So, Brits. How's Brexit Going?

[pgrimes15]

You know those memes of some apocalypse with a few ragged survivors, like The Road with Viggo Mortensen as the Dad pushing a trolley down a dirt track while volcanic ash falls around them, saying to his kid "But there were emails..."

Over on this side pond, we could use the same pictures but have them say:

"But we get blue passports..."

Here's some more ,

"But we got our country back ..."
"But ... fish ..."
"But ... sovereignty ..."
"But ... control our borders ..."
"But we get unicorns ..."
"But they need us more than we need them ..."
"But they're unelected bureaucrats ..."
"But ... EUSSR ..."

And it would have to be Viggo Mortensen as the Grandad in a mobility scooter talking to his carer.

[Homeless Nutter]

[...]

"But we get blue passports..."

...made in France. 

[zebo-the-fat]

[...]

"But we get blue passports..."

...made in France. 

To be honest, I don't care if passports are blue, red or yellow with purple dots so long as they get me through the airport security quickly

[I_am_not_mafia]

...made in France. 

To be honest, I don't care if passports are blue, red or yellow with purple dots so long as they get me through the airport security quickly

Yeah, about that ....

[Jade-Green Stone]

https://www.rawstory.com/2018/07/uks-bre...son-steps/

UK’s ‘Brexit’ disaster accelerates as anti-EU foreign secretary Boris Johnson steps down

The United Kingdom’s government was thrown into further turmoil on Monday after UK foreign minister Boris Johnson suddenly announced his resignation.

Johnson’s resignation comes amid outrage from anti-European U.K. officials who are angered by the “Brexit” plan adopted by Conservative Prime Minister Theresa May.

As someone once noted:  Left to themselves, things tend to go from bad to worse.

Of course, when you add grandstanding politicians into the mix it can really fuck things up.

This is proves how small my bubble is about the larger world, but then again I don't watch the news all that's on at my house, and all that is ever allowed is Fox News and trusted sites. AKA little info about the truth and more so propaganda that makes your ears bleed out anything relevant and you become a soul dead conservative zombie too this bullshit, luckily logic, reason, and questioning things save me from it.

Moving on, No idea what this Brexit plan is, searching it up as we speak/type. But from the sound of it, reminds me of what happens every time someone is left by themselves. Countries remind me of little kids, leave them alone for two seconds you come back to what you hope is brown marker on the walls. 

[Cod]

No idea what this Brexit plan is

Is that you Theresa?

[Jade-Green Stone]

No idea what this Brexit plan is

Is that you Theresa?

Nope sorry wrong number, please check your number or try your call again. :

Currently trying to find out what this whole thing is about as because as an American I am very far behind on world news.

[Cod]

Is that you Theresa?

Nope sorry wrong number, please check your number or try your call again. :

Currently trying to find out what this whole thing is about as because as an American I am very far behind on world news.

Well good luck with trying to make sense of it all. It's one big balls up IMO.

[I_am_not_mafia]

Moving on, No idea what this Brexit plan is

There is no viable Brexit plan. There can't be. Any plan will basically be shit for the country and the economy. And the the country is too divided to agree to anything. No remainer is going to agree to a plan. They want Brexit cancelled. The Leave side is bitterly divided too between those who want a soft Brexit that tries to keep the best things about being in the EU and those who want an all out hard Brexit and want rid of it completely.

So the default is a hard Brexit with no deal. And regardless of the fear this happening, it's almost impossible to avoid because of the Northern Ireland issue. A hard Brexit means a border between the country of Ireland and Northern Ireland which is part of the United Kingdom. And this means the troubles come back (terrorism, shootings, bombs etc). The peace treaty that stopped the troubles insists on there being no border. The EU wants there to be a border in the Irish Sea instead. The Northern Irish party popping up the British government insist that this is unacceptable as they don't want Northern Ireland separated from the UK and they are willing to call another general election if the Tories agree to it.

So in a word, we're utterly fucked unless we can get a second referendum and stop it before next March. But the Tories want Brexit and they are the ones in power for the moment. But nor is there any viable opposition to the Tories because the leader of the opposition also wants Brexit so he can reshape the country according to his ideological beliefs. The Tories just want to asset strip the country and profit from it personally.

[Jade-Green Stone]

Moving on, No idea what this Brexit plan is

There is no viable Brexit plan. There can't be. Any plan will basically be shit for the country and the economy. And the the country is too divided to agree to anything. No remainer is going to agree to a plan. They want Brexit cancelled. The Leave side is bitterly divided too between those who want a soft Brexit that tries to keep the best things about being in the EU and those who want an all out hard Brexit and want rid of it completely.

So the default is a hard Brexit with no deal. And regardless of the fear this happening, it's almost impossible to avoid because of the Northern Ireland issue. A hard Brexit means a border between the country of Ireland and Northern Ireland which is part of the United Kingdom. And this means the troubles come back (terrorism, shootings, bombs etc). The peace treaty that stopped the troubles insists on there being no border. The EU wants there to be a border in the Irish Sea instead. The Northern Irish party popping up the British government insist that this is unacceptable as they don't want Northern Ireland separated from the UK and they are willing to call another general election if the Tories agree to it.

So in a word, we're utterly fucked unless we can get a second referendum and stop it before next March. But the Tories want Brexit and they are the ones in power for the moment. But nor is there any viable opposition to the Tories because the leader of the opposition also wants Brexit so he can reshape the country according to his ideological beliefs. The Tories just want to asset strip the country and profit from it personally.

Just got done watching both of the Last Week Tonight shows of this and can say, yeah "This Will Be A Shit Show".

Might I add that the fact there is a candidate called Lord Buckethead is just plain gold.