EU referendum, brexit and the aftermath

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-42707383

"Five UK nationals are going to court in the Netherlands in a campaign to keep their EU citizenship after Brexit.

They want a Dutch judge to press the European Court of Justice (ECJ) to clarify their rights."

In a way I hope they succeed but:

"But this could be "politically awkward" for the remaining 27 member states.

"It would take out of their hands the question of what rights UK citizens would enjoy after Brexit.

"Those rights would no longer be a matter of political gift - EU law would continue to guarantee EU citizenship rights to those who are UK citizens at the date of Brexit. It would, potentially, weaken their position at the negotiating table."

Now I don't think rights should be up for negotiation, but Theresa May started this whole bullshit as the EU offered all rights, but the UK didn't want to agree to that as it means doing the same for EU immigrants in the UK, and it was all about reducing immigration for Maybot and her team.

So, it may weaken the position of EU immigrants in the UK again. I'm thinking the EU will do the right thing anyway, as they already forced a lot of concessions from the UK. But it's politics which can be nasty at times.

It's all about how you ask the question

https://twitter.com/bbc5live/status/953332375722881024

bbc5 interview, Spanish nurse leaves over xenophobia, some of the comments prove her point exactly O_o

You'd have to be mad to be in b) wouldn't you?

Why? We’re a parliamentary democracy, if a majority in Parliament votes to halt Brexit then that’s what should happen.

Ah, no I agree with that. I think I misinterpreted b)

The Sun's version of a Bye-EU tapestry

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DTyC2orWkAQM_ZI.jpg

Fuck me sideways that thing is cringy as hell.

That is an embarrasment.

But...but.... the Bayeaux tapestry depicts a defeat at the hands of the French... I mean, presumably the subtext for it being lent to us somehow involves that no?

Funny thing is, we own a lots of our heritage and culture to the French.

....and great swathes of the language in which that particular publication (can't bear to say it) prints

heritage

from Old French iritage
https://www.etymonline.com/word/heritage

culture

from Middle French culture and directly from Latin cultura
https://www.etymonline.com/word/culture

Hah, literal too!

The sooner Nigel 'thumb drive' Farage - and his friend Air Bank - are behind bars the better

(From a second transcript from the House Intelligence Committee)

Poor old Arron. The transcriber has obviously never heard of him. Unlike the High Prince of Cringe, the Nigel.

The scale and scope of what Mueller could potentially uncover makes my brain hurt.

And the fact that no-one over here really cares about it (i.e. formally investigating all this mess with a view to taking action if any laws are shown to have been broken) makes my brain hurt.

Did you see the plot of the book Boris Johnson's dad wrote last year?

"PM discovers evidence that her party was bribed by Russia to call an EU referendum"

Anything seems possible

https://kottke.org/18/01/brexit-stamps

Leadsom calls for brexit stamps. The internet delivers ...

Don't worry the electoral commission fined the lib Dems for wrong categorising expenses, they'll get to this next :/

It's all clearly ultra dodgy but the legal mechanisms to tackle this arent there? Or nobody cares?

We still know nothing much about that dodgy DUP advertisement money either...

Simply fabulous.

There were a few others here too :)

http://bellacaledonia.org.uk/2018/01/16/independence-day-2/