Brexit Arms Festive Special. Will the Grinch steal christmas? Could it be ‘Christmas with the Kranks?’ Or will we end up with a ‘Blue’ Christmas after all?...🤷🏻‍♀️🎄

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First off, comrade Hilda has been busy in the propaganda dept! Praise be to Hilda! The dear leader will appreciate and reward your efforts with a cushy job in the newly opened Ministry of Bullshit. ✊🥀

Specials board.

⭐️ Snacks.

•Salty Bar nuts
(we always have too many)

•Marrow crisps,
I know you all hate them, but we had a glut and needed to do something with them. 🤷🏻‍♀️😬

⭐️ Mains.

A festive choice of...

•’Properly Stuffed’ “Christmas voting” Turkey.

•Festive Glazed Gammons.

•Goose that laid the Gilded socialist egg.

•’Whigs’ in blankets.

•Sauce for the Goose and Sauce for the Gander

•Brussels’ sprouts.
Divisive, yet still popular in some quarters...

•Neeps and tatties.
Grown in Corbyn’s Communist plot and kindly gifted back to us by the SNP.

⭐️Festive Drinks.

•Rebecca’s long Baileys.
Seems nice enough, but can be vicious if you have too much.

•Corbyn’s Victory Gin.
State sanctioned by big brother.

•Bag in, artisan Earl Grey Cocktail.
A Boris election special.

•Red flag Rum.
for the singing socialists among us.

•Egg nog.
Gifted by Trump. Sticks in your throat a bit, but it’s polite to drink it and pretend to half enjoy it anyway.

•The #ClassicDmitri.
Shaken and stirred. A Russian Vodka based Cocktail, shrouded in mystery and intrigue. No one really knows how it came to exist, but all we know is, that it might have happened. Somewhere. And now it’s on the menu. Enjoy!

⭐️Desserts.

•Imported Panettone.
Get it fast, I’m reliably informed we will never ever have it again post Brexit.

•Traditional Christmas pudding.
have a good look for that old fashioned sixpence inside, we might need it when all the money runs out.

•Damson jam steamed pudding.
I’m told by the suppliers, that It’s like the infamous Mumsnet chicken, we can get eleventy billion servings from it and still have more for the freezer.

As always, welcome to all who pass through this place, but, as ever please observe the sign above the bar. If you can’t read it. It says...

DON’T BE A TWAT.

🎄 🌟 🎁 🍸 🥜 🦃 🎅

I'm going to put up the Christmas tree later. Dig out the Christmas CDs and crack open the ginger wine. 

Morning, Limer. That's what we're doing this weekend. I'm also spending much of it in the kitchen, cooking up a storm in preparation for a houseful over Christmas and New Year.

The pollsters reckon one in five or one in six voters are still undecided, though, so there'll be no respite from the campaigning till polling day...

Nice one Lily maybe you can spare a few culinary creations for the Arms regulars?

I wonder how many undecideds will make a decision, or will they not vote/spoil their paper?

Interesting theory about Boris having a speech impediment. I can see what you mean Hate but I think it's more of a repeating the same sound to drown out the other speaker - Ken Clarke used to do this all the time, just go "I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I' until the other person shut up and let him speak!

JC is more used to shouting slogans across a crowded roomful of comrades, he doesn't project any authority when using his normal speaking voice. He actually sounds bored most of the time. But as soon as he raises his voice, all the passion floods in and he's away.

But as soon as he raises his voice, all the passion floods in and he's away.

Ah, those will be his set pieces, the ones he's been parroting since 1983. His comfort zone.

Ah, those will be his set pieces, the ones he's been parroting since 1983. His comfort zone. Precisely!

Those halcyon days when most of his waking hours were spent shouting, "Maggie, Maggie, Maggie.... OUT OUT OUT"

HateIsNotGood
Agree totally about buying UK fish, rather than imports. Think it would be good for us all to buy UK products where possible - saying to DH that when we replace our car, we should look more seriously at UK manufacturers.

