blandy Posted March 29, 2017 Author Moderator Share Posted March 29, 2017 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post snowychap Posted March 29, 2017 Popular Post Share Posted March 29, 2017 1 hour ago, Risso said: As for using the speech as the comedic device, it's not that uncommon for Churchill quotes is it? Oh, yes. 14 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wainy316 Posted March 29, 2017 Share Posted March 29, 2017 While we're on Churchill quotes I'd say this one is the most pertinent... “The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.” Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chindie Posted March 29, 2017 VT Supporter Share Posted March 29, 2017 Downing Street doing it's best impression of Magritte. Ceci n'est pas une threat. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HanoiVillan Posted March 29, 2017 Share Posted March 29, 2017 (edited) It's not promising, IMO, that we have begun the negotiations with a threat, totally lacking in credibility, to withdraw security information and funding and potentially leave Europol. EDIT: To make that sentence a bit clearer, it is the threat to withdraw security information that is lacking in credibility, rather than the threat to leave Europol, which will presumably be a necessity. Edited March 29, 2017 by HanoiVillan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blandy Posted March 29, 2017 Author Moderator Share Posted March 29, 2017 1 hour ago, Chindie said: Downing Street doing it's best impression of Magritte. Ceci n'est pas une threat. Theresa May has denied this, saying "Je ne Magritte rien" 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villakram Posted March 29, 2017 Share Posted March 29, 2017 Isn't there a UK election required by law circa 2019? Anyways, ciao... it's been sorta fun. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HanoiVillan Posted March 29, 2017 Share Posted March 29, 2017 8 minutes ago, villakram said: Isn't there a UK election required by law circa 2019? Anyways, ciao... it's been sorta fun. 2020. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chindie Posted March 29, 2017 VT Supporter Share Posted March 29, 2017 13 minutes ago, villakram said: Isn't there a UK election required by law circa 2019? Anyways, ciao... it's been sorta fun. The Conservatives win. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Enda Posted March 29, 2017 Popular Post Share Posted March 29, 2017 7 hours ago, MakemineVanilla said: What has been called the Battle of Brexit is over ... the Battle of Britain is about to begin. Upon this battle depends the survival of British civilisation. Upon it depends our own British life, and the long continuity of our institutions and the Commonwealth of Nations. The whole fury and might of the enemy must very soon be turned on us. Juncker knows that he will have to break us in this island or lose the war. If we can stand up to him, all Europe may be freed and the life of the world may move forward into broad, sunlit uplands. But if we fail, then the whole world, including the United States, including all that we have known and cared for, will sink into the abyss of a new dark age made more sinister, and perhaps more protracted, by the lights of perverted ideology. Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves, that if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say, This was their finest hour. The funny thing is this encapsulates the so much of Leave thought-process pretty well. It's not "You know what, I think the cost of the single market is too much". No, the logic is "Red, white and blue Brexit. We're British, we've won wars, f*ck yeah." As a rational person, I find the whole thing amazing. 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wazzap24 Posted March 29, 2017 Share Posted March 29, 2017 You'll never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy, than Twitter today. Thick words removed everywhere celebrating something they know practically nothing about. I'm pretty sure they are going to reap what they have sowed and selfishly that makes me feel a little bit better about it all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Risso Posted March 29, 2017 Share Posted March 29, 2017 2 minutes ago, wazzap24 said: You'll never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy, than Twitter today. Twitter everyday, surely? 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xann Posted March 29, 2017 Share Posted March 29, 2017 10 minutes ago, Enda said: As a rational person, I find the whole thing amazing. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chindie Posted March 29, 2017 VT Supporter Share Posted March 29, 2017 5 minutes ago, Enda said: The funny thing is this encapsulates the so much of Leave thought-process pretty well. It's not "You know what, I think the cost of the single market is too much". No, the logic is "Red, white and blue Brexit. We're British, we've won wars, f*ck yeah." As a rational person, I find the whole thing amazing. As i said back in June, Brexit is basically Britain rejecting getting over itself. I have to hope it comes good, because I'll be one of the people that is hit by it, but can't say i think it will at all. I suppose the one upside of it going wrong is the slight joy i could take in pointing at the Leave vote and thinking 'you wanted this! Reap the rewards'. As for coming together? No. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChrisVillan Posted March 29, 2017 Share Posted March 29, 2017 14 minutes ago, wazzap24 said: Thick words removed everywhere celebrating something they know practically nothing about. You'd have to be a special kind of arsehole to actively celebrate it. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StefanAVFC Posted March 29, 2017 Share Posted March 29, 2017 9 minutes ago, Chindie said: I have to hope it comes good, because I'll be one of the people that is hit by it, but can't say i think it will at all. I suppose the one upside of it going wrong is the slight joy i could take in pointing at the Leave vote and thinking 'you wanted this! Reap the rewards'. As for coming together? No. Yep. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Awol Posted March 29, 2017 Share Posted March 29, 2017 5 minutes ago, ChrisVillan said: You'd have to be a special kind of arsehole to actively celebrate it. Surely you'd expect the more than 17 million who voted for it to be quite pleased today? Oh, I see... nevermind. I'll just pour another drink and carrying on celebrating. Cheers. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xann Posted March 29, 2017 Share Posted March 29, 2017 14 minutes ago, ChrisVillan said: You'd have to be a special kind of arsehole to actively celebrate it. That's quite harsh on the deluded Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChrisVillan Posted March 29, 2017 Share Posted March 29, 2017 10 minutes ago, Xann said: That's quite harsh on the deluded At least they're special. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snowychap Posted March 29, 2017 Share Posted March 29, 2017 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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