Brexit - The UK leaves the EU

[baldgye]

At least when I butcher your post and misrepresent what you're saying, it's a joke, and not the misguided jab I see before me now.

A joke so successful and so hilarious it needed several follow up comments to explain how and why it was a joke (tho I've yet to see quite how it was funny... *shrug*)

 

[MaxAttack]

A joke so successful and so hilarious it needed several follow up comments to explain how and why it was a joke (tho I've yet to see quite how it was funny... *shrug*)

Comedy is subjective and as a general rule people don't laugh at things they disagree with or jokes made at their expense.

Can't please 'em all, pal.

All that said, I AM sorry if you're really offended by having your post edited. I'm not in the habit of enjoying page-long arguments (no, really) and, like I say, I've done a lot of FTFY posts in my time on the internet, and never had someone get offended by it, so I really hope you know that trolling/annoying you wasn't my intention, just to make my retort quickly.

You can still think I'm an asshole if you want, but I won't do it to you again.

 

[Touring Mars]

I do like the way that both contenders for the job of UK's Prime Minister say that not delivering Brexit would destroy the Conservative Party as if that was a bad thing.

 

[Hun200kmh]

It's only logical. The voters that will "elect the UK's next Prime Minister" are the Conservative Party Members.

 

[Touring Mars]

Presented without comment.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-48807161

 

[MaxAttack]

Presented without comment.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-48807161

Bye bye trees

 

[Dotini]

Is this 100% proof the smartest people on the planet already know that global warming/climate change is a complete hoax without meaning, merit or remedy?

 

[TenEightyOne]

Is this 100% proof the smartest people on the planet already know that global warming/climate change is a complete hoax without meaning, merit or remedy?

What?

 

[TenEightyOne]

Posh idiot waves kipper on stage. His fishy friend comes from the Isle of Man. It's not clear if Johnson knows that IoM isn't in the United Kingdom.



EU commission then points out that his complaints are all with the UK, les kippers 'ave nossing to do weez zem.

 

[Dennisch]

And he will be your next PM.

You guys are no longer allowed to mock American politics, or Trump.

 

[baldgye]

Posh idiot waves kipper on stage. His fishy friend comes from the Isle of Man. It's not clear if Johnson knows that IoM isn't in the United Kingdom.



EU commission then points out that his complaints are all with the UK, les kippers 'ave nossing to do weez zem.

Ladies and gentlemen, the next British prime minister

 

[Liquid]

MPs vote 315-274 to block allowing the government to dissolve parliament to push through a No Deal Brexit.

274 MPs voted themselves out of usefulness and needn't return to the chamber.
274 MPs would be happy at giving the government the power to do what it wants without a legislative mandate and without being held to account.

Comparisons, comparisons... at least the Enabling Act 2019 failed to get pushed through this time.

 

[TenEightyOne]

An interesting take on why the Queen might, but probably won't, travel to Brussels to sort them baggers ite.

BBC.

 

[Venari]

Heh.

"One has been asked by my government to come here and ask to do a sensible thing that all of them seem to be incapable of. Don't worry, when one goes home, one will sack all the useless ****s. Nobody makes Lilybet get on a plane for this ****."

 

[MatskiMonk]

Philip! Get the Range Rover!

 

[PzR Slim]

And he will be your next PM.

You guys are no longer allowed to mock American politics, or Trump.

Johnson is a Pound Shop Trump.

 

[Danoff]

And he will be your next PM.

You guys are no longer allowed to mock American politics, or Trump.

 

[Famine]

And he will be your next PM.

You guys are no longer allowed to mock American politics, or Trump.

Well, given that the US electorate voted for Trump to do the job and the UK electorate didn't vote for Boris to do the job, I think we can still hold some type of high ground.

It is also possible under a variety of circumstances for a US President to take office without the electorate voting for them, so we're about even there. This has happened once that I can recall, with VP Gerald Ford succeeding Nixon when he resigned. Fun fact: Ford was also elected VP by Congress, so the electorate never voted him to either office.

 

[TenEightyOne]

I wonder if any of tomorrow's papers are running "You Kipper" as a headline? They'd better be.

 

[UKMikey]

I wonder if any of tomorrow's papers are running "You Kipper" as a headline? They'd better be.

i's gone for the less punny but slightly more accurate "Done up like a kipper" on its front page.

 

[baldgye]

I wonder if any of tomorrow's papers are running "You Kipper" as a headline? They'd better be.

More like they’d batter be!



....Oh god it’s all so awful

 

[Liquid]

Fish puns give me a haddock.

Philip! Get the Range Rover!

"God save them from me."

 

[UKMikey]

Fish puns give me a haddock.

Sorry. We're just indulging for the halibut, mate.

 

[Dotini]

(Bloomberg) -- Boris Johnson has not even entered Number 10 Downing Street as Britain’s prime minister and already he is facing a battle to keep the government he hopes to lead alive.

If, as expected, Johnson is named Conservative leader on Tuesday and becomes prime minister on Wednesday, he will inherit a country in crisis and a governing party so divided that some members fear it could break apart.

The leadership contest, in which Johnson is competing with Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt, has deepened the splits within the party over Brexit. Those tensions are likely to increase as the clock ticks down to the Oct. 31 deadline for leaving the European Union.

While Johnson’s allies prepare for a fight, one minister threatened to try to topple the next administration rather than allow the new premier to take Britain out of the EU without a deal.

What would be the likely importance of the Conservative party breaking apart?

 

[Liquid]

What would be the likely importance of the Conservative party breaking apart?

The oldest extant political party in the country, founded in 1834 and tracing its origins to 1678 that also happens to be the largest and current governing party, collapsing would of course be significant.

Predicting what would happen depends on exactly how it falls apart; whether it is a merger, a split, a takeover or an abandonment.

 

[TheCracker]

What would be the likely importance of the Conservative party breaking apart?

An early general election i'd imagine. Although that would likely lead to another hung parliament and an even more fragmented coalition, no matter which party 'wins'. Both leading parties are very fractured at the moment. We won't have a strong and stable leadership in the UK in any forceable future.

 

[Dennisch]

If you guys don't look out, Brussel will step in and take over.

 

[Famine]

The Conservatives already did split, into UKIP, which is now succeeded by the Brexit Party.

Just watch for step two, where they come back and Boris installs Farage as deputy PM...

 

[baldgye]

The Conservatives already did split, into UKIP, which is now succeeded by the Brexit Party.

Just watch for step two, where they come back and Boris installs Farage as deputy PM...

You mean, US-U.K. Ambassador...

I think there stands a good chance of the Tories splitting and bolstering The BREXIT Party, but they’ll fail to do much more than they have and further break apart just as UKIP did. If the main stay Tory party can weather than assumed storm they’ll be stronger for it... maybe

 

[PzR Slim]

One of the saddest things about Brexit is how many ordinary people have totally bought into the lie that it's for their benefit.

https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/op...ris-johnsons-government-of-all-the-lobbyists/