I was entirely correct
Dear Lord, and this from the fellas calling Jeremy Corbyn toxic and vile. You couldn’t make it up
I don’t worry about being laughed at by idiots, pal
You should probably worry about being an idiot, because being an idiot is not something that anybody should aspire to
Still, each to their own and all that, I’m a great fan of liberal democracy and the right to be an idiot
You are a walking demonstration of the sometimes unfortunate outcomes of liberal tolerance
Again, incorrect. I’ll ladybird it to you as you’re such a simpleton. If Brexit is to happen, a managed withdrawal is eminently more desirable than a no deal Brexit. My comments were in that regard not relating to pro or anti Brexit.
Easy fodder for the mind control merchants then
Will you stop, they are very soft sentiments compared to the bile regularly posted by that clownshoe.
You just spent half your Saturday evening internetting.
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A Corbyn-led government is the only genuine hope for i) no Brexit or ii) a managed soft Brexit which would be on terms softer and less destructive than May’s deal
Either outcome is preferable to no deal or May’s deal
Yet, the one thing you most oppose is the one thing that is by far the most likely to avert a catastrophic outcome
There’s a remarkable blind spot here that the likes of you have and it is cult-like
Immediately Corbyn wrote his letter the other night and you were on here dismissing it without having even read it
Lads like you define yourselves by what you are against and have no remotely coherent idea of what you are for
You in particular are so sucked into trying to maintain an internet persona and trying to impress other idiots here that you don’t have a clue what you are
You’re on one thread eulogising Trump without being able to defend anything he does, then you’re claiming to be against Brexit before saying Brexit is sensible
You’re like a dog chasing your own tail
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He doesn’t arrive at opinions based on fact or anything resembling it, he arrives opinions based on nothing other than imagining himself as an online right-wing culture warrior troll
He doesn’t have a clue what he actually believes, he just arrives at the opinions he thinks will annoy the largest amount of people
That is what right-wing politics is these days, it’s entirely driven by online idiots like @Enrique, and I have been proven 100% correct on this in everything I have been saying about it for many years
It has zero “intellectual” underpinning, zero real ideas, and zero wish to improve things for ordinary people
It is literally nihilism
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But hey, look over there - Corbyn is evil, or something
50% of the UK public would prefer to see a no-deal Brexit than a Corbyn led deal (whatever that is?)
35% are in favor of Corbyn as PM.
The delusion of the left is staggering. Always right in the own heads and always wrong in reality.
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How predictable you now favour a no deal Brexit and are vilifying everybody against it
And for no other reason than shrieking “I’m right” 
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There are people here who would likely deny this was even assault, never mind admit that the far right were behind it
That’s what happens when you stick your head down a far right rabbit hole
The Guardian columnist and activist Owen Jones has been physically assaulted in London while celebrating his 34th birthday with friends.
In an attack he called “a blatant premeditated assault”, Jones said he was kicked, punched and thrown to the ground by a group of men in the early hours of Saturday morning.
He said that he and his friends went to a pub and left at 3am. “We were about 30 metres away, saying goodbye to each other, when four men charged directly towards me: one of them karate kicked my back, threw me to the ground, started kicking me in the head and back, while my friends tried to drag them off, and were punched trying to defend me.
“It was clearly a premeditated attack and I was their target. They all attacked me and only assaulted my friends when they tried to defend me.
“In the past year I’ve been repeatedly targeted in the street by far right activists, including attempts to use physical assault, and homophobic abuse. I’ve had a far-right activist taking pictures of me, and posting threatening messages and a video.
“Because of this, and escalating threats of violence and death, I’ve had the police involved. My friends felt it was a matter of time until this happened. Give the context, it seems unthinkable that I was singled out for anything other than a politically motived premeditated attack.”
He blamed the attack on “the rise of an emboldened far right, which is increasingly violent, and targeting minorities and people on the left”.
He added: “They are being radicalised by mainstream politicians and a disturbingly large segment of the mainstream media.” The Metropolitan police said: “[A man in his thirties] was attacked by up to four males, who also assaulted his friends when they attempted to intervene. None of those injured required hospital treatment or London ambulance service. No arrests have been made.”
Katharine Viner, editor-in-chief of the Guardian and Observer , said: “We deplore the outrageous attack on Owen Jones that took place late last night. Violent assaults on journalists or activists have no place in a democratic society.”
Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn sent a message of “solidarity” to Jones. He said: “Owen believes it was politically motivated, and we know the far right is on the march in our country. An attack on a journalist is an attack on free speech and our fundamental values.”
