Bibliogryphon 9,579 Posted December 5, 2018 I must admit that the Brexit discourse on this site has been probably the most civilized that I have encountered on social media. Even though I seem to be in a minority (along with Deathray) as a Remainer all I have encountered is robust debate not dogma induced hostility and insults. People may think we are the underbelly of the acceptable internet but at least we are respectful. 1 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
charon 4,943 Posted December 5, 2018 I'm doing it wrong 5 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
runebomme 377 Posted December 5, 2018 16 minutes ago, Bibliogryphon said: I must admit that the Brexit discourse on this site has been probably the most civilized that I have encountered on social media. Even though I seem to be in a minority (along with Deathray) as a Remainer all I have encountered is robust debate not dogma induced hostility and insults. People may think we are the underbelly of the acceptable internet but at least we are respectful. I think the average person here is smarter than people from most other forums god knows why 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Grim Up North 3,725 Posted December 5, 2018 24 minutes ago, Bibliogryphon said: as a Remainer Remain lost the referendum but has got what they want. It is clear now that the UK will never leave the EU. What that means for our democracy who knows. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Bibliogryphon 9,579 Posted December 5, 2018 40 minutes ago, Grim Up North said: Remain lost the referendum but has got what they want. It is clear now that the UK will never leave the EU. What that means for our democracy who knows. Whatever happens now. There will be a vast political price to pay. 3 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Lord Fellatio Nelson 6,218 Posted December 5, 2018 I'm going for the following... The Government loses a 'No confidence' vote. May resigns. Labour wins a general election. Parliament capitulates and we accept a watered down EU deal. All money is moved from the UK as the new government imposes sweeping tax increases for the rich. Inflation begins to climb like the speedo in a Fast and Furious car. Prices start climbing. The city move whatever money they have left in the UK out. The Government borrows from the IMF. We have no money generated by an economy in free fall to pay it back. People protest on the streets. Wee Jimmy Krankie demands a new Scottish referendum. Corbyn agrees. Scotland votes to fuck off ( alone cannot be any worse than being tied into the UK) A new far right coalition emerges and tells the people what they want to hear. They make gains in local elections. We start turning into fucking Nazis and Trump supporters An election is forced. The far right make gains and hold all the cards in a no overall majority election result. We go back to the 1970s. The End. I can't wait!! 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Lord Fellatio Nelson 6,218 Posted December 5, 2018 Keir Starmer has one of those faces I would like to batter with a stout cut down scaffold pole. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
En Passant 3,741 Posted December 5, 2018 1 minute ago, Lord Fellatio Nelson said: Keir Starmer has one of those faces I would like to batter with a stout cut down scaffold pole. I'm not sure I've got how the sequence in your previous post quite works out yet, still working my head around that. But this? No problem. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Bibliogryphon 9,579 Posted December 5, 2018 13 minutes ago, Lord Fellatio Nelson said: I'm going for the following... The Government loses a 'No confidence' vote. May resigns. Labour wins a general election. Parliament capitulates and we accept a watered down EU deal. All money is moved from the UK as the new government imposes sweeping tax increases for the rich. Inflation begins to climb like the speedo in a Fast and Furious car. Prices start climbing. The city move whatever money they have left in the UK out. The Government borrows from the IMF. We have no money generated by an economy in free fall to pay it back. People protest on the streets. Wee Jimmy Krankie demands a new Scottish referendum. Corbyn agrees. Scotland votes to fuck off ( alone cannot be any worse than being tied into the UK) A new far right coalition emerges and tells the people what they want to hear. They make gains in local elections. We start turning into fucking Nazis and Trump supporters An election is forced. The far right make gains and hold all the cards in a no overall majority election result. We go back to the 1970s. The End. I can't wait!! Agree with start point. But after JC wins election he is replaced as leader with a Remainer who either holds another referendum or arbitarily cancels Brexit. Which allows your Far Right party to gain ground. Same result. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
msc 18,442 Posted December 5, 2018 tbh, most of LFN's laundry list will happen no matter what happens to Brexit imo. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Deathray 2,940 Posted December 5, 2018 51 minutes ago, Lord Fellatio Nelson said: I'm going for the following... The Government loses a 'No confidence' vote. May resigns. Labour wins a general election. Parliament capitulates and we accept a watered down EU deal. All money is moved from the UK as the new government imposes sweeping tax increases for the rich. Inflation begins to climb like the speedo in a Fast and Furious car. Prices start climbing. The city move whatever money they have left in the UK out. The Government borrows from the IMF. We have no money generated by an economy in free fall to pay it back. People protest on the streets. Wee Jimmy Krankie demands a new Scottish referendum. Corbyn agrees. Scotland votes to fuck off ( alone cannot be any worse than being tied into the UK) A new far right coalition emerges and tells the people what they want to hear. They make gains in local elections. We start turning into fucking Nazis and Trump supporters An election is forced. The far right make gains and hold all the cards in a no overall majority election result. We go back to the 1970s. The End. I can't wait!! The last time the government lost three votes in a single day in the Commons was 1978. We all know what happened then. