EU referendum, brexit and the aftermath

Private Eye called Johnson 'the babbling fatberg of dishonesty' last week.

Apart from the fattist bit, it's quite a good description. He does babble most of the time.

TBF they were likely comparing the size of his lies, not waist to a fatberg.

Yes totally, but it’s only Scotland where high horses never go underused.

Johnson is on facebook now taking questions ("people's PMQ"). I'm not on it / it's blocked at work. Anyone watching?

I assume the questions are policed, but be interested to see what's happening.

Edit: No, sounds like it was more of the usual, I was expecting something more interactive across users.

So just to be clear here you're going to double down on that instead of apologise?

Eh? The fuck does that even mean?

All the mealy mouthed middle class politically correct posturing you metropolitan types like to fucking indulge in on here on a daily basis for any and every type of domestic and international cause and the second you get called out on your double standards as soon as it comes to anything Scottish (or indeed, Irish and Welsh) and all of a sudden we're the ones riding a high horse?

Get in the fucking sea mate.

Fuck off ya prick

Forgive my ignorance, and I'm not condoning the comment, but what's the story behind sweaty being so bad? I've heard it in passing and never used it, but figured it was a jovial, if derogatory term.

I've never avoiding saying it due to knowing it's particularly offensive or anything, just because I think calling someone a jock for being Scottish or taff for being Welsh or whatever just makes you seem like a bit of a twat.

Origin is supposed to be Cockney rhyming slang for 'Jock' being "Sweaty Sock" but I doubt most of the charmers that use it gratuitously like Ms Hopkins know that and just think it's got something to do with sweating a lot and being unpleasant.

We don't like being referred to as Jocks either, funnily enough, as its origins are again rooted in the English seeming to like to think thats what everyone north of the border is called. Again, more than a strong hint of the Duke of Edinburgh about it and if you called Pakistani's 'Patels' or 'Mohammads' or 'MoMos' it wouldn't really be deemed appropriate so I don't see why we should be expected to grin and bear it either as it's never seemed to be affectionately deployed in my experience...

It's an unflattering epithet by any measure. More importantly it's frequently used in conjunction with diminutive views on the opinions or qualities of people it purports to describe.
It'd fucking get my goat if I was Scottish.

damn crackers.

I got the rhyming jock thing, just wondered if there was more to it than a general English "bantz" term, a bit like Australians calling our fair population poms. Like it's derogatory, but meant with a degree of familiar love, like cunt round here, as apposed to something like paki which has a load of hate behind it, even if people explain it away with "it's just shortening a word" bullshit. Again, this is all ignorance rather than arguments, don't think I've ever called anyone a sweaty or a jock or taff, might've made sheep "jokes" when younger.

Probably a punching down thing, and as a privileged English white boy, I've not really had the pleasure. At least there's something brexit could help with.

arggghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh fkn brexit messing with my shopping list.

I did really enjoy the time a bunch of Asian lads down Rusholme kept referring to my mate as Dave, because all white guys are called Dave, but that's as bad as it gets I guess, at least until you start blaming all your ills on immigrants and try to call things cultural Marxism or whatever us bellends are doing now.

Yellowhammer released.

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/831199/20190802_Latest_Yellowhammer_Planning_assumptions_CDL.pdf

Point 15, redacted, seems to be something about oil refineries:

https://twitter.com/RosamundUrwin/status/1171864228879372289

So we'd have;

1. Food shortages, panic buying and price increases that would disproportionately affect the most vulnerable
   
2. Huge congestion in Kent and around other ports
   
3. Fuel shortages
   
4. Massive job loses as small and medium sized businesses would fail due to being unprepared
   
5. Potential water shortages
   
6. A shortage of medicines
   
   

Project Fear though, eh?

Fuel shortages would change minds, britches love cars.

Bumps in the road?

Fishing boats.
Don't forget them.

And possible water problems when the chemical supply chains get fucked up.

Local authorities affected too.

No problem, all those gammons have converted their cars to run on sovereignty.

Like anyone will click a .gov.uk link now? Or maybe that was all part of the plan?