ebola virus now in the city of Goma, this will knock Brexit into a cocked hat
Ewan is all over it already
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I called this 12 months ago…
That fucker was my external examiner… Put me through my paces.
This is quite entertaining and horrifying all at once
“somehow stupid”
“we’ll get by”
GG was always a fluent idiot. Loves a dictator like Thomas Moore loved a Lord.
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An odious prick.
Ugly for the continent how? England aren’t going to start a war and they’ve already shot themselves in one foot and have reloaded and aimed at the other. Any toxic nationalism will be bottled up in England.
Utterly and totally.
His true self came out on that nonsense reality show he entered. Just wants attention.
He is about as slimey as its possible to get. A greasy fat little weasel of a man.
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FT analysis shows UK and Ireland as the real losers from Brexit in terms of cost of income per capita. Rest of Europe barely a blip
I thought this was a good letter in the Irish Times the other day
https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/letters/time-to-rethink-the-backstop-1.3970905
A chara, – Colin Walsh (July 27th) writes that Ireland is about to achieve “a Pyrrhic victory with our vain insistence on the backstop”. He may have missed the repeated declarations from prominent members of the 80-strong European Research Group, the 80-strong group of implacably anti-European group MPs, that they will continue to vote down the Withdrawal Agreement, even if the backstop is entirely removed. Their goal is a no-deal Brexit, and if we surrender on the backstop, they will simply invent new reasons to vote down the deal.
Furthermore, Ireland accepting a deal without a backstop means we accept border checks will be needed in future. In the real world, only deep, binding economic convergence and common rules can make border checks unnecessary. The Brexiteers who now control the UK government furiously reject any such outcome.
Their desired outcome is for the UK and EU to form two rigidly separate political and economic spheres, like the US and Canada. Such separation requires a hard border, with guards, barriers, and systematic checks on travellers – the type of border that exists between any two countries not in economic union, and the exact outcome the backstop was created to prevent.
Let’s not fool ourselves. Giving up the backstop would not only fail to get the Withdrawal Agreement passed, it would also indicate Ireland accepts a hard border as a legitimate future relationship. It would be a pointless act of self-harm, with no good outcome, much like Brexit itself. In light of gleeful proclamations by British MPs that they will vote against the Withdrawal Agreement come what may, Ireland gains nothing whatsoever by dropping the backstop now. – Is mise,
RORY CROTTY,
Douglas,
Cork.
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That is good. It envisages even more no-win scenarios in a no-win scenario than most people who envisaged a no-win scenario envisaged.
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The 1996 comedy sketch linked to in this tweet is utterly amazing
https://twitter.com/RupertMyers/status/1156897270564102147
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I read that in the paper version of the paper and when I was doing a Netscape search for the letter I found this about the writer
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That’s good enough for me sid. But we’ll never know how he would have faired if he’d sat the old o levels- a bit like that that wee Argentinian chap who we must judge by his exploits in La Liga rather than The Premiership
I’m mainly familiar with O levels from Q&A features in Match and Shoot magazines from the late 1980s where players would be asked how many O levels they got
I’m sure “one, in woodwork” was a common answer
No ologies then?
The O level question would often be followed up by asking the player what their star sign was, so maybe astrology
If players had two O levels they were usually given the nickname “Einstein”, or just straight out branded as a homosexual by their team mates
Then there would be a question about their favourite musical artist, to which the player would usually answer “Luther Vandross”