It’s not politics..it’s the internet..

got to say this is so much more interesting than American politics right now. There’s depth to the fuckedness unlike the blatant of trumps plain racism and the dems pathetic vying for viral 

Official documents leaked on No Deal Brexit. Interesting to see what happens next

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Britain faces shortages of fuel, food and medicine, a three-month meltdown at its ports, a hard border with Ireland and rising costs in social care in the event of a no-deal Brexit, according to an unprecedented leak of government documents that lay bare the gaps in contingency planning.

The documents, which set out the most likely aftershocks of a no-deal Brexit rather than worst-case scenarios, have emerged as the UK looks increasingly likely to crash out of the EU without a deal.

Compiled this month by the Cabinet Office under the codename Operation Yellowhammer, the dossier offers a rare glimpse into the covert planning being carried out by the government to avert a catastrophic collapse in the nation’s infrastructure.

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https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/news/operation-chaos-whitehalls-secret-no-deal-brexit-plan-leaked-j6ntwvhll

^^^ oof.

^ Apparently its and "old" document from the May era.

So it may be a few months old.... Im sure they have come up with some alternatives by now though.

For all of you that watched his absolute fuck up of a speech in front of the police recruits yesterday...now you get why this thread exists.

...aside from everything else utterly crap on display over the last 7 days 

https://twitter.com/sturdyAlex/status/1169664123745054727

didn't know he has a brother. i'm american noob. 

"PM's brother quits as Tory MP and minister"

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-49594793

  On 9/6/2019 at 6:54 AM, caze said:

https://twitter.com/sturdyAlex/status/1169664123745054727

 

A classic 

Listened to a bit of LBC today, the whole country is going bonkers. I think we need Jesus to sort this out.

  On 9/6/2019 at 5:40 PM, beer badger said:

Listened to a bit of LBC today, the whole country is going bonkers. I think we need Jesus to sort this out.

or maybe Brian. 

For real. My FB feed is full of stuff like this posted by my boomer work colleagues

they're all just really really thick unfortunately. thick and racist.

'well done Boris for standing up for us commoners'

Christ.

painful.

must say i'm surprised about the guy fawkes reference. makes it sound like another troll campaign pushed by dark money.

thick.

they're thick people lynn.

  On 9/7/2019 at 12:54 PM, goDel said:

painful.

must say i'm surprised about the guy fawkes reference. makes it sound like another troll campaign pushed by dark money.

no, this is stuff sincerely written by people I know irl

This is what happens when you’re raised on a diet of Murdoch media alone. I don’t really blame them. 

ouch

i hope they're otherwise decent peeps. what are you still doing on FB btw?

edit: i mean, get off of the FB. its the devil!

just seen a story claiming boris is considering breaking the law and leaving anyway, without a deal.

if true he is genuinely risking ending up in prison over this.

lol.

still think he's playing poker. or, as us EU-ians say: trying to negotiate another (impossible) deal. i still don't understand what he wants to do with the irish border. as long as there's nothing there, it's just playing poker.

I think is his Irish border plan is still the unspecified mystery technology solution that exists only in his head 

his police speech was one of the most weird & painful performances by any politician in living memory, made some of Bush Jnr's lost boy bs look positively inane

such is life in these surreal times

  On 9/6/2019 at 4:26 AM, bendish said:

For all of you that watched his absolute fuck up of a speech in front of the police recruits yesterday...now you get why this thread exists.

...aside from everything else utterly crap on display over the last 7 days 

 

 

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He's doing George W. Bush.

Which kind of makes sense because Bush got away with a lot of shit because he seemed like an utter imbecile. He wasn't. He just seemed that way in the media, so people were willing to forgive a lot of his flubs. As long as you're not supposed to be smart, you won't look as much like a fool when you do something stupid...right?

i'm sensing a trend.. 

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/amber-rudd-resign-boris-johnson-cabinet-conservatives-brexit-a9096146.html

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Amber Rudd has sensationally quit the cabinet – and the Conservative Party – accusing Boris Johnson of misleading the country over wanting to avoid a crash-out Brexit.