to be in please the rock solid base of ignorant arseholes because we're having an election soon mode. Scream TOUGH ON CRIME at the tops of their voices and get that familiar Tory voting machine of thick middle aged wankers in frothing form.

  • CasualCasual Wiggle Wiggle Wiggle Flap Flap Flap Registered User regular
    edited August 2019
    Caroline Lucas wants an all female emergency cabinet to sort out brexit because "women have a different perspective and can cooperate with each other in a crisis".

    I'm not sure where to start. Brushing aside to inherent sexism there that is precisely the sort of idea that will push back credibility the greens have been starting to earn. I've never been a fan of "X only shortlists" because aside from the fact I don't think it's democratic for the government to provide me with a list of candidates I'm allowed to vote for based on physical characteristics, it's the sort of move that rallies conservatives and generates worse counter reactions. Christ even Dianne Abott thinks it's a shit idea.

    Casual on
  • Commander ZoomCommander Zoom Registered User regular
    Consider that fantastic recent example of cooperation and compromise, Theresa May.

  • Brovid HasselsmofBrovid Hasselsmof [Growling historic on the fury road] Registered User regular
    That 50p coin feels like the most 1984-type doublespeak thing that's happened so far. Reality has become so fucking surreal.

  • BogartBogart Streetwise Hercules Registered User, Moderator mod
    The Greens have some great policies and then some other policies that make you roll your eyes like you're listening to a community centre discussion about how quinoa and homeopathy are a good substitute for an epidural.

    I mean, I would take an all-horse cabinet over the one we have now, but this doesn't seem a very serious or useful idea.

  • klemmingklemming Registered User regular
    That 50p coin feels like the most 1984-type doublespeak thing that's happened so far. Reality has become so fucking surreal.

    To be clear, this was originally designed as a limited run of 10,000 commemorative coins (just £10 each! Bargain!). Still terrible, but limited to ripping off the people who really believe in brexit, so I can mark it off as a brexit tax and ignore it. It's Javid who wants to produce millions of the things and force us to use them.

    Shit like this makes me wonder if we're looking at a political version of The Producers, where everyone's trying to do everything wrong, and somehow coming out ahead (or at least, not fucking up badly enough to be stopped).

    Nobody remembers the singer. The song remains.
  • AgusalimAgusalim Registered User regular
    Casual wrote: »
    Caroline Lucas wants an all female emergency cabinet to sort out brexit because "women have a different perspective and can cooperate with each other in a crisis".

    I'm not sure where to start. Brushing aside to inherent sexism there that is precisely the sort of idea that will push back credibility the greens have been starting to earn. I've never been a fan of "X only shortlists" because aside from the fact I don't think it's democratic for the government to provide me with a list of candidates I'm allowed to vote for based on physical characteristics, it's the sort of move that rallies conservatives and generates worse counter reactions. Christ even Dianne Abott thinks it's a shit idea.

    some uh interesting choices in there

    - big nic isnae an mp for starters
    - heidi allen + anna soubry were/are all in on changeuk which was not, let us say, a demonstration of fantastic political nous
    - yvette cooper, why? shes not even in the shadow cab. why not diane abbott? or even dawn butler, shadow sec for women and equalities seems more thematic if youre proposing an all-woman gnu cabinet
    - justine greening has literally voted multiple times in favour of the wa, seems an odd choice for what i presume is meant to be a remain cabinet
    - sylvia bloody hermon? an independent unionist? is this just a 'collect them all' type deal?

    also their environmental voting records are a mixed bag at best, which seems odd for a proposal coming from the green party

  • AlphaRomeroAlphaRomero Registered User regular
    It's a stupid idea and exactly the kind of idea that at an election the Tories can hammer away at. "Don't vote Lib Dem because you're voting Green!". All of a sudden the vote is split even more and Tories win through attrition.

  • CasualCasual Wiggle Wiggle Wiggle Flap Flap Flap Registered User regular
    I don't know, assuming it's not just painful naivety this feels like the sort of dumb move designed to create headlines. I guess its the "any publicity" line of thought.

