Brexit - The UK leaves the EU

[TenEightyOne]

We're led to believe by some of the Brexit Party outlets that throwing a drink over somebody is a vicious assault. Does anyone have the vid of Fartage throwing a drink over Junker, and do we think such a criminal act should exclude Fartage from standing in this election?

 

[UKMikey]

We're led to believe by some of the Brexit Party outlets that throwing a drink over somebody is a vicious assault. Does anyone have the vid of Fartage throwing a drink over Junker, and do we think such a criminal act should exclude Fartage from standing in this election?

I think it was a mocked up video according to The New European.

[EDIT]

 

[baldgye]

We're led to believe by some of the Brexit Party outlets that throwing a drink over somebody is a vicious assault.

Even if you think throwing milkshake at someone is less bad than racism, it's definitely assault (which racism isn't).

/shrug

 

[Dennisch]

Fartage

I swear that you have a fetish for flatulence. First with Trump and now with Farage.

 

[Liquid]

We've gone from a bullet in an MP to a milkshake over an MEP who said he would be prepared to "don khakis and grab a rifle" over Brexit.

Seems like a step down to me.

 

[Famine]

/shrug

Whether "vicious" or not, it's still very definitely (common) assault, which I'm sure your other half has confirmed for you by this point.

We've gone from a bullet in an MP to a milkshake over an MEP

Speaking of which:

 

[baldgye]

Whether "vicious" or not, it's still very definitely (common) assault, which I'm sure your other half has confirmed for you by this point.

I was pointing out that not everyone calling it assault is a Brexit Party mouth piece.

Are you planning on vote for The Brexit Party?

 

[Famine]

I was pointing out that not everyone calling it assault is a Brexit Party mouth piece.

My membership pack arrived this morning. Apparently our official protest chant is "What do we want!? I'm not quite sure. When do we want it!? YES!".

 

[baldgye]

My membership pack arrived this morning.

Along with your postal vote?

 

[DK]

The British People's Front and People's Front of Britain had a bit of a row.

Also, British Steel is in trouble. I'm sure it's just due to a fall in demand for diesel power.

 

[baldgye]

The British People's Front and People's Front of Britain had a bit of a row.

Yeah, I watched that this morning... I don't understand really. A lunatic rants at an MP?
This division is why The Brexit Party have no real mandate or even a manifesto and why they're so against another referendum.

 

[Famine]

Also, British Steel is in trouble. I'm sure it's just due to a fall in demand for diesel power.

"British Steel" (under its various guises) is in perpetual trouble.

When the BBC article mentions the "site" in Teesside, it fails to mention that it was a much, much larger site that closed down in 2010 back when it was still Tata, then reopened under SSI and closed down for good in 2015 with the loss of all 2,200 jobs. All that's left is the remote Skinningrove site which takes steel made by Scunthorpe and makes them into things (fun fact: this includes France's railway lines):

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Teesside stopped making steel in 2015, and if it hadn't been for SSI starting the furnace up again (which was expensive, because starting up a cooled blast furnace isn't easy) in 2012, would have stopped in 2010 - well before Brexit was even a twinkle in a pig's eye.

The perpetual bogeyman for steel is China, which makes more and cheaper steel than anywhere else. Worse, by all accounts, but cheaper.

There's a Brexit angle too, but it's not actually related to Brexit itself... technically. Essentially, as there was no Brexit deal agreed, the EU decided to suspend the UK's access to carbon emission permits in the EU Emissions Trading Scheme for the 2018-2020 period (which we'd still have been in post-Brexit) until there was one. That left Greybull's British Steel subject to a fine for its 2018 emissions (£500m, reportedly) by the end of April 2019, or having to find enough extra money to buy carbon credits from outside the ETS to offset that, so it had to borrow £100m from the UK Government - which it looks like we're not going to see back any time soon.

 

[Liquid]

It's not like successive British governments have tried to stop using cheaper Chinese steel though. They champion British manufacturing and do nothing to protect it.

Having the company run by asset-stripping venture capitalists wasn't going to have a rosy future anyway.

 

[baldgye]

Spoiler: Language warning

Good thing that flagpole didn’t contain any milkshake

edit: sorry mods didn't see the thumbnail!

 

[Liquid]

That idiot in the zero shame white shirt and lime trousers is, apparently, a lecturer at King's College, London.

If true I'm sure his employers will look upon this association favourably.

 

[UKMikey]

Wish I'd thought of posting that tweet.

 

[Touring Mars]

It looks like it could be game over for Theresa May very shortly - at least one government Minister has said that May could be gone by Friday.

 

[Vegard]

The British People's Front and People's Front of Britain had a bit of a row.

 

[baldgye]

It looks like it could be game over for Theresa May very shortly - at least one government Minister has said that May could be gone by Friday.

 

[Famine]

It looks like it could be game over for Theresa May very shortly - at least one government Minister has said that May could be gone by Friday.

That dude needs a better calendar.

 

[TexRex]

"British Steel" (under its various guises) is in perpetual trouble.

Don't tell Nigel.*

*Not that Nigel, mind.

 

[MaxAttack]

Hey @MaxAttack are you ok to carry on chatting about why you voted for Brexit?

I mean, it’s odd that of the say, three people(?) in this thread who voted for or support Brexit... it’s so hard to tease out a reason for supporting/voting for it.

Hey, haven't forgotten you, will be back. Been a little busy + enjoying Stellaris multiplayer too much to get anything else done.

 

[Robin]

Whether "vicious" or not, it's still very definitely (common) assault

Yup, Police charged the man with common assault and criminal damage.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tyne-48347994

Also, British Steel is in trouble. I'm sure it's just due to a fall in demand for diesel power.

I'm sure it's nothing to do with China flooding the global market with cheap steel for the past decade.

 

[baldgye]

Hey, haven't forgotten you, will be back. Been a little busy + enjoying Stellaris multiplayer too much to get anything else done.

No worries, though I would have thought it to be pretty easy to explain why you did something and two years later stand by said decision.

 

[DK]

I'm sure it's nothing to do with China flooding the global market with cheap steel for the past decade.

Would that be the same cheap Chinese steel that the avoided EU tariffs thanks to the UK?

 

[TenEightyOne]

Would that be the same cheap Chinese steel that the avoided EU tariffs thanks to the UK?

Indeed it would. Obvious European interference is obvious.

EDIT: Andrea Leadsom resigns from the cabinet over 'unworkable' Brexit. And (presumably) in readiness for the leadership challenge.

EDIT II: This is the 36th ministerial resignation under May. Expect the 37th on Friday, if May resigning counts in that figure.

 

[Robin]

Would that be the same cheap Chinese steel that the avoided EU tariffs thanks to the UK?

I don't have a problem with Chinese steel, I was just stating the factor.

 

[baldgye]

leadership challenge.

Hahahahahahahaahaha yeah... like now she’s ready for it

 

[Tired Tyres]

Hahahahahahahaahaha yeah... like now she’s ready for it

Be careful what you find funny. May is a remainer. That's the ONLY reason we didn't leave on the original date. She's never managed to get herself to win because that means leaving.

If she is replaced by someone who does actually want to leave then we leave. On the given day. Deal or no deal.

 

[baldgye]

May is a remainer.

Gross

That's the ONLY reason we didn't leave on the original date.

No it isn't.

She's never managed to get herself to win because that means leaving.

????

If she is replaced by someone who does actually want to leave then we leave.

No one who want's to leave wants to lead, this is why May is still the PM. If there was even the smallest chance of us leaving without it being a total cluster-****, we would have.

On the given day. Deal or no deal.