Labour MP Diane Abbott also condemned the attack on Twitter: “Shocking to hear about this attack on you & your friends. The times we live in are increasingly dark and dangerous. You have all my love & support. Solidarity.”
Jones thanked his friends “who were assaulted defending me and who I love very much.”
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EXCLUSIVE
Operation Chaos: Whitehall’s secret no‑deal Brexit preparations leaked
The Sunday Times obtains the government’s classified ‘Yellowhammer’ report in full
Rosamund Urwin and Caroline Wheeler
August 18 2019, 12:01am, The Sunday Times
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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.
‘A lot of the negativity about a no-deal Brexit has been wildly overdone’ — Boris Johnson on July 2
The file, marked “official-sensitive” — requiring security clearance on a “need to know” basis — is remarkable because it gives the most comprehensive assessment of the UK’s readiness for a no-deal Brexit.
It states that the public and businesses remain largely unprepared for no deal and that growing “EU exit fatigue” has hampered contingency planning which has stalled since the UK’s original departure date in March.
A senior Whitehall source said: “This is not Project Fear — this is the most realistic assessment of what the public face with no deal. These are likely, basic, reasonable scenarios — not the worst case.”
The revelations include:
● The government expects the return of a hard border in Ireland as current plans to avoid widespread checks will prove “unsustainable”; this may spark protests, road blockages and “direct action”
● Logjams caused by months of border delays could “affect fuel distribution”, potentially disrupting the fuel supply in London and the southeast of England
● Up to 85% of lorries using the main Channel crossings “may not be ready” for French customs and could face delays of up to 2 1/2 days
● Significant disruption at ports will last up to three months before the flow of traffic “improves” to 50-70% of the current rate
● Petrol import tariffs, which the government has set at 0%, will “inadvertently” lead to the closure of two oil refineries, 2,000 job losses, widespread strike action and disruptions to fuel availability
● Passenger delays at EU airports, St Pancras, Eurotunnel and Dover
● Medical supplies will “be vulnerable to severe extended delays” as three-quarters of the UK’s medicines enter the country via the main Channel crossings
● The availability of fresh food will be reduced and prices will rise. This could hit “vulnerable groups”
● Potential clashes between UK and European Economic Area fishing vessels amid predictions that 282 ships will sail in British waters illegally on Brexit day
● Protests across the UK, which may “require significant amounts of police resource[s]”
● Rising costs will hit social care, with “smaller providers impacted within 2-3 months and larger providers 4-6 months after exit”
● Gibraltar will face delays of more than four hours at the border with Spain “for at least a few months”, which are likely to “adversely impact” its economy
The revelations come as Boris Johnson signals that he would set a date for a general election after the UK has left the EU if Jeremy Corbyn succeeds in a vote of no confidence — preventing rebels from being able to stop a no-deal Brexit.
Johnson is preparing to hold talks with France’s president, Emmanuel Macron, and Angela Merkel, the German chancellor, ahead of this week’s G7 summit in Biarritz. But No 10 was last night playing down any prospect of a Brexit breakthrough and Germany believes no deal is “highly likely”.
The leak of the Yellowhammer dossier underlines the frustration within Whitehall over the lack of transparency surrounding preparations for leaving the EU. “Successive UK governments have a long history of failing to prepare their citizens to be resilient for their own emergencies,” said a Cabinet Office source.
The absence of a clear picture of the UK’s future relationship with the EU has hindered preparations as it “does not provide a concrete situation for third parties to prepare for”, the document states. Some of the bleakest predictions relate to goods crossing the French border. The file says that on the first day of no deal between “50% and 85% of HGVs travelling via the short channel straits [the main crossings between France and England] may not be ready for French customs, reducing the flow of freight lorries to between 40- 60%” of current levels”.
Unready lorries will “fill the ports and block flow” and the worst disruption to the main crossings could last for “up to three months before it improves by a significant level, to around 50-70%” of current levels.
Congestion may also occur at ports outside Kent and be exacerbated by the departure date, which coincides with the end of the October half-term holiday. Passengers at St Pancras, the Eurotunnel crossing and Dover may face delays as UK citizens travelling to the EU will face increased checks.
Despite Johnson repeatedly saying during the Tory leadership campaign that there will be “clean drinking water” in the event of no deal, the document raises the possibility that a failure in the chemical supply chain could “affect up to 100,000s of people”.
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Project Fear
“Delays at EU airports” wow.
Did it mention anything about shortages at Gregg’s food chains?
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Auld Vlad must be sitting back having a right good chuckle to himself.Billions upon billions spent trying to defeat the west and in the end all he needed was a couple of hundred nerds on social media and a good internet connection.
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