Actually the reverse – he’s complaining about the paperwork that Brexit now requires for importing/exporting from Britain to the EU and northern Ireland. Paperwork that would not need exist his party hadn’t taken the UK out of the EU.
UK politics thread – meet the new boss, same as the old boss
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So, is anyone actually confronting them about that? You know, reminding the public and laying blame?
Is it any more effective than when anyone in the US calls out the GOP in public?
Not really, no, in terms of the main opposition party and the regular media.
Well, the DUP* are having a tantrum over the Brexit ‘deal’ they supported, and the fact that Sinn Fein came first in terms of seats. So they’re sabotaging the NI assembly (admittedly they prefer NI to be directly governed from London).
* the ultra-conservative Unionist party.
* the ultra-conservative Unionist party.
I mean, what exactly did they think would happen?
I bet they were hoping the brexit shortages would encourage people to not throw food at it.
Follow-up on the Thatcher statue situation:
Gotta respect the hustle there.
Gotta respect the hustle there.
The Tories really need to screen their candidates better:
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Tory MP rape arrest: Man in 50s in custody on suspicion of rape released on bail
A Conservative MP accused of rape and sexual assault offences spanning seven years has been released on bail pending further inquiries.
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Follow-up on the Thatcher statue situation:
Gotta respect the hustle there.
"Can I offer you an egg in these trying times?"
One thing I will say for Britain. I always got the impression that Thatcher was near-universally reviled by her own people, unlike Reagan who is only really hated by the far-left, mildly disliked by anyone else left of the aisle, and lionized by fully half the country. Was she, like, actually worse than he was? Is such a thing even possible?
A bit more complex than that, but yeah. Thatcher brought the hammer down and provided the Argentinean government at the time with the distraction it desperately wanted (due to anti-government protests).
I'm not sure what honestly irks me more about it. The fact she played right into the junta's hands with her response, or that she was so rapidly prepared to shed blood for territories that had never been more than a footnote. Hell, the only reason Britain retained sovereignty into the 80s to begin with is because nobody thought them significant enough to detach.
I'm not sure what honestly irks me more about it. The fact she played right into the junta's hands with her response, or that she was so rapidly prepared to shed blood for territories that had never been more than a footnote. Hell, the only reason Britain retained sovereignty into the 80s to begin with is because nobody thought them significant enough to detach.
There was a report two weeks ago that up to 7 million people in the UK can’t afford to eat regularly…
Meanwhile in the US, if it were a black person, the police would likely shoot to kill as a precaution.
I wish I could contest this statement.
I have a black lady on my team who is terrified after Buffalo of coming to work.
She was blowing off some steam trying to joke around with an old watermelon cutting knife that she now had "protection".
And the first thought into my head was "Please put that down before someone shoots you."
This country is jive.
I suspect that the latter was more of a driving factor -- there was a general crossing-party-lines sense that the UK had lost enough territory after 1945, thank you (even Spitting Image, no friend of the Tory government, played into that with their cheeky anthem rewrite "Rule Britannia/Britannia rules not much!"), and the Foreign Office was telling the PM at around the same time that they should let China take back not only the leased territories of Hong Kong in 1997, but also Hong Kong Island proper (which had been ceded in perpetuity to the UK by the Qing dynasty after the First Anglo-Chinese War). Given that the Communist Party never recognized the treaties signed in the imperial era, and the far less certain outcome of a Third Anglo-Chinese War, the war that Thatcher got was probably a better outcome than the war she wanted.
One other side effect for the UK -- the still newly-democratizing Spain (King Juan Carlos ordered the army back to its barracks in the same year when some officers decided the experiment had gone on long enough) stopped asking for Gibraltar back after the Falklands War, and to my knowledge even the Brexit chaos and dragging out of negotiations hasn't brought up that bit of land. It's even more of a rock (at least you can raise sheep on the Falklands), but the UK has its naval base, for whatever good that'll do now.
Britain’s establishment still trying to break up the EU, perhaps not coincidentally in a way that would benefit Russia.
Basically becoming a dictatorship at this point. So much open corruption.