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Westministenders: Reality Bytes

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RedToothBrush · 01/11/2018 22:39

Tonight the Corbyn and McDonnell Labour Party supported the Tory Party in improving the tax allowance for higher rate tax payers.

Yes you read that right. Did you even blink?

You've been so conditioned into seeing non existant opposition which seems to go against everything the Labour Party stand for that you no longer are shocked.

That's what 2 and a half years of Brexit has done to you.

You no longer care that Boris Johnson got £14,000 from the Saudis a couple of days before the Khashoggi murder. You know longer care that the former Defence Secretary is employed for £75,000 a year to advise a major Saudi Investor.

You are just happy that Trump hasn't started a war with Iran or North Korea yet. And hasn't started a civil war. (Though he's trying hard and next week is his best opportunity to stir it all up). You aren't surprised to hear that predictions are that the Democrats will fail to make gains in the mid terms.

You've suffered the 4657 story about how Therea May is just about to be challenged for the leadership.

You've heard about the squad set up at the Home Office to clear up all the cases the media get their hands on as the latest burning injustice. You are hearing that EU nationals who have been promised they are 'safe' are being subjected to questions about their right to stay. And you just shrug and say, "Yeah well thats the Home Office for you. The Bastards". And you do mean it, but you are so jaded by it all. And you worry that another 12 months from now, you won't even be interested in another story like that, and the press will stop printing them as they no longer interest the reader. What happens to your friends, your family, or even you then? Who is going to care then?

And then you have today.

A day where you hear that Bannon is being investigated by the Senate Intel Committee, Farage has been upgraded to the FBI's Really Naughty List and Banks has (FINALLY) been refered to the NCA. (We were only speculating on the possibility, on the 26th March...)

And you go 'Ooooooooo maybe there is hope'.

Maybe we COULD remain in the EU and avoid Turnip Soup and wiping your arse with leaves because of the national bog roll shortage. Or at least get a decent deal which suits us as a nation. Maybe, just maybe!

And that lasts for about 2 minutes before you log into twitter and the very first thing you see this:

Tom Newton Dunn @tnewtondunn
Excl: David Cameron tells friends he’d like a return to frontline politics, and fancies Foreign Secretary
www.thesun.co.uk/news/7639377/david-cameron-return-to-politics/

And you let out a high pitched screech as if you are were a dying cat as you remember this is 2018, and it just wants to beat the life out of you.

On the plus side, it shows you do still care enough to think 'Don't let that fucking bastard anywhere near power ever, ever again.'.

Ho hum.

Keep on, keeping on. Don't let the bastards win.
Keep caring. It matters.

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DGRossetti · 08/11/2018 17:17

The thing about the "Right to Revoke A50" case going to the ECJ is that if it rules that the government could revoke A50 right up until 10.59 on 29 March, then the government no longer has the excuse of saying "It's not possible"

Yes. But the pigshit-thick Brexiteers only need to be nudged by a Daily Mail "Enemies of the people" type headline to turn very nasty. The only hope being the delay it will take while someone reads it to them gives us a chance to hunker down and hide from the mob.

Brexiteers don't do "facts", let alone nuance.

1tisILeClerc · 08/11/2018 17:18

I am happy enough with my age, it's just my body would prefer to be 30 years younger.

DGRossetti · 08/11/2018 17:19

In the Independent how this chappie wants to identify as 20 yrs younger than his birth age

he could go back to school ....

borntobequiet · 08/11/2018 17:21

In the pharmacy today to pick up a prescription, had to wait for pharmacist to sign it off as it had been delayed. Having had shortages before, asked what would happen in the case of delays due to no deal Brexit. Assistant looked at me as though I had two heads, said that’s not likely. While waiting asked another assistant who assured me that the Govt “wouldn’t let that happen, people need their medications”. I said, you really think that? More bafflement. Finally asked the pharmacist, had pharmacies had any advice in case of no deal, given Govt’s own impact assessments. No he said, and didn’t think there would be any problems. All nice people and of course those who will bear brunt of public anger if all screws up.

Motheroffourdragons · 08/11/2018 17:26

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prettybird · 08/11/2018 17:31

First rule about prepping: Do Not Tell Anyone You Are Prepping Wink

DGRossetti · 08/11/2018 17:32

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Motheroffourdragons · 08/11/2018 17:48

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1tisILeClerc · 08/11/2018 17:54

'My my Janet' are you feeling peckish, you seem to have 5 trollies full of long life food there'!

