Author Topic: International Politics Thread - Disease and Disaster (Read 1686215 times)

Raist · « **Reply #5760 on:** April 05, 2019, 02:22:59 PM »

OK, at this point I think they're just taking the piss.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-47825841

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Theresa May has written to the European Union to request a further delay to Brexit until 30 June.

The UK is currently due to leave the EU on 12 April and, as yet, no withdrawal deal has been approved by MPs.

The government has been in talks with the Labour Party to try and find a compromise to put to the Commons.

But shadow Brexit secretary Sir Keir Starmer said the Tory negotiating team had offered no changes to Mrs May's original deal.

TM: "I shall seek an extension to the 30th of June."

EU: "LOL no. MEP elections are on May 23rd."

TM: "LALALALALALALA I shall seek an extension to the 30th of June."

EU: "OK here's how that's gonna work kiddo. Get the deal voted in, you get till May 22nd - day before our elections. Failing that, you fuck off on April 12th - unless you ask for a long extension and commit to electing MEPs."

TM" OK

BRB... ...... ... ............. .... So guys, about my deal?"

HoC: "For the third time, NO. Still can't tell you what we want exactly though, lolz."

TM: "Hey Jez, wanna sit down with me and talk, maybe we can come to some agreement if we compromise?"

JC: "OK"

TM: "Lol j/k about the compromise btw."

JC: "Well fuck you then."

TM: "Hey EU pals, was just thinking, how about an extension to June 30th?!?"

BisMarckie · « **Reply #5761 on:** April 05, 2019, 02:24:10 PM »

Never go full Nintex

Raist · « **Reply #5762 on:** April 05, 2019, 02:25:08 PM »

Except that I'm giving an accurate summary, not writing some fanfic.

BisMarckie · « **Reply #5763 on:** April 05, 2019, 02:26:01 PM »

Exactly what Nintex would have said

Nintex · « **Reply #5764 on:** April 05, 2019, 02:30:00 PM »

The compromise was this:

May: "Jeremy you need to back the deal"
Jeremy: "No, what do I get anyway?"
May: "I will stay on as Prime Minister until the next General Election for starters"
Jeremy: "Like I care"
May: "Prime Minister Johnson it is then!"
Jeremy: "Bring it on bitch"
May: "I was joking Jeremy"
Jeremy: "Haha good one"
May: "It'll be GOVE"
*labour aide vomits*

Nintex · « **Reply #5765 on:** April 05, 2019, 04:20:17 PM »

https://twitter.com/ReutersUK/status/1114256168199831555

Madrun Badrun · « **Reply #5766 on:** April 05, 2019, 04:56:59 PM »

One week to go. This is going to be a good shit show.

Raist · « **Reply #5767 on:** April 05, 2019, 05:05:02 PM »

Obligatory

Raist · « **Reply #5768 on:** April 05, 2019, 05:13:38 PM »

The good old navy blue dream is so close!!!

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/apr/05/uk-removes-words-european-union-from-british-passports

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“There will be no difference for British citizens whether they are using a passport that includes the words ‘European Union’ or a passport that does not include the words ‘European Union’. Both designs will be equally valid for travel.”

Oh really now. Cause border control at virtually every international airport in the EU have dedicated lines for EU passports. If they want to be dicks, they can certainly tell people with those new passports to go queue with everyone else

Raist · « **Reply #5769 on:** April 05, 2019, 07:55:13 PM »

Holy shit

https://twitter.com/markgerred/status/1114086826808152065

Raist · « **Reply #5770 on:** April 06, 2019, 08:24:35 AM »

The BBC loves them charts.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-46393399

Great Rumbler · « **Reply #5771 on:** April 06, 2019, 09:32:05 AM »

Quote from: Raist on April 06, 2019, 08:24:35 AM

The BBC loves them charts.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-46393399

Nintex · « **Reply #5772 on:** April 06, 2019, 01:37:31 PM »

Quote from: shosta on April 06, 2019, 01:35:40 PM

EU wants to give them a long extension. Say hello to another year?

Yep and the UK doesn't want that. The general consensus is that the EU wants to give the tories enough rope to hang themselves with.

