Brexit

[Scot Dutchy]

Seriously

What was in the Queen's speech – and what was left out

Controversial parts of the Tory manifesto, including foxhunting and new grammar schools, have been dropped

[Svartalf]

new grammar schools? what did the tories want to do to make the lower classes even more ignorant than they naturally are, again? and any way, they need to be literate, or they can't read the sun and the daily fail which will feed them trash and keep them out of the gummint's hair.

[Alan B]

A “digital charter” holds out the prospect of making the UK “the safest place to be online”, with a promise to tackle “harmful content online” whether it is extremist, abusive or harmful to children.

And we are going to do this by monitoring and snooping on all aspects of your lives...

In this way we will only need to employ a hundred or so people to do the surveillance to replace the 20,000 police, 10,000 (?) border control personnel and the 25% (?) HMRC tax investigation staff that we have sacked...

Brilliant! Sorted!

[Scot Dutchy]

new grammar schools? what did the tories want to do to make the lower classes even more ignorant than they naturally are, again? and any way, they need to be literate, or they can't read the sun and the daily fail which will feed them trash and keep them out of the gummint's hair.

You have to be literate to read Wail and the Bun? I always thought that was the least requirement. It is all one syllable words.

[Svartalf]

C'mon, it's not the Guardian or the Times, but you still need to know your letters and how they work...

[Alan B]

Gummint? Gummint?

This must be the result of low class edikashun.

[Brian Peacock]

He'll never top his "It tolls for thee Maggie," though will he?

[JimC]

Bring back a naval blockade against European ports!

It worked in the case of that damned Napoleon chappie...

[Scot Dutchy]

The Dutch will just sail up to Chatham again and break the chain.

Chatham Historic Dockyard Trust

[Brian Peacock]

Tories play the 'not true patriot' card...

Andrea Leadsom, the leader of the House of Commons, has come under fire for calling on broadcasters to be “a bit patriotic” in their Brexit coverage.

The outgoing Liberal Democrat leader, Tim Farron, described Leadsom, who stood for the leadership of the Conservative party last year, as “sinister” for her comments on the BBC’s Newsnight.

Leadsom said: “It would be helpful if broadcasters were willing to be a bit patriotic. The country took a decision, this government is determined to deliver on that decision.”

Emily Maitlis, who was presenting the show, asked Leadsom if she was accusing broadcasters of being unpatriotic .

“Are you accusing me of being unpatriotic for questioning how negotiations are going, questioning whether you have the position of strength that she said she wanted?” she said.

Leadsom replied: “I’m not accusing you of anything, Emily. I’m simply saying we all need to pull together as a country. We took a decision a year ago today to leave the European Union, we have a very strong hand and we are very well prepared for the negotiations.” ...

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/20 ... gotiations

If the Conservative & Unionist party really wanted us 'to all pull together' over Brexit they wouldn't have rejected offers from all other parties to form an independently chaired cross-party commission to oversee negotiations? Leadsom is just putting her lips to a fundamental tenet of Tory ideology - it's our patriotic duty to agree with whatever floats across the forebrains of our Tory betters.

[Scot Dutchy]

I saw that interview. Pathetic.

[Alan B]

Leadsome - another Tory moron like that Liz Truss who opens her mouth before engaging brain.

[Scot Dutchy]

Leadsome - another Tory moron like that Liz Truss who opens her mouth before engaging brain.

Engaging what? It cant exist.

[Alan B]

I was being generous...

Y'know, benefit of the doubt an' all that.

[Scot Dutchy]

Another hypocrite investing in the EU:

Brexit: Tim Martin’s JD Wetherspoon announces £13m investment in EU

The pubs chain is ploughing €15m into developing a new pub and 98-bedroom hotel in Dublin city centre, which will create 200 new jobs in the Irish Republic

JD Wetherspoon, headed by vocal Brexit-backing chairman Tim Martin, has announced its biggest ever single investment - into the European Union.

The pubs chain is ploughing €15m into developing a new pub and 98-bedroom hotel in Dublin city centre, which will create 200 new jobs in the Irish Republic.

Development work at the site, currently a row of derelict properties in Camden Street, will begin in February 2018, with the pub and hotel set to open early 2019.

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The great fan of Farage now doing the unbelievable.