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Old 07-24-2019, 11:39 AM   #201
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He couldn’t deliver a pizza.
Can't play tennis either
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Old 07-24-2019, 11:44 AM   #202
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The Brits are kind of the dumb, racist hicks of Western Europe, so it only makes sense that they now have their own Trump.
I didn't know anything about him, but assumed he was Trumpesque as well based on the funny pictures. According to Wikipedia, this is not the case;

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boris_...s_and_ideology

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In 2015 Johnson described Vladimir Putin as a "ruthless and manipulative tyrant" who "looks a bit like Dobby the House Elf."
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Other than the stupidity of the pipelines, I laugh when I’m in Calgary and my friends tell me about the boneheaded things Canadian office holders do.

For every example, I have a hold my beer story.

The Peace Bridge? $25m “waste of money”.

We have (or to be more precise, don’t have) The Garden Bridge. £53m ($85m at today’s low low Brexit special exchange rate).

$85m for a bridge that never got built!

Guess who the genius was behind that!

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bbc...ondon-47228698
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Other than the stupidity of the pipelines, I laugh when I’m in Calgary and my friends tell me about the boneheaded things Canadian office holders do.

For every example, I have a hold my beer story.

The Peace Bridge? $25m “waste of money”.

We have (or to be more precise, don’t have) The Garden Bridge. £53m ($85m at today’s low low Brexit special exchange rate).

$85m for a bridge that never got built!

Guess who the genius was behind that!

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bbc...ondon-47228698
Don't forget buying water cannon for the police that turned out to be illegal in the UK and had to be sold for scrap.
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Old 07-24-2019, 12:47 PM   #205
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Going there next month, it sure has been nice seeing the CAD to GBP well below $2.00, I think it's around 1.6 right now.
By next month I'm guessing its down another 5%
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By next month I'm guessing its down another 5%
Fingers crossed!
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Boris Johnson is now PM (well, later today). Can someone please explain how leaving the EU with "no-deal" is any way a good thing that people want like im a 5-year old? I find this Brexit sh*t so confusing

There once was a country called Great Britain and everyone knew it was Great because it had Great in the name, it owned most of the world and the sun never set on its empire and it beat the Germans three times, in 1918 1945 and 1966 and everything was wonderful and we all enjoyed spending our weekends fixing our rusty badly built Austins.

But then the bad time came when dark coloured people moved to Britain from all the countries that we used to own and made everyone stop buying British cars and other things until it was no longer called Great Britain but got changed to the United Kingdom and that was all the fault of the Germans who are really in charge of the EU as we all know and so when we leave the EU everything will go back to how it was before the dark people moved in and we will all get jobs fishing in the North Sea


It really isn't any more complicated than this
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Boris is too stupid to deliver Brexit. He will try to get a better deal, but ultimately that will fail and in all likelihood this will go to the people for a vote - a vote for a new PM that will basically be Boris "no deal Brexit" vs. <someone> "revoke article 50".

The UK will have a chance to fix this massive cockup in a few months... will they?
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Old 07-24-2019, 06:38 PM   #209
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Can't play tennis either
That's about the worst photoshoped image i've ever seen
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That's about the worst photoshoped image i've ever seen
Which one, Trump or Boris?
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That's about the worst photoshoped image i've ever seen
Trump playing Tennis? It's not a photoshop...Davidoff Studios Photography on Getty images. That's an actual photo of this thicc sweaty bottom.
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That's about the worst photoshoped image i've ever seen
That's not photoshop. Both are press pictures.
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That's not photoshop. Both are press pictures.
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Trump playing Tennis? It's not a photoshop...Davidoff Studios Photography on Getty images. That's an actual photo of this thicc sweaty bottom.
Shhhh...he's on the case, guys.
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There is a documentary on Netflix that just showed up recently called “The Great Hack” about Cambridge Analytica’s role in Leave.EU, as well as the Trump stuff. It’s quite interesting.
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Boris Johnson asks the Queen to suspend parliament right before the Brexit deadline effectively cutting additional debate prior to the hard Brexit date. The Queen has approved. How this will affect the current time left before the October 31st date



Another vote of no confidence is planned. What a fricking cluster fata. Get your shiet together UK.

Also thread title needs another update.
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Boris Johnson said a Queen's Speech would take place after the suspension, on 14 October, to outline his "very exciting agenda".

But it means the time MPs have to pass laws to stop a no-deal Brexit on 31 October would be cut.

House of Commons Speaker John Bercow said it was a "constitutional outrage".

The speaker, who does not traditionally comment on political announcements, continued: "However it is dressed up, it is blindingly obvious that the purpose of [suspending Parliament] now would be to stop [MPs] debating Brexit and performing its duty in shaping a course for the country."

Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn said: "Suspending Parliament is not acceptable, it is not on. What the prime minister is doing is a smash and grab on our democracy to force through a no deal," he said.

He said when MPs return to the Commons next Tuesday, "the first thing we'll do is attempt legislation to prevent what [the PM] is doing", followed by a vote of no confidence "at some point".
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-49493632

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^^^ finally some good news.

Good move by Johnson suspending parliament before the Brexit deadline. The matter has been debated for months.

The country is in limbo and needs to make a decision. The vote took place and the british made a decision.

The only people offended by the suspension of parliament are those attempting to go against the democratic vote.

Hopefully a fair trade deal can get worked out with the u.s. since the eu obviously wants to play hard ball.
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Hopefully there has been work going on in the background to ensure that a no-deal Brexit is a seamless transition if it goes that way.
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You'd think opposition MPs would actually start working at coming up with deals and no-deal plans rather than simply try to force a 'remain' to occur. Boris has shown that's not an option and trying to make it happen is simply shooting your own foot and forcing a no-deal exit.
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^^^ finally some good news.

Good move by Johnson suspending parliament before the Brexit deadline. The matter has been debated for months.

The country is in limbo and needs to make a decision. The vote took place and the british made a decision.

The only people offended by the suspension of parliament are those attempting to go against the democratic vote.

Hopefully a fair trade deal can get worked out with the u.s. since the eu obviously wants to play hard ball.


What a complete load of crap.

1. It was an advisory referendum, not a binding vote.
2. The two separate leave campaigns were found to have broken electoral law during the referendum campaign.
3. The leave campaigns were based on and widely promulgated outright lies that are now shown to be demonstrable lies.
4. The UK is a representative parliamentary democracy and this action is undemocratic and the modus operandi of a tinpot dictatorship.
5. None of this is good news.

Edit: 6. Those most affected by this idiotic decision got no say over it because they were disenfranchised from the referendum vote.
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What a complete load of crap.

1. It was an advisory referendum, not a binding vote.
2. The two separate leave campaigns were found to have broken electoral law during the referendum campaign.
3. The leave campaigns were based on and widely promulgated outright lies that are now shown to be demonstrable lies.
4. The UK is a representative parliamentary democracy and this action is undemocratic and the modus operandi of a tinpot dictatorship.
5. None of this is good news.

Edit: 6. Those most affected by this idiotic decision got no say over it because they were disenfranchised frozen m the referendum vote.
What a complete load of crap.

You can spin the results and call the vote whatever you want, having the vote then ignoring the results would lose all faith in the democratic process. We just did something similar with the olympic decision. City hall didn’t have to listen to that vote either but they did.
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