Dickface?

Despite my name, I don't qualify at all.

US colleague told me she had Irish and Scottish roots, said family was "probably from somewhere near the border between the two"

US colleague told me she had Irish and Scottish roots, said family was "probably from somewhere near the border between the two"

I love it when colonials tell me they're proud of their Irish roots and decorate their pages on sinister Facebook with celtic patterns and slightly disturbing views on Anglo-Irish history. Usually it amounts to one great-grandfather who lived in Co. Tipperary in the 1870s.

Leaflet watch: 50% off Dominos and a catalogue for stair lifts and disabled access bath tubs.

...Well, cometh the hour and all that, home straight now.
I don't know whether it is wishful thinking/hubris on my part, but I've always said that I just can't see the British people voting Brexit, and I stand by that. Nationalism has (generally) never found as fertile ground here like it has in mainland Europe; the "British sense of fair play" isn't entirely a product of fiction, and parties ranging from the National Front, EDL, BNP and UKIP haven't won a single parliamentary seat between them. When push comes to shove (SNP aside), and whatever the polls suggest, we always pull back from the brink. Unity and collaboration trumps spiteful isolation and myopic, delusions of grandeur induced selfishness.

Until quite recently, I thought Farage was a "lovable rogue" type character; okay, I didn't agree with his views (not least because of my Eastern European parentage, but also because I believe in unity and hope, not division and "othering"), but heck, I thought - I can share a pint and a smoke with the man, he seems jovial and "real" enough. Slowly, though, and for me at least, the mask has been slipping, the wolf in sheep's clothing has been ever more evident. The final straw? That poster Cras posted the other day, and the unbelievably close facsimile to Nazi material of the '30s... a dark warning from History indeed.

Come on UK, we're better than this. Let's show that grasping mop-haired twat and Kermit the dustbin of history.

I do, however, deplore the shitness of the Remain campaign;

parties ranging from the National Front, EDL, BNP and UKIP haven't won a single parliamentary seat between them.

Until quite recently, I thought Farage was a "lovable rogue" type character; okay, I didn't agree with his views (not least because of my Eastern European parentage, but also because I believe in unity and hope, not division and "othering"), but heck, I thought - I can share a pint and a smoke with the man, he seems jovial and "real" enough. Slowly, though, and for me at least, the mask has been slipping, the wolf in sheep's clothing has been ever more evident. The final straw? That poster Cras posted the other day, and the unbelievably close facsimile to Nazi material of the '30s... a dark warning from History indeed.

I don't believe that most people are that stupid. I think people who argue that Farage isn't racist don't believe a word they are saying. It's like a nudge nudge wink wink thing between him and his supporters. Fuck all of them frankly.

o/

What's wrong with an EU Army? Why should I be terrified by it?

That John Oliver clip is excellent.

(Plus, UK has Veto, so it can say no, right?)

Good lord, Farage is a complete twat in it though. Even more so than I'd ever dared to suspect.

it's something I could convince myself to feel uneasy about, personally.

Well, quite. We did try to tell you man

That John Oliver clip is excellent.

"There are a lot of people asking, if Brexit why not Texit?” he says. “I do talk with some folks over there on a pretty regular basis that are involved in Ukip and the Conservative party.”

The night before we met, Miller addressed a local Tea Party group, drawing parallels between Brexit and Texit, which the TNM is pushing as a hashtag. In Miller’s telling, Britain’s relationship with Europe was a marriage of convenience between ill-suited partners that has become stormy and ripe for divorce on grounds of irreconcilable differences, with too much sovereignty ceded to an ineffective central bureaucracy and too much hard-earned money sent elsewhere.

Domino theory...

Guardian: ''Why not Texit?': Texas nationalists look to the Brexit vote for inspiration'



Pretty sure the question of secession in the US was settled by arms in 1865 and then by law in Texas v White in 1869...

In fairness, he did sum up what a lot of people thought at the time about Herman von Rompuy, and the EU Parliament does need a little levity now and again. Still, at least we haven't had President Blair. Yet.

I wish Leavers wouldn't bring up scare stories that aren't actually plausible.

Well that's been quite literally the entire campaign.

On both sides.

Not convinced there has been any 'this will happen' that is outright untrue from the Remain side. There's been plenty of 'woooo, this might happen!', but no outrfight lies that I know of. Leave has outright lied many times though.