Nintex · « **Reply #5773 on:** April 06, 2019, 01:56:22 PM »

https://twitter.com/peoplesvote_uk/status/1114505484877336576

I need to get on this level.

https://twitter.com/BBCPolitics/status/1104698838080610304

God save the ~~queen~~ party

Tripon · « **Reply #5774 on:** April 06, 2019, 05:52:44 PM »

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JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Saturday that he would annex Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank if he wins another term in office, a last-minute pre-election promise likely to enrage Palestinians and the Arab world.

In an interview to Israeli Channel 12 News three days ahead of the April 9 poll, Netanyahu was asked why he had not extended sovereignty to large West Bank settlements, as Israel did without international recognition in east Jerusalem and the Golan Heights, both captured in the 1967 Middle East war.

"Who says that we won't do it? We are on the way and we are discussing it," Netanyahu said.

"You are asking whether we are moving on to the next stage - the answer is yes, we will move to the next stage. I am going to extend (Israeli) sovereignty and I don't distinguish between settlement blocs and the isolated settlements."

https://www.yahoo.com/news/israels-netanyahu-says-plans-annex-settlements-west-bank-175208874.html

kingv · « **Reply #5775 on:** April 07, 2019, 09:47:14 AM »

Quote from: benjipwns on April 05, 2019, 12:22:14 PM

I don't know why they needed a sixteen minute video when a simple Google search says that yes Russians have been inside the German parliament: https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/soviet-graffiti-reichstag

They should rename it the Spermastag.

Nintex · « **Reply #5776 on:** April 07, 2019, 11:59:50 AM »

https://twitter.com/10DowningStreet/status/1114890599428251648

Lmao

Tripon · « **Reply #5777 on:** April 07, 2019, 05:19:10 PM »

Pretty sure everyone is asking what exactly is happening with brexit.

Nintex · « **Reply #5778 on:** April 07, 2019, 05:35:02 PM »

I did the Brexit rounds so you don't have to.

Meanwhile at Buckingham Palace
- BaN FoRtNiTE

Meanwhile at No. 10.
- Theresa May doesn't answer the pressing question why she didn't to look at positions of other parties a bit earlier and the government is woefully unprepared for 'any' scenario.
- Also the first PM in history to tape a message that says: "Eh, fuck knows"

Meanwhile at Labour
- Anti-semitism was ignored!

Meanwhile at the Tories:
- Amber Rudd supports Boris for leader
- Jacob Rees Mogg supports Boris for leader from his 18th century living room
- Boris can unite the party!

Meanwhile in Brussels
- Just GTFO already

Meanwhile at Leave
- BrExIt PaRtY, help help we're being harassed!

Meanwhile at Remain
- HORROR FICTION: BORIS JOHNSON COULD BE PM!

*narrator: It wasn't fiction

Latest updates on what is happening with Brexit
- Amber Rudd plays down rumors of leadership pact with Boris
- Boris pens op-ed in the monday telegraph saying the tories must not allow a Corbyn/May customs union to happen

team filler · « **Reply #5779 on:** April 07, 2019, 10:08:46 PM »

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2014/07/30/bolivia-israel-terrorist-state/13384989

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Bolivia declares Israel a 'terrorist state'

curly · « **Reply #5780 on:** April 07, 2019, 10:56:03 PM »

https://twitter.com/kampeas/status/1114584226760781824

Wow Kevin McCarthy stealing talking points from The Bore

Raist · « **Reply #5781 on:** April 08, 2019, 11:22:15 AM »

Quote from: Nintex on April 07, 2019, 11:59:50 AM

https://twitter.com/10DowningStreet/status/1114890599428251648

Lmao

Who the fuck was operating that camera, the Chief Mouser?

Brehvolution · « **Reply #5782 on:** April 08, 2019, 01:20:25 PM »

https://twitter.com/mikopeled/status/1114550616406331392

Nintex · « **Reply #5783 on:** April 08, 2019, 02:30:24 PM »

4 more days, what on EARTH is happening with Brexit?

https://twitter.com/BBCPolitics/status/1115276394219618309

https://twitter.com/BBCPolitics/status/1115255617910759425

https://twitter.com/BBCPolitics/status/1115309682933948417

Raist · « **Reply #5784 on:** April 08, 2019, 02:58:10 PM »

https://twitter.com/IamHappyToast/status/1114926401528967168

team filler · « **Reply #5785 on:** April 08, 2019, 06:36:39 PM »

https://twitter.com/YousefMunayyer/status/1115357832981950464

Tripon · « **Reply #5786 on:** April 08, 2019, 11:00:21 PM »

Raist · « **Reply #5787 on:** April 09, 2019, 07:46:22 AM »

The salt

https://twitter.com/DMReporter/status/1115555835554476032

agrajag · « **Reply #5788 on:** April 09, 2019, 10:30:35 AM »

https://twitter.com/_michaelbrooks/status/1115622245097984000

Raist · « **Reply #5789 on:** April 09, 2019, 03:19:48 PM »

Another day well spent in the HoC.

