That’s what the Leave campaign more or less did, together with tapping into the national myth of single-handedly winning the Second World War. One of the false dichotomies was being a proud rule-maker standing alone, rather than a rule-taker bowing to foreigners, and it’s not hard to see imperial nostalgia underlying this. Having an empire makes you the ultimate rule-maker after all.
https://twitter.com/NvOndarza/status/1664346587542290432
The UK government refuses to come to terms with it, and constantly sees all European insititutions, EU or not, through the lens of Brexit.
Did I read that the Boris has finally quit?
Yes and no. The petulant twat has issued a 1000-word statement saying he quits, buuuut hasn’t actually taken the necessary formal step.
This being the UK, he has to apply for a fake job working for the Crown, and then he can stop being an MP. The fake jobs in question are - wait a moment, I need to look these up - Crown Steward and Bailiff of the Chiltern Hundreds or the Crown Steward and Bailiff of the Manor of Northstead. The Chancellor of the Exchequer has to approve the appointment, and only then is the fat criminal an ex-MP.
I wish I was making this up.
The Times cartoon from today’s edition …
Apparently the incontinent haystack has now properly resigned. I was going to say “done the decent thing” but I can’t imagine that ever being applicable to the philandering blimp.
On that point, now much speculation about whether one of the people he’s appointed to the House of Lords is a mistress or a daughter. It says everything about him that both are plausible.
What does it say that the better option is that she’s one of his illegitimate unacknowledged children rather than yet another mistress.
I think it’s even odds as to whether she’s one or the other. Kempsell gets even odds from on that as well.
https://www.itv.com/news/granada/2023-06-13/untreated-sewage-released-into-sea-as-people-told-to-stay-away-from-beaches
Literally every single river in England is now polluted with fresh shit. I certainly hope Germany isn’t suffering the same fate.
I know I’ve burbled earlier in the thread about the immense pleasure in being part of a genuinely international team. Anyway, my company‘s legal function has had its first global off-site meeting since the pandemic . The team is mostly German, but we had colleagues from the US, Japan, China, Singapore, Denmark, Austria, and Turkey. Plus me as the lone Brit but that’s fine, we’re dicks en masse. As ever with these events, the evening slowly dwindled to a hardcore bunch swigging wine and dancing to impromptu karaoke, It’s certainly a bonding moment to see the senior compliance director throwing shapes to Dancing Queen. But, because this is Germany and we’re mostly German, the evening ended with us tidying up our crap in the party room and arguably leaving it tidier than when we started.
There is much that is that is far from perfect about Germany but I do love this outwardly stiff and inwardly quite weird country.
Meanwhile I keep reading the UK news and my daily reflex is jeez, will this zombie government just finally fuck off already. Must sort out my postal vote to vote ABC whenever the time comes.
Dunno what you mean mate.
Who could have foreseen it.
I don’t understand why the UK is so generous for unskilled migrants though? Letting people in en mass, putting them up in hotels etc - just seems stupid.
You’re conflating ‘unskilled migrants’ who do all the jobs British people won’t and are absolutely essential to the economy, with asylum seekers.
It’s like looking at the US letting in millions of Mexicans and musing “Why do the Americans simply not pick their crops themselves?”
I kind of admire your Leroy Jenkins-ing into this minefield. The words you use reflect the politically expedient confusion of legal immigrants, illegal immigrants, and asylum seekers who by definition cannot be illegal. The latter end up in hotels (itself a bit of political glossing over storing people in shitty conditions) because a sclerotic and malign bureaucracy cannot or will not process claims in a timely manner. Adding up all three classes without discrimination and implying every person is an unskilled parasite and probably a terrorist is a speciality of the Daily Telegraph, the Daily Mail and other fine elements of the British press and political class.
“Complete”? That is some serious failure of imagination.
I do love a good “at least I got chicken” moment 
The mass influx of people is not having a positive impact on the felt experience of people. I look at the pivot to the right in Netherlands recently as an example of where a common sense of national identity is used to create the us and them. How? Because people love a good villain and the stats are easy to come by to back up that story.
A lot of countries are blaming their current housing crises on migration. You can see that in Ireland, you can see it in Australia. Probably other examples in Europe I am sure.
Even in that article, it shares that there aren’t enough examples of the enrichment from the influx of people. There needs to be more of the positive impacts of migration (not just food lol) which needs to be shared more broadly.
And to the point of farm labour in the US - agree, that seems another dirty secret where you can pay people $7.25/hour - that’s a tough sell to Americans/people with any other option .
Migration will always be a hot topic I suppose….
Definitely a hot topic when people conflate different issues. Especially when it seems hypocritical.
