Patrick Kielty May not be a particularly funny comedian, but his piece for The Guardian about the Irish Border and the prospect of a United Ireland is pretty good

https://amp.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/feb/26/hard-brexit-united-ireland-second-referendum-dup

Powerful stuff, thanks for posting

Why does the guy from the Inbetweeners say "Sheffield awaits" on the current Ladbrokes advert?

Google turns up nothing but the addresses of ladbrokes shops in sheffield

[almost halving]

In the same period, the growth in exports continued to outstrip the growth in imports, almost halving the UK’s trade deficit from £23.4 billion to £15.8 billion

Alarm bells for a puff piece 3 lines in... 

Whats to stop TM bringing forward legislation that we revoke A50 and trigger it again on a set date ~1 year from now? How could Labour oppose it?

TM would have to admit that her strategy has been a lolfail but she's maybe dutiful enough to the country to pull the plug on all this nonsense

Echo the sentiments above, always a pleasure to talk to

RIP George

How many mistakes can you spot on this Scottish football ticket?

Click to see full-size image.

11 😁

"Brexit can be the springboard to a golden age of 21st-century Conservatism"

"Get it right and Brexit could be a moment of renewal of Conservatism"

"to make this a moment of inspiring One Nation renewal capable of inspiring those who didn’t vote for Brexit"

"it’s time for something bold and radical: a new start for a new Britain"

By the ERGs own admission the potential benefits of Brexit will be realised over decades, not years. Talk of 'moments' and 'springboards' is just hot air. Like it or loathe it, this will never be over for either side until there's another vote.

A new start for Britain I can see, it'll definitely be the start of something new. Trouble is, it seems to me that we just swap one set of problems for another. Now the new set of problems (unemployment & more acute pressure on the exchequer as tax revenues fall) we can at least theoretically solve on our own, whereas further political integration with the EU we couldn't.

The trouble is, the same electorate that bought us Brexit also resoundingly defeated Mrs Mays plan to use peoples wealth to pay for their own care.

Its certainly possible for there to be some sort of New Deal born out of a bit of Brexit spirit, but getting people to vote to pay for it? I'm not convinced.

 

Great work Stu, wpwp!

Sterling thread this one

Bit tinny I'd say

Irish border never came up 'cos nobody thought Leave would win and at the time the DUP didn't have the prime minister over a barrel.

Not sure why EU member states' duty to enforce their common external border for the purposes of trade is any less legitimate than the UK governments duty would be to enforce customs rules at Dover.

Actually have a fair bit of sympathy for TMay. Talked a good game early but the rest of this govt too much of a gong show to keep up the pretence of having any actionable ideas now that its game time. Not much else that she could have done about it personnel wise without capsizing the boat.

Still just about on track to deliver the obvious compromise of a soft brexit. £40bn buys a smaller membership fee for EEA + deal on immigration that she can sell at home. ECJ rulings restricted to trade stuff which the 99% can happily go back to not caring about, Ireland sorted, couple of nice announcements about overseas investment that we'd have anyway if we stayed and she can say that she delivered what the people voted for.

He just keeps on giving!

Maybe next week, we could do something on here. Mini competiton?
Someone trusted hold the funds. Everyone submits a correct score for each game, each number of legs away from correct result is a point. Least points accrued wins?

We do this at work and thats only reason I put that on. Needless to say I won the work comp too :-)

I'd happily run this for next weeks PL

£10 in and a google doc, see how many we get

Congrats!

Price +2.5 here so was rooting for the 7-5

glgl!

Complaint: https://www.scribd.com/document/372445546/Bitcoin-Lawsuit

Great read, thanks for posting