UK Politics Thread VIII—Can't Let EU Go

[Ifreann]

Assuming post-Brexit Britain will have books.

We'll have to burn some of them to heat our homes. We'll use others as improvised weapons to throw at the bank's bailiffs when they come to repossess our homes. Last of all we'll use the murder of the economy to turn our diary account of Brexaggedon into a horcrux; we'll then be able to return by stealing the life-energy of history students - they weren't using it for anything useful anyway.

I am fully on-board for this FalloutxPotterverse crossover.

[Great Confederacy of Commonwealth States]

Post-Brexit diaries

30th of March 2019
Much uncertainty awaits us. Britain automatically left the European Union this night. All external communication has blacked out. Westminster has experienced radio silence since midnight. Boris Johnson and Jacob Rees-Mogg were last seen in Scapa Flow boarding a submarine, Nigel Farage took a helicopter across the channel to reason in Brussel, but rumour has it he never arrived in Charleroi. There is much uncertainty.

3rd of June 2019
The bank came by today with a van of burly blokes to repossess our home and 7 others in our street, even though we paid off our mortgage 4 years ago at a different bank. The paperwork seems in order, but what judge is there to go to? We pay our taxes to a different motor gang every month, and this reposession will give some safety. In return for protection and being allowed to remain living in our own home, we are just supposed to farm barley in our garden and live in servitude. There are some clauses about manual labour, but I am sure those will never be implemented.

14th of January 2020
Apparently, the son of some banker’s assistant in York didn’t take off his cap while passing the cousin of a hedge fund manager of higher rank and class. The hedge fund manager apparently aquiered the Bank of Scotland last week, which through a network of contracts owns the bank which owns my home. My family is supposed to deliver and support one soldier to go to York and teach that banker a lesson. Since my leg got amputated after cutting it on brambles in the garden, it will be my 17-year-old son going to war. I just wish I could go in this place. May the Cardiff Plague take whomever brought this scourge upon us.

[Ifreann]

Priti Patel confused about why UK negotiators aren't threatening Ireland with food shortages to get a better Brexit deal.

[Dooom35796821595]

Priti Patel confused about why UK negotiators aren't threatening Ireland with food shortages to get a better Brexit deal.

Potato famine 2: potato boogaloo!

Or operation: Dublin airlift!

[Caracasus]

Priti Patel confused about why UK negotiators aren't threatening Ireland with food shortages to get a better Brexit deal.

Staggeringly ignorant or sociopath?

[Platypus Bureaucracy]

Priti Patel confused about why UK negotiators aren't threatening Ireland with food shortages to get a better Brexit deal.

Isn't it so unfair how people consider the Conservatives the Nasty Party?

[The Free Joy State]

Priti Patel confused about why UK negotiators aren't threatening Ireland with food shortages to get a better Brexit deal.

Wow! That's a bad suggestion. If I remember my history, attempting to starve Ireland into submission didn't exactly go down well the first time...

Didn't I read that the Irish Famine led to an increase in internal tensions and political instability?

I can't think of a better way to make Ireland dig their heels in (and that's before you add a 24-hour news cycle, constant internet coverage and international regulatory bodies to the mix).

Priti Patel confused about why UK negotiators aren't threatening Ireland with food shortages to get a better Brexit deal.

Isn't it so unfair how people consider the Conservatives the Nasty Party?

Terrible, isn't it?

I can't think why...

[Ifreann]

Priti Patel confused about why UK negotiators aren't threatening Ireland with food shortages to get a better Brexit deal.

Staggeringly ignorant or sociopath?

Why not both?

[Caracasus]

Staggeringly ignorant or sociopath?

Why not both?

As a Tory MP both are pretty much given. I was just wondering what was the greater factor here. Ignorance, sociopathy or at an outside chance brain worms.

[Hrythingia]

Why not both?

As a Tory MP both are pretty much given. I was just wondering what was the greater factor here. Ignorance, sociopathy or at an outside chance brain worms.

That is an unnecessary smear. Its not sociopathy to inflict harm on a somewhat hostile nation and the question was not out of ignorance. The idea that Tories are some psychopathic pack of toffs is really very inaccurate, just like not all Labour MPs are rabid clueless socialists who would privatise everything.

[Platypus Bureaucracy]

As a Tory MP both are pretty much given. I was just wondering what was the greater factor here. Ignorance, sociopathy or at an outside chance brain worms.

That is an unnecessary smear. Its not sociopathy to inflict harm on a somewhat hostile nation and the question was not out of ignorance. The idea that Tories are some psychopathic pack of toffs is really very inaccurate, just like not all Labour MPs are rabid clueless socialists who would privatise everything.

Those damn socialists and their privatisation!

[Ifreann]

As a Tory MP both are pretty much given. I was just wondering what was the greater factor here. Ignorance, sociopathy or at an outside chance brain worms.

That is an unnecessary smear. Its not sociopathy to inflict harm on a somewhat hostile nation and the question was not out of ignorance. The idea that Tories are some psychopathic pack of toffs is really very inaccurate, just like not all Labour MPs are rabid clueless socialists who would privatise everything.

