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?

I love that Boris has a sense of humour unlike May fretting and fussing, Cameron, posing and trying to be statesmanlike, Gordon Brown, humourless utterly. Really? And that's one pf the most important attributes for a Prime Minister, is it? The person in charge of running the country?

If the bells bong on 31st it sends a strong message about what people in the UK think is worth paying for. There's been a lot of talk recently about the need to bring a divided country back together. I'd like someone to explain to me just how ringing bells in a sort of "Yay! We won!" triumphalism is going to help towards that aim.

I enjoyed this pithy quote from the Guardian: 'the Bishop of Buckingham puts it neatly: “It’s deeply divisive to ring church bells for something like this,” he said. “Churches are there for the whole community, not for a political faction to crow over people they have beaten.”

I just think they should play a tape recording.

Everything from now on will be the fault of Remainers because they can't blame the EU anymore

Oh, they'll still find a way to blame the EU, trust me. No drugs? Nothing in the shops? It's because those beastly European won't sell things to us because we haven't negotiated a trade deal. Prices rocketing? It's those beastly EU people not giving us the same favourable terms as we could have had if we'd stayed in the EU. Long queues at airports? Why can't those awful Europeans give the Brits special passes so they don't have to queue with dreadful people from inferior countries?

How many homeless people it could help

Not many. Most of them have complex addiction and mental health issues. It’s not about lack of places to stay. We need a different society.

MereDintofPandiculation

That is my point exactly. 17,410,572 voted to leave. 16,141,241 voted to stay in the EU. This does not take into account those who didn't even vote.

That is not far short of half (48%) of those who voted who really are upset at what's happened (let alone that there are Leavers who would now probably vote Remain if we'd had a second vote)

So let's alienate all these millions by this jingoistic display of 'we won'!

However, I am OK with this. Because come 1st February, all the Leavers own this. You voted for it, your bell ringing party is over, face up to it now. Let's see how that pans out...

Why are we celebrating Brexit anyway?
It is something we may well live to regret.

Or it might not. It might be beneficial. We have to make it work, we absolutely have to.

Equanimitas

Yes, that's true!

The only good thing to come out of this horror, is the likes of Fartage and Widdecombe will not have a platform. They can slink off into the night. Her performance in Brussels yesterday was toe curlingly embarrassing and vile. As were the other Brexit MEPs. She was screaming, shouting, shaking... truly awful.

This does not take into account those who didn't even vote.

Which is exactly the same as every other election and referendum.

No vote, no say.

John Donne saw all this coming - creepy!

www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poem/no-man-is-an-island/

Or it might not. It might be beneficial. We have to make it work, we absolutely have to.

Depends. I intend to make it work for me, regardless of whether that benefits the wider economy.

If 52/48 is enough of a majority to effect such a major change then I am going to have to put myself and my family first because when the economy inevitably collapses, even if only for a short or medium term, I don't wish to be a victim of that.

Because come 1st February, all the Leavers own this. You voted for it, your bell ringing party is over, face up to it now. Let's see how that pans out...

You know that they'll blame Remainers and the EU right?

It is not an event to celebrate, even if the cost was £500 not £500,000. Silence to mark a sad day is far more appropriate.

Suppose they need remainers to help them tell the time, if that counts as a 'stitch up'.

It says a lot I think that remainers have supposedly 'stitched up' something they had no involvement with.

dorito
I know
Right from 2016 no one has yet been able to tell me of the benefits of Brexit, or the freedoms they've had taken away whilst in the EU.

Best one I heard was someone said to me that they couldn't wait for end January because at least it means we won't be paying all those pensions for people who lived in Europe. Yes really!

I'm thinking of having a holiday over end Jan/beginning Feb to get away from all the partying and joyful headlines. Will I, as an English person, be persona non grata in Scotland or can I come and take refuge with you?

www.justgiving.com/fundraising/bigbenbrexitbong?fbclid=IwAR2EMcaF5zSWOm3SqDPsdR_cBsJNdysx1lO6kePg7qGtV3CI7iHEyeYqmDI

Food bank donation alternative!

For a mere £400K, I will bring my own hammer and hit the damn bell myself, thus saving the taxpayer a hundred thousand quid. Thank me afterwards.

I'm prepared to have a go at playing the chimes on a glockenspiel. I'd only charge £50k.

I like your style but I might suggest saying 'bong' into a megaphone for only 45k. The Tories could then take the other 455k and divide it up between their mates.

The Tories could then take the other 455k and divide it up between their mates.

Now come on, that's just not on. You're acting like they can't be trusted!

I think you may struggle, Disquieted, given that I gather the problem is in part that they've taken the floor out.

www.lbcnews.co.uk/politics/brexit/big-bens-bells-bong-brexit-blame-game/

Probably not going to happen apparently

A and B buttons - they used to talk about these in my Guide handbook I think. I was thrilled to see a payphone in the US with them in the 90s.

Crisis instead of Big Ben
Centrepoint

And the Huff post has lots more ideas