Sort of connected - but not quite! DF worked in the steel industry and two of his main customers were Ford and British Leyland. In the office reception they had notices up saying 'Representatives driving foreign vehicles will not be seen'. How things used to work - I remember the 'Buy British' campaign well - I suppose it would be judged as divisive now?

I remember the 'Buy British' campaign well - I suppose it would be judged as divisive now?

Not in this household, ajandjjmum!

In any case, buying local now carries the virtue of being environmentally friendly.

Exactly SingingLily - almost like it's come full circle.

I'm going to put up the Christmas tree later. Dig out the Christmas CDs and crack open the ginger wine.

I'll be doing the tree & decs tomorrow 😩

I hate putting them up but love it once it's done.

The boys need to spider check the boxes first before I can start 😳

Here's the Red Car & the Blue Car!!!

(Also used to watch Children's Ward Belle!)

I have no idea what anyone’s singing about 😂

😂😂

It's the Milky Way advert from the late 80s Autumn

m.youtube.com/watch?v=FV1isBEPuUM

I’m 40 (only just) so I remember singing it with my friends at school in the 80’s

That meme is amazing Dusty!

Didn’t they re release the ad a couple of years back?

Oh it looks familiar
I think I found it annoying!

On the fishing debate, If I’m honest, I know little about it, other than news reports about big environmentally hideous dredgers in our waters and that there is a lot of tension between french and english trawlermen in the channel over rights to fish. I’m not coastal, and didn’t especially research the fishing side of things when I was researching brexit, so I’m afraid it passed me by.

I take the view that fishermen are the experts on this, and there did seem to be a not insignificant number of them, who wanted brexit to protect their local quotas and fishing rights.

Didn’t Nige claim recently that Boris’ deal didn’t fully address the fishermans issues? Don’t know how true that is though, as we haven’t exactly been overwhelmed with fishermen interviews saying they aren’t happy with it.

Will try and look into it a little more!

Oh it looks familiar
I think I found it annoying!

Super annoying! (See also, Shake n Vac...!)

Noooo! I now have the shake n vac tune in my head.

Morning though.

Re Get Brexit Done vs Get Brexit Started

Obvs there'll be wrangles & debates ahead but at least they'll be focused on the future rather than continuously refighting 2016

The big block in Parliament was down to extremist remainers still holding onto a hope that Brexit can be stopped & they refused to let go of this

Getting Brexit Done for me means the conversation at last moves on

Noooo! I now have the shake n vac tune in my head.

😂😂😂😂😂

Morning!

6 days to go!

This time next week, we will either be breathing a sigh of relief, or banging our heads off the wall in frustration at yet more ‘planned’ fuckery. I do hope, because I am feeling saucy this morning. That if labour manage to form a government, that the tories will collectively vote and conspire against EVERYTHING they try to implement just to give them a fucking taste, of what they have deliberately put the rest of us through these past years. Petty? Yes. 🤷🏻‍♀️ But they are going to fuck the economy sideways anyway, so we might as well enjoy a bit of sweet, sweet retribution on the way down.

No. Fucks. Given.

I’m going anarchistic in my older age... 😂

“Getting Brexit Done for me means the conversation at last moves on”

As it does for most normal people, but yet again, we are reduced more patronising stereotypes, of being simplistic beings and hard of understanding, the type that are too stupid to understand nuance and the fact that it is JUST A CATCHY SOUNDBITE.

5 days!!! I’m still mentally in friday... 😂

On the subject of being confounded by Catchy sound bites. The reverse, must follow, that people also don’t understand the implications of the following, or the fact that these things cannot be implemented immediately.

Time for real change.

(When? Day one? Week one? How long will it take to reduce poverty? When will we be able to close the food banks down?

For the Many Not the Few

. Who? When? What? Will schools be better straight away? The hospital crisis, will it end overnight?

Those were the days... and the late great Brucie in fine voice!