I didn't realise that it was an act of hostility towards the UK to be in the EU.

[Hrythingia]

That is an unnecessary smear. Its not sociopathy to inflict harm on a somewhat hostile nation and the question was not out of ignorance. The idea that Tories are some psychopathic pack of toffs is really very inaccurate, just like not all Labour MPs are rabid clueless socialists who would privatise everything.

Those damn socialists and their privatisation!

Crumbs, nationalise it.. you know what I meant.

That is an unnecessary smear. Its not sociopathy to inflict harm on a somewhat hostile nation and the question was not out of ignorance. The idea that Tories are some psychopathic pack of toffs is really very inaccurate, just like not all Labour MPs are rabid clueless socialists who would privatise everything.

I didn't realise that it was an act of hostility towards the UK to be in the EU.

Don't pretend you don't know Ireland is attempting to undermine us and has done for a long time. As I said previously, everything after 1916 was a mistake.

[Caracasus]

That is an unnecessary smear. Its not sociopathy to inflict harm on a somewhat hostile nation and the question was not out of ignorance. The idea that Tories are some psychopathic pack of toffs is really very inaccurate, just like not all Labour MPs are rabid clueless socialists who would privatise everything.

I didn't realise that it was an act of hostility towards the UK to be in the EU.

Hostility = not being England.

[Hrythingia]

I didn't realise that it was an act of hostility towards the UK to be in the EU.

Hostility = not being England.

I mean that's part of it, undeniably. However being partly Welsh and Gaelic Scots myself I make a few exceptions.

[Ifreann]

Those damn socialists and their privatisation!

Crumbs, nationalise it.. you know what I meant.

I didn't realise that it was an act of hostility towards the UK to be in the EU.

Don't pretend you don't know Ireland is attempting to undermine us and has done for a long time.

We really aren't. Why would we be? Britain collapsing will only hurt us.

As I said previously, everything after 1916 was a mistake.

Yes yes, we're all familiar with your standard Tory Youth imperialism.

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I didn't realise that it was an act of hostility towards the UK to be in the EU.

Hostility = not being England.

That explains a lot.

[Caracasus]

Crumbs, nationalise it.. you know what I meant.
Don't pretend you don't know Ireland is attempting to undermine us and has done for a long time.

We really aren't. Why would we be? Britain collapsing will only hurt us.

As I said previously, everything after 1916 was a mistake.

Yes yes, we're all familiar with your standard Tory Youth imperialism.

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Hostility = not being England.

That explains a lot.

Imagine thinking the British empire is or was good or desirable in this day and age. Once you get your head round that idea, it's slightly easier to underatand the rest.

[Ifreann]

We really aren't. Why would we be? Britain collapsing will only hurt us.

Yes yes, we're all familiar with your standard Tory Youth imperialism.

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That explains a lot.

Imagine thinking the British empire is or was good or desirable in this day and age.

[Trumptonium1]

Priti Patel confused about why UK negotiators aren't threatening Ireland with food shortages to get a better Brexit deal.

What I've been calling for on this thread for months.

Zero spine, zero balls. Idiots. Just bend over and take it.

[Hrythingia]

We really aren't. Why would we be? Britain collapsing will only hurt us.

Yes yes, we're all familiar with your standard Tory Youth imperialism.

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That explains a lot.

Imagine thinking the British empire is or was good or desirable in this day and age. Once you get your head round that idea, it's slightly easier to underatand the rest.

There will always be a power imbalance in the world, better it sways towards you than anyone else.

[The BlAAtschApen]

If you outlaw books, only outlaws will have books.

I want a movie of an underground criminal empire smuggling books across the Irish border.

Don't leave a paper trail. You will get caught.

[Dumb Ideologies]

I want a movie of an underground criminal empire smuggling books across the Irish border.

Don't leave a paper trail. You will get caught.

True words. The judge will throw the book at you. Do you want to be responsible for dragging Britannia back into the era of corporal punishment?

[The BlAAtschApen]

Don't leave a paper trail. You will get caught.

True words. The judge will throw the book at you. Do you want to be responsible for dragging Britannia back into the era of corporal punishment?

Yes.

I can sell my biography then.


Wait....

[Myrensis]

Priti Patel confused about why UK negotiators aren't threatening Ireland with food shortages to get a better Brexit deal.

Staggeringly ignorant or sociopath?

It has been pretty remarkable how genuinely flabberagasted Brexiteers seem to have been by the discovery that Ireland is behaving as..you know, an independent nation and member of the EU, rather than just quietly sitting by the phone awaiting instructions from Westminster.

Though granted, given the age demographics, it's entirely possible that a significant number of Brexiteers have forgotten that Ireland is independent now.

[Ifreann]

Imagine thinking the British empire is or was good or desirable in this day and age. Once you get your head round that idea, it's slightly easier to underatand the rest.

There will always be a power imbalance in the world, better it sways towards you than anyone else.

People who think that the world will always be a certain way have ultimately already given up.