And also:

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Tory Eurosceptic Anne Main says the UK is seeking a further delay to Brexit "with no real sense of purpose", describing the situation as "appalling".

She says the UK is "becoming a laughing stock", and she will vote against authorising any further extension to Article 50.

The prospect of an "open-ended extension", she adds, is "incredibly concerning".

Awww bless her, she doesn't know that the UK has been a laughing stock for ages already.

Raist · « **Reply #5790 on:** April 09, 2019, 04:12:20 PM »

Never forget

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Compared with the motives that led the Six to organize their unit, we understand for what reasons, why Britain-who is not continental, who remains, because of the Commonwealth and because she is an island, committed far beyond the seas, who is tied to the United States by all kinds of special agreements-did not merge into a Community with set dimensions and strict rules.

While this Community was taking shape, Britain therefore first refused to participate in It and even took toward it a hostile attitude as if she saw in It an economic and political threat. Then she tried to negotiate in order to join the Community, but in such conditions that the latter would have been suffocated by this membership.

The attempt having failed, the British Government then asserted that it no longer wanted to enter the Community and set about strengthening its ties with the Commonwealth and with other European countries grouped around it in a free-trade area.

Yet, apparently now adopting a new state of mind, Britain declares she is ready to subscribe to the Rome Treaty, even though she is asking exceptional and prolonged delays and, as regards her, that basic changes be made in the Treaty's implementation.

Occam · « **Reply #5791 on:** April 09, 2019, 04:33:54 PM »

De Gaulle was right. He saw through all of it 50 years ago.

Nintex · « **Reply #5792 on:** April 09, 2019, 06:33:38 PM »

Meanwhile in Brexit
https://twitter.com/TheSun/status/1115729603589439489

Tripon · « **Reply #5793 on:** April 09, 2019, 07:49:38 PM »

https://twitter.com/BarakRavid/status/1115749714832646145

Raist · « **Reply #5794 on:** April 10, 2019, 02:02:35 AM »

Raist · « **Reply #5795 on:** April 10, 2019, 03:55:52 AM »

https://twitter.com/AlbertoNardelli/status/1115875124023058433

Nintex · « **Reply #5796 on:** April 10, 2019, 12:12:05 PM »

This is going well
https://twitter.com/GregHeffer/status/1116004142764449794

team filler · « **Reply #5797 on:** April 10, 2019, 12:25:49 PM »

https://www.rt.com/news/455876-israeli-politician-foottickle-pornhub/

benjipwns · « **Reply #5798 on:** April 10, 2019, 12:30:56 PM »

I would not watch Deal, No Deal or Revoke Article 50 even if Howie Mandel returned to host instead of this so-called Arturs Krišjānis Kariņš dude.

Brehvolution · « **Reply #5799 on:** April 10, 2019, 12:44:22 PM »

BIONIC · « **Reply #5800 on:** April 10, 2019, 01:03:27 PM »

Quote from: filler on April 10, 2019, 12:25:49 PM

https://www.rt.com/news/455876-israeli-politician-foottickle-pornhub/

That’s one way for a zioner to get my vote

Occam · « **Reply #5801 on:** April 11, 2019, 01:15:48 AM »

Brexit date has been moved to Halloween.
Idiotic. The EU should have let them crash out tomorrow.
Now Britain gets to take part in the 2019 European Parliament election.

At least the remaining 27 nations have decided that from now on they can meet any time without Britain.

Raist · « **Reply #5802 on:** April 11, 2019, 01:44:48 AM »

There's an eject clause though: they'll leave on June 1st without a deal if they do no participate in EP elections.

