[Garak]

That sounds like the political class everywhere.

[Mezla PigDog]

Maark Abbott, on 08 August 2019 - 08:00 AM, said:

Beeb discussing food shortages and the possibility of rationing...

I stockpiled a little bit for the end of March. I'm going to do it for the end of October too. Nothing serious but making sure I have a decent supply of staples and some batch cooked stuff in the freezer. I'll make sure I do a shop of decent fresh food like tomatoes and fruit just beforehand too. Also wine, because the duty is going to be astronomical and I'm a lush. Only enough for a couple of weeks of silly price hikes etc but it will save me the indignity of scrabbling about the supermarket if it happens. Part of me feels crazy for thinking it but the rest of me is like "Why the fuck not?"

[Cause]

Mezla PigDog, on 09 August 2019 - 09:22 PM, said:

Maark Abbott, on 08 August 2019 - 08:00 AM, said:

Beeb discussing food shortages and the possibility of rationing...

I stockpiled a little bit for the end of March. I'm going to do it for the end of October too. Nothing serious but making sure I have a decent supply of staples and some batch cooked stuff in the freezer. I'll make sure I do a shop of decent fresh food like tomatoes and fruit just beforehand too. Also wine, because the duty is going to be astronomical and I'm a lush. Only enough for a couple of weeks of silly price hikes etc but it will save me the indignity of scrabbling about the supermarket if it happens. Part of me feels crazy for thinking it but the rest of me is like "Why the fuck not?"

Your not a real prepper until you get a gun, 500 meters of paracord and 6 ways of starting fire. Apparently butane gas is worth its weight in gold when civilizations collapse.

Id recommend stockpiling chocolate!

[Mezla PigDog]

I should probably stockpile vodka. I could use it as currency when the Russians invade, right?

[Tsundoku]

Cause, on 09 August 2019 - 09:40 PM, said:

Mezla PigDog, on 09 August 2019 - 09:22 PM, said:

Maark Abbott, on 08 August 2019 - 08:00 AM, said:

Beeb discussing food shortages and the possibility of rationing...

I stockpiled a little bit for the end of March. I'm going to do it for the end of October too. Nothing serious but making sure I have a decent supply of staples and some batch cooked stuff in the freezer. I'll make sure I do a shop of decent fresh food like tomatoes and fruit just beforehand too. Also wine, because the duty is going to be astronomical and I'm a lush. Only enough for a couple of weeks of silly price hikes etc but it will save me the indignity of scrabbling about the supermarket if it happens. Part of me feels crazy for thinking it but the rest of me is like "Why the fuck not?"

Your not a real prepper until you get a gun, 500 meters of paracord and 6 ways of starting fire. Apparently butane gas is worth its weight in gold when civilizations collapse. Id recommend stockpiling chocolate!

Mezla PigDog, on 10 August 2019 - 09:15 PM, said:

I should probably stockpile vodka. I could use it as currency when the Russians invade, right?

Isn't Nico the board SME on this stuff?

[Maark Abbott]

Government signed into law the repealing of the EEC 72 Act.

And of course thick shits will laud and praise this act of taking back control of laws we already had control over... And not give a shit that absolute control then sits in the hands of Tory cunts.

[Maark Abbott]

Boris asks the Queen to suspend Parliament so that any bills / motions to scupper his shitshow have no time to do it in.

At this point, if you voted Brexit, you voted for a coup and against parliamentary sovereignty, but then we all knew it was about enriching Tories at the expense of working class people, didn't we?

[Gorefest]

Will we notice the difference? It is not as if they have managed to do anything useful in the past two year's that they've had to get their act together. Also, this is what you get when you don't write down your constitution.

[Cause]

Maark Abbott, on 28 August 2019 - 11:42 AM, said:

Boris asks the Queen to suspend Parliament so that any bills / motions to scupper his shitshow have no time to do it in.

At this point, if you voted Brexit, you voted for a coup and against parliamentary sovereignty, but then we all knew it was about enriching Tories at the expense of working class people, didn't we?

Wouldn't the queen refuse? She always tries to stay out of politics so wouldn't she go with the usual parliament timetable?

