Bung a Bob for a Big Ben Bong

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I mean what the actual Fuck?

Apparently it'll cost half a million pounds to get Big Ben to ring to mark Brexit.

Is ANYONE planning to donate their hard earned cash in support of this ridiculous venture?

Hope you enjoy that imported champagne @silverysurfer... shame the price will go up lots post Brexit. But, your name tells me you are ancient anyway, so, you probably don’t give a fuck. Cheers.

Oh look cheap populist MP makes cheap social media stunt.

I'm ancient and no one can be more Remainer than me! I give the biggest fuck ever and I will actually be in mourning on 31 January. I still cannot believe what we have done. For the sake of my children and grandchildren to be, it is the worst thing ever...

Just watched some footage from Parliament, wish I could find the footage. Then there was the vile Anne Widdecombe... say no more

Can you just imagine the furore if us Remainers wanted a Big Ben Bong to celebrate staying in the EU?
Brexiteers would probably self combust.

Watched footage from Brussels I meant to say...

I’ve no interest in paying for it, but if they want to get on with it let them. I can’t be arsed watching another gammon uprising. They’ll always find something to be furious about.

Can you just imagine the furore if us Remainers wanted a Big Ben Bong to celebrate staying in the EU? it's not quite the same as nothing would have changed.

I am speaking hypothetically of course.

I just think it's very wrong when 48% of voters wanted to remain (that's 15 million of the public) It's just jingoistic rubbing our nose in it.

When it all goes tits up - and it will - it will be interesting how many deny ever voting out....

Jacob Grease-Bog - I hadn't heard that before, will be creased up with laughter when I next watch PMQ's and see him on the front bench 😂

I don't know about a Big Ben Bong, like to sound the death knell - one strike for each year we've been in the EU/Common Market. Voted to remain in 76 and in 16

Well they won't be getting any of my 'remainder' money towards it.

Sound like the sort of silly phrase Boris Johnson would think up.

Surprised the chimes haven't been labeled 'Boris's bongs' - haven't read the whole thread, so sorry if someone has already said something similar.

@Rousette, I’m sorry, it wasn’t my intention to offend anyone other than Silvery - I should have ignored the GF that ruined my enjoyment of an otherwise amusing thread.

Nope

Church Bells?

They want church bells, for God's Holy Fucking Brexit?????

This isn't Boris Johnson idea. In fact when approached he more or less said that if people wanted it they would have to pay up.

ooopsupsideyourhead you honestly didn't offend me! Just flying the EU flag for the over 60s who are Remainers through and through

I think it was Francois's idea.... I'd like to bong his head with my Le Crusuet frypan...

Roussette

Francois wants Big Ben and Bridgen wants church bells, "Like the end of WW2."

But the bellringers have refused to go along with it and will go on strike.

Here's a website which turns names into tunes

www.clarallel.com/

Maybe run "Brexit" through it - see if there's a load of F####s ?

Are we sure they mean the bell and not to some other kind of giant bong?

I love people who proclaim that church bells should ring to celebrate whatever their personal obsession is. It never occurs to them that ringers are volunteers who can't be compelled to do anything, and who might not be too keen on flogging up to the belltower at midnight to suit their personal whims. And they never seem to keen on learning to ring themselves.

I heard the church bells suggestion being discussed on the radio just now. Wholly inappropriate I think to use either a community thing like church bells or a national symbol like Big Ben to "celebrate" such a divisive event,

Fuck off Boris. I have other priorities for my very hard earned cash

Big Ben always strikes me as making a foreboding sound rather than a sound of celebration so that (and the utter waste of money) is probably quite appropriate.

I've just seen that Leave EU are suggesting that their faithful followers break into churches to ring the bells themselves. If they do, it'll be a classic Darwin as they discover that trying to ring half a ton's worth of bell metal when you don't know what you're doing is bloody dangerous. I quite treasure the thought of belltowers throughout the land strewn with unconscious Brexiters who've been pulled up to the ceiling or got tangled up in the ropes.

They used to toll the bells for funerals, so quite appropriate really.