Is Brexit actually going to happen?

[Pickman's model]

“Red” hair isn’t red in that sense though. I’ve worn blue all my life without incident.

You call yourself Danny la rouge but I bet you don't even have auburn hair

 

[kabbes]

Yes, danny la rouge - I did bring up his hair colour, but then I also (within the self-same sentence, so it wasn't hard to spot) juxtaposed that with his BLUE SUIT. That BLUE SUIT is an essential ingredient in that sentence pie, and I'll tell you for why heartface.

Red and blue are commonly considered to clash in terms of their place on the colour wheel, something some people instinctively know, and other more heterosexual people need to be taught.

So it's a comment on his perceived colour blindness you see, which I was using to perniciously and quite unreasonably undermine his position as a major salesperson of interior colour schemes to the nation.

But also, and this bit is the clever bit, AT ONE AND THE SAME TIME as casting aspersions on his entire suite of abilities using disability as a cruel and judgemental prism, I concomitantly undermine his simplistic and biased views on Brexit.

Badooom!

So leave the ginger hair alone now, it's a red herring love.

In the other hand, blue and orange are a well known popular colour combination

 

[inva]

But DC is correct in that it's the house paper for the liberal left. The fact that they have so many (bad) pieces attacking the left wing arguments for Leave shows that such arguments do exist.

EDIT: And is a recognition of the fact that as a movement British socialism has been hostile to the EU since the start.

'Lexit' had some circulation within the liberal left with the likes of Paul Mason and some of Novara iirc and other LP/trade union types, i doubt anyone else was paying much attention though.

but the over-focus on whether top down LP socialists etc had any currency (very little) obscures the real class politics around the referendum.

 

[redsquirrel]

'but the over-focus on whether top down LP socialists etc had any currency (very little) obscures the real class politics around the referendum.

Yes I agree.

EDIT: And the popular antagonism of politicians and "experts" the desire for greater democratic control etc are areas that socialists can engage with.

 

[Badgers]

These ferries seem a good investment for the nation. Did the tender process get the taxpayers a good deal?

 

[brogdale]

These ferries seem a good investment for the nation. Did the tender process get the taxpayers a good deal?

Via "alternative ports" apparently.
The sort of ports that shun convention.

 

[brogdale]

Via "alternative ports" apparently.
The sort of ports that shun convention.

 

[Pickman's model]

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Immingham a bit of an outlier there

 

[danny la rouge]

You call yourself Danny la rouge but I bet you don't even have auburn hair

Well, that which remains is mostly grey now, but I was once ginger and proud.

 

[brogdale]

Immingham a bit of an outlier there

too conventional?

 

[Pickman's model]

too conventional?

All the others are in the southeast, Immingham between grimsby and hull

 

[brogdale]

All the others are in the southeast, Immingham between grimsby and hull

Plymouth; South East?

 

[Pickman's model]

Plymouth; South East?

Quite right, pls insert "or south" into my post after "southeast"

 

[brogdale]

There's a geographic logic tbf

 

[Poi E]

 

[teqniq]

So John Redwood got a knighthood in the New Year's honours. I wonder why.

Being called a bribehood on Twitter. Shurely not.

 

[Badgers]

So John Redwood got a knighthood in the New Year's honours. I wonder why.

Being called a bribehood on Twitter. Shurely not.

His votes against gay rights or for the death penalty?

 

[philosophical]

If he gets a knighthood, does that lead to a discount on a private medical operation for swivel eyes?

 

[Pickman's model]

If he gets a knighthood, does that lead to a discount on a private medical operation for swivel eyes?

he's very happy with his swivel eyes and refuses to have the problem resolved

 

[tommers]

 

[Badgers]

This is fine

 

[not-bono-ever]

boom time for smaller forgotten European ports. Ramsgate - Ostend already running I think.

 

[danny la rouge]

At some point, all British citizens will cease to be EU citizens, so the status of many millions of current EU citizens is going to change after Brexit. Everyone is suggesting that. It's kind of the point.

 

[Wookey]

“Red” hair isn’t red in that sense though. I’ve worn blue all my life without incident.

OK, so we're nearing the nub of the point of the reason behind the entire thread really... you're a ginger who wears blue.

But are you russet or umber? Strawberry blond or more mahogany? There's no single type of ginger, as you well know without Googling.

What kind of blue are you wearing? Sky blue, blue-green, turquoise, navy, the list is almost endless.

I imagine you might be one of the few successful combiners of ginge and blue, its possible. I'd have to see photo evidence to be sure. But when it comes to furniture salesmen, I don't think his ginge and that blue do anything to support a positive assessment on the impact of Brexit on interior soft furnishings and their increasingly complex manufacture, no sir.

 

[brogdale]

At some point, all British citizens will cease to be EU citizens, so the status of many millions of current EU citizens is going to change after Brexit. Everyone is suggesting that. It's kind of the point.

All?
Plenty of duals?

 

[Wookey]

In the other hand, blue and orange are a well known popular colour combination

But would you put these people in charge of rhe design and manufacture of your new kitchen?

 

[danny la rouge]

All?
Plenty of duals?

To be fair, I’ve no idea. Which is why I was having a go at the vague language masquerading as certainty.

 

[Winot]

At some point, all British citizens will cease to be EU citizens, so the status of many millions of current EU citizens is going to change after Brexit. Everyone is suggesting that. It's kind of the point.

Exactly. Brexit was clearly (amongst other things) going to remove rights from a large number of people*. Which is why Hannan’s tweet was wholly disingenuous.

(*in fact from all EU citizens no matter where they live)

 

[danny la rouge]

you're a ginger

My hair, in my youth, was a colour known as ginger.

 

[brogdale]

Have any of the remainarian crowd tested the legality of UK citizens (>45yrs) retaining EU citizenship on the basis that they were born in the EU?