BREXIT! BREXIT! BREXIT!

[Clinton Huxley]

"We want our country back". Well, TB is on the rise, there's extreme food poverty in parts and rickets is due a comeback. Leavers should feel nice and cosy soon.

[Clinton Huxley]

Actually, it's only 22 years that the Empire gasped its last, I put the time with the giving back of Hong Kong rather than at the independence of the Raj.

Let's not forget mighty Tristan da Cunha.

[Brian Peacock]

If we want out country back then who do we have to wrestle? We really should've voted to withdraw from The Austerity.

[Rum]

Actually, it's only 22 years that the Empire gasped its last, I put the time with the giving back of Hong Kong rather than at the independence of the Raj.

I’m not so sure. I followed the Hong Kong return closely having grown up there. I watched the ‘handover’ with my family on TV and everyone was in tears (you had to have lived there). HK was a bit of an anomaly and in no way a typical colony. The majority of HK people didn’t want the British to go for example. The place was only indirectly exploited unlike much of the old empire and we would have held on to the place if it had been realistic.

I tend to see the loss of the African colonies in the 50s and 60s as the mpire’s Swan song.

[Rum]

..oh - and May says she’ll go if the deal is voted for. Might make a difference to the outcome.

Watch those Tories come out with teeth sharpened, ready for battle (with each other).

[Svartalf]

I just wonder who'll volunteer to hold the shit pole once she's gone, and who manages to get the necessary support to get the job... if it's Moggsy I write the president we must declare war to england, that guy is too dangerous to the world at large

[Rum]

I just wonder who'll volunteer to hold the shit pole once she's gone, and who manages to get the necessary support to get the job... if it's Moggsy I write the president we must declare war to england, that guy is too dangerous to the world at large

I think it depends on whether she calls a general election at the same time. I doubt she will but in that scenario the big guns will come out including Moggy and Bojo. If it is just a change of leader I suspect they’ll go for a temporary non-entity while the dust settles a bit.

[JimC]

I just wonder who'll volunteer to hold the shit pole once she's gone, and who manages to get the necessary support to get the job... if it's Moggsy I write the president we must declare war to england, that guy is too dangerous to the world at large

"I do not say they cannot come. I only say they cannot come by sea"

[Clinton Huxley]

I just wonder who'll volunteer to hold the shit pole once she's gone, and who manages to get the necessary support to get the job... if it's Moggsy I write the president we must declare war to england, that guy is too dangerous to the world at large

"I do not say they cannot come. I only say they cannot come by sea"

"There are eight sail of the line, Sir John"
"Very well, sir"
"There are twenty sail of the line, Sir John"
"Very well, sir"
"There are twenty five sail of the line, Sir John"
"Very well, sir"
"There are twenty seven sail of the line, Sir John"

"Enough, sir, no more of that; the die is cast, and if there are fifty sail I will go through them."

[JimC]

I just wonder who'll volunteer to hold the shit pole once she's gone, and who manages to get the necessary support to get the job... if it's Moggsy I write the president we must declare war to england, that guy is too dangerous to the world at large

"I do not say they cannot come. I only say they cannot come by sea"

"There are eight sail of the line, Sir John"
"Very well, sir"
"There are twenty sail of the line, Sir John"
"Very well, sir"
"There are twenty five sail of the line, Sir John"
"Very well, sir"
"There are twenty seven sail of the line, Sir John"

"Enough, sir, no more of that; the die is cast, and if there are fifty sail I will go through them."

Sir John; would that be Jervis, later Lord St Vincent? Because my quote was from him, when he was first Lord of the Admiralty...

[Clinton Huxley]

Indeed.

[Svartalf]

Lord of the Admiralty, like that Lord Sandwich who was so much more interested in gambling than his duties that he invented the eponymous food type so he might eat without leaving the gaming tables?

[Brian Peacock]

..oh - and May says she’ll go if the deal is voted for. Might make a difference to the outcome.

Watch those Tories come out with teeth sharpened, ready for battle (with each other).

A Tory windbag on the radio was just talking about the meeting of the parliamentary party where she promised to go. She pleaded, with tears in her eyes apparently, for Tory MPs to back her deal if she promised to step down after the UK has left the EU. He said it was very moving, that she was 'falling on her sword to put the national interest before career and party.'

Does kind of underlined that until now she's been putting career and party before the national interest. That's twice she's promised to step aside. The only bargaining card she's had with her colleagues since the June 2017 election is to dangle the prospect of a vacant hotseat in front of them and hope it distracts them into agreeing with her. It's all about party really. If she was really focused on the nation interest she wouldn't have rebuffed all offers of compromise or cross-party consensus building.

[Brian Peacock]

Lord of the Admiralty, like that Lord Sandwich who was so much more interested in gambling than his duties that he invented the eponymous food type so he might eat without leaving the gaming tables?

Lord Sandwich invented the Wellington at the battle of balaclava.

[Svartalf]

I don't know if Lord Wellington has any ties to the eponymous beef dish, which I deem scrumptious, but You'll never see me wearing a balaclava helmet when eating baklava