The big Brexit thread - news, updates and discussion

[TopCat]

Despite how bad a no deal exit will be for Ireland, there is precisely a fuck all chance of us stepping out of line with the EU.

Thanking you for on the spot reportage mate. Happy Christmas btw x

 

[Badgers]

Best to do a runner lads

The Brexiters Who Fled Britain – Byline Times

With more jobs shipped abroad by the very people who supported leaving the EU, the Byline Times Team considers which members of the Brexit battalion have moved their residences or businesses to other shores

bylinetimes.com

 

[Steel Icarus]

Not gonna lie...the only news I've paid attention to this year has been Covid-related, BLM, (and the US ejection, for about two weeks).

Genuinely didn't realise the UK was facing a No Deal Brexit.

Is getting some kind of deal done literally what Johnson campaigned on a year ago? And has claimed he had in hand ("oven-ready" deals etc)?

 

[mauvais]

Perfect chance for a back to the land /cut food miles movement to prosper.

Like the end of Threads.

 

[TopCat]

Yeh. It'll be like the bits in the auld stories when people scavenge in woods and live on roots.. A reet good time.

The foraging thread would change a bit if it was supplying core meals.

 

[The39thStep]

Like the end of Threads.

Looks interesting I quite like those end of the world /apocalyptic BBC stuff. I'll put it on my watch list

 

[TopCat]

Looks interesting I quite like those end of the world /apocalyptic BBC stuff. I'll put it on my watch list

Like The Omega Man with less turnips?

 

[Steel Icarus]

Looks interesting I quite like those end of the world /apocalyptic BBC stuff. I'll put it on my watch list

You've never seen it? Fucking hell, are you in for a treat

 

[mauvais]

Looks interesting I quite like those end of the world /apocalyptic BBC stuff. I'll put it on my watch list

It's showing on BBC News in January.

 

[Steel Icarus]

It's showing on BBC News in January.

Presented by Dara O'Braian and H from Steps. Threads - Live!

 

[TopCat]

It's showing on BBC News in January.

On rolling news.

 

[Roadkill]

Is getting some kind of deal done literally what Johnson campaigned on a year ago? And has claimed he had in hand ("oven-ready" deals etc)?

Yes. He was lying.

 

[TopCat]

Going to find that film later. I love a post apocalyptic movie.

 

[Pickman's model]

Yes. He was lying.

Perhaps we could just flag up the rare instances where he's telling the truth

 

[TopCat]

Yes. He was lying.

Plus the EU claimed for four years that they weren't hungry and did not like custard.

 

[sleaterkinney]

Nah i think its true. This wasn't inevitable and the 49% could definitely have prevented no deal if that had been the aim instead of marching up and down for years demanding that we don't leave at all, I reckon.

No deal didn’t seem likely until recently, at the last election Johnson was going on about having an oven ready deal lined up. Saying you wanted a soft brexit would just play into his hands.

 

[Pickman's model]

Plus the EU claimed for four years that they weren't hungry and did not like custard.

Angela Merkel lives on little else

 

[Steel Icarus]

Yes. He was lying.

Will he now blame the impending societal collapse on the EU's inexplicable decision not to be dry-fucked with a smile?

 

[TopCat]

Did anyone see Raab on the Marr show this morning? Wondering if he is going to lead the gunboat charge?

 

[brogdale]

Perfect chance for a back to the land /cut food miles movement to prosper.

back to the land has something of the 'Year Zero' about it; potentially quite worrying for those of us that wear spectacles.

 

[Steel Icarus]

It's almost as though Johnson and his cronies actually wanted to crash out without a deal having insisted for years they'd got/would have one to avoid awkward questions

 

[Pickman's model]

Did anyone see Raab on the Marr show this morning? Wondering if he is going to lead the gunboat charge?

He couldn't lead a conga line

 

[TopCat]

back to the land has something of the 'Year Zero' about it; potentially quite worrying for those of us that wear spectacles.

As long as you can see your spade comrade all will be prosperous.

 

[Pickman's model]

back to the land has something of the 'Year Zero' about it; potentially quite worrying for those of us that wear spectacles.

Yeh year zero will be Johnson and his cronies trying to raise mung beans on the Thatcher peninsula

 

[TopCat]

It's almost as though Johnson and his cronies actually wanted to crash out without a deal having insisted for years they'd got/would have one to avoid awkward questions

I dont think Boris wanted no deal. He will increasingly realise just how fucked he is.
He cant accept the EU terms and survive.

Leaving without a deal will severly damage the tories and his reputation for financial good husbandry, more so than back in Lawson's day and the ERM debacle.

He has to move, and all possible moves lead to Boris leaving no 10 crying.

 

[TopCat]

Yeh year zero will be Johnson and his cronies trying to raise mung beans on the Thatcher peninsula

Which foul spit of land will this training ground be sited upon?

 

[The39thStep]

back to the land has something of the 'Year Zero' about it; potentially quite worrying for those of us that wear spectacles.

I'll speak to our PR company ECO, as soon as they come back from their team building event of grouse hunting

 

[TopCat]

The can cannot be booted much further.

 

[Roadkill]

Perhaps we could just flag up the rare instances where he's telling the truth

That would be rather pointless, wouldn't it: there aren't any!

 

[TopCat]

The BBC reports that it all hinges on a call between Boris and Ursula and that this is scheduled for 11am.

Are we on the same timeline? I would laugh if the call is booked in for when her lunch is on the table.