Brexit party

[Theworldisfullofgs]

I despair, not content with doing Nazi style rally, the Brexit party did what the Nazis did in the Reichstag today in the EU parliament.

Doing a sterling job helping the UK with international relations prior to trade negotiations .

Its shaming.

[Clavinova]

Did anyone hear the childish spat between Liberal Democrat MEP Chris Davies and Ann Widdecombe on LBC yesterday afternoon? On balance, I think Mr Davies embarrassed himself slightly more than Ann Widdecombe.

[LateDad]

I keep wondering what it is that TheRealTitaniaMcGrath is trying, and failing, to tell us?

But anyway ... does anyone have a reference for the Nazis turning their backs in the Reichstag? I have a vague memory of something like that happening but I cannot find an authoritative source. TIA

[1tisILeClerc]

Farage and UKIP did this is 2014 apparently.

[dinnerpartyhell]

I have never felt so ashamed to be British after clapping eyes on the revolting yellow T-shirt’s with expletives emblazoned on the back. What a farce.
Who on earth organised that campaign?
It has alienated pretty much any potential supporter voting for a party with so little dignity, decorum and gravitas. Do you suppose the Liberal Democrat’s intended to make themselves look like a travelling circus.

[TheBigBallOfOil]

He’s very given to histrionics, isn’t he, old Nige? Like most utter twats

[1tisILeClerc]

dinnerpartyhell
You are obviously not capable of understanding that most Europeans would see that as yes, a bit of a stunt, but that there are some sensible people in the UK who see value in remaining or at least being prepared to engage with the others in the EU.
All eyes of the EP at least are watching and waiting for the UK to make a move and decide what it wants. The yellow highlights the e fact there are a reasonable number in the UK who DO want to engage.
The Bo%%%ks on the back was a slogan used and those in the EP will accept it as that and not be unduly offended. There are far bigger issues than Brexit on the minds of the EP, despite the UK thinking it is important. The UK is just one 'errant' country.

[Emilyontmoor]

What struck me about that interview and others I have seen him do is that Fromage is so angry, spitting venom. I really could not raise that much negative emotion about a political institution, I reserve that for real evil. The trouble is many of his supporters are angry too, white males over a certain age who seem consumed with resentment, at their sense of entitlement not being realised, sometimes I feel like my mere presence as a female makes their blood pressure rise visibly, never mind if I was a different colour or religion.

The other day a car beeped it’s horn loudly behind me at a roundabout for no reason I could discern other than I was in a bit of a fuck off car (not my choice ). It then did that overtake and then slow right down thing wildly gesticulating and continued with the pillock driving for a couple of miles, eventually he got the lane switching wrong and we drew up alongside and couldn’t help but laugh - Male, fat, bald, black shirt with some sporting logo on it. He almost spontaneously combusted. I bet he voted for Brexit, my DD said........ I bet he is one of the majority of Tory party members who are old and male and so angry with the EU that they are prepared to trash the economy, divide the union and fuck up Northern Ireland

[MockerstheFeManist]

Farridge must be so angry, I bet he can hardly bring himself to put in his mileage claim for the big Merc he drives all the way there and back.

[thedevondumpling]

What are they doing there? If they are so anti why did they want to join the organisation they despise. Of course they are taking their pay and expenses I think there is a word for that but it is ruder than bollocks.

[thedevondumpling]

Anyone know how you find an email address for MEPs. I'd like to tell mine how I feel about their stupid stunt.

[1tisILeClerc]

thedevondumpling
They will have an email address at the EU.

[Mistigri]

Devondumpling:

www.mysociety.org/wehelpyou/contact-your-meps/

[twofingerstoEverything]

devon here

I've already written to mine to remind them that they are our representatives, that they are there to represent ALL their constituents, not just the ones that agree with their populist agenda and that they should not behave like petulant teenagers, while drawing a comfortable salary, expenses etc.
Of course, you miight be wanting to write and complain about the libdem t shirts, although it's my understanding they weren't actually worn in the chamber.

