Brexit party on 31 January in London is going ahead. And it will be shit.

[editor]

This is going to be extra-cringe with added gammon and a side salad of racist cunts. Expect many Union Jacks and bald, red faced middle aged men shouting.

Brexit supporters have been given permission for a party in London's Parliament Square at the moment the UK leaves the EU on 31 January.

The event, being organised by Leave Means Leave, is due to take place between 21:00 and 23:15 GMT.

The UK will leave the EU at 23:00 GMT, 47 years after it joined the then European Economic Community in 1973.

Veteran Brexit campaigner Nigel Farage said it was "a big moment in the history of this nation to celebrate".

The Office of the London Mayor said "provisional authorisation" had been given for the event.

It is understood the campaign group has been asked to provide assurances about the time it will take to clear the site after the event before final authorisation is given.

Brexit: 31 January gathering in London gets go-ahead

Nigel Farage says the Parliament Square party on 31 January will mark a "big moment" in UK history.

www.bbc.co.uk

(*worth a thread of its own given the high-profile car crash it's going to be)

 

[TopCat]

How many threads have you started on this? Ffs

 

[weltweit]

I won't be celebrating.

I liked free movement!

 

[Gramsci]

This is going to be extra-cringe with added gammon and a side salad of racist cunts. Expect many Union Jacks and bald, red faced middle aged men shouting.

Brexit: 31 January gathering in London gets go-ahead

Nigel Farage says the Parliament Square party on 31 January will mark a "big moment" in UK history.

www.bbc.co.uk

(*worth a thread of its own given the high-profile car crash it's going to be)

Pretty well certain no one from our patch Lambeth/ Brixton will be going.

I wonder if Kate Hoey are recently departed Vauxhall MP and mate of Farage will be going?

 

[editor]

How many threads have you started on this? Ffs

On this big party? None, so I'm not sure what you're whining about.

 

[editor]

Pretty well certain no one from our patch Lambeth/ Brixton will be going.

I wonder if Kate Hoey are recently departed Vauxhall MP and mate of Farage will be going?

I imagine Hoey will be lapping it up. I wouldn't be surprised if it kicks off too.

 

[Supine]

I won't be there. I'll leave it for the lexiteers to represent u75.

 

[Gramsci]

I imagine Hoey will be lapping it up. I wouldn't be surprised if it kicks off too.

As inner Lambeth areas like ours were 80% Remain I find a celebration party in Parliament sq distasteful to say the least.

I saw them there when Farage had his march to London to support Brexit. Really unpleasant bunch of Union Jack wavers.

 

[not-bono-ever]

ah , give them their day in the sun. they will all shut up after this i'm sure

 

[Yossarian]

Someone should start a rumour that hardcore remainers intent on causing mayhem have infiltrated the crowd disguised as Brexiteers - they'll be signalling each other by holding their Union Jacks upside down.

 

[Chilli.s]

Hope it pisses down with rain.

 

[Artaxerxes]

Anyone got any bad acid?

 

[not a trot]

Hope it pisses down with rain.

Half inch of snow should bring it all to a halt.

 

[kebabking]

As inner Lambeth areas like ours were 80% Remain I find a celebration party in Parliament sq distasteful to say the least...

If Londoners no longer wish for their city to be the capital city, and therefore the focus of political/national events, I'm sure that other cities would be happy to to take the jobs, focus, and infrastructure investment that accompanies capital status.

Is that what you mean, or are you just some massively self-centred, myopic London cunt with a huge sense of entitlement?

 

[Yossarian]

I wouldn't want to be there at 11pm when Nigel Farage opens the Ark of the Brexit Covenant.

 

[SpookyFrank]

I predict that the brexit loons will live out their days in peace and contentment after January 31st, as having got what they wanted at last they will have no more cause for anger or bitterness.

The Daily Express will have the same headline every day: Everything Is Fine Now.

 

[SpookyFrank]

I wouldn't want to be there at 11pm when Nigel Farage opens the Ark of the Brexit Covenant.

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If his face melted off would we even notice the difference?

