UK Politics Thread VIII—Can't Let EU Go

[Great Confederacy of Commonwealth States]

Post-Brexit trade partners ask UK to lower human rights standards


Wasn't the whole point of this about getting rid of foreign influence on our laws and politics?

He's not agreeing to that though is he

Fox said that he would not drop Europe’s standards on human rights in exchange for trade deals, as he explained why limited progress had been made with some nations that the UK currently trades with under EU arrangements.

So they are still following EU standards, but without many of the benefits. Meanwhile, Britain will have to choose whether to drop some human rights protection in return for trade deals on the same level as they had before.

WIN

[Trumptonium1]

I thought it was obvious it was a stock celebration photo and not literally claimed to be a massive pro-Brexit party where the whole street came out; pretty unlikely when opinion is still about 50/50.

Stop it. This is not the thread where logic is allowed. Leave it by the door when you enter.

[Trumptonium1]

Talking about Brexit Day celebrations, assface Defence Minister Tobias Ellwood blocked Parliament's calls to celebrate the day with a nationwide Red Arrows flypast because it would be "too divisive"

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/articl ... ainer.html

It's a bit like telling a football team they cannot celebrate their win in case it upsets the losing team. It's called victory, we celebrate victories.

[Ifreann]

Talking about Brexit Day celebrations, assface Defence Minister Tobias Ellwood blocked Parliament's calls to celebrate the day with a nationwide Red Arrows flypast because it would be "too divisive"

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/articl ... ainer.html

It's a bit like telling a football team they cannot celebrate their win in case it upsets the losing team.

Do the government often put on air shows for the winner of the Premier League? The government showing such extravagant preference to a subset of the population might be seen as somewhat divisive.

It's called victory, we celebrate victories.

Leaving the EU isn't a victory, though. Not in the way that winning a football match is. You aren't competing in a contest with Brexit on the line. Brexit is a political decision, and one that was made years ago.

[Vassenor]

Talking about Brexit Day celebrations, assface Defence Minister Tobias Ellwood blocked Parliament's calls to celebrate the day with a nationwide Red Arrows flypast because it would be "too divisive"

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/articl ... ainer.html

It's a bit like telling a football team they cannot celebrate their win in case it upsets the losing team. It's called victory, we celebrate victories.

Right, how dare he say you can't use thousands of taxpayer pounds just to masturbate.

[Trumptonium1]

Talking about Brexit Day celebrations, assface Defence Minister Tobias Ellwood blocked Parliament's calls to celebrate the day with a nationwide Red Arrows flypast because it would be "too divisive"

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/articl ... ainer.html

It's a bit like telling a football team they cannot celebrate their win in case it upsets the losing team. It's called victory, we celebrate victories.

Right, how dare he say you can't use thousands of taxpayer pounds just to masturbate.

Well the previous government used 9 million to spread propaganda (although it doubled up as free toilet paper) so I think we're entitled to a 9 million budget to masturbate over.

[Trumptonium1]

Breaking news:

Pro-Remain Conservative MP Nick Boles' local conservative party association has begun a deselection process
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Guido & Spectator confirm that Heidi Allen MP is now also facing deselection from her South Cambridgeshire conservative party association.

The mass exodus begins.

Now get rid of Soubry.

[Thermodolia]

Talking about Brexit Day celebrations, assface Defence Minister Tobias Ellwood blocked Parliament's calls to celebrate the day with a nationwide Red Arrows flypast because it would be "too divisive"

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/articl ... ainer.html

It's a bit like telling a football team they cannot celebrate their win in case it upsets the losing team.

Do the government often put on air shows for the winner of the Premier League? The government showing such extravagant preference to a subset of the population might be seen as somewhat divisive.

It's called victory, we celebrate victories.

Leaving the EU isn't a victory, though. Not in the way that winning a football match is. You aren't competing in a contest with Brexit on the line. Brexit is a political decision, and one that was made years ago.

I hate people who think of politics as a game.

[Ifreann]

Do the government often put on air shows for the winner of the Premier League? The government showing such extravagant preference to a subset of the population might be seen as somewhat divisive.