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Lord Fellatio Nelson 6,218 Posted December 5, 2018 2 minutes ago, Deathray said: The last time the government lost three votes in a single day in the Commons was 1978. We all know what happened then. 'We?' You were not even an egg in the ovary of life in 78. 1 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Deathray 2,940 Posted December 5, 2018 1 minute ago, Lord Fellatio Nelson said: 'We?' You were not even an egg in the ovary of life in 78. I can know what happened (broadly speaking) without having the misfortune to have experienced it. 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Lord Fellatio Nelson 6,218 Posted December 5, 2018 1 hour ago, En Passant said: I'm not sure I've got how the sequence in your previous post quite works out yet, still working my head around that. But this? No problem. Well, nor me really. I'm just speculating on a possible forthcoming series of events. Maybe, if we come back to that post on the 5/12/19 , we will see how accurate or massively shite my predictions were! 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Lord Fellatio Nelson 6,218 Posted December 5, 2018 Just now, Deathray said: I can know what happened (broadly speaking) without having the misfortune to have experienced it. Oh, you missed a treat...….. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Deathray 2,940 Posted December 5, 2018 1 minute ago, Lord Fellatio Nelson said: Well, nor me really. I'm just speculating on a possible forthcoming series of events. Maybe, if we come back to that post on the 5/12/19 , we will see how accurate or massively shite my predictions were! I think your main issue is thinking we even get to the main Brexit vote. 6 amendments will be tabled before parliament votes on that. Depending on the content of those amendments, the vote might be untenable. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Bibliogryphon 9,579 Posted December 5, 2018 14 minutes ago, Lord Fellatio Nelson said: Well, nor me really. I'm just speculating on a possible forthcoming series of events. Maybe, if we come back to that post on the 5/12/19 , we will see how accurate or massively shite my predictions were! As long as we still have internet access and are given time off from our work units as decreed by the Great Queen Foster. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Bibliogryphon 9,579 Posted December 5, 2018 5 minutes ago, Deathray said: I think your main issue is thinking we even get to the main Brexit vote. 6 amendments will be tabled before parliament votes on that. Depending on the content of those amendments, the vote might be untenable. TM has form in avoiding votes she knows she will lose but she will struggle to maintain any authority if she does that this time. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Deathray 2,940 Posted December 5, 2018 23 minutes ago, Bibliogryphon said: TM has form in avoiding votes she knows she will lose but she will struggle to maintain any authority if she does that this time. I'm more thinking of the SNP amendment to suspend Article 50. It's unlikely to go through, as it would require Labour backing which it currently doesn't have. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Grim Up North 3,725 Posted December 5, 2018 2053 and Chuka Umunna shuffles forward towards the despatch box - 'Following my meeting with the EU we now have agreement that means we can now propose that the House votes on the UK Leaves the EU Bill version 264, Amendment 7...' Much jeers and cat calls from across the House. Clarissa Toffinose leaps to her feet 'No Brexit means No Brexit! What about the 8th Referendum result in 2047 where the country CLEARLY gave a mandate to this House to not leave the European Union...........' ETC ETC ET fucking cetera Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
charon 4,943 Posted December 5, 2018 As France is tearing itself apart, will we even be the first to leave the EU? 2 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Lord Fellatio Nelson 6,218 Posted December 5, 2018 1 hour ago, charon said: As France is tearing itself apart, will we even be the first to leave the EU? Ah, yes! Apparently, the fuel hike climbdown made by Napoleon Macron is not going far enough. The protesters, apparently, want tax cuts too. 'We will not just accept crumbs from the table' or words to that effect have been uttered by one protestor. Italy has agreed a budget that is not agreeable to the EU paymasters. Hungary has a Hitler clone in charge. Poland is moving to the far right. Germans Nazis have been openly shouting 'Seig Heil' in gatherings. It is all warming up nicely! 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Prophet 251 Posted December 5, 2018 48 minutes ago, Lord Fellatio Nelson said: Hungary has a Hitler clone in charge. Poland is moving to the far right. Germans Nazis have been openly shouting 'Seig Heil' in gatherings. Do you believe anything the medias are telling you? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Lord Fellatio Nelson 6,218 Posted December 5, 2018 1 minute ago, Prophet said: Do you believe anything the medias are telling you? Only what I see. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
charon 4,943 Posted December 6, 2018 Something in the Trump easing off in the Bone Saw thing made me think on Gorgeous George ripping the Senate Enquiry. A short blast in the diatribe was about they never accused him of Saud backing, because they had an interest. Worth watching for the lolz of him tearing them to shreds, whether you a young shaver or a Yank, it will never have happened so completely. * Carl Levin, the more with it Senator, 84 now BTW.... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites