Is Brexit actually going to happen?

[Nine Bob Note]

I've checked, we'd be safe NUKEMAP by Alex Wellerstein phew!

All those kippers on the SE coast best keep their windows shut.

 

[marty21]

I can't believe it's not Brexit!

It's beginning to sound a lot like soft #brexitmas

 

[bimble]

 

[Teaboy]

He's not happy. I bet May is getting in the neck from her back benchers as well. It was always going to be an impossible task, is it to much to hope that this whole process will hole the tories below the water line? Schism anyone?

 

[bimble]

Plenty of people on daily mail today are swearing they'll not vote tory again after May's betrayal of the true meaning of brexit.

 

[Smangus]

Plenty of people on daily mail today are swearing they'll not vote tory again after May's betrayal of the true meaning of brexit.

Every cloud etc.

 

[Pickman's model]

Plenty of people on daily mail today are swearing they'll not vote tory again after May's betrayal of the true meaning of brexit.

Yeh

But they love it, they'll go back to the blue if they're still alive at the next election.

 

[agricola]

View attachment 122417

Things must be bad for him to be reduced to Victoria Tower Gardens as a place to pose for photos in.

 

[bimble]

Things must be bad for him to be reduced to Victoria Tower Gardens as a place to pose for photos in.

I did wonder where he was. It works quite well though as a poignant portrait of pyrrhic victory, the festive tie and fallen leaves behind.

 

[SpookyFrank]

He's not happy. I bet May is getting in the neck from her back benchers as well. It was always going to be an impossible task, is it to much to hope that this whole process will hole the tories below the water line? Schism anyone?

I think most tory MPs care more about keeping their seats and staying in power than they do about, well anything else.

 

[Pickman's model]

I did wonder where he was. It works quite well though as a poignant portrait of pyrrhic victory, the festive tie and fallen leaves behind.

Pity not up against the wall at the north end staring down a dozen barrels

 

[bemused]

Out of all the 17.4m who voted to stop paying the EU how many want a pension from them once they've left?

 

[MightyTibberton]

They've been stabbing each other in the brains about Europe forever. Now, even in having a final reckoning on the issue they are continuing to stab each other in the brains.

 

[SpookyFrank]

“We’ve got Trident for a reason, this is the time to unleash it on Brussels and show the EUSSR the full might of Britain. Those quislings will soon come to the table after that.”
Barry, Hornchurch.
View attachment 122408

Ever get the feeling people certain people will probably still be unhappy regardless of what happens?

 

[Nine Bob Note]

"Dear Mr Farage,

We are writting to inform you that your application to become Her Majesty the Queen's ambassador to the United States of America has not been successful at this time. We do, however, have a position in Syria for which we believe you would be well suited. Etc..."

 

[Yossarian]

"Dear Mr Farage,

We are writting to inform you that your application to become Her Majesty the Queen's ambassador to the United States of America has not been successful at this time. We do, however, have a position in Syria for which we believe you would be well suited. Etc..."

"Dear Nigel. Brexit isn't the only thing around here that can't get hard. I'm going back to Gemany and taking the kids."

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

Need a straightener: Barry from Hornchurch vs. Ronnie Pickering.

 

[Slo-mo]

One simple question. Will we be able to control immigration under this new deal?

 

[Nine Bob Note]

Need a straightener: Barry from Hornchurch vs. Ronnie Pickering.

A non-event sayeth Mike Phelps of Yeovil.

 

[agricola]

Pity not up against the wall at the north end staring down a dozen barrels

the Burghers of Calais monument nearby could also provide guidance in that respect

 

[ruffneck23]

lbc will be fun tonight , might even call in , noel frrom ltj bukem , if i can be arsed, which i probably wont

 

[Rob Ray]

I do wonder whether overall this has been something of a boon stability-wise for the EU, in that its amply demonstrated to some of the more recalcitrant populations what happens when even a relatively big player tries to break away from the bloc.

 

[William of Walworth]

Out of all the 17.4m who voted to stop paying the EU how many want a pension from them once they've left?

Could you, or somebody, expand on this a bit please? (I'll Google as well when I have time later) -- but at the risk of confessing complete ignorance, I have no idea how EU-related pension obligations work

 

[Raheem]

Could you, or somebody, expand on this a bit please? (I'll Google as well when I have time later) -- but at the risk of confessing complete ignorance, I have no idea how EU-related pension obligations work

It's about NF (never noticed his initials before) saying he fully intends to take his enormous MEP's pension because why should his family be the ones to pay the price.

 

[gosub]

Could you, or somebody, expand on this a bit please? (I'll Google as well when I have time later) -- but at the risk of confessing complete ignorance, I have no idea how EU-related pension obligations work

You work as an MEP or a civil servant at the Commission ECJ or Parliament, a judge, a translator or whatever then the EU(or related body) was your employer and you are entitled to 3.5% of final salary for each year worked up to 70%. Money has come from somewhere-the member states at present, so we were on the hook for it. Its a pooled pot, so are also chipping in so a retired Italian MEP can keep the lifestye to which he is accustomed...Conversely part of Farage's pension will be paid by the Germans

If you worked as a party hack or researcher its down to the actual Party to fund it rather than EU. So we have to pay for Farage's gin ad infinitum, but not his wife's Valium* (having employed her thats UKIP's problem)



* I have no idea if she takes Valium but I don't see how else she'd manage

 

[teuchter]

I don't really get why people are going on about NF's pension. What logic, moral or otherwise, says that he shouldn't recieve it?

 

[gosub]

I don't really get why people are going on about NF's pension. What logic, moral or otherwise, says that he shouldn't recieve it?

Arsonists rarely receive insurance payouts.

 

[William of Walworth]

Thanks for those answers Raheem and gosub

You've confirmed what I'd dimly thought already, that they related specifically to the pensions of MEPS and EU staff/civil servants etc .... for some reason I thought bemused 's post implied broader obligations somehow

(ETA to correct relevant poster's name to bemused )

 

[William of Walworth]

A mate of mine used to work directly for the EU Commission in Brussels (and occasionally Strasbourg), the fatcat bureaucrat**

**(as we used to pisstake him in the pub ).

(He was an expert in his field though -- very technical -- I won't say here)

 

[gosub]

I don't really get why people are going on about NF's pension. What logic, moral or otherwise, says that he shouldn't recieve it?

That bit was always a no brainer, after all we've got to this thing through the EUropean Parliament...

Issue was more.. Say EU green lights a new autobahn tommorow.. Something that will take decades to build but it only got green lighted coz British MEPs voted for it.. How much should the UK pay for that? Or even worse got green lighted in spite of UK MEPs, as part of a system we respected, how much then.?