  • BogartBogart Streetwise Hercules Registered User, Moderator mod
    edited August 2019
    I have only just noticed that the new UKIP leader is called Richard Braine.

    Yes, that's Dick Braine. Just outstanding work all round, guys.

    Also I note with passing interest ex-UKIP consultant, thug, convicted fraudster and all-around human-shaped pile of vomit Tommy Robinson is complaining someone in prison fooled him into eating a turd made to look like a Twix. Those merry jokesters in Cell Block B are at it again.

    Bogart on
  • AlphaRomeroAlphaRomero Registered User regular
    Casual wrote: »
    I don't know, assuming it's not just painful naivety this feels like the sort of dumb move designed to create headlines. I guess its the "any publicity" line of thought.

    Maybe, but then they were stupid to not think of the counterattacks. The Tories have won two elections by saying "Not Corbyn". The voting base is already heavily split between Tory and anyone else, and Labour has made it worse by being the only viable part and also refusing to have any actual verbally communicated policies. People are already forced to choose "Party that could actually win, versus parties we want to actually win", which alone only helps the Tories.

  • Rhesus PositiveRhesus Positive GNU Terry Pratchett Registered User regular
    Sadly, the turd twix and washing powder cocaine stories look to be hoaxes

    A classic case of satire not working because it's too believable

    Happy to be proven wrong, though

    (Please. We as a nation need this)

    [Muffled sounds of gorilla violence]
  • BogartBogart Streetwise Hercules Registered User, Moderator mod
    Dammit, I demand some of that stockpiled Brexit money be put into funding a new reality TV show in which Stephen Yaxley Lennon is repeatedly pranked while he's in chokey.

  • ChanusChanus Harbinger of the Spicy Rooster Apocalypse The Flames of a Thousand Collapsed StarsRegistered User regular
    Consider that fantastic recent example of cooperation and compromise, Theresa May.

    to be fair if she ever had any principles or an ounce of human decency she certainly compromised all of those

    Allegedly a voice of reason.
  • honoverehonovere Registered User regular
    Pre-Brexit reminder: It's the 50 years anniversery of the "Battle of the Bogside" / 1969 Derry riots.

    I'm sure the Tories and Johnson in particular will be inspired by this occasion to put in some more work on their (post)Brexit planning.

  • danxdanx Registered User regular
    Dunno why you are so down on an all women cabinet. The obvious answer is to just clone Nicola Sturgeon 22 times.

  • 101101 Registered User regular
    This Caroline Lucas thing has me laughing at the looney left, and I'm someone who is pretty damn lefty.

  • SharpyVIISharpyVII Registered User regular
    In order to really stick it to the EU our government are withdrawing all staff from EU decision making meetings etc

    This is show them that we really mean it when we say we're leaving on the 31st.

    Despite us still paying in to the EU.

    https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/aug/12/british-diplomats-to-pull-out-from-eu-decision-making-meetings-within-days
    British diplomats will pull out from the EU’s institutional structures of power in Brussels within days, under plans being drawn up by Downing Street.

    In an attempt to reinforce the message that the UK is leaving the EU by 31 October, “do or die”, the UK will stop attending the day-to-day meetings that inform the bloc’s decision-making.

  • DrascinDrascin Registered User regular
    Bogart wrote: »
    I have only just noticed that the new UKIP leader is called Richard Braine.

    Yes, that's Dick Braine. Just outstanding work all round, guys.

    Man if you wrote this shit into a book the editor would tear your ass a new one for being too on the nose.

    Steam ID: Right here.
  • Jealous DevaJealous Deva Registered User regular
    SharpyVII wrote: »
    In order to really stick it to the EU our government are withdrawing all staff from EU decision making meetings etc

    This is show them that we really mean it when we say we're leaving on the 31st.

