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?...🤷🏻‍♀️🎄

[EpicShitDippedBatBiscuit]

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.


🎄 🌟 🎁 🍸 🥜 🦃 🎅

[EpicShitDippedBatBiscuit]

Well well well, maybe the sphere of Russian Influence is a little closer to home than some might enjoy. No doubt it will all be spun that the Russians are our important friends and allies too, and how it’s obvs completely different to #Dmitri apparently visiting Russia for a spell in the 90’s.

But. Maybe I just need to apply some more ‘critical thinking’.


#ClassicCorbski

[Dapplegrey]

Hezbollah, sympathetic to Russia? Surely not.

I’ve never understood Corbyn’s affinity to Russia. During Soviet times yes - and I know Putin was a KGB operative in Dresden - but not now since it’s a capitalist country.
Or is it that he supports any country that might destabilise Tory Britain?

[EpicShitDippedBatBiscuit]

Morning all... in the spirit of the last landlady and her leftover stock, there’s warm croissants and festive pumpkin spiced lattes on the Bar for you all!
🥐 ☕️

[Limer]

Love the new menu! And the alternative Twelve Days of Christmas

Lily you have produced the statistic that I didn't know but suspected - 11% of workers travel to work by train. Almost always in ridiculously overcrowded carriages, on trains that are often delayed. What a great idea (NOT) to cut fares by 33% and attract yet more miserable commuters to a massively overstretched system.

And what about the 89% like me who don't travel to work by train? I use the train for getting into town for nights out, to go further afield for days out in the countryside, and a couple of times a year I have a First Class jaunt up to Edinburgh. 33% fare cut - thanks very much

[Limer]

Dapplegrey: Or is it that he supports any country that might destabilise Tory Britain?

Comrade Corbyn, with his 2 Es at A-level, has never progressed beyond the sixth-form idea that "my enemy's enemy is my friend".

[EpicShitDippedBatBiscuit]

“Or is it that he supports any country that might destabilise Tory Britain?”

This! ^ The ends justify the means!

[EpicShitDippedBatBiscuit]

“Love the new menu! And the alternative Twelve Days of Christmas grin”

Why thank you! We had some reviews on my last menu, and they suggested a slight improvement was needed. Et Voila! This one seems more popular! 😂 (less marrow based items)

The Twelve Days, was by a Collaboration of Comrades! 🙌🙌🙌 🎄 ✊🥀

[SingingLily]

Morning, all, and a builders brew and croissant for me, please, Landlady!

Trains? Ah yes, here in my corner of the West Country, I can hear the occasional train go by. To actually board it (we have a request stop, where you have to stick your hand out to stop the train - very Railway Children) I'd have to walk half a mile through the woods and then cross the canal. I'm sure I'd feel really safe doing that.

Buses? Ah yes, we have one. It runs every two hours until 17.30. Weekdays only, mind. No weekend or bank holiday service.

Cycling? Sure. I still remember how to ride a bicycle. If I ever want to dice with death, I'd do just that. Narrow twisty hilly lanes with blind bends and passing places round here. Not even safe for cars to navigate when the bin lorries are out. Even John Lewis has a special note in place to only use small delivery vans to our village because their normal vans get stuck.

So I can't tell you how really really delighted I would be, as a taxpayer, to subsidise City workers who have to commute into or around...London. 🙄

[EpicShitDippedBatBiscuit]

“Buses? Ah yes, we have one. It runs every two hours until 17.30. Weekdays only, mind. No weekend or bank holiday service.”

Apart from the school buses, we have one, weekdays and saturday. It leaves at 10.30 for the nearest town, and you have to be back on it to return at 1.30. 😂😂😂😂

[SingingLily]

You have a Saturday service, Epic??? I'm green with envy.

Wouldn't you think that someone - anyone - on Jezza's team would occasionally speak up and say, "But what about the rest of the country? They don't all live in Islington, you know".

[EpicShitDippedBatBiscuit]

Corbyn just gets more ridiculous with his schemes as the days go on. He is fast turning into Willy Wonka.

