EU referendum, brexit and the aftermath

I would have been all over that shit - do you know how much natural toothpaste costs?!

I'm fairly sure that every time there is large scale civil disobedience or rioting it effects the behaviour of parliament, not necessarily for the better. I imagine that if the miners strike had been entirely peaceful then Thatcher would have had a much harder time sticking to her guns when an entire industry was striking. The Battle of Orgreave (not getting into who started it here) allowed Thatcher to take the moral high ground and helped sway public opinion in her favour.

With regards to the poll tax, yes civil disobedience and peaceful protest as a whole played a much larger part in getting it overturned. However in that instant a much larger percentage of the population were sympathetic to the rioters, and dare I say it a lot more of the people who were sympathetic this time were middle class. This made it much harder for the government carry on regardless.

Riots in and of themselves will not change government policy but they will always have an effect on the behaviour of the government.

"Since when do decisions in a parliamentary democracy get made by riot?"

It seems you meant to include "threat" on the end.

The current situation is unprecedented in all sorts of ways.

And Holland & Barrett was completely left alone I believe.

Nobody had time to work out the combinations of ‘loot-one-item-loot-another-for-only-1p’ deals and which products they actually applied to.

I think in this case the best response may just be: Rioting from Brexiters?

PROJECT FEAR like all other warnings ;)

By not looting the homeopathy aisles of Holland & Barrett both the stock and potency levels of those homeopathic medicines increased.

No. That's not right.
Removing them from the aisles, and making their active ingredients less available , then they become more potent.

The aisles 'remember' the stock that used to be there.

I struggled with the angle for the joke.

I was going to go with "But H&B were looted, luckily it was by homeopathic looters and so nothing was taken by the potency of their medicines were increased as a result."

Can someone who can write jokes properly please help...

At a dinner recently my wife’s cousin made some reference to her homeopathic bible being very powerful, so I said presumably all the pages are blank. No-one understood :(

Problem is though that when it is pointed out that a hard border increases the risk of terrorism (see Irish police, NI police, and lots of other experts....) the reaction is BUT WE DONT BOW TO TERRORISTS THREATS

So maybe it is not completely unreasonable to factor in rioting (though, a messy brexit will also increase the risk and I think even more than any orderly Brexit or Remain) as a risk approach?

Of course risks have to be viewed from all angles...oh wait this is Brexit, silly me, let me pick up a brick.

I'm also struggling with this one.

https://www.lfgss.com/comments/14919261/

You remove the words/ingredients to make it work.

The more we discuss these homeopathy jokes the less funny they become

I thought the point of homeopathy is that you use a tiny amount of an ingredients rather than remove it...

Homeopathy works because of the leather paddle. Remove that and it fails.

The title of the bible is probably more ‘ingredient’ than any homeopathy contains

Rubbish, German homeopathy cures measles and Spanish homeopathy cures Spanish flu. This is why we should repeal Article 50 before they withhold their snake oil from needy Brits.

whotf is going to riot? all the forces behind leave have not shown themselves able to organise any sort of popular street movement really. am sceptical

For those of us who had to deal with Home Office and write massive cheques to them without inside help, this is fucking appalling. Entrepreneur my fucking left nut.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/sep/27/exclusive-jennifer-arcuri-won-visa-after-johnson-backed-firm

You're just jealous because you no longer have the figure to do such things!

Amazing. Referred for alleged misappropriation of £100k but not for the garden bridge.

Boris Johnson referred to police watchdog over potential misconduct

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/sep/27/boris-johnson-referred-to-police-watchdog-over-potential-misconduct

Fuck I forgot all about that garden bridge nonsense. Utterly astounding that we are where we are.

Not watched yet as need Wi-Fi, but description sounds, erm, interesting...

https://twitter.com/MonarchyUK/status/1177549862348480512?s=19