UK Politics Thread 18-inch Mark VI: Witty Title Forthcoming

[Irona]

Its becoming increasingly likely that there will be riots tonight :/

This is getting bad. Overtly class based as well

[Questers]

Rioting would be a bad move. They would lose all political support they have.

[HMS Queen Elizabeth]

It is important to show the powerful pro-fire faction that it doesn't have much popular support.

[Fartsniffage]

are we actually going to start EU talks without a government

Where we're going, we don't need governments...

[The Archregimancy]

I'd be hard pressed to call Michael Carver 'Britain's greatest field marshal'. I assume you mean Carver?

In any case, the judgement's subjective - so we'll instead have to focus on objectively identifying the British field marshal with the greatest name.

Which was clearly Studholme Hodgson.

I said wore -- not that he was a member of. Im talking about Monty.

Maybe I'm old-fashioned, but I'd still take Wellington over Montgomery.

But still, Studholme Hodgson, eh?

Can't get enough Studholme.

[Bakery Hill]

From where it looks down here, Britain hasn't seemed this unstable in my lifetime.

Teetering towards Brexit with the Good Friday Agreement on the brink of collapse, the threats of real riots on the streets. All this with an incompetent and increasingly despised PM with no actual government behind her, and the only way to form that government being a deal with the old political wing of a terrorist organisation.

I do really hope you pull this off.

[Olerand]

So, despite the fact that May still doesn't have a government, she made a joint declaration with Macron detailing the new internet regulations that they want to see. Nothing too ambitious, though one can always claim that detailing anything when you still don't actually have a government is inherently too ambitious.

And the Brexit negotiations are supposed to begin soon, and Britain doesn't seem any more ready.

[Fartsniffage]

So, despite the fact that May still doesn't have a government, she made a joint declaration with Macron detailing the new internet regulations that they want to see. Nothing too ambitious, though one can always claim that detailing anything when you still don't actually have a government is inherently too ambitious.

And the Brexit negotiations are supposed to begin soon, and Britain doesn't seem any more ready.

We're as ready as we were on the day we voted for it.

[Ifreann]

are we actually going to start EU talks without a government

Britain is so strong and stable it doesn't need a government.

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Rioting would be a bad move. They would lose all political support they have.

One imagines rioters would not be disposed to give a fuck. Kind of comes with the territory.

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are we actually going to start EU talks without a government

Where we're going, we don't need governments...

John Lydon may finally get his wish.

[Thanatttynia]

Jesus Christ the Newsnight interview was painful to watch - how can someone in any public office misread so completely a situation like this and offer the sort of response she has? May can't even get offering condolences and support right. It's not that fucking difficult

[The Huskar Social Union]

Jesus Christ the Newsnight interview was painful to watch - how can someone in any public office misread so completely a situation like this and offer the sort of response she has? May can't even get offering condolences and support right. It's not that fucking difficult

Oh what happened? When was the interview?

[Ifreann]

Jesus Christ the Newsnight interview was painful to watch - how can someone in any public office misread so completely a situation like this and offer the sort of response she has? May can't even get offering condolences and support right. It's not that fucking difficult

Maybot was not programmed to feel bad for the poor.

[Imperializt Russia]

Jesus Christ the Newsnight interview was painful to watch - how can someone in any public office misread so completely a situation like this and offer the sort of response she has? May can't even get offering condolences and support right. It's not that fucking difficult

Maybot was not programmed to feel bad for the poor.

As I said in an IRC yesterday:

ANALYSING INPUT
HUMAN EMOTION DETECTED
ERROR
...
DEPLOYING PLATITUDES

[Ifreann]

Maybot was not programmed to feel bad for the poor.

As I said in an IRC yesterday:

ANALYSING INPUT
HUMAN EMOTION DETECTED
ERROR
...
DEPLOYING PLATITUDES

PLATITUDES INEFFECTIVE
DEPLOYING FLARES
"Oh god my eyes! What's happening?!"
FLARES EFFECTIVE

[Imperializt Russia]

Rioting would be a bad move. They would lose all political support they have.

Certainly not all of it, but it would do significant damage.

