EU referendum, brexit and the aftermath

We're definitely living in a simulation.

"We want a red, white and blue Brexit."
"If you're a citizen of the world, you're a citizen of nowhere."

Seriously, what a cunt.

france / america / holland must be delighted.

"If you're a citizen of the world, you're a citizen of nowhere."

"And if you're a citizen of Europe... Not anymore! lol!"

Right? Arent red white and blue the most common colours for flags?

Pannick - speaking now - is actually quite impressive

https://www.supremecourt.uk/live/court-01.html

As noted on Twitter: "Lord Pannick demonstrates his skills in batting back all interventions from the court while sticking to his initial summary of his 7 points."

Or perhaps better put: "Like Daredevil against a corridor full of adversaries, Pannick is dealing with constant questioning of the eleven Supreme Court justices."

Putin responds to May's speech:

Pretty sure I saw a DJ set by Lord Pannick once.

laughs, snorts coffee :)

Twitter reports that government coming to terms with reality of losing supreme court case and labour motion (posted above) and promising to publish plan.

Let's see if this actually means anything. I've read enough essays to know that you can say you will do something without actually saying what you'll actually do.

Apparently this is the amendment to the labour motion.

Official: https://www.theguardian.com/politics/blog/live/2016/dec/06/uk-wants-as-much-flexibility-as-possible-in-brexit-negotiating-position-says-hammond-politics-live

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/dec/07/theresa-may-risks-becoming-accidental-europe-wrecker

Brexit wreckers VS Brexit consolers...

Nice Hammond wants flexibility but after years of UK gov/media slagging the EU and being a general PITA...it's not going to be an easy sell :)

Are those the famous £995 leather trousers?

http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/business/opinion/why-i-trust-pm-may-to-get-right-deal-for-northern-ireland-on-brexit-lord-rana-35273232.html

And the buttkissing award goes to... ;)

https://www.buzzfeed.com/jamesball/heres-who-voted-for-brexit-and-who-didnt?utm_term=.jpzJJanp7V#.iv1yyNVYx3

This is interesting, in that it just confirms my stereotype of leave supporters.

It also suggests, as I expected that Labour position on supporting* Brexit is miss judged, as only 36% of people who identified as Labour supports voted leave.

As a lifelong Labour supporter and more recently a member I left over the weekend and I'm now considering join the Lib Dems, something totally unthinkable up until couple of months ago from my prospective.

Who are the confused 2% of UKIPers who voted remain !

*(or at least sleepwalking into letting the Tory headbangers do what they want)

I've joined a couple of UKIP/leaver groups on facebook.
Most posts have basic spelling or grammatical errors (beyond phone/autocorrect laziness), more than half the sources they use are unreferenced right-wing blogs/fake news sites swallowed uncritically (the rest are mainstream newspapers) and there is no attempt to analyse anything or try and understand opposing viewpoints - everything/everyone that doesn't back them up is a conspiracy/lies/treacherous and they will happily make violent threats whilst whining about being oppressed.

^ to be fair, most of the 'liberals' on my fb feed are guilty of exactly the same thing. tho with fewer violent threats.

#noamchomskyquote

I thought someone might say that. It's not a bad point (especially regarding the 'MSM conspiracy' stuff) but I'm also a member of Remainer groups and the difference in discourse between the two is startling.

etc

Low vibrations?

everyone knows washing machines vibrate at specific frequencies to imbue our clothes with negative ions that dull the senses and make us easier to control.

This weeks post from The New European paper (buy it, the best paper eva) is for @jwestland
Portrait of a great European City: Belfast

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Cool!

No stockists here :(

http://www.theneweuropean.co.uk/store-locator

Cavehill is really really worth it for great views (and a MTB trail)