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Re: The elephant in the room - Brexit
Scenes live from Downing Street as beleaguered MPs, law enforcement and the public try to stop Theresa May from destroying the economy.
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Re: The elephant in the room - Brexit
a referendum based on a simple majority with an almost split down the middle vote was never going to end in anything but tears (for everyone).
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Re: The elephant in the room - Brexit
Asking the unwashed masses what they think about a complex topic and then taking action based on a narrow margin was fucking stupid. Why should we listen to people (so-called "experts") that have studied economics and are considered among the best in their field when we've got Big Frank from down the road?
Re: The elephant in the room - Brexit
BREAKING: UK military has activated team in a nuclear bunker under the @DefenceHQ main building to step up preparations for a no-deal Brexit, @SkyNews can reveal. The crisis management operation – dubbed Operation #REDFOLD – began on Monday 1/
It will direct 3,500 personnel who have been put on standby to help government if required if UK leaves EU next Friday without a withdrawal agreement.
The REDFOLD mission is military dimension of cross-Whitehall no-deal contingency preparations, called Operation Yellowhammer 2/
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Re: The elephant in the room - Brexit
Defence chiefs had previously said 3,500 troops were being readied.
BBC defence correspondent Jonathan Beale said the MoD was "stepping up a gear" with the new room "deep in the bowels" of its building.
He said the room, which is already used for crisis management throughout the year, would be used to coordinate efforts in the event of a no-deal Brexit, although it was not yet clear what duties troops would undertake.
Presumably a bodyguard for Theresa May and the Royal Family when the streets are full of angry, rioting mobs with pitchforks?
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Re: The elephant in the room - Brexit
Well this is all going rather nicely.
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Get ready boys it very much looks like a hard Brexit on the 12 April.
Better start buying canned fruit and toilet paper !
Better start buying canned fruit and toilet paper !
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Re: The elephant in the room - Brexit
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/20 ... rexit-dateMay had been asking for an extension to article 50 until 30 June to make time for vital legislation to pass should she manage to get her deal through the Commons next week.
But her appeal “dismally” failed to offer any answers as to what she would do if the deal was blocked by MPs again, sources said, provoking EU leaders into taking matters into their own hands and in effect taking control of her future.
“She didn’t even give clarity if she is organising a vote,” said one aide to a leader. “Asked three times what she would do if she lost the vote, she couldn’t say. It was awful. Dreadful. Evasive even by her standards.”
When leaders asked May what she was going to do if her deal was voted down, an official added that the prime minister replied that she was following her plan A of getting it through. It was then that the EU decided that “she didn’t have a plan so they needed to come up with one for her”, the source added.
Modern British politics in action. What a fucking joke.
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Start buying? Please. We've got a bundle of loo rolls, and a full month's worth of tinned and dried food in a cupboard.Achtung Englander wrote: ↑Fri Mar 22, 2019 6:25 amGet ready boys it very much looks like a hard Brexit on the 12 April.
Better start buying canned fruit and toilet paper !
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I have an Irish passport, and my wife and children are American. If things get really bad, I guess we'll bail out, one way or another.
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Re: The elephant in the room - Brexit
Anyone else get an image of May standing steadfast on the bridge of a sinking ship while ordering the lifeboats scuttled?
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I find it incomprehensible that May put The Tory party above the nation state and the audacity to blame others when she is PM and dictated the course of Brexit these last 2 years.
The fact they voted for Brexit in the second half of year 2 is beyond me. She wasted time on a general election (that back fired) and she wasted time by not seeking to get votes in on numerous plans to find a consensus on what can work
Unbelievable arrogance. Brexit will determine the course of this country economic welfare for decades (until new treaties take effect) and this is bigger than any political party and especially any one person.
The fact they voted for Brexit in the second half of year 2 is beyond me. She wasted time on a general election (that back fired) and she wasted time by not seeking to get votes in on numerous plans to find a consensus on what can work
Unbelievable arrogance. Brexit will determine the course of this country economic welfare for decades (until new treaties take effect) and this is bigger than any political party and especially any one person.
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So true, and yet nothing can be done to stop this masochism when the head of the snake is so fucking blinkered she has no backup plan to her one plan.Achtung Englander wrote: ↑Fri Mar 22, 2019 3:09 pmUnbelievable arrogance. Brexit will determine the course of this country economic welfare for decades (until new treaties take effect) and this is bigger than any political party and especially any one person.
The whole bloody lot of them should be replaced with new faces, for not ONE of them could find and drive others towards reason in this lunacy.
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