"May You Live In Interesting Times": Brexit 2019

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I’m astonished that Sir Alex Allan ends up resigning and PP gets Boris’ support. Has he learnt nothing from the way he lost the confidence of so many people with defending Cummings’ reprehensible behaviour? (That’s rhetorical, obvs).
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He has zero learning capacity. An AI bot PM would do better.

But also it's the far right playbook. Keep demolishing democracy and belief in democracy.
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Oh, the new chief of staff at no 10 looks to be a good appointment actually. I think he is probably Carrie-approved.
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Are we all so incredibly unsurprised at the fact that we're crashing out without a deal that we're not even bothering to comment? I feel like my face is stuck in perpetual :woteva: at the moment.
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I keep meaning to start a new thread but I'm too exhausted to be articulate.
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I just. I'm appalled but entirely unsurprised
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Also, there's just not anything positive to say and I don't like starting wholly miserable threads. :)) Yay all, let's hope for a slightly 'managed' Really Hard Brexit instead of No Deal isn't really doing it for me at the moment.
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Good news if you're Sinn Fein?
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Ha! I like the silver lining attempt.
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Bat Macdui wrote: Fri Dec 11, 2020 9:31 am Good news if you're Sinn Fein?
Jesus :lol:
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I'm genuinely astonished that it's come to this, I really am. I suppose the stupid optimist in me still thinks he's going to come up with a dreadful deal by Sunday. What Prime Minister wants to be responsible for genuine economic suicide? Between that and an insane Covid death toll, the personal optics for him aren't good, are they? I do NOT understand.
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I agree when I really think about it I am flabbergasted that we're here. Especially in the midst of a devastating pandemic. Its just after 4.5yrs there's a numbness to it now.
Numb apart from wanting to lynch Owen Jones again the other day.
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When I spoke to them on Sunday my parents are still adamant they don't need to prepare at all for No Deal, and that Johnson will pull it out the bag. I, however, have added the final touches to my stockpile.
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Whereas I'm burying my head in the sand (in terms of food availability) and really I just hope J can get his meds and not die.
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:lol: Because any deal we get now is going to be great :george:
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My brain has flooded and I don't even know what to say about it, other than some sort of primitive guttural noise. Also, although my stockpile was pretty much done, the combination of finishing it while also getting everything in for Christmas and not going to actual shops is breaking my spreadsheets/organisational brain capacity.

I cannot grasp anyone still thinking that this is all going to be just fine. And yet.
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I have no stockpile, I am just about keeping it together with the usual shopping plus my mum’s. I live in the country though, I’m sure we can start foraging :ruby:
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January is the ideal time. :look:

It's just too much, isn't it.
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It is all too much at the moment. We’ve started refusing December for project deliverables at work as it’s hell for everyone and I’m sure the same should apply to international treaties.
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I have always, and will always, been convinced that crashing out was Johnson's plan from the second he made his play for May's job* - Covid was a stroke of luck to beat us all down / make this seem insignificant by comparison.

It was a nigh-on impossible task anyway, but his notorious laziness, and desire to cast the EU as the bad guy to avoid taking responsibility for his own actions, made this inevitable.

(she says, cheerily)

*Not that it wasn't all fairly obvious from the day after the referendum anyway. We are (were :cry: ) way too emeshed in the EU system to extract ourselves with any kind of ease.
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