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Discussion in 'Southampton' started by ChilcoSaint, Feb 23, 2016.

  1. Lemons and Oranges

    Lemons and Oranges Well-Known Member

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    But this will involve crossing the 'Boris Event Horizon - BEH'. This is a hypothetical border between reality and being led by an Old Etonian with tousled hair. Theoretical scientists predict that there is no way back from crossing the BEH, apart from a Tardis-like time machine.

    Other scientists claim that we have already crossed the BEH, and the time machine has taken us back to the age of rotten boroughs, where a few (thousand) middle aged men can make political decisions that will affect all of us. <yikes><yikes>
     
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  2. TheSecondStain

    TheSecondStain Needs an early night

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    You, Me both.
     
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  3. TheSecondStain

    TheSecondStain Needs an early night

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    What? Even on subjects as trivial as where do we want our civilisation to be in a few years time? I think that's worth a few minutes of your time. :smiley-finger007:
     
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  4. ChilcoSaint

    ChilcoSaint What a disgrace
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    Lovely piece of vectored bile from the I See You blog:

    I see you, Ann Widdecombe.

    I see you spitting feathers in your maiden speech, your trademark voice cracking like two dying cats ****ing in a detuned piano. You’re absolutely bloody livid, aren’t you? Livid enough that the words just spill out of your mouth and even Nigel Farage visibly panics for a moment when the word ‘slaves’ pops up without irony. You’re the Brexit Party’s greatest asset, the only one below him with any name recognition whatsoever, an attack nana with a long and established history of saying any old awful **** if it keeps you in the headlines. He might squirm for a moment but by the end Nigel has visibly creamed his trousers, safe in the knowledge that you’ve served your purpose. This is what we can expect from our elected representatives in the European Parliament now, isn’t it? Outrage and newspaper inches, as much actual substance as diarrhoea in a colander. What a surprise that it turns out the Brexit Party intend to put as little actual work in as Farage ever did.

    How grotesque we’ve become. The idea of patriotism has been reclaimed by vile, squawking clowns who recast it as justification for embarrassing ourselves on the world stage and we clap and applaud them for it. We’ve collectively turned our backs on the antiquated notion of British decency; we’ve allowed ourselves to be utterly overrun by a grotesque core of deeply unpleasant little Englanders who revel in their rudeness and their deluded notions of grandeur. If this toxic grandstanding from a proven vicious old bigot is to be our swan song then we’ll thoroughly deserve the potential ruin it could bring us. We just don’t learn. By 2025 you’ll be able to beat a gay to death with a brick inside Parliament and provided you’re willing to go on Dancing on Ice and make an absolute twat of yourself you’ll still get re-elected six months later.

    We can thank Brussels, too, for once again singularly failing to have a shred of self-awareness about the growing distrust in the EU’s democratic processes. Nominating Ursula von de Leyen behind closed doors is just viagra to the outraged hard-on of the EU’s critics. It doesn’t matter that she still needs to win the backing of MEPs. Optics are all that counts to the vast majority of the furious masses voting for increasingly right-wing nationalists across the continent. All they need is some thin shred of justification for screeching “this isn’t democracy!” et voila, Ann ****ing Widdecombe.

    Brexit has utterly consumed us, reducing us to a bitter dogfight between two completely polarised extremes. For Christ’s sake, Ann Widdecombe, you literally appeared on Doctor Who endorsing The Master. You are an absolute parody of yourself, a desperate attention-craving narcissist willing to cosy up to any authoritarian who raises your stock, be they Farage or fiction. These duplicitous twats, whatever flavour they take, whether they’re the Brexit Party or Boris Johnson or Trump and his little fireworks party crowning himself as the new Grand High Wizard of the Covfeferacy - they ARE the establishment. They ARE the very thing they’re pretending to rally against. For as long as we tolerate the complete imbalance we live under these entitled, awful people will continue lining their pockets in the name of fake ideals that will do nothing to improve the lives of those who consider them their saviours.

    Is there anything more ridiculously perfect as an analogy for all that than the very notion of a Brexit Party MEP? You aren’t a politician any more, Ann Widdecombe. You’re a reality TV star, a hateful little shell of noise and bluster drawing a salary for doing nothing but distracting and disrupting. It’s years later and you’re still nothing more than a national joke, dancing to someone else’s tune for our embarrassment.

    Enjoy it while you can, Ann Widdecombe. If it all goes Nigel’s way it won’t be long before there’s a reckoning. Slavery is a grotesque comparison but if we’re pushed ever further into this nightmare of deregulation, zero-hours contracts and social engineering there will, at some point, be a breaking point. And if you think the country won’t see the fact it’s people like you running the plantation you’re ****ing kidding yourself.

    I see you, Ann Widdecombe. I ****ing see you.
     
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  5. The Ides of March

    The Ides of March Well-Known Member

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    What a great name for Boris. Well he is fat!! He will be the fattest PM we have ever had, I think.
     
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  6. Beddy

    Beddy Plays the percentage

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    He'll have to go some to beat Churchill bless him..........
     
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  7. The Ides of March

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    Churchill was over 70 when he became PM. Johnson is just "Bunter" boy. If elected, wonder when his girlfriend will ditch him?
     
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  8. Beddy

    Beddy Plays the percentage

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    Actually Churchill was 63/64 when he took over from Chamberlain in 1939.......
     
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  9. TheSecondStain

    TheSecondStain Needs an early night

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    He just looked 70. To be honest, he looked older than that. Incidentally, he took over as PM in May 1940. Trudged on, drinking whisky and smoking cigars until he was 90. Some people just have long living genes.
     
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  10. TheSecondStain

    TheSecondStain Needs an early night

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    I see that she has defended her 'slavery' words. I'm not giving it air posting it here. I have always found her a loathsome individual, for what she has always stood for, and she remains so in my mind to this day. Her 'popularisation' in recent years made me want to vomit. There is no cute little old lady in there.
     
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  11. fatletiss

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    That or whiskey is good for you :1980_boogie_down:
     
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  12. San Tejón

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    Question Time from 30 years ago. Tony Benn wasn’t wrong.

     
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  13. ChilcoSaint

    ChilcoSaint What a disgrace
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  14. thereisonlyoneno7

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    I’m looking forward to another 40 years of wine drinking and cigars :)
     
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  15. San Tejón

    San Tejón Well-Known Member

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    An explanation of the new tax avoidance laws that Farage and Johnson and their wealthy supporters want to avoid.

     
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  16. San Tejón

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  17. ChilcoSaint

    ChilcoSaint What a disgrace
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    Ann spewing more ****
     
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  19. Archers Road

    Archers Road Urban Spaceman

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    There may one day be a cure for Anne Widdecombe, but science has so far failed to discover it.
     
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  20. Saints_Alive

    Saints_Alive Well-Known Member

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    I think I may have found it....
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