EU referendum, brexit and the aftermath

This is quite impressive - no matter what your stance on Brexit, you are likely to believe that Corbyn's stance is opposite to yours: https://twitter.com/MariosRichards/status/1165587380436381696

When I was in Argentina during their big financial implosion in the early 00s, I was living with somebody who went on to become a economic history professor at a UK university.

Argentina famously experienced several generations of brutal dictatorship and their hardship in the 00s was probably the toughest test for the Argentine people since the end of the dictator era. My friend was conducting research to gauge political opinions during the crisis, attempting to find evidence to support his theory that politics shifts right during times of hardship.

Sure enough, by 2002, despite the extra judicial deaths of tens of thousands of Argentine civilians still fresh in their minds, people started to reminisce about the dictatorship days and some even called for its return.

Miserable stuff. Not unique to Argentina either. Perhaps understandable that many wouldn't care about loss of freedoms if it meant that they had enough food to eat.

Pretty terrifying. All this shit with Roma Ultra football fans with Mussolini and Spanish equivalents mirrors that.

Political cartoonists have been having a field day with Boris recently but this might be my favourite:

So simple.

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Apologies for buzzfeed link

https://www.buzzfeed.com/alexwickham/government-eu-citizens-brexit-adverts-banned?fbclid=IwAR0a6j7ZEEMFMTFou8TnYQ97-jW_ZbNuk0KmIMvkCfEJodXkITQPqzMjAWU

But the government ad about settled status telling EU citizens they just need their passport to apply (which is often...not true and you need to upload extra evidence) has been banned under Advertising Standards Agency rules.

And so I am off to get yet another Irony Meter

Proper music
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-49486164
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4-lKMGII_k

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_i9sMli_xN0

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-49493632

Government to ask Queen to suspend Parliament

Nuclear option armed.

and from S** News: "A government source said the move was to help the new prime minister get on with implementing his domestic agenda" - get to fuck, you lying unnamed cunt. Just admit it was the plan all along...

Fuck fuck fuck

So - the real fight kicking off today.

Kaboom!

between doing fuck all and trying to cover up for her pedo kids i don't know where she'll find the time!

That's the beauty of a constitutional monarchy though - it's all held in balance by a system of checks and balances. Right up until a sociopathic fucknozzle decides he wants to be prime minister more than he wants his country to not be fucked up, and then apparently nobody can do anything because lord blackrod has prorogued the queen with the magic snitch.

Idea: Queen abdicates and all timings thrown into chaos.

I don't see it happening.

This is again straight out of the Trump populist playbook, know you can't get any result but make it look like a "win" for your supports who are happy with blaming others.

Also what a shower of bastards to try this. Bah.

1. We’re going to suspend parliament
   
2. Oh no you’re not, we’re having a no confidence vote before then
   
3. Oh yes we are, you’ll fail to agree a new government which will trigger a GE and suspend parliament, just like what we wanted
   
   

FYI, early bird tickets to the Panto at the Hackney Empire are available until 31 August.

lolololol!

Best for Britain, a group committed to stopping Brexit “through any
democratic means”, have issued a statement.

The group’s chief executive Naomi Smith said:

It would make no sense for the Queen to back this deeply undemocratic,
unconstitutional and fundamentally political manoeuvre from the
government.

If the Queen is asked to help, she would do well to remember history
doesn’t look too kindly on royals who aid and abet the suspension of
democracy.

They would do well to remember what happened to the last group who conspired to commit regicide.

https://www.politics.co.uk/blogs/2019/08/28/prorogue-the-government-takes-its-shot

For those of us who are uninitiated antipodeans (with dual nationality), do we cut off the queen's head or boris johnsons?

This is a great set up for Diana (Princess of our hearts) to come out of hiding and take power.

The group’s* chief executive, Naomi Smith, said:

It would make no sense for the Queen to back this deeply undemocratic, unconstitutional and fundamentally political manoeuvre from the government.
If the Queen is asked to help, she would do well to remember history doesn’t look too kindly on royals who aid and abet the suspension of democracy.

Jonny Dymond
BBC royal correspondent
It will be impossible for the Queen to turn down the prime minister's request.
The Queen acts on the advice of her prime minister.
While many, many people may be upset that Parliament is not going to sit at such time, precedent is on the side of those making this decision.
The idea is these things are settled in the Palace of Westminster, not Buckingham Palace.
The Queen has very little wriggle room to make any kind of political decision.

*Best for Britain, a group committed to stopping Brexit “through any democratic means”

Well, shit.

At least the post from rhb a few posts up shows not all hope it lost (Ian Dunt thinks even in two weeks something can be done)

I think some of that will rely on Corbyn ditching his ambitions to lead any alternative interim government. I don't see that happening, as he seems too stubborn. But I may be wrong.

Well this is bat shit mental.

Bet the Queen is livid as she's now in the position of looking anti-democratic no matter what she does.

In some ways the 2 weeks left in Oct makes me a bit suspicious that it's been done this way on purpose. You put an amendable motion up so the risk of no deal is minimal. But you get to look tough by saying "I prorogued parliament and they still stopped us from Brexiting" → BXP supporters fall in behind Boris → call GE → walk away with a big majority and do whatever sort of Brexit you want