    Despite us still paying in to the EU.

    https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/aug/12/british-diplomats-to-pull-out-from-eu-decision-making-meetings-within-days
    British diplomats will pull out from the EU’s institutional structures of power in Brussels within days, under plans being drawn up by Downing Street.

    In an attempt to reinforce the message that the UK is leaving the EU by 31 October, “do or die”, the UK will stop attending the day-to-day meetings that inform the bloc’s decision-making.

    So is this part of the “ Hey you guys come up with a magical plan that solves all our problems for us and still allows us to save face or we will do horrible things to ourselves” negotiation plan?

  • japanjapan Registered User regular
    Related to what I was posting about previously



    From the perspective that "the legality of what we're doing doesn't matter, the courts can't stop us in time" is not a good look when engaged in active litigation over the matter

    (Court of Session case commences today)

  • danxdanx Registered User regular
    101 wrote: »
    This Caroline Lucas thing has me laughing at the looney left, and I'm someone who is pretty damn lefty.

    I'm thankful the Scottish greens are a separate party and actually not nuts.

  • AgusalimAgusalim Registered User regular
    101 wrote: »
    This Caroline Lucas thing has me laughing at the looney left, and I'm someone who is pretty damn lefty.

    doesnt seem very left at all tbh - soubz? allen? swinson? cooper is deffo in the more rightwards end of labour - thornberry less so but shes not exactly 'socialisme ou barbarisme' is she?

  • 101101 Registered User regular
    That she's asked a variety of MP's is neither here nor there really.

    Caroline is the one suggesting it and the one being focused in the media as a result.

    This is a Caroline/greens/left/anti-brexit idea and will be seen as such.

    And hey, I'm all on board for stopping Brexit

    But 'lol looney left' is all I can muster at this proposal

  • AldoAldo Hippo Hooray Registered User regular
    SharpyVII wrote: »
    In order to really stick it to the EU our government are withdrawing all staff from EU decision making meetings etc

    This is show them that we really mean it when we say we're leaving on the 31st.

    Despite us still paying in to the EU.

    https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/aug/12/british-diplomats-to-pull-out-from-eu-decision-making-meetings-within-days
    British diplomats will pull out from the EU’s institutional structures of power in Brussels within days, under plans being drawn up by Downing Street.

    In an attempt to reinforce the message that the UK is leaving the EU by 31 October, “do or die”, the UK will stop attending the day-to-day meetings that inform the bloc’s decision-making.

    Oh noooooo
    Awwwwww
    Whatever will we do now?

  • MorganVMorganV Registered User regular
    Drascin wrote: »
    Bogart wrote: »
    I have only just noticed that the new UKIP leader is called Richard Braine.

    Yes, that's Dick Braine. Just outstanding work all round, guys.

    Man if you wrote this shit into a book the editor would tear your ass a new one for being too on the nose.

    Gotta wonder in the nature vs nurture debate, if Richard Braine's parents, when they named him, were prescient, or assholes.

  • Werewolf2000adWerewolf2000ad Suckers, I know exactly what went wrong. Registered User regular
    101 wrote: »
    This Caroline Lucas thing has me laughing at the looney left, and I'm someone who is pretty damn lefty.

    I think you'll find that the Green Party are centrists, actually:



    Where 'centrist' is defined as 'anyone Not Corbyn that we couldn't get away with labelling a Tory fascist'.

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    EVERYBODY WANTS TO SIT IN THE BIG CHAIR, MEG!
  • BogartBogart Streetwise Hercules Registered User, Moderator mod
    Let's not quote Twitter randoms.

    Source your tweets, people, and if they're just some no mark off the internet probably don't bother at all.

  • altidaltid Registered User regular
    Agusalim wrote: »
    Casual wrote: »
    Caroline Lucas wants an all female emergency cabinet to sort out brexit because "women have a different perspective and can cooperate with each other in a crisis".