[Werthead]

Cause, on 28 August 2019 - 12:53 PM, said:

Maark Abbott, on 28 August 2019 - 11:42 AM, said:

Boris asks the Queen to suspend Parliament so that any bills / motions to scupper his shitshow have no time to do it in.

At this point, if you voted Brexit, you voted for a coup and against parliamentary sovereignty, but then we all knew it was about enriching Tories at the expense of working class people, didn't we?

Wouldn't the queen refuse? She always tries to stay out of politics so wouldn't she go with the usual parliament timetable?

By convention the Queen cannot refuse such a request without triggering a constitutional crisis that would require her abdication. In this case, Parliament has been sitting for far longer than normal (since May 2017, where normally it never sits for more than one year at most), so ending the session and starting a new one would be normal procedure, if Brexit were not looming in the background.

The fun option would be for the Queen to abdicate to enjoy her retirement, King Charles to tell Boris to do one and leave Parliament in session, and then he can abdicate well after the point of crisis has passed and we can commence the probably-long reign of King William.

This post has been edited by Werthead: 28 August 2019 - 12:57 PM

[Gorefest]

She has already accepted the suspension. So now it will need to be a legal issue, if they can get a case together in time.


Glad to see Trump is putting his thoughts coherently on paper Twitter as well, with a lovely praise for the new prime minister:

@realDonaldTrump:
Would be very hard for Jeremy Corbyn, the leader of Britain's Labour Party, to seek a no-confidence vote against New Prime Minister Boris Johnson, especially in light of the fact that Boris is exactly what the U.K. has been looking for, & will prove to be "a great one!" Love U.K.

This post has been edited by Gorefest: 28 August 2019 - 02:31 PM

[Mezla PigDog]

What a bunch of motherfuckers. And dragging the queen into this mess - outrageous. Don't they know the poor woman is on holiday in one of her castles?

[Maark Abbott]

Ultimately, the Tories and now the Royals are traitors to this country, and require guillotining.

We are being dragged, 30's style, into a dictatorship headed by the hard right.

[Khellendros]

It’s all gearing up to an early election call, I have to assume. Johnson and co will frame themselves as the ‘will of the people’ and Parliament will be the enemy. This is where we have got to from the first Brexit cries of taking back control and sovereignty for our own Parliament.

A Tory MP just pointed out on the news that with the suspension, by the time of the Queen’s Speech on 14 October, Johnson will have been PM for 80 days, of which only for 5 will he have been under scrutiny in Parliament.

[Gorefest]

you gotta love the irony that several tories, including the current Chancellor (Sajid Javid) tweeted only a few months ago that shutting down parliament would be unconstitutional.


'You don't deliver democracy by trashing democracy.' - you can't just shut down parliament - says @sajidjavid #TeamSaj


Bunch of effing hypocrites Tories.

[Cause]

I cant wait to read the history books on brexit in ten, fifteen, twenty years.

I wonder if it will be seen as the worst thing to ever happen to britian, something bad that they survived or whether somehow it will lead to britian being the only country to suvive the collapse of the European union during the climate wars. Time will tell

[Maark Abbott]

Cause, on 29 August 2019 - 09:42 AM, said:

I cant wait to read the history books on brexit in ten, fifteen, twenty years.

I wonder if it will be seen as the worst thing to ever happen to britian, something bad that they survived or whether somehow it will lead to britian being the only country to suvive the collapse of the European union during the climate wars. Time will tell

I'd take the bubonic plague over this tbh

[Tsundoku]

Seriously? Get Ready For Brexit ... without having the foggiest idea what is going to happen???

https://www.news.com...5744779799dfd97

There's some decent gallows humour memes in there.

[Maark Abbott]

Tsundoku, on 02 September 2019 - 11:38 AM, said:

Seriously? Get Ready For Brexit ... without having the foggiest idea what is going to happen???

https://www.news.com...5744779799dfd97

There's some decent gallows humour memes in there.

Wanna take bets on how long it takes riots to kick off?

[Gorefest]

This Cummings bloke is like the next Goebels. Scary individual. Pulling all the strings behind the curtains.