 

[Gramsci]

If Londoners no longer wish for their city to be the capital city, and therefore the focus of political/national events, I'm sure that other cities would be happy to to take the jobs, focus, and infrastructure investment that accompanies capital status.

Is that what you mean, or are you just some massively self-centred, myopic London cunt with a huge sense of entitlement?

My Council Ward is in the tp 20% of most deprived in Wales / Enlgand. The "focus" does not trickle down to benefit people in my area. Despite beng near City of London.

 

[Smokeandsteam]

Can’t the guardian arrange a counter party for the youth and dispossessed? Get Blair, Swinson, the CBI and the Institute of Directors to speak. Lily Allen, Stormzy and Bob Geldof to provide songs of resistance. Counsellors could be available for those suffering PTSD. Perhaps a local theatre Group could recreate the EU’s bailout of Greece? People could come dressed as their ‘favourite European’ to show their internationalism etc

 

[kebabking]

My Council Ward is in the tp 20% of most deprived in Wales / Enlgand. The "focus" does not trickle down to benefit people in my area. Despite beng near City of London.

I'd lay very good odds on your public transport being vastly better and cheaper than any equally deprived ward in Birmingham, Manchester, Bristol, Swansea, Newcastle or Middlesbrough.

 

[Yossarian]

I hear there's a nationwide counter-party happening called "Not Standing in Parliament Square With a Bunch of Bampots."

 

[brogdale]

'spoons might be quieter, tbf.

 

[TopCat]

Can’t the guardian arrange a counter party for the youth and dispossessed? Get Blair, Swinson, the CBI and the Institute of Directors to speak. Lily Allen, Stormzy and Bob Geldof to provide songs of resistance. Counsellors could be available for those suffering PTSD. Perhaps a local theatre Group could recreate the EU’s bailout of Greece? People could come dressed as their ‘favourite European’ to show their internationalism etc

Ensure all the people who described themselves as anti capitalist for decades and now are ardent supporters of the EU's four freedoms turn up.

 

[Smokeandsteam]

Ensure all the people who described themselves as anti capitalist for decades and now are ardent supporters of the EU's four freedoms turn up.

I hate neoliberalism, except when it comes in a French accent etc

 

[kebabking]

I hate neoliberalism, except when it comes in a French accent etc

Down with capitalism - up with hassle free weekends in Barcelona and year-round Strawberries?

 

[andysays]

I'd lay very good odds on your public transport being vastly better and cheaper than any equally deprived ward in Birmingham, Manchester, Bristol, Swansea, Newcastle or Middlesbrough.

We're going way off topic here, but it's worth pointing out that indices of deprivation take public transport into account, which means that areas of general deprivation in inner London (and there are plenty of them) have even worse deprivation than similar scoring wards in your example cities when you take out the benefit of good public transport.

Back on topic, it's true that should those of us living in deprived inner London wish to visit the Brexit Party in a fortnight, the public transport links will help us, though that won't be much of a benefit for most of us, even those like me who voted Leave.

 

[editor]

I'd lay very good odds on your public transport being vastly better and cheaper than any equally deprived ward in Birmingham, Manchester, Bristol, Swansea, Newcastle or Middlesbrough.

Yes, and? How does that help the unemployed living off foodbanks in the area? Poverty is poverty regardless of how many buses are passing by your house.

 

[Smokeandsteam]

Down with capitalism - up with hassle free weekends in Barcelona and year-round Strawberries?

It’s the possible lack of deferential Eastern European nannies and plumbers that worries me.

 

[Yossarian]

Yes, and? How does that help the unemployed living off foodbanks in the area? Poverty is poverty regardless of how many buses are passing by your house.

Poor Londoners shouldn't complain because there is excellent public transport to take them to the jobs they don't have, apparently. Also, 2016's Lexit arguments appear to somehow be relevant to a thread making fun of the Brexit Party's Brexit party.

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

As inner Lambeth areas like ours were 80% Remain I find a celebration party in Parliament sq distasteful to say the least.

You're in luck, the party's not gonna be in Lambeth.