E.U: Leave or Stay? Your thoughts.

Jo Cox gets murdered during the EU Referendum: "The country has voted Leave without a single bullet being fired".

Farage gets milkshaked: "Remainers have been radicalised!"

 

Didn't like the flavour: EU straight banana.

Was going to be strawberry, but they couldn't find the EU immigrants to pick them anymore.

Still, they're working on a new flavour: "sovereignty". Initial sweet hit is quickly followed by a lingering bitter aftertaste of chemical additives and empty promises.

 

I wouldn't be surprised if it was one of his own groupies that did it tbh.

I mean come on... who in Newcastle is going to spend £5.25 on a milkshake...

 

Have you tried one of those Five Guys milkshakes? For 5 quid it'd be a hard choice to dump it on some ambulatory oxidiser rather than enjoying it myself.

 

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If they were to suspend all the Tory councillors who have loudly proclaimed voting for the Brexit Party, of course, there would be no Tory party left.

 

...and how Kate Hooey has remained a member of the Labour party is an enduring question.

 

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Key word missing from that headline imo - '...again'

 

Oh, it's even better. The last bailout was a loan, ostensibly intended to be paid back with carbon credit refunds once Brexit had occurred and British Steel were no longer required to offset their carbon emissions under EU law. This time around, it's a raw handout to keep the lights on, no dancing about pretending the government might get the money back and would be doing anything other than propping up a vital domestic industry, because Nationalisation Is Icky and letting them fail would be a public embarrassment and object lesson in their economic policy not working.

 

Wasn't there something about China dumping steel and us blocking it? I seem to remember Jason from 3Blokes saying there were a lot of different grades/classifications of steel so I wonder if it would have helped British Steel or not.

 

Sort of but it depends on your interpretation.

 

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What i don't get is the part about her offers only lasting for this parliament, does that mean this session or until a new government is elected? Because either option makes it seem like it would be easy for her offers to end up in the bin thus making them all but pointless.

EDIT: Brexiters are finally starting to eat themselves.

 

It does sound like they would last until the next GE (at lest from her words, we'll know more once it actually gets published), of course that requires that the vote in parliament actually happens, succeeds and the bill doesn't get amended to hell and back, not even to mention that her stint in no 10 is ever more likely to be cut short (and her successor will likely want an early GE)...

So yeah, her promises aren't worth the effort of programming her to spout them, much less the paper they get printed on.

 

I wonder whether the imminent collapse of British Steel is going to change any minds..

 

I think %66 voted to leave the EU in North Lincolnshire too, turkeys voting for Christmas has never been more apt.

And yes i know it's not very nice to say that but somethings are more important than feelings.

 

Nope it's the evil EU's fault because it's an outstanding bill to the EU [over co2 emissions iirc] that's tipped them over the edge.

 

I somehow always forget that everything is the big bad EU's fault.

 

Kate Hoey is voting closer to her party leader than most, so why would she be kicked out? The question is, how did the Corbyn Cabal survive this long, given they are a) unable to kill off the weakest Tory government in history, and b) are going against the majority of the Labour rank & file.

Both in the UK and the US, we have woeful major parties surviving through the unwillingness of their members to put country before party.

I wonder if the history books will record the nuance and detail of what is happening here. I fear historians will gradually sanitise the stories because they won't be able to comprehend on the bat-**** stuff that as happened.

 

Which might work... If she'd actually offered anything. Currently the bill is identical, with "and maybe you can have a non-binding vote on some stuff you like afterwards IDK" tacked on the end.

No, they already got a pile of cash from the government over that bill, their current problems are over nobody from the EU wanting to source from a country who currently couldn't legislate piss from a boot with a bill written on the heel.

Because the actual Labour electorate (the 'rank and file') voted for a more left position overwhelmingly the first chance they got at an alternate to the 'New Labour' incumbents. Said MPs either need to actually move to a more left position, or need to at least pay lip-service, if they want to be re-elected. Rock the boat too much, and their constituents have proven happy to cast them off for someone who better represents them.