damn....



and now to wait for sunday’s results

People have been saying that she doesn't deserve any sympathy for the tears she started on today. I disagree. Whilst she has helped oversee some of the worst government policies in a long time she's still a person. This all came down to Brexit. Something that not a single politician would be able have come out unscuppered. As we've said on here before I'm sure she was trying to get a deal that would help everyone and this is all she has to show for it. Shame.

Worst thing is knowing whoever takes over is going to be, if not worse, then certainly as lame as May has been in all this.

yeah, i don’t think she’s evil, she comes across as super-earnest, but just has had a record of incompetence on brexit.

according to an economist article i just heard on audio version, things were not so polarized 3 years ago, and various compromises that are now unacceptable seemed way more palatable. they’re saying it’s various decisions she made that increased polarization. i could copypaste the text later if you’re curious.

I'm not gonna hate on her but it was more than just Brexit. Her general election campaign, her handling of Windrush and Grenfell. The list goes on. She was a decent person but let's not fool ourselves into thinking she was anything other than a terrible PM.

you have me googling “windrush and grenfall” now

sounds like titles for james bond movies

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holy fuckin shit!!

Exactly. Her legacy comes down to Brexit but there's all the rest of the shit that happened under her tenure that go against her too.

im changing my line here

FUCK

HER

i dont yet have the info re: her culpability on the building fire, but the deportation of your own citizens on purely racial bias to get murdered in jamaica, being denied health care, etc, WITLF

now i wanna see more of her tears. jeezus fuckin christ.

BURN

She can't be held responsible for Grenfell but her handling of the enquiry was not good.

https://inews.co.uk/news/uk/grenfell...m-theresa-may/

wow. wtf.

here some letters

https://www.independent.co.uk/voices...-a8929591.html

OK, everything here is true but (you won't be expected to know this) newspapers like The Independent (like The Guardian) are essentially anti-Conservative propaganda. So referencing it in relation to TM is gonna be as balanced as me referencing Fox News in relation to a Democrat. The problem is they're the only two broadsheets that are accessible without a paywall, so they're always the two that come up when anyone googles anything. That's not to say that those with a paywall aren't also heavily biased in their own way, but the Guardian is pretty much the official newspaper of the Left in the UK, and if anything the Independent has moved to occupy a similar position.

yes i am aware haha

but still, you remove the noise, the fact that she deported black british citizens to their deaths still stands. so unbelievably fucked up.

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ps i wanna add a subscription to the financial times next

Yeah cool. Why I said everything there is true. Just didn't know if you was aware how those newspapers view things. It's difficult linking any uk paper when it comes to politics because they're openly biased. Although I'd rather that transparency than the supposed neutrality of the BBC when it's anything but.

true, the daily mail and the telegraph paywall the shit out of their articles. not that im a fan of them but sometimes they have info i want.

but after learning about windrush i saw the full video of her goodbye speech, and when she started crying, i just spontaneously laughed.

anyway i like that the guardian has a lot of instant info for brexit that looks a lot like their sports coverage. and their youtube news channel will have direct feeds from ongoing events. their opinion columnists ... different story.

i think i remember you liked the independent for the world cup...

This about sums it all up

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zy2Ii_F8tws

haaahaaahaaaa

loved it

also the cut that follows is even more hilarious

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=DGscoaUWW2M

because it’s a minute longer and it includes “the sun” :D

i need to start watching this show

i read that someone famous (current ceo of the swiss bank maybe it was?) learnd english by watching yes minister

maybe it was someone else, but either way, excellent. thanks.

Put Sir Humphrey (or better still Sir Arnold) in Westeros and he'd have wiped the floor with the lot of them.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1r8iQkZJb4

haaaaaaaaaaaahaaaaaaaa

this should have been varys!

and holy fuck, this is even better than “the wire”

btw my wife caught me watching that first clip, got curious on her own, found it on dailymotion, and tldr; we’re about to get on with episode 2 lolololol

again thanks for the reminder & pointing me to this thing. i remember the first time i caught it i thought it was “too cynical,” but after a year of marinating it has become the funniest thing.

I love it. The 1st series takes a while to really settle into its winning formula but after that it's pure gold.

Anyway, Boris enters the leadership race saying he'll take Britain out on October 31st with or without a deal. That'd almost certainly mean a Gen. Election being called before then.

well it’s not making me not laugh right now


yep... as expected

jp morgan had (publicly anyway) said they rated the likelihood of a no deal brexit 25% up from 15% when may stepped down, but some other banks/investors/gambler (forget the names) had it at 50%.

plus there’s always the chance of macron saying “not no more”, and blam.


ok, the “upcoming general election” is the part i do not understand. can you please help me out here?

when is it regularly due and why would it happen sooner?