EU referendum, brexit and the aftermath

Me too, remember Giddion's weight loss and haircut....prep for the big time

Or undeclared chopchop habit...

In every thread

He is, apparently, popular with the "metropolitan" crowd.

Gonna shed some light on this (for @JWestland and @Well_is_it too) as I moved over to Amsterdam 6 months ago.

Tax isn't higher for foreigners, it's higher for everyone. Over €33k and it's 42%. Add to that the (legally required) health insurance and it can be a fair chunk.

HOWEVER if you're brought over to work in the Netherlands, you can apply for the '30% ruling'. There's more info here but the short version is that, providing you can meet a number of requirements, you can get up to 30% of your net salary tax free.

It's a fantastic place to live and work. There's a lot of opportunity for skilled people (e.g. graphic design) and the quality of life is pretty unbelievable.

I imagine he had that when fat and he had that when thin

So how does one get a snap general election?

Petition the queen.

Kill all the mp's

i'm fucking off back to the colonies - at least i can be fucked over by an undeserving elite with a nice sea view.

AMEN

If only.

I'm getting fed up of these pompous cunts ruining the country for their own personal gain.

https://www.theguardian.com/education/2014/jun/09/boarding-schools-bad-leaders-politicians-bullies-bumblers

So much that is wrong with the country comes from the stupefied apathy of the majority of the population (wholeheartedly including myself in this) leaving the running of the country to the same patrician class that have had the reigns for 500 years…

Whilst this is partially true, I think things have clearly escalated in the last 50 years, and been compounded by the total control a small handful of individuals have over our media, using it to push their own agenda.

I don't particularly like BoJo but the idea that he can be bullied into not standing in a political race (or even that this is just a plausible explanation) because of a leaked email from a newspaper editor seems shocking

You could spin this and say the population has become so stupefied by consumerism/popular culture/mass media/middle-class comfort that they have no interest in challenging the reality presented to them by the media-lords and allowing them such ridiculous power.

Cool, tx!

Also, more tax, but fewer potholes and moar bieks/cycle lanes ;)

I'd agree with that totally. As a teenager reading AdBusters and other things I've never really understood how the majority of people can be so blind to these sorts of things

I fucking hate this calling the cunt 'BoJo', 'Boris' or 'BJ' - anything that humanises him or makes him sound like a bit of a lad, a buffoon, a 'ledge', something a bit rebellious and anti-establishment. Sick of the bicycle, the faux-messy hair, the 'oops I'm stuck on a clothesline' schtick, the classically-educated Russell Brand vocabulary

He's Johnson, he's a typical standard Bullingdon cunt, and he's damaged all of us.

Don't hold back, tell us what you really think.

(sorry, wasn't meant to humanise him, just lazy typing)

New page....

What the actual fuck is going on?

Let's ask for a change of thread title.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fixed-term_Parliaments_Act_2011

Section 2 of the Act also provides for two ways in which a general election can be held before the end of this five-year period:

1. If the House of Commons resolves "That this House has no confidence in Her Majesty's Government", an early general election is held, unless the House of Commons subsequently resolves "That this House has confidence in Her Majesty's Government". This second resolution must be made within fourteen days of the first.
   
2. If the House of Commons, with the support of two-thirds of its total membership (including vacant seats), resolves "That there shall be an early parliamentary general election".
   
   

In either of these two cases, the Monarch (on the recommendation of the prime minister) appoints the date of the new election by proclamation. Parliament is then dissolved 25 working days before that date.

Has anyone really been far even as decided to use even go want to do look more like?

I read that in Philomena Crunks voice- made it even better.

all. day. long.

tho lay off the johnson's.