Westministenders: Reality Bytes

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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 - Genius letter.
This is actually my DD's first year of not believing in Santa and the devious ways we are having to find to make it as lovely are many and varied. Perhaps I should ask Raab if he needs a little helper.

Put simply, we are here to save democracy, not practice it.

If you don't practice it, by definition you destroy it!
It's absurd to 'save' something by killing it first.

Priceless.

And for everything else there's MasterCard.

Refering to the Santa letter

Can't take credit for the letter (I'm not funny in real life ). Popped up on my FB feed, and I felt it deserved a wider airing.

Speaking of FB feeds, seem Kanye has had an epiphany ...

tuckered.co.uk/2018/10/31/thickest-man-in-the-world-finally-learns-trump-is-a-cnt

Kanye ‘the genius’ West is quitting politics, apparently.

At first I thought eh up, is ranting absolute bollocks to millions of people really classed as politics?

Then I remembered Nigel Farage appearing on Question Time every fucking week for five years.

By all accounts it looks like West’s family, the Kardashians, no, not the spoon headed dictators from Star Trek Deep Space 9, have upped his meds and have had a word.

(contd)

I'm adding the letter to my little album of Brexit photos from MN threads that I'm saving on my phone . I may need to cheer myself up.
I sent a copy of the letter to my dh . He's had a bad day delivering bad news and it gave him a grin.
Thank you.

@DGRossetti Thank you.

I've been working on an analogy of parents asking their kids to decide where they're going today based on random decisions at every road junction and then the parents trying to guide their choices by pointing out the traffic-jams/floods/dragons on certain roads, in the hope that the kids will eventually make the right choices.

That's what's going on isn't it? My creative writing skills are a bit dulled at the moment so I can't do the whole analogy any justice.

bellini I have a few saved too:

And House of Cards S6 hits Netflix today, apparently.

And as if by magic (cue twilight zone theme) mention Netflix, and a few seconds later what pops up on Facebook ?

Are you still taking applications for the Westministenders Brexitgeddon Village? I have a full set of "farm wife" skills (plucking, foraging, canning, curing, drying, fermenting, baking, preserving) and am a dab hand at "kitchen thrift" type cooking. I can also shoot and expect to hit the thing I'm aiming at. (Thank you, rural North American childhood.) DH is laid back and sociable, so what he lacks in dystopia-survival skills he makes up in sheer pleasantness.

I am also idly wondering if embassies are weighing up whether they'd have to help repatriate their nationals if, say, flights are grounded after Brexit day.

Posted on an other thread.

Looks like BBC is openly compromising the trial/s through breach of Sub Judice.

@BBCPolitics
On #marr on Sunday Arron Banks will respond to National Crime Agency investigation into campaign funding during Brexit referendum
@Arron_banks

Agree completely with red's post on pevious thread on the state of the media. And its consumers.

The constitutional sewerage through which we are wading is being reproduced in industrial quantities by a complicit and or completely clueless media, and externally funded psy ops social media campaign inflicete on a chronically thick populace.

War, but not as we've known it, Jim.

Shortly to be replaced by the old fashioned stuff.

Asia Bibi and her family need asylum and new identities somewhere safe. I can just her Farage and May screaming 'NOT HERE' though.

Asia was charged with insulting the prophet Muhammad after she drank from a cup of water before passing it to Muslim fruit-pickers

Could have been :

Asia was charged with insulting her master after she drank from a cup of water before passing it to white fruit-pickers

the difference 60 years makes, eh ?

Plaice mat king

Whenever I think of fucking David Cameron, my blood boils because of the chaos he had created. FU DC. Not good for the blood pressure.

I am also idly wondering if embassies are weighing up whether they'd have to help repatriate their nationals if, say, flights are grounded after Brexit day.

If things get very shitty I’m relying on my embassy to bring me back home.
But I’m aware that things would need to get very bad (having had family members stuck in the middle of a civil war, I’m also aware things can go per shape quite quickly actually)

I've written my first complaint to the BBC about the Arron Banks interview.

I doubt it will make any difference but I can't just let that shit go.

Me too fennel

link
www.bbc.co.uk/complaints/

@PineappleSunrise - those are great skills!

I have a vague memory that the BBC - like some other august organs of the government - has a policy of ignoring complaints that have been "activised" on the basis it's not really a true expression of personal views.

....and another.

Société Générale job losses- 300 staff told they must either move to Paris or lose their jobs. (According to Bloomberg its 400 not 300 jobs moving .)

www.thetimes.co.uk/article/move-to-europe-or-lose-your-jobs-societe-generale-tells-city-staff-3kz22zdc5

But unless they have EU citizenship, that move may not be sustainable after March 29th.

There's a thread on AIBU about possible fake medicines. Something the EU is very concerned about (Fake Medicines Directive). Presumably that's up in the air too ?

(Although DW did note that not being able to obtain medicines does solve the problem of worrying about their provenance).

On a more serious note, people are still dying from malaria as a result of fake malaria medicine in poor countries. (Wasn't this a plot line in "The Third Man" ?)

Thank god it’s Friday. I can have