[Souseiseki]

>protest peacefully for years
>nothing happens
>your home burns down and half your family dies
>you kick in a window out of sheer frustration
>the daily mail, sun etc. turn it into explosive headlines
>the british public tut their heads and remind you that you should have just protested peacefully instead and they can't condone violence, just like that ghandi chap
>the archgod of moderate liberalism descends from the heavens and tells you that it was, in actual fact, you that was the real fascist all along
>judges gives you a wildly disproportionate sentence to send a "lesson" because such things really get the state's panties in a twist

sadly i have little doubt this is pretty much exactly how things would play out

[Imperializt Russia]

The Independent has an article from 2012 which I'm starting to see shared.

At an address in Maidenhead (May's constituency), he promised to "kill off health and safety culture".
The article is headlined: "Cameron - I will kill off safety culture".

I have to stress - it is not satire.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/po ... 85238.html

[Irona]

The Independent has an article from 2012 which I'm starting to see shared.

At an address in Maidenhead (May's constituency), he promised to "kill off health and safety culture".
The article is headlined: "Cameron - I will kill off safety culture".

I have to stress - it is not satire.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/po ... 85238.html

As much as people complain about regulations, there is a reason they exist.

[Vassenor]

Also May seems to be the first PM I can think of to duck out of attending the Queen's Birthday Parade.

She really doesn't want to people apparently.

[Frank Zipper]

Also May seems to be the first PM I can think of to duck out of attending the Queen's Birthday Parade.

She really doesn't want to people apparently.

It's the smell

[Ifreann]

>protest peacefully for years
>nothing happens
>your home burns down and half your family dies
>you kick in a window out of sheer frustration
>the daily mail, sun etc. turn it into explosive headlines
>the british public tut their heads and remind you that you should have just protested peacefully instead and they can't condone violence, just like that ghandi chap
>the archgod of moderate liberalism descends from the heavens and tells you that it was, in actual fact, you that was the real fascist all along
>judges gives you a wildly disproportionate sentence to send a "lesson" because such things really get the state's panties in a twist

sadly i have little doubt this is pretty much exactly how things would play out

+/- getting twatted on the head with a truncheon or tased or something.

[Thanatttynia]

Jesus Christ the Newsnight interview was painful to watch - how can someone in any public office misread so completely a situation like this and offer the sort of response she has? May can't even get offering condolences and support right. It's not that fucking difficult

Oh what happened? When was the interview?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ftY1NlPk5YY

>protest peacefully for years
>nothing happens
>your home burns down and half your family dies
>you kick in a window out of sheer frustration
>the daily mail, sun etc. turn it into explosive headlines
>the british public tut their heads and remind you that you should have just protested peacefully instead and they can't condone violence, just like that ghandi chap
>the archgod of moderate liberalism descends from the heavens and tells you that it was, in actual fact, you that was the real fascist all along
>judges gives you a wildly disproportionate sentence to send a "lesson" because such things really get the state's panties in a twist

sadly i have little doubt this is pretty much exactly how things would play out

This is looking pretty likely. People who are represented by the current political system don't seem to have a) a clue or b) the empathy to imagine what it is like when your voice is consistently and completely ignored by the mainstream.

The Independent has an article from 2012 which I'm starting to see shared.

At an address in Maidenhead (May's constituency), he promised to "kill off health and safety culture".
The article is headlined: "Cameron - I will kill off safety culture".

I have to stress - it is not satire.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/po ... 85238.html

Conservative obsession with cutting back on "damn health and safety" reaches its clear, logical and deeply saddening conclusion in this tragedy. Something like this was always going to happen

[Vassenor]

Also May seems to be the first PM I can think of to duck out of attending the Queen's Birthday Parade.

She really doesn't want to people apparently.

It's the smell

Oh come on, the piles of horse crap don't smell that bad.

[Frank Zipper]

It's the smell

Oh come on, the piles of horse crap don't smell that bad.

How quickly the Matrix is forgotten.

[Vassenor]

Oh come on, the piles of horse crap don't smell that bad.

How quickly the Matrix is forgotten.

I don't recall Smith ranting about smells when he was doing his "human beings are a disease" spiel.