EU referendum, brexit and the aftermath

Weren't there a couple of high-profile murders around the election data / potential rigging during that campaign also?

Edit: UTFSed - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-40807425

Not saying these things are linked.

Fuck that's dark. Dirty tricks campaign indeed

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-49008826

10 things that stopped brexit happening. Pretty decent article.

Just listening to LBC call in on brexit.
"We used to have fish and chips in news paper and they did so we don't anymore".

Are you in any way surprised?

I bloody love fish and chips. If I genuinely thought those Europeans were taking it away then I'd have voted Leave.

Fish & chips but instead of batter, mayo.

That's a triggering statement. Pls delete

I was a kid about 30+ years ago. I don't remember ever having chips wrapped in news paper. This must have happened decades ago.

Were they used / returned newspapers? I assume so, because it would be cheaper to buy blank bits of paper otherwise. If so, that seems pretty gross.

I understand nostalia, and get that different things become important to different people, but it's so weird to try to make a political point from something so trivial.

The caller was asked to name one policy enforced by the EU that is bad for UK. They went with this.

I've had chips in newspaper before, the newspapers were unsold copies. it was before recycling!

When I was a kid growing up in the 80s I remember getting them wrapped in fake newspaper but not sure I ever experienced the real deal.

I'm fairly sure I remember my Mum telling me that she remembers when they were in newsprint, while I was eating chips in the 80s. So that puts it at least in the 70s...

A quick trawl of the internet indicates that the UK went through a big consolidation of food safety laws in the 80s. It actually became illegal to use newsprint for direct food contact in 1990 although not because newsprint was banned, more because newsprint didn't meet the required safety standards for use.

It does look like the practice died out a long time before that though. A fair few people on this here internet seem to think the practice started to die out in the 50s when rationing was fully ceased.

I've had chips in newspaper before, the newspapers were unsold copies. it was before recycling!

Even unsold, it is extremely unhygienic.

it's so weird to try to make a political point from something so trivial

It isn't weird. It's a surprisingly common tool - see "The EU won't let us sell straight bananas / bunches of fewer than three", etc.

They're not even ENGLISH?!

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/foodanddrink/11140147/The-exotic-history-of-British-fish-and-chips.html

I remember when you used to end up with black hands from the newsprint after reading a newspaper, bet the EU banned that too.

I'm very happy to see Boris get a significant bloody nose in the commons today. Govt lost by over 40 votes.

Take that you feckless twat.

at one point, newspaper ink was made out of recycled engine oil with added pigments and fixatives. You'd need a long piece of paper to list all of the carcinogens on your fish supper!

Still 274 MPs voting in favour of allowing parliament to be suspended so an unpopular event can happen without anyone getting a vote on it.

How did we get here...

An uncharitable reading would suggest this got us here: Bananas, fish and chips wrapped in newspapers and territorial pissing contests over "fish n furrin's"

Blue passports too. Don't forget those - they're going to be the best bit!

Fake news!

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Ver' good.