Leaving the EU isn't a victory, though. Not in the way that winning a football match is. You aren't competing in a contest with Brexit on the line. Brexit is a political decision, and one that was made years ago.

I hate people who think of politics as a game.

I don't particularly fault people for wanting to celebrate Brexit. I think they're wrong to want to leave the EU, but clearly they're very emotionally invested in doing so, so it only makes sense that they'd want to celebrate when it finally happens.

[The Blaatschapen]

I hate people who think of politics as a game.

Posted in a nation simulation game

[Souseiseki]

Talking about Brexit Day celebrations, assface Defence Minister Tobias Ellwood blocked Parliament's calls to celebrate the day with a nationwide Red Arrows flypast because it would be "too divisive"

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/articl ... ainer.html

It's a bit like telling a football team they cannot celebrate their win in case it upsets the losing team. It's called victory, we celebrate victories.

yeah we're not wasting our fucking money on a "victory" parade for you. you're free to celebrate in your own stadium the way football teams do if you really feel like it. it's nothing more than nationalistic self-aggrandizement.

[Vassenor]

Talking about Brexit Day celebrations, assface Defence Minister Tobias Ellwood blocked Parliament's calls to celebrate the day with a nationwide Red Arrows flypast because it would be "too divisive"

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/articl ... ainer.html

It's a bit like telling a football team they cannot celebrate their win in case it upsets the losing team. It's called victory, we celebrate victories.

yeah we're not wasting our fucking money on a "victory" parade for you. you're free to celebrate in your own stadium the way football teams do if you really feel like it. it's nothing more than nationalistic self-aggrandizement.

Especially since, as Brexiteers like to point out, we're a democracy. Not everyone voted for Brexit, and spending a huge amount of taxpayer cash just to publicly give them the finger is stupid.

[Souseiseki]

like holy shit there's a chance people will be mourning the loss of their EU citizenship against their will or dealing with mountains of paperwork and incoming debt as they need to sort out the brexit mess and your fucking solution to that is to fly planes over them to "celebrate" it are you fucking joking me of course they told you no. and that is the absolute realistic best case scenario for brexit day, nevermind what will happen if even half of project fear becomes true. (i'm already getting pissy at the idea of it being a Y2K thing where the government pulls overtime to make sure you aren't stuck in a bread line (wow like that would ever happen in the UK except for the several times it happened in your lifetime nevermind your parents lifetime) and we need to deal with people going "lol so what about all that stuff huh")

[Vassenor]

And since we're bigging up the Daily Mail, I feel it only fair to point out that they're losing advertisers again over their refusal to stop printing hate-fuelled lies.

[Trumptonium1]

And since we're bigging up the Daily Mail, I feel it only fair to point out that they're losing advertisers again over their refusal to stop printing hate-fuelled lies.

still the newspaper with the highest revenue and daily readership online, what's your point?

[Ifreann]

Talking about Brexit Day celebrations, assface Defence Minister Tobias Ellwood blocked Parliament's calls to celebrate the day with a nationwide Red Arrows flypast because it would be "too divisive"

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/articl ... ainer.html

It's a bit like telling a football team they cannot celebrate their win in case it upsets the losing team. It's called victory, we celebrate victories.

yeah we're not wasting our fucking money on a "victory" parade for you. you're free to celebrate in your own stadium the way football teams do if you really feel like it. it's nothing more than nationalistic self-aggrandizement.

Nothing says "nationalism" like wanting government sponsored trolling of half of your own nation.

[The Archregimancy]

Talking about Brexit Day celebrations, assface Defence Minister Tobias Ellwood blocked Parliament's calls to celebrate the day with a nationwide Red Arrows flypast because it would be "too divisive"

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/articl ... ainer.html

It's a bit like telling a football team they cannot celebrate their win in case it upsets the losing team. It's called victory, we celebrate victories.

yeah we're not wasting our fucking money on a "victory" parade for you. you're free to celebrate in your own stadium the way football teams do if you really feel like it. it's nothing more than nationalistic self-aggrandizement.

