EU referendum, brexit and the aftermath

it suggested just the name gives you processor and/or brain trouble

You should watch his Select Committee appearance

Oh. Is it him?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJjShkGCa4c

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/apr/20/accuracy-is-for-snake-oil-pussies-vote-leaves-campaign-director-defies-mps

"oh just a few decimal points"

Yeah cos the bank accounts of everyone done by the economic effects of what happened so far work like that too. £10,£100,£1000 sure its just numbers!

Special place in hell job.

Farage gets his life back, on BBC 2 at the moment is pretty good

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-37815864

MPs suggest Nissan can have it's tariff free cake and eat it...

...still confused how. Is this going to slowly but surely push into an EEC exit?

I don't see how the UK can get it, and if they only get tariff free deals for SOME industries (like cars, everybody likes a good German car) isn't that unfair to other areas like agriculture?

Interesting suggestions here : https://t.co/6YkrStR3Lk not the suggested solution (which sounds completely nuts and untenable to me) but the point that this is an admission that the government are tacitly making an admission here - one that means they will try and sustain access to the Internal market, and that they must be willing to make some sort of concession on the other freedoms to get it.

Staying in the EEC also means NI may retain some of its EU money, same for Wales and other areas that really need it.

If some areas refuse to allow immigration, and others do...we'll have some data in another 10-20 years if it really makes a different to issues immigration is blamed for.

But most of this seems exit lark to be downs to "sentiments" [bar a few issue such as EU feature creep/lack of being able to withdraw EU laws etc.] rather than data/thinking things through. Data may be completely irrelevant...spin may be all there is to it.

my mum just emailed me to say she's got an irish grandparent so is applying for an irish passport. woohoo!

i checked and because she didn't do so before I was born, no irish passport for me :( doh!

#stuckinthisshithole

Aaaw :(

I might try and get one, did you check with the Irish embassy?

just going by what's on the website but will look into it properly when she's got hers.

my surname is Murphy - despite going back several gens not a hint of Irish in the family - fuck my old boots

Give Italy a bash... I believe that there's no generational limit (as long as it wasn't renounced). Surely at some point everyone should be able to get back there?!

You've just got to love the many and varied Brexit story angles.

http://www.standard.co.uk/news/politics/brexit-process-may-be-too-complicated-for-british-politicians-academics-warn-a3384906.html

My wife's parents are Scottish. Fingers crossed for another referendum soon....

When I got my Irish passport, I just had to declare that at least one grandparent was born on the island of Ireland. Don't recall having to give any evidence. Mind you, that was 20 years ago, before it was cool...

Section 50 court case verdict tomorrow at 10am

I'm not hopeful as the section 50 part was rejected in the NI high court :/

Looks like Kronie will be off the menu from 'Spoons:

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2016/nov/02/wetherspoon-boss-eu-leaders-brexit-talks-tim-martin

none of that froggy poofs cidre muck round here, proper british cider from now on! preferably from these patriots!

http://www.thethreecountiesciderandperryassociation.co.uk/

Anybody know if there is a cultural reason for those cider guys to be blacking up?

It's a morris dancing thing, not a racist thing (aparrently):

Dancers may have their faces blackened or otherwise disguised as in the photograph below. Disguising the face in this way is well-known in English social history: men wishing to pursue proscribed activities would black their faces to avoid recognition: such activities could include both smuggling and morris dancing!

From here: http://www.themorrisring.org/publications/morris-tradition

pretty sure that doesn't make it any more acceptable.

it was from the very first morris dancers who were also employed down the coal mines so would burn off some steam at the end of the day with a bit of a jig before going home to wash their faces and beat their wives.

hence the term morris miner.