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Brexit mega thread 7 : global Britain is looking rather insignificant.....

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ChiswickFlo · 28/03/2022 19:30

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Peregrina · 13/05/2022 18:39

but the UK can’t have bloody anyone in cabinet that could be described as such let alone our PM?

Because the half way decent ones were Remainers and were chased out of the party before the last election. The only qualification for being in Johnson's Cabinet was being a thick as two short planks toady.

mathanxiety · 14/05/2022 01:25

“The best path forward is a pragmatic one that requires courage, co-operation and leadership,” a White House spokesman said of the UK’s dispute with the EU.

It comes as the former Brexit minister Lord Frost says Biden, who invested much energy in the peace process, should stay out of Britain’s affairs.

‘It is our country that faced terrorism, faced the Troubles. I am old enough to remember having to check under my car every morning, as a diplomat, before I went to work,” he told an audience in America.

Awww, diddums...

He clearly doesn't know, or has chosen to forget, that the US was heavily invested in ending the Troubles, and hence the long, laborious work of Senator George Mitchell and ultimately the GFA.

There would be no GFA without the consistent pressure placed on London by Bill Clinton.

The Frost speech was delivered to the neo liberal/rightist think tank, The Heritage Foundation. Strange bedfellows the Tories seem to be courting.

mathanxiety · 14/05/2022 01:33

Rory Bremner 💙🇺🇦
@rorybremner
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Bluffer’s guide to NI Protocol. Those who voted Remain and lost (ie the majority) have adjusted to Brexit & are getting on with making it work, while those who voted Brexit and won ie the DUP) are furious and want to rip the whole thing up. Have I understood that correctly?

Insightful comment here.

borntobequiet · 14/05/2022 07:34

Rory Bremner would make a better PM than the PM. He could do all of the Cabinet too, with the help of Jan Ravens. I saw them a few years ago live, so funny and clever.

DrBlackbird · 14/05/2022 09:28

The Frost speech was delivered to the neo liberal/rightist think tank, The Heritage Foundation. Strange bedfellows the Tories seem to be courting

The Heritage Foundation goes beyond a political right view towards far right. Speaking to the Heritage Foundation fits in perfectly with how Johnson’s Tory party has mimicked the path of Australian and American conservatives in lurching to the right. All the recent Tory strategies of the last few years have been directly lifted from their playbooks.

The depressing issue is how relatively successful those strategies have been eg weaponising the media to use DARVO tactics and stoking culture wars to misdirect public’s attention so that few voters have any appreciation of how Tories are deliberately and systematically undermining democratic institutions

Anyone here have any faith at all in a British Human Rights Act proposed by a Tory government, let alone a Johnson government? I don’t.

DuncinToffee · 14/05/2022 10:53

Didn't Oliver Dowden recently gave a cancel culture anti woke speech there?

dontcallmelen · 14/05/2022 16:25

its all so bloody depressing, the awful thing is I really can’t see it getting any better only worse unfortunately I’ve always been a deluded optimist but they’ve finally ground me down I just don’t see a way out of this carnage.

ChiswickFlo · 14/05/2022 16:32

Back in a&e with mum yesterday.
She became very ill at 11am. Drs refused an appointment. Emergency ambulance took 1.5 hours.
Mum blue lighted to resus. Scans etc.
Some poor woman actually dropped dead in the triage area. It was awful.
Mum should be in hospital for observation but no beds so sent home.
The nhs in 2022 folks.

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dontcallmelen · 14/05/2022 16:47

Oh Flo I’m so sorry, so awful for you & your Mum much love💐

DrBlackbird · 14/05/2022 20:29

It’s such a scary time to be ill. Really sorry about your mum Flo Flowers

ChiswickFlo · 14/05/2022 23:09

Thank you

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mathanxiety · 15/05/2022 01:49

YY, DrBlackbird The Heritage Foundation and its protegees are directly responsible for Brexit.

The depressing issue is how relatively successful those strategies have been eg weaponising the media to use DARVO tactics and stoking culture wars to misdirect public’s attention so that few voters have any appreciation of how Tories are deliberately and systematically undermining democratic institutions

Hence also Trump.

mathanxiety · 15/05/2022 01:50

Flowers to Flo

So awful for you and your poor mum.

DuncinToffee · 15/05/2022 16:02

Flowers Flo and mum

ICouldHaveCheckedFirst · 15/05/2022 20:07

Flowers Flo for you and your poor mum. Are you with her?

ChiswickFlo · 15/05/2022 20:13

ICouldHaveCheckedFirst · 15/05/2022 20:07

Flowers Flo for you and your poor mum. Are you with her?

Thank you all x
She's home, and I've been visiting, as have one or two others.
It's my wedding anniversary today so dh and I have had a day "off" but I'll be back there tomorrow.
I need to sort out better pain relief for her but not sure how...I'll try and do an online request I think.
We had a trip planned in a couple of weeks but I've cancelled...she's too ill to travel.
It's difficult because she has lots of comorbidities but this is new.

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HannibalHeyes · 16/05/2022 19:02

Best wishes for your Mum, Flo.

Meanwhile, here's a useful Brexshit cost calculator...

HannibalHeyes · 16/05/2022 19:33

And just for giggles...

Brexit mega thread 7 : global Britain is looking rather insignificant.....
DuncinToffee · 16/05/2022 21:32

Johnson on Channel 4

..Yes I agreed the NI protocol

..I didn't expect the EU to apply it

Jason118 · 16/05/2022 22:18

Can you please stop it? He can't have said it, surely?

DuncinToffee · 16/05/2022 23:45

Here is the proof, it comes with subtitles Wink
twitter.com/Channel4News/status/1526280266616029188?t=55vjgDd0VDihqGBHCwuvqA&s=19

borntobequiet · 17/05/2022 06:19

Aaaargh. Is all that I can say.

purplesequins · 17/05/2022 06:32

DuncinToffee · 16/05/2022 23:45

Shock
ChiswickFlo · 17/05/2022 07:09

Fuck me

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Peregrina · 17/05/2022 07:20

"I never obey the rules so I assume that no one else does."

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