It's also not 'Parliament's calls'. There's been no 'call' from, or vote in, Parliament as a unit, or a bloc therein, over the Red Arrows. Even the Mail story makes it clear that all's that happened is a single Tory MP (Nigel Evans) associated with the Leave Means Leave group has 'appealed' to the Ministry of Defence, and this has been knocked back by a junior Minister (Tobias Ellwood; Under Secretary of State for Defence People and Veterans).

[Great Confederacy of Commonwealth States]

Talking about Brexit Day celebrations, assface Defence Minister Tobias Ellwood blocked Parliament's calls to celebrate the day with a nationwide Red Arrows flypast because it would be "too divisive"

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/articl ... ainer.html

It's a bit like telling a football team they cannot celebrate their win in case it upsets the losing team. It's called victory, we celebrate victories.

Winning one referendum with the slightest margin over two years ago does not give one side control over the entire national spirit and all a country’s resources.

[Trumptonium1]

yeah we're not wasting our fucking money on a "victory" parade for you. you're free to celebrate in your own stadium the way football teams do if you really feel like it. it's nothing more than nationalistic self-aggrandizement.

Especially since, as Brexiteers like to point out, we're a democracy. Not everyone voted for Brexit, and spending a huge amount of taxpayer cash just to publicly give them the finger is stupid.

it's alright for some



what about the fireworks by blair in 1998 for the 25th anniversary for the EU plus a new commemorative coin at the cost of millions to the taxpayer?
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1998-UK-Pres ... 3980890697

this just 13 months after a million people voted for referendum party in 1997

[Caracasus]

What is the point in celebrating leaving a political and economic union? It's not like bands of brave partisans fought EU stormtroopers to a stalemate in darkest Surrey. We are leaving a political and economic union. That's hardly the sort of thing you do a coin for.

[Vassenor]

What is the point in celebrating leaving a political and economic union? It's not like bands of brave partisans fought EU stormtroopers to a stalemate in darkest Surrey. We are leaving a political and economic union. That's hardly the sort of thing you do a coin for.

You're forgetting that the EU has been systematically destroying this country for the last four decades (even if no-one can explain how).

[Caracasus]

What is the point in celebrating leaving a political and economic union? It's not like bands of brave partisans fought EU stormtroopers to a stalemate in darkest Surrey. We are leaving a political and economic union. That's hardly the sort of thing you do a coin for.

You're forgetting that the EU has been systematically destroying this country for the last four decades (even if no-one can explain how).

The EU has been systematically making very rich people even richer while chucking everyone else the occasional scattering of crumbs to keep them happy for the last few decades. About all that's likely to change for almost all of us is a reduction in crumbs. I'm not that fussed about celebrating its existence or our departure from it.

[Souseiseki]

Especially since, as Brexiteers like to point out, we're a democracy. Not everyone voted for Brexit, and spending a huge amount of taxpayer cash just to publicly give them the finger is stupid.

it's alright for some



what about the fireworks by blair in 1998 for the 25th anniversary for the EU plus a new commemorative coin at the cost of millions to the taxpayer?
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1998-UK-Pres ... 3980890697

this just 13 months after a million people voted for referendum party in 1997

i'm sure sturgeon will love it

[The Archregimancy]

Talking about Brexit Day celebrations, assface Defence Minister Tobias Ellwood blocked Parliament's calls to celebrate the day with a nationwide Red Arrows flypast because it would be "too divisive"

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/articl ... ainer.html

It's a bit like telling a football team they cannot celebrate their win in case it upsets the losing team. It's called victory, we celebrate victories.

yeah we're not wasting our fucking money on a "victory" parade for you.

Ne ego si iterum eodem modo uicero, sine ullo milite Epirum reuertar.

[Trumptonium1]

What is the point in celebrating leaving a political and economic union? It's not like bands of brave partisans fought EU stormtroopers to a stalemate in darkest Surrey. We are leaving a political and economic union. That's hardly the sort of thing you do a coin for.

Plenty of brave partisans found and even died in Greece.