Brexit Arms

[DustyDiamond]

Welcome to the Brexit Arms!!

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Computer says no, 😂😂.

Yes the faces on the meme 😂😂.

It's a soothing drink but pleasant warming bite. Making me sleepy. Good night.
I'm setting my TV alarm for Sophie ridge 8am.

It's the faces that make me laugh every time I look at them!

Here's another to help you all sleep soundly & without night terrors...!!

Just popped in for a wee G&T and a catch up after a day out in the rain! I enjoyed the Telegraph's carton of NS Singing and find Auld's dismissal of it and anything English interesting and pretty typical of many SNP voters I know. Many of whom have an abiding dislike of anyone they think of an 'posh', privately educated and or English. They vile blurb that comes out of some of their mouths on face book absolutely amazes me. I say nothing, but am often tempted to remind them just how intolerant they sound and how racist their remarks are. But of course they don't consider themselves racist because it is of course only the English that they dislike!! The Scotsman article exemplifies just what I have found myself.
Yes I am one of the 1m Scots who voted leave and voted to stay in the UK in 2014. I think few current SNP supporters realise that the SNP was an anti EU party and that the hard core still are.
The idea that Auld has that they would count any other EU country as 'like minded' rather than England is just plainly ridiculous and completely bigoted. Their enormous hate of anything English completely colours their reality. Boris, unfortunately exemplifies their most hated English hate figure, the Etonian Toff. They can't get past that vision and could never ever see past the accent.

Friends of mine in Fife voted exactly the same as you, Double, but have to keep a low profile because of the vitriol even now. I'm heartily glad the "No Thanks" campaign prevailed but even then, Cameron was complacent about the outcome and panicked at the last moment.

The last thing any of us need IMO is another binary referendum of any kind.

Now that I've frightened myself silly looking at The Usual Suspects (thanks for that, Dusty 😱😂), I'm calling it a day. Night, all. We live to fight another day!

No pasarán ✊️🌹

..... 'I want our young people to be able to travel and visit other countries'

Corybn?

How the hell with brexit stop them travelling? Filling young heads with this clap trap!!!

So the Tories can criticise Labours proposed spending but won’t release their figures! The Tories are rubbish when they get challenged in interviews.

Corybn looks.... Smart!!

How the hell with brexit stop them travelling? Filling young heads with this clap trap!!!
It won't stop them. It will, however, make it significantly more difficult and will mean they have no automatic entitlement to work in 27 different countries. So nice of you to vote to take that away from them.

(waits for someone to come on and say 'my Uncle Eric managed to live and work in Europe before we joined the EU...')

Two minute silence observed in this household.

Good morning, and a builders brew please, Landlady, when you're ready? Just thought I'd pop in with some cheery news to start the day.

Two opinion polls published today (I'm hoping Dusty doesn't mind ) and both confirm that the Conservatives are so far holding a 12 point lead. This is significant. I'm fairly sure I read recently that Dimitri's game plan was always to maintain at least a 10 point lead while anything between seven and ten is "squeaky bum time". Anyway...

Deltapoll (for the Mail on Sunday):
Conservatives 41
Labour 29
LibDem 16

And in the interests of balance and fairness, Opinium for The Observer:
Conservatives 41
Labour 29
LibDem 15

Pretty consistent...so far.

And, of course, here is the political cartoon from today's Sunday Telegraph. As a bonus, I've given you a glimpse of Janet Daley's headline (she was one of the very few political commentators to correctly predict the referendum result).

Back to RL for a bit. Might see you later

Brexit will have a high impact on travel _ it will take away the automatic right to live and work across the EU. You are removing that future for your children. It’s one of the main reasons why people have sought EU passports so they have the protection for the future. I have indefinite leave to remain in the UK but I don’t trust Priti Patel to not make changes - she’s make some rash statements already which she has then had to withdraw.

Morning all

Am also watching the Remembrance service

JC did look very smart actually and BJ looked like a sack of shit, Blackford rocking his Scottish credentials in a kilt & Jo Swinson taking a risk in skyscraper heels 😮

Was pretty choked up earlier watching the featured stories - the parents of the young medic who died on patrol really got to me

Lovely day here but v chilly 🥶

Good news so far on the polls 🤞🤞

Morning everyone, not too early for a post-Remembrance service snifter, I hope?

I agree Genuine, I've just seen footage on TV of Comrade Corbyn and he looked very smart!

Love that cartoon SingingLily and those latest polls

Dusty I'm always in floods of tears throughout the whole thing. I love it all but it makes me so emotional.

'And soldiers who are dead and gone,
If only we could bring back one
They'd say we've gotta have peace

Did anyone else hear the green parakeets screeching in the background while the service was on?
I love those birds and look forward to catching a glimpse of them whenever we go to London.
That Heinrich Walch funeral March is a real tear jerker.

I was thrilled to see the parakeets in Hyde Park back in May on a trip to London and then utterly amazed to see a flock in the park in the West Country! It's really discombobulating to see something so exotic just flying free

Yes it is arse.
Once driving back from London we saw a flock flying along with us. It was amazing.
Perhaps one small positive of climate change?

(Bigger picture, folks...)
Unfortunately, the green parakeets have a detrimental effect on native birds and bats and their impact has been compared with that of the grey squirrel on the native red squirrel. They can be legally culled, as they're considered a threat, so maybe we'll all be eating roast parakeet post-Brexit? Better than chlorinated chicken perhaps?

Twofingers
We'll be sticking to our usual slices of roast Dodo, thank you!

Apparently they've been around for over 100 years..did not know that.

Rarely down South to see Parakeets but have seen loads of them in Parks in Amsterdam.

Why do they have a detrimental effect on bats, I wonder?
Do they annex the bats’ territory?

Why do they have a detrimental effect on bats, I wonder? Do they annex the bats’ territory?
They compete with bats (and smaller birds) for food and nesting sites. Also, their noise scares away smaller birds. They do have preadtors, though, which is why more birds of prey are seen in the skies where parakeets thrive.

Fab article on London's parakeets. I blame Hendrix for livening the place up.

www.theguardian.com/cities/2019/jun/06/the-great-green-expansion-how-ring-necked-parakeets-took-over-london

We have a massive colony of blue tits because next door is full of berry bushes but they forage for grubs in our trees' bark. The blackbird seems to have gone off on his hols and so Mr robin is in charge - there was a tense couple of weeks when they spent most of the morning shouting at each other. Our garden wall and tree cover keep out the larger birds.

I'd rather have parakeets than pigeons but I think they would equally struggle to compete with the thug seagulls on our tenement rooftops (seagulls hunting down live pigeons is gruesome to watch). The seagulls, however, keep the magpies and crows in check.

Bat walks aplenty round our way but none of the DC are keen to accompany me.

Have to admit an admiration for gulls - they are so sleek and powerful and aerodynamic not to mention the LOUDNESS. But I agree they're a right bunch of bastards!

Am quietly enjoying the parakeet discussion!!

Loved the guardian article as well - was 😮 that Jimi Hendrix has been touted as patient zero 😂😂