The Master Posted September 8, 2020 Share Posted September 8, 2020 9 hours ago, Mackie The Staggie said: .......there we have....confirmation that the UK government are willingly OK with breaking international law. Britannia waives the rules... 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zidane's child Posted September 8, 2020 Share Posted September 8, 2020 Boris will get Brexit “done” and then stand down as PM, heralding it as a success but passing an absolute clusterf**k of a situation onto the next leader. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ICTJohnboy Posted September 8, 2020 Share Posted September 8, 2020 10 hours ago, welshbairn said: This is Theresa May's equivalent of grabbing the mace and swinging it at Boris's head. Quote The United Kingdom government signed the withdrawal agreement with the Northern Ireland protocol. This parliament voted that withdrawal agreement into UK legislation. The government is now changing the operation of that agreement. Given that, how can the government reassure future international partners that the UK can be trusted to abide by the legal obligations of the agreements it signs? There was some Bexit party arse on Newsnight tonight saying that while the govt might be breaking international law they are acting well within their rights as far as the "court of public opinion" is concerned. Will "the court of public opinion" have any say in granting the Scottish govt Indyref2? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dunfermline Don Posted September 9, 2020 Share Posted September 9, 2020 There was some Bexit party arse on Newsnight tonight saying that while the govt might be breaking international law they are acting well within their rights as far as the "court of public opinion" is concerned. Will "the court of public opinion" have any say in granting the Scottish govt Indyref2?The Westminster Government now reminds me of this! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Detournement Posted September 9, 2020 Share Posted September 9, 2020 It's like smoking a joint or pissing in a bush! We are only 11 months out from the prorouging debacle so hopefully this doesn't get blown up to much. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
renton Posted September 9, 2020 Share Posted September 9, 2020 1 hour ago, Detournement said: It's like smoking a joint or pissing in a bush! We are only 11 months out from the prorouging debacle so hopefully this doesn't get blown up to much. Bold choice of words given the topic matter. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Detournement Posted September 9, 2020 Share Posted September 9, 2020 29 minutes ago, renton said: Bold choice of words given the topic matter. Much like Granny Danger a lot of people will be hoping this leads to someone else being violent. Freedom of goods isn't really the sort of issue that motivates bomb throwers. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Detournement Posted September 9, 2020 Share Posted September 9, 2020 37 minutes ago, Snafu said: Wait until the Irish Americans get themselves involved. Biden has already started. https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2020/sep/08/brexit-northern-ireland-us-uk-trade-deal Boris should just tell them they are free to move all their UK based armed forces and spies to Dublin if they aren't happy. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wee-Bey Posted September 9, 2020 Share Posted September 9, 2020 Fail to see what all the hand wringing is about. Do government's not break international law all the time ? Was the invasion of Iraq not breaking international law ? Regardless, the tories have made it explicitly clear they would be willing to do shit like this for the last few years and have been enthusiastically cheered on by the media and 40% of the country. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NotThePars Posted September 9, 2020 Share Posted September 9, 2020 Fail to see what all the hand wringing is about. Do government's not break international law all the time ? Was the invasion of Iraq not breaking international law ? Regardless, the tories have made it explicitly clear they would be willing to do shit like this for the last few years and have been enthusiastically cheered on by the media and 40% of the country. Remember a lot of people (Ad Lib on here IIRC) getting too caught up on the illegality probably as a cover for the immorality of killing thousands of starving Iraqis 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Bob Mahelp Posted September 9, 2020 Share Posted September 9, 2020 We're in pretty desperate times where the UK government breaks international law and effectively ignores a treaty that it itself agreed and signed a year ago, simply to satisfy a twisted ideology. Even worse, the government is cheered on by a compliant press, and has made sure that the BBC is afraid to raise criticism by appointing a Tory boy as DG. Truly, f**k them all and the horse that they rode in on. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Detournement Posted September 9, 2020 Share Posted September 9, 2020 The appeal to the racist murderer's corpse sets this off beautifully. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RiG Posted September 9, 2020 Share Posted September 9, 2020 Laughable stuff really from the Tories. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Bob Mahelp Posted September 9, 2020 Share Posted September 9, 2020 20 minutes ago, Detournement said: The appeal to the racist murderer's corpse sets this off beautifully. I can't figure out if you're a raging Tory, or a supposed 'socialist' with a hard on for Boris Johnson, à la Tom Harris, or just a delusional idiot who posts on a politics forum on a football message board. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Antlion Posted September 9, 2020 Share Posted September 9, 2020 1 minute ago, RiG said: Laughable stuff really from the Tories. “At pace” has to be as fucking irritating as Umunna’s “for the birds” when it comes to wanky political shite. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Antlion Posted September 9, 2020 Share Posted September 9, 2020 1 minute ago, Bob Mahelp said: I can't figure out if you're a raging Tory, or a supposed 'socialist' with a hard on for Boris Johnson, à la Tom Harris, or just a delusional idiot who posts on a politics forum on a football message board. Whichever will have been clicking “reply” fastest, probably. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan Steele Posted September 9, 2020 Share Posted September 9, 2020 That oven-ready Brexit deal Johnson was on about last year? 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Antlion Posted September 9, 2020 Share Posted September 9, 2020 (edited) 31 minutes ago, The Skelpit Lug said: That oven-ready Brexit deal Johnson was on about last year? Even the other night on LBC, a smug Tory twat was saying that the media is misrepresenting the future (as yet non existent) trade deal as Johnson’s “oven ready deal”. That, he pointed out, referred to the wonderful deal which had already passed through parliament. The one which the Tories are now claiming was a rushed mess. Edited September 9, 2020 by Antlion 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
O'Kelly Isley III Posted September 9, 2020 Share Posted September 9, 2020 Cut the complaining guys, this Brexit script is unravelling faster and deeper than anyone could have hoped for. Sit back, get the feet up and enjoy the greatest political embarrassment for a UK Government since Suez. And that was a shower of Tory p***ks too. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G51 Posted September 9, 2020 Share Posted September 9, 2020 The Tories breaking international law won't make the slightest bit of difference to their poll standings. The fact that they behave like this is already priced into the polls - Tory voters know they'll do this and will vote for them anyway. The issue of checks on goods in NI, the application of state aid - no one really cares about this stuff in England. And the overwhelming majority of their support is in England. It might make a difference in the devolved nations though. I can imagine the reaction of NI unionist political parties at something that they clearly foresaw as an issue emerging like this, given the dismissive way No.10 waved away their concerns. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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