[EpicShitDippedBatBiscuit]

“Wouldn't you think that someone - anyone - on Jezza's team would occasionally speak up and say, "But what about the rest of the country? They don't all live in Islington, you know".”

You would, but look at his cabinet geographically!

[EpicShitDippedBatBiscuit]

Next up, Corbyn offers to turn the Thames into a river of chocolate.

[SingingLily]

Corbyn just gets more ridiculous with his schemes as the days go on. He is fast turning into Willy Wonka.

I'm really hoping it's a sign of increasing desperation. Just as I hope that the appalling Goebbels thing was a sign of extinction burst.

Len McCluskey says a poll of 75,000 of his members shows a large chunk still undecided how to vote because...Brexit...and Jezza.

I hope it's not a bit of mazkirovka to get people to the polling stations.

[Limer]

Wouldn't you think that someone - anyone - on Jezza's team would occasionally speak up and say, "But what about the rest of the country? They don't all live in Islington, you know".

I'm guessing Diane Abbott said exactly that... and added, "some of them live in Hackney!"

[SingingLily]

And she would know! She counted them...

[EpicShitDippedBatBiscuit]

“I hope it's not a bit of mazkirovka to get people to the polling stations.”

Even my student DD and her friends think it’s ridiculous and wonder how he can possibly pay for it all... (I do wish she would wonder that when it comes to our financial support. 😂😂😂)

[EpicShitDippedBatBiscuit]

“And she would know! She counted them...grin”

🤣🤣🤣🤣🙌

[SingingLily]

It's the beginning of the age of wisdom, Epic. Patience....

[EpicShitDippedBatBiscuit]

“It's the beginning of the age of wisdom, Epic. Patience....”

We can only hope! 😂

[SingingLily]

The most effective antidote to idealistic Socialist notions is invariably the very first pay slip...and that jaw-dropping moment when you see exactly how much the State is taking off you to pay for them. Suddenly, you can see why your parents keep banging on about taxes.

[howabout]

Thanks for the graphs and stats on trains Dusty and Lily.

Labour have had a hung Parliament to work with for 2 years and Tory tiny majority and Con/LibDem coalition before that.

If they had been a decent Opposition they could have won the argument on sorting out the fast emerging issues on Universal credit and put them right, protected WASPI women who weren't able to work later or long enough to compensate, pushed the Green agenda and the rebalancing agenda for targeted travel subsidy, come up with sensible suggestions to sort out ticketing rip offs, argued the case for levelling up education funding etc etc etc.

All of these would have been accepted if they had pushed hard enough because they all make sense whether you are Left or Right.

Instead they sat on their hands while they fought like rats in sack over whether the 2 child limit and clamping down on the disabled were good or bad things.

Now they come out with a whole load of jam for all nonsense.

They have zero credibility.

Rant over. Calming honey tea if you have any please.

The Clyde is already way more potent than whisky and we've just opened a new distillery.

[winonah]

I can't believe there are so many of you who seem to think it is ok to vote Tory, or support them in these threads. People (probably people who are worse off than you) are really suffering in our country.

Under the Tories we have seen the imposition of the bedroom tax, cuts to the disability welfare budgets, the sale of key departments of the NHS around the country to private companies, housing benefits for 18-21 yr olds scrapped, the universal credit debacle leaving families penniless and indebted, slashing legal aid, limiting child tax credit to 2 children, cuts to state school budgets so that schools have to send begging letters to parents. Homelessness is increasing because of their heartless policies, NHS waiting times are the highest they've ever been, in-work poverty is increasing etc etc etc...

If you don't care about other people in your society sliding into poverty, and all the misery that that entails, then vote Tory.

[EpicShitDippedBatBiscuit]

“If you don't care about other people in your society sliding into poverty, and all the misery that that entails, then vote Tory.”

Ok, thanks for the advice. Will do.

A double red flag rum. For our delightful newcomer, 🥃 and a calming Honey Tea 🍯 🍵 for How 😉

[EpicShitDippedBatBiscuit]

Is this what you mean by “extinction burst” lily? 😂😂😂