[ContinuityError]

@LateDad

Reichstag photo can be found in the Süddeutsche Zeitung newspaper archive here:

www.sz-photo.de/?16607724099100603390&EVENT=POPUP&WINDOW=WGWINe4704873e01b6fac8cb1c19fdf7143a9&AJXUID=0.09937624538257461&MEDIANUMBER=00018908&MEDIAITEMS=2fabe2ff13b94b9684b6e063463e47711ece8f54&OMG=2fa803cfbea4&PAGING_SCOPE_4=3&MEDIAGROUP_SCOPE=1

[Emilyontmoor]

By the way Bollocks is a British colloquial word, not an English word. My ex drives around California with it on the bumper of his car and nobody knows what it means... Although many members of the EU parliament probably have an excellent knowledge of British colloquialisms I am sure they would see it in that context, and a political campaign slogan that helped get a party's MEPs, for whom yellow is their party colour elected , rather than a gesture like turning your back on what you claim is an anthem, even if it wasn't in fact, that is internationally recognised as rude and disrespectful, and nationally embarrassing . What the Breiteers seem to have only caught on to tardily is that Ode to Joy is actually recognised as a song about everyone joining together in celebration, I have heard at least two today try to pretend they love the song, but what they were actually objecting to is people getting together to celebrate which fits with their angry and divisive culture.

[Clavinova]

By the way Bollocks is a British colloquial word

Dictionaries describe bollocks as vulgar slang, offensive, rude...

[Emilyontmoor]

“Dictionaries” ? It isn’t in the OED, the Oxford Learners Dictionary describes it as “British English, taboo, slang) ​[uncountable] nonsense You're talking a load of bollocks! ​[plural] a man's testicles. ​Bollocks! exclamation used as a swear word when somebody is disagreeing with something, or when they are angry about something Bollocks!”


Collins “. exclamation & uncountable noun
Bollocks is used by some people to express disagreement, dislike, or annoyance.
[British, informal, rude, feelings]

1. plural noun
   

A man's bollocks are his testicles.
[British, informal, rude]

Best of all Cambridge “Bollocks to that (= that's nonsense)!”

so it is informal, a bit rude as in pertaining to a taboo bit of a man’s anatomy and entirely accurate in pertaining to Brexit.....

And with absolutely no connotations beyond the British Isles........

[ragged]

Gove started giving interviews where he endorsed leaving the Single Market in early May 2016 (May 10th?). Deffo was being talked about a lot > 1 month before 23.6.16.

[Peregrina]

Apparently John Bercow ruled that the word Bollocks in Parliamentary speech was 'not disorderly'.

This is one area where things have changed - it's much more common now to hear such words, even in polite company.

[ContinuityError]

Peregrina Remember the case against the record shop in 1977 over displaying the Sex Pistols album? John Mortimer dug out all kinds of etymology, including 14th century biblical usage and “bollocks” being a slang term for a forced chaplain.

[ContinuityError]

forces not forced.

[noodlenosefraggle]

If I thought the Brexit Party MEP's had enough brain cells, I'd think they had done this deliberately to make sure we have no deal. They have disrespected and insulted the people who we need to help us do a deal. If I was a member of the EU or an EU taxpayer, I'd want us gone as soon as possible rather than having to pay them a salary and a pension forevermore when they have done nothing. The Lib Dems may have been childish, but they have at least demonstrated that there are still a lot of people who would like to be in the EU.

[Clavinova]

Emilyontmoor
Best of all Cambridge “Bollocks to that (= that's nonsense)!”

Cambridge was one of the online dictionaries I looked at - you didn't copy the full definition;

[ plural ] offensive for testicle
[ U ] offensive nonsense:
That's a load of bollocks.
Bollocks to that (= that's nonsense)!

[bellinisurge]

Yes, because the interpretation of the word bollocks or, indeed pandering to attention seeking money grabbing Brexit Party stunts is what matters.

[Clavinova]

attention seeking
Wearing yellow t-shirts is attention seeking.

I looked up the Lib Dem MEP who had a spat with Ann Widdecombe on LBC;

"In 2006, Davies was forced to resign as leader of the Liberal Democrats group in the European Parliament, due to the tone of a series of emails he exchanged with a Jewish constituent."

"Davies accused a Jewish constituent of "wallowing in your own filth"; accused Israel of "posing as a victim" while pursuing "racist policies of apartheid and had written "I shall denounce the influence of the Jewish lobby that seems to have far too great a say over the political decision-making process in many countries."

Party Leader Sir Menzies Campbell called his comments "unacceptable".