    I'm not sure where to start. Brushing aside to inherent sexism there that is precisely the sort of idea that will push back credibility the greens have been starting to earn. I've never been a fan of "X only shortlists" because aside from the fact I don't think it's democratic for the government to provide me with a list of candidates I'm allowed to vote for based on physical characteristics, it's the sort of move that rallies conservatives and generates worse counter reactions. Christ even Dianne Abott thinks it's a shit idea.

    some uh interesting choices in there

    - big nic isnae an mp for starters
    - heidi allen + anna soubry were/are all in on changeuk which was not, let us say, a demonstration of fantastic political nous
    - yvette cooper, why? shes not even in the shadow cab. why not diane abbott? or even dawn butler, shadow sec for women and equalities seems more thematic if youre proposing an all-woman gnu cabinet
    - justine greening has literally voted multiple times in favour of the wa, seems an odd choice for what i presume is meant to be a remain cabinet
    - sylvia bloody hermon? an independent unionist? is this just a 'collect them all' type deal?

    also their environmental voting records are a mixed bag at best, which seems odd for a proposal coming from the green party

    Being fair, I can understand some of the names at least. Allen and Soubry are both outspoken and strongly anti-Brexit, both resigned from their party on that issue. Yvette Cooper has been one of the most effective opponents of brexit - certainly far more effective than the Labour front bench. Unlike them she has been actively building support for and tabling anti-brexit amendments. As for Sylvia Hermon, she’s also the only non-DUP MP from NI that will actually turn up. Given that NI is kind of an issue with brexit, it certainly makes sense. Politically a bit more towards the left from what I remember, hard to place though. Voted for the WA due to the backstop.

    While the overall idea is poor, I don’t really have an issue with some of the names.

  • JazzJazz Registered User regular
    Bogart wrote: »
    Let's not quote Twitter randoms.

    Source your tweets, people, and if they're just some no mark off the internet probably don't bother at all.

    In fairness, Ellie Mae O'Hagan is a Guardian columnist.

  • MayabirdMayabird Pecking at the keyboardRegistered User regular
    the party of "law and order", yes.
    the one that's suggesting, "hey, maybe let's just ignore Parliament".

    Since right-wingers take their talking points from Murdoch rags, which say about the same things and use the same types of euphemisms everywhere no matter the country, they probably mean they're "law and order" in the same way Republicans are - it means they're all about racism. Tory voters might not like the thought of dying of lack of medicine, food, and clean water, but they hate them non-English more! Go along with abolishing Parliament because throwing out those people is more important.

  • Stabbity StyleStabbity Style He/Him | Warning: Mothership Reporting Kennewick, WARegistered User regular
    honovere wrote: »
    British GDP went negative last quarter.
    https://www.ons.gov.uk/economy/grossdomesticproductgdp/timeseries/abmi/pn2
    First time since 2012
    Aldo wrote: »
    Households stockpiling £4bn+ leading up to Brexit. https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/aug/12/britons-have-spent-4bn-stockpiling-goods-in-case-of-no-deal-brexit

    Of note: the super rich are importing more cars in anticipation of tariff hikes after Brexit.

    I mean, I'm surprised it isn't more. Especially medicines and non-perishables.

    So I'm not particularly familiar with how GDP is calculated, but wouldn't people buying more than usual to stockpile increase GDP? Or does people buying presumably foreign/EU items at a local grocery store not contribute to GDP because GDP is only for stuff produced/services rendered inside the country? Or if the stockpiling did contribute and GDP still went negative despite the spending, are things even more grim than they seemed? Or would that kind of stockpiling not really even factor in to something like GDP because it's so small-scale? I'm somewhat confused.

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  • CasualCasual Wiggle Wiggle Wiggle Flap Flap Flap Registered User regular
    danx wrote: »
    Dunno why you are so down on an all women cabinet. The obvious answer is to just clone Nicola Sturgeon 22 times.

    I'm not really thrilled at the idea of the SNP having unchecked power, I don't really want a bunch of TERFs rolling trans rights back 20 years just because Sturgeon has some game on twitter.

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