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Agreement is finally in Number 10's grasp.

The text that's taken months of officials' blood, sweat and tears has been agreed, at least at a technical level.

Now a paper's being drafted to present to the Cabinet tomorrow ready for the government's hoped-for next step - political approval from Theresa May's team, even though many of them have deep reservations.

Remember in the last 24 hours some of them have been warning privately that what's on the table is just not acceptable, and will never get through Parliament. Some even believe the prime minister ought to walk away.

But the government machine is now cranking into action. With a text ready, their long-planned rollout can begin.
The BBC's chief political correspondent Vicki Young said some ministers had "deep concerns" about the shape of the likely agreement, which critics say could leave the UK trapped in a customs agreement with the EU.

She said they would have to decide whether they could support it, and if not, whether to resign from cabinet.

Leading Brexiteers have already condemned the draft agreement, Boris Johnson saying it would see the UK remain in the customs union and "large parts" of the single market.

He told the BBC it was "utterly unacceptable to anyone who believes in democracy". "Am I going to vote against it. The answer is yes," he added.

And Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn said "given the shambolic nature of the negotiations, this is unlikely to be the good deal for the country".

'Failure to deliver'
Both the UK and EU want to schedule a special summit of European leaders at the end of November to sign off the reportedly 500 page withdrawal deal and the much shorter outline declaration of their future relationship.

Brussels has insisted it would only agree to put the wheels in motion for the summit if agreement can be reached on the issue of the Irish border.

Ambassadors from the remaining 27 EU states will meet in Brussels on Wednesday.

If a deal is agreed with the EU, Mrs May then needs to persuade her party - and the rest of Parliament - to support it in a key Commons vote.

Conservative Brexiteer Jacob Rees-Mogg said if details of the text reported by Irish broadcaster RTE were true, the UK would become a "vassal state" with Northern Ireland "being ruled from Dublin".

Such an agreement "failed to deliver on Brexit" and the cabinet should reject it, he told the BBC.

"I think what we know of this deal is deeply unsatisfactory," he said. "There seems to be growing opposition to these very poor proposals."

Meanwhile, following pressure from all sides of the Commons, ministers have agreed to provide MPs with a legal assessment of the implications for the UK of the Irish backstop and other controversial aspects of any deal.

Cabinet Office minister David Lidington said Attorney General Geoffrey Cox would make a statement to MPs and take questions ahead of the final vote on any Brexit deal.

MPs, he said, would get to see "a full reasoned position statement laying out the government's both political and also legal position on the proposed withdrawal agreement".

The Democratic Unionists' Westminster leader Nigel Dodds said he was pleased Parliament had "asserted its will" as it was imperative that all parties to the deal were clear in what way and for how long it would "legally bind" the UK.
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Chequers minus it is. Whatever happened to no deal being better than a bad deal.

We should have been far more aggressive in negotiations with Brussels. They all but stated immediately after the referendum that they were going to bumrape us for having the temerity to leave, so we should have told them that unless and until they got serious, we'd basically go full on tax haven mode and steal all their big companies - and funnel money and support to Eurosceptics in Italy, Spain, Greece, Poland, and Hungary.
 
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DoubleD said:
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The BBC lining up every left-wing comedian they can find who can criticise the Prime Minister relentlessly without it coming across as racist.
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Except Patel has hit out at everyone who thought they could get away with that shit, including the Labour arseholes who say she never "experienced racism" coz, ya know, if she did she'd definitely be a fellow mindless POC-drone.

It's quite nice seeing the government shut down the stupider elements of the wokerati and arseholes who scream about "White privelege" in a country where places like County Durham and its many ex-coal mining towns exist.

Meanwhile, Cummings looks like an unhinged lunatic by rambling for 3,800+ words laying claim to shit he probably didn't really do much for: https://order-order.com/2021/06/24/cummings-justifies-rule-breaking-in-new-3800-word-blog/

It feels increasingly like his claims for "winning" The Brexit referendum 5 years back, when the only posters I ever saw on the issue were the UKIP/Leave.EU ones of the Aaron Banks/Nigel Farage vehicle and absolutely fuck and all of the "official" campaign which seemed the usual flavour of London-Obsessed.
 
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Any of you lot heard about this 'One Britain, One Nation Day' that's apparently this Friday?

Supposedly there's this song that kids are being told to sing that's been getting Twatter to foam at the mouth.

www.metro.co.uk

Government urges children to sing bizarre 'Strong Britain Great Nation' song

But it has been mocked for coming after many Scottish children go on their summer holidays.
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The UK Government is encouraging school children across the country to sing a song celebrating ‘strong Britain, great nation’ this week.

The move is part of ‘One Britain One Nation Day’ on Friday, June 25 – but has been mocked for taking place after some Scottish schools have broken up for summer.

In a promotional video for the event, flag-waving children sing: ‘We are Britain and we have one dream, to unite all people in one great team.

‘Our nation survived through many storms and many wars.’

It continues: ‘We celebrate our differences with love in our hearts, united forever, never apart.

‘We all stand together with pride in our hearts.’

The song ends with children repeating the line ‘strong Britain, great nation.’

But people took to social media to criticise the timing of the message, noting that many school children in Scotland will not able to take part in a ‘One Britain, One Nation’ day because it has been organised during their holidays.

Others joked that the song sounded like something out of North Korea.

The Department for Education tweeted: ‘We’re encouraging schools across the UK to celebrate One Britain One Nation Day on 25 June, when children can learn about our shared values of tolerance, kindness, pride and respect.’

Encouraging youngsters to sing about ‘one nation’ may also raise eyebrows north of the border, where there are growing calls for a second independence referendum.

UK Government urges children to sing 'One Britain One Nation' song on June 25'One Britain One Nation' song on June 25

A Government tweet encouraging people to take part in One Britain One Nation day was mocked by many (Picture: Twitter/@educationgovuk)
But the event is also likely to win praise for its message of unity and celebrating multiculturalism and tolerance.

The event’s website says: ‘One Britain One Nation brings us together, not to focus on our differences but to celebrate the values we share: tolerance, kindness, pride, respect, and a tremendous desire to help others.

‘Today’s Britain boasts a wonderful array of cultures. It is our multicultural identity that makes Britain so unique.

‘Our diverse cultures are inextricably linked by the sole fact that we are British. It is this fact that has prompted OBON to reinforce and revive what collectively unites us.

‘OBON aims to give a new impetus for the creation of a harmonised society, to make Britain an international model of moral rectitude.’
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I can't even appreciate the gesture at this stage, and the entire thing is akin to placing a bandage on a gaping fucking wound.

This nation is completely cucked and hell bent on kowtowing to favela nigs and other third world gubment gib grabbers. Any grassroots attempt at fostering national identity and culture at this point in time will be seen (and inevitably so) as a squirt of Lenor in a turd hurricane.

But pissing off the Scots will always get a grin from me.
 
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Fish Fudge said:
Why can't English people ever convincingly have any pride in their country? It's always dressed up in some weird WW2/Bake-Off cosplay aesthetic.
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Because he current government, media and education system seeks to boil down being English into 'Tea, Churchill and Crumpets!' So that every spook and paki from the world over can be handed a welcome back and brought in to replace us.

The English are an ethnic group, in order for us to be 'allowed' to be proud of ourselves, there has to bean active deracination of the material, otherwise it can't be used to promote globalist liberalism to low IQ shitskins. The result is twee, retard tier baby bakeoff bullshit.
 
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BIG BILL HELL'S said:
Is she at least cute?
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Meh, But according to some it ties into that apprently someone in her family works for some company that provides stuff for the NHS. Take that as a grain of salt since I don't see any proof that these 2 people are related.

Gina Coladangelo (Hancock’s lover) has been pictured leaving the family home with loaded overnight bags
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Whoops, Family didn't like that...
 
Fish Fudge said:
Why can't English people ever convincingly have any pride in their country? It's always dressed up in some weird WW2/Bake-Off cosplay aesthetic.
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Because the British people aren't as loud and in-your-face about it as the US. They might scream "America Fuck Yeah!", dressed in the stars and stripes while shooting guns in the air. That's a bit gaudy for us Brits.

It also doesn't help that our national symbols are largely adopted by other cultures. eg. You see someone in a suit and tie, you don't think "England" in the same way a kilt makes you think of Scotland.
 
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Judge Dredd said:
Because the British people aren't as loud and in-your-face about it as the US. They might scream "America Fuck Yeah!", dressed in the stars and stripes while shooting guns in the air. That's a bit gaudy for us Brits.

It also doesn't help that our national symbols are largely adopted by other cultures. eg. You see someone in a suit and tie, you don't think "England" in the same way a kilt makes you think of Scotland.
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Can confirm, it's less a vocal pride in ourselves and more a quiet contempt of everyone else.
 
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Judge Dredd said:
Because the British people aren't as loud and in-your-face about it as the US. They might scream "America Fuck Yeah!", dressed in the stars and stripes while shooting guns in the air. That's a bit gaudy for us Brits.

It also doesn't help that our national symbols are largely adopted by other cultures. eg. You see someone in a suit and tie, you don't think "England" in the same way a kilt makes you think of Scotland.
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There's also next to zero appreciation of the traditional English cultural heritage beyond, as people have said, making food, dressing (occasionally) in traditional attire, and other caricatures of postmodern Britain.

Who today can say they have an appreciation for quality English literature from the modern period onward?

Who knows any English hymns, traditional songs, composers, or is even remotely aware of the role Britain played in music prior to the new wave of heavy metal?

Who knows anything of history, save a smattering of the arbitrarily decided clap put out in schools? Even that is forgotten as soon as people leave school.

I can't imagine the situation is THAT much different in other western European nations, but people from more traditional, homogenous cultures are certainly far more informed than we are.

I personally like to pretend this nation died in the 1960s or so, and we've been embalming the flashier parts of the corpse ever since.
 
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Mackerel Fish Stew said:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-57625508 He really cocked up :smug:


I love how he apologises to his family not for cheating and tearing apart their lives and trust in him, but for breaking coof guidelines. Absolute joke of a situation.
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Apparently the actual missus was blissfully none the wiser till Hancock dropped the bomb only because the paper had tipped him off this story was coming out. Told her the marriage was over and moved out. The wife has been suffering long covid after getting it from Hancock too. I'm sure it's comforting to know he likely got it from snogging whores in the office.

It sucks because that implies he already had an exit plan set up and the wife might be somewhat screwed from her position. But hope she makes the whole process as painful as possible for him and gets a good lawyer. He's an asshole for cheating on his sick wife and not being man enough to tell her it's over when it would of likely cost him a lot less to do it in slightly less shitty way.

Morethanabitfoolish said:
Unfortunately this being Boris I do worry the line added off camera was "I'm next."
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Boris is hopelessly pussywhipped by Carrie at present that I would doubt it. Apparently they get on like cats and dogs so likely too busy screaming at each other/ Boris doing whatever he's gotta do to stay on her good side to have affairs.
 
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Have you ever wondered if some part of the country is beyond hope?

I mean there is this shithole called Batley, it has a bi-election going on basically between a woman called "Kim Leadbeater" (does not what it says on the tin), a old Musrat apologist called George Galloway and some Tory who is letting the former eat themselves .

Honestly the town seems such a mess I wonder if we should just give up and start again
 
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