Nintex · « **Reply #5803 on:** April 11, 2019, 05:58:13 AM »

https://twitter.com/Gizmodo/status/1116278277377859585

Transhuman · « **Reply #5804 on:** April 11, 2019, 06:05:34 AM »

VomKriege · « **Reply #5805 on:** April 11, 2019, 06:08:37 AM »

Ecuaxit in the UK.

VomKriege · « **Reply #5806 on:** April 11, 2019, 06:22:28 AM »

Ecuador's reasons for booting him seem to confirm what filtered through the years. Assange couldn't stop being a gigantic bellend even for the sake of his asylum.

From doing skateboard indoors through being confrontional to the diplomatic staff up to hacking their internal files.

Rufus · « **Reply #5807 on:** April 11, 2019, 06:33:33 AM »

Brexit delayed to Oct 31st.

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The result was a compromise on the date, with a deadline of Oct. 31, for Britain to leave, deal or no deal — on condition that May holds an election on May 23 to return British members to a new European Parliament that convenes in July, and that it pledge not to disrupt key EU decision-making before it leaves.

If May fails to win over lawmakers on the treaty or fails to hold an election, Britain will leave with no deal on June 1.

https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-britain-eu/eu-gives-may-till-october-for-brexit-seeking-clarity-idUSKCN1RM0LR

edit: late late late dumb dumb

VomKriege · « **Reply #5808 on:** April 11, 2019, 06:48:53 AM »

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2019/04/south-korea-wants-bring-trump-and-kim-together-again/586894/

If there was any doubts left that South Korea is doing all the mastermind stuff and heavy lifting in the diplomatic overtures to North Korea.

Rufus · « **Reply #5809 on:** April 11, 2019, 07:35:01 AM »

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Former Pope Benedict has blamed the Catholic Church’s sexual abuse scandal on the effects of the sexual revolution of the 1960s and a general collapse in morality.
[...]
The former pope, who lives secluded in a former convent on the Vatican grounds, said he wanted to “contribute one or two remarks to assist in this difficult hour”.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-pope-abuse-benedict/sexual-revolution-of-1960s-led-to-church-abuse-crisis-ex-pope-says-idUSKCN1RN0WI

Ratzinger is such a POS.

Occam · « **Reply #5810 on:** April 11, 2019, 08:50:01 AM »

BisMarckie · « **Reply #5811 on:** April 11, 2019, 08:53:14 AM »

Saint Peter come get your people.

Great Rumbler · « **Reply #5812 on:** April 11, 2019, 09:12:21 AM »

Quote from: Nintex on April 11, 2019, 05:58:13 AM

https://twitter.com/Gizmodo/status/1116278277377859585

Was he hoping that the massive beard would throw off the police?

Raist · « **Reply #5813 on:** April 11, 2019, 03:52:32 PM »

https://twitter.com/josephmdurso/status/1116332672278769666

Occam · « **Reply #5814 on:** April 11, 2019, 04:28:58 PM »

"Wikileaks founder Julian Assange smeared poop over the walls of the Ecuadorian Embassy in London before he was unceremoniously dragged away from his hideout of 7 years, it has been claimed. The new information was revealed by Ecuador’s Interior Minister after Assange was arrested by British police officers on April 11."

https://meaww.com/wikileaks-julian-assange-ecuadorian-embassy-london-smear-poop-walls

VomKriege · « **Reply #5815 on:** April 11, 2019, 04:31:40 PM »

Keeping leaks 💯

benjipwns · « **Reply #5816 on:** April 11, 2019, 09:55:36 PM »

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Maria Paula Romo, the country's Interior Minister, however, slammed Correa for even allowing 47-year-old Assange to get away with the unimaginable behavior.

She said: "During his stay at the Ecuadorian Embassy, during the government of the former president Rafael Correa, they tolerated things like Mr Assange putting feces on the walls of the embassy and other types of behaviour of this kind that is far removed from the minimum respect a guest should have in a country which has generously welcomed him." She, however, did not make it clear if he had used his own poop or someone else's.

we need a special counsel

Joe Molotov · « **Reply #5817 on:** April 11, 2019, 09:57:04 PM »

sounds like he's trying to blame it on the cat

Transhuman · « **Reply #5818 on:** April 11, 2019, 11:16:46 PM »

Assange was born in Townsville where I live, he probably smeared shit on the walls so it would remind him of home.

Raist · « **Reply #5819 on:** April 12, 2019, 02:04:51 PM »

News:

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