Mrsr8 · 08/11/2018 18:14

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Whatthefoxgoingon · 08/11/2018 18:17

DG Grin

AwdBovril · 08/11/2018 18:29

24 tins of tuna added to my stash. (Bargain price, too!) In the event of a fantastic deal being struck, it will still get eaten... DD would have tuna mayo every day if I let her!

DGRossetti · 08/11/2018 18:31

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ElenadeClermont · 08/11/2018 18:36

Bovril Tuna, fantastic idea. Going on my list. Flowers

Lico · 08/11/2018 18:54

Olivier Cadic , French Senator, represents French citizens living abroad.
He argues in Video 3 that the referendum was far from being democratic.

www.oliviercadic.com/

SusanWalker · 08/11/2018 18:54

Don't forget the sweetcorn and mayo. Add some cream crackers and you've got a meal.

To be fair I'm bored of brexit and I'm slightly obsessed with it. I do think the reason that people are still in favour is because they literally do not believe anything bad can happen to a developed western country. I kind of blame George Osborne. If he had said he didn't know what would happen to the economy after the vote, and that any economic impact would depend on what deal we got, people would have taken the impact assessments more seriously.

Mind you i blame George Osborne for a lot of things.

Icantreachthepretzels · 08/11/2018 19:08

DGR who are Brexit news? Reading between the lines I think maybe that poll isn't going the way they hoped? If so Grin Grin Grin

If they are actually just a neutral news feed - well I am pleased to see a 6% swing towards remain in just 4 days.

BigChocFrenzy · 08/11/2018 19:22

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2018/nov/08/uk-cannot-stop-brexit-article-50-case-going-to-ecj-says-scottish-court

Scotland’s highest court has refused the UK government leave to appeal its referral of a case to the European court of justice that seeks to establish whether the UK can unilaterally stop Brexitt^.

This paves the way for the case to be heard in Luxembourg later this month.

Lico · 08/11/2018 19:31

Nicola Hatton and Olivier Cadic in Parliament at the beginning of the week.
EU Citizens are not tomatoes or cars

m.facebook.com/olivier.cadic.5/posts/10156988395838816

BigChocFrenzy · 08/11/2018 19:39

Male manual workers with few qualifications will be most affected by new trade barriers when the UK leaves the EU

https://www.personneltoday.com/hr/brexit-effect-on-jobs-men-in-manual-jobs-with-few-qualifications-most-at-risk/

The Institute for Fiscal Studies found that men with qualifications no higher than GCSE level who are employed in certain manual occupations are more likely to work in industries at particular risk from new barriers to trade with the EU after Brexit.
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“Parts of the manufacturing sector are likely to be hardest hit.
As a result, the jobs or wages of men with low formal qualifications working in certain manual occupations may be under particular threat.
These are the sorts of workers who are most likely to find it hard to adapt and to find new roles that are equally well paid elsewhere.”

< as in MrsT's 1980s de-industrialisation of much of the North - lost well paid jobs replaced by precarious McJobs >

BigChocFrenzy · 08/11/2018 19:45

London’s Tech Allure Is Being Challenged by Brexit

https://www.strategy-business.com/blog/Londons-Tech-Allure-Is-Being-Challenged-by-Brexit

With Britain voting in 2016 to leave the E.U., there are moves across Europe to dislodge London as the tech center of the continent.

Berlin, Lisbon, Barcelona, Paris, and other cities are all taking advantage of Brexit uncertainty by snapping up talent that would have formerly found work in the U.K.

France, thanks in part to the personal and vocal backing of its president, Emmanuel Macron, has made a big play for tech.

woman11017 · 08/11/2018 20:02

Paypal stops handling payments for Tommy Robinson
www.bbc.com/news/amp/technology-46139193?__twitter_impression=true

If anyone would like to sign ths.
Debenhams to end its business links with Arron Banks & Eldon Insurance
www.change.org/p/debenhams-debenhams-to-end-its-business-links-with-arron-banks-eldon-insurance?signed=true

Diabetes prescriptions and Leave voting areas. Sad

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BigChocFrenzy · 08/11/2018 20:05

Very interesting that there is such a regional differences in diabetes rates, woman

Peregrina · 08/11/2018 20:12

Type two diabetes = poverty, poor diet and obesity. Not a surprise at all.