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A non-partisan politics pub thread for political chit chat....!!

Please stick within MN talk guidelines - any posts which you think may have crossed the line, please report rather than getting into scraps on thread 😠

Political punch-ups are soooo last decade - ain't nobody got time for that 🥊❌

Be nice! Be respectful!

S'ok to slag off politicians, but not other posters 🍻

Autumn Do you think Brexiteers go to bed earlier than most people?

Not on Friday.

23 hours to go. Its so hard to hold in the excitement.

I think shenanigans I think budget discussions and whole sections of the budget not yet agreed. An EU summit has been called for February 20th with the intent of total assent at the end of the March plenary - 13 March They have quite a gap to fill with us gone, and they have to negotiate the budget for the next 5-6 years.

Whistles 'There's a hole in my bucket' quietly.

Ireland won't be happy, the following is from another political blog I follow: they can expect new EU directives abounding from monetary and banking union later this year. Things like VAT on what goods and what % decided in Brussels, a new EU inheritance system (terrifying considering the Eire property bubble), Corporation taxes (Eire gets 3.5% of GDP from this source) moved to 33% from 12.5% (and pharma, agri-tech, IT companies already moving). Things like receiving 1.18 billion from EU with a pay-in of 1.77 billion, becoming promises of 1.23 billion for a pay-in of 4.32 billion.

Walking I only ever go to bed early when my insomnia has finished me, then I go aboit 11, wake up at 2 and do a big clean or something!

I don’t think anyone has yet surveyed Brexiteers on our sleeping patterns though 😂

It's HERE!!!

Brexit Day! 🙌🙌🙌

We held the line & didn't give up 🍷

Congrats one & all - I shall be opening my Brexit Day bubbly after work (been in the fridge since March last year 🙄😂) & will watch the Nige documentary

It's been a long slog but we did it 😍😍😍

🥳 🥂 🍻 🎉

We #GotBrexitDone 🏆

Autumn 'local councils are batshit'?

How does that comfort someone witnessing ever more savage cuts to local funding?

Le yawn 🥱🙄

Sally I apologise if my comment made you feel bad.

In full, what I meant was, local councils will cut that kind of thing in favour of funding all kinds of nonsense, even if the money is available. I am actually just having a row with the council today - well yesterday now! - and I do sympathise re the cuts. Unfortunately I don’t know how to get these people to see sense.

Dusty don’t pop your cork too early - not a euphemism 😂

Jolyon Moron might find a way to stop it tomorrow!

Dusty No you haven't.

Even the most ardent, yet intelligent Brexiteer recognises that the Hard Work is now beginning.

No one had 'done' anything.

No one knows what the end of the year will look like.

I find your Christmas Eve excitement sweet, but misguided.

We will either get BRINO or No Deal come the end of the year. Some will love one, and hate the other.

The Difficult Stuff has just started.

Your triumphalism is as embarrassing as that shameful EU Parliament clown show. That was embarrassing. Don't contribute to it. We need the EU in order to do business. Please don't ridicule them.

Jolyon is still in hiding I think after his festive killing spree.... 😉

So boring it posted twice

Dusty, queen of the memes. Open the bubbly and fill me up.

Autumn you don't know how to make these people see sense? The council?

You mean, ridicule doesn't work?

Who knew!

Maybe carefully reasoned argument, backed up with evidence based fact might.... oh, never mind.

Off you go to skip and wave your union flag.

Bless.

Walking “ Open the bubbly and fill me up”

Hopefully also not a euphemism 😂

What a glorious day Walking! 🥳

I suggest ignoring the recent digs Autumn

Poster has a history of singling posters out for abuse 🙄

*"Open the bubbly and fill me up”
No, not a 'euphemism, just open the bubbly and point me at it lol.

I cant wait, cant sleep, so excited.

Snoopy dance!

But was genuinely expecting more traffic on here!

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Tum te tum te tum....

But ... bu....

Today's going to be amazing! I'm going to wake up in my Union Jack jim-jams to the sound of a squadron of Spitfires racing overhead and leaving a trail of hot buttered crumpets behind them. I'll run to the corner shop past all the British children who are laughing and squealing with excitement as they make a beautiful statue of the queen out of happy wriggling bulldog puppies - with two corgis for her eyebrows!

"Bunting flutters everywhere and the man from the betting shop steps into the street - 'guess what! England just won the World Cup and The Ashes and The Grand National and here's the best bit - Boris put a bet on it for everyone! You're all MILLIONAIRES!!!'

"The Red Arrows fly overhead dropping fish and chips as I walk into the corner shop, get my morning paper and go to the counter. 'How much please?' I say to the Asian lad there. 'One pence, everything in the whole shop now costs just 1p!' he laughs, leave it on the counter, I'm off back to Pakistan - we all are!'

"And he's right! Outside in the streets jolly old Nigel Farage is leading a huge crowd of happy foreigners - Turks, Poles, Romanians, Syrians - there's even a few English people with heavy suntans mixed up in there! Nigel's playing Rule Britannia on a long pipe, rather like the pipe that takes the gas into your oven, and they're all following and smiling and talking foreign, bless them!

"Just then Boris flies overhead in a concorde made of Bank of England gold - 'don't worry!' he laughs. 'I've cut out all the bits the French made!' and with that he crashes into the ground at 1200 miles an hour, along with the economy, the country and all the dozy nostalgic foreigner-fearing fuckwits who fell for this bullshit."

"Grow up. Wake up."

(credit to Matt Thomas)

Party, party